The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-13
FROM MURPHY
TO MANTEO


Mr.. Gideon McFadgen, postmaster at
Cameron, died of apopleXy.
Two men have been jailed in Union
county for driving a horse to death
The Maiden Cotton Mills in Catawba
county, have shut down for repairs.
The Master Mechanics of the Southern
Railway are holding their quarterly
meeting at Spencer.
The Statesville Presbyterians are
greatly pleased with their new pastor,
Rev. G. M. Richards.
Greensboro still has a dispensary and
yet the people are greatly distressed as
to where they will get water.
The Kinston Free Press claims that
Kinston has paid more for cotton this
week than any town I'D the State.
Rev. j. L. Cuninggim, who has been
pursuing his studies in Chicago for two
years, has returned to the State.
Hon. ]. G. Bxton will begin his can
vass in Ashe county next week. Young
Spencer Blackburn has run up with
big man this time.
Mr. John Gray, assistant yard master
of the A. C.L. at Fayetteville, had two
of his toes on the right foot cut off by
the shifting engine.
The Carthage Tribune says that the
Carthage Furniture Factory will add to
their business the manufacture of sash,
doors and blinds, etc.
The Hillsboro Observer says that ne
gro boy, eight years old, was drowned
in the Emo River at the foot of Occonee-
chez Mountains on Saturday.
The Goldsboro Medical Society has re-
quested the city school board not to adj
init any child to the public schools who
has not been successfully vaccinated.
Mr.. r. r. Ross proprietor of the jack
son Springs Hotel has decided to make
it a winter as well as a summer re-
sort. This water has steadily grown in
popular favor.
All trains these days are crowded to the
utmost capacity with tsudents going to
the opening of the various schools and
colleges. The outlook for large attend
anee this year is better than ever be-
fore.
The Greensboro Telegram, referring to
the presence in that city of the ex-sheriff
of Rockingham county, says that includ-
ing himself, sons and grandsons, his fam
lily cast nineteen votes in 1898 for Con-
gresham Kitchin.
James Henderson (colored) native of
Concord, is a justice of the peace in Bos-
ton, and an owner of a considerable por-
tion of Jimtown near Southern Pines. He
is visiting in Concord and will address
the colored Odd Fellows.
The Lenoir News reports that cross
ties to widen the gauge of the railroad
from Lenoir to Chester, ere being dis
tributed along the line. The ties are
made of heart pine and most of them
come from South Carolina.
The Charlotte News reports that the
Republicans have opened headquarters
in that city and will press the fight for
Mckinley in that section of the State.
p. M. Mcmillan is in charge. OF course!
Federal office holders run Republican
politics, State and Federal.
The Salisbury Daily Truth Index says
that W. M. Morgan, of Elizabeth City, is
in Jail at that place. He was employed
by the L. B. Price Company of Norfolk,
Va. and was short in his accounts. lie
was a fine salesman and was highly es-
teemed until he bgan to dissIpatc.
The pastors of the Methodist, Baptist
and Presbyterian churches in Green's
boro held last night a union meeting to
pray for rain. The drought in that Sec
ton has been so terrible that water is
hard to get, and the preachers believe
that rain will come in answer to prayer.
Mr.. Noah Brady, of Conover, vouches
for the statement that there are no
singing worms on the corn this year.
He thinks the Democrats disfranchised
them and they left the county. The far
mers can now pull fodder and thank the
Democrats for protection against worms.
Newton Enterprise.
The Lenoir News reports that the sur
veyors have found two very satisfactory
routes from the top of the Blue Ridge
to Cary's Flat The work on either of
the lines will not be as heavy as on the
western route near Round Knob and SO
far. only one six hundred foot tunnel has
been found necessary.
The Fayetteville Observer says that
the eight-year- old son of Mr.. Tucker
Welsh was bitten on the fore finger of
the right hand by snake while the
boy was gathering grapes. His hand,
shoulder and face are dreadfully swollen,
and he is seriously, though not fatally
ILL., The snake was green
Mrs. A. w. Davis, of Webster, is in a
physicians hands as a result of a sim
gular occurrence. She was aroused by
some noise in her house and went to
see what caused it. Her husband awak-
ened and saw her moving about the
house but did not recognize her. He
seized the first thing at hand, an iron
poker, and threw it at her. 1t struck
her head
The progressive farmers of Caldwell
county have organized a live stock as
ssociation with G. d. Coffey as president
and John H. Pruitt as secretary The
Lenoir News says: ''All infected cattle
and farms in the county will be placed in
strict local quarantine and everything
done that can be to rid the county of
every vestige of splenetic fever or dis
temper and distember ticks. There are
only a few places in the county where
any ticks exist and the work of this
stock association or club will soon ex-
terminate them"
Carr For Senator.