The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-07-06
NORTH STATE NE us.
Crisp Tar Heel Happenings from Cherokee
to Currituck.

The Fayetteville burglars, In jail al
that place, refuse to give their names.
At public sale at Rockingham last
Thursday the stock of the wrecked Bank
OF New Hanover brought SlS per share OF
SIS.
Mrs. William Stike. Of Ashe. committed
suicide on the 10Th by hanging herself to
a loom in a school house in which she
and her husband lived.
The Wilmington and Weldon railroad
has decided not TO pay its regular July
dividend because Of having to pay heavy
back taxes to the State.
Trains are expected &c run between
Wilmington and New Berne on the VII
miugton, New Berne and Norfolk railroad
NEARLY completed in August
In the death Of Mr.. Lot owens, Of
Clinton. on Thursday, June 22d, the
county lost one Of its ancient landmarks.
He died of heart trouble At the advanced
age Of eighty-seven.
Wilkes is famous for It's apples and
II is said that there is an apple tree In
the county that is one hundred years old
and that measures twelve feet around
the trunk.
A big enterprise is soon TO be organ
Ted at Kings Mountain. The capital
stock will be 100000, and the company
will develop the mineral resources Of the
county and make things hum.
State Treasurer Tate says the State
had Sl5, 900 in the suspended Bank of
New Hanover. and adds that the de-
positois will get 50 to 60 cents 'on the
dollar and the stockholders nothing.
Colonel r. G. Mitchell. Of Edenton.
who Is a cousin Of the great actor, Ed
win Booth. who recently died in New
York. was handsomely remembered in
the latter's viii. the amount being $4,000.
The Charlotte Observer regrets that
North Carolina IS unwittingly RESPONSE
bic for the pardon Of the Anarchists.
I'ielden, Schwab and Neebe. II Cow
ernor Altgeld hadn't gone 20 Asheville TO
recuperate his lost health ne would have
died, they say.
Charles Hairston (colored. who cut
the throat OF and killed a negro by the
name Of Sam BerIier at Elbaville. Davie
county. some two weeks ago, has been
captured. Hairston was attending
meeting when the sheriff nabbed him.
Harvest is over, and wheat has been
saved I'm nice condition. With few
exception the reports received about
the crops are all good. Unless damage
comes to II while on the shock the wheat
threshed this year will be of high
grade.
IT is stated by gentleman who
generally knows what he is talking about,
and who is always careful in his state
ments, that if Congress were in session
now Senator Ransom would vote for the
repeal Of the Sherman silver purchase
act and Senator Vance against IT.
Dolly" Gillespie (colored) was taken
| from his house near Hope Mills by some
white and colored men recently and
| given a thrashng for having blown"
on certain gall berry stil" in that
noighborhood. Warrants have been
sworn out for several Of the offenders.
The United States Cigarette Machine
| and Tobacco Company was organized in
Fayetteville Monday by the election OF
| Captain n. w. Ray. president; J. b..
Underwood, Vice-president. and Or. j..
| w. Mcneil. secretary and treasurer. The
capital stock OF the new concern is $780,
| 90 IL will fight the American Tobacco
| Company.
Bladen county can with impunty now
| complain Of hard luck. A short time ago
| the courthouse at Etzabethtown was
| destroyed by fire, and 10 remedy the
situation the commissioners issued and
sold bonds with which 10 rebuild their
temple of justice" depositing the money
| In the Bank of New Hanover only few
| days before the collapse.
At the residence Of Mr. George T..
| Fisher, Of Concord. lightning Thursday
evening struck n tree within ten feet OF
the house. Two little girls were under
! the tree AZ the time within four feet OF
the trunk. Mrs. Fisher was standing on
| tie porch. They were all stunned. Just
| how the little Fisher girls escaped death
| is truly miraculous. They appeared to
| be entirely over the shock after several
| hours.
George Green. Of Pamlico county. has
! committed suicide under peculiar circum-
| stances. His wife died and he refused
| 10 allow any one 10 see her body. Her
| body was dislntcrred and finger marks
| on her thr, ~ showed that she had been
| Choked TO death All the evidence was
| against Green, and the jury declare !
| him her murderer When a posse went
| after him II was found that he had blown
| out his brains with a shotgun.
| State Geoiogist Holmes has made his
| report 10 the Governor IL is a careful
summary OF the work OF the survey.
| Professor Holmes is examining the claws
| OF Harnett, and the sandstones OF Moore,