The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Goldsboro Headlight has entered
on its ninth volume. We wish it con-
tinued success. d
Miss Hattie Spier, of Goldsboro, was
married yesterday to Mr.. Nathan Vein
burg, of Newark, N. J.
L. B. Wetmore, a lawyer of Lincoln.
ton, formerly a Democrat, announces
that he joins the Republicans.
Miss Addie Williams, of the Charlotte
Observer, has entirely recovered from
her recent illness, says the Charlotte OBJ
server.
Mr.. Robert Harris and Miss Nettie
Reid, of Reidsyille, who were married
Wednesday, are off on a..tour to the Paci-
fc slope.
Mr.. NJ. G.. Mckenzie retires from the
Scottish Chief and is succeeded by Messrs
B. L Terry and J. S. Mckenzie. They
have our best wishes.
In his will, the late j. L. Murray
leaves his entire estate valued at $14, 900
to establish a school for the poor white
children of Asheville, subject to a life
estate which is given his wife
The Franklin Times says: Mrs. Eta
Moody, of Macon county, has entered
suit against Mrs. Bidwell, of the same
county, for $25, 900 damages for causing
Mrs. Moody's husband to abandon her.
The Wilmington Messenger says that
Senator Butler, while walking down the
beach at Ocean View recently, fround
roll of $40 bills, and not finding an
owner for them, will circulate them him
self.
The Wllkesboro Chronicle says: CDR.
Tyre York seems to be ahead in the
wheat line. He had a four acre field
which yielded "a bushels. One acre was
bedded and yielded only about s bush
els, leaving an average of over % bush
els per acre for the other three acres"
William ]. Browne, aged So, promi-
nent farmer and lumberman of BERTHE
county, fell from raft of logs which he
was floating down Sutton creek last Sat-
urday, and was drowned. The deceased
served in the Confederate army, and was
member Of the BERTHE County Oonfed-
craze v 6LeFdUS ASSOCldUlOu.
In letter to his father in Shelby the
missionary.in China, Rev. g. 2, Bostick,
writes that he had intended to visit his
native place this month, but circum-
stances forbid him that pleasure this
year He will defer his visit to North
Carolina year or more, says the Shelby
Aurora.
The Clinton Democrat says that the
decrease in land valuation in Sampson
8 nee 1894 is $52, 998. There are 10, $40
acres of land unlisted in 1895 and this
will very nearly if not quite Offset the
decrease. There is a decrease in the to-
tai valuation of all property, excepting
railroads, since 1894 of SOL, 022.
The Carthage Blade says that the case
of Daniel Blue, who was suing the Aber-
deem e. West End Railroad Company for
81, 800 damages for the alleged burning
of his property by sparks from one of the
defendants engines year or two ago,
after consuming about five days of time
of Moore Superior Court, was concluded
by the jury returning a verdict in favor of
the railroad.
The Chatham Record says that "the
United States Government is having a
survey made of Cape Fear River between
Fayetteville and Lockville, in this
county The surveying corps began in
this county few days ago, and some of
the citizens in that section are hopeful
of the government making the river
navigable, but in this hope they viii be
disappointed"
The Free Press is opposed to holding a
convention outside the Democratic party.
The best thing for all silver Democrats
to do, in our opinion, is to win the State