The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-01
STATE NEWS.

Col. Harry Skinner is quite sick at his
home in Greneville.
The Hamlet Enterprise is much in lit
tie. Its news is admirably condensed
and its whole contents show that capa-
BILE hands are at the helm.
A certain Cabarrus farmer raised a
quantity of rattle snake watermelons
and brought them to town. A young
man cut one of the melons in rear of
the office and found number Of rattles
in it.-Concord Standard.
Judge Shepherd says the law passed
by the last Legislature to work the
roads Of Sanford township by taxation
is constitutional. He gives this as his
opinion in letter addressed to gen.
tleman.-Sanford Express.
The Index is indeed panied to have
to chronicle the death of little Mial
Wall, the youngest son of the esteemed
tOwnsman, Col. III. c.. Wall. Mial was
loving child, and the favorite of his
school mates and companions; he was of
a friendly, bright, brilliant and affection
ate NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Index.
Two or three hundred crates of South
ern Pines peaches from Lindley's or
chard sold in Philadelphia yesterday
morning at $500 per crate. The crates
contained q baskets each which averag-
ed Is peaches to the basket. making
Jos peaches bring $500 nearly cents
apiece.
Mr.. John e. Oates, who died in Char
lotte Friday, was one of the founders
of the Second Presbyterian church in
Charlotte, and officer in the Southern
Presbyterian church, and secretary and
treasurer of the Presbyterian Orphanage.
He built the first cotton mill in Charlotte
and was one of the financial towers of
that city.
Steele's and Mineral Springs town
ships held their railroad election last
Saturday. Steele's voted for the road
by large majority. Mineral Springs
voted 14O for and 40 against the road
but as the law requires a majority of
the registered voters, and the fact that
Mineral Springs cast 300 votes in the
last election they lacked a small num-
!, Der OF having majority. They will
apply to the county commissioners for
a new electiOn.-Rockingha Index.
Referring to the bitter feeling between
the citizens of Southern Pines and the
farmers of the surrounding country, due
to the fact that the Southern Pines peo-
lple impOunded the stock Of farm
ers that came into the twon,
the Express says: "Tbe Ey-
press is heartily in favor of a stock law
for towns and for the whole country as
for that part. If the people of Southern
Pines expect to prevent stock from run
ming at large in the town they should
enclose it with a fence. All territory
under stock law should be enclosed
i by fence of some kind. 1t is unjust
to take up a mans stock when there is
nothing to prevent their running at large
and force him to pay a certain amount
before recovering them
CampbelPs Bulletin puts the damage
done by the storm of last week at one
hundred thousand dollars. The Southern
and A. X. and n roads were damaged.
The following is one of column of such
, terrible consequences resulting from the
storm: "Mr. Edward Norton of the
Smith Agar Co., at Snowbird, gives us
a graphic description of the storm at
that place, stating that a sheet of water
from twelve of fifteen feet high rushed
down the Little Snowbird creek, uproot-
ing trees four feet in diameter and TAX
ing every thing in its path. Their tram
road 5000 feet in length, is totally de-
storyed. The water run through the
mill, which is situated on high ground
land carried away 200 yards of the plank
road. One hundred yards of the bluff
slid off damaging over mile Of the
plank road running from the top of the
mountain to the MILL Of the road from
Marble to the mill, six miles in length,
three miles of it have entirely vanished,
as though they We're swept away by a
magical wand"