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

Raleigh had dtwenty-twom marriages dur
ing May and twenty-eight deaths.
The trial of Mintus Chandler FOR the
murder of Henry Austin is on at Dur
ham.
Sixty thousand acres of school land,
located in Tyrrell, is to be sold to North
ern parties.
TT, Pierce, of Beaver Dam, Union
county, is in Jail at Monroe, charged
with making counterfeit money.
Captain William A. Darden, one Of the
oldest alliance lecturers in the State,
died at Gatesville, where he had gone.
Rev. William CASTOR Clements has
been reelected, by acclamat,on, county
superintendent of public instruction for
Wake.
A countryman presented four ten cent
Confederate stamps at the postonce
window at Raleigh and asked that they
be redeemed.
The revenue collections in the Raleigh
district during May were 81 ~, ,oo0; that
being the largest amount collected IN anV
one month in more than fifteen years.
Col. Julius A. Gray, president OF the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad
saws it is not true that his company Is
surveying branch road up the iadkin
river.
The STAMP collection at the revenue
Office in Durham, for the month OF May,
was the largest our town has had III
many years il not the largest ever col
iccted. 1t was $50, 0,S90.S3.-Durham
Sun.
II is reported that Northern parties
have purchased the Hunnycutt and the
two Iscnbour mines, the former in Rowan
and the latter in Cabarrus county, with
intention OF full development OF the three
properties.
The board of magistrates of Cleveland
county have met in the court house ana
reelected the present county commis-
r sioners-I. W. Garrett, L. ID. Dickson,
and S. Young, by acclamation. J. a. An
tbony was elected superintendent OF pub
lie instruction without any opposition.
The corner stone of the new Y. NJ. {.
A. building at Davidson College will be
laid with appropriate ceremonies at 4
n. m. Wednesday, June l l. The Associa.
ton has elected Rev. {. NJ. Payne. OF
Concord to deliver an address on that
occasion. The building includes. among
other conveniences, a large and wcllhtted
gymnasium.
Yesterday was the biggest day 70,
, shipping truck New Bcrne has ever mad
i II is safe to say that IL 800 packages o
c truck. beans and potatoes, left this sec
, tion, the greater part of it from the iarm'
, surrounding New Berne, yesterday. Nc
small amount of money must have beer
r distributed in the community.-Ne"
Bcrne Journal.
The Office Of Dean OF the wilmington
Conyocation (Episcopal) having becom
vacant by the removal OF the Kew. y
". Shields, late Rector Of Christ church
,t New Bernc, to the diocese OF Florida
s. Bishop Watson has appointed the Re,
A DIR. lanes Carmichael, Rector of d
John's, of Wilmington, TO the vacant pc
sition.
On Yesterday W. Duke, Sons & Co.
branch OF the American Tobacco Con
pany, shipped 5,7lo,0OO cigarette
Thesc goods went to thirteen diiierer
States of America. and to Asia, Afric'
u Australia, New Zealand and West Indie
Of This is the biggest shipment, We are II
q. formed, ever made by this irn IN Oh
II. day.-Durham Sun.
There are only 10 convicts in the pc
;tentiary, a smaller number than in year
The reason is that many have just bc'
sent out to work. Eleven convicts we
n sent from the pcnitcntiary to the ,arn
:, ON the Roanoke, thirty were sent to SAIL
=" hurry. TO work on the Sadkin railwa
cy The pcnitentiary board has contract
grade twenty-five miles OF this road
Stanley county.
correspondence Of the Ashcvillc or
,ry suggests the name of Col. John
u" Cameron. for the Proicssorship oil II
cd tory of the University OF North Carol'r
~ This would bc an admirable selection,
Col. Cameron is n ripe scholar parti'
Inrly well yersed in history. Should !
choice of the board of trustees fall up
him il would bc highly gratifying to
nix MANY friends throughout the state
Sylvia Democrat.
Tuesday evening ut Beaufort, Willi'
Potter, aged seventeen years anu ~
DAVIS, UnCu ScNeHt'eh, WIZ" ~ y.
ere uent citizens, lett in boat to SWIM
IA, the Sound. Failing to return at p'I
" n search was made, aud the boat G
tanning their clothes was iound anchor
A large searching party spent az M
in unnyaiing search for their bodies
is generally believed that one
ret drowned while attempting To a'u
other.
,ar. Notice has been received that the ioll'
,c,d ing are the graduates at the Peap
vs." '' Normal School at Nashville. Tenn,
non holders OF North Carolina ssholarsh
lima L. /. Warren, Rosedale; W. i. pa
ted. Boonville; ]. K. johnson, Jackson
,,.;. /. T. Paris, Statewide; Miss Mary,
We, Smith, Scotland Neck. The latter /,
de- liccntin,c Of instruction. There are
!. Il. teen North Carolinians ut this tran
then school.
=. NJ. Reduced rates TO Davidson College,
sec. menccmcnt have been granted by
Richmond & Danvillc Railroad IRON
po;n,s In the territory bounded by \
ange vile, Raleigh. Greensboro, Seneca !
III in and Columbia. Tickets on sale Jun.
snry 10 10Th, with final limit on June
The commencement exercises viii bc
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