Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-04-28
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

spends $50,000 annually in Winston.
The steamer Washington struck ,
stump near the wharf at Leechvillc a few
nights ago and sunk.
The business of Greenville has alread,
greatly increased since the advent of TIL,
railroad, few months ago.
The Agricultural College is to make {
floral display and one firm has sem
$50 varieties of chrysanthemums for it.
Salem has recently purchased two
bronze fountains. One will be placed II
the academy play ground, the other il
academy square.
A stock company having $1,000, ,OOC
capital are said TO be preparing to work
the Saunders and Worth gold mines il
Montgomery county.
The ten tobacco counties have unit
May to make their settlement. Sheriff
Markham, of Durham, has turned $15,.
| 600 over to the State.
The number of mortgages secured on
real estate i'll Beaufort county within the
past ten years is 3,421, larger number
tnan most counties snow.
Sam Jones did not begin his revival
meetings at Charlotte on Thursday as
announced. lie was delayed in Missis.
sippi. He held his first service at ten
O'Clock Friday morning.
Dairying is growing industry in Pitt
county. Special attention is being given
1t in some sections, and the running OF
he railroad through the county greatly
facilitates matters for such industry.
A Wake Forest boy, from California, is
so devoted to the memory of DR.. Wingate,
late president of Wake Forest College,
that he proposes to he one of five to put
a memorial window in the college chapel
for its honorcd president.
For two years past two negro en-
ploycs of the firm of Norris & Carter at
Raleigh have been robbing the store.
Five hundred and fifty dollars worth OF
property was recovered when the thieves
were found out and they have confessed.
A true bill was returned in open court
at Oxford against ". Duke, Sons & Co.,
Allen * Gintcr. W. $. Kimball & Co.,
and Others composing the cigarette trust
for the purpose of controlling the price o,
certain grades of tobacco known as cut
tcrs.
The Davis military school, which has
Tor eight years been in operation at La
Grange, Lcnoir county, will be removed
to Winston, where the people have a
handsome subscription. There were at
the last term two hundred cadets at the
school.
Mrs. Lovey Davis died at her home in
lcrquimans county at the age of 50. She
had never received any medical attcn-
tion in her life, her vision was rs good as
in her youthful days, and her hearing
was not impaired. She died suddenly OF
paralysis.
Manning and Spears, two young stu.
dents at the Mccall high school, in Rich.
mond county, were playing a few days
ago. Manning drew knife and inflicted
injuries upon Spears which are expected
to prove fatal. lie has fled and has not
yet been arrested.
II is now stated that Avery Butler, the
boy who assassinatcd his father at Gin
ton, has waived an examination. In his
confession which will be published shortly
he refuses to give any reason for his
strange deed or to tell whether or not he
had an accomplice. lie says he has a
surprise party in store for people when
his trial comes off.
\. NJ. Turner, general manager of big
farm III MARTA county, made quite a
record last hunting season as n sports
man. lie killed 81 wild turkeys, 315
wild ducks, Is deer, 20 foxes, Z offers. 3
beavers, IL 'coons, l6 opossums. and a
large number OF partridgcs, squirrels and
rabbits. II is said also that he catches a
bushcl of fish every day.
James Tricc, Durham negro, who has
a particularly fine voice, and who is
greatly interested in missionary work,
will leave on the 10th of May for Africa,
and will devote his life to that work in
the Dark Continent" lie will sail from
New York with five other missionaries.
The white and colorcd people OF Durham
are supplying him with funds.
There is a sensation at Salem, occa-
stoned by the attempt of young man
named Gibson to clopc with a young lady
student named Rogers. She disguised
herse' as a servant ana tired to clude the
night Waterman az the sehool, but was
detected Just as she entered the vehicle
which her lover had provided. The young
lady was take,, home by her relatives.
The new palace steamer to run ne.
tween Elizabeth CITY and New perne will
probably be named the William Castor,
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