The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-11-10
STATE NEWS.
THE DOINGS OF OUR PEOPLE
BRIEFLY AND Plainly TOLD.
HApPREISGs OF THE WEEK Cox
DENSED.

Henry Rogers has been outlawcd
by commission Of the magistrates
OF Durham county. He Is burg
lar and 4 very desperate man. He
Is hiding in the woods near Durham.
-Er.
The Statesvile Landmark has le
ceived from Prof. ". l.. hicho loon
Of Mooresyille, Il ripe cherry pluck
cd from tree on the farm of DR..
W. b. Mott, near Nooresville, on the
22d.-E1.
Mr. Mike Rufty Of Catawa, an un-
Gle of Mr.. D. G. Rufty Of StateSville
has sold, to parties in Candada,
gold mine that be discovered Oh his
place about two years ago.--States-
Vile Landmark.
News from Chape! Hill brings
the sad announcement of the death
at that place Of DR.. J. L. Morgan.
DR.. Morgan WIS prominent III hi.
profession and popular with ali
classes. s.-Durhafu GloJe.
The Winston Chamber Of Com
merce has adopted resolutions ask
ing the State Legislature and Con
gress to favor the establishment of a
national park in Nestern North Car
olina as projected by editor Burbank.
-Ex.
There is glut Of cotton at the
Raleigh compresSes and the railways
have really more thar they can handle
Hundreds Of can loads are there and
Hamlet waiting Oh the compresses.
Gotten is icing marketed very rapid
ly.--R1.
News comes to us that last week Il
colored man was found near the
bridge across Fiehing creek in al
most senseless condition. He was
able to tell that some one had beaten
him. He was taken up and soon
afterwards he died.-Ez
Killing frosts occurred in this
city and section last week. Early
risers report that the ground 10 oked
as if covered with light snow. At
Griffith's ice was reported; also
heavy frosts at Crab Orchard. The
tomato vines are thing of the past.
-Charlotte Observer.
Farmers in;Wake county say nearly
all the cotton has been picked. 1t
is being put OH the market rapidly,
2s the farmers do not believe there
will be rise in the price. Never
has crop been put on the market SO
early in the season and SO rapidly. 1t
is the slightest crop in many years.
Er.
Mrs. r. r. Cotton, of the Worlds
Fair Commission, is now at Wash
ington. ID. c., having desk made
out of the wood of various trees
found at the place where Sir Walter
Raleigh's colony landed on Roanoke
Island. This desk will be in the
Virginia Dare Memorial building at
the Worlds Fair. That will be the
name Of the North Carolina build
ing.-En.
Sunday about o'clock Mr. T. Z.
Whithead discovered that something
Was burning at the depot. lie and
Mr.. l. N. Pittman hurried down
and found several bales of cotton on
fire near the corner Of the ware
house and very near u car loaded
with cotton. They succeeded in
stopping it, but u little delay would
have caused u big fire. 1t was thought
one dropped fire there from cigar
or u cigarette.-Scotland Neck Dem
Otrat.
We notice III last weeks papers
an account of banquet given at
the Carrollton Hotel i'll Baltimore
by the North Carolina students of
the John Hopkins University, in
which the name of Mr.. JAS Il. Prid
gen, of this place, appears iii the list
of Carolina students. After the sup
per committee va. appointed to cf-
feet y permanent organization Of
the Caroliniaus at Hopkins. s.-kin-
ston Free Press.
Mr.. U. G. Singleton has presented
US With l. bunch of beautiful red
June apple. from L secoad crop on
the same tree.......Sessral porroise
have been seen this week in the river
opposite the town. tbs rare to see
them SO far from the sound. .... Ar.
". 5. Burbank has placed on our
table ! potato vine tnat has two Va
rieties Of potatoes, entirely different
on the same root. Col. Mccarthy
has built we'll at Fairfield more
than 200 feet deep, and We hear
that water has been found IS good Il;
there is in the State. .J. t. Wynne
4 Co, bought 10000 pounds Of fish
in two days for shipment. Other
! firms also made purchases. The fish
business is quite All item here
/ Warrington Gazette.
Our Enfield correspondent writes
that colored man by the name of
Hale Wilkins, who was about thirty
years old, Was murdered near Enfield
last week. The facts were these:
Wilkins lived in ..Endeld township,
but was ut worl. at Whitakes. He
returned to Enfield Saturday night
, but was decoyed back. He WIS
. found nearly dead Sunday morning
short distance from the railroad In
Nash county. He said four negroe,
, jumped on him, choking and stab,
t bing him with knife. They then
f examined his pockets for money and
y one OF then said. eve have played
{ HI, We killed the negro but did
e not get anything" He was taken
' to Enfield but died on The way. Nr.