Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-08-08
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| "A hre occurred at burlington Thurs
day. One store and the postotfice were
burned.
Down at Greensboro day or age
negroes were whipped by policeman
properly delegated, for fighting.
Rev. Sam p. Jones will commence
meetings at Winston on the 25th of Sep
tcnber. The meetings will continue not
less than ten days.
Judge Bynunl, of Charlotte, sold a
large portion of his land to Mr.. Sink, ot
Winston, this week. Considerations, fit.
teen thousand dollars.
AT Greensboro several valuable horses
have died this season with lockjaw, which
seems to have become almost epidemic
among the livery stables there.
Considerable interest is shown at High
Point over the rediscovcry of q fine min.
cral spring about two miles from town
1t had been filled up for years.
Medlin killed himself drinking whiskey
near Youngsvillc, Wakecounty, Monday
He was begged to take drink by mid
die aged man.
Prof. and Mrs. w. +. Fentrcss, princi
pals of one of the leading schools in Gull.
ford county, have both been extremely
i'll with typhoid fever for the last month
and Mr.. Fcntrell died Yesterday.
Congressman w. II. II. Cowlcs is at
his home in Wilkcsboro, and is in very
feeble health. His physicians says he
should have been at home long ago, but
he stood steadily at his post to vote
against the election bill.
There is an organized movement
within the Alliance to defeat Senator
Vance, and that. too, in spite of the fact
that there are many good and true demo.
crat Allianccmcn who are hostile to the
movcmcnt.-Charlottc Chronicle.
-Mcssrs. Duke, of Durham, have be.
gun the erection of a mammoth storage
warehouse in connection with their FAC.
tory at Durham. The structure will be
five stories high. one of the highest in the
State, and the dimensions will be 2OOx6O
feet.
Greensboro is said to have still anoth
cr paper. John c. Upton, who has beer
editor Of the Patriot, daily and weekly
since its revival in January, retired from
that paper on Monday, and will begin
the publication of the Guilford Democrat
about August 20. The Democrat will bt
an orthodox paper.
We have been shown the throttle t.
Mr.. John Smyrc's c,iginc. which Supcrin
tcndcnt McBcc has kindly had cncloset
in n handsome case with n glass from,
and presented to Mrs. Smyers. 1t wa.
taken from the engine in which he was
killed in the fearful accident on Saludf
mountain in Junc.-Ncwton Enterprise.
The report that successor to Super
intcndcnt Dixon Of the Orphan Asylum
had been appointed. Superintendent
Dixon has not even rendered his rcsigna
ton! The appointment of u succcsso,
when made will he made by the dircctor'
and the directors have not even yc'
been called together r.-Ralcigh News an'
Observer.
-Thos. Camp, of Rutherford county
IN. c., had ten sons and one daughter b,
his first wife. He married again as hi
second wife. Miss Margaret Carney, o
North Carolina, and had by her ten SON
and two daughters. Then he died. Th
twcnty-thrcc children of Thos. CAM
were, as might have been expected, |
prolific and stalw art race. Only one O
them, a daughter, approached the faith
cr's record, however. She had twenty
two children. At a reunion a few year
ago in Douglass county, Ca, fully 3,00'
L.. l,,tu a xv.rs. t,r,scf,t. A uny or txy,
ago, at the rcsidcncc OF the late Majo
William A. Camp, near Dalton, Ca, as
scmblcd all Of his seven sons and thei
descendants In n family reunion, the ot
casion being their mother seventiet
birthday.
-Essie Skecn, 4ycars old, of Charlotte
and n goat, Of nowhere especially, wcr
playing on the edge of the Carolina Ger
trails deep cut Saturday. The goat wa
staked, like a COW in a pasture. All a
once both rolled down into the railroa
cut. The rope which was fastened t
the goats neck caught on fence post
J On the loose end was n loop, whic
caught around Essic's neck and DIRE,
tight. Both the child and the goat wer
suspended By their necks fully six fec
from the bottom Of the cut. Anothc
child gave an alarm and Essic and til
goat were rescued. The child was blac
In the face and totally unconscious. d.
Wilder. by the Use Of ammonia, and for
ing air In her lungs, finally restored her {
consciousness. She Is now all righ
OF course the goat did not mind a litt
thing like that.