The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1890-06-11
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.


Items Clipped from Exchanges and Ar
ranged for Busy Readers.
Sam Jones will hold a meeting in Will
mington the first ten days in October. A
tabernacle will be built.
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Raleigh Chronicle: 1t is said that Prof.
w. IL. Michael will resign the chair of
Physics at Wake Forest college, and that
he will practice law in Minnesota. Prof.
w. c.. Riddich is spoken of as his success
sor.
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Goldsboro Argus: Dirt was broken yes
terday for the erection of the Goldsboro
knitting factory, on Walnut street, oppo-
site the court house square Messrs. J..
b.. Edgerton and w. T. Yelverton are the
resident members of the factory company.
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Wilmington Star: Henry Shepard, col
ored, who made a murderous assault
about one o'clock Sunday morning on
his wife and a colored manlnamed Henry
Nixson, with an axe, was committed to
jSf1 yesterday by Mayor Fowler for trial
Nixson were both seriously hurt.
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Newton Enterprise: Those who sowed
clover seed with their wheat last fall have
a very serious problem on their hands.
The winter and spring have been SO mild
that the clover has grown as rapidly as
the wheat, and now the clover blossoms
oyertop the wheat heads. 1t is impossi-
BILE to separate the wheat from the clover,
and most people are moving it all down
together and making feed out of it.
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Oxford Day: We have seen a letter to
the Oxford Land, Improvement and
Manufacturing company from the owner
of the large knitting mill referred to in
our columns one or two weeks ago, say
ing that II do not think there will be any
doubt as to mymoving to your city" He
will be here in S few days to perfect ar
engagements. This mill gives employment
to one hundred hands, and will be a val
liable addition to our industries.
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Goldsboro Dispatch: Mr.. James Stokes,
near Warsaw, a kind hearted woman de-
voted to her home and domestic duties
and labors of life was suddenly called
from these services to a higher reward
for her faithful devotion. Last Saturday
while making a pot of soap her clothing
caught fire and she was burned to death
before assistance could reach her.-The
colored man Jackson, who was arrested
here one day last week on a requisition
from the Governor at Florida for an at
tempt to kill, was carried back to that
state last night. Jackson says he Shot Ills
assailant through self defense, and that
he was also shot through his lungs.
Moonshiners Shooting Revenue Officers.
Greensboro Patriot.
A party of revenue officers returned
morning from a raid into Stokes and
Surry counties. The party was COM
posed of Messrs. A. G. Patterson, Jean
and Shube Murrow and Joe Reece.
They captured and destroyed seven
blockade stills and several thousand gal
Ions of beer, but did not succeed in max
any arrests.
Last Saturday evening as the party
was returning to Danbury and passing
through that section known as the Smith
settlement, a locality which revenue Off
GERS have learned to dread, they were
fired upon from ambush. Their a~ssail-
ants were concealed in the underground
both sides of the road. Jean Muir
horse was slightly wounded in the
leg. His brother, Shube Murrow, re-
ceived a bird shot in the leg and his
horse was slightly wotnded in the head.
None of the others were hit.
The revenue officers returned the fire
and several volleys were exchanged. The
moonshiners succeeded in getting away
unseen in the darkness, and if any of
them were wounded, it is not known.
The Second Battle of Gettysburg.