The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-06
State News Items

| fifth time.
! The Polk County News reports that
a survey is being made OF the pro-
posed new railroad.
Senator Pritchard has recommended
Prof. O. +. Pool as census supervisor
of the eight census district.
The Charlotte says that eX-cCnsul
w. NJ. Little has gone to BirminG cham,
Ala, and will make that city his
home.
Mr.. W. j. Edwards, president ., the
Moore county bank, has been elected
mayor of Sanford by the board of IL
dermen.
Jeremiah b. Leavey has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Alpine, Cora l..
Johnson at Bryant, and Robert L.
Clark at Bulla.
Dispensaly for April were S562 A. The
total receipts were 4S04.11. while the
expenses and freights amounted to
$241.57.
The Polk County News has entered
on Il new volume. It's new editor. Mr..
viii X. Jones. is doing as much 20
promote the material and educational
prosperity of his county as any editor
IN NOftn tafolIIla.
Df. bred Peacock. President of
Greensboro Female College, and wife
have returned from an extended tour
in the old world They reached
Greensboro within eight days after
leaving Southampton.
Among the graduates Mt the Rich
mond Medical college Yesterday were the
following from North Carolina: DR..
r. u. Holt. of Goldsboro: DIR. H. l..
Monk, of Newton Grove: Dr. II. s. Troy.
of Durham; and Dr. f. A. Ward. of
Gliden.
DR.. Robert Strange, of Wilmington,
will sail for Europe today via the
North German Lloyd steamer Ems.
He has decided to take the Mediterra-
mean tour, landing first at Gibraltar,
thence to Naples and across the con-
tinent.
Capt. n. L. Shaw. who has been
travelling in the mountains in the
interest of the Biblical Recor Ter. is
quoted as saying that outside of SEN
ator Pritchard's county he finds a
general sentiment in favor of the Con-
stitutional amendment.
Mr.. j. p. Sawyer declined a re-elec-
ton as president of the board of di-
rectors of the Morganton Hospital
and is succeeded by Mr.. J. G. He'll.
Mr.. Sawyer has won the grateful APP
probation of the State for his valued
services. A new woman's building
is to be erected.
The ninety-sixth annual synod Of
the Evangelist Lutheran church.
South, is in session at Salisbury. Dr.
q. ID. Bernheim preached the opening
sermon. He has been in the ministry
fifty years and was presented uIih
a gold-headed cane. Rev. {. 4. Rose
was reelected president of The synod.
Mr.. John III. Walsh, Lately editor of
the Rockingham Rocket, has happened
10 some good luck. The nentlcl9an
who was elected Register OF Deeds of
Richmond county had so much bust
ness of his own he didn't care to take
the office, and he has turned it over
entirely to Mr. Walsh, as Deputy
Register Monroe journal.
The Mount Airy and Dan River
Narrow Gauge Railroad is a certainty,
an immense number of hands having
already been put to work on the grad
ing. The weather was favorable last
week and the contractor gathered
large squad of colored laDorers, and.
almost before anybody was :sHare of
it, marched them through Mount Airy
and commenced throwing dirt.-Mount
Airy News.
The cotton mill for Wilmington. y.
G., which the projectors declined to
build last summer. is now to be built.
The Hollis. of Alamance county. \.
c.. who are so largely interested n
cotton manufacturing in North Caro-
lima already. will be largely interested
in the plant. Messrs. Edwin and w
r. Holt were in Wilmington last
week for the purpose and are said to
have selected and purchased the site.
american Wool and Cotton Re-
porter.
At Laurel Hill, N. G., the Ida mill
addition was completed this week.
and considerable new carding and
spinning machinery will be installed
at once. The Laurel Hill Spring
field mill has also Just added machin-
cry. including steam, and motive
power machinery, thus giving it a
duplicate motive power. the regular
operations being moved by water
power, which, however. has at times
in the past failed occasiOnally.-Am-
crican Wool and Cotton Reporter
The Observer quotes Mr.. Dwight
Ashley, of Patterson, \. j., who is
erecting silk mill in Fayetteville, as
saying that the more he saw of Fay
ettcville the more ne was convinced
of its wonderful advantages for all
sorts of manufactures. He further
said that in the course of a few years
Fayetteville would see the construc-
ton of many new factories. He said
that they were bound to come here.
This means "a great deal, coming as
it does, from the greatest silk manu-
facturer in America"
The stockholders of the Henderson
cotton mill have voted to make 4
third addition and increase the capa:-
ity of the mill Only few months
ago quite extensive additions in the
size of the factory building and the
quantity of machinery were made
and now still further improvement
along that line have been decided upon
This argues well for the success Of
the cotton mill The new extension
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