The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-10
STATE NEWS.


Hon. Locke Craig will deliver the
commencement address at the Charlotte
Graded School, May 10Th.
The Salisbury Sun says that Salisbury
should move to secure the Lutheran Col
lege. now located at Mount Pleasant.
The Fayetteville Observer says that
the huckleberry crop has not been in
jured The crop promises to be large this
year.
joined the Baptist and twenty-iodr
the Methodist church at EliIabct h
City.
Hon. f. w .Pou will deliver the me-
mortal address ut Greensboro on May
10Th. A poem will be read by Mrs.
:. l.. Alderman.
The advocates of the dispensary elect
ed their municipal ticket i'll Madison
after hot contest. Mr.. Abner McGehee
being elected mayor.
Rev DR.. Peyton Hoge. of Wilmington.
has been called to the Warren Memorial
church at Louisville. Ky. He has
reached no decision.
Romulus Bazemore, charged with
BERTHE court. The jury reached YER
dict III twenty minutes.
The Reflector says that the erection
f the fertilizer factory ut Greenville' is
, assured. Mr.. G. NJ. Tucker Is ut the
head of the enterprise.
The Register of Deeds has been sued
for issuing license to marry to young
man under age. Judgment was given
the father for 5000 and Register of
Deeds Kirkman has taken an appeal
says the Record.
Miss NJ. Inez Gudger, of Waynesville,
daughter of the late Judge j. {. l..
Gudger, who holds a government po-
sition at Washington, died Saturda.'
: at Baltimore. Death was sudden
Asheville Citizen.
A special from EdentOn says that
the steamer Oliver, of the Aibemar;e
Steam Navigation Company, sanr>
early this morning in Chowan river.
about thirty miles from here, While
EN- route to Franklin with 200 pasSen-
gers on board. No lives Were lost
and all freight was saved without be-
ing damaged.
Messrs. Barringer and Robinson, at
torneys for the administration of Miss
Eleanor Stanback, have brought SUIT
against the Southern Railway for the
death of that young lady, who was
killed mt High Point last fall by Il
train. Damages are placed at 100000.
and the papers are returnable TAT June
term of the Superior Court.-tireensboro
Record.
A party of Northern capitalists have
taken an option on the mil property
and water power of the Foard Il Lin
say mill. located between Mocksville
and Salisbury, with Il view to erecting
cotton mill on the same. This is an
excellent water power and is about four
miles below the Shoals property on the
South Yadkin. If erected the mill will
be built on the Davie side of the river,
says the Davie Times.
| A special from Elizabeth City says:
! ''Mr. Samuel Griggs, a young student
, at the A. c. Institute, hired a horse
and buggy of Mr.. c. w. Overman yes
! terday to visit sick brother in Cur
rituck county. AS he drove down f
/ the river on the ferry road he los
control of the horse, and it plungei
overheard at the landing into water
ten to fifteen feet deep. The horse
was drowned, and it was with Difficult
| ty that Mr.. Griggs saved himself.
| The hail storm on Sunday near Mt.
Holly knocked Mr.. l.. l.. Suggs sense
less. His umbrella was beaten to
nieces. One hail stone weighed a pound.
A cow was exposed and died from the
effects of the pelting ut Charlotte. Every
window in the Presbyterian church at
Mt. Holly was broken out as We're TWEEN
ty-seven in the Baptist church AT
Iiyner Mill, shingles were Knocked off
and holes were made i'll the roof of
houses. Wheat was damaged, chickens
We're killed, and vegetables damaged,
says the Charlotte News.
The delegates from North Carolina to
the General Society of the Order of the
Cincinnati are Wilson Gray Lamb, Gra-
ham Dawes. Charles Lukens Davis, Uni
ted States army; James iredell McRae,
John Collins Dawes. Alternates-Nel-
son MACPHERSON Ferebee, United States
navy: Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr., ID.
d.. Bishop of North Carolna; George
Allen Mebane. Nj. D.; Benenan Cameron
and Walter Delyle Carstarphen. The
North Carolina branch was organized in
Iiillsboro, October, 1888, but dlsbanded
and was revived in Raleigh, April 18th,
1886.