The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1890-01-17
FROM MURPHY TO MANTE0.
SOME THINGS THAT AE<EHAppEN
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.
w hat Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted

State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
It's Readers.
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ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR
The citizens of Charlotte are work
Ing very hard to have the proposed South
ern Lutheran Seminary located there.
On Thursday New Berne voted $50
900 towards building railroad from New
Berne to Wilmington. Only three votes
were cast against it.
49,. 1t may be that there will be another
dividend of perhaps 2 per cent paid depos-
l1cr5 III the wrecked State National Bank
o. hi city.
.Ku .ier's Mill was burned at Wash
lngton last week together with his dry
kiln and quantities of lumber. The loss
was $4,000 No insurance
49,. The Commissioner of Agriculture
says that he has never seen farm work so
far advanced at this time of the year. A
greater quantity of clover, grasses and
grain have been planted than usual
-. Gov. Fowle has offered rewards for
Albert Campbell, William Harrell and Da-
vid Harrell who murdered NJ. G. Cox, in
Mitchell county. Two hundred dollars is
| offered for each one Or six hundred dollars
| for all three
Judge Spier Whitaker has been com
| missioned by the Governor to hold Wayne
| cOuDtV conrt bnuinpiDo on ba !,
| of January, and Harnett court, beginning
on the third of February, vice Judge Mac
| Rae
| 1.-THE State Assembly of the knights
Of Labor meets at Tarboro on the 27th
! instant This once powerful order is now
very weak in this State, and very little is
| heard of it. Too much Radicalism caused
| it to wane.
We learn that there are good indi-
cations Of the existence Of natural gas at
| Egypt. II natural gas is found there it
VIII create a revolution in this section. 1t
beats artificial gas in building a town.
Sanford Express.
The Farmers Alliance men in the
cotton-growing districts will this year
make all their obligations, such as notes
for supplies, guano, &c, payable Decem-
Der 25th instead of November 1st, as here
49,. DR.. W. r. Capehart writes that the
past year he grew on his farm at Avoca
two crops of oats The first crop, plaut-
ed in February, was cut in July. The
| second crop matured early in December
being then over two feet high, well headed
and not at all hurt by frost.
- Mr.. ". G. Stronach, Secretary Of
the Confederate Veterans Association,
has received $165.75; the same being a
contribution from the proceeds Of bazaar
held at Spring Hill Aca denny by the ladies
of upper Robson and lower Richmond
counties.
IA highly sensational report comes
from Charlotte regarding the reappear-
ance of Wyatt Mckenzie an outlaw, who
twice broke Jail in Rockingham county
and after etfecting his escape, now returns,
and having organized a gang of SIX, is
said to be terrorizing the people.
-. Rev. J. B. Mack, evangelist for this
district, has recently written to DR.. j. W.
Mcneil, giving very encouraging accounts
of his work for the season. The tOtal
makes the gratifying exhibit of 43 ser
mons delivered, 1874 additions made, and
a adults and infants baptized. Fay
etteville Observer.
" The business of Mt Airy during the
year ending December 31st, 1879 was al
most double that of any previous year
This is fine showing for our town anC
ought to be sufficient encoura cement t(
our moneyed men to induce them to or
ganize "a bank here. Mt. Airy News.
49, Atlanta capitalists and people o
} Pitt county, this State, are interesting
themselves in the construction of cana
] thirty miles long, from Bethel to Tar river
? near Pactolus. 1t will develop 80, 900 acre
2 of the finest lands in the State, and vii
; make available an immense amount o
2 | timber of the choicest kinds.
The Florence (S CD Messenger say
that Mr.. J. B. Rowland vas marl ed t.
Miss Esther Ann Williams both of Robe
\ son county, in Florence last week. Th
groom is 50 and the bride 7. The " AIDES
t boro Inteligencer and Messenger Sc : tina
+ | the bridegroom has another wife living il
l Arson county, the daughter OF DR.. W. I
Haree.
\ - A number of farmers Of Halifa
. county are thinking of putting in a ric
o | crop this year They think the lOWland
q in many parts of this county is well suite
! to its cultivation. few farmers expert
/ mented last year and reported encourage
ment and profit III it. 1t IS quite proba
BILE that rice will soon be one OF the diver
sified crops there.
-. On Friday night as the east boun
train was running into Hot Springs ma
by the name of Van Henderson, after fiji
ing off pistol several times, jumped frol
the front platform of the passenger coacf
o the train running at full speed, and va
u dashed against the rocks of the road bee
T. He was at once picked up and carried 0
q a stretcher to the house of relative
/ the village. 1t is not thought he can liv'
; He was intoxicated. d.-Asheville Citizen.