The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-22
NORTH STATE NEWS.
Crisp Tar Heel Happenings from Charokee
to C~urrituck.

Mad dog reports are rife in the western
section Of the State.
The New Berne fair began Monday.
10Th instant, and will continue throughout
the week.
The Governors Guard, OF Raleigh. will
attend the Inauguration as escort to the
Governor and STAFF.
A bill is now pending before the General
Assembly of North Carolina for the es-
adjustment of a State reformatory
school.
on last Saturday afternoon a young
man named Gus Hays shot and killed
himself in Spartanburg. He had been
drinking.
The Mount Airy Granite Company re-
Gently received an order for 5000 worth
Of granite, with a prospect of the order
being doubled
The fast mail train going South. when
near Kenly, Saturday night, ran over
and almost instantly killed a white mar
named Harry Davis, who was drunk and
asleep on the track.
The hfteen-months-old daughter OF Mr..
David l.. Langston. near Pinkney. was
seriously burned Tuesday. In the absence
Of her mother, she was playing about
the fire, when the accident occurred. Thu
child Is not expected to recover.
North Carolina farmers. it is said, were
never more %behindhand with their work.
In fact, thanks 10 rain and snow and bit
ter weather, nothing has been done on
the farms so far this year. No oats,
usually an important crop, have been
planted.
Hunters in the neighborhood Of Tar
boro say that the recent cold was not
fatal TO partridges in that section, but
that to small birds. doves and larks. it
was almost deadly. The partridges killed
now are as fat as Ii there had been no
frozen. snow-cOvered ground.
Arrangements have been concluded for
the erection of "A hrst-ciass hotel ut Win
ston. The work will be commenced early
In the spring. The finishing touches are
now being put on d fine hotel at Durham.
1t is owned by Colonel Julian S. Carr, a
wealthy and progressive citizen.
The barn OF j. w. Dew, in Caintuck
township, Fender county. was destroyed
by fire last week. together with a large
quantity OF forage. some farming imple-
ments, etc. A negro boy, who was en-
ployed on the farm. has been arrested,
charged with being the ~incendlary.
The committee on finance, having con-
Guided their work on the Revenue bill.
Saturday submitted it 20 the House. and
~ wac 1ChN ~ az IAAAANNAs IL PiONlQtc
for only twenty cents general tax. the
pension tax remaining at three cents.
and the school tax at fifteen cents, as at
present.
A mill stone al Stewart & Morrison's
mill, New Stirling. burst one day last
week while the mill was running at Ugh
speed, and one of the pieces, weighing
about forty pounds. hurled with terrific
force, struck a Mr.. Elliott on the head.
fracturing his skull. Mir. Elliott is not
expected 10 live.
Thursday night. March I'd, the drug
clerks OF the State will meet at Green's
boro for the purpose or organizing an as
ISOLATION TO maintain social. business
and personal relations, TO see the phar-
maceutieal law enforced in regard TO
non-regi3tered clerks filing prescriptions,
and 10 advance the standard of drug
clerks IN North Carolina, II to assist
all true pharmacists in raising the stand
ard OF the profession"
A heart-rending accident occurred at
Forest City, Cleveland county. Friday.
A number OF children were playing around
a planning mill there. when one of them.
Della Dean. aged ten years. sat down
upon a rapidly revolving shaft. Instantly
her clothing was caught on the shaft.
ara she was being whIrled around. When
me machinery was stopped the child was
round 10 have been beaten into a jelly:
every bone Ia her body was broken. Her
head struck the ground at every revoIu-
uon made by the shaft, and dug a hole
In the earth.