The state chronicle., 1892-06-15
Ihe State Chronicle
WEDNESDAY. Jnno15 1000
STATE NEWS.

posed at Aulander.
A. II. Watson has started a candy
factory at Fayetteville.
u. Z. Edwards is reported as erect.
ing a leaf tobacco factory at Winston.
d. M. Rigler will, it is stated mt
new machinery in the Charlotte steam
laundry.
Lynchburg (Va.,) parties are re-
ported as to erect tobacco stemmerv
in Tarboro.
1t is proposed to organize $780,.
ooo stock company for the establish
ment OF cotton mill at Statesville.
Contract will probably soon be
awarded for the erection of brick
building for St. .James's church at
Wilmington.
lhe Winston "Blue Sluggers" have
Withdrawn from the South Atlantic
League, owing to the bad financial
condition of the club.
The acreage in sweet potatoes has
been largely increased; the crop will
be the most abundant in many years.
The average is S5 per cent.
The highest point around Oxford
is Bowling Mountain, in southern
Granville. 1t is about eight hundred
feet above the level of the sea.
Charlotte's Naval Battalion are in
Norfolk this week where they are
drilled on the boats. Forty men were
IN ranks. One has been drowned.
There were several suspicious
characters of Richmond county in
Rockingham Saturday, but no attempt
was made to organize third party
meeting, it is said.
AT meeting Of the executive
committee of the University last Sat
urday 1t was ordered that work begin
at once to put in plant for water
works and electric lights at the Uni
versity.
Lowland rice looks beautiful and a
promising crop is expected. Upland
rice looks well but not as good as the
same season last year. Acreage
somewhat increased. 1t is reported
at S455.
Peter Dederichs, of Detroit, Mich,
has prepared plans for the erection Of
brick church at St. Mary's College.
Bishop Leo Haid will erect three
story frame school building lOx37 feet
and two asylum buildings.
The transplanting of tobacco is com,
pIeted. The crop generally has a
good stand, with an increased acreage,
especially in the east and west. The
average is 94, being a small gain over
the condition of last month.
The third party meeting in Cabar-
rus amounted to nothing. Eight per-
sons were present only, and they were
appointed by the chairman on the diff
terent committees, delegates to the diff
terent conventions, &c. The chairman.
Watt Barringer, was member of the
late Democratic convention.
The people of Anson county, n. c.,
are very indignant at the news that
ID {. Hardin, postmaster at Morven,
is to be displaced and Mccain. negro
preacher, put in charge of office. The
people in the Morven section pub
llcly announce that they will boy
cot Mccain and do no business
through the office. They declare that
the postofiice department may as well
abolish the office as to put a negro in
charge OF it.
Great quantities of truck are now
leaving Newbern and the country
near. One day the Atlantic and n
Z. railroad carried about thirty car
loads and the steamer Neuse took out
1000 packages $4,000 barrels of
potatoes and $4,000 boxes of beans.
Saturday was still greater shipping
day, says ,he Journal. The steamer
Enola took out 1888 packages and the
railroad had by 90 per cent. the largest
shipment it has ever had in one day
since the trucking began.