Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-11
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
ITEMS CAREFULLY ARRANGED FOR TIE
BUSY READER.

Sam Jones will begin a meeting at
Charlotte on the Goth.
Within forty miles of Greensboro are
30 large cotton factories.
Newberne wants a society for the
prevention Of cruelty to animals.
1t is said that the cost of the Boyle
trial to Wake county is about $4,000.
Chapel Hill wants a $4,000 hotel for
The oyster canning establishment at
New Berne employees 800 bands and
disburses 81, 200 daily.
There are 1900 cOnvicts in North
Carolina, most of them being at work
of some Eind or other.
A large colored school is to be estab-
lished at Oxford and supported by
Northern philanthropists.
According to scientific investiga-
ton. 600 feet is the average elevation
of this State above the sea level
The first train crossed the new rail
road bridge over Tar river Tuesday
April Isl. AS it entered Greenville
it was greeted with shouts from q
large concoUrse of people assembled
to see the sight.
Little George Bryan. at Scotland
Neck, is perhaps the youngest tele
graph operator in the country. He is
only five years old, and can send an in
teIigent message over the wires to
other offices along the line.
The North Carolina Car Service AS
Sociation, MIR. Washington Bryan, man
ager. with head quarters at Raleigh.
has been suspended because Of the fail
ure of the Richmond and Danvile
Company to cooperate with the other
roads.
Concord Times Concord can boast
of a couple who bear names of our
first parents. In the Eastern part of
our town resides Mr.. Adams Starnes.
and his wife S rame is Eve. They may
not have seen EdentOn but they live in
'COrncord.
Aurora, Bertie county, has been
visited by a destructive confagration
Five stores were burned, and it is
said that if the wind had changed its
cOnrse the whole town would have
been laid IN ashes. The loss is quite
heavy. no insurance.
The Oxford Ledger states that Mr..
Julian S Carr, one of the stockholders
of the Atlantic Hotel, of Morehead
.'ity. n. c., has offered a donation of
$50 600 to the State provided that the
permanent encampment of the State
Guard be moved to that place.
The North Carolina Teacher says
North Carolina history should be
taught in every North Carolina school
and the teacher is exactly right. Ev-
cry boy and girl should know the his
tory of the State from its first cOioni-
zation down to tie present time.-Ncws.
The schedule of the Norfolk and
Carolina Railroad. which runs from
Norfolk t. Rocky Mount now in force
is to leave Portsmouth at in the morn
ins and arr i've at Rocky Mount 1888.
Returning. the train leaves Rocky
Mount at , p. M, and reaches Ports
in five hours. The road is part of the
Atlantic coast Line System.
1t is the confident expectation of
some of the most level headed busi-
ness men of Scotland Neck. that the
opening of the Norfolk and Carolina
railroad from Norfolk to Tarboro
will be the means of bringing into gen
eral notice the rich lands of the Scot
land Neck section on the Roanoke river,
Large quantities of shells can now be
brought to these lands at nominal
cost, and burnt with the cobs from the
corn grown on the river.
II. K. DardeE, of Suffolk. by the
death of a relative, has fallen heir to