The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-03-29
TAR HEEL NOTES.

II i very likely that Evangelist Pear
son Will hold needing in the Presby-
terrain church at Raleigh as soon as the
new church building is finished. He
has been invited to do SO. but his reply
has not yet been received.
A civil engineer in the employ OF the
Southern railway IS at Donnaha max
ing an estimate for the bridge across
the Yadkin river. fer the benefit of pa
irons of the Southern living in Yadkin.
The company may also build a bridge
across Roaring river.
Mr.. Bake. Northern capitalist. has
just begun the erection OF a $4,000
lumber and planning mill and dry kiln
at FcIkstone. on the Newberne branch
of the Atlantic coast line. The estab-
lishment will be located in fine tim
Der region and will employ 25 to so
hands, besides the logging force.
The Forsyth Roller Mills of Win
ston, capital stock 10000, has been in
corporated. Incorpcrators: w. A.
Lemly, R. J. Reynolds, A. E. Holton.
S. F. Cromer, J. F. Griffith, A F.
Mesick. J. J. Norman, V. p Moir. and
J. J. Wallace. The business proposed
is grinding and dealing in grain and
doing u general milling business.
There are eighty-fve savings, state,
and pl ivate banks in North Carolina.
The returns at the corporation commits
sion show that twenty new State banks
have been organized during the past
year, which very near one-fourth OF
the entire number. Of the State banks
there are fifty-thTee; twenty-three pri-
vate banks, and nine savings banks
making total Of eighty-five.
An invaluable donation to the State
museum by r. F. Dalton is copy OF
the time-honored Davis Revisal OF
North Carolina in provincial times. II
was published in 1774 and was the
property of James Hunter, the wisest
and staunchest friend of the people in
his day, and great-great- great grand
father OF Neil Ellington, and great
great grandfather Of R. F. Dalton, the
donor. 1t will now rest safely beside
ether contemporaneous works, the per
sOnal property Of Jethro Sumner and
other revolutionary patriots. See it in
the museum. How many old relics Oh
your ancestors have been lost and de-
stroyed ?-Greensbcro Record
The other day North Carolinian
who has travelled all over this country
and great deal in the old world, says
the Charlotte Observer, made the re-
mark that there was only one North
Carol1nian who was known the world
oveA and that was DIR. Calling, the in.
ventor of the revolving gun of thai
name. He said he deplord this, that
there was no grant writer, or poet, O,
painter or musician, or statesman, OF
inventor, and added that there haG
never been one in all the States his.
tory. The fact is that North Caro-
linians are singul2-ly self-containei
and easily satisfied people, This is ont
OF the States without any city in tn.
. true sense of that word, and where the
mass of the rural population is so great
, that it dominates the towns complete,
ly. The proportion of people who trav.
Ell, as compared to the mass, is infinite.
ly small, yet it is to be doubted thai
there can be found anywhere a people
more simple in their tastes and inde.
pendent and hetSyGMo ss;.l69e5d IT,
A charter is granted blythe State t,
the Oxford Cotton Mills, capital s125,
900, with leave to increase it to $500,
900. The mills will both spin an,
weave. ]. G. Hail, E. 7. White, ]
NJ. Cur1in aud others are the stock
holders. THE is the nineteenth mil
chartered this year. April 5th the com
pany will organize.
Good progress is being made in IL
work OF constructing the Neuse Rive
Cotton Mills, at the Falls Of Neuse. i
miles north of here The buildin;
Will be entirely of granite, which il
raised out Of the quarry by derrick
and swung right into place in tn
wallis. The dam is also o. granite.
IS to be an 5000 spindle mill.
Articles of incorporation have beer
filed by the Charlotte Waste Company
The incorporators are: Joseph Wall.
worth, Joseph T. Wallworth and Jas
Wallworth. The business will consist
of the manufacturing of and dealing ir
cotton mill waste and all other kinds
of waste used in and about Oil mills
and manufactures. The capital stock
is $4,000, divided into shares of $500
each.
Capt. q. B. Vance, in charge of tn
recruiting in this. State, says it is nov
very slow; SO slow that in the pas
ten days he has not secured a man
This is because no enlistments art
made for service beyond sea, and for
the abundance of work and the increast
OF wages in the State.
1t cost Rowan county $4,000 to stamI
out the smallpox.
SECRETARY Lewis, of the State boaN
of health, says that his report SHOW,
that smallpox was in thirty countie:
during February. There were many
cases at Jonesboro. 1t was the old story
that it was chickenpox. OF course il
| was smallpox.
| The Forsyth Roller Mills" Of Win.
ston. Capital stock $4,000 Incocpora.
tors: W., A. Lemly. R. J. Reynolds. A
| E. HcltCjn, S. F. Crovnor, ]. F. Grit
| fifth, A. F. Mesa;ck, ]. J. Norman, V. P
Moir and J. ]. Wallace. The business
proposed is grinding and dealing il
grain and doing general milling bust
ness.
Asheville has made six year con
tract for electric lights at $3.50 PEE
light. Heretofore they have paid $10'
a year for each light.
Attorney General Walser Glelies tn
Charlotte Observers report that h
would support the constitutional
amendment. He will stick to the 120,
600 negroes.
A Burke county farmer 1esurDtly sob
20 walnut trees for $500 ard the treei
were shipped to Germany. One @
them was feet across the trunk ant
70 feet to the first limb.
The Methodist will build $500
building for Epwcrth school at Bre
ward. It Us the first industrial schoo
to he ba1ilt by the Methodists in Nor.l
9REaetnsa and is succeeding finely.
Elkin GetegateS to the Surry count