Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-05-03
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES,
The negro agent has struck Dunn.

a ianu ana Improvement company ha:
, been formed at Kerncrsvillc near Win
ston.
The State Medical Society will hold its
31th annual meeting at Oxford May
27th to 10Th.
a coppcrhcad snake two and hall
feet long was recently killed on tn,
streets OF Charlotte.
Convicts are putting the finishing
touches ON the ground To DC used for the
Governors mansion.
The crop outlook in the kingwood sec
ton of Halifax county is more promising
than it has been for years.
Concord now has a daily paper, the
Standard, of which ]. Il. Cook and b. T..
Harris are proprctors,
a RcidSvillc doctor is seeking fame bv
writing book entitled, THE History OF
the Grip in North Carolina"
An accurate survey of Gol,lsboro is he
ing made bv "A competent engineer, who
will draft system OF sewerage.
In Wayne county Robert Broadhurst
was bitten by Il snake known as the
Whitcook snake. His injuries are dan
gcrouS.
\ genuine freak is on exhibition at 2al-
ciSl i'll the shape OF a small turtle with
two perfectly developed heads, two tails
aud siN feet.
The taxes to hc levied in Raleigh for
general purposes will this wear bc lower
Thompson.
Steel rails are arriving at Grccnvillc
To he used in laying the track between
that point and kius;on on the Coast
Line extension.
The North State smoking Tobacco
company ui Rridsvllic has iusi completed
a ncw tac'ory. The machinery was all
tested Yesterday
The alumni ui the University are or
gaming aud will iurm powerful force
Tor the advancement of that institution,
which needs their aid
\ new postoilicc has been established
three miles from Pennington. Davic
county. 1t is called Meta aud Mrs. Hat.
tic Young is postmaster.
The annual celebration Of the battle of
Guiliord Court House will take place
next Tuesday at the battle ground, i've
miles west OF Greensboro.
1t is reported that Rev. Sam ZONES who
is at present holding a reunion meeting
at Charlotte will deliver an address ~
Trinity al commcncvmcnt time.
Robert Gctt, u colorcd man who was
supposed To he 100 years old died in
Raleigh last Friday. The News and oh.
server thinks il possible that lie was lOj. |
During n thunder storm Mr.. Ncill RAYS |
residence, III Rubcson county, was struck |
hv lightning aud partially wrecked. His |
little son, who WAS sleeping in the bed |
near window, was badly burned.
The Rcidsvillc Review is responsible for |
the remarkable statement that there is n |
white woman living in that town. in
good health, who has never been in a |
store and has never Srcn train OF cars"
Col. l.. l.. Polk, president of the Na. |
tional Farmers and Laborcrs' Union, is |
III Raleigh to rest and rccupcratc. lie is |
quite worn out 10y hard aud steady work, |
aud finds the duties OF his position very
uncruuS.
ON Capt. I. \. flrmming's place near
Mill Hill, is u post oak rail that was |
made in the year $500. II isabout eight |
inches in diameter, with u large knot |
at one cnd, aud has been in use on u fence
all the time.
The Washington Gazette is booming |
ucrucukc as u summer watering place.
aud the pr"prictOrS of the hotel there
have extended through the Gazette an
invitation To the Press Association To
meet there this summer.
Ten thousand acres uf land in Mitchell
county, the ropcrty of the heirs ui the |
late Col. Isaac 7. Avery has been sold to
q Northern syndicate Tor S3O, 1000. The
land is heavily timbcrrd aud is supposed |
To contain rich deposit of iron.
Buync Il badger, Charlotte jewellers.
were indicted. al the recent tcrm ui the |
criminal coNft there, Iur running a ln, |
terry. They had been advertising u |
scheme Tor dispoSing of watches aud |
icwclrv into which the element uf chance |
entered. They submitted aud paid the
cost.
Elias !. Jenkins, u prosperous tobacco
farmer at Granville county, while IN OX. |
ford, fell IN the street. Assistance was |
Immediately rendered, but he expired in |
n lew minutes. Heart inilurc is thought |
tu have been the cause OF death. lie was |
- wears ul age and leaves wife aud |
several children.
The Greensboro Patriot reports that |
n barkccpr at nnnhury. Stokes county. |
had u fight aud Judge Mcfrinun. before |
whom the case was tried, gave him his
choice between going tO inil or closing up |
his bnrruum aud giving bond oi $500 |
never to sell any more liquor at tina, |
place lie gave the bond aud closed up. |
Cleveland county has bnttlr.scnrrcd
veteran who acted well his part on many
a bath field aud has seven souvenirs oil
the "latc unplcasHutncss." Mr.. ". 4 |
Guodc has seven wounds aud was u |
member Ui company u, 10th North Car. |
ulinH Troops aud went from Rutherford |
county IN the first company under Major |
II, u, Ice, captain.
business Agent Worth. nf the Farmers |
Alliance, has written tu the owner oi the |
machine for making bngging from the
fibre al cotton stalks asking him tu come |
~ Raleigh aud put thcmnrhincs IN opera.
ton IN this state ncNt autumn. MIR. |
Worth SAYS this is the wish oi the ALI. |
nncc, and that II the machine proves n
success its product will bc used exclusively |
by the alliance men.
4 strange aud very fatal disease pre-.
walls III the western section OF Cabarrus |
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