THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1891.
THE ROANOKE NEWS.
THURSDAY MARCH 19. 1891.
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
AS CULLED I'ROM OUR EXCHANGES.
Goldsboro is to have a cigar manufac
tory. Much building is going on in Dur
ham. In Chatham county a boy ten years old
weighs 122 pounds.
The shops of the Richmond and Dan
"fille railroad will be removed to Char
lotte. A new hotel, to be called the "Zinzen
dorf,'' to cost 8100,000, is to be erected
at Winston.
Nearly a hundred persons were con
Terted at a mscting just closed in Wood
ville, Randolph county.
The Board of Directors of the Girls
Training School will sood meet to select
a location for the school.
The Danville 'Tobacco Journal' says
Raleigh seems destined to be the leading
leaf tobacco market in North Carolina.
Durham's live people rejoice at prospects
of a $25,000 graded school building au
thorized by the Legislature, after vote of
the people.
Captain Kirkpatrick, Greensboro,
brings suit, $10,000 against the Ameri
can Mutual Accident Association for the
loss of an eye.
There is a natural stone bridge in Jack
son county across the Tuckaseegee river.
It is 50 feet wide and 60 feet long, and
is one solid rock.
Gov. Fowle has appointed Prof. J. A.
Holmes of the State University, as State
Geologist under the act to provide for a
geological survey.
Alamance could not stand $300 for the
State Chemist's analysis of a dead ne
gro, and the coroners jury concluded
that he was bitten by a mad dog.
The centennial of Washington's visit
to the Salem academy will be celebrated
by that ancient institution of learning
during the next commencement exercises.
Some malicious person cut the main
38 inch driving belt of the new Odell
mill at Concord, stopping the machinery
and throwing 4000 people out of work
for a day.
Fayetteville is said to have made the
largest per centage of gain this year in
cotton receipts than any town in the
State. It received 10,192 bales against
7,926 last year.
A freight train was wrecked on the
Carolim Central road last Saturday and
a train hand was badly hurt. The tender
jumped th track and thirteen cars fol
lowed down a thirteen feet embankment.
Xt occurred near Rockingham.
Among the gradmtes of Wake Forest
college there are 121 ministers, 94 law
yers, 38 farmers, 29 physicians, 1G mer
chants, 18 ministers and teachers, 8 pro
fessors and preachers, 8 journalists, 5
soldiers killed in war, 5 foreign mission
aries, 5 druggists and chemists, 20 scat
tering, or occupation unknown.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
NORTH CAROLINA,
HALIFAX COUNTY.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT.
March Term 1891.
Orphia Harrison, '
against
Eliza Harrison.
NOTICE
BY
PUBLICATION.
This is an action for divorce brought by
the plaintiff, Orphia Harrison, against the
defendant Eliza Harrison, and the defen
dant is hereby notified to appear at the
Superior Court for Halifax county to be
liold on the 10th Monday after the first
Monday in March 1891, (May 11th) and an
swer or demur to the complaint which is
filed in th office of the Clerk of the Superi
or court for Halifax county.
This March 4 th 1891.
JOHN T. GREGORY,
Clerk Superior Court.
3-12-6w.
The undersigned having qualified before
the clerk of the Superior court as adminis
trator of the estate of John H. Shaw dee'd.
on the 15th day of December 1890, hereby
notifies all persons holding claims against
said estate to present them to him at his
office in Weldon, N. C, on or before twelve
months from the date of this notice or tht
same will be pleaded in bar thereof.
All persons indebted to said estate are re
- quested to make Immediate payment. This
the 11th day of February, 1891.
W. E. DANIEL,
Adin'r. of John H. Shaw, dee'd.
2-12-Sw.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
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LAND -:- SALE.
By virtue of the power conferred upon
me by a niortpicedeed made by .lames If.
McGec and his wife Agnes McGee hearing
date the 30th (lay of October 18-1, anil rec
orded in the Registers office for Halifax
county in book 72, page 4!i.", I shall on the
fith day of April 18!U, that heing the first
Monday in said month, proceed to sell ut
public auction, in the town of Weldon,
North Carolina to the highest bidder
FOR CASH, the tract of land described iu
said mortgage. Said tract is about three
miles from Weldon ami on the load lead
ing from Weldon toGnston, containing two
hundred acres, more or less. This land is
sold to pay the amount due on two notes
given by said McGee and wife, and for
which the said mortgage was made to se
cure. This Until day of Februaiy 1 801.
E. I.THOMAS,
Mortgagee.
2-2fi-tds.
SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
Whereas on the 4th day of February
1891, a deeree was made in the cause of
Edward T. Clark, as administrator of Eli
za N. Edmunds against W. C. Powell di
recting the administrator to sell the lands
of the late Eliza K. Edmunds to make as
sets. Now, therefore in pursuance of said
decree, I shall on the first Monday of
April (Gth day of the month) sell at public
auction to the highest bidder that tract of
land situated in Halifax county, wl.ieh is
described in the special proceeding for par
tition entitled W. C. Powell and Augusta
T. Powell his wife and Eliza N. Edmunds
an infant under twenty-one years of age,
suing by her mother and next friend M.
W. Edmunds, ex parte determined in the
Superior court of said county on the 1.1th
day of December 1882, to-wit; Lot No. 1,
on which is located the dwelling housecon
taining one hundred and forty acres begin
ning at W. M. Perkins' corner on path
leading from Ebenezer . to Edmunds old
Chapel, thence running N 7J E 2G2 poles
to a dogwood, gnm, past oak and 2 piues
pointers, thence W. 5 3 poles 7 links to an
ash on Watery Branch thence up said
branch to a large poplar, thence S 7 W
250 poles to a stake on the aforesaid path
thence with said path 86 poles to the be
ginning. Also a few pieces of household furniture.
TERMS : One-third c.xh, residue on
12 months time, bond with approved se
curity, bearing 8 per cent, interest from
day of sale. EDWARD T. CLARK,
Adm'r. of E. N. Edmunds.
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NORTH CAROLINA,
HALIFAX COUNTY,
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT.
A. C ZOLT.ICOFFER,
AGAINST.
Todd Johksov, Sam. SUM
Joh.vson, Hamp John- MONS.
son and Petes John
son. TV defendants Todd Johnson, Sam Jul.u
son and Hamp Johnson are notified that a
petition lor the sale of certain real estate
to-wit: a small tract of land near Weldou,
N. C, for partition, has been filed in this
office. -
And they are hereby summoned to be
and appear before the clerk of the Superi
or court at his office in the town of Halifax
connty and State aforesaid, on Monday the
6th day of April 1891, and answer or de
mur to the petition which has been filed in
said office.
And the defendants are also notified that
If they fail to appear and answer as above
set forth, judgment will be reudered against
tbem as prayed for In said petition.
Witness John T. Gregory, Clerk Soperi
or court of Halifax connty, at office in Hal
ifax, N. C. ' -, "
This 11th day of February 1891.
, JOHN T. GREGORY, '
Clerk Superior Court-
2-19-6w.
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