Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-06-17
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.
An epidemic of fleas has captured Car

An epidemic of ieas has captured Car
thagc.
Durham is to have an excursion to
Norfolk on June 80.
Raleigh will celebrate the Fourth OF
July in great style.
Three mad dogs were killed in Wash
ington one day recently.
In Guilford county last year only 719
negroes paid poll tax. and l, l,s23 voted.
The Wilmington postoffcc is being inn
proved to meet the demands of the pub
The Joint legislative committee on rail
road taxation meets in Raleigh to-mor-
row.
George Rhodes, wanted at Marion for
safe robbing, has been arrested at Knox
vile.
In one day orders were received at the
Duke factory at Durham for ll,1s5,OOo
cigarettes.
A ten mile railroad will I've built in
Chatham county from the Egypt mine
to Osgood.
The judicial convention of the demo
cratic party of the third district meets at
Rocky Mount on July 3.
DR.. II. s. Lucas, of Cullasaja, will
build a telephone line between Franklin,
N. C., and Walhalla, S. c.
The members of the Wilmington steam
L a
lima beach Friday, June 27.
The new Methodist church at Red
Springs is almost completed and will
soon Ike ready for occupancy.
G. l.. Grccson, for five years an inmate
of the Morganton Insane asylum. died at
that institution last Tuesday.
Eight hundred dollars on three acres OF
land is what Burke county man made
last year in spite of the season.
In Onslow county there are nine full
ilcdgcd candidates for one Office and seven
more are thought to bc after it.
Mary Cox, n colorcd il sane woman
who has been in the New Bcrnc jail, has
been taken to the Goldsboro asylum.
Fifteen passenger agents of various
| railroad lines in the South spent day or
two fishing at Morchcad City last
week.
Another daily paper is soon to he cs'
tablishcd in Raleigh and it will take an
active part in democratic campaign
work.
The Mt. Airy Granite company, o
Winston, has elected all of its old Off
GERS and increased its paid up stock by
$4,000.
The Monroe Enquirer is authority fol-
the statement that Mr.. s. W. Trull killed
coach whip snake there measuring
feet in length.
II has been discovered from the ole
records that President Andrew Jackson
was once sworn i'll as a constable II
Guiford county.
Wilmington drummcrs are rapid,
usurping the territory in the eastern part
of the State, formerly occupied by thu
Richmond corps.
Thieves entered the premises Of A. Hill
in Goldsboro and cmpticd his pantry o
all the catablcs. The above gentleman
has been robbed four times.
Three horned toads are amusing TIN
Raleigh public BY destroying and dcyour
ing thousand flies each n day. The,
are in a drug store window.
Prof Chas. D. Mclvcr, of Raleigh. ha
accepted an invitation to deliver an ad
dress on female education before tn
State press association which meets a
Durham.
/, n, Ingram, a noted traveller an,
newspaper correspondent will soon visi
Western North Carolina in the interest
of the Washington Post, and will writ
up" this part of the State.
The new government building at vii
minyton will tx completed next month
II is said that ten or fifteen thousan
dollars of this appropriation will b
available for fixing up the grounds.
Iimmic Cook. the boy preacher G
Georgia, was in Charlotte on Sunda
and preached at one of the local churchc.
Cook is u years old weighs 65 pound
and is four feet high. lie has been prcacl
; ing for two years.
Rev. l.. W. Crawford, of Greensboro
has been elected chaplain and proicsso
of biblical literature at Trinity collcg'
Prot. |. S. Bassctt, of Durham, will !
princial of Trinity Academy, which wi
, take the place of the college on tsrcmovi
( to Raleigh.
A Concord party Of fishermen capture