The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-02
STATE NEWS NOTES

The Wilkesboro Chronicle says that
Solicitor Mott has returned from Atlantic
City very much improved, but is not
yet a well man.
Mr.. j. b. Jones and Mr.. John Tonlow
have given the Sanctificationists a
corner lot in Beaufort, says the Herald,
and they viii build a church siSty by
thirty feet.
Granville county -Confederates have
postponed their reunion from October
18th to October 14th. Great prepara-
tons are being made to make the occa-
sion a success.
The Republican commissioners of the
county of Warren have sold a portion of
the court house square in Warrenton
for business purposes, against the wish
es of the people of all parties, who are
loud in their denunciation of the act.
Briscoe is the name of new town on
the Aberdeen and West End Railroad,
named in honor of Maj. Brscoe, proml-
nent citizen of Washington, ID. @. Mr..
r. n. Page, of the Page Lumber Com
pany, has moved his family to Briscoe
and built nice residence there.
The Hendersonville Times says: 1--WE
learn the widow of Bill Nye had $500
in the First National Bank Of Asheville,
of which she will not get a dollar back.
The admirers of Nye should start sub
scription and make up the amount, as 1t
is about all she had but some mountain
land
The Washington Gazette states that
Mr.. E. Patterson, wholesale grocer of
that place, received twenty car loads
of salt on the schooner Grace G. Ben
nett, and sold it to all parts of Eastern
North Carolina. This is bringing back
the old prosperous days when Washing
ton was fiourishing wholesale market.
The gold mining property belonging
to w. Z. Kenney and j. G. Surratt, of
Jackson Hill township, was sold one day
last week by Capt. II. L. McCarty toI
a company of Boston capitalists for
something near $20,00000. Capt. Nc
Carly left last night for Greensboro to-
purchase machinery to begin work on
the property at an early date.
Col John S. Cunningham has been in
vited to deliver an address at the open
ing of the Winston, North Carolina, To
bacco Fair on the 4th of November.
We learn that he has accepted. No
man in the country is better able to talk
on tobacco culture than the Colonel and
his address will be worth hearing
Roxboro Courier.
Our former townsman, Mr.. r. w.
Winborne, who has been practicing law
at Beuna Vista, Va, for a few years,
of the firm of Winborne and Bachelor,
has been nominated by the Democrats
of Rockridge county as candidate for
the House of Delegates. Mr.. Win
borne represented Hartford county in
the Legislature of 1885, and made an
able and useful representatiye.-Mur
freesboro Index.
Some time ago DR.. III. f. Long re-
moved a growth from the right eye of
State Senator A. G. Sharpe, of Concord
township, which INSTRUCTED the sight
and which had been growing on the eye
for many years. Recently it had been
growing worse and giving him consid
cradle trouble. The operation, which
was very delicate one. was successful.
The Senator's eye has got entirely well.
-Statesvlle Mascot.
The Winston Republican publishes a
letter from Thomas NJ. Dixon, of Tyro,
Davidson county, who says: II have
found a rich vein of gold upon my land
which all mining men are privileged to-
investigate. There is no bond on the
property The vein is three feet wide
and is of brown cast and the ore rich.
| have PANIED some of it and the yield
is gratifyingly good. The old shaft is
said to be good, but the new vein is far
better. Any one wishing to learn furth
er particulars will receive any informa
ton that | can give them cheerfully."