The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1890-01-31
FROM MURPHY TO NANTES.
SOME THINGS THAT AREHAPpEN
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA

NM IN NOh i IL CAROLINA. Z
What Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.
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CHRONICLE IN every section Of the State
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the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
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ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR
-. Franklin comfy farmers viii put in
five times as much tobacco this wear as
heretofore, says the Times.
THE beautiful new Presbyterian
church was dedicated in Winston on Sun
day, Rev. DR.. Girardeau preaching the
dedicatory sermon. Rev. Drs. j Henry
Smith and f. H. Johnston assisted in the
dedlcatOry services.
THE contract for building a Sam
Jones Tabernacle in Charlotte which will
seat 1000 has been given out. Mr.. Jones
| Will reach Charlotte about the Goth of
| April aild hold ten days meeting Prof
E. o. Excel will run the music.
| ....All the thousands of specimens in
the State Museum are being re arranged
and relabled so as to show the common
name, the scientific name, and the compo-
| nents. The museum. with its geological
| specimens, has been worth a great deal
| to the State.
| .... The people of the county of Hen
derson voted on Wednesday on the question
of $50, 900 subscription to the French
| Broad Valley railway. The vote was prac-
tlcally all one way-in favor of the propo-
sition. The people are enthusiastic in re-
| gard to the road
.... The Newton Enterprise learns that
Northern gentlemen who have been pros
| pecting for iron ore in Catawba are salts
| fled that it exists in workable quantities
at several places and are making prepara-
| ton to begin work at once at the h ale
mine near Catawba, and at different pla-
! ces near Maiden.
-. Mr.. J. 2. l.. Parish, yard coupler for
! the K. II ID. r. r., at Durham, came to
! his death in a horrible manner on Thurs
! day of last week. While coupling up "a
/ freight train, his foot was caught betw cen
the guard rail and the track, and the cars
/ backed upon him and two of the wheels
passed over his body
Another card for Nash, Mr.. I. p.
/ Braswell b IS discovered gold in large
! tudutltleS Oh Ills 1SiaUu IdTm situated III
/ Nash county, about Is miles above Battle
! bore, and near the renowned Mann Ar
rington." We saw piece Of rock or quartz
! last week from his recent find" contain
/ lrg the gllttering metal in apparently
! great quantities. es.-Cor. Nashville Argo-
/ naut.
.-. Columbus Gardner, of Wayne who
/ last year WAS tried and convicted of he
murder OF B T. Mckeel, but who secured
a new trial, has submitted TO the sentence
! OF manslaughter and receives the extreme
penalty of the law for that crime twenty
years Of hard labor in the penitentiary
The widow and three children of Mckeel
are to receive $500 from Gardner's friends
for the next five years.
-. After long trial the jury has de-
cided that Boyer Oem.) was elected Sher-
if OF Forsyth county and not league
(Rep.) who is now holding the office. An
appeal was taken to the Supreme Court,
and league was required to give bond for
| So 600 TO secure the emoluments of the
office for the time it has been held and
will be neld by league. The case con
sumed two weekS-attracted much a!ten-
| ton and showed great fraud and intiml-
dation upon the part of the Republicans
| in tie last election.
Wis, who is III jail in Raleigh, charged with
the murder Of JnO. u. Horton OF Chat
ham. would be lynched when carried to
Plttsboro tor trial He wrote to the Gov
ernor expressing his fears, and the Cover
nor address cd a letter to the Sheriff direct
ing him To use every power TO see that the
law was enforced and the prisoner given
protection This letter has been publish
ed. The Chatham Record says that there
is no danger of lynching that the people
are content to let the law take Its course.
- At Maxton Saturday night Croa-
tan Indian was shot in about fifty yards
of tie depot. He died in two minutes af-
ter he shot. 1t was II 80 at night
| when th. shooting was done and there was
\ bright light near, yet there is no clue tC
the murderer. 1t is suspected that there
} was !, Conspiracy against the Indian on the
, part of some negroes and that he was as
sassnated in cold blood. There was nc
quarrel and no noise save three shots fireC
as the indian was near the side wall Of
store one bullet only struck s..,A JUS
over the heart
....T The Governog. mas commuted the
sentence Of death to life Imprisonment il
the case II Samuel Halford and Kober
VII !, both of Rutherford county, wht
| were sentenced to be hanged Fob. 1th. Ii
the reasons given by tho Governor 70
committing the death sentence he say
there wa no foroiale breaking open Of tn
2 house az, il did not appear thai ther
was an. Intention to take hun. life. Th
4. ,.,dgu befor;. whom the tsiai wa. iseid ss,i'
| that he Honld not throw any obstacle il
ihe way oi 4 communication OF sentence
| The con- q HtatlOn WAS recommended by tn
= kliat,s, also uho Attorney General tn
: prosecuting attorney, the jury that hear
Y the case, nearly all the lawyers who hear
:. the trial not being engaged III it and b
+ hundreds Of tAe best citizens of Ruthel
y lord county. In concnding his reason
she Governor says: ''Where it is 80 doub
q full what ought to be done, let mercy pre-
4 vail! ,
Farm Mortgages.
81. Progressive Farmer.