The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-10
NORTH STATE Ne US.
Crisp Tar Heel Happenings from Cherokee
to GurrIfuck

The board OF directors Of the peniten-
,iarv Is an entirely new one. Tho salary
of the superintendent Of the States prison
is $500.
Colonel Paul 3. Means, OF Concord, was
the escort OF Miss Stevenson. the VICE
Presidents daughter, at the inaugural IAN
in Washington.
The colored fremen of the State were
bv the last Legislature given relief fund
Of $500 a year. and will form State asso-
citation.
About So 900 has been already subscribed
towards the capital stock Of the proposed
cotton mills at China Grove. The amount
required for the success of the venture is
$4,000.
The people Of the county Of Montgomery
arc very much excited ovec the discovery
Of a very rich gold mine. The mine Is To-
Gated on the property Of Jones Cotton
It is learned that a compromise will be
made soon so that MrDougAlds lawyers
will succeed in collecting 5000 insurance
money or the life " Simeon Connolly, for
the murder OF whom McDousald was tried
and acquitted.
Mr.. Lawrence Holt and his brother-iu-
law, Mr.. Grant. Of Alamance county. nave
been examining the Water-power Of Haw
river at several places i'm the vicinity or
Chatham. with view of building a cot
ton factory at the most eligible point.
Jethro Spivey. well-known colored
man in Providence. Pasquo:ank county.
and. doubtless. the eldest person in East
ern North Carolina. died on the nth in
slant, aged one hundred and ten years.
Irish POTATOES are so scarce and high
this year that We fear some difficulty will
be experienced in getting seed potatoes.
The Northern potatoes are So high that
none OF our merchants are deddling in
them
Mr. Charles Franklin. reputed % be an
old offender at blockading. was arrested
Sunday night by II. W Jones. deputy
marshal. ard placed in the Hickory Jail
but Monday night the jail was broken
open and Franklin with another prisoner
escaped.
A few nights ago. as Thomas Burgin
was sitting in his house. in the Mills River
section OF Henderson county, some I'M
known person attempted 10 assassinate
him by shooting 1T him through a win
dow Burgin's legs were filled with shot
and he is in "A serious condition.
Rozetta Hinton, a colored woman living
near Princeton. Johnston county, was ii
grandmother before she was twenty-seven
years old She was under thirteen when
her daughter was born, and this daughter
became mother before she WAS four
teen.
Edmond Cole. Of Fork township. Wayne
county. is eighty-fve years Of age and his
youngest child is less than one month old.
His first wife's six children are all dead.
His present wife's five children are all
younger than two OF whom he is the great
grandfather.
Mrs. Levi Higgins. OF Henderson
county, was standing I'm front OF the fire
with her -yearold infant I'm her arms.
The child knocked from the mantelpiece
a bottel OF turpentine and il fell I'm the
fire and ignted. The chiid's clothing
caught and it was so burned that 1t died
and the mother was so burned that her
condition Is yet critical
Mr.. Robert J. Ange OF Craven county,
With his family consisting Of wife and
three children, whose ages range from six
months 10 twelve years. and Mr. r.. r.
Ilriggs and family OF wife and four small
children. were, in truth and reality, burned
ont Of house and home recently--nOt a
vastige q clothing or furniture having
been saved from the savage fam IS.
Even the hat aud shoes Of Mr.. Briggs
we're lost. the baby'G day clothing, shoes
and stockings.
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