Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-07-15
NORTH CAROLINA ITEMS.

were s52,616 -.
Over 2st 600 pounds of tobacco
was shipped las, week by the Black
we'll factory at Durham.
Oxford Ledger: Har-es. is over
and whea. hss been saved in q uice
condition. With q few exceptions
the reports we receive about the
crops are all good. Unless damage
comes TO it while On the shock the
wheat ,hreshed this year will be OF a
high grade.
Warrenton Record: The crop re-
port from all sections of the county
are very favorable. They are in
nice condition and promise we'll.
Another thing we note is, the farm
horses look better and are in better
condition than usual, showing that
the farmers have more corr in their
cribs than for years past.
; The official announcement is made
that tit,h.Street Methodist Episco-
pal church, at Wilmington, which j,
was for months thought would have
i TO be sold, is saved. There was
80 5000 due, a s~indler having de-
traudcd the church out of that sum.
Of this s15,230 has been paid and
bonds issued. OF $4,000 now due
$4,000 is in hard. Rev. DR.. L. /.
Nash, the pastor, has done noble
work TO ave the church.
New York World: North Caro-.
lima, the State Of peanuts, is coming
out of the kinks. +. =. Howell, of
the old North State, led the gradua.
ting class at West Point this year,
and w. i. 5egg was valedictorian
at Yale, and surpassed the highest
record for scholarship ever betorp
reached in that institution, which
vas obtained by Professor II. =.
Wright just twenty-five years ago
Ground Peas are perhaps superior
10 fish Or beans as brain food.
+, A young man aud a young lady
i, living near hester, have entered
: upon a very unusual plan to rails.
r money with which to buy their mar
riage license. The young lady la,
agreed TO pay halt the fee and thu
young man the other halt. The
young lady proposes to pick black
berries to raise her part OF the none
and the young man is hauling lum
Der to raise his part Of the cash
The Davie Times wishes them sue
I cess in their undertaking ard hope
tina. they will soon be able to splice
G Winston Republican The ordi
nance passed by the Board Of Alder
man prohibiting boys under IS year,
I OF age from roaming the streets a
! might is a good one and should b.
I enforced. a youngster will Sc.
I aud learn more devilment in one
hour roaming around, be it day OF
. night, than be will derive good in
month. Formcly in well regulated
homes such restrictions came under
parental authority, and fear of The
rod, not the police, kept the boys a
home. The sooner we fall back OF
some Of these old rules Of discipline
The better. Boys did not become
men and girls ladies as early in life
IS at the present day, and they were
better and happier fer it.
Newton Enterprise: One of the
customs of the Waldenses, who are
settling in Burke, is to require every
cufiu TO commit TO memory one book
III the Bible. Some learn one book
and some another. but they see TO i,
that all the books are stored away il,
the minds OF their people. This Gus
tom originated during their perseeu-
ton by the Catholics, when they
were compelled to take refuge ia
the most inaccessible Alpine fast
ncsses. The reason for this was tina.
II their enemies should succeed in
depr!vln- them Of the printed Bible
they could reproduce il from memo
r ~. Although there is no longer a
danger Of losing the Bible. they keep
up the custom, and it is said i, is as
r tonlshing how much Scripture the
little children know.
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