Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-05-01
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

suicide at Smltnheld Dy taxing lauda
mum.
There will be ten graduates at the ap
preaching commencement of Oxford Fc
male Seminary.
Every inch of space in the Charlotte
tabernacle is filled during the Sam Jones
revival meetings.
The residence and out buildings of Bry.
ant Granrham, in Wavne county, were
burned to the ground.
A colored man named Louis Sykes died
in Northampton county at the age ot one
hundred and five years.
Mr.. Marcellus Pope, an aged and re.
spectacle citizen, died at his home near
Scotland Neck, aged 10 years.
The Norfolk Southern Railroad com.
pany have completed some new shops at
Edenton and have repaired old ones.
1t is rumorcd that daily steamer will
run from Murirccsboro to Edcnton in
connection with the Norfolk and Caro-
lima railroad.
Track laying on the Winston and
Wilkesboro' railway has been begun in
the count, of Wilkes. Il is the first work
of the kind ever done in that county.
The State board of agriculture met at
Raleigh yesterday and arranged for the
erection of additional buildings at the
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
There is very large increase in the to-
bacco acreage in Wilson county. Five
hundred new barns have been built in a
circuit of five miles around the town OF
Wilson.
The three colored boys who have been
confined in Jail al Plymouth for killing a
girl at Crcswcll last summer were tried
last week. One was discharged and the
other two were sent to the pcni,cntiary
for ten years.
The surveying corps of the new branch
of the Richmond and Danvilc railway
from Danvillc via Winston is now in a
couple OF miles OF the latter place. The
route of the old North Carolina Midland
road rs being very closely followed.
At one haul of a seine at Nag's Head
| 1000 bluCiish of an average weight oi
eight pounds were taken. This 80 600
pounds OF fish were sold at New York AT
10 cents a pound, making a total OF
$4,000. The catch was made by the
surimen at Nag's Head.
The Raleigh Fertilizer Company offered
a prize of one ton of guano to the Alli-
ancc to exhibit the largest number OF
bales of cotton at the State fair. John
son county Alliance captured the prize
and donated the cotton exhibits to the
Soldiers Home.
The bodies of the colorcd boys, Austin
Hardy and Thomas Jones, who were
drowned i'll Roanoke river a week ago
have been found near where it was sup
posed they were drowned. Their bodies
we're not mutiiatcd and they were claspcd
in each others arms.
The bill of Indictment brought by the
grand Jury of Granville county is against
|. NJ. Currin directly, as agent of trust
company composd of ". Duke. Sons &
Co, Allen X Gintcr and W. :. kimball X
Co., to lower the price OF a grade OF raw
tobacco known as cutters.
\ tooth-pullcr in Edgccombc county
gives his patients n drink of brandy be.
tore extracting a tooth. Recently a man
applied to him to have some teeth cX-
tractcd, and it is said that the applicant
had four sound teeth extracted as u
means ofgctting five drinks OF brandy.
Raleigh is going to revive its Y. NJ. c.
A., and n large meeting was held at
Metropolitan hall III that city III the III
tcrcst oi il. Governor Fowlc was among
the speakers aud took occasion to say
the association had been the greatest aid
which the churches have had i'll the work
of Christianity.
The cghty-scvcnth convention of the
Evangelical Lutheran SYNOD of North
Carolina, will he held in st. Luke schurch
near Lexington, Davidson county, be
ginning next Friday morning ut II
o'clock. The opening sermon will b,
preached by the retiring president, Rev
i. ". L. pcschan.
Governor Fowc las received n letter
from prominent Philadelphia firm
which is ils follows: "Thc American pco
plc will overwhelmingly endorse the act,
of your legislature against the trusts
; North Carolina has the honor of bein!
the first State to put her foot upon th
monster"
The democratic executive committee o
the Third congressional district meet q
Magnolia to-dayto appoint the lime aii'
select the place to hold the democrats
congressional convention. This is TN
first political event OF the year. Thccon
vrntion will probably be held at Fayettc
vile in July.
A Croatan Indian named Make Luck
=. licr was killed at patcs, on the Carolin
Central road. The Indian was drum
and resisted arrest and attacked bot
/. Constable NJ. Culbcrcth and Justice q
4. the Peace X. Townshcnd with n knife
, The two officers each drew pistol AM
shot the Croatan dead.
[ L, Walker registered at the Coast Lin
hotel ut Weldon from Brooklyn, y. Y
and the second day oi his stay left tn
l hotel saving that he was going fishing
b lie has not been seen since and il
4. thought that he fell in the water an
. was drowned. His baggage which h
left behind is worth many times his hot,
bill and he could not have left to avoi
\ paying 1t.
Mayor Mcdowell, of Charlotte, ha
made his advance report for the yea
r ending May LIST. lie says that the c,
}. pcnditurcs are now about equal TO Il,
income arising from taxation and liccns,
There are sufficient funds on hand /
wipe out the city's floating debt, and
the proposition to issue the $500
bonds is adopted the entire amount wi
0 be devoted to street Improvement.