The state chronicle., 1891-09-04

OuTTlCuCk COuuCJ udS3 IAC A|COvO-
mist says, an eight-year-old boy who
weighs 200 pounds. Here is a
chance for some enterprising show
man.
A colored boy shot at Conductor
Horne near Rocky Mount. He was
stealing a ride and Conductor Horne
put him off. A telegram was sent
back and he was arrested.
Crop prospects, in Rowan espe-
cially for the cotton crop, are poorer
now than they have been in years.
The rains of last week followed by
the cold snap have done great dam
age the Herald says.
A dozen or more road scrapers
and other pieces of machinery have
arrived at Asheville drawn by mules
from Bristol, which will be used in
grading streets and the roads through
the Vanderbilt estate.
A diamond drill is being put in
position at Walnut Cove and work
will commence at once boring for
oil. The Danbury Reporter says it
is proposed to make a bore between
Walnut Cove and Stokesburg 500
feet deep.
The Greensboro Record says that
the board have considered insuffi-
cient the offers made for the Color
ed A. and M. College, and have
voted to give until October 10Th, an
opportunity to towns competing and
others to increase their bids, as a
delay was asked by some owns"
The CHRONICLE has been favored
with a complimentary ticket-to the
eighteenth annual Goldsboro fair,
which will be- held earlier this
year-September 15th-17:h. DR..
W. E. Robinson is president and
T. H. Balm is secretary and treas
ury of the fair association. 1t prom
ises to be successful exhibit.
The receipts of cotton, by wagon,
at the Charlotte market for, the
year ending August 31st, were
25,710 bales. The receipts from
the same source for the year end
ing August 3lst, 1890, the News
says,were 1S,457 bales, against this
year of 1858 bales. The receipts
for the year ending August 3lst.
1899, were 22,189 bales, and fo1
the year ending August 31st, 1888
y, ,0O2 bales.
A reunion Of Confederate vete
rams Of Mecklenburg, Iredell
Rowan, Stanly, Cabarrus ant
Union counties will be held in Con
cord on September 10Th, the frs
day of the fair. Rev. D.. q. NJ
Payne (an old soldier) will deliver
| the address Of welcome and the ad
dress OF the Association will be de
livered by kev. DR.. Bays. Mr.. j
z. Willeford is president Of TIL
Association, and Mr.. d. A. Cald
well will act as marshal.
A lengthy case was taken u
Wednesday morning at Roxbor
court; that Of Alex. Blackwell, &C
ministrator of Reuben Blackwell vs
Lynchburg and Durham Railroa
and Norman & Co., sub-contrat
tors. It was a suit for damages
for the killing Of Reuben by a bias
o and $4,000 were claimed. Upo
= tn evidence the judge instructed th
jury to bring in a verdict for tn
railway, as the work was not bein
o done by the railroad but buildin
company. The jury failed to agre
and a mistrial was entered Saturda,
! A visit to the steel plant ground
. inspired the Greensboro Reco,
e with some idea of the vim wit
q which everything is being pushe'
SlXty-fOur cOnvicts are grading
" railroad and constructing a hue
!. basin, which will hold an unlimitt
J. supply of water. Many carpento
) are engaged upon the heavy framir
for the blast furnaces. The fo1
pits for tie foundations have be-
ie dug-the largest filled to the lev
IS of the ground with concrete al
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