The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-29
GREENSBORO.
Reunion of Confederate yeteraus-Mort
cages In Cumberland.

GsEENsBoRo, n. c., June 2s.-lspecial.
There IS to be grand reunion Of Confed-
crate veterans at Blowing Rock on July
Both and 3lst and August lst. Thursday.
Friday and Saturday. Mr. j. ;. Carr,
president Of the State Association Of Neter-
ans. has been invited to act as chief marshal
on the occasion. Senators Ransom and
Vance Governor FOwle, Colonel l.. l..
Polk ana General WikteT have been in
yited To favor the great occasion with
speeches. Federal. as well as Confederate
yeierab-, are invited TO participate in the
reunion.
The managers ofthe brown stone quarry
al sanford have been awarded the contract
to furnish building material for the public
edihce 10 be erected at Greenyille, ;. 4. a
number of bids were put IN from North and
West.
As far as known, Cumberland county
''gOes tO the head Of the class" in the mat
ter Gsbig mortgages. On last Thursday a
deed was placed on record, given by the
Cape Fear and ladkin Valley Railroad to
the Mercantile Trust Company, Of New
York, for 81. go, 900, invested in consolidated
bonds of the road, and the securities are
pronounced iirst-class in all the great money
markets of the country.
While the tobacco crop is so far ahead of
any heretofore seen in this latitude, the
deprcdatiOns bv worms are said TO be also
unparalleled. 10 is next 10 impossible to
deal successfully with their rayages. In
size. cumber and yOracity they beat the
record. Ii is said that weg-known to-
baccO grower in Nash county has pack OF
dogs that have been trained to the business,
and do very elective work in destroying
the pests.
t.tra
waterinelons which were i'm market on the
18th. This is said TO be from six TO eight
DAYS ahead OF the average season.
Messrs. II. We'll X Brother, OF GOldsborO,
have donated very desirable site to the
town for city park. II is to be known as
Herman Park, so called in honor of Mr..
lIern,sh We'll, former public spirited citl-
zen o: the place.
The State Horticultural Society will hold
a grape fair at Mount Holly, Castor county,
July Both aud 3lst and August lst. Three
hundred land thrty-hve dollars in cash pre-
miIms will be awarded on the occasion.
Captain Frank Brame. Of Mocksyille, is
making survey of the ladkin river from
Elkin down, by order Of the Government.
to ascertain the feasibility Of making that
stream navgablc. II is a wide stream, but
there are n number Of rocky places where
the current goes over in noisy rapids.
4 workman, while fitting electric lighting
wires IN the attic of an antiquated building
in Salem a few days ago, came upon the
souvenirs Of the different stages Of progress
through which the inmates had passed. lie
found a very antique oil lamp-alsO a set OF
od-fashioned tin candle m0ulds-then a
section Of gas pipe, while he was sup
planting all these with the electric wires.
\ well authenticated case Is reported
from Davidson county Of an old lady,
siXty-eight years Old, who has bound one
hundred dozen Of wheat in the harvest field
this season.
Miss Laura VI. Kyle. daughter Of Captain
W. r. Kyle, Of Fayetteville, has Just re-
turned from BuyOort School, Brooklyn,
where she bore the hiehest prize, magnih-
cent gold medal.
II comes from a sOnrce entirely resp0n-
sible that there are townships in Edgecombe
county where not "A single name has been
taken by an enumerat0r.
A moonlight picnic was given at the
GuilfOrd battle-ground last night, at which
thirty or forty invited guests were present.
EX-Judge Schcnck was the genius OF the
occasion. The prospect is now good for the
erection Of the Greene monument at that
place. The House Committee on the LII
orary ordered a favorable report on the
House bill to appropriate S30,OOO. and the
matter is in the channel OF successful
prosecution. The people throughout the
state will be proud Of the monument, which
will be of great historic value.