The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-07-03
LOCAL ITEMS:
The Sampson County Farmers
Alliance meets Friday at II O'Clock


cd saying that Gov. Fowle has com
muted, to life imprisonment, the
sentence Of Avery Butler 10 hang on
July 18th.
divine service will be held in
The Episcopal church on Sunday
next at II 4. NJ. The Holy Com
muniOn will be celebrated. The Rev.
j. w. Turner will ofiiciatc.
The rain TUESDAY evening was
very timely. March corn was suf-
fering. The crop prospects at pres
ent were never finer within the
memory Of this writer.
Read the article on Silo in an
other column. We are glad to know
that several of our leading farmers
contemplate building them this fall.
Those who once try them never
| abandon them.
MIR. j. 5. BizZell, Clerk of the
Superior Court has placed upon our
table beautiful bunch Of grapes,
Of the Champion variety. He had
ripe grapes in his vineyard on the
goth of June.
Mr.. j. o. Mathis, Of Taylor's
! Bridge, l. the authorized agent for
TIE CAUCASIAN in Sampson county.
lie will gladly receipt payments on
subscription and be pleased to add
to our list all the good citizens
throughout the county who are not
yet subscribers.
We welcome to our table this week
the first number of The School Girl,
published and edited by the pupils
and teachers Of Kinsey Female Sem
mary Of LaGrange, n. c. The
School Girl is an eight-pagc paper,
neatly printed and published quarter
! ly. We wish it much success.
The Rt. Rev. n. A. Watson, ID.
d., Bishop Of the Diocese of East
crn North Carolina, was married on
the 18th, at Wilmington, to Miss
Mary G. Lord, the ceremonies took
place at st. James Episcopal church
and was performed by the Rector,
Rev. Robt. Strange. They left Sun
day cnroutc for New York, and will
go thence to Liverpool, and make
an extended trip over Europe.
Two week since we challenged
Mr.. Kerr to invite US to his next APP
pOintmcnt to answer his position Oh
the Railroad Commission on the
stump. We have heard nothing
from him, though understand that
he has agreed with Mr.. F. r. Coop
or for a discussion on the subject in
Clinton on next Monday. If Mr.
Kerr does not wish us to reply tC
him, we will be OH hand again taking
notes.
We hear rumOrs Of many rail
roads that the county is to have
within the next few months, in fact
if all is done that is talked, a ma
jOrity of the townships of the cOun
ty Will be crossed by line or lines
We are sorry that the railroad:
have not seen that it is to their in
tereSt to build several more branch
eS here before. We understand tha
n survey from Burgaw to Dunn is t.
be made quite soon. We do earn
estly trust that the lordly corpora
tions will not decide to postpone the
work after the survey is made.
The delegates from this section
to the Judicial Convention that meet
in KinstOn on Wednesday, the It'll
instant, can attend with but littl
loss OF time and at sligf cost. They
can leave home ON Wedn esday, the
very morning that the Convention
meets. At GOldsboro there will be
a special train to take them down
Immediately to Kinston. There
= Will probably be an excursion ar
ranged for the delegates down tC
Morehead the same evening. Ever
if this is done, the delegates car
leave home one morning and return
the next evening. There will b.
greatly reduced rates over the rail
! roads. Sampson should send full
delegation as fitting honor to it:
young and able Judge.
The japanese Concert, which
. was held in the College building las
Friday evening, was grand tri
umph in the musical line for Gin
ton, and would have done infinit
credit to much larger town. NOca
, and instrumental productions wer
/ rendered with magnificent effect
! The vOcalisis were MISS Will
Bumgardner, who has a rich con
traltO, and Pref. G. w. Scott, o
! Suffolk, Va, whose baritone sol
met with tremendous applause. In
strumental pieces were pertorme'
by Misses Georgia Crump, Indi
Happier, Mamie Faison and Will
Bumgardner, all of whom, by thei
If musical accomplishments, have OF
i tanned from critics the highest ecC
,, NUNS, and who occupy the highes
= distinction as ameteurs in their arr
If After an intermission of ten minute
5 a mixed chorus of sixteen, in Japa
u nncn coctf1nnn rnndnrad Selection