The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-30
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Some thieves entered Mr.. John Clos
sons amokehorse. q Arlington, ead
stole all the meat he had. eleven pieces
and soms sausage. He got on the
track Of . one-horss wagon and follow
ed it for ten miles in the direction Of
Concord, tall he came to the hills %
this aide Of Buffalo creek. whore the
tracks left the road Mr.. Glosson and
party went cniy . short distance into
the woods, where they found . desert.
ed one horse wagon. In which Was oil
his meat. some corn which had been
stolen from Mr.. George Hazlsr. and
hand saw and other shop tools, stolen
from Mr.. j. y. Rogera About city
yards away was . dark bay horse, about
suo years old. The thieves had fed,
leaving everything.
Recent rains swept away tho miN
dam of Walkers & Co.'S. roller mill st
Oak Ridge. Sixty fee. OF solid msr
sorry went from the middle, creating .
roar which awoke people . mile away.
The new county bridge below the mill
was swept away. The damage 10 esti.
mated at 8, 900 to the mill property.
This is o very old site. Lord Corn
wallis camped at this mill on the lith
of FEBRUARY, 1881, O month before the
battle of Gullford Court House, IS he
was trying to intercept General Greene
on his way to Virginia. On the follow
ing day the bugler was killed by Tar.
ieton's men.
In the decisions rendered the other
day. the Supreme Court held that the
Fellow Servant act is constitutional,
and again In another case that the fail
IRE of q railway company to properly
equip its cars with safety sppli:nces is
negligence and makes it liable for
damages resulting from such negli-
gence where an employe sustsins in
| jury.
r. B. Raney, of Raleigh, has given
that city s35, 900 for the public estab-
lishment and support Of o public Ii
brary. Thus, one by one, our cities
are falling into line. Which will fol-
| low next? Raney and Pack have made
their names immortal in Raleigh and
| Asheville. and thousands will call them
| blessed. Who will emulate their ex-
amp!e.-N. @. Journal:of Education.
Mr.. Joseph Lee, who Lives in the
awoke and found his house on fire.
The alarm was given in time to save
his family, but too late to save any of
the furniture or any part of the house.
! The loss amounts to several hundred
| dollars and he carried no kind of insur-
| ance.
An order has been passed by tho
committee GA public buildings and
grounds in Raleigh, to pave the street
on the west side of the Supreme Court.
| It has also been ordered to put tiled
floors in the offices of the State Auditor.
| The cost for thing both Offices will be
about $3.50.
Another organization incorporated
ny the Secretary of State is the benev-
client Society of Fayetteville, to be
known as the Independent Order of
True Reformers. Their business is to
nurse and assist the sick and dis
abled, and to do all other acts of 9
Christian and benevolent nature.
The secretary of state has issued ar.
ticies of incorporation for to the Rev.
olution Cotton Mills company, Of
Greensboro, with E. Sternberger, Moses
( H. Cone and Caesar Cone as incorpora
tors. The capital stock. is placed q
$500, 900.
Smallpox continues to abate in tn,
State, though there are still q gooe
many cases in Alamance county. Th,
quaratine in that section is pretty
rigidly enforced. Elon College, Glib
sonville and Graham are quarantinet
against the whole of Alamance county
The consolidation of the Winston -Sa
lem postoffice means the largest ant
only frst-class Office in the State. Tn
consolidation is to take effect July LIST
This will give the main office nine let
ter carriers and seven clerks.
The wife OF Prof. Scribner, the hea,
of the mechanical department of tn
Agricultural and Mechanical College
IN Raleigh, died after short illness, @
pneumonia. She was only % years old
and leaves four children.
The old building at the Institutio
for the Blind in Raleigh is to be mad
almost entirely new. The legislator
made an appropriation of go, 900 fo
this purpose and the directors have de
cided to begin work at once.
Through the Citizens National Ban
!, of Raleigh, Treasurer Worth has ser
$50. 900 to the Bank of the Republic
, New YorF, to pay the interest on the
, per cent bonds, which falls due on til
i 1st of April.
9 Quite party of Moravians will leav
D Winston the first of next month fc
Q Herrnhut, Germany, to attend th
s Synod, which opens there in May.
Daniel Bridges aud j. q. Bailey ha,
. been confined in jail in Raleigh on
t charge of burning barns in New Ligl
township, Wake county.
Deputy Collector j. P. Fl. Adam
!. captured 1885, gallon registered brand
. still and the owner thereof near Wax,
. !. field.
' The Odell Manufacturing Compan,
is now building at Concord the large
a weaving mill in tho State. 1t will |
a equipped with five hundred looms,