The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-16
NORTH STATE NEWS.
Crisp Tar Heel Happenings from Cherokee
to Currituck.

Tarboro is to have an artesian well
water supply
A Northern gentleman has laid of
a twenty-acre chicken farm near Hamlet.
Richmond county Jail confirms nineteen
prisoners, several held on murder charges.
Fifty-two people have lately gone in a
party from Burke county To Kansas.
In May Raleigh will eject new aldermen
and vote on the issue Of $4,000 OF i'm
provement bonds.
The bar Of Charlotte has unanimously
Endorsed Colonel II. c. Jones for United
States district attorney.
Three men are soon TO leave AsheviIie
in a boat ~ their way TO the World s
Fair. The boat is ready.
James II. Quarles. former North Caro-
lima journalist, was fatally hurt in Waco,
Tex. by drunken cattleman.
Major Robbins will now try for the
Havana consul generalship, the salary
of which is 5000.
Rev. w. y. oliver. late of Fayetteville,
will begin his pastOrate OF the First Bap-
list church OF Wilmington this week.
Ex-Judge William +. Bynum. who has
for many years lived in Charlotte, will
this week move TO his native county Of
Stokes.
Mrs. W c. Whitfield. matron Of the odd
Fellows Orphanage, Godsboro, and wife
Of Or. Whitfield, the superintendent, died
Saturday.
DR.. Wesley w. Young. a well-known
and poplar physician of Henderson, Vance
county. died Saturday morning Of -heu-
natlsm OF the heart.
Mr.. Moody's meetings at Wilmington
will be held in one OF the great compart-
warehouse, which will seat 5000 people.
Ninety-two Of the students Of David
son College are working two hours
day on a dam for a lake there, on which
they will place some handsome boats.
Wallace. Graham and Charson. the
three white men who robbed a train near
Wilmington, after hearing in Columbus
county, are In Jail at Whiteville.
few days ago Mr. Forneyduval, OF
Brunswick county, was bitten on the hand
by rattlesnake which was hidden be-
hind some logs. a prompt and liberal
use of whisky saved his life
MIR. w G.. Burkhead, chief clerk Of the
Senate, having just completed all the
legislative work, left Raleigh Monday to
return TO his home at Whitevile.
The extensive fibre works at Riverdale,
on Neuse river. a few miles below New
Berne. are again to be put in operation,
with much new machinery. For several
years they have been idle.
Rev. DR.. w. S. Black superintendent
Of the oxford Orphan Asylum, has been
appointed 10 the pastOrate of the oxford
Methodist church. in the place Of DR..
Gordon, who died about three weeks ago.
The $4,000 appropriated for the com
pletion of the deaf and dumb school at
Morganton, with the amounts already
expended will make the building cost
100000. The grounds embrace over two
hundred acres.
II is alleged that some hogs bitten by
mad dogs in Wake county have been
killed and sailed down by their owners
The State Chronicle suggests that the
matter ought to be investigated. for the
safety of the people and the honor OF the
hog owners.
The marshals for commencement at
Wake Forest ara as Follows: Euzeiian
Society, W. II. Jones. d. r. Britton and
S. l.. Suttlemyre; Philomathesian Society.
J. L. Yates. T. 3. Lambeth and +. II.
Crudup. The field day" for the college
athletics is April 18th
The Charlotte Observer says that a
letter in the Charlotte postotiice addressed
to Hon. Grover Cleveland. Washington,
ID. c., care of Hoke Smith. Secretary Of
the Interior" is held for postage. 1t was
dropped in the Office March Sth minus a
stamp. Cleveland has been notified.
The Railroad Commission has COM
pleted the computation of the taxable
value OF the property Of the Wilmington
and Weldon railway under the new law.
IL is found that the value OF the property
subject to State tax is Sll.04i,OO0, and OF
that subject TO county and municipal
taxation 100000. The State tax Is si7,-
900.