The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-21
FROM MURPHY
TO MANTEO

Hon Theo. F. Kluttz will speak at
Troy, Tuesday. October I'd.
Rev. E. C. Glenn is assisting Rev. w. W.
Rose in ag reat revival at Biscoe
The proposition for the city to purchase
the Greensboro water works has been
postponed.
Nearly every town in. North Carolina
has contributed handsomely to the Gall
weston sufferers.
Mrs. AL. Fairbrother has gone to Ath-
ems Ca, where she and her husband will
start newspaper.
Mrs David Schenck has been appointed
stenographer in the Southern Railway Of
fee at Greensboro.
Two men were badly scalded by the ex-
plosion of boiler at the mill OF Mr.. N.
A. Mcdonald. at Candor.
The new tax levy in Greensboro is $l.0o
on the hundred for general purposes and
soc. for special purposes.
A large addition has been made to the
Central Hotel at Asheboro. which is now
a modern and convenient hostelry.
The Burlington News speaks in high
terms of the sermon Sunday night of Rev.
L. b. Alternately, who will join the Metho-
dist Conference.
The Greensboro Patriot says that every
available room at the Greensboro Female
College Is occupied or engaged and that
the enrolment is very gratifying.
The Wilkesboro Chronicle denies the
report that Mr.. HI. L. Green will not ac-
cept the certificate of election as MEM
Der of the House from Wilkes county.
Wilkesboro will send two good Demo-
Gratis to the National Convention of Clubs
at indianapolis on the I'd of October in
the persons of A. M. Vannoy and r. N.
Hackett.
The report that Mr.. Hardy T.. Gregory
was sick with yellow fever in Cuba is in
correct The Greensboro Telegram says
that he is in perfect health and has not
been sick.
There is an old woman in the camp OF
strolling horse traders near this place,
who is said to be 105 years old and has
14S descendants. of whom AZ are in this
camp.-Chatham Record.
The catch of fish at Morehead has been
wonderfully good this year. The crews OF
two boats alone made catch of more
than thirty thousand pounds of mullets
one day last week. near Morehead
]. z. Peterson has a communication in
the Goldsboro Argus, urging the selection
of Col. W. t. Dortch as solicitor Of the
Fourth district to succeed Mr.. Pou He
pays him a very high and deserved compl1-
ment.
The meeting of the farmers of Scotland
county has been called at Laurinburg,
Tuesday, September 25th, for the purpose
of organizing an association for the adj
vancement of agricultural interests Of the
COUNT.
Mr. BENJAMIN Burhson was caught in a
cotton gin and fatally hurt at his home
near Concord, says the Concord Tribune.
He was a brave Confederate soldier and
attended the Confederate Reunion at
Charleston.
Hon. Thomas B. Womack addressed the
Bryan and Stevenson club at Pittsboro
on Tuesday night. The Record says that
it was an able arrangement of McKin-
ley's imperialistic policy. Mr.. M. T. Will
liams is president of the club
Mr.. Haywood Merritt, OF Pittsboro, has
sold his farm to a gentleman from Wis
consin, and will shortly move with his
family to Mount Airy. He has long been
one Of the first citizens of Chatham and
has represented it in the State Senate.
The Joint canvass between the electors
in the 18th and Sth districts open at Star,
Montgomery county, September oath. Mr.
j. p Blair is the Democratic candidate
and Mr.. ]. r. Rendleman is the Republi-
can candidate. They will make two
speeches a day during the entire cam
paign.
The Seaboard AIR Line has purchased
two thousand freight cars, to be delivered
in the next few months. from the South
Baltimore Car Works. There are to be
one thousand fiat cars. seven hundred
plain box cars. and three hundred venti-
lated, lined box cars. The purchase
price IS $i.S5A.O coo.
The Twin City Sentinel says that the
removal of Milton Neal as postmaster at
WiIkesboro to make place for r. S.
Mccall, brother of Sheriff Mccall, has
stirred up quite breeze among the Re-
publicans in Wilkes county. 1t is be-
1ieved that Linney, who is warm friend
of the McCalls. IS at the bottom of it.