The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-03-21
THE OLD NORTH STATE.

D Clenard & Brooks, Salem merchant,
( have assigned.
The contract for the erection of
!, Catholic church in Winston has bes
S awarded.
y There were ffty-one car loads of freigh
handled at the depot ut High Point on
r day last week.
A year ago at this time Raleigh had re
ceived 5000 bales more of cotton thai
it now has to its credit.
A new Baptist church thirty by fit,
feet and sixteen feet from floor t. ceilinl
has been built in Briartown.
Goldsboro will erect monument L
: the late w. F. Dortcl, a prominent citi
zen of that place, who recently died.
A bulletin of the State Board of Healtl
for February shows the grip to have
, held sway in every county in the State.
Last Saturday night thieves brok,
into Tomlinson & Co.'S store at Arch
dale and stole about $40 in money and q
lot ofgoods.
W. NJ. Moore. of Davidson county, has
a chicken with four legs and three wings
1t was Matched on his farm and lived q
week. The chicken is now preserved in
alcohol.
Capt. c. +. Harrison, of Charlotte,
died suddenly Monday morning. He
was well known auctioneer, had been
chief of police, city tax collector, chief OF
the fire department and was genial
and popular gentleman.
While freight train was shifting at
ThomaSvillc one of the brakemen, q
white man, was caught between two
cars and had ley crushed. The wound
is a severe one and the patient is now AT
Thomasville under treatiaent.
The Eastern section of the Eastern
Association will hold its next session
with the church at Emmaus Chapel.
Onslow county, beginning on the 2Sth
inst. Rev. {. /. Cover to preach the in.
troductory sermon. Rev. G. S. Best, al
ternate.
A large syndicate, of which Congress
man Carleton. of Georgia. is president.
has invested extensively in cypress
lands along the Congarce, Pedee and
other Carolina streams. and will cut out
timber and make it into lumber on an
extensive scale.
The gold mine owners OF Cabarrus
county pay their laborers with half OF
the find rather than by the day. An old
negro recently found nugget worth
$500, and up the hour of going to press
he has not been heard to kick on the
way he is paid.
Capt. 5. p. Knceand, civil engineer,
assisted by Mr.. II. Mcnamara, has just
completed the survey of the railroad
from Concord to Mt. Pleasant. Mt.
Pleasant township voted some time ago
an appropriation OF $4,000 for the pur-
pose OF starting the work.
Saturday evening while repairing the
bridge across IIaw river, on Cedar Cliff,
eleven miles south Of Graham, a segment
of the bridge gave way and prccipitated
ten men OF the force to the water. a dis
tancc Of twenty feet, together with the
heavy timbcrs. Mike Payne was dan
gerously wounded and several others
have broken ribs and bones.
4 farmer named Hughes, from near
Ruffin. while crossing the railroad track
bound passenger train and Knocked
about fifteen teet. lie was seriously hurt
and the chances for his recovery are very
slender. He Was under the influence OF
whiskcv and tried to cross the track Just
in front of the train. The engineer ap-
piled the air brakes, but could not stop
before striking him.
On Roanoke river from Looking Glass
creek to Palmyra, an area containing at
least $1,000 to 1000 acres. there was
planted last year, by close calculation.
for cotton. an area sufficient to produce
in ordinary years 1000 bales. The
same land had produced more than that.
The crop made was li3 bales. The land
is good, there is no better in the State,
and ii was cultivated intelligently and
with care. These figures show the dis.
astrous effects Of the season.
The body of John A. Horton, who was
murdered by ]. p. Davis in Chatham
county. has been exhumcd as had been
arranged and an examination made. Ii
showed that the blow on Horizons
skull. by which he came to his death.
was inflicted with a sharp instrument.
II was claimed on the trial that Horton
was killed with n boot jack. II was.
however, charged by the prosecution
that he was killed with hatchct. Davis
is said to have given up all hope Of exec
utive clemency and will hang one week
from to-day.
a singular coincidence occurred re.
Gently in the death OF two brothers by
the name OF James and David Crocker.
living IN Wake county, some seven or
eight miles south OF Raleigh. Both were