Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-05-23
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NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

| Salisbury Bapt1StS nave cxtcnucu aCaii
to Rev. W. b. Morton of Weldon.
Wake county has among its residents
one hundred alumni of the University.
Mcssrs. Cummings and Bufum have cs-
tablished large lumber plant at Dills-
boro.
Guiiford College will indulge in a COM
mcnccment extending from the oath to
the 2sth of this month.
Mr.. II. II. Draughon, of Dunn, says
that he went out on a hawk hunt the
other day and killed nineteen.
Marina Askew, negro living about a
mile and half from Windsor, received
her pension of 200 recently.
The annual meeting of the North Caro-
lima Tobacco Association will Ike held at
Morchcad City in August next
Elaborate preparations are being made
for the meeting of the North Carolina
| Teachers Assembly at MOrchead City.
DR.. George Gilctt Thomas, of Whining
ton, will preside ut the meeting of the
State Medical Soriety at Oxford, May
27th-29th.
The body of II. c. Barklcy, who was
drowned in the Catawba river at Rob
inson's Ferry Tuesday, the 9th instant,
has been found.
The house committee on public build
ings has agreed to report invorably on
the bill to appropriate S5O,ooo Tor a
public building IN Durham.
Gen. c. A. Battle, Mayorof New Bcrnc,
has been appointed one of the marshals
at the unvciling of the Lee monument at
Richmond on the 10Th inst.
Hon. L. A. White, collector of internal
revenue, reports to the Elizabeth City
Carolnian that there are $4,000 dealers
| i'm liauor and tobacco III that district.
The commencement exercises Of Peace
Institute at Raleigh will bc held June LIT
and I'd, Rev. Pcyton II. lIogc. of Will
minpton, n. c., preaching the annual
| sermon.
The Temple of Justice was represented
in The parade at Charlotte Tuesday by
a hornets nest five feet in diameter. 1t
was in n cart drawn by donkey and
driven by genuine African.
| Governor Fowlc has appointed a. b..
Andrews and Thomas Is. kcoyh to be
| commissioners from North Carolina to
the Worlds Fair. Elias Carr and G. a.
Bingham are named as substitutes.
| If. Whitncr, one of the operators at
the Horse Cove gold mines, thinks High
lands is the best gold section oi the blnc
Ridge mountains. The mines com
mcnccd operations again this week.
Rev. Dr. Joseph NJ. Atkinson and fami-
ly have left Raleigh, where they had re-
sided for more than thirty years. to make
their home at Warrcnton. DIR. Atkinson
takes charge Of the Presbyterian church
there.
The recent reorganization of the Caro-
lima Clay company and the consequent
RESUMPTION of work at the kaolin factory
at Dillsboro has given an impetus tn bus
ness there. The company's plant is now
being enlarged.
Mrs. Gill, widow of the late Ransom
Gill who was so mystcriously murdered
n short time ago in Franklin county, has
Offered a reward of two hundred dollars
for the apprehension of the person who
committed the crime. Some new dcvcl
opmcnts have been made III the case.
Shortage in tobacco plants will caus'
quite fall of in acreage, running tn
crop much below the growers eSpccta
ton. To the great horror Of the earl,
settlers. the tobacco flea has completed,
DESTROYED the plants. Divinity knows
our needs better than wc.-i'cxingtor
| DispatCh.