The Charlotte Democrat., 1890-10-24
North Carolina News.

Mrs. Lillian M. Gould, on trial at Muir
ply, charged with the murder of her
husband, has been acquitted.
Miss Amanda V.tLee of Shelby, has
accepted the position as superintendent
and treasurer Of the juvenile work of the
Western North Carolina G difference
| North Carolina can and oes manufac
ture as elegant woolen and cotton goods
as are made in the world. The display
at the fair grounds proves this fact
State Chronicle.
| Congressman Brewer of the Fifth
North Carolina district, was assaulted by
Jos. Bradield, journalist, at Went
worth, in Rockingham county. The
assault grew out of the charges that
Bradfeld made concerning Brower's inn
moral life while in Washington. .t
| The residence of Maj John F. Jones,
Superintendent of the three C's railroad,
at Blacksburg, S. c., was destroyed by
fro at an early hour Friday morning,
Oct. 18th, together with nearly all th 9
furniture and adjacent buildings. Loss
about twenty thousand dollars; no in
| surance. .
Mr. A. L. Cherry of Triangle, has been
elected County Commissioner to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of ].
w. A. Paine, Democratic nominee for the
State Senate. Mr.. Cherry is one Of the
county's best citizens and his election to
this Office will no doubt give general sat
isfaction Lincoln Courier.
Uncle Pleas Israel showed us on Mon
day some we'll developed plums of the
second crop this year, and ON the same
stalks the blooms of q third, from his
trees in Leicester Ne received last
week from Mr.. A. F. Walton, she nur
seryman, a bunch of luscious raspberries
Of the Brandywine variety, which were
of the second crop from his bus hes this
year.-AshevHIe Democrat.
H Mrs. Stephani in New York put
So, 900 in the hands of Milton S. Little
field to use in securing her sons release.
Her son was not released and Littlefeld
was arrested for grand larceny. He is
the same Littlefeld who helped despoil
North Carolina during the Reconstruc
ton period, and who made the Capitol a
place of his debauchery and the debauch-
cry of ignorant negroes.-Stdte Chronicle.
MORE Ticks WANTED.-Some time ago
we spoke of orders being received hero
for quantities of ticks for experiment
purposes. 1t is little curious that such
an abhored pest should become an arti-
Gle of commerce, but the demand still con-
tinues as the following telegram received
yesterday by ex Mayor Williams shows
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 16, 1890
Hon. r. P. WILLIAMS,
| NeWbern, n. c.
| Please have collected, as soon as posi-
BILE, five hundred full grown cattle ticks
and send them to me by express.
F. L. KILBoRNE.
-Ne,0bern Journal.
There is a yellow Jackets nest on the
farm of Mr.. VIM. Johnston, near Mooreh
vile. which is estimated to be feet in
diameter and IA inches high. Nobody
has had enough curiosity to go up to it
to measure it with rule or tape line. but
it is the best judgment of those who have
surveyed it from safe distance that it is
at least this large. jay Will Temple
ton, son of r. S. Templeton, Esq, of Bar
ringer township, recently found in the
old Georgia road, not far from his fathers,
silver badge, scarf pin or some such
ornament, bearing in the centre, front, a
large "K," and around this in two half
circles, "Wm. 81. G. Denhart, 18th Ills.
Cav" Like several other such articles
that have at different times been found in
this section, it must have been lost about
the close of the war by one of Stoneman's
/ men during their raid through here
Satesville Landmark.
> The stats AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,"
At the meeting of the State Agricultural
Society in Raleigh last Thursday night
Mr.. R. Fl. Battle was elected President
= The Vice-Presidents elected are: Capt.
S. B. Alexander, Capt. B. M. Collins,
Gov. A. M. Scales, A. T. Mial, Geo. W,
= Z Sanderlin, III. e. Fries, r. P. Reinhardt.
l Chas. Mcdonald, DR.. A. G. Faust, J. A.
> May, K. P. Battle, L. l.. D., R. H. Smith
. and Lit. Gov. Holt. The following Vice
Presidents were elected by districts 1st,
W. S. Carter I'd, DIR. ". R. Capebart
Sd, Thos. J. King; 4th, Daniel Stewart
. 5th, J. Van Lindley; 9th, G.. G. French
, 7th, W. T. Jones; 9Th, S. Harris 9th,
R. L. Cox; 10th, Maj. J. W. Wilson
. 11th, J. q. Hall; 18th, VIM. Beale. Mr.
E. c. Beddingfeld was elected Secretary
and Treasurer. On motion of Mr.. R. P,
,, Reinhardt of Catawba, committee OF
three was appointed to wait on the Legis
! lature and ask for $4,000 for the Fair
= $4,000 to be spent N premiums in the
agricultural department. and $1,000 in
. the mechanical department.