The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-03-17
THE OLD NORTH STATE.

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Il bank at Mount Airy, under the nam.
OF Planters bank.
A new Baptist church 3Ox5O feet and
| l6 feet from floor to ceiling has beer
built on Briartown.
The United States senate has confirmed
the nomination of \. W. Shater TO bt
postmaster at Raleigh.
Rev. DR.. W. A. Wood, of Statesvillc
has accepted call to be pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Graham.
4 ten ton steam Wiswall mountain
crushing mill will be placed in the Bee
mining company's works at Lenoir.
The entire banking business OF this
State shows a capital of 81 ,65O, 900, de-
posits, $1,000, 900, loans S9,+34,O0O.
The wheat and oat crops are a failure
in part OF Orange county. Farmers are
ploughing up their crops and are sowing
spring oats.
A glass chandelier in a society hall in
Wake Forest College fell and was broken
into Il thousand pieces. 1t was valued
at several hundred dollars.
Two convicts, while trying to escape,
were shot and killed a day or two ago
on the northern extension OF the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley road.
Wheat which had jointed was cut
down by the late cold snaps in all parts
of the Piedmont country, tnOw appears.
The damage cannot he estimated.
Daniel Hood, well known farmer OF
Wayne county, has, during the present
season. caught torty.nine raccoons, one
hundred opossums, and forty toX's.
Colonel Alfred Rowland introduced \
bill III congress on Thursday appropl =.
ting 100000 to continue the improve
ments of Town Creek river in Brunswick
county, \. c.
Blackwell Park, q mile west of Dur.
ham, is the beautiful site which he Meth
odists there have offered for Trinity Col.
lcge. II is given by Julian 5. Carr. and
cost him 100000.
The Rambler, the largest naptha-burn-
ing yacht ever built, is now at Whining
ton on her way from New York to Jack
sonvillc. She rounded the dreaded Fry
ing Pan shoals in safety.
The Fayetteville bucket factory has
bought four acres OF land ON the south
crn suburb of the town. and is to be en-
larged and improved on the new sight
by the addition OF new machinery.
A negro died near Whittakers recently
OF disease which the physicians pro-
nounccd lcprosy. The disease appeared
n short while after he slept on blanket
which had been used on a diseased horse.
Mack CONFESS, aged about fifteen. liv-
ing in Wilkes county. was monkeying
with dynamite cartridge when it ex-
plodcd and tore off his left hand and ter.
ribly disigurcd his face. His wounds are
very painful.
A syndicate has taken hold of the Fen
tress gold mine, eleven miles from High
Point. and will be opened very soon. The
mine is very valuable. The ore from the
mill has paid as high as 500 per ton and
the ore from the dump $40 per ton.
The reports from the fisheries are not
specially encouraging. The METERS are
not realizing expectations, though the
pound nets and seines are doing some
better. More herring thus far have been
caught than up to the same date last
wear.
Naval Cadet Thos. l.. Jenkins. OF this
State, was dismissed from the United
States Academy on Tuesday for whipping
Cadet Parker. who had reported some
breach of rules committed by Jenkins.
Jenkins had been in the academy three
years.
4 good many people from Raleigh will
20 down 10 Henderson next Wednesday
In bc present at the celebration III honor
of the opening OF Colonel ". II. 5. Bur
gwyn's big tobacco factory. There will
bc much speech making and grand time
generally
At Halifax superior court an interest.
ing case is now being tried. II is that OF
Grant VS.. the Raleigh and Castor rail.
road for $1,000 for injuries sustained in
an accident at Raleigh in March, 1889.
Grant was at that time a postal route
agent. The defence by the railway COM
pany will be strong.
The new bridge across Dan river, on
the Roanoke and Southern railroad, will
bc completed next week or the week
after, and il is expected that trains will
he running to Ladd's Ford. six miles
north of Walnut Cove. by April |, and
will probably reach Madison by May 1.
Mr.. BENJAMIN Bclcher, Of Greenville,
met with n painful accident one day last
week. He was out III the field superin.
tending the hauling of some dirt, and
while standing near deep ditch one OF
the carts struck him and knocked him
into the ditch. aud the fall aud blow to-
gcthcr breaking his thigh.
K. L. Richardson * Co., of Rcidsvillc,
y. c.. are finishing their mammoth to.
bacco factory. II will bc one OF the finest
factory buildings in the Old North State.
II has six floors, mansard roof, a tower
100 feet high, in which the town clock is
being placed. They will push their
smoking tobacco business in every sec.
ton.
Reports from Raleigh show that Il Is
found upon careful investigation the pea
crop is entirely ruined. The frost has
killed all the stalks and they will have to
bc ploughcd up. The planting OF another
crop ias begun. Cabbage are checked
in their growth, but are not so badly
hurt otherwise. Irish potatoes are killed
wherever they are above ground.
An English money lending company
has established an agency in Charlotte.
and is already doing considerable bust.
ness. II now has about thirty mortga.
yes recorded in the office OF the register
Of deeds. One popularity about, this
company is that il will not loan a dol.
lar on city lots. 1t takes only farming
lands ns security. aud will not lend
money for term less than five years.