The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-03

Carolina Presbyterian Church, in SEES
sion last week al Rocky Mount, ad-
iourned TO meet in Charlotte IN 1911
Solomon Morgan, a farmer living
near Spencer. dropped dead at his
home while attending TO his work. He
was 9 years old and widely respected.
The fund for the Y. n. c. 4. build
ing at Rocky Mount now amounts to
over $4,000 and the projectors are
very we'll satisfied with the result OF
their efforts.
An abduction or elopement is said
to have occurred at Wilson last Sat
urday, when Thomas Cone is report
ed as having run away with the
young daughter of Jesse O'Neal.
News of the death of Hugh Rich
ards Garden, organizer and captain
of the famous Confederate Palmet-
10 battery, has reached Wilmington
from Southport. Death was caused
by apoplexy.
State Judge McLemore has sustain
ed the demurrer Of the Norfolk, Va,
Southern Railway Company's re-or-
ganization committees and dismissed
the bill of the Zell-Vandyke syndi-
cate of Philadelphia.
J. A. Burgess, a well-known farm
or living near Leesville, Wake Coun-
ty, died Saturday afternoon at five
O'Clock at his home as a result OF
Bright's disease, from which he had
been sufferer for some time.
At Durham on Monday the Durham
Lumber Company suffered a loss by
fire amounting to at least $4,000.
The fire is said to have started from
a spark either from a passing loco
motive or the cOmpany's smoke stack.
Another Million dollar cargo of
cotton has been cleared from the port
of Wilmington. The claim is made
that the exports so far this season
from Wilmington exceed those from
any other port on the South Atlantic
coast.
The State Congress Of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution will
be held in Statesville on Wednesday
and Thursday of next week. A full
program has been arranged for the
Congress and a large attendance is
expected.
One of the most disastrous fires
of the year occurred in New Bern
Saturday night when the Norfolk
Southern freight depot, which was To-
Gated in the southern part of the city,
an unknown origin.
G. A. Mills, recently arrested at
Wilson on the charge of bigamy, was
taken to South Carolina and bound
over to the higher court. He is also
said to be implicated in a murder case
and that when arrested he was pre-
pairing to elope with lady from Will
son.
The wife and child of Henry Nor
ris, living near Salisbury, were burn
ed to death late last week. The child
was found by the father lying in the
open fireplace and the mother was
lying across the bed, death having
apparently been caused by suffoca-
ton.
The first week of a tWo-weeks' SEES
sion of the United States Circuit ant
District Courts at New Bern came tt
a close last Saturday. The majority
of cases tried were for illicit distillins
and when sentence was passed on The
offenders eight of them went to the
Federal prison for a term of eighteeI
months.
A monument to the Pennsylvani;
troops who fought during the Civil
War and died at Salisbury is to b.
unveiled at that place by the State o
Pennsylvania, which erected it, OF
the sixteenth of next month. TIL
Governors of Pennsylvania and Nortl
Carolina, with their stats, will b.
present at the ceremony.
r. J. Wentz, of Vance township
gathered LOO pounds of seed cottol
from an acre the first picking, &C
cording to the Monroe Enquirer, an
he says that he thinks just about one
third of the cotton open. Mr.. Went
is making efforts to make four bale
of cotton on an acre and one of thes
years, if he lives and seasons ar
good, he will succeed.
An exchange of courts has bee
arranged and approved by Governo
Kitchin whereby the Northampto
County October 81, the BERTHE Cour
ty court November A and Halifa
court November % will be held