Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-07-12
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES

Statesvillc has voted for water works.
Charlotte now has a public bath
30xSO feet.
Grccnsboro's new fire alarm system is
a complete success.
Lexington will soon be illuminated by
26 gasoline street lamps.
Will Saunders was killed by an unload
cd pistol in Cabarrus county.
Six sub-alianccs have been organized
in Rockingham county recently.
n. Newly has become editor and pro-
prictor of the Swain County Herald.
The Henderson county teachers insti.
tutc will begin on the 21st day of fully.
John Love. colorcd, was drowned
while bathing III stream near Winston.
Mrs. Katherine Welfare, of Salem,
passed away ut the good old age OF So.
Bishop Lyman has returned to Raj
cigh from his trip to Virginia Beach and
New York.
Pendcr county instructed it's delegates
to vote for Hon. {. W. McClammy for
congress.
The thermometer in Lexington has
lately frequently reached the 100 mark
in the shade.
The annual picnic of the Confederate
Veterans Association will be held in
Charlotte August Z.
Col Shailcr who was supervisor OF the
| Raleigh district in 1850 received only
$lSS.3O pay for the work.
A party of Maine and Massachusetts
capitalists are looking over Greensboro
with a view OF investing.
The Farmers Alliance of Davidson
county will hold a grand rally at Thom-
asvillc some time in August.
Raleigh small boys have caught the
craze and are going to give circus for
the benefit Of the soldiers home.
The democratic judicial convention for
the eighth judicial district will meet in
Lexington on Thursday. July 81.
The hoard of county commissioners for
Mecklcnburg approved 7S applications
for pensions at their last meeting.
North Carolina will not bc represented
at the London exposition, for the reason
that there is no desirable space left.
There is now said to be no doubt
about the construction of the railroad
between New Bcrne and Wilmington.
Governor Fowlc has commissioned
Mr.. ]. 5. Carr, of Durham, as paymas-
ter of the Governors staff, with the rank
of colonel.
There are three candidates for the sell
atorial nomination in Mcdowell county
-Mcssrs. A. ]. Dula, Joshua McCurry
and DR.. Reid.
The Mcthodists of IIcndcrsonvilc
have sold their old church building to
the negroes who will remove it. A new
one will bc erected.
The convention Of the sixth judicial
district met at kinston and renominated
Judge l.. T. Boykin for the Judiciary and
o. II. Allen for solicitor.
Deputy Collector George NJ. hull cap
turcd and destroyed large illicit distill-
cry twenty miles from Lexington. About
900 gallons oi beer were destroyed.
The commissioners of Rowan have cleo.
ted Mr.. W. W. Kridcr sheriff, to fill out
the uncxpircd term of his father, who
died recently. The selection is u good
one.
Rev. Father Charles, pastor of the
Catholic church OF the sacred heart of
Raleigh, has been assigned to another
territory and has preached his farewell
sermon.
Mr.. Samuel J. Sarratt, who was ap.
pointed census enumeration in u town
ship in Davidson county, did not re.
ccive his books until July and could
not go to work.
Salisbury is clamoring for sewer sys-
TEN and the chamber of commerce has
asked the board of aldermen to order an
election on the question of issuing bonds
for the purpose.
IIcndcrsonvillc will vote on the qucs.
ton of issuing $4,000 worth of bonds
for the erection OF a town hall and the
construction of u sewerage system. The
election will bc held August 1 1.
Alex. II. White, Of Jones county. who
graduated at the last commencement OF
Trinity college, and won the Wiley Gray
Oratorical Medal has been elected primer
pal of the kcrncrsvillc high school.
a Greensboro man has in his posses.
sion mirror which has come down to
him from the fifth generation. Two hun
drcd aud thirty years ago Il was saved
from wreck of the Virginia coast.
A man who claimed to have walked
all the way from Portland, Maine, and
to he en- route for Tampa, Fla, recently
passed through Greensboro. lie was d
parnlytie and what lent color to hi,
: story was the fact that he did not beg.
Mrs. Robert Allen, wife Of wei
known Richmond and llaLvilc railroad
: engineer, died, to all appearances, il
Greensboro. In three hours she wa,
r found TO bc breathing and was restore,
5 to consciousness, but died the next morn
ing.