The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-31
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Elk Solicitor Frank McNeill has located
in Wilmington.
The Wilson Observer says that it is a
mistake that Messrs. F. W. Barnes and
Geo. D. Green will run TIE Atlantic
Hotel next year.
Mr.. Henry F. Egerton, of Kenly, was
married in the Smithfeld Presbyterian
church, to Miss Lorena Saunders. The
bride is neice of Mr.. W. S. Stephens.
During the past week between co. 900
and 20 600 pounds OF tobacco have been
sold in Wilson, and the merchants and
farmers are more prosperous than ever.
The Cleveland Star is in ormed that
Mr.. Plato Durham, of Kings Mountain,
a recent graduate of Trinity College, has
decided to enter the ministry. He will
60 to Yale this fall.
Mrs. Cleary, of Savannah, Ca, has
org anized in Charlotte an Auxiliary to
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers composed of the wives OF engineers.
Mrs. ] E Parks is president.
A petition for a silver convention to
be held in Raleigh in the near future
was circulated on our streets few days
ago and large number of signers were
secured. - Laurinburg Exchange.
The Wilmington Star says that DR.. E.
Pc ter, of Pender, and W. G. Blu khesd,
E a., of Columbus, who are botl earnest
silver advocates, cannot ste where any
benefit can accrue to the Democratic
party from the proposed new partisan
silver conference.
The Salisbury Herald says: miss
Addie Williams, of the Charlotte OBJ
server, arrived in the city from Tate
Springs Tuesday night and was taken to
the residence of Mr.. NJ. O. Quinn. Miss
Williams was quite sick on her arrival
here and her condition has not i'm
proved.
A special from Morven, to the Will
mington Messenger, dated August goth,
says "a bale of new cotton, the first
in the State, was sold here to day. It
weighed 55S pounds and brought cents.
1t was raised by Steve West on j. L.
Pratt's place. J. Nj. Harrison was the
purchaser
| Miss Annie Page, daughter Of Rev. j.
| f. Page, who has been studying IN
Europe for the past twenty months, has
been elected to take charge Of the
department of French in Greensboro
Female College. Miss Page is one Of
the most accomplished scholars in the
State, says the Greensboro Advocate.
TIE Mr.. Rittenhouse who is reported
to have ssipped his board bill in Lin.
colnton is doubtless the same man who
was looking around in Gastonia last
week. A fact of which t g public has a
more or less distinct recollection is, that
| he is the ''Old Fogy" of Populist papers
and the once private secretary of Col. l.
L. Polk. Gastonia Gazette.
At the Farmers Institute, held at
Gastonia, in the discussion of the sub
ject of Good Roads, Eli Pasour made a
speech opposing any action. The Gao.
tonia Gazette thus reports bis partisan
talk
"People are too heavily taxed now.
Send men to Raleigh like the last Legis-
lature to reduce the big salaries of Gov
ernors, Judges, and so on, and then take
this saving and build roads with it..
Until then let those who want good
roads build them themselves. He was
about to continue in the same politico-
calamity strain when he was called to
order and sat down. When one consid
ers the enormous reductions In salaries
made by the last Legislature he cannot
but be amazed at the gall of tie speaker
and 0varc0Yoa with shame that such sen
timents were received by some with de-
monstrations of applause. A few re-
marks by the chairman were like oil
upon the troubled waters and the road
meeting was adjourned sine die"