The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-01
STATE NEWS.

w. l.. Marlborough, Jr., was nominated
for Mayor cf Lousburg on the THIRD pal
lot.
The Wilmington Star notes that Mr..
A. s. Huffman was killed by fall from
tree which he had cut down.
There have been over one hundred con-
versions in the Grace Methodist church
revival in Wilmington. Rev. DIR. Left
with conducts the meeting.
The Statesville Mascot comes out this
week in fresh spring dress of new type.
1t is an excellent newspaper-honest,
manly, courageous and able.
Hon. c. 3. Watson is able to walk
around the house and yard. If his i'm
provement continues he will be at his Of
fee in day or two.-Winston Sentinel.
The Wilkesboro Chronicle advertlses
over $4,000 acres of land for sale IN
Wilkes county for delinquent taxes. 1t
has to issue big supplement to contain
the list.
Cards are out for the commencement
exercises at Trinity High School. Rev.
r. y. Ivey will preach the annual SER
mon Sunday, May 23rd. The literary adj
dress Will he delivered by DR.. T.. A.
Yates on Tuesday, May 25th.
We are informed that a beautiful
white baby girl was found last Tuesday
i'm Smith Creek, just across the line in
Virginia, wrapped in a guano sack and
staked about two feet under the water.
No clue as to who the fiend was that did
this deed.-Warrenton Record.
We spent several days in Troy last
week. and was glad to note number
of improvements since our last trip there.
-Four new stores have been built near the
depot. the Smitherman cotton factory is
about completed, and j. X. Blair has a
large residence nearly completed that
would do credit to any town in the State.
Aberdeen Telegram.
At the town convention last Monday
night, Mr.. John Kerr was nominated
for Mayor, and the same old board of
commissioners, with the exception of Mr..
J. Willie Wife, was nominated. Mr..
+. 7. Hunter was nominated to his
place. Mr.. Polk, the present very excel
lent Mayor, positively declined to serve
again.-Warrenton Gazette.
The Truckers and Planters Journal
gives quantity and the average price per
quart of Strawberries shipped to the
Northern markets during the last week
Wednesday, 1,200 crates 20 to % cents;
Thursday, 800 crates, Is to % cents;
Friday, $500 crates, Is to % cents; Sat
urday 5000 crates, 16 to 30 cents; Mon
day, 5000 crates, Is to % cents; Tues
day, 1000 crates, IS to 80 cents.
Burke county, it appears, will be bless
ed with some fruit at least, this year.
The Morganton Herald says it is report
ed from different portions of the county
that about all the peaches have been
killed. But there is belt through the
South Mountains-the mo frost belt
that affords peaches every year, no matter
how severe the winter or late the spring,
and we may expect an abundance of fruit
from that section this spring.
Col. j. +. Jones, of Laurel, was mar
ried in the parlor of the Hobbs Hotel at
Franklinton, ON Wednesday to Mrs. An
ME T. Perry of Warren county. Rev.
G r. Smith, pastor of the Methodist
church here offciated. A number Of
friends were present to witness the cere-
mony. The happy couple came on the
evening train, to Louisburg where they
were met by the Colonies carriage and
taken to his beautiful home at LAUREL
Franklin Times.
The Concord Standard comes to the
front with the most thrilling romance
we have yet heard of in North Carolina.
A young lady was engaged to be married
but fell prey to consumption. They
were by creek when she told her lover
she did not expect to live long and there
fore must postpone the marriage. He
demanded his ring, and finally did take
it from her hand and toss it into the
stream Some time after she was fish
ing in the same stream and caught cat
fish and in its gills she found the ring.
placed it on her finger and died with it
there, while her lover was in distant
parts.