The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-02
NORTH STATE NEWS.
Crisp Tar Heel Happenings from Cherokee
to Currituck.


II ia reported that Congressman Bower
is 10 be married before President Cleve-
lands Inauguration.
The settlement of the Wilmington and
Weldon railroad matters has been re-
ceived with satisfaction by the people OF
the State.
There are several Norman preachers
operating In Durham. IL Is SAID that
efforts will be made to rout them' as
they are propagatlng bigamy.
Two children at Enochville were bitten
bv a mad dog this week and were ear
ried 10 Charlotte to have the MAD STONE
applied to their wounds.
The rumpus over the Buford House IN
Charlotte is still on. and IS getting warmer
each day. Captain Clarke has instituted
proceedings to place the house In tile
hands of a receiver.
The versatile and inimtable Henry
Rlount. editor OF the Wilson Mirror, which
holds place that is peculiarly sui gen iris
in the Journalism not only OF the State
but the nation, has contracted for Sc
rles Of lectures. and will open up at Flor
ence. 5. c., on Thursday night Of this
week.
A dispatch from Washington, n. c..
saws: Ex-Supreme Court Judge w. B.
Rodman is lingering at deaths door. He
has been confined 10 his room less than
one week. Judge Rodnan was he ablest
Judge on the supreme bench under Repno-
lican rule. and has ever been known for
his sincerity and superior kno Wedge or
the law.
Davids n Colleges artificial AXE, Thich
Is A certainty of the near future. IS abO II
. IL. a..1 a trln
IN back of the main college building. It
viii cover almost fourteen 1cres. \ small
creek flows into 1t, furnishing a continual
stream at all times II is surrounded by
about sixteen acres. which will be turned
into a park some time in the near future.
A new cOtton-factory company was
formed at Gastonia last week. The com
pany Is to have a capital stock of So
600 $50 600 OF which has been subscribed
and paid The organization has been COM
pleted with G.. w. Raglan, president and
T. c. pegram secretary and treasurer
The mill will be called the Windsor and
is expected to be in operation by the LIST
Of November.
Some time during last Sunday or Sun
day night the Concord postoffice was en-
tered by young boy about twelve years
old, who lives IN tine upper part of the
town, and is of respectable family. The
boy charged with the olfense. on being
questioned, confessed his guilt, and told
how the robbery was committed-by
punching out the glass fronts and rining
the boxes.
The Summit gold mine, Of Randolph
county. situated between High Point and
Thomasyille, which embraces so acres.
owned By Messrs. Edwards, Newly and
others. was sold last Tuesday morning 10
gentlemen from West Pennsylvania. The
Summit Mining and Reduction Company
was organized at once composed or rer-
sons in and ont Of the state.
II is possible that Chatham will soon
have another cotton factory, in addition
10 the one proposed TO be built at Lock-
vile. II is probable that a factory ere
long viii be built at Moore's mill, on
Haw river. The water power at that
place is very fine and can be used with
very little expense Recently Mr.. Law
renee Holt. Of Aiamance county, Was there
and rode out Ia examine that place with
a view of building a factory there.