The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-05-17
RALEIGH BUDGET.
Condition OF the Corn Crop seven O'Clock
Closing system.

iAONiua NNrtflns
:. RALEIGH. y. G.. May lG.- Special. -Ths
corn crop throughout the section east oI
here is reported 10 nr .Srost an ontir. loss
in consequence Of frOsts dufi.g the last few
i days. Farmers are already laying fr s.... =.
/ plies of Western corn. as they DO not expect
TO realize anything from the crop this year.
The seven O'Clock closing system j, yer,
popular IN this state and Is adopted in
nearly all towns during the summer
| months. Aehe,ii,D and Charlotte haye
/ already begun % close business establish.
mont> at seteu O'Clock 4. NJ. and Raleigh
, viii follow suit june /.
II Is learned that one Of the four Young
men wh ho were drowned ~ savannah. Ca.
while boating day before Yesterday. as an-
n0unccd iu the press dispatches. was tmau-
uel j. ttey. of chapel Hin, in this State.
lie is well known here and went 60 sa-
Nannah about year ago.
Valuable iron ore deposits have been dis
covered ON Flat creek near Ashe,lle. and
options have been taken on 2Onl acres Ol
land there by Ashoyille parties The OWN.
ers hold the property 40 100000. There 9lc
two distinct veins of 'he ore. oGc haecn
and the other twenty-five feet wide. and
they contain both pure iron and Magnetic
orc.
Granger c0nntv, Tennessee, has just
voted liberal subscription tO the Morris
town and Cumberland Gap railroad. The
road is already partly constructed at the
Asheyille end of the line. ana 10 will now be-
pushed through % M0rrist0Wn, Tenn, ar
rapidly as possible.
Colonel William J.. Saunders. Secretary OF
State. who has been no W Nilmncion several
weeks recupcratiug. has returned % RAJ
cigh much improved IN health. lie has
been a great sufferer from rheumatism for
several months past. AID has bean entirely
deprived of the use OF all his limbs.
Battery Park Hotel at A,hoYille is 10 hayc
still another addition OF lJ0 rooms. Thi, is tee
third addition which has been made within
the past year, made necessary by the great
ru-h Of visitors there. The new extension
will cost $4,000.
Rey. DR.. A. ". Manrum, professor a..
mental and moral science at The tniycr
sily. who died Monday, was one of the 0ld-
Ost members of The faculty. having served
continuously I'M bis department since 1879
when he was elected. lie was hlty-,iN
years of age.
This morning al Camp Russell where
number Of penitoutiary hands are 40 WORK,
while a. man named Frank Griffith, who =
serving out tcnuior larceny, m1dea breah
and tried 90 escape. he was shot down Ly
one of The guards, who fired q load az buck
shot into him. \ part of lha load took ei-
feet In the hlp. and Indicted a dangerous
wound.
Serious troubles are reported among thl
fishermen 40 Beaufort Fishermen from
other point, have invaded the grounds there
and the native formed themselves into O.
band l,r -o,fprotecton and undertaken to
defend their territory by force. The matter
ha- been carried into the courts for settle
mpnf.
The Grand Lodge of odd Fellows ad-
iourred last night as Wilmington at o.
o'clock. OXi0rd was chosen rs ihe place oi
The ncNt meeting. Dr. John II. Poole, oi
..ulu M.lL-. Mna nL-cLll Oramd Ml..-r.