The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-01
THE STATE -AT LARGE-

North Carolina went forward i'm
1895. The low price Of cotton in 1894
carried loss of comforts and detection
into many homes The result was re-
duced acreage OF money crops and in
creased acreage in hog and hominy.
The better prices in the fall of 1895.
coupled with the cheapness of making
the crops, brought more cheer and
nope to the farmers in all parts Of the
state, particularly in those sections
where large tobacco crop 0erc made
ne truck and fishing industry. while
not yielding as large pr as In some
years, were successful @ brought
much money into tile State
Eighteen and linety-ive was 4 red
letter year in manufacturing Of au
kinds, PARTICULARS IN tfic ueassaw
of cotton goods
JANUARY Chief Justicsv
cloth, Justices AEery Clark,
Montgomery sworn jn-~JnO r4
dock wins State ehampicash Ia
cheekers-G Goyetuor appoints John r.
Woodard, Solicifar THIRD slistgict + si
w. G. Douglass SoieItor Seye8hs
trict Woodland ecline aM MI B
Shaw appointed sictt as Judge
John Gray Bynun faeAen $40 to Libra
ryE +. st John toRes chagae ae Nice-
President of the =. IaEues H.
Bergeron lynched at Aurora by dis
guised men. He SO fessed that iIe
Killed WatSon-535,0 ,0yu Doa,4tis ot
Blackwell's Durham tobacco shipped
Rev. Van Deventer accepts call 70 Bur
lington.- Wilmington sends ear load
of corn TO Nebraska suffercrs.-Dr. J.
Il. Parker. of Ashevilie, died from an
overdose of laudanum.-Z. Y. Walser
chosen Speaker of the House, and Re
publicans and Populists divide the
other Legislature clerkships.
Lodge of Masons elects DR.. +. M. Moye
Grand Master and John G.. Drewry,
Secretary .-B. \. Dukes offer to give
$5 900 if others raise like amount to
improve Orphan Asylum buildings
accepted.-John c. Davis escapes from
Raleigh Insane Asylum.-Schooner
wrecked at Portsmouth and one life
lost.-Negro killed near Weldon while
asleep on S. A. l.. track.-New hotel
built at Kittrell.-Rev. j. l.. Stewart
dies at Clinton-Abe Middleton (col.)
of Duplin, elected Assistant Door
Keeper Of the House over three one
legged Confederate soldiers.-Great
rivers. Over 100 feet of dam washed
away for the Willard Manufacturing
Co.-State Senate takes away from
Northumberland power to select
committees.-Act of 1893 relative to
Alliance charters epealed.-Biggest
flood on the Cape Fear since 1S64.-
Northern capitalists erect cotton mill
at Roanoke RapidS.-Law to let print
4 l.. 1. 4 I.,1
Republican caucus votes on Vance's
successor. Pritchard, 3S; Holton, 81
Senate kills resolution in favor of free
silver. introduced by Abell.-Pasquo-
tank Rifles disband.-J. s. Carr gives
$500 To Baptist University. Family
driven from home in Yadkin county
by White Caps.-Reidsville cotton
mills sold to Richmond and Charlotte
capitalists for $24 4,200.-Farmers' Alli-
ance store at Liberty closes DOORS
Miss Stevenson, daughter of the bill
President, dies at sheville.-Senate
refused to adjourn in honor of Lees
birthday. S. Carr gives valuable
apparatus to Trinity College.--Mrs.
NJ. Il. Brown donates her handsome
home in Washington to the Kings
daughters, to found n home for imbe
cile children.-Bill TO prohibit prize
fighting becomes a law.-Mayor Link
of Durham, dies NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
David +. Bower, father of Congress
man Bower, dies in Caldwell county
Sheriff Green, of Nash, dies.--Brick-
layers at Biltmore strike.-The House
advances the age of consent from 10
to 14.--Josephus Daniels resigns as
Chief Clerk Of the Interior Depart
ment and returns to Raleigh to take
charge of the News and Observer
Ella Norwood, convicted in Durham Of
infantcide, gets IS years in the peni-
tentiary.- State prohibition mass
meeting held in Raleigh, and petition
ed the Legislature for better excise
laws.-Election of u. S. Senator result
ed: Butler lii, Mason 45; Pritchard
116. Overman 45.-Six per cent interest
bill passed.-State Treasurer Worth
takes charge January23rd.-Baptist
State Mission Board voted $4,000 for
State mission work.-Capt. S. w. Wick
dies suddenly at Wilmington.
FEBRUARY.-S Southern Mutual IN
surance Company organized atGreens-
boro. Geo A. Tones, Solicitor 18TH