The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-28
NORTH STATE NEWS.
Crisp Tar Heel Happenings from Ch.roke'
to Currituck.

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A Raleigh liquor dealer gave z'oW
pounds of flour TO the poor
A negro man was found frozen at Tar
boro and a negro child met sihhIar id'e
In Charlotte recently
The birds and rabbits are reported as
frozen in considerable number all over
Northwestern Carolina
Mr. 7, Lockhart killed fine. white
deer near Weldon last week. 1t was the
frst white deer ever seen in this portion
of the State.
A Wilmington paper says: 1.-THE snow
and ice have at last vanished and we hope
that the places which have known them
hereabouts will know them no more for
ever this season"
A little boy about three years old, son
of Jesse Gasky, living near Salisbury,
WAS so badly burned last Friday as to
cause his death IN few hours after
wards
A fire in Dunn last Tuesday night de-
stroyed the entire turpentine cistlllery
of Mr. William Culbreth. consisting OF two
stills and about fifty barrels OF turpen-
tine and rosin. Origin of the fire UNI
known.
q day and a half Raleigh laid down at
the doors OF her unfortunates and needy
$500 in cash ard provisions and fuel
enough to supply a small army
An old colored woman, by the name of
Banner. was buried at Boonville tuesday.
She had reached the extraordinary age OF
one hundred and fourteen years. Her
husband. who survives her, is one hun
dred and seven years old.
There is a woman of fifty-ive years
I'm Concord. who has never had the tooth
OH ri a
ever been forced to call in a doctor but
once.
Mr.. Barlow has introduced resolution
In the House requesting our Senators
and Representatives in Congress TO urge
the passage Of an act TO purchase tract
of land twelve miles square. to be set
apart as a national reservation.
Walter Doub. a lad living near Seward,
Forsyth county, killed 2l2 rabbits during
the late snow in that section. and it has
not been a good snow for hunting, either.
Thermometers whereabouts have been re-
gisterng this week five and six degrees
below zero.
Gold and silver fish at New Berne are
under ice several inches thick, but they
appear TO have "stood the storm all
right thus far. A section of the ice has
been cut out repeatedly, but of course it
would freeze over again every night.
A negro baby died Friday night in
Salisbury, and, its parents being desti-
tute. IL was buried by charitable people.
A number OF idle negroes were asked
Saturday TO go down and assist in pre-
pairing the dead child for burial, but they
turned indifferently away.
]. ]. Bell. one OF that st-disappearing
class. the old stage drivers. died in Sails
bury at the age of eighty nine years.
He. is said TO have first applied brakes
10 stage wheels, but let some one take his
invention away from him by neglecting
TO secure a patent
Mr.. Lonny Hatch, the newly-elected
treasurer of Chatham county, was found
lying dead in the road near his home
last Thursday week. with one hand
clutching his chest. The Record says
there is no suspicion Of foul play but IL
is believed that he died of heart disease,
as his father did before him
Governor Carr on the 22d made re-
QUESTION on the Governor Of Georgia for
John Hoskins (colored. who is In Jail
in Brunswick. AT the noted riot at Ply
mouth twelve months ago Hoskins was
one OF the ringleaders. and on the main
street of the town murdered Mac Butler
with cart round. Since then Hoslins
has been an outlaw.
Petitions from North Carolina with 5000
signatures against opening the Chicago
Fair on Sundays were presented by Rep
resentative Lodge. OF Massachusetts,, and
the Post says: at is not understood why
the North Carolinians should have Sc
lected Mr.. Lodge as their vehicle unless
they think that neither Senator Vance
nor Senator Ransom is Cody
John Smith and William Richards live
at Stanly Creek. near Charlotte. From
one cause and another bad feeling has
existed between the two men for some
time. Thursday the luminosity culmi-
mated In bloodshed. Richards was shot
by Smith and probably fatally wounded
The latter claimed that Richards was
trespassing on his place. and taking his
shotgun he went out in the field anc
shot him.
Birds hunters are doomed to disap
pointment after this weather breaks. III
our exchanges we notice that birds are
freezing gentleman Saturday said III
found two coveys frozen near town. They
can get nothing TO eat. and are dyine
from starvation as well as cold In 81
the same thing happened. and cartridges
were thinned out. Numbers OF farmers
are feeding them and trying TO keep then
from freezing. but II is hard work.
The iong-continued bad spell of weather
has played havoc with the trade in West
ern North Carolina. The farmers are un
able to take their produce TO market. and
this has caused the merchants 10 squirm
as their bills fall due about this time
In the tobacco section this state of affairs
is worse than other sections of the State
Ereadstuff Is going way up; bacon I:
higher than II has been for years, ant
the state of the weather Is such that the
farmers cannot haul their tobacco tC
market. The thaw will be hailed viii
delight by the merchants as well as the