Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-01-25
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
North Carolina made 4,492,OC

bushels OF wheat, GOAL 900 OF oas,
and 44.O5O,00U bushels of >corn o
1889.
The Manufacturers Record e
ports hat II IS likely that sl5,0O
Will be sten, in building q nnia'
depot at Raleigh instead o: $4,000.
Mr.. Washington Bryan, Agent If
the Associated Railways, will hae
bis headquarters in Raleigh, viii
~"fficrs 10 the tecs and ObserUr
budding.
The Grand Lodge Of Ma.ots n
Raleigh lat week re elected tie
I'D Officers Tor the ensuing yes.
The Grand Secretary reported ~
active lodges and 10000 members II
North Carolina
The March meeting Of the Dire
tors of the North Carolina Insane
Asylum will be very interesting. A
Steward and Matron are to be ele:t.
cd. OF course there will be a large
Number OF candidates.
The city Of New Berne voted hst
Thursday, by a very large majority.
t, subscribe fifty thousand dollar %
Aid in contributing a railroad from
New Berne 10 Wilmington. Ouly
three vot-s we're cast against the
proposition.
Roxbnro Courier: Trains are run.
ming regularly, so we Learn, on the
Lynchbnrg and Durham Road to
South Boston, a distance IF Is miles
from Lynchbury, and in three
months the road will be completed
10 Roxboro.
Wilmington Messenger The N.
Y. Sun thinks the census of this
year will bring North Carolina two
additional electors. II the negro
exodus continues this is very doubt
full. In a year more than $4,000
negroes have left the State aud the
cry is still they go.
La Grange Spectator: Big crops
on a tew acres This is the only
successful way 10 farm. Farmers,
have you thought abou, this? II
. you have not, sit down, take your
pencil and paper, make your figures,
and see for yourself i: this is not the
true policy. Our farmers have 60,
TO come to this, and the sooner they
realize this fact the better it will be
for them.
Durham Sun: We are reliably in
formed that the North CaroIin,
, Rail Road, from Goldsboro to am
including Durham, has moved du
ring the period from Saturday night
; to last night, twenty.four car load
! OF colored emigran,s to Mississippi
and Arkansas. We were told tina,
there were at least 1000 more walk
ing TO Selma where they would take
, the tram this morning or tonight
! The agents are hustling them out IL
| a hurry.
). Asheville Citizen The hanging
of Parrish the other day in Raleigh
for an unnatural and revolving GRIN.
brings to light, through it's incidents
the bad character Of the man. Du
ring his confinement, and after hi
sentence, not a member of his fam
lily, wife nor child nor brother no,
sister, all of whom he had, came neaI
him III jail, or at the gallows, I,
cheer, comfort or sustain him. An(
! when he was dead no one claimed
> his body, and it vas carted off to b.
I, hid away in the earth, where, no on,
! cared. 1t is one OF the saddcst end
lngs of a vicious lite we have eve
! read of. Even the miserable maj
: felt that be deserved his fate be
: cause he said he had already bee,
the cause of sorrow and suffering I,
bis family.
Pittsboro Record Our venerabl,
countyman, John 3. Headen, Esq
informed us q few days ago that to-
winter Of l848-'49 was as mild an,
unreasonable as the present one ba
been. He says that a great deal o
pork was spoilt, more than this win
;: ter, and that vegetation of all kind
V was very forward. On the mornin:
Of the 10th OF April there was
heavy frost aud a considerable fteez
that did much damage. The your,
leaves on all the trees were killed
and turned black, and the GROWN,
corn was almost all destroyed. H,
remembers a field Of wheat that wa
about a foot high, and which ate
the freeze looked like . field o
broom sedge. All tbs ftut VA
e killed. We sincerely hope that sue
j will not be u fate this year.