The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO,
Mt olive is to organize a bank

Mt. Olive is to organize a bank.
An annex is being built to the Roanoke
mills at Roanoke Rapids.
Hon. B. H. Bum is quite i'll with fever
at his home in Rocky Mount.
The Atlantic Cost Line had added six
large wheel driver locomotives
Mr.. Nance, a Baptist Minister of
Burke county, was killed by lightning
On last Friday.
Congressman Small IS arranging to
establish rural free delivery mail sell
vice in Pitt county.
Greensboro is making war on the hog
pens, which is a good sign that it is
growing to be a big city
Mr.. John Patterson, of Baltimore. is
the promoter of a damask factory to
be built at Roanoke Rapids.
The season of the Atlantic Hotel.
which has just closed has been the most
successful in its past history.
Col James T. Morehead, of Green's
boro, has been requested by friends to
enter the race for United States Sena-
tor
Cotton receipts at Wilmington last
year, ending August 31st, were s89, 260
bales against 2S6,947 in the previous
year.
Prof w. H. Holiness University grad
uate, has gone to Elon College, where
he will fill the chair of English at that
college.
Garrett and Company of Halifax. re-
celVed a silver medal for the superiority
of their wine exhibit at the Paris Ex-
position.
band of negro burglars has been
captured at Newton. They had entered
the house of five or six people and ter
rorized the town.
Mr.. James II. Cathey, who was the
member of the Democratic House in 81,
will be a candidate for Reading Clerk
of the next House.
Ex- Mayor Register, of Hickory is build
ing school house, at which all chill
dren, who are unable to pay tuition,
will be educated free
The town Of Marshall has a woman
superintendent of the Union Sunday
School. She is Mrs. p. NJ Higgins, and
is an excellent officer.
Mr.. Thos. y. Meares, of Wilmington.
has been reelected Supreme Master of
Exchequer by the Supreme Lodge X. Of
p. now in session in Detroit
The GoldsbOro Table Company. a new
a capital of $4,000. Work on the plant
has already begun in Goldsboro.
VIII Edwards will be hung in Sails
bury on Monday. The execution will
take place at II o'clock and will be pri-
vate. This is good. Public hangings
are demoralizing.
Weldon Leader is the name Of a new
paper started at Weldon by Capt. T. l..
Emry and Mr.. w. B. Green. Capt
Emry furnishes the cash and Mr.. Green
is an experienced newspaper nan.
The premium list for the Weldon Fair
has been issued The management will
make this fair this year the best in its
history. The new grand stand is to
be erected and the racing will be the
best ever seen III North Carolina, so
the promoters say.
Mr. r. A. Tyson has finished his large
tobacco warehouse in Greenville, to take
the place of his factory which was burned
some time ago. 1t IS fitted ND with 5he
best machinery and viii be occupied by
M. P. Jordan and Company.
Work has begun on the new railroad
shops on the Atlantic Coast Lima al
South Rocky Mount They will be made
double the present size. The pay roll
of the Coast Line at Rocky Mount
amounts to $4,000 a month
The Borden Manufacturing Company,
Goldsboros new cotton mills, is ready
for the machinery. which has already
been purchased. 1t will be one of the
finest cotton mills Of the State, owned
chiefly and managed by the SUCCESSFUL
members of the Borden family of Colds
boro
The Wilmington Messenger says that
a negro desperate in Sampson county,
armed with a brace of revolvers and a
Winchester rife, is going about the
country creating some CONSERVATION
among the negroes and some white folks.
He seems to be a fugitive from justice
and acts like a man who is being hunted.
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