The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-25
GREENSBORO.
High Temperature-EarIy Maturity of the
Tobacco Crop.

High Temperature-Ehriy MaturitY OF tht
Tobacco Crop.
GREENSBORO, y. c., June 2i.-lspecial.
Reports from many parts Of the State show
that the temperature is something phenOm.
email. 4 number of places it was. on the
I'D. as high as 96, and ranging along down
to 30. The average in what is known as
the cotton belt would show about % or o.
In the Piedmont section the average was
below 30
The knitting mill plant at Oxford since
the enlargement will give employment to
100 or l2J women and girls.
Durham county, it is said, will harvest
the biggest crop OF corn that it has since the
war. The price is estimated to be only two
dollars per barrel next fall.
Mr.. Thomas Hadley, of Chatham county,
had valuable horse stolen. from him last
Friday by man who at the time called
himself Miller. About month ago the
same man passed through the county with
a fine horse, which he is now supposed to
have stolen and sold elsewhere. On last
Friday he stopped and took dinner with Nlr.
j. VI. Indy. and inquired where Mr.. Had
ley lived. The same day lladley's horse
was gone. and was traced across the county
to Dan river and there the trail was lost.
u. y. Bennett. a farmer, in the lower part
Of (iuiford county. had some stalks Of To-
baccO left standing from last years crop
on ground that had been plowed for other
purposes. The sprouts grew all the winter
and have developed into the mos; thrifty
plants and have been topped and matured
with twelve or fourteen leaves. The whole
stand could have been left TO grow and be
cured in the same way. From number of
the most thrifty tobacco counties. especially
some of the lower ones, the early maturity
Of the crOS is said to be unprecedented.
Some cuttings were made week ago, and
the curing process is beginning to be active.
A thirty-eight page mortgage was re-
corded at the register Office in Durham the
past week. 1t was given by the Lynch
Durg and Durham railroad to the Mercan-
tile Trust Company of New York, and the
amount is S3,0OOWO.
Capitalists of Virginia, Pennsylvania,
and New York have organized another
canal company at Roanoke, Va, with a
capital of S2,00O,OOO.
4 copper deposit has been found at Blue
Wing. Granville county. Shafts have been
sunk and the vein has been traced about "A
half mile. The deposit is from eighteen to
thirty.six inches thick. and is estimated TO
be two feet on the average. The tests show
sulphide of copper and double sulphlde OF
copper and iron. \ carefully selected sam
ple shows an analysis Of 81 to l2H per
cent. Of copper-at least an average of !
per cent. The vein can be easily worked
and made profitable. A stream OF water
not far of can be utilized in washing the
ore. Experts say the find will be richly
productive.
Lightning struck the house of Gas Camp
bell i'm Mount Airy last Monday, and shly-
cred and tore off one corner and scattered
the Notwithstanding around, and destroyed
a number of pictures and vases. The family
were not at home at the time.
The case in New Berne against "Peg Leg
Williams has been withdrawn by those
bringing suit for the alleged abduction Of a
negro boy. But "Peg Leg" says he has
been greatly annoyed and inconyenienced
by the action, and will bring suit for SlO,-
900 damages.
The census OF Edgecombe county shows
a falling Off OF 20O negro children of school
age, attributable to the exodus movement,
which il supposed to Indicate that between
1000 and 5000 negroes have left the county.
lightning struck a tree on the plantation
lot Of negroes have dug great holes about
the place trying to find the thunder-bot that
tore up the ground.
Mr.. Robert +. Harden, who recently died
in Chatham county, has been school teach.
er twenty-five or thirty years. His mind
became affected, and he took his bell and
rang il loud and long for his pupils.
Two negro boys got into an affray here
this morning and one chased the other into
Mr. Princes store. The pursued ran in and
hid behind the counter, and when the other
tried to follow Mr.. Prince told him to stop
and get out, and took up a broom
as if to enforce his order. The pur-
suer said: "YOu are taking up for
that fellow" and having an open knife
in his hand, jumped upon the counter and
made a vicious plunge at him, cutting
upon his vest on the right breast four or five
inches. MIR. Prince then picked up base
ball club and followed the negro into the
street, and soon had him Oyerhauled by a
policeman.