Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-04-07
STA TIE NEWS Nur Es.

STATE NEWS NOTES.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. II. Clewell, of Salem
Female Academy; Bishop and Mrs.
Bonthaler. Miss Agnes Sewers. Rev.
Edward Crosland and Miss Alice Bon
thaler. of Salem. will sail for Europe
Saturday.
number of small postofiices in
Union county, this State. and upper
South Carolina have been robbed re-
Gently.
Mr. U. T. Bowers is removing his shoe
factory from Statesvlie to Charlotte.
1t is proposed, to erect a new court
house at Statesville.
Mr.. Henry Bostwick, telegraph
operator at Goldsboro. is dead.
Gilbert Crawford who shot and killed
Gilbert Dunn at Azalea. has been ac-
quilted. IA Ino;..,sI,I 4.
Charlotte is to have n new opera
house. The site has been purchased.
The directors of the Trenton Cotton
Mill at Gastoria have declared q. cash
dividend OF so per cent. and placed
% per cent. to the credit of the re-
serve fund.
The many friends of Mrs Col Nor
ton and Miss Dupuy, of Davidson. who
went North last week for treatment,
the one to Baltimore, the other to
Richmond. will be glad to hear that
they both stood their trips we'll and
are better.
At Marion Tuesday a ball player let
hn c1f f,1, f. L., l.,
Charlie McKessen' terrible blow, frac-
turing his skull.
a long distance telephone line will be
established between Winston Salem and
Rural Hall, Germanton. Kings, Prim-
ade. Pilot Mountain, Mount Airy, Dob
son. Elkin. Sparta, Wilkesboro Pat
terson and Jefferson, and probably
other places.
The Hendersonville and Brevard rail-
road yesterday passed into the hands
oil the recent purchasers, the Transyi-
vania Railroad Company, which will
greatly improve the property.
Wilkes has the champion destroyer of
"moonshine" disti!leries in the world
He is Uncle" Abe Bryan. He has
assisted in cutting up over 1000 cop
pers of the "moonshire" brand and he
is sun IN the business.
A man named l.. II. Williams. living
at Jacksonville, n. c., committed sui
eide on Sunday by drowning himself in
the mill pond. He has often served at
Onslow courts as crier.
Mr.. M. ]. Corbett, of Wilmington, has
received the sad intelligence of the
death of his youngest brother, Mr.. John
COrhptt In fol Of INil,,1t,n-ao
at Deercark. Lismore. Ireland, March
nth. and his death is recorded In the
Cork Examiner of March Esd.
Tyron Bee: The fact that Northern
capital Is seeking to build large hotel
here demonstrates that this field is
fast being appreciated.
The last person was discharged from
the SMALLPOX house of detention at
Greensboro Wednesday morning and
the buildings are empty.
Rutherford Letter: We learn from
the Vindicator that a subscriber to that
paper informs them of a rich vein of tin
ore In Polk county which has been
tested and assays GO per cent. pure tin.
Adjutant w. w. Wick, of the North
Carolina Naval Brigade. has received
serves to fill in. in order to obtain their
extra pay.
Noah Raby celebrated in the moor
house at Piscataway, n. j.. the other
day what he claims is his 127th birth
day. The old man says he was born in
the Gate Courthouse North Carolina.
In 1922. He is an Indian. He smokes
and drinks and is undoubtedly very old
Concord Standard: The ordinary
mind can have no fair conception OF
the immense power lying dormant In
the Yadkin river. The Manufacturers
Record estimates il at 225,00O horse
power. which, it saws. is sufficient to
turn 12,2OO.000 spindles. being four times
as many as are found in Massachu-
sets and far more than all the fac
tories in the United States.
A dispatch from Iowa City, Iowa. ia
to the effect that the O. S. Kelly Co.
will probably build factory in that
city which Will cost about 100000.
The proposed additions to the plant
OF the National Cash Register Company
at Dayton, o.. it is stated. will include
an outlay of $4,000 for new machinery.