The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-03-24

The Press, . new Republican pa
per, has appeared st Rathesforsiion
Mr.. A. W. Hunt il I,s editor.
The case la receivcrship Of the W.
y. G. Railroad IL continued and
will be before Judge Meiver nj
Asheboro on Mch. 18th
TIE grading on the Mooresvilie
and Aocksviiie road Is nearly
ansshed, and IL is expected tina;
trains will be running through by
May 18th.
WASHINGTON, March l6.-Niss
Laura X. Payne, Of North Carolina
. clerk In the Interior Department,
At Washington WAS promoted from
$500 to 81 900 per year.
Thursday an old negro woman
and a girl about IL years old We're
drowned by falling of a foot-way
at the foo; OF Burrus street, Pol
louisville. This makes four negro
women drowned OF the same foot
way within 10 months.
Truck shipments frofa eastern
North Carolina have begun. The
Newbern Journal Of Saturday said
blackburn 4 Willett shipped Fri
day night by the steamer Neuse to
Northern markets lG0 baskets Of
extra fine lettuce.
The Ladies' Memorial Association
has invited Col. Julian S. Carr, Of
Durham, to deliver the address on
Memorial day, at which time the
figure Of 1.-THE Private Soldier" to
be placed on the Confederate Monu-
ment, At Oakdale, will be unveiled
Washington Messenger.
WASHINGTON, March l6.-Amend-
ments to the sundry bill were
favOrably reported from the Senate
Committee on Public Building ap-
propriating $1,000 for additions to
the public building at Greensboro,
n. c., and 100000 for a Federal
penitentiary near Asheville, NC.
The Greensboro Telegram says
that Congressman Llnney Is trying
to secure the removal OF the govern
ment building from Greensboro to
Winston. A hearing has been had
before the Congressional Committee
y Linney, and X itchen is fighting
it.
The Vance monument In Ashe-
vile will be dedicated May the
10th, and the committee of arrange
ments has invited Senator Daniel,
OF Virginia, and Hon. II. +. Armfield,
Of Statesville, to deliver addresses
on that occasion. Judge Armfleld
has been forced to decline the in
vitation, as his physical condition
will not admit of his making an
misunderstanding Landmark.
Supposed to Have Been lO8,Years old.
Henderson's oldest citizen, and the
Oldest one in the State as far as we
know, died at her home in this place
Monday morning. 1t WAS Louisa
SmithWick, ? cOlOred woman, whose
age, apparently we'll authenticated, is
given as 1OS yea-s-HendersOn Gold
Leaf.
North Carolina Postmaster.
The following fourth-class postmas-
ters were Saturday appointed for
North Carolina: John T. johnson,
Belleport; Jacob A. Dore, Caldwell i;
Jas. Calling, Eva; Rufus A. Jockey,
Fallston, J. T. HOrner, Farmer; James
NJ. Gray eal, Gray beal; Hanna J. Pate,
Hope Mills; T. A. Hinnant, MOcks-
Vile; Grady Gallop, Riddle; Hugh
Cameron, Swami Station; w. r. Beal,
Timberlake; Jas. o. Parsons, Weavers-
ford; Buckley Walker, WoOdsdale.
Wilkes Railroad Bond Case Postponed.
WINSTON, n. c.. March lS.-Ex-
Judge Avery came here this afternoon
for the purpose of arguing the Wilkes
county bond case before Judge Star
buck.
His Honor is sick, however, and con-
fined to his room at Chester, S. c., and
the hearing was consequently postpon-
ed until next week, when it will come
I'D before Judge Starbuck at Morgan
ton Court.
Won a 100000 Suit.
A special to the Stste Charlotte OBJ.
server says: The suit of Engineer
Kinney against the North Carolina
railroad, which has been on trial fol
three days, ended in Lexington Friday
evening. Kinney was the engineer on
No. IL on the morning Of April II
1897, when No. IL and No. sc collided
and killed four persons and injured
several others. Kinney was horribly
scalded, MANNED for life and not ex.
pected to live. But he did survive, and
he and Conductor Lowell and Engi.
neer Tunstall and Conductor Gentry
on No. SO, were all discharged by the
railroad. Kinney brought suit. The
lines on which the case brought were
that Kinney charged that the disaster
was due to negligence in Superinten.
dent Riders office, and the railroad
charged the negligence on the PLAIN
tiff and his associate employees. The
jury found that Kinney was not tt
blame and fixed the railroad with neg
ligence and gave Kinney q verdict fol
$4,000. The verdict is q vindicatiOI
of all the discharged men.