Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-05-10
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

great.
Greensboro has lodge of the Improved
Order OF Red Men. ]. {. Upton, of the
Patriot, is the sachem.
Ex-Presidcnt Cleveland is unable to at
tend the Mccklcnburg celebration at
Charlotte and has sent his regrets.
The daily papers of Charlotte have to
pay 500 city tax. Fish stands pay one
der cent. on the bills of cost on valuation.
A consignment of Kansas beef that is
said to have brought it's smell along with
it has been condemned by the mayor OF
Rcidsville.
The Episcopal convention which meets
at Tarboro on the 18th will he the CEN
tcnnial of the establishment of the church
in North Carolina.
A little Salisbury girl jumped a rope
300 times and all of the schools let out
on the day of her funeral. A moral turks
somewhere about this.
An extensive revival is in progress ut
st. Johns church, Goldsboro, conducted
by Mrs. J. d. Carpenter, of Liberty, n. I.
There are many conversions.
The negroes who left Kingston and
went to Mississippi send home for their
snuff. The brand produced in that State
does not suit their aesthetic tastes.
At an early day the alumni OF the North
Carolina University living near Raleigh
will have meeting there and take active
steps to show their interest i'll their Alma
Mater.
Evangelist Fife is holding series OF
meetings in tent at Gastonia, and rs at
tracing large crowds. a good many
people from Charlotte are attending the
meetings.
Virginia has secured space for exhibits
at the educational exposition winch VIII
bc a feature of the approaching sessionoi
the North Carolina Teachers Assembly
at Morchcad City.
Raleigh and the electric light company
are having trouble about the bill Tor light
ing the city. The city authorities refuse
to pay because they claim the lights are
not up to the contract.
Will White, the young man charged
with attempting to assasSinate John
Yanccv, jr., at Marion. was bound over
| to court in the sum of 81 900. 1t seems
that Yanccy and White were enemies.
The Wadcsboro -lntellipenccr
saws of the twin brothers who recently
became insane almost simultaneously III
Arson county that one has about rccov-
cred and the other, who is at the Nor
canton asylum, is much better.
John r. Patrick who is the head of the
Southern Interstate Immigration Bureau,
saws that the business is increasing very
greatly, and that much progress is made
in the specific work for which the bureau
was created. lie has increased his cler.
ical force.
The State Collegiate Oratorical Asso.
citation will hold its first annual contest
at Charlotte tonight. Trinity and Da.
wilson Colleges will each have two rep
rcscntatvcs. The victor will he pre-.
scntcd with $50 gold medal and
awarded the championship of the State
Two negroes living on Mr.. Ilendcrson's
farm on the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio
road, near Charlotte, got into hight
One oi the negroes got the other down
and pounded his head to jelly with Il
rock. The guilty party fled and has not
been arrested.
George Mccullough, n negro from Rob
cson county, was recently discharged
from the pcnitcntiary. lie returned home
but his wife positively refused to recog
nizc him. This So prcycd upon his mind
that he resolved upon suicide and dclib
cratclv drowned himself i'll creek ncal
his home.
II was decided at Raleigh TO hold me
mortal services on Monday instead OF to-
day. The military and trcmcn will pa
radc, and the Durham band will furnish
the music. Mr.. Fabius II. Busbcc vii
deliver an address on the North Carolin;
} lunior Reserves.
A gentleman living in Sampson count,
sent a big wolf to the Central hotel II
Charlotte intending to take il to Balti
more in n few days, where 1t was to b
placed in a park. 1t was thorough.
tanned but broke out of its box while n
the hotel, and after being chased for som
.. distance was shot and killed.
The Farmers Alliance of Robcso,
: county has made n protest to the count
1
gang on the public roads there. The us
OF these county convicts in this way is c
l recent date, and is IN fact an cxpcrimcn,
{ The action of the alliance regarding
, caus $ good deal of comment.
Recently DR.. II. NJ. Wilder, of Cha,
I lottc, pension examiner, examined Davi
, Thornc, OF Lincolnton, who served IN n
Indiana regiment during the war. AS
i result he received S3,3 800 pension none
! and is on the pension roll for S24 pt
/ month. This was granted because OF
wound in the leg
Il The Thomasvillc, Silver Valley and P'
Z bee railroad company has been orgai
, lied at Thomasvillc, This road will G.
:, tend from Winston.Salcm to Wadcsbor'
on the Carolina Central, passing hroug
l. Thomnsvillc. The road will go throug
{. one of the richest mineral sections in Il
), State.
=, A correspondent OF the Scotland Nee
!, Democrat tells of the burial of color,
N woman ut which the services were d
il, laycd until the grave was made large
While this was being done n colorcd "
man present fell into the grave, strikir
her head against spade, and was
-, stunned that she did notspcak until ne
y, day.
ii lin Gable, negro, was killed at Hil
Point by his uncle, Stephen Cathc
Gable went to Cathcy's door ~
a knocked. Cathcy took NJ his gun al
r. told his wife he was going to have soi