The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-02
North Carolina News.
A $685. 900 company has been organized
in Monroe to put in electric lights.

A $25, 900 company has been organized
in Monroe to put in electric lights.
Sheriff Baird has cow that has given
birth to four calves in less than twelve
months. She has gone entirely blind,
great scabs having formed over her eyes.
-WiIkes6oro Chronicle.
ALL IN ONE DAY-Mr. B. F. Sutton
of Shelby, gathered large force ofcotton
pickers last Friday, had bale of cotton
picked out of the field by noon, imme-
diately hauled it to the gin, sold it and
got the money for the bale before sunset F.;
all in one day.-iSheIby aurora.
Mr Walter Brem of Charlotte, has
purchased from the Morganton Develop
n,cnt Company q beautiful residence site
Of fourteen acres in Riverside Park. Mr..
Brem has faith in Morganton, and justly
regards it as one Of the most substantial
towns in the State-Morganton Herald
s4g- The commissioners of lredell
county have declined to grant any liquor
licenses, and Judge Armficld has issued
an alternative writ Of of mandamus, to be
returned at StatesviIe October I'd, com
manding the commissioners to issue the
licenses or show cause why they should
not be issued.
Mr. A. G. Baur, the Raleigh architect,
reports TO the Baltimore Manufacturers
Record that he has completed plans for
$120, 900 worth of new buildings at Nor
canton; including the extension of the
State Hospital, and the Deaf and Dumb
building. Work on the new dining hall
at the State Hospital there is progressing
rapidly.
DR.. E. O. Elliott of Sparkling Catawba
Springs, has 800 pear trees, 500 of them
of the LeCompte variety, and this is the
first year of bearing. He has sent the
Landmark two splendid specimens from
his trees, one of them weighing 123
ounces. Mr.. R. W. Orr of this place, this
year raised pear which weighed III
ounces, and Mrs. II. E. Sharpe Of Sharpes-
burg township, recently sent to this office
one which weighed IL ounces.-Stotes
vHle Landmark.
Mr.. w. F. Stevens of Limestone town
ship, has shown us a sample of very ex-
cellent sorghum produced upon his prem
ises and those of Mr.. Case, about five
miles from Asheville. 1t equals in quality
anything that we have seen from further
South, and shows what Buncombe land
can do in the hands of enterprising and
intelligent men. Mr.. Stevens has pro
duced seventy five gallons from little
over one quarter Of an acre and hopes to
do even better next season.-Asheville
Democrat.
FISH, TURTLES AND TERRAPINs.-
Among the fish boats that arrived at the
dock Friday one of them contained a
hugo welshman caught from Newport
river. 1t was a beautiful specimen of the
finny tribe and some Of the by-standers
placed it at fifty pounds.
Sea turtles, embracing the ordinary,
hawk bill and green varieties have been
more abundant in our market this season
than usual. They are brought in daily
and are constantly being shipped to
Northern points. One shipped by Mr.. B.
B. Lane on the steamer Neuse weighed
285 pounds. A pretty good sized fellow.
The season for diamond black terrapins
is approaching and they have already
made their rappearance.-N NeUbern Journal.
We would like to see . big and glori,
ous reunion of all the old Confederate
Veterans of this section to find out
WutGuCI VI uOU UutJ CuuOISC IudL ulOSU
mysterious and radical change of South
ern sentiment which is rejecting the gift
Of Confederate Homes and repudiating
the valor and patriotism of the brave
boys who fell at Cold Harbor, Malvern
Hill, Charlottesville, Gettysburg, Fort
Fisher and elsewhere. Surely we are
living in perilous times and we must be
on the eve of some mighty revolution
which is going to effect not merely the
United States but the nations Of the
earth.-A Veteran IN Lumberton Robe
sOnldn.
The corn pone is cooked, eaten and
enjoyed no where in civilization but the
Southern States The early settlers
found the Indians using it and were
forced by necessity to try it. 1t came to
be the chief bread of the Southern slave
who learned to cook it to perfection. So
by necessity and custom it is eaten once
day at least in nearly every Southern
farm house. The corn pone when per-
fectly cooked and catch while hot is the
most delectable and wholesome of all
breads. 1t takes an artist to cook it, but
the old "black mammies" of slavery were
SUCH 1t is used but little in the towns
anu at Ine nOIelS now, because so many
Of the cooks who have been imported do
not understand its preparation. The
great virtues of this bread are to be found
in it's contribution to bone and teeth
structure and preservation and to brain
FIBRE Chronicle.
MODEL FARMING.-Not many days ago
we made another pleasant visit to the
splendid farm of Mr. J. B. Yellowley, just
below town, and enjoyed a feast Of de.
licious grapes He has large vineyard
in which are many of the very best varie
| ties of grapes. At this season he has the
Scuppernong, James, Meisch and Illium,
the latter a variety discovered and named
by his uncle, the late Col. E. G. Yellow.
| ley, the former owner Of the place which
he gave the same name. Besides grow
ing an abundance of fruits Mr.. Yellowley
is a strong believer in trucking and is
very successful in it. Last spring be
shipped from four acre patch nearly
10000 quarts of strawberries. He is
making a larger patch for next year. He
also has little more than an acre Of aspara
gus, now in its second year, and says next
spring he expects to sell 5000 worth oi
roots from that patch. Asparagus yields
a crop continuously every year for life
time if it is properly cultivated and is 6
| very Orofit hle opOp GroonajHo PoHoofor