Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-06-24

Durham county commissioners
have decided to clothe their convicts
10 prison stripes.
Greensboro Record 1t is said ?.
H. Hanes d Co.'S. loss by the recent
fire in Winston will reach $4,000
over and above the insurance.
Chatham Record Mr.. ]. NJ. Wat
SOD, the mail carrier between this
place and Chapel H,lI, says tina, since
he has been carrying the mail he has
travelled a little over 10000 miles
a distance nearly five times around
the Globe.
Wilmington Messenger: The State
chemist no longer makes analysis of
the stomachs OF persons in cases
where death is supected to have
been due to poison, SO the analysis
of the stomach Of R.. l.. Rycroft, OF
Granville county, is being made at
Trinity college.
DR.. 3. F. Arendell died at his
home in Morehead CITY recently.
He had served in the legislature,
was prominent in the organization of
the Atlantic and NORTH Carolina
railroad, and vas in every way a
prominent man. The Newbern
Journal says he was in his 18th year.
Raleigh Evening Visitor LIE, all
our people who have relics of the
revolution, the war of 1912, or the
late war, send them to the North
Carolina Antiquity Society. Per
haps there are some colonial records
ex'ant. They should be cent also
Let the collection be large SO thai
cid North Carolina may be remem
, bered.
g Greensboro Record Here is AT
other loud call tor a county convic
I system. Eli Richardson, who wa
), convicted of a misdemeanor las
week in court, was hired ont to
S farmer, Mr.. Gus Voss, TO work on
j. his fire. Eli went home with bin
y bnt the work did not suit h,m and h
lett, coming back to the Jail las
night whe:e be said he had father re
main than work. There is no Law
e to keep him on Voss'\ farm. Their
!. is nothing TO do but feed him, an
n the county too,s the bill.
Warrenton Record With 265,64
; acres of land in the county, all Q
. which is capable of being c~ul,ivate'
and which, it properly cultivated
a would be very productive, we bay
a white population of only $3.50
u -While there is a scarcity Q
money in the country, the condi,io'
b Of our people is better than it ha
: been tor many years, Our marke
e is now, and has been for some tim
fully supplied with good home cure,
V bacon, which we have not known I,
be the case before in years. We ar
gradually learning and will get Their
after awhile.
The Raleigh News and Observe
OF June 18th says We regret ,
hear OF a lamentab!e occurrence a
Hobgood between a little son q
Isaac Sugg Esq of Greeneville,
news boy on the Scotland Neck roae
and a boy named James a ncwsbo
> on the Norfolk and Carolina. The
were about fourteen years of age
Some words passed between Their
at Hobgood Wednesday afternoon
and young James cursed Sugg, VIII
pulled out his knife and stuck hir
q in the side. Thursday night voun
James died. The friends of youn
Sugg are very much distressed abou
it.
S,atesville Landmark We have
good deal Of hope upon the set,l,
ment ofAcolony of Waldenses
,r Burke. These people are imm
grants of the most-esirable typ
S They are no, paupe rs nor dypam
tiers, bnt are land-buyers, law.abi'
ing and religious, 1t is to be hope
er this advance guard will be statistic
and that others OF their kind W
CT tollowthem. The Wa,denses Chur,
in the Co,,ian Alps has, it is state
a total membership OF $4,000. The
lands ara c,or,ia oni .bo;