The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-18
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO

The residence of Mr.. P G. Holdings
worth, of Fayetteville, was burned Sat-
| urday.
Ex-sheriff Smith, of Fayetteville, will
| be candidate for reelection as chief
| door keeper of the Senate.
A new Dostoffice has been established
at Easons, Johnston county. John D.
Eason is the first postmaster.
The new railroad shops of the A. C. L.,
| of Rocky Mount, are nearing completion.
| They are modern and made of brick.
The annual special train of stockhold-
ers of the A. G. N. c. r. R. will be run,
leaving Goldsboro at 7:4O a. m. on the
| 9th.
The Newborn Sunday School Confer
ence (M E. church, will be held at La
Grange September 27th and SOth, inclu-
| sive.
Maxton correspondent of the Will
mington Messenger gives an incident of
the Matching of chickens by the warm
weather.
The Republican, pulists will hold an
| indignation meeting at Flea Hill, Cum
berland county, Friday, September 21st,
at which Butler and others will speak.
Miss Belle Kearny, national organizer
and lecturer of the Womans Christian
Temperance union, is shortly to visit
North Carolina and deliver addresses.
The Salisbury Sun says that the young
| man Mcneil, whose father took his bride
away from him in Salisbury, has gone
to Bessemer City determined to marry
her anyway.
BRYAN and Stevenson club has been
organized, with q. A. Morris as president,
at Concord. The Concord Tribune says
that Mr.. Purvear will organize club in
every precinct in the county.
Mr.. S. T. Adams, of Wilmington, had
his arm and leg bruised in an accident
on the Atlantic Coast Line near Augusta
on Saturday. 1t was slight accident,
and there were no serious injuries.
The Salisbury Truth Index says that
Will Mails, who recently fell from an
ore bucket at Union Copper mines, a
distance of seventy feet, is dead AlmoJt
every bone in his body was broken.
j. w. Mullin, postmaster at Charlotte,
has been to Washington, and tells the
Post that the Republicans will poll
majority for the Republican ticket in
North Carolina He intimates, however,
| that the Democrats will cheat Mckinley
out of the State.
MIR. w. W. Barber, who has been elect
| ed chairman of the Democratic commit
tee of the Eighth Congressional district,
| is one of the finest organizers in the
| State, and will, with Candidate Buxton,
dead the party to victory.
Miss Kate Matthews, of Fayetteville,
| has gone to Goldsboro to take charge
of the Orphans Home at that place. The
| Fayetteville Observer says that the Odd
Fellows are fortunate in securing the
services of this estimable lady.
The Newborn Journal says that during
| the past summer extensive improve
ments have been made on the Clermont
Knitting Mills, owned by Mr.. P. H. Pelle-
/ tier. With the addition of much modern
machinery and enlargement, Mr. Pelle-
| tier says that he can give employment
| to seventy-fve more people.
Services to the memory of the late
Rev. c. NJ. Payne, d. D., were held in the
| Presbyterian church at Concord, Rev. DR..
| Rumple preached the sermon. Dr. Payne
| was at one time pastor of the church
! in Concord. He was one of the ablest
| preachers in the State, and one of the
purest and most lovable of men.
| The Greensboro Telegram of Saturday
| afternoon had an interesting historical
| sketch of the Greensboro Female Col
| lege, the second female college chartered
south of the Potomac. 1t is gratifying
to know that this college under the man
agement of Prof. bred Peacock. one OF
| the youngest college professors in the
| South, is succeeding better than at any
| time in it's history.
Mr.. John Hall, of Murphy, and Miss
| Caroline Marshall who lives on the Hia-
wassee River, ran away from home and
were married at Hayesville. The old
| folks were opposed to the marriage, but
on the day of the escape when Miss Caro-
line found that the dogs were fastened
| up, she slipped down the ladder and has
| tened to her betrothed to be married
| They are now in Georgia, says the Ashe-
| vile Citizen.