The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-05-01
CAROLINA CULLINGS.
What is Going On in the Old North
State, as Recorded by Her Intelli-
gent and Wide-aWake News
papers.

Edgecombe county claims that she
will market $4,000 pounds of butter
this year.
Carthage, Moore county, is to have
a canning factory with daily capacity
of 5000 three pound cans.
The Marion town commissioners
have determined to issue liquor licenses
and nave fixed the tax at $3.50.
A company to manufacture chairs of
every description, on large scale, has
been organized at High Point.
The Governor has offered a reward
of $500 for Frank P. Broadway, the
murderer of Lee Grover in Davidson
county.
And now the Dukes, of Durham, are
thinking about building another cotton
factory at that place, with a capital of
100000.
Rocky Mount Mills has put in more
machinery preparatory to the addition
of 900 more spindles. 1t is the largest
cotton mill in the State.
Mr.. James I. McRee, late associate
editor of Raleigh Ne1os and Observer
has accepted a position on the staff of
the Richmond Dispatch.
Hon. Chas. NJ. Steadman succeeds
the late Hon. T. w. Pool as the agent
for the sale of the lands held by the
State Board of Agriculture.
The Carthage Blade learns that Mr..
H. H. McNiell has discovered a rich
deposit Of manganese in that county
which is said to be very valuable.
Mr.. Hal M. Worth, a lumber man
of Asheboro, received an order a short
time ago, for ship load of lumber to
be shipped to Australia. They wished
it of immense size, 60 feet in length.
Marion, Mcdowell county,is moving
in the matter of several big industrial
anterprises-to purchase land upon
which to build an iron furnace-S1oo,-
900 for cotton factory, canning and
furniture factories and tannery.
The Nash county gold mines are at
tracing much attention. 1t is learned
that besides the number of mines that
have been in operation there for some
time, a great many more veins have
been discovered that are very valuable.
E. A. Coulter, who has acted as
State Secretary for the Y. NJ. c. A.,
of North and South Carolina for the
pas. year, has resigned as State Secre-
tary for South Carolina and will de-
vote all his time to the work in this
State.
The county will buy a big rock
crusher and erect at a quarry near Old
town. The county convicts will be
used to operate it and it will supply
crushed rock for both the county and
the streets of this city.-Winston Sen
nneL
Our late postmaster, Mr.. ]. A. Tay-
lor and Mr.. T. G. Taylor, have formed
a co-partnership and will establish a
smoking tobacco factory in Oxford as
soon as the necessary machinery ar
rires and suitable building is secured.
Public Ledger.
The Baptists of the State, aggrega- :
ting about SO, ,ooo, give annually $780,
900 to benevolent purposes. Wake
Forest, the Baptist college, had the
largest representation at the Young
Mems Christian Association Conven-
ton recently held at Goldsboro.
A new strike is reported from the
wonderful Arthur Arlington gold
mining property. The gold has here
tofore been found IN veins of hard
quartz, but new vein has just been
discovered of almost solid sulphuretS,
which shows free gold to the value of
about $50 per ton. No assays have as
yet been made, but the ore will un-
doubtedly run up in the hundreds
Nashville Arg0naut