North Carolina Newspapers

fHE PROGRESSIVE PlRSiliK, MARCH 25, 1890. in tv v. O If 4 I f 1.1 1 (J V ' general state news. Cream of the State Press.' Drops of Turpentine aud Grains of Eteo from the Bast ; Clusters of nr.. pes aud Tooacco Steins from the Xvith ; Malks f 'O' n Grain of Wheat from the Weet, and Peanut at d Cotton tieed from the South, A shell road is being built' at South port. There are 27 inmates in the Shelby poor house. Fort-wo counties of North Carolina havevno fence law. The Lutheran Seminary is Charlotte's latest achievement. The religeous controversy at Charlotte continues unabated. Mr. J. N. Biggerstaff, of Forest City has made an assignment. Mr. Henry Fairly has been appointed postmaster at Fairly's. Two thousand five hundred Indians live in North Carolina. There are one'.hundred hands, at work on the canal at Weldon. The Oxford Orphan Asylum has be tween 250 and 300 inmates. Mocksville now "sports" a private telegraph line' says the Times. Capt. S. V. Pickens is building a street railroad line in Hendersonville. The average elevation of the State above the sea level is 600 feet " Work will begin on the waterworks at Henderson in about sixty days. Governor Gordon will be commence ment orator at Davidson College. : A wagon factory with a capital of $30, Ol 0 is to be erected in Greensboro. The fruit crop has been damaged all over the State by the recent freeze. Mr. Harris of Williamston has been ap pointed railroad agent at Jamesville. There is talk of renewing the mail route between Southport and Little River. The railroads of the State are estimated as worth $10,000,000 to $12,000,000. Mrs. W. O. Green, of Franklin, has passed away at the ripe old age of 83. Gov. Holden has had another stroke of paralysis, and is in a critical condition. The Salisbury Presbyterians have re solved to build a new house of worship. People of Halifax county are unable to obtain help on account of the negro exo dus. Four hundred convicts are at work on the C. F. & Y. V. Railroad above Mt. Airy. "Winston is to celebrate the Fourth of July and is taking steps to advertise the town. There are 2,000 visitors at Asheville who spend on an average six dollars a day each. Southport is attempting to live on the same piece of laid with a newly organized brass band. A storm in Reidsville Tuesday of la it week unroofed the bank and did much other damage. A Mrs. Chambers was accidentally shot by her little son one morning last week near Asheville, Marion expects" to have a cotton factory SOon. it is proposed to make the capital stock $100,000. Rev. F. W. Eason, late of Fayetteville, is now pastor of the First Baptist church of St. Joseph, Mo. Judge Spier Whitaker has tendered his resignation as Chairman oif the State Ex ecutive Committee. The Baptist denomination in this State gives upwards of $30,000 annually to benevolent purposes. Jesse Brown, who shot and killed Fora Ann Harris, in Craven county, is to be hanged on April 4th. y Wake Forest College had the largest representation at the Y. M. C. A. Con vention in Goldsboro. Evangelist Fife conducted a meeting at Concord last week, and a hundred and fifty professed religion. The Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley is now engaged in building a branch road to the quarries near Mt Airy We learn that Mr. T. J. Meacham will soon commence manufacturing mattresses in Kinston. Fee Press. Rev. A. W. Crabtree, of Longwood, has added thirty members to his churches during the past few months. . The Gazette says that the surveyors are at work between Leaksville and Madison on the Danville & East Tennessee Rail road. Rev. Jesse W. Siler has entered upon his work a3 pastor of the Shelby Presby terian Church and was given a warm wel come. A little son of Mr. D. M. Henderson, who lives near Hamlet, was killed last Wednesday by the accidental discharge of a gun. Several prominent truckers in this locality say they will plow up their peas this week and replant Others say they will plant other crops. Fruit growers say the early crop is all killed, but the latter varieties will be benefited by the recent frost. Elizabeth City News. The Elizabeth Ciry, News , reports that the fisheries are5doing better this week. Fresh shad aod hillings are arriving evt rv d yt . ; , The recent, cold weather was damaging up'"n vr-pvtabl'.-s and frni but will uo much to save final! grain from; the ravages of insects. . . .