Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-06-04
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.

Oxford thinks it has a boom.
Reidsville is trying hard to organize
chamber of commerce.
The North Carolina Dental Association
meets at Wilmington June 25-21.
High Points Y. NJ. c. A. numbers 1875
active and twenty associate members.
It is now said that no steps will be
taken to prosecute the Johnston lynch
ers.
Wadcsboro has voted to subscribe $+0,-
600 to the Roanoke and Southern rail-
road.
Bethel pastoratc, Stanly county, has
called and secured the service of Rev. {.
c. Iyerly of the Southern Illinois synod.
A burglar broke into n store at Con
cord and tried to pry open the safe with
a plank. 1t is needless to say that he
failed.
Fifteen homing pigeons were turned
loose at Concord on Monday night. They
started at once to Philadelphia, where
they are owned.
w, T. Howard has been appointed
postmaster at Red Oak; X. Brem at
Swan Quarter: w. Q. Denton at Rfto ; J.
II. Edwards at Battleboro.
The Richmond Dispatch does itself
credit and justice to history when 1t says
! OF North Carolina: "She was in great
part the reliance of Lee in the time that
| tried mems souls"
The boot and shoe dealers Of Whining
ton will give their clerks half holiday
on every Friday afternoon. The new or
der of things will begin June 9th and last
until August 18th.
Col. I. ID. Cameron has been mentioned
| for the chair OF history about to be be es-
tablished at the State University. No
better selection could bc made for such an
important position.-Franklin Press.
1t is said that Rev. ]. d. Arnold, OF
Reidsvillc, will be president of the Ashe'
vile Female College next scssion.-Char-
lottc Chronicle. This would be an in
tcrcsting item il il did not lack backing.
Mrs. Joseph McGhcc of Oxford lies in n
critical condition, the result of a fire III
her home in which she was severely
burned. Mrs. Paris, a sister of the un.
fortunate woman, was badly burned
about the face and hands.
Last evening woman boarded the
northbound train at the depot. When
| the conductor came around she lacked
eight cents of having enough money to
pay her way to Salisbury and she was
put ofi.-Concord Standard.
The Charlotte Chronicle says that the
decorations for the musical festival to be
held there this month will bc most clab-
orate and beautiful. They will be i'll ap-
propriatc designs, such as harps and
iyres, which have been ordered from the
North for the occasion.
George Miller, a Concord colorcd man
celebrated Decoration day at Salisbury
and took pint of corn liquor to help
him do it. At night he was pretty drunk
and when he went to sleep ON the railroad
track il didn't hurt him quite so much
perhaps to be run over as 1t would II he
| had been sober. II killed him just the
same.
The fine iron gray horse that Gen. Fitz
hugh Lee rode at the head OF the proces
sion at the unvciling of the Lee monu
mcnt, belonged to Mrs. George ID. Ben
nett. of Gol,lsboro. When cx.Gov. Lc,
: saw the horse he said; "lf had huntct
the State of Virginia over with a FIN,
tooth comb could not have found Il fine,
animal"
The last issue of the Southern Tobacco
Journal contained this editorial brief
I"Winston will vote on the question OF is
suing $500, 900 worth oi bonds for cit,
, improvements, including streets, city hal
and market house. That is the stcl
which places the Twin City far ahead q
any place in North Carolina" OF fcours
the Tobacco Journal meant to cxccp
. Ashcvillc.
A spccial from Raleigh to the Richmon,
Dispntch says: There is an unusua
amount of interest in the University con
r menccmcnt next week. A special to-nigh
}. saws Judge lanes Grant, formerly oflowt
, now in California, who is n native OF thi
State, will respond to the toast. "Ol
University Times" at the banquet o
: Wednesday. The veteran editor OF III
class of 1898, Colonel K. Is. Crcccy, {
Elizabeth City, will respond to a simila
toast. Since the Heath of Governor Gee
lW. HAYWARD, the oldest graduate of I'll
University of North Carolina is DR.. Tho
u Hill, of Goldsboro, formerly of Wilmin,
ton, OF the class Of 1922.
o The weekly weather crop bulletin
n. the state Experiment Station and Wcat
' or Service for this week, issued Saturda
" saws: There has been Il decided excess
n rainfall, but about the normal conditio
Ic of temperature and sunshine during Il
week ending Friday, May 80. 1890. n
damage is reported except from te
u counties where the oycrilowing strean
damaged the lowland crops, and thcgc
nc cral effect has been very favorable upc
a. the crops. A comparison OF the conditi'
and progress Of the crops during Ma
~ 1890, with the corresponding l'c,iod Ia
,,- wear shows that the season is not on
further advanced this year, but the co
dition of almost all crops is far better,
n. that with normal weather the season
I'd 1890 Is likely to prove n splendid OF
nj The heaviest rainfall occurred at Lumh
a. ton, Robcson county, being 5.03 inch
,d in one day. Farmers are well up wi
If. their work. Nearly all the farmers ha
wellnigh finished setting out tobac
plants. Wheat and oats continue to i
or prove.