The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-01
FROM MURPHY
TO MANTEO

Il.
as postmaster at Ocracoke.
Tarboro's new electric light plant is
in operation satisfactorily.
Miss Lizzie NJ. Biggerstaff has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Sunshine.
ALI Thompson who escaped from Yadkin
JAIL has been caught and re-incarcerated.
Capt c. w. Jeffreys has been elected
superintendent of the Tarboro Knitting
mills.
Labor Day will be observed in Salisbury,
Rev. E. NJ. Parish will deliver the adj
dress.
Cooloomee mills, Davie county, are ex-
pected to. be in operation in about a
month.
schools bonds at par value of $4,000 for
s9.27.75.
The soaffold has been built at Salisbury
on which VIII Edwards will be hanged
next Monday.
Evangelist A. A. Little is conducting
very successful revival at Westminster
church, Greensboro.
Lightning struck the steeple of the
Lutheran church in Charlotte yesterday,
but did ljttle damage.
for September Sth to discuss proposed
election for the stock law.
The Jonesboro Cotton Mill Company is
having new machinery put in the mills,
which will increase its capacity.
THE Yadkin Ripple notes the death of
DIR. w. E. Benbcw at East Bend. He
was greatly loved in that county.
The Rexboro Board of Trade will open
H. Ia No.. ted In,
stead of October 1st as heretofore.
Congressman Bellamy will begin his
campaign en- the 10th of September and
will make an aggressive campaign.
Work on the new cotton mill at Lands,
near China Grove. will begin soon. The
company is now making the brick.
Inspector General Hobgood was great
ly pleased at the inspection made of the
Forsyth Riflemen a few days ago..
The demand for the production of the
Roxboro cotton mills is so great, that
the mills are now running from a. m.
to D. m.
Experts are in Allegheny county ex-
aiming Gambill's mines. There are rich
ores in that section that only need capt.
tai to operate.
Dr. T. NJ. Smith, of Polkton, was in
the act Vi ueCdplCdllIS OllC uCdu VI q
chicken. when Re had the misfortune to
cut off his thumb.
Prof. j. Walter Daniels, of Spartanburg,
S. c.. a graduate OF Wofford college, has
been elected principal of the Henderson
vile graded school.
The recent purchase Of large timber
land in Graham and Cherokee counties
from Dr. j. H. McAden, of Charlotte, will
be at once developed.
Inc Yadkin Valley Institute, of which
Prof Horn is principal, draws patronage
from Pamlico to Stokes. All the schools
are opening we'll this year.
Capt. Frank Bennett, of Arson, will
be a candidate for door-keeper of the
House of Representatives. He was a
brave Confederate soldier.
The feather bed in the home CT Mrs.
Alice Vann, in Union county, was set
on fire by lightning Tuesday night. No
body in the house was hurt.
Pee Dee Institute CT Wadesboro, of
which Prof. w. j. Ferrall is principal,
had a very successful opening. Prof.
Ferrall is al able Wake man.
Mr. Green Kidd is said by the High
Point Enterprise to be 100 years old. 1t
would seem that man as old as that
ought ito have a different name.
At the Lutheran Reunion at China
Grove, Cabarrus county, it was deter
mined to raise fifty Thousand dollars for
the educational work of the church.
The Weldon News says that the bank
of Weldon celebrated its eighth birthday
last Monday by paying to it's stock holders
a semi-annua! dividend of per cent.
The Greensboro Elks will attend in
body the carnival at Danville. They have
elected Miss Frances OBrien to repre-
sent them on that occasion as maid of
homer.
The Fayetteville Observer says Mr.. ].
L. York, of Randolph county, who is in
custody on the charge of using the mails
for fraudulent purposes, expects to give
his bond.
Work is progressing on the pew system
of water works in Wadesboro. Two large
: Eosesyotrsnare being sHE Ninder the
direction Of Henry E. Knox, hydraulic
engineer.
Bryan and Stevenson clubs are being
organized in Union county rapidly and
it is expected that Bryan's majority in
that county will not be less than in the
State election.
A Philadelphia party has been testing
for coal near Wadesboro. They were so
we'll pleased that coal mining outfit
will be sent down, and work viii soon be-
gin mining coal.
An old negro named Hinton Mayes who
lives in Franklin county, has carved two
wooden images of human figures that
look very natural. The old negro shows
great talent, says the Henderson Herald
Mrs. George Fink, of Salisbury, who
was deserted last week by her husband,
has been made free trader says the
Salisbury Truth. 1t will be remembered
that her husband eloped with his miliner.
Rev. ]. F. Love enters upon the pas
torate of the Wadesboro Baptist church
next Sunday. The Methodist and Presby-
terrain congregations will unite with the
Baptists at their church in welcoming
Mr.. Love.
There was much wailing at Salisbury on
the part of negro who applied an hour
too late to get license to marry his girl.
A successful rival had already got the
license and had doubtless got the coon
and gone or"
The contract for furnishing and trans
porting stone to build the $148,000 sea
wall around- Fort CaSwell to protect it