Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-04-22
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

few days ago,
Thos. c. Callum, formerly of Greens
boro, died at Baltimore. He but recent,
moved to that city.
Wilmington Prcsbytery is in session
at that city. Rev. A. McFadyen preached
the opening sermon.
| A special term of the superior court
will be held in Ashc county beginning the
second Monday in June.
All of the TWENTY-FIVE manufacturing
concerns at Greensboro are running on
full time and are prospering.
Rev. Baylus Cade, formerly of Virginia,
has resigned thcpastorateo of Franklinton
Baptist church after four years service.
The contracts for the grading of the
railway from Salisbury to Albcrmarlc,
the county seat of Stanley county, have
been let.
New York capitalists will take $145,-
600 of the S3O000O of the capital stock
of the Winston Land and Improvement
company.
An Episcopal church to cost $4,000
is to be built at Oxford. That dcnomi-
nation will also build handsome church
at Hickory.
Col. W. II. II. Cowlcs has appointed
Charles L. Robinson, son of cx-Shcriif J..
\. Robinson, of Lincolnton, cadet at
West Point.
The schooner Union, of New York.
bound south for lumber, went ashore
near Ocracoke and is total loss. The
crew were saved.
The citizens OF Person county have de-
cidcd to have grand celebration next
month in honor of the completion of the
railway to Royboro.
New Berne has what it styles electric
light bugs" Hundreds collect about the
street lamps nightly and disappear only
when the lights are extinguished.
Near Yanccyvillc negro shot Mr.. Don
Cameron. The gun was loaded with
small shot and the wounds are not dam
gerous. The negro, Cary Roam, is in
Jail.
Next Tuesday the committee of the
State Baptist Female College meets at
Raleigh and chooses the site, which il
now appears will he in the centre of the
city.
A company with $50, 900 capital has
been formed to operate the Elm Grove
cotton mills, in Lincoln county, and in a
few months the mills will be again run
ming.
S. kirkpatrick, the wounded revcnu,
agent, is in hospital in Baltimore under
the treatment of an oculist. One eye
ball is to he removed that the sight of the
other eye may he saved.
Mrs. Elizabeth Morris. while assisting
her husband in cxtnguishing some fire AT
Pamico, was fatally burned. She at
tempted to get to a creek, but fell, and
all her clothing was burned off,
Eight townships of Montgomery
county voted on the question OF sub
scription of 100000 To the West End
railroad and seven voted against il. In
the eighth the vote is uncertain.
The county alliance of Allegheny has
been organized, Only Dare and New
Hanover counties are now without
county organizations. Five sub-alli-
anccs are necessary to secure the iorma-
ton of u county alliance.
A negro man by the name of Martin,
being elected from the train by the con-
ductor, near Laurel Hill, for the non.pay-
mcnt of fare, deliberately fired three pis-
tol shots at the train, but without effect.
lie has not yet been caught.
a meeting OF the officers of the Rich
mond and Dan,illc and Scaboard rail-
ways, which will bc held in Raleigh next
week, will decide upon the plan of the Raj
cigh union depot Work will probably
begin in less than thirty days.
Mr.. Alfred Gaddy paid visit to the
brownstonc quarries near Wadcsboro
and saw n large dynamite cap lying on
the ground. lie did not know what il
was and picked il with knife. It cx-
plodcd and tore away two OF his fingers
In Rutherford county fcwnights past
Mr.. Joseph Hutsingcr and family were in
camp while travelling. a large fire was
burning near their wagon. Hutsingcr
was awakened by his wilcs screams and
found her clothing on fire. lie made dcs-
pcratc efforts to save her life. lie was
badly injured, and her injuries are CON
sidcrcd fatal.
Lewis Thompson, colorcd, entered his
mothers house in Greensboro, and after
locking the door drew his razor and at
tempted to cut her throat, because she
refused to deed him some property. She
escaped by jumping from n window
Thompson then attacked another negro
standing by, but he too made his escape.
Thompson was arrested and bound over
to court.
Judge Dick, of the United States court
at Greensboro, rendered his decision in
the case of the State against Revenue
Agent Kirkpatrick and Deputy Collector
Patterson for killing the negro school
teacher, Henry McManncn, in Orange
county, near llillsboro, last February.
Judge Dick discharged the accused on the
ground that as the shooting was done
in the line of official duty and in self de-
fence il was justidablc in the eyes of the
law.
negro was in kinston who had
trampcd there from Mississippi and was
on his way to his old home at Washing
ton. His descriptions of the suffering
among the colorcd people in that State
who left North Carolina last fall, from
the flood and other causes, were distress
ing. lie says he knows of several ne
grocs, who ran away from their masters,
to whom they sold themselves as he did,
that arc tramping back to North Caro-
lima.
The Charlotte bound freight train was
tagged down by the section master about
two miles out from town, near the fair
grounds. The section master had found
n negro who had been knocked from the
track by the passenger train, lying In the
ditch. The wounded negro was put OH
the freight and taken to Charlotte, when