Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-05-19
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

in Pitt county, have been burned. Loss
SO 900; no insurance.
Gordon Ellcdge was shot by some rail
road negroes near Wilkesboro and very
seriously, if not fatally injured.
Randolph can boast of dwarf, who
is eighteen years old, four feet high and
weighs seventy-seven pounds. His name
is Charley Fields.
Prof G. w. Greene, principal of Morav.
ian Falls Academy, Wilkes county, has
resigned. He goes to Raleigh as profes,
sor of theology in Shaw University.
The reports of correspondents of the
weekly crop bulletin show generally very
favorable effect of the weather on nearly
all crops during the week ending May
10th.
Professor G. w. Walter, who has been
giving swimming exhibitions in the surf
near Wilmington, was drowned recently.
He went into the water without his pat
ent bathing suit.
Laurinburg having gone "dry." the
liauor dealers are to close up July 1st.
Pending Investigations of the charges OF
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are to be discontinued.
Major Finger, State superintendent of
public instruction, is pertecting arrange
ments for the teachers institutes, and
will in June have eight well known edu-
Gators at work conducting them.
Spirited discussion on Sam Jones'
method of evangelical work continues
wherever he has been. Prominent min
isters denounce his manner and style and
others uphold him because OF the good
results he secures.
The Meadows Tobacco Company, OF
Oxford, have decided to move their plant
to Durham. and run it in connection with
the farmers organization of that county
under the name of the Durham Farmers
Alliance Manufacturing Co.
1t has been demonstrated that the
granite of Iredell county is of a quality
not surpassed in the South. A party Of
capitalists from the North have bought
quarry there and are arranging to do a
great wholesale business in granite.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows in scs-
sion at Raleigh have adopted the recon-
mcndation of Grand Master Brown to
pay Eruhu eee'e.aIy anu 10 r,e..u -, - H. -:
wooden salary .. ~ ,oot, ~ 81. .nnrL .mL "'
n. ,
went to Arkansas, recently sent back to
his wife a registered letter. She was
clatcd. The letter was received and care
fully opened. Fifteen cents rolled out.
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Eagles, Abe and Granville Vines and the
scvcnty-hvc colorcd emigrants who left
th,s eouhty M u"'is tIs, ~. WI me 81, ". JaunJ s,
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The association of the Third North
Carolina infantry met at Wilmington to
celebrate its twcnty-fourth anniversary.
This is claimed to bc the Oldest associa.
ton of cx-Confcdcratcs in the country,
il having been organized ten months