Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-06-16
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.
Lcnoir is holding symposiums.

"a SoHiIGiHy Hits Ncn OTSiHiIcu 10 Is
tablish a shirt factory in Wilmington.
Reuben Stomort's saw mill near Max.
ton was recently destroyed by a wind
storm.
Princeton college has conferred the dc.
gree of LII. ID. on Governor Fowlc Of the
class of 1857.
A Farmers Alliance paper to bc called
Country Life will soon bc started at
Trinity College.
II is said that Alfred Rowland has a
walkovcr for denomination for con-
grcss in the sixth.
The alliance plug factory at Durh ham
is expected to begin operations about
the 18th of this month.
A man living in Durham found an
opossum with ten offspring under his
house one morning recently.
Up in Wilkes county they boast of a
chicken that had well developed crow
at the tender age of three days.
Col. Paul Faison is making the pcni-
Tertiary seli.sustaining and has not used
any of the appropriation this year.
The Confederate veterans of Caldwell
and Watauga counties will cncamp at
Blowing Rock from August Z to 10.
Stephen Milton, of Person county,
committed suicide a few days ago. His
mind had been impaired for some time.
At Tarboro night is made hidcous by
the firing of pistols, and the Southcrncr
| I, .,,l, - Al,
The funeral of Mayor Crawford, of
Salisbury, was largely attended. The
members of the bar acted as pail bearers.
Hail stones as large as hen eggs" fell
in Cleveland county Wednesday, DANA
ging the growing crops and killing many
chickens.
Hon. +. NJ. Simmons, of New Bcrnc.
has gone tn Washington to look after
that 1000 public building the city has
been promised.
Mr.. W. c. Petty, n merchant of Man
ley, has leased the Carthage railroad
from the Scaboard Air Line and will OPP
crate il hereafter.
The entire outfit, subscription list and
good will of the Salisbury Watchman
were bought at auction by Mr.. ]. W.
Rumplc for 81 30.
Captain J.. NJ. Fleming, deputy warden
of the State pcnitcntiary. has been ap-
pointed to take the convict census sta
tistics of the State.
The contract tor the construction of
the public building at Grccnvillc, 5. c.,
has been let to Jas. X. Lawrence, of VIII
mington, for S75,43O.
Rev. K. X. Willis has been appointed
pastor of the Centenary Methodist
church at New Bcrnc. to fill the vacancy
occasioncd by the death of Rev. j. l..
Mann.
Reports from Chatham state that the
wheat crop Just harvested was COM
plctc failure. It did not pay to cut it.
In some fields the yield was not so much
us had been sown.
Grand Master Samuel II. Smith has
appointed ID. $. Watt, Esq, of Raleigh,
Grand Treasurer OF the Grand Lodge of
Masons, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Col. ". L. Anderson.
Several capitalists, mostly northern
crs have organized at Weldon the Great
Falls Water Power company. w. b..
Hadlinson, of Petersburg. is president.
and Thos. l.. Emery, of Weldon, is vice
president. The company will establish
extensive manufactures there.
II reports are true, Judge Armtcld got
the worst Of il when he exchanged dis
trictricts with Judge Womack. In Edge
combc the solicitor and two other Off
GERS of the court were colorcd men, and
all of them thought that the water in
the Judges pitcher was the best. and
they slakcd their thirst out OF il. Judge
Armicld did not appreciate this. and
has so expressed himscli.-Durham Globe.
A wildcat was brought into Raleigh by
a countryman and escaped from its cage.
There was general scattering and in
the midst of the scare the animal suc-
ccctlcd in hiding. II was several hours
before il was seen again and then IL came
in through the rear window oi a grocery
store and brought the sash with Il. In
lust about three seconds that store was
the cats alone and six men with six
rifles were required to regain possession
The animal was mad clear through and
wanted to fight.
The Durham sun says that during tho
storm Tuesday. at Cox's store, near Or
augc Factory. two brothers, Daniel and
George Raynor, went into porch Ia
keep out of the rain. Lightning struck
n post and ran down along the place
where they were sitting and stunned
both men. One has no use whatever o.
his body from his hips down. The Other
is prostratcd, and both arc seriously, Il
not fatally, injured.
lanes X. Mcdonald. ono of the oldcs,
citizens of Long Creek township, Meek
lcnburg county. died at his home, about
eight miles from Charlotte, Wcdncsda,
night. Mr. Mcdonald, was native o
Scotland. lie came to America IN 1916
lie was n brave Confederate soldier, {
member of the Fifth North Carolina cav
airy. His wife and two children surviv,
himc. Mr.. Mcdonald was scventy-nin,
years Of age.
The Raleigh correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch writes: Last year II wa'
stated that the State Farmers Allianc'
; had made some requests of the lcgisla
! turc for the creation Of a railway com
mission, the extension of the jurisdiction
of magistrates. the prohibition Of tn
,, holding of free passes by the public Off
cials, and the prohibition Of the frc
gift Of convict labor to corporations
These requests were made at a meeting
here Ia August, 1883. The legislator
\ did not heed them, the alliance me,
I claim, So that now where there was
/. request" there Is demand" TIL
c State Alliance at its session at Fayctte
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