The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-01

Mr.. j. N. Ramsey, of Seaboard, has |
raised $75 toward erecting a Confederate
monument to Northampton county sol
dIers.
Rev. S. B. Turrentine raised 5000 at |
Charlotte and Charlotte District Confer
ence for Greensboro Female College. He |
thinks the amount will be considerably in
creased from the district.
Bath, N. c., July 31-Ed Cox was at
tackled by two robbers a night or two
ago. They cut his clothes badly and Sc
cured $23.91 Cox does not know whether
the robbers were white or black.
Spring Hope, N. c., July 31-John Pur-
due, who lnsulted Mrs Tant at her home
Sunday Is still at large. She lives about
four miles from town, near Red Cross
Roads. Her son, who was accidentally
shot in the scuffie, is not expected to live. |
An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging
on the north side of Neuse River, in this
county. Many families are stricken and
in some cases not enough are well in a
settlement to care for the sick ones. Here
remarkably healthy.
Wilson, N. c., July 31.-F'ire broke out
in the lumber yards of Eagles Bros. about
five miles from Crisp, on the Farmville-
Wilson road last night and destroyed
about 10000 feet of lumber. Strenuous
and well directed efforts saved the mill.
There was no insurance.
On Wednesday afternoon of last week
Milledgeville factory was greatly damaged
by a hurricane. The factory building
was unroofed and damaged from 81 800 to
$4,000. Maj. w. A. Smith, of Ansonville, |
is president of, and is largely interested in,
this factory.-Wadesbor Messenger.
Rev. Thad. A. Cheatham held services |
in the Episcopal church at this place, on |
last Sunday, and made a most favorable |
impression upon the large congregation |
in attendance. He will not move here and
assume his duties as rector OF the church |
until the middle of August.-Chatham Re- |
cord.
Wilson, N. c., July 31-Dennis Jarnigan
and A. F. Paul picture agents, reached
here from South Carolina a few days ago. |
They were both i'll and Dr. w. F. Ander-
son, Supt, of Health, finding they were
suffering with smallpox had them remov-
ed to the pest house outside the corporate
limits.
The Barium orphans annual picnic, held
yesterday at Moorsvlle, was a great sue
cess There was large attendance. The
managers netted 571.69 for the orphanage. |
Dr. b. F. Dixon, State Auditor delivered
the address of the occasion, which was very
entertaining and nstructive-Statesvill !
Landmark.
Albemarle, N. c., July 31.-One day re-
Gently a negro boy of fourteen was cut
by Jonah Caudle, so seriously that the
boys life is despaired Of The deed was
committed at a wheat threshlng at
Caudes home. 1t is said that Caudle had
been drinking and that the negro boy
laughed at him because he staggered. |
Caudle has not vet been apprehended.
At the opening of the tobacco market
here tobacco came in from all sections
of the county and every warehouse was
mate places the quantity sold at $4,000, !
while some say that more than 100000
pounds were sold. The prices range from
$3.50 to $500 per hundred. -Smithfield
Herald.
Wadesboro, N. c., July 31.-While tear T
ing off the shingles of an old house here /
belonging to Mrs. Mary Huntley the 7
workman found beneath a hole two feet +
square that had been sawed in the sheath /
ing portions of the body of a man. The
body had been partially eaten by rats
Dried flesh still abered to the fingers of
the right arm. When or by whom the re-
mains were placed there is unknown.
Southern Pines, N. c., July 31-A ban
quet was given last night by Dr. Edwin
GladmOn to DR.. +. M. Moye, OF Winston,
at the Southern Pines Sanitarium DR..
Moye came here last week to institute
Southern Pines chapter of Royal Arch
Masons. The principal toasts were re
sponded to by DR.. Moye. Mayor Fergu-
son and Rev. DR.. Mnete. Covers were
laid for thirty and every prominent official
of the town, and nearly all those of the
county were OrpSpnt