Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-07-21
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.


faulty that the cnumcrators have got to
DO it all over again.
The work on the Wilkcsboro extern
sion of the Northwestern railroad is de-
ing pushed with all vigor.
The Republican Congressional Convcn-
tion for the Ninth district will he held
on August 2Olh at Wayncsvile.
The Ninth District Judicial Convention,
at Elkin, nominated W. W. Barber for
solicitor on the eleventh ballot.
Scotland Neck is having new hotel
built and bank will be opened in ii as
soon as the building is completed.
| G, W. Goiorth, of Cleveland county.
has $50 in Confederate money which he
received as his last pay in the war.
Epp Adams was killed by being crush
cd between two cars at Siler City. lie
was coupling them. His head was
mashed to pulp.
Henry X. Stewart, of Greensboro, was
badly manglcd by being crushed between
cars he was coupling at Salisbury. lie
was taken to his home.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Missionary Society of the Western North
Carolina Conference will meet in Sails
bury on the Goth and Both.
The Seventh District Convention nj
Laurinburg nominated Capt. James ID.
Mclvcr, of Moore county, for judge, and
Frank McNcill for solicitor.
Owing to the low state of water in the
l,..t,
ton and Fayetteville by steamers has
been stopped for several days.
d. Allen, Of Charlotte, has just returned
from Alaska. The country b,ggars de
scription is what he said to newspaper
reporter and then for half column Ia,
Describes it to the best of his ability.
Mr.. o. ID. Boycott is acontractor, who
is in the employ of the Greensboro Brick
and Tiing company. He is from Norfolk,
England, and n nephew of the man from
whom the term boycott got its name.
Jacob Yokcly while attempting To tai
hog from a pen on his iarmin Davidson
county, was seized from behind bv n SOW
whose teeth manglcd Mr.. Nokcly III a
terrible manner. lie may not recover.
VIII huun1S, u DiSSD'lll VI
Greensboro, was struck on the head by Il
pitched ball in a match game and badly
injured. lie was unconscious for soniv
time and the doctors fear concussion oi
he brain.
The negro George Wilson, who was
held at Graham for asSaulting his own
daughter, made his escape from jail.
Wilson has made a record as a Jail
breaker, this being the sixth time that he
has made his escape from prison.
Rev. John Tillctt, n prominent Mctho-
dist divine of Charlotte, has gone to his
last reward. For fifty years he has been
n member of the North Carolina Mctho-
dist conference. He passed away at the
age of rs, loved by all who knew him.
The colorcd iircmcn OF the State will
hold their first tournament in Green's
boro September 10 and | l, and at that
time will organize their State associa-
ton. A large crowd is expected to be
present.
Collins, the Calhoun, Ca, wife mur.
dcrcr who was arrested in Shelby has
been lodged in Jail and although the feel
ing against him is general ii is not
thought that an attempt will bc made
to supplant the law.
The following losses, no insurance,
resulted from a fire at Mt. Gilcad
last week: McRac X Leach, 81 500;
Ingram * Haywood, $4,000; post
office building, 5000 cash and stamps
in postoilicc, $50; total S5,OSo.
North Carolina claims to have been
the banner State Of the Conicdcracy, and
puts very strong argument to prove
that she was. The voting population oi
the State in 1861 was only ll5,0oO and
vet she equipped and sent To the field
l25, 900 fighting men.
A special meeting of the county com
missioncrs OF Guiliord WAS held for the
purpose of revising the tax lists, but as
not single applicant for II revision ap-
pcarcd before the board il is taken for
granted that everybody is satisfied with
| the assessments.
The countycommissoncrs of New Han
over county have offered reward OF
| $3.50 for the arrest of and sufficient evil
dcncc to convict the murderer of Nathan
| Fails, the old fisherman. Mayor Fowler
! Of Wilmington, has written To Governor
Fowlc asking him to offer a reward for
the State.
II has been discovered that well at
| Lumbcrton which has been used by the
Carolina Central railroad to supply its
locomotives with water contains large
quantities of sulphur. An analysis has
been made, and it is thought that the
sulphur property exists to u very valua.
bic extent. a sample OF the water has
been sent to the State chemist for official
analysis.
The officials of the Roanoke and South
crn railroad have sent out n company oi
civil engineers on tour of inspection To
select the hest route for the road To
Winston. They will examine the five
different routes now competing for the
linc-namcly, High Point, Thomasvillc,
Lexington, Concord and southern con.
ncction via Charlotte.
The valuable Touring mills of Capt. l..
NJ. Null, who lives at Null Grove, Ca.
tawba county, near the Burke line, were
destroyed by fire. On the same night his
barn and stables half mile from the
mill were burned, and he had great diff
Guilty in saving his horses and cattle and
in preventing his house, which stands
near the barn, from being DESTROYED by
the flames. The loss of the mills and
barns will amount to nearly $4,000, on
which we learn there was no insurance
The fire was undoubtedly of inccndiar,
origin.
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other young men of talent and ambition