Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-05-20
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

nomination for Governor.
One hundred and TWENTY-FIVE shares i
the La Grange cotton factory were sol
an hour after the books were opened.
Deputy Collector Woody of Pcrsol
county went out on still hunt thre
times last week and got one each time.
There is large and very rapidly in
crcasing demand for and sale of Nortl
Carolina canned vegetables and fruits.
North Carolina is now beginning to ri
booms. In all directions the people ar
stirred.
Miss Rowan Watts, of Durham, ate G
hearty supper and an hour later wa:
found dead III her chair. No cause is as
signed.
Matters are now assuming definite
shape for work to be commenced at ar
carly date on a 100000 hotel building
in West Winston.
Eugene Morris, farmer near Milton
had pyrotechnics at his home the other
night and it cost him his barn, two horses
|
Sufficient money has been pledged to
build a tabernacle for Sam Jones at Raj
eigh and he will be invited to conduct a
series of meetings at that place.
Mr.. T. c. Worth of Goldsboro, has re-
ceived an order from Louisville, KY, for
It's, 900 seamless bags. which will br
woven at his Worthwhile factory.
At the convict camp near Raleigh q
prisoner was shot by guard while try
ing to escape. He will wear nine buck
shot as a mcmcnto of his little escape.
A Northern capitalist has bought lot
on Deposit Hill. Statesville, on which he
proposes erecting sixty thousand dollar
cotton mill before the new cotton crop
comes in.
1t is announced by the president Of the
Wake county Farmers Alliance that the
meeting which Is to be held there on the
10Th, is for the regular business OF the
order and not for political purposes.
The friends of DIR. Cyrus Thompson ex-
pect to present his name for nomination
before the next democratic convention OF
the Third congressional district, called to
meet on the % day of July next at Clin-
ton.
Mcssrs. +. II. Hanes & Co., of Winston,
have contracted for the largest tobacco
factory building probably in the State.
II is to be built OF brick. six stories high.
and will he 200 feet long with front OF
ia feet.
The commissioners of Winston have
called an election to take place on June
18th for the purpose OF voting upon the
question of issuing bonds for city I'M
provcmcnts to the amount OF two hun
dred thousand dollars.
A company has been Incorporated at
Fayetteville to establish n planning mill
with u capital of SIC, 200, with the priv
ilegc of increasing it to 100000. The in
cor, orators are Messrs. +. 5. Dcming, Is.
X. Taylor and w. w. Doty.
Mr.. Fred Meets. engineer Of the steamer
Enterprise, which runs between Whining
ton and points on Northeast river, fell
overheard from the boat Friday after
noon, in Long creek, and was drowned
before assistance could reach him.
The Wilmington Messenger proposes
to celebrate the beginning OF its fourth
year in Wilmington on the 2Sth OF June,
by issuing sixty-tour page State Indus
trial cdition-the largest newspaper ell
tcrprisc ever started in the South.
Sheriff ]. G. Neal, of Mcdowell county,
who has been in office about sixteen
years, has resigned on account Of failing
health, and Captain George Garden, for
mcrly member of the legislature from
Mcdowell, has been elected to the VA
cancy.
About II 80 to-day eleven cars went
by for New York, Philadelphia and Bal
timorc with beans, cucumbcrs, straw
berries, Irish potatoes, radishcs, corn,
and other nice things. Every day veg
ctablc train goes by.-Concord Stand
ard.
The Oxford Land, Improvement and
Manufacturing compnny's negotiations
for the removal oi several large Northern
enterprises to their prop
crty, are progressing satisfactorily, and
il is likely that important announce
mcnts in this connection will be made
within week.
Eight colorcd women got into fight
near Mr.. X. kornegay's farm near Mt.
Olive. They were picking strawberries,
and got into fuss about a shawl which
one accused another of having stolen.
The latter drew her pocket knifr and
slashed around promiscuously, and cut
five Of the crowd.
X. i. Iambright, of Cleveland county,
was cnticcd to New York recently and
there met two grccn.goods agents by mp
pointmcnt. Before handing over the
$500 he became suspicious and refused to
invest. Thcrcupon they druggcd him,
beat him, and robbed him. He was
found by the police wandering aimlcssly
around. lie had become insane and was
sent home.
A syndicate composed Of Mcss-s. Geo.
II. Brown, cashier Of the First National
Bank Of Statcsvillc, J. S. Ramsey, tobac-
co manufacturer, and =. Barton Key,
Esq, have bought the factory a mile
above the Monbo cotton mills, on the
Catawba river, tknown as the Sea Island
mills), and will put In Thousand spin
dies (making mill Of two thousand spin
dlcs), and have Il ready Tor the new crop
next tall. The Office Of the mills will be
in Statcsville.
Tuesday night, in Johnston county, a
moonshiiier named Dave Britt while
drunk fell into well at his illicit dist tillcry.
While there barrel fell upon him and
broke his neck. His son got the body out
Of the well. II was placed In the still
house and two men were left to watchi Il.
At midnight two unknown men told the