The state chronicle., 1892-04-29
State News.


will he very short as we'll as late in ma
turing.
The working men of Wilmington have
orpanzed a league for mutual protection
and benefit.
Tobacco plants in Alan ance have been
badly hurt by the wet weather and
shortage is feared.
The North Carolina synod of the Lu-
theran church met yesterday at St.
Pauls, Rowan county.
A large and fast steamer will run be-
tween Elizabeth City and Nag's Head
during the coming season.
There seems to be a regular epidemic
Of diptheria in Davidson county, the
Lexington Dispatch says.
salem female academy has now $50
pupils. Prof. Winston delivers the COM
mencement address May Goth.
A protracted meeting commenced in
st. Paul's M. E. church Sunday, under
the conduct of the pastor Rev. B. r.
Hall.
Negotiations are nearly completed for
the location Of a S75, 900 bark extract
works at North Wilkesboro, the News
reports.
The corner stone of the new Rowan
Catholic church at Belmont, CASTOR
county, will be laid with imposing cere-
monies.
The negro Charles Blackman, who so
brutaly murdered his wife in Green's
boro April 10, is now in the Lexington
Jail for safe keeping.
There are fourteen saw mills within
ten miles of North Wilkesboro and lum
ber is supplied to builders at from 65 to
IS cents per hundred feet.
At the recent meeting of Fayetteville
Presbytery it was resolved" to establish
two schools, one ror boys and one fol
girls, in the Presbytery.
The hotel Zinzendorf at Winston will
be opened in few days. E. S. Bos
well, Of New York, will be manager
He will have white and not colored help
Mr.. B. L. Duke, of Durham, ha,
purchased one-fourth interest in Mr.
Ashford's new invention of converting
sawdust into blocks for kindling pur
poses.
The commissioners Of Oxford canno
settle the Oxford & Coast Line ralroaC
bond question. The matter will be take1
to the courts and decided there, the Da
reports.
1t is probnble the G. F. & Y. V
railway shops will be built at Fayette
vile during the summer hTe estimate,
coast is $4,000, and they will cove
cbout 30 acres of ground.
The Lumberton Robeonian believes
is now generally conceded that tn
sale Of the Chadbourn road to the A,
lantic coast Line destroys the last vestig
Of hope of the extension of the road t
Lumberton.
4 company is building creamery 8
Rockwell, Rowan county. 1t will b
ready for operations in ninety days. Th
factory will consume the milk produt
Of GOO cows, making 200 pounds each {
butter and cheese daily.
The receipts Of the Fayetteville pos
Office last year were $4,000, so the tow
will get the free delivery system, in spit
Of the L. s. Postal census, which gay
the town 1000 less people than a scho,
census taken Immediately after wards.
The Pittsboro Record hears that
white girl only twelve years old W,
married in Chatham county few da,
ago. The law of North Carolina e,
pressly declares that the marriage of
female under fourteen years of age
void.
At the Democratic ward meetings
Wilmington there were presented res
lutions requesting that hereafter
Democrat stand on a Republicans boz
for any Office. If this rule had be-
carried out the county of New Hanov
would to-day have a Democratic tres
urer, the Messenger says.
The cost of the trial of John G Da,
to New Hanover county is nearly 80, 0(
Judge Winston has ordered the transi
of Davis from the county Jail to the
sane asylum at Raleigh. The sheriff b
written to superintendent Wood and
certained if Davis can be admitted, a
will n the meantime keep him in Gle
confinement.
The revenue officers are working ir
lively way in Wilkes county. Last we
they seized four distilleries, and tn
have Just seized the distilleries Of Hu
man, John Hays Triplett, Geor
Brown, Millard Brown and perhs
others. The Wilkesboro Chronicle 81
that at the present rate Of seizures ev'
distillery in the county will b. forfeit
inside Of six months.
AT Laurel Hill, Richmond county,
John Lockauy met his death few d
500 under distressing circumstances.
and friend named Tyson were pie
autly chatting, when Tyson who hae
rife in his hand, placed the gun on
ground The rife was discharged
the bullet entering Lockany's face Z
the eve came out at the top OF his he
The Exchange says death resulted i
tew moments.
The directors Of the Morganton no
taI for the insane, inebriates, ETC.,
Ilsh a statement in which they say
The building was originally designed
accommodate four hundred and fifty
uents comfortably, but is now crow
with more than five hundred. BY s.
special economies in the way of expe
lures during the past few years the
pacity Of the hospital is being increa
about sixty beds for women, which