The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-03-13
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
Mt. Airy now claims population O
1000 souls.

During the past year the Raleigh po
lice force have made l 1876 arrests.
The negro Methodists of Salisbury ar,
going to worship in brick church.
McPhail's turpentinc distillery, in Rob
cson county, was burned Saturday.
The Baptists of Tarboro have bough,
lot and will erect II $4,000 church.
Raleigh will have new ice factory
which will put out twenty tons day.
Johnston county Jail is for the first
time in four years without an occupant
The new board of city commissioners
Of Winston elected Capt. d. p. Mast
mayor.
The United Edison manufacturing COM
pany, of New York, now has an Office in
Charlotte.
Rev. A. K. Shaw. of Carthage, has re-
ceived a call to the Third Presbyterian
church at Charlotte.
The iron ore hunters are slill leasing
lands in Lincoln county, and want to
boom the county.
The general store of Purcell & Brother,
in Mcdowell county. has been burned.
The loss will reach $4,000.
The Baptists will build a $4,000
church at Tarboro, having secured an
admirable site for $500.
Merchants of Charlotte who handle
guano say the farmers are buying more
fertilizers this year than usual.
William Parrell, a negro. is in Jail at
Mocksville. charged with outraging the
wife OF Samuel Thompson, colored.
Jasper Alexander, II well-known citizen
hunting by the bursting of his gun.
The State Farmers Alliance office, in
Raleigh, has been enlarged, and now oc.
cupies an entire building of considerable
size.
The Durham Hull Fertilizer company's
factory at Durham has burned. All but
81, 400 of the loss was covered by insur.
ancc.
At Washington, n. c., the large lumber
mill of Short & Co.. was entirely con.
sumed Friday. Loss is estimated at
Si''ooo'
Representatives of an English syndicate
are making an examination of Blackwcll's
tobacco house at Durham, with view
to buying it.
The Egypt coal company has just put
in an eighty-horsc steel boiler. and the
'hhe 70 p,ou"e"'s 'o"' 'o u 20 'ohs Vi
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John NJ. Cravcr has been appointed
postmaster at Canto, Vim. X. Blackburn
~ Elm Nross No"os' ana James ~' stroup
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A Confederate Veterans Home Aid So
,iety is the name OF an organization re-
Iehtiy ,ormeu ~ oy the 'ad'es al "'ndsor'
'er'e e''""'S'
K. II. Cash, n prominent citizen Of
Granville county, has discovered valua.
p,e Sopper deposit Oh '"'o o~hen oy MN
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Mr.. solomon Beaver, of Salisbury,
went to bed as usual last Sunday and in
ine !. morning he ~ns ,o"hu oea"' hear'
''"e"se WIS '"e e''"se'
Congressman Skinner has introduced
bill in the house of representatives ap-
S1O0,0O0 for n public build.
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The Y. NJ. &. A. at Raleigh has sus-
eudcd and the furnishings OF the rooms
nave been sold. Anattcmpt willbc made
10 revive il in the summer.
The First National Bank Of Winsto on,
which was recently re-organizcd with a
'apital stock of 5000 900, will build an
,lcyaut new bank building.
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statement that in the past year North
Carolina has been second to no State
save Ohio in railroad progress.
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a man named Whartlcy was killed on
yns walking across ~ long tres;ic ond
yns struek bv N ,ro;n liz wns n honL
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Charles Z. Cross, cN-prcsidcnt OF the
,rokcn National bank at Raleigh. was
AIKEN I'll while at work on the road and
. now lying III critical condition.
Death may rob the law OF its dues.
The house osR. M Allison. in Long