Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-05-12
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

| BlackbcrricS are on the wilmington
market.
Thomas A. Edison is at Carthage look.
ing over the gold fields.
The contract for the Governors man.
sion calls for its completion by August 1.
Large quantities of dead horse fish are
floating down the river near Faycttc-
vile.
The ladies of Raleigh propose holding
"A fair, in elaborate style, in aid OF the Sol
dicr's Home.
Fayetteville is to have two large
planning mills. One will be erected by a
Wilmington party.
Rev. W. X. Coppcdge has accepted n
call to the pastoratc of the Presbyterian
church at Burlington.
The Goldsboro Argus promises the town
both knitting mill and cotton factory
before the end of the year.
Last week $3.50, 900 of the first mort
gage bonds of the Western North Caro-
lima railway had been paid off.
Fayetteville business men will close
their stores early during the summer
months The clerks requested it.
James Rowland got drunk and went to
sleep on railroad track near Wadcsboro.
passenger train came along and he
died the next day.
a farmer named John Penny, while
driving into Morganton. met with ia
tai accident, his horse taking fright at n
passing train and dashing the buggy to
pieces.
The mortuary report of the town of
Fayetteville for the month of April
shows Il rcmarkablyc low death rate.
there having been only eight deaths dur
ing that time.
The Oxford & Clarksvillc Railroad
company has instituted n suit against
the town of Durham for relief, the action
growing out of the railroad disturbance
week before last.
The Virginia and North Carolina Con
struction company met at Winston and
increased its stock from 100000 to
5000, 900. and elected officers. i. II.
Fries is president.
a negro fisherman ON Croatan sound,
named Johnson, attacked another named
Wilson and tried to shoot him. With
one blow of a pole Wilson smashed John
sons skull, killing him.
Adams and Newton, two white men
charged with the murder of man named
Cox, in Washington county, have been
located in Mississippi. Adams will bc
brought back in n few days, having been
captured.
A company has Just been organized at
Monroe with a capital stock OF 500. 900,
to build a cotton factory there. Mr.. A.
Stevens is president. and Mcssrs. lIous-
ton, Nann, Fairly and Adams are dircc
tors. Work will begin at once.
The secretary of the treasury has
awarded a gold life saving medal of the
first class to Richard +. Warren. of vii.
mington. for extreme and heroic daring
in rrscuing Miss Carrie Moflit from the
surf at Wrightsvile beach, in June last.
1t is probable that the First and Third
regiments of the State Guard will go into
camp together and that the Second and
Fourth regiments will cncamp at the
same time, thus givihg two cncanip
mcnts. Thus says the adjutant general.
The Episcopal convention to bc held in
Tarboro this week will bc an interesting
President Elliott, of the Wilmington and
Weldon railroad, to run an excursion on
Saturday or Sunday of next week from
Weldon, Halifax, and Scotland Neck to
Tarboro.
Mcssrs. L. H. llancs Il Co. have con-
tractcd with Mcssrs. Miller Bros. for the
largest tobacco factory, and in fact the
largest building ever erected in either
Winston or Salem. II is To bc built OF
brick. six stories high, and will bc 200
feet long with n front oi . feet.
The Board of Education of Cumberland
county has passed an order prohibiting
the use by the county superintendent OF
public schools Of First Steps in North
Carolina History" by Mrs. Cornclin
Phillips Spencer. and Goodrich's histories
oi the United States This action is taken
on account oi the references made in those
works To men aud measures during the
civil w.r.
saturday evening there was reception
NJ the supreme court and State library
building aud great number OF people.
mainly ladies, attended il to view the
portraits of prominent men. which have
increased So rapidly in numbers. Gov.
crnor fowlc has received an oil portrait
of Governor David Stone, who was in
office from iSOS To 1910. II is n very
fine likeness OF remarkably handsome
man.
The storage warehouse Of leaf tobacco
aud general merchandise belonging to 4.
{. x ]. W. Murray, at Vincent. Aamancc
county, was consumed by fire with an
almost total loss to the owners. There
was some insurance ON the building IN
the North Carolina Home Insurance
company for $500, and on the stock for
SiU0 in the Hartford. As there had been
no fire IN the building, Il is supposed To
have been the work of an inccndary.
Mrs. Mary Riggsbcc was instantly
killed by u passenger train on the Oxford
aud Clnrksyllc railroad and near Raleigh.
Mrs. Riggshcc was sisty.six years old.
and lived near the railway. She attempt.
cd to cross the track MS the train ap-
preached. hut was struck and dragged
many yards, being so manglcd as to bc
almost unrccOgniznblc. Her sister, who
was called To identify the body, was com.
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