The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-03-28
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

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Armour will build large cold storag,
houses at Wilmington, at cost of $l2,
600.
Reidsville will have water works i
Rockingham county will vote the neces
sary bonds.
The municipal elections in most of the
cities and towns in this State will bt
held May s.
A wrecked vessel came ashore three
miles south of New Inlet. All the crew
were saved.
| Captain a. J. Taylor, former citizen
OF Nash county, died at Clarksvile. Tenn,
aged 72 years.
The largest organ in the State has
been placed in the First Baptist church
at Wilmington.
The four hundred of Durham will par
ticipate in grand ball the first Thurs
day after Easter.
Hendcrsonvillc would like to be known
throughout the world as the queen city
of Western North Carolina"
The commission of Edward c. Duncan,
to be collector of the port at Beaufort,
has been signed by the President.
The Governors guard will hold grand
fair and festival in their armory in Raj
eigh, beginning April 20 and continuing
three days.
DR.. McCanlcss, of Danbury, a promi-
nent and influential member of his pro-
lession in Stokes county, has been stricken
with paralysis.
A company styling itself the Durham
Medicatcd Cigarette company has
opened business at Durham with capi.
tai stock of $4,000.
A freight train ran off of the track near
Rcidsville. No damage was done, but
this makes the third accident that has
happened near that place in as many
weeks.
The Washington Gazette is RESPONSE
BILE fn, he story that horse belonging
to Mr.. Jesse Griffin committed suicide BY |
jumping INTO the river at the market one |
day last week.
]. II. Rich, a well known farmer of |
Rockingham county, died Sunday, his |
death having been caused by cherry |
stone which he had swallowed some |
months ago.
The Henderson Tomahawk tells of q |
hog killed in Vance county this week two /
years old, which had been well fed all it,
lite. The weight of the carcass was thir
ty.eight pounds. avoirdupois.
a proposition is on foot in Durham to
build a non-scctarian university for wo-
men. a feature OF the institution will I've
that it will and in the education OF daugh-
ters OF ex-Conlcderate soldiers.
Oyster shells. which sold in New Bcrne
two years ago at two and half cents a
bushel to be used as a fertilizer BY the
farmers. after being burned into lime,
now bring 20 cents per bushel.
In Robcson county Tuesday tree was
blown upon a four mule team and the
lrivcr was injured. A young man named
Bundv was killed while driving along
he road i'll the same neighborhood.
The commencement exercises of the
Medical college of Shaw University. col
,red, at Raleigh were held Wednesday
'vening. There were five graduates.
among the medical students is u native
If the Congo Free State.
L. {. Terrell. postmaster of Apex,
Make county, is said to have gone wrong.
lie is charged with some very unsavor,
lcts and report of them has been sent
o Holy John with the request that he
'ul the string attached to Mr.. Terrells
The thirty.six fox hounds composing q
vel! known New Hanover county pack
ire all sick with the grip in Il severe form.
This disease has also attacked horses in
his State. The disease has nearly ceased
ave in the country districts. Four mem
'crs of onc negro family died from it in
Granville county last week.
1t is only few years ago that n house
nd lot here now held at $4,000 could
ave been bought for $1,000, saws the
greensboro Workman, and other vacant
OTIS now held at S4O0 to 5000 could
ot have been sold at any price. These
re some of the marks of boom about
which there can be no mistake.
The marriage of Mr.. G. ". Bethel, of
,anvill,. Va, to Miss Lalla Oates, daugh-
cr of Colonel K. Nj. Oates, which oc.
urrcd in the Second Presbyterian church
\ Charlotte last night, was one of the
1ost brilliant socialcvcnts Charlotte has {
Dyed with for years. Guests from differ
nj parts of the country were present. {
The Ladies' Memorial Association of .
fredericksburg, Va, have sent out an
ppcal to ladies of the South for aid in
Blaming marble head stones to mark l
he graves Of Southern soldiers inferred
, the Confederate cemetery at Freder.
'ksburg. In the cemetery lie 2+O North
aroinians who fell during the recent
outlet.
The blanks have been sent out from
alcigh to all the 4. 900 State pensioners. ,
will bc some weeks before they return.
he county boards will have to pass upon 4
hem and afterwards they will go before
he State board, composed Of the Cover.
or. auditor and attorncy.gcneral. The I
FORK of the board this year will be tar
cavicr than ever before.
u. =. Lee, one of the prominent farmers
{ Mccklcnburg, sustained n disastrous 1
,ss by fire. His milling plant was swept
way. Mr.. Lee had cotton gin and a s
rist mill under one roof and saw mill
ttachcd to the main building. A spark
ON the smoke stack startled the blaze
nd before Il could be stopped one of the :.
cst plants in that part Of the country {
as totally destroyed. There was no
surancc.
The swarm Of North Carolina negroes,
,ys Washington special, who were I
erc few weeks ago have gone back
omc. One or two have been rewarded I
ith Offices. Jim Harris, of Raleigh, has