-. J.D.Austin, a meichanY at Polktoni has made an assignment. He. owes sev eral Charlotte firms small amouots, so the Chronicle, says. Monroe is moving to build a cotton fac tory. Union is a gre t cotton growing county and a; factory there well managed would pay well. The fourteen-year old step daughter of Samuel Lawin k, of Paw Creek township, Mecklenburg county, was badly burned on the 19th inst A woman named Phecebe Wilson, in Harnett county, is one hundred and nine years old, has been twice married, and has 300 descendants. A Stanly county man married three times, is the father of thirty-two children eleven by his first wife nina by his second fourteen by his third. A merchant of Fayetteville tells the Chronicle that $125,000 have been invested there in the last six months in small manu factures. The old town is booming ! , Over 1,175,000 feet of lumber were sold in Greensboro during the month , of February. Over -3,000,000 feet, it is esti mated, -will be sold during the present month. o . . . A fire at Thomasville on the night of the 20th destroyed a number of business houses. "All the buildings and stocks of goods were insured for two-thirds of their value. " The Durham Globe says : We have it in definite shape at last. Mr. W. Duke will give Trinity College $85,000, and Mr. J. S. Carr has given the site that cost him $20,000. The Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail road bridge over the Cape Fear river at Fayetteville is in many respects the finest and most substantial structure of its kind in the South. The shirt and drawers factory, operated in this city by Messrs. J ohn Rodderick & Co., is one of the new industries of Fayetteville, and starts off well.-1 Fayette ville Observer. The Charlotte News of the 18th says that a little child of Joe Henderson, who lives on Mr. Lewis Sloop's place, in Mal lard Creek townsh p, was burned to death last Monday. W. R. Crawford, Jr., was elected Stew ard of the Raleigh Insane Asylum and Mrs. Annie Goodloe was chosen matron. The salary of the steward was reduced from $1,600 to $1,250. The S:ates ville Landmark says that Dr. J. J. Mott and Messrs. J. T. and J. C. Sullivan and G. S. Daniel have determ ined upon the building of a roller process flour mill in that place. The Reidsville correspondent of the Danville Register reports that the brick yards of Reidsville are unable to supply the town with brick and they are now being snipped from Danville The Chatham Record ys that two negro children were burned to death on the farm of Mr. Mike Crawford, in Hadley township, last week. Mother and father went away. Same old sad story. The town of Oxford has assessed the two railroad companies having depots within the corporate limits an anual taxa tion Oxford and Henderson $3,000, and the Oxford and Clarksville $6,000. Mr. Frank Fries, of Salem, N. C, con templates erecting a large cotton factory at Madison, N. C, this being the present terminus of the Madison branch of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad. Mr. Joseph Swindell, ot North Caro lina, who has been policeman at the national capitdl f or some years, has been removed and Mr. Brower has appointed one of his constituents to fill the place. Winston is to have a fertilizer factory. Mr. R. J. Reynolds, one of the Twin City's largest tobacco manufacturers, is at the head of the enterprise. The fertilizer will be made of tobacco stems, phosphates, etc. J. H. & R. L. Holt, managers of Glen coe and Carolina Cotton Mills, of Ala mance county, have purchased a site for a one hundred thousand dollar factory and will erect the same at once at Burlington, N. C. The Waynes ville Courier complains of the mails in Western North Carolina. There never was a time when the people complained so loudly of the delay in get ting mail and had so just a cause of com plaint. The largest nugget of gold found in North Carolina in a number of years was taken from the Stanly Freehold Mine last Friday night It weighed over three pounds, was pure gold and was worth over $750. Capt H. A. Judd, superin tendent of the mine, had the nugget in Salisbury Saturday evening, and it was seen by many of our citizens, all of whom pronounced it the largest and richest nug get they ever saw. Salisbury Herald. The waer in Tar river is so hiph at Tarboro that the steamer Beta connpt pass under the railroad bridge. Shipping is thus cut f ff from the Fafnu-rs' Oil Mifls arid it'xa f id th comja?ty wilt ;ne ' the railroad " ; The way of the transgressor is hard, especially at Oxford. A .negro man was sent to the penitentiary for a year for stealing a five cent drink of whiskey, and another four years," for stealing an opossum. It is rumored that a large deposit of phosphate rock has been discovered in Cumberland county near Fayetteville. Specimens of the "find" have been sent to the State Geological Department for examination. A conscience contribution of $16 in an envelope, postmarked Charlotte, N. C, and signed "My Conscience,' has been received at the Treasury Department at Washington and placed in credit of the Consc ence Fund. We learn from a corresp- ndent of the Daily that there are some 40 or 60 build ings under contract in Mt. Airy. There are three cigar manufactories, and six plug and twist tobacco factories will operate th's year. At a recent meeting of the board of directors of Davