The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-03-27
CAROLINA CULLINGS.
What is Going On in the Old North
State, as Recorded by Her Intelli-
gent and Wide-aWake News
papers.

PuPoAOs
Charlotte is preparing for grand
celebration on the 10th of May.
Prof. w. A. Blair, of Winston, has
offered prize of 500 to the students
of Trinity College for the best essay
upon savings banks.
In bulletin issued by the Board
of Health for the month Of February,
la grippe is reported from nearly every
county in North Carolina.
Daniel Hood, a well known farmer
of Wayne county, has during the pres
ent season caught forty-nine raccoons,
one hundred opossums and forty foxes.
DIR. D. w. G.. Benbow had an offer
made him to-day of 100000, for 552
feet of ground on South Elm street, in
cluding the hotel.-Greensboro Work.
man.
A Pinion detective thinks he has
found Walter Bingham, who killed
Miss burlington near Cary three years
ago. He says Bingham is living in
Antwerp, Germany.
Two of Raleigh's heetest bicyclists
will shortly make trip from this city
to Boston, riding the whole distance
on the noble two wheeled machine
Meas and Observer.
A very sad case is reported from
Concord, Mrs. F. A. Archibald, an
estimable lady of that town having
lost her reason through grief over the
death Of two of her chilren.
The new lighthouse to be erected
on diamond shoals, Cape Hatteras is
to be in twenty-tour feet of water, one
hundred and fifty feet above low water
mark, and to cost 100000.
Mr.. ]. B. Duke, who has been elect
ed president of the American Tobacco
Company, draws salary of $50, 900 a
year. This is perhaps the largest
salary ever paid to any man connected
with the tobacco trade.-State CAyon-
iee.
Reports coming from the tobacco
counties in Western North Carolina
show that at least one-third of the
plants in the beds have been killed by
the recent cold weather. The peach
and apple CROPS are almost wholly
destroyed.
The prospectus of the North Caro-
lima Steel and Iron Company has been
issued. 1t is interesting reading, and
assures our people that two furnaces
of IS tons capatity each will soon be
erected at Observation-Disclosures
North State.
John w. Scott, Jr., and Murphy
Lemon are building a furniture fac
tory in the rear of Scott Hall. The
Sanford Sash and Blind Company do
the dressing, tongueing and growing
and these young men do the joining,
vanishing and painting.-Sanford
Express.
Jno. Bracksville, colored, who COM
mitted most atrocious, cold -blooded
murder near Laurel Hill, this county,
about four years ago and made his
escape from Jail while under sentence
of death, was recently recaptured in
Robson county and is again in Jail at
this place.-Rockingham Rocket.
Mai. A. A. Mckeithan will shortly
have in operation another bucket fac
tory, fitting up the west buildings of
his extensive carriage mandatory,
which are capacious and we'll located,
and in every way fitted for utilization
to this purpose. Maj. Mckeithan is
negotiating for the needed machinery.
Fayetteville Observer.
A Mr.. Lineberry, of Cabarrus coun-
ty, says that the gold mine owners of
that county have an arrang cement with
the diggers and other laborers to give
in lieu of any other pay, one-half of
the gold they may find. A few days
ago, an old negro found nugget,
which was worth $500, and got his
Proportional good days work.
We heard week ago that Mr.. W..
E. Christian, of Charlotte Democrat,
had gone North to perfect arrange
ments for doing some literary work for
the Philadelphia Press, and we were
very sorry that circumstances should
have led him away from our borders.
He has established high reputation
as scholar and writer and easily
takes rank among the most accom-
plished gentlemen of the State. His
removal from North Carolina is loss
to our State press which we much
regret. We wish him much success in
lis new field of labor.-Nez0s and
ObssrOer.