The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Fayetteville Evening Telegram is
a bright and newsy sheet.
Capt. L. R. Exline, who holds a posi-
ton in Chatham, is on visit to Pitts
boro
II. Y Danston, Jr., of Windsor, had
his shoulder dislocated in a baseball
game.
A portrait Of the late Judge McKoy
has been placed IN the Clinton court
house, says the Democrat.
It now turns out that Postmaster Sui
Ivan, who shot himself over his sisters
grave at Huntersville, was $3.50 short in
his accounts.
The Concord Standard says: "Ool.
julie Carr would make an elegant and
good Governor. He deserves the best
the State has.
Mr.. ". A. Townsend, of Asheville,
has been appointed instructor in shoe
making in the Morganton School for the
Deaf and Dumb.
Judge Norwood, holding Iredell Su-
perior Court, charged the grand jury
Monday, among other things, against
secret political societies.
Mr.. Roscower announces that he is
perfecting arrangements for the publica
ton Of an afternoon edition Of the Colds
boro Headlight, with complete tele
graphic news.
The Christian Sun has given scholar
ship at El0n College to Mr. W. I. Al
bright who won it by sending in the
largest LIST Of subscribers to that paper.
Others competed.
Judge Graham has issued an order
making Iredell Meares and P. B. Man
ming permanent receivers for the Caro-
lima Inter State Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION of Wilmington.
A colored doctor at Statesville prac-
4iced on the eyes Of a colored child until
he about succeeded in putting them out,
and now he is in court, according to the
Landmark, for practicing without license.
The Wilmington Review says the water
in the Cape Fear is so low now that the
Murchison is stuck on sand bar at Lit
tie Sugar Loaf, six miles above Eliza
BEETHOVEN and sixty three miles from
Wilmington.
Our Faison correspondent announces
that the artesian well there is 227 feet
deep, and they are still boring. 1t looks
like our friends of that town stand
better chance of finding hot than cold
water, and it may taste like sulphur
Clinton Democrat.
Mr.. Henry McLamb, a well-known
citizen of Mingo and who is all OF a
Populist and something of pugilist, had
an encounter with Mr.. VIM. Il. Warren,
Jr., last week in which he was some
what disfgured 1t was all about poll
4ics.-Clinton Democrat.
The Cherokee Scout says that, Rt. Rev.
J. B. Cheshire, Bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of North Carolina, preached two
able discourses here last Sabbath IN the
Methodist church. Bishop Cheshire is
one of the ablest bishops in the South.
His congregations were large and atten-
tive
Tuesday night about II o'clock man
by the name Of Williams, one of the ex-
cursionists who came down yesterday
from Shelby, n. c., was found lying
bleeding in an unconscious condition in
Wilmington. The man is about forty
years of age and is farmer. Williams
saws a man hit him but he does not
know, whether he was white or black.
The Henderson Gold Leaf says that
Capt. W. B. Shaw is wearing set Of
beautiful gold cuff buttons with studs to
match. a souvenir gift from his friends
comprising the pleasure party he recently
piloted TO Roanoke Island and other
points in Eastern North Carolina. The
buttons are engraved with his mono
gram Nv. B. 5. while the studs have
the letter B. " carved on them.
A special from Windsor says: Two
youths, each about IS years Of age, one
the son Of W, H. Bowen; the other the
son Of Hill Williford, prominent citizens
Of Merry Hill township, were playing
with an old pistol Monday, when the
pistol was accidently discharged, and
the bullet went through young Bowen's
body. He did not live more than an
hour after receiving the wound.
s1The Grand Encampment of /. Q. o.
r, is in session at Charlotte. P. H.
Pelletier, ESQ, of Newbern, is Grand
Patriarch. The other officers are H. E.
Heartt, Grand High Priest; Wesley Will
liams. Grand Senior Warden; j. p Saw
yer. Grand Junior Warden; g. L. Ton
nofski, Grand Scribe; B. H. Woodell,
Grand Assistant Scribe; F. L. Reynolds,
Grand Representative; L. @. Hewlett,
Grand Marshal; B. @. Gorham, Grand
inside sentinel Geo Z. DIXIE. Grand