The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-08-12
STATE news.

STATE NEWS.
The govesnment snax boat IL NJ
work removing obstsucfions 30 navixa-
ton In Pasquotauk river.
Mount Mills we're sold iast wesA %
blocks oil ten shares, 1t loai.. llsis and
Il7L4.
According IN the sixth annual cata
logue Of the State Normal Schoo, at
Elizabeth City. for ls97-Ss, there are
Is2 pupils enrolled, representing TWEEN
" counties.
A Negro excursion train frcia Win
s'on to Reicsviile was sidetracked 1t
Pomona last Monday on the return
trip, while about nfty Of the gang got
Cd and engaged each other in . free
light with knives and raxoFr.
Revenue officers made q raid on
Johnston county and captured an ILL.,
CIT distiilery. The stilf was found
hidden in . kitchen. the worm In .
scuppernong. The family protested
loudly that it WAS all very my sterious
and nobody had any idea how the
pa0p~sty 8Ot tucIe.
Two or three hundred crates OF
Southern Pines peaches from Lind |
sey's orchard sold in Philade!ph,a last
saturday morning at 81 90 per crate |
The crates contained SIX baskets each
which averaged eighteen peaches 10 he |
basket. making los peaches bring 81 90,
nearly cents piece.
The Wilmington Messenger learns
that pr. Kirby, superintendent Of the
North Carolina Insane Asylum, has |
notified the authorities at Wilmington
that John C. Davis will soon be dis. |
charged from the asylum as cured.
The Winston Republican says: n. ID. |
Sullivan, Esq, Of Walkertown, this
county, last fall sowed twenty-five
acres i wheat, seeding three pecks to |
the acre. From this output he re-
Gently thrashed $40 bushels, an average |
Of about thirty-one bushels per acre.
A Lodge of Odd Fellows was in
stituted at Wallace Wednesday eve
ming last, composed of forty two
members. A Degree Team from
Wilmington did the honors of the |
occasion. After the ceremonies q |
banquet was spread in honor of the
guests. /
The cotton mill belonging to the !
Yadkln Falls Manufacturing Com
pany, located at Milledgeviile, Stanley |
county, has been sold to satisfy q num- |
Der of judgments. The property was |
knocked down to w. A. Smith. Of the |
EldoradO Cotton Mills for $3l 900.
George Vanderbilt, who already owns !
over 100000 acres of land IN the |
Blue Ridge country, has purchased
1000 more at the head waters of the |
SwannanOa river. 1t is magnifcently |
timbered. He will cut the ripe" tim
Der and send it to his saw mill at Bilt- |
more. He is the largest individual
landowner in the State. His entire |
property is being made an object les |
son.
The Evening Telegram says: Man
damus proceedings are to be had before
Judge Bryan in Northampton county |
to test the right of the commissioners |
of that county to refuse to issue liquor |
license. The law as amended by the |
last legislature is pretty generally con-
structed as giving county commission
ers the right to issue liquor license un-
der any circumstances if a majority of
the board so decide, and in a number
of counties licenses have been refused.
Mr.. L. P. North, OF Greensboro,N.
c., has recently been Motif I'D that |
an uncle residing in England, who
died sometime ago, has left q large
estate to be divided among five rela-
tives, he being one of the num-
Der. Mr.. North's portion of the es-
tate will amount to over $75 600.
The Statesville correspondent of
the Charlotte Observer tells the fol-
lowing story: Turner Cowan, q
white boy from Rowan county, was
met on Davie avenue today by a ne
gro who asked him for the use of So
for few minutes. offering to give
him S. in return. Thinking $50 per
cent profit very good usury for his
money, the boy handed it to him, but
,suspecting that he was being DONE"
begged the negro to give back his
money. This was refused, and Mr..
w. R. Mills, who happened to see
the performance, seized the negro
and started up street with him. He
succeeded in getting loose from Mr..
Mills, who looked up Sheriff Wycoff
and the two gave chase, but lost the
trail. The negroes name was found
to be John Knox"
GENERAL NEWS.