Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-05-27
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

lislcd in the interest OF colorcd men.
Goldsboro is to have refrigerator fac
tory. A chicago man furnishes the capi
tai.
About four hundred students attended
Shaw University during the past ses
sion.
X. NJ. Goodwin, aged 70, and Mrs
Marthallurst, aged 30, were married at
Raleigh.
1t is said that High Point will give
SlOO, 900 if the K. & $. railroad will lpass
by that town.
The funeral of Col. W. L. Anderson, OF
Raleigh, was one of the largest ever held
in that city. The floral offerings were
exquisite.
The Chamber of Commerce of Winston
has passed resolutions strongly endors'
ing the issuing of bonds to the amount
Of 5000, 600 for city improvements.
Col. NJ. l.. McCorklc, Of Newton, will
bc a candidate for the judgeship in the
Eleventh district. Newton, Hickory ana
Taylorsvillc papers have declared tor
him.
Two thousand three hundred dollars
has already been raised for the proposed
monument at Charlotte for the signers
of the Mecklcnburg Declaration OF lndc'
pcndcnce.
S.B. Pearson was convicted in 1889
in Burke county of stealing ride ana
sentenced TO TWO years III ,"e lS.'.e
tiary: lie mas neeh l"r""''eu ny '''''
nor Fowle.
The Winston Salem University Alumni
Association has been organized with Mr..
I ~ Fries ms prcsidcnt; $. L. Graves.
vice prcsidcnt; A. II. Fuller, secretary
and treasurer.
A pcti,ion signed by som, of the hest
citizens of Clinton has been sent to Gov.
Eowlc asking to commute the sentence
of Avery Butler. who is sentenced to hang
Iuly II, to twenty years in the pcniten-
i;ory,
The North Carolina steer ana iron
company have discovered large ue-
post OF granite on their Town lou prop
crty adjoining Greensboro Inc Sranhte
is of the finest quality, gray ana b'ue'
and splits well.
,,c,r,,,;ou has hecu received at Raj.
,,;,,h ,I,", ,hc hl,rkherry crop will be
sbort in the Piedmont section of the state,
where II " souIss y; !, ~ -, 60, ,;,,o
i;,r as can oe ' ,e,, "'u ~ Eli nronnf,JacI
thr' e'e' ''''" w ~ =" 49,
per'''s'''
The lngersoll Machinery company who
Furnished the machinery for the Flat
Rock quarry, near Mt. Airy, were so inn
pressed with the quality of the granite
that they made Il handsome offer to bt
allowed to handle the granite in New
York for the quarry company.
At the congregational meeting ne'u a'
the FIRST frespyteriai' ehuren u. 1'eeuI VI,
boro to consider matters soi,nee'ea isl M,ai
the new church puiiuihG'H was ue.'ae'
to proceed at once TO tne eree.io'i oi
building To cost S-3'oov. II WIN w CIV
OF the handsomest en"rehes III '"e "'"'e
r, p,.;.,,,, p,,l., s,vs N.ssrs
me NovNin'i , n.,,' s..a',,,.J nm ,4r ,inns =,
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nc sun'n'.teu .,,"''sS @ "J d,un s,nre
pm'.u'ns' I'. ,,',' ,h. ,.,c,, nf erect; in,
the same this summer. Meantime th
question ofclcctric lishtsand water work.
for the town is being discussed amoni
our citizens.
| Parties from Snrry county te,i pi se
rious cutting aliray at kinS Sap,h 'as
week. Rcb Lotion, an 10 year ON oos
shot dog belonging to Jim iiu'Sn'ns' D.
order OF his employer. rnlyn'hs n'
tackled him ana l.oitcn III ue'eho''S mn
self cut his throat liu,enins wouf' naN
died IN few moments han i,o' TWO Pn.
7 ~ n,,on @ was ,nilcd ot Danbury. Hutch
;ns i, Is thourht. will recover.
The Madison News says another hi
man being, Il poor unfortunate, thoug
il may bc guilty, has found namelcs
grave in strange land. The convie
who escaped from the X. * $. road /
town last Tuesday week, and was she
nt by the guards, was found dead ia I'll
woods south of the river few days n
tcrward. lie had received n bullet in Ii
side and died from loss of blood an
want of attention. lie was n ncgr'
whose name we diu not 'ehrh'
Mr.. Henry keeps store at the dcpt
in Statcsvillc. Last Monday night Il
watchman, VIM. Rickart, caught thr
tramps, one negro and two white men,
the store. He baggcd the whole crow
and locked them in II box car where
, kent them until Tuesday morning, wh'
he marched them to Jail. That same dG
they were arraigncd in court and foui
guilty. Yesterday the judge sentence
each Of them to term of five years
c the pcnitcntiary. This was quick wo
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