Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-04-30
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

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Branch Davis, veteran of the wa
Y with Mexico is in jail at Hilsboro TO
shooting at James Turner with a sho
gun.
There appears to be no manner of doub
as To the denomination of John S. Hen
y dcrson and W. II. ii. Cowlcs for con
+ grcss.
:. J. A. Odell, Of Concord, has been elected
] president OF the North Carolina Steel ant
Iron company, Z. ID. Benbow, of Greens
boro, secretary.
In Nash county this season the tobacco
acreage will be four times as great a.
that OF last season. This is said to he q
: careful estimate.
K. B. PEBBLES, Esq, of Northampton
, county, is prominently mentioned for the
nomination to the bench from the Scot.
land Neck district.
Agold mine in Nash county has Just
been sold to a Northern syndicate for
500, 900. The veins OF gold are large,
well defined, and rich.
a handsome new church for the Disci-
Pies o! Williamston is about complctc,
and the baptists OF that town are en-
larging and improving their church also.
The democratic executive committee of
the Second judicial district have decided
TO mold the district convention in Wei.
don. The time is not yet determined
upon.
The negroes of the Piedmont section
propose to hold mass meeting next
month to dcnouncc the republican party
which they declare has treated them
most scurvily.
II is intimatcd that the Scaboard sys.
TEN will extend the Carolina Central
railway from point near Mt. Holly via
Statcsvillc and Wilkcsboro to some
point in southwestern Virginia.
| Ex'Congrcssman Wharton ]. Green, of
Fayetteville, will he n candidate for the
congressional nomination in the Third
district. McClammy, of Pendcr, and Ay-
cock, OF Wayne, are also candidates.
The directors of the Tarboro cot ton fac
tory have declared dividend of 7 per
cent, to be paid next October. and il is
thought that another dividend equally
as large will be declared before next Ianu-
AIRY.
Bill Fife" the drummer evangelist, is
holding very interesting meeting in
Rocky Mount. Great preparations were
made by the churches OF the different de.
nominations. aud the meeting is very sue
cessiu.
Fire broke out in the wood and coal
yards OF J.. \. Springer. at Wilmington,
and the iircmcn had hard work to save
the property, but the damage will not
exceed 81 200. The loss is covered by
insurance.
Ayoung man named Jefferson Fowler
was dangerously, perhaps fatally, hurt
nj u sawmill IN Orange county. piece
OF timber struck his abdomen and discm.
bowclcd him. The wound was four
inches wide.
In Wilson county Daniel Conycrs, col.
ored, was accidentally shot and killed in
his own house by Hill Bryant. also col.
nrcd. Hill had the gun, the men having
lust returned from hunt, and fell at the
door, the gun striking step and the en-.
tire load passing through Conycr's body. |
The citizens of Scotland Neck are dis.
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u: :.o"'.',''"'n'" w l"eir PERSISTENCE III
s'.S""s 'u' convenience oi the pco' |
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There are CHARGES tbnt The nc"rn ;5;,cr
conniycd nj their escnnc nnd turned Then,
out of th, steel cells ,uto The corr;Jn,
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o"''S WIN es'"P'u "os peeh reeap'"reu'
CHARGES have bccu ,,c,,rrcd n, po,.
e;yb AGAINST William I;ils nnJ Lain -
THOMAS. oyster pntroImen' .fbcw -.
cc;vrd 5000 ncr month and !, 10 chc,,.d
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