Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-06-13
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

Morganton young men are agitatinl
the formation of a military company.
All the necessary stock has been sub
scribcd and kinston is to have knitting
mill.
Seventeen candidates are in the field at
Goldsboro for the position of county
clerk.
Near Wadcsboro cotton now looks
better than il ever has at this season o
the year.
The grape growers association of Raj
cigh have placed an order for 2J,oOo
baskets.
Three prisoners recently died at the
stockadc on the X. x $. road, near the
Mayo river.
One of Sanford's merchants threatens
to leave business and preach. Sam
oncs converted him.
Marions street railway, which now
exists on paper but is sure to come, will
bc run by electricity.
The Methodist church of Monroe have
invited the Western North Carolina con-
ference to meet there.
W. II. Brown planted an acre of corn
at Mcnola on April II. Now it is six
feet high and still growing.
Associate Justice Joseph Davis, of the
supreme court, delivered the address be-
fore the alumni Of Wake Forest.
N. II. Brown, a IIillsboro merchant,
has made an assignment. Failure to
make collections is given as the cause.
The Hickory Manufacturing company
has put up $4,000 gallon tank for the
protection of their property against fire.
Judge Seymour of the United States
court at Raleigh has refused a writ OF
habeas carpus in the cases of Cross and
White.
II. {. Parrct, Of Aurora, cut stick OF
poplar timber some days ago, iorty-six
feet long that will cut 3,O72 feet of lun-
Der.
Edward c. Smith has been elected
chairman of the democratic cx-
ecutivc committee to succeed Spicr Whit
akcr, resigned.
Mrs. lanes Stokes, who lives near
Warsaw, was burned to death few
days ago. She was standing too near
the fire and her clothing ignitcd.
Reports from different parts of the
State are to the effect that the attend.
aucc at the Teachers Assembly at More
head City will be unusually large.
An insane man named Tom Ilannar at
tempted to drown himself near Scotland
Neck and would perhaps have succeeded
il his wife had not come ON to the scene.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, the New York
clergyman who criticised the actions OF
Col" Shepard from his pulpit, has just
delivered lecture at Raleigh on playing
the fool.
Louis /. Mills was assaulted by negro
near Wilmington and cruelty beaten and
robbed of watch. lie was found un.
conscious some time later. The high.
wayman escaped.
A little boy saw something glistcn in
the dirt while he was hocing near New.
ton. lie picked IL up. 1t was nugget
Of gold weighing twentv-cight penny
weights and worth $50.
The State agent for the sale Of swamp
lands has gone to Michigan to make n
contract for the sale OF u tract of 6O,OOO
acres in Tyrcll county. 1t is one OF the
largest tracts yet sold.
The Randlcman Manufacturing com
pany and the plaidvillc mills made to-
gcther during inc month OF May; 3ts''
700 yards oi piaius' ana consumed io"''
600 pounds oi cotton III the WORK.
,,,.,dv 81 Ooo for the proposcd Con
,i.r,,c soldiers bomc is available and
Sni "a Indrews and ~. c. Strounrl
~. innt;ny for n suitable building IN
RnIe;yb. They think il best to rcn,
rn,hc, % ,h,n to builu lust M present.
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The Commonwsaith slub 1i pnrhnr
lions % IN Inc thcir quests during the com
;n, S,,,c editors INJECTING IL m odd nice,
~ wnrL n,nnsh;n and well yottcn nm
Tuv c,T,zrx nrLpowlcdrcs the RECENT q
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Stephen Milton, an aged farmer o
Person county, committed suicide re
Gently. After carefully dressing h'msel
in the morning he went to the stable nn'
procured halter ricii, made oi pla,te'
poplar bark, and which 1t is Thought hn'
been maze '1r tne purpose. WIN w
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