The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-28
NORTH STATE NEWS.
Crisp Tar Heel Happenings from CHI erok .
to Currituck.

The Postal Telegraph will at once ex-
tend It's line from Raleigh to Durham.
The Lincoln Courier thinks that Ste
yenson and Smith (Hokc) would sound
about right for a national ticket in 1896.
s. d. Chichester and son have bought the
Grand Central property at Asheville from
the Reynolds estate for $3i, 900.
Robson county is now a dry county.
and at the same time one OF the most
prosperous counties in the State.
A brownsville colored woman in thirty
six years old, has been married eighteen
years, and has given birth to eighteen
children.
Mrs VIII Whitfield, of Durham, dropped
dead Thursday afternoon. She was TWEEN
ty years old. had been married year.
and leaves an infant.
There is a rumor that the Seaboard
Air Line will at an early day put on
through train from Portsmouth, Va, to
Atlanta, Ga, to make the run in seven
teen and one-half hours
The sheriff OF Burke county has sold
the Southern and Western Air Line rail-
road. between Morganton and Shelby 10
satisfy $500 judgment.
on the State farm, near Castle Hayne.
a great quantity of peanuts was the crop
last season. Now the conyicts are pre-
pairing the ground for the same crop.
About Midnight Wednesday night the
saw mill Of the New Berne Lumber Com
pany caught fire and was destroyed, en-
failing a loss of 5000, with only partial
insurance.
f. p. Tate and a party OF engineers
are surveying a railroad line for the Cald-
well Lumber Company from Lenoir to
oraafx md from Wilson creek
to Morganton.
wagon load OF eighty gallons OF moon
shine whisky was brought into a neigh
borhood in No. 10 township, Cleveland
county, one night week before last, and
I'm two hours the whole load had beeen re-
tailed out.
II Is reported that oxford Is going TO
reduce her municipal expenses another
wear very greatly. II is proposed TO have
only one man on the police force, and TO
place the mayors salary at ten dollars
per month.
Secretary Eugene G.. Harrell. OF the
North Carolina Teachers Assembly has
had up TO date 400 applications TO join the
teachers excursionists who will go TO
Chicago to the Worlds Fair. Secretary
Harrell will carry 100 in his party.
The last Legislature OF North Carolina
Swansboro railroad and a meeting will
| soon be held in New York, at which books
of subscription will be opened. The road
will be thirty miles in length.
A little white boy named Johnson was
found hanging by the neck at school
| house at Loves Creek, near Siler City,
| Chatham county. His body was outside,
and window sash held his neck. He
| had tried to get In the window. and the
sash slipped and caught him.
An exchange says: Mr. III. Il. Hardy,
who Is well known as a newspaper can
yasser. but whose chief fame rests upon
the skill and accuracy with which he
renders 1.-THE Mocking Bird" by blowing
into his closed hands. has bought an In
terest In the North Carolinian. Mr.. Jo-
sephus Daniels paper.
| The railroad shops at Rocky Mount
| are moving steadily forward. and viii
| shortly be ready for work. A number OF
valuable pieces Of machinery have been
| placed In position. The railroad company
| Is using none but the latest improved ma
| chimes and continuing on this line. One
room alone contains machinery valued al
| 10000. Thus far about 10000 has beer
| expended in improving their plant. says
| the Wilson Advance.
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