The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-15
GREENSBORO.
Youthful Eiopers-rrinity College and
the Conference.


the Conference.
GREENSBORO. y. c., June H. Special.
There was an unusual elOpcmeut in Reds
vile last Wednesday. The youthful groom
was Mr.. Ed. Lovelacc. aged nineteen, and
the bride was Miss Name Hughes, who
was little older They were married by
Squire W. {. Staples, neither having the
parental consent. 1t is said the parents are
talking the matter very philosophically,
and will quietly let the couple make the
best of their fr0lic.
\ movement is on foot among the cotton
manufacturing town Of Randleman To III
yite Evangelist Fife 10 that place IN sep
tember. They will arrange for the seating
of 1900 people ut some central point be-
tween the big factories.
The trustees Of Trinity College have ar
ranged for a meeting with the Western
North Carolina Conference. to be held at
Concord or 4 sheyille the 18th Of November.
The division of the North Carolina Confer
ence and the removal Of the college VIII
probably give rise 10 some perpleXing COM
plications in reference TO the charter of the
college. and some legislation Will be neces-
sary 10 define its prerOgatiyes. Ihe board
of Trustees. in their official action yester-
day. elected Rev. l.. ". Crawford. the pas
i'm Greensboro, 90 the Chair Of Biblical
Theology and Literature. 10 take effect after
the next Annual Conference. All interested
parties are much gratlfied at the selection.
There is a movement on foot 10 organize
Bessemer steel plant at Walnut Cove
among the ore, coal and limestone beds OF
stokes county.
The Odd-FeilOws Of the State are talking
of building an orphan asylum.
4 Northern capitalist has put $4,000 IN
vacant lots at Statewide and will erect
cotton factory, which i 10 be III operation
the coming fall.
IL is announced on good authority that
two men in Wilson county will cure tobac-
GO the coming week from plants set out on
the 18th Of April. The outlook in Nash and
Wilson counties il said 10 be- exceptionally
good. and is ahead OF anything ever seen or
beard in that line. The crop is fine and the
plants are vigorous.
The stamp collector at Durham reports
the heaviest receipts AT that office for many
years, and possibly in the history OF the
place. For the month Of May the amount
IL $50 so.
Rev. j. ID. Arnold, who is pastor Of the
Methodist church at Rcidsyille, and who
carries AN empty sleeve, has made an ar
rangcment TO take charge Of the Asheville
Female College ut the opening OF the iall
session.
joseph Swaliord and his whole family,
consisting Of a wife and three children. who
live i'm Cleveland county, were all helpless
Is sick. \ few days ago tbirty-two Of his
neighbOrs with ten horses and plOws col
lccted at his house aud plOwed and hoed
out his corn and cotton in one day. lie
is not member OF the Alliance.
Superintendent :. VI. Finger chairman OF
board of visitors 10 Chapel Hill, reports
the efficiency Of the instructors and the
merit Of the work done but says that some
Of the buildings are much needing repairs,
and that $1,000 should De appropriated for
the purpose. \ water supply and sewerage
system should be put in. The present iiN-
lures are those OF the past century and the
presence of two hundred students demands
an improvement.
Mass meetings are being held in different
parts Of Winston to discnss the proposition
TO create IA bonded debt Of 100000 for city
Improvements.
Joseph Graham has recently died in the
Wilson county pOOrhcuse, and left four re-
markably bright and interesting children.
The superintendent has advertised for pos
sible relatives, who may wish to take charge
of them.
The Saddler gold mine Of Giflord's ferry,
near the CataWba river, is 10 be worked by
Joseph AXum, of Hot springs, Arkansas,
and +. r. McC ord, Of Asheyille. They have
leased about eighty acres, put in improved
machinery, and operations are 10 begin al
once. The mine is said to be very rich.
At Grifton, Ienoir county, in the early
part If this week, when Mr.. Jacob Num-
ford got up in the morning and went out
he saw bear in his yard, which, after
taking drink Of water. walked of. \
party was soon made up who followed and
killed the animal, which weighed 10
pounds.
The Nolta Consolidated Marble, Iron and
Tale Works, near Murphy, will establish
the Standard Marble Works about four
miles south Of their present plant. The
company will erect machinery to prepare
tale for market. A seventy horse power en-
CINE has been put in and IA "Cyc.one pulyer-
izer" ard other machinery, when the work
will begin in a few days. IL is c0niem-
plated TO develop and work up the surround
ing deposits of brown hematilc iron ore that
abOunds i'm the legality.
The force of lab0rers at. work on the
Greensboro Bessemer Steel Compary's
property NJ Ore Hill have found that the
vein Of ore that was formerly supposed to
be- sixteen feet thick is forty feet. Also
other veins have been found that were not
supposed Ia exist.