The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1890-01-10
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
SOME THINGS TIL AT AREHAPPEN,
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

" nat mas happened In the COO1 Ol0
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.
POSTAL CARD NEWS. friends of the
CHRONICLE in every section of the State
are requested to aid US in making this de-
partment an accurate record, in brief, of
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
us a postal card whenever anything of
public interest transpires in your neigh
borhood or section of country. You will
aid rs and give prominence to your sec
ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR.
..-.J .Judson College is prospecting under
the management of Prof r II. Lewis. 1t
has 30 students.
-. Liberty Academy, Randolph coun
ty, has opened bet er than ever. Over 200
have been enrolled
.... The residence of J. P. Robertson
near Fayetteville, has been burned with
all its contents. Loss, So, 900. No insur-
ance.
.. \ lie at Wilson burned the store of
NJ. Harris II Co. and badly damaged the
store aud stock of W. Corbett Harris &
Co. had 800 insurance.
Valuable brownstone and iron ore
have been discovered in Montgomery coun-
ty. The railway from West End to Troy
will pass near the stone, the quantity of
stone being immense.
80. The people of Henderson county are
very enthusiastic in regard to the election
on the question of subsci iption to the
rleHch Broad Valley railway The vote
will be cs,ct on the 21st instant.
-. The people of Johnston county are
anxious to secure an appropriation from
Congress with which to make the Neuse
river nayigable to Smithfield, and to that
end petitions are in circulation.
-. The people of Macon county are
greatly interested in the building of a
railway from Franklin, the county seat,
to Tallulah Falls, Ga, or to some point on
the Western North Carolina railway.
-. The Saunders gold niue in Mont
gomery county has been sold to Jno. A
Kirk, of Washington, D. c., for 81 i, 900.
He in turn sold it to J. c. Spooner and
H. F. Taylor, of Wisconsin, for $21, 500
So We learn from the Nidette.
80. "A terrific boiler explosion occurred
at Samuel Quinerly's mills, Bells Ferry,
last Friday evening, killing man banned
Richard Butts and wounding four others.
The report sounded like a tremendous gun
and was distinctly heard for more than
eight miles
-. The Worth Mine, owned by Dr. j.
| N. Worth, of Asheboro, was sold last
week to Mr. Jno. A Kirk. of Washington,
D. g, for the sum of So 600, and the
deed has been filed in the office of the
Register of Deeds to be recorded. Mont
gomery Vidette.
-. The property of the Cashe and
Roanoke railway has been purchashed by
the Branning Manufacturing Company for
100000. The property consists of thirty
miles Of railway, steam tugs, barges, &c,
and over 100, 900, 900 feet of standing tim
ber.
-. Columbus Fry died at his home
near Danbury, Stokes county, a day or so
ago, from wounds received on Christmas
| day at the hands of Pleasant Lawson, his
brother law. The trouble grew out of
a quarrel between the children of the two
| men.
On Tuesday B. O. jenkins, owner
of government distillery nine miles from
Shelby, was shot and mortally wounded
by j. H McNeilly store keeper and gauger.
| McNeilly escaped. He is a Burke county
man. The cause of the quarrel has not
been learned.
-. Governor Fowle has authorized an
exchange of courts between Judges Brown
and Bynum whereby the former will hold
those in Bladen, Columbus, Brunswick,
mond, while the latter will hold those of
Caldwell, Ashe, Watauga, Mitchell, Yam
cey, and Mcdowell.
The people and farmers of Bertie
held meeting to see what could be done
in these hard times. They resolved that
with close economy and hard work they
could 90 through 1890 without absolute
suffering; asked the merchants to give all
the aid possible, and advised the people to
make their own supplies and live cheaper.
A special from Greenville says
TUESDAY night at seven o'clock as Sydney
Owens was leaving the hotel he was shot
by an unknown party who was concealed
behind a tree near the hotel. Suspicion
rests on John Hatton a young man who
some time ago had difficulty with Owens
Hatton is now under arrest and it is feared
Owens wounds may be fatal. Considera
BILE excitement IN town.
-. Hard times in the cotton counties
is inducing the farmers to diversity then
crops The Tarboro Southerner says thai
the tobacco acreage will be increased many
fold this year. A we'll known tobacco
farmer of another county wrote to Mr.. O
G.. Farrar: 81 know your county we'll anC
its capabilities for producing the fines
types of tobacco are not fully developed
yet. Your whitish gray soils can be fal
more profitably utilized producing tobacco
, than cotton"
-. Weldon has water power that il
capable of putting sixteen thousand horse
, power into operation aud moving the ma
chinery of numberless factories. Ths
) Roanoke News contains this gratifying
| news: "The company has determined tt
} build the canal at once, and says tina
work which begun yesterday shall no
cease until part of Roanoke river shall b.
diverted from its natural channel an(
l brought around the falls to this place.