The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-01-02

Tho San.ppn County Alliance
meets tomorrow. DR.. y. Reid Par
ker will address the body.

White OAK.
Us. Fish C.mmissioner :. G..
Worth, who has been spending q
few days nith relatives IL Fayettc-
vile, returned Tuesday.
We are pleased to learn that
Capt. W. II FovIe and family Of
Lyncburg, Va, will locate in Clin-
ton. We welcome them Us citizens
in our midst.
Mr.. &. T.. Aiphin has moved
his stock Of goods into the store re-
Gently occupied by NJ. F.. Hobbs and
Bro, where he can have room to do
larger business.
Rev. +. ID. Swindell, will preach
in the Presbyterian church on next
Saturday and Sabbath and hold the
quarterly conference for this circuit
on Saturday Jan. 4th 1890.
Miss Lois Anderson Of the Fac
| u!ty Of the Clinton Female Institute
will be married to Mr.. ]. NJ. McIver
Of Gulf, y. c., in the Presbyterian
Church today at 2:40 p IN.
-Protracted meeting will COM
mence in the Presbyterian church
in Clinton on Friday before the Sec
ond Sunday in January, conducted
by State Evangelist Morton.
Matt Faison, colored, who rob-
bed Mr.. Charlie Buffers dwelling
on Christmas day, was picked up by
our vlgilant Chief Of police, w. j.
King, on last Monay at Warsaw.
He was with a gang of exodusters
bound for Georgia.
The young gentlemen who gave
the Oyster Roast ut Col. J. II. Bea-
mans, wish to return thanks to the
host and hostess and especially to
MI. $. q. Worth, without whose
kind and efficient supervision the
entertainment could not have been
the complete success that it was.
"A halt a dozen or more young
men are indebted to Miss Mamie
Faison for spending last Friday e.
vening most pleasantly. At about
ten O'Clock the party adjourned
from the whist and euchre tables to
the dining hall where delightful col
lation of dainty viands was served i.
An expert from New York has
been at the Carolina Veneer Works
for week or more putting in one of
the Harker Sprinkler Systems. The
The reservoir Of water is on high
frame standing by and towering a.
bove the buildings. If the factory
should catch on fire the sprinklers
will work automatically.
| Almost a serious accident hap
pened to a factory girl, Miss Dolly
Griffith, at the Carolina Veneer
Works yesterday. Her dress was
caught in one of the rapidly revolv-
ing butter dish machines and almost
literally torn from her. She was
thrown violently against the ma
thine, but only slightly hurt.
Ninety five negroes have left
Clinton since Tuesday morning for
Georgia. Pity they did not take
their families with them. A train
of ii crowded cars loaded with ne
groes for Georgia passed down the
w. & w. road Tuesday, More than
a thousand negroes have left Eastern
Carolina within the past three days.
"A large balloon, probably 80
I feet in diameter, with red light
attached, but with no one in it, was
sent up from Clinton amid shouts
and applause on Christmas evening.
Hundreds of gazers watched the fla
ming air ship till it appeared as a
star-a point Of light in the hea vens.
Can any one in form us where it fell:
MIR. Bennett, one of the distillers
here, bought on Tuesday, Dec. 31st,
from Mr.. Daniel Chestnut barrel
of 1890 turpentine. The boxes were
cut in the fall with the expectation
of dipping virgin next spring, but
80 warm has been the weather that
the boxes filed and Mr.. Chestnut
proceeded to dip. Is there anything
on record to equal it?
The young folks Club met last
Friday night at the residence of Mr..
Abram Hobbs. The membership of
the Club is about twenty Ave. The
evening was certainly one of jollity
and good cheer. A most palatable
Tepast was served late in the even
ing. The young men of Clinton
are certainly fortunate that the town
is blessed with such girls as ours.
Mr.. o. F. Herring, Register of
Deeds, requests us to state that the
combination of the safe in his office
is out of order so that he can not o.
pen it, but that as soon as this diff
Guilty is overcome that all business
submitted to him will receive
prompt attention. But marrying can
60 on as usual, for our good hear ted
Register has had us 10 print lot of
license so that the loving couples
may rot be deferred from the bliss
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