Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-04-25
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

Vance county claims a whctston
quarry inferior to none in the world.
DIR. J. Henry Smith has been pastor q
a Greensboro church for thirty-one years
Z. NJ. Short, OF Washington, has los
three sets of dry kilns in the last TIVE
years.
| Winston has fifty-fvc tobacco facto
rics and 100000 of plugs are shippct
from there yearly.
Five hundred and one mortgages OF
land in Hyde county have been recorded
in the last ten years.
Several hundred pounds of cotton wcr,
destroyed by fire in the Big Falls cottor
factory at Graham.
Eighteen more convicts have been sent
from the penitentiary to the Roanoke
and Southern railway.
The index of the 10th North Carolina
law reports is being completed. The vol.
umc will soon be out of press.
A hurricane blew down four houses
and damaged several Others near mine
at Indian Trail, Union county.
Forest fires destroyed 200 cords OF
wood for NJ. McD. Will inns, near Spout
Springs, in Cumberland county.
Wayne Lodge, No. 112, Masons. OF
Goldsboro, had twcnty-eight members
last January. Now it has fifty-one.
A rumor is being circulated and is 60
ing the rounds Of the State press that
Bishop Lyman is soon to he married.
Thirty hands are employed clearing up
the proposed site of the North Carolina
Steel and Iron company at Goldsboro.
A. II. Motley & CO., a Rcidsville to-
bacco firm, have sent salesman around
the world in the interest of their house.
If James Gilmore, of Lexington, had
lived until August he would have been
100 years old. lie died few days ago.
Joscphus Daniels, the editor of the Raj
eigh State Chronicle, will deliver the
commencement address at Graham Col
legc.
John Ellis was tried at Lenoir on a
charge OF assaulting nine year old girl.
The evidence was insufficient and he was
discharged.
Mr.. William U. Steiner, for sixteen
years n resident of Guilford county, is
dead. He was prominent active men,
bcr of the l. o. OF
Major NJ. II. Pride. of Mt. Holly, is
the owner of chicken which has taste
for feathers. All the other fowls in the
yard suffer in consequence.
Interviews with farmers from Granville,
Durham, Orange. Alamancc, Person and
Caswell counties are to the effect that
the tobacco crop will be poor.
William Zicgler, a Winston negro. was
found guilty of an attempt to rape an so
ycar-old and blind white woman. He
was sentenced to ten years in the pcni-
tcntiary.
The supreme court has begun the call
of the Twelfth district. Next Monday
the call of appeals set at the end Of the
docket will begin, commencing with those
from the First district.
A mulatto boy at Wilmington named
Ben Strayhorn fired two shots at col
orcd man named Allen. The fact that he
was fined only SIS is all that is ncccs-
sary to show that his aim was poor.
A shaded blue crane was killed near
Gladcsboro. It measured six feet from
tip to tip, five feet and two inches from
its toes to its bill, and when it opened its
mouth its took up seven inches Of space.
DR.. John +. Crowcll, of Trinity Col
lcge, will deliver the annual address be
fore the literary societies of the Collcgi-
ate Institute at commencement, and
Rev. ]. Y. Fair. of Richmond, will preach
the annual sermon.
The Greensboro Workman learns that
the subscriptions for stock in the steel
company have footed up about $780,
900 and that when S5OO,OOO have been
subscribed the books uf subscription will
probably be closed until a sale of land is
made.
Four gentlemen of Worthwhile have
caught 375 pounds of fine fish in Deep
river this season. Mr.. Trogdon killed at
one shot three white suckers weighing
trout weighing six and three quarter
pounds.
Mr.. Solomon Rouse, who lived near
Mount Olive, was completely crcmated
at his home. half gallon measure held
all the remains that were found. Just
how the sad accident bcfcll him Is not
known. There is not the slightest sus-
picion Of foul play.
The Wilmington Messenger enjoyed its
twcnty-third anniversary on Tuesday
and the event was celebrated with ban
quct to all of the employees at the Orton.
The Messenger has reason to be proud Of
its long and useful lie and is now one
of the best papers in North Carolina.
The Governors Guard, a crack military
organization Of Raleigh, have made ar
rangcments for q concert and prize drill,
open to the State, on the Goth. The best
drilled man is to receive $50 and the sec
ond SO. The Guard will not enter for
the prizes and its three ranking officers
will be the judges.
A most distressing accident occurred at
Monroe last Friday. The children Of G.
N. Simpson, having through curiosity re-
moved the covering from well which is
being dug in the yard, were playing
around the same, when Baxter, a 3-ycar-
old child, approaching too near II, fell in,
and striking his head against rock, was
instantly killed.
The moonshincrs are outrageously
bold in their behavior in Person county.
They forced their way into the jail in
Roxboro few nights ago, in order to
get some contraband whiskcy, and now
they have forced their way into main
store at Hurdles Mills, in order to re-
gain possession Of part Of whiskcy still
which had been seized by revenue officers.