Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-06-03
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

Evangelist Fife began his Fayetteville
meetings yesterday.
a distillcry near Elmwood with one
barrel OF whiskcy burned down.
Mr.. Joseph Petty, drummer for the
Chatham rifles during the war, is dead.
Oxford Lodge |. o. o. +. will erect n
temple 40X1O0 feet and three stories
high.
Durham's Jail has fifteen inmates. This
is the largest number 1t has had at one
time since 1883.
The democratic nominating conven-
ton of the fifth district meets i'll Green's
boro on July o.
Mrs. Jones Chappcll, one of the family
poisoned in Raleigh by eating western
bacon has died.
The Hay street Methodist church OF
Fayetteville will run an excursion to
Wilmington June 10.
On account of his health, Rev. 7. w.
Eblctoit has decided to decline the call
extended to him by the Baptist church at
Shelby.
Governor Richardson and Adjutant.
General Bonham, OF South Carolina, will
attend the cncampmcnt OF the North Car
olina State Guard ut Whitcsyillc.
Governor Fowlc has returned from
Richmond. lie is delighted with the Gel
ebration and very proud OF the promi'
ncnt part North Carolina took in 1t.
& lao.
ccivcd q check from Staunton, Va, for
So, 900 to be used for the home and for.
cign missions OF the Southern Prcsbytc.
| rian church.
Rev. u. J.. koontz, colorcd preacher
died suddenly ut Concord and the cir
cumstances pointed suspiciously to poi
son. A coroncr's jury found that it was
so, but how, when or where the paper
does not say.
The stockholders of the Statcsvillc All
Line railroad company have held Their
annual meeting aud elected the following
officers: Dr. ]. ]. Mott, president; {. A
| Carlton, secretary and treasurer; W. a
Eliason, chief engineer.
The Salisbury correspondent Of tn,
| Charlotte Chronicle sayst that !. L. Ford
Esu.. of South River, Davic county, an,
the father of Mrs. ]. {. Irwin. of States
vile, lost large barn, grauary, tw,
hundred bushels of wheat, two wagon
aud buggy by fire. The origin Of tn
fire is unknown.
\ Raleigh gentleman said ycstcrda.
that sixty-six million dollars were sen
out of the Southern States into tn
Northern States every year to pay insuI
ancc. That's about as much ns til
Southern cotton crop is worth, an,
that's one reason why there are som
poor folks in the = uth.-Statc Chror
iclc.
Miss Minnie Mcleod. daughter Of Mr.,
|. l.. {. Morris, formerly Of this plac'
astonishcd relatives aud friends by lea,
ing her home in Charlotte last Thursda
and going to Spartanbure, - G., wher
she was married to Mr.. 5. \. l.. johnson
of Salisbury. The reason her people ol
icctcd to the marriage was because ,
her age, she being only about iourtcc
wears old. She and her husband, "
learn, intend making their home III ASH
villc.-Alonroe Register.
About ten or twelve years ago, NJ
, Joshua pittman, n farmer near Creator
, received n flesh wound while handling
! basket of cotton aud contracted de-
! doison IN the injured place, which hs
! troubled him AT intervals ever since.
finally became 50 bad that hvc wecl
ago he went to New Bcrnc to rccci,
. medical attention, with the cNpcctatio
| of having the diseased limb amputate'
4, tu, IA. ~ ntp al lis health \ypilu n,