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

The Durham Bottling Works were dc
stroycd by fire. The building was in
sured for 81, 100, about half its value.
Up to date sos, 900 has been secured
for the erection of a Young Mems Chris
tian Association building at Wilmington
A gentleman named S. b. Crane, ncal
Coinjock, has on his farm near Scotland
Neck healthy colt with five legs and five
feet.
1t is now stated that the idea of remov
ing the county seat of Rockingham from
Wentworth to Reidsville has been aban
doncd.
In one day Collector Duncan, of the
port of Beaufort, collected 81 900 in fines
from three vssscs which lay in harbor
without lights.
Page Anderson, aged seven years, was
drowned in dam at Alamancc cotton
mills. lie fell from boat. and none ot
his little companions could aid him.
The Baptist church in Elizabeth City
has paid off the debt for the new house oi
will be quite a handsome building when
finished.
In Currituck county the cultivation OF
sweet potatoes for early marketing is
growing to bc profitable industry. The
slips are raised in hot beds and thousands
have been planted out already.
The body of James Dillon. who has been
missing since last November, was found
Il few days ago in Tyrrcl county. His
body was severed from his head, but he
was identified by papers and letters.
Eastern Carolina has great need of a
school of high grade, and with the open
ing prospects for great prosperity in the
near future il illdoubtlcss bccstablishcd
at some convenient point at early day.
There are consumed annually 5000, 900
yards OF cotton bagging in North Caro-
lima. II the fibre of the stalk of the cot
ton plant can bc utilized, as proposed by
the Farmers Alliance, great saving
will be effected.
The president of the Wilmington and
Weldon Railroad company has author
lied the agent at Scotland Neck to pay
to Mayor L. L. llillia.d SO as the COM
pany's contribution to the fire company
organized there n few days ago.
A petition has been signed by the pco-
pie of Elizabeth City asking for a United
States building for the federal court scs-
sions. Ii has bccI recommended by Judge
Seymour and by the superintendent oi
revenue for the eastern district Of North
Carolina.
The trial of Avery Butler for the muir
der of his father has begun at Clinton.
The defence will clam that the confession
was forced from the lad and that he is
innocent. A special vcnirc of 100 man
has been empanclled but no jury has yet
been chosen.
There are now 29S patients in the in
improvements have recently been made
in the building. Two passenger elevators
are to bc put in, and the directors are
considering the plan of using electricity
instead of gas in lighting the building.
The body of Edward d. Walker. the
Brooklyn, \. Y, journalist, who so mys-
tcriously disappeared from Weldon, has
been found i'll the Roanoke river and the
coruncr's jury have returned verdict oi
accidental drowning. His gold watch
and some money were found on his per-
son.
Weeks S. Armstrong the negro post
master at Rocky Mount, charged with
embczzing government funds from the
postoiiicc there and also for failure to
account tor the postal money, was con-
victcd at New Bcrnc in the Federal court
and was sentenced by Judge Seymour to
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]. NJ. Spencer, OF Hyde county, was sent
workings around the oyster beds. His
reports contained some cuncomplimcntary
statements concerning John {. Thomas,
of New Bcrnc, and when the two met in
the latter place there was collision.
Thomas will carry lead bullet in his
abdomen as a souvenir of the occasion.
Mrs. ]. +. Bcattie, OF Mt. Ilcasnnt,
while on her way home from her hus-
scoundrcl. The shot grazcd Mrs.
Bcattics clothing, but fortunately
did not hurt her, and she made her escape
to n nciphbor's house. Doubtless the
would.bc murderer thought she was car
ryinr home the money from the days
sales.