The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-02-27
CAROLINA CULLINGS.

What Is Going On IN the Old N0ftl
State, as Recorded by Her lnteli-
gent and Wide-aYake News
papers.
A spoke and handle factory has been
built at Mocksville.
A light house to be built at Cape
Hatteras will cost 100000.
Twenty two passenger trains arrive
and depart from Greensboro every day.
Ground was broken in Chrrlotte last
Monday for the erection of Sam Jones'
tabernacle.
Marion is to have cotton and
broom factory. The machinery for the
broom factory has already arrived.
1t is rumored that the Atlantic Coast
Line has in contemplation double
track from Wilmington to Weldon.
Goldsboro Argus "Peg-Leg" Will
liams was in the city again yesterday,
tagging and carrying another train load
of negro exodusters.
A prominent railroad man in this
State says that before long the railroad
shops in the South will turn out their
own locomotives and cars.
Melville D. Longdon, better known
as Eli Perkins, the celebrated lecturer
and liar, delivered lecture at Wake
Fores: College Monday night.
DR.. w. T. Harris, United States
Commissioner of Education, will be
present at the Southern Educational
Association meeting at Morehead City
in June.
Warren G. Elliott, Esq. of Norfolk,
Va, has been elected president of
the Wilmington & Weldon railroad
and will make his residence in Will
mington.
During the month of January,
Messrs Hanes & Co., of Winston, ship
ped ITS, ,1734 pounds Of maufactured..to-
bacco on which they paid over $l4, 900
revenue tax.
The Supervising Architect of the
Treasury gives Congressman Ewart
to understand that work on the Ashe-
vile public building will probably be-
gin about April 1st.
Asheboro Courier: The sound of the
hammer and saw is heard daily in Ashe-
boro. The old town is on boom and
no mistake. The population of Ashe-
boro will be largely increased this year.
The farmers are diversifying their
crops more than usual this year. They
have planted much more wheat and
oats and are planting more sugar cane
than heretofore. This is right. t.-Kin-
ston Free Press.
Prof. Woodrow Wilson, a former
resident Of Wilmington and student
of Davidson College, has been elected
to fill the chair of Jurisprudence and
Political Economy at Princeton Col
lege, New Jersey.
On Thursday of last week a man
known to Raleigh people as ''Pinhook'
Medlin, died in Wake county poor
house. He had been there for sixteen
years. Authenticated records give his
age as l0l years.-Raleigh Call.
Wilson Adramce Mr.. Rufin Ben
frow, of Old Fields township called
in to see us last Thurday. He told us
that Spring Hill and Old Fields are
dotted all over with tobacco barns.
He says that tobacco will be planted
extensively in these two townships.
J. P. Davis charged with the murder
of John A. Horton in Chatham county
was, on Saturday last, found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged. Davis con-
fessed to having committed the crime,
before his trial came on, and said that
he expected to be hung for it and de-
served to be.
The Progressive Farmer heads its
State news department in this way:
'Drops ofTurpentine and Grains of Rice
from the East; Clusters of Grapes and
Tobacco Stems from the North; Stalks
of Corn and Grains of Wheat from the
West, and Peanuts and Cotton Seed
from the South.
Hon. T. Hannis Taylor, native of
North Carolina, and the author of the
origin and growth of the English Con-
stitution, has been honored with the
degree of LII. D., by the University
of Alabama. DR.. Taylor is an alum
nus of the University of North Caro-
lina-Raleigh Meas Observer,
Shelby aurora. Our progressive
and enterprising townsman, ex-Sherif
d. D. Suttle, purchased four months
ago for 1900 sixty acres of land in
suburbs of Asheville and made small
payment on the purchase. He sold a
small portion two months ago at a
profit and last week he sold the re-
mainder for $4,000 to Northern
party,
Charlotte Chronicle &: Mr.. Edison
has engaged suite of rooms in Char
lotte for year. They will be for the
use of himself and his experts, when
ever they shall be here, during the next
twelve months, to pursue their mining
investigations among the mines of the
richest mineral region on the globe
as he says the southwestern part OF
North Carolina is.
On Saturday last we received at the
Argonaut Office a specimen of gold
bearing ore from the deep workings on
, No. 2 vein on Mann-Arrington-m mining
property. 1t was about 15x12 inches,
to 5 inches thick. One side of it is
literally sparkling with golden points,
while the elevages were bright with
the golden metal, showing that the
gold was equally distributed through
the whole mass.-Nasheville Argonam.