The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
STATE NEWS.

Judge Dick has gone to Johns Hop
kins Hospital for treatment.
The Salisbury World says that the
Southern Railway has in contemplation
doubling their shops at that place.
The Dunn County Union has entered
upon its fifth voIHme. 1t was never so
good as now-bright, fresh and Demo
cratic with a big d.
A negro train hand from Florence, s.
c.. has smallpox an Wilmington. He
has been removed from the city and
quarantned. Twenty persons who have
been exposed were vaccinated. Health
officers acted promptly.
The Alley Cooper Hospital, recently
opened at Greensboro, which is under
the management of DR.. William ii.
Brooks has come to be a leading institu-
ton of that city. The Greensboro
Record says it is one of the leading hos
pitfalls in the State.
The Bank of Smithfeld viii be located
en- Third street between E. J. Hollis
and the livery stable of II. ID. Ellington.
The directors met last Friday night and
so decided The building will be built
OF brick, two-stories, and will be quite
an addition to that part of our town.
Smithfeld Herald.
The insurance company which had
$4,000 accident policy on r. q. Barnes,
of Henderson, who was fatally injured
ea a train at Oxford, refused to pay
until q p0st-mortem was made. A Raj
eigh doctor and six others exhumed the
body and made the examination, finding
death due to the accident.
The marriage Of Miss Katie G. Bur
nett and Mr.. H. e. Bonitz, a popular
young couple of this city, took place yes
terday faternoon at half past five o'clock
in St Andrews Presbyterian church.
Rev. A. d. Mcclure, the pastor, assisted
by Rev. p. ii. Hoge, d. d., performing
the ceremony. Wilmington Star.
The January number of the North
Carolina Journal Of Education is a
handsome Lee number, containing many
extracts from Lees writings on the sub
ject OF education, and a number Of pic
lures illustrating his career. This ma
gazine improves every issue and is doing
a much-needed work i'll the State.
The Oxford Public Ledger has en-
tered on it eleventh volume. 1t is
great credit to Oxford, and ranks among
the first papers of the State. Its con-
teDtS are All tudI COuIu De ucSlISI anu
its typographical appearance is unsur-
passed. 1t is a valient in the cause Of
good government and throws hot shot
into the Radicals and, their allies who
are in the saddle in Granville county.
The Greensboro Patriot learns Of the
recent discovery of gold-bearing ore in
the vicinity of Gibsonville From a
shaft sunk near the saw mill there come
unmistakable indications of valuable
ore deposits which are being developed
as rapidly as possible and with crafty
ing results. hfF. r. w Drew, q north
erner, who has been prospecting about
through eastern Gpilford for some time,
and Gibsonville parties are making the
developments.
A. II. Isbell, Of Shooting Greek, Clay
county, well known throughout Western
North Carolina as a prospect0r for and
miner of corundum, has just returned
from New York city, where he com
pleted the organization Of the Isbell
Corundum Company, with q capital stock
Of $250000. The property is in Shoot
ing Greek, Clay county. The vein Of
corundum is 210 feet wide, practically
| inexhaustible, and of the very best
quality The output is expected to be
| 5000 pounds of minerals per day, says
| the Ashev-4le Citizen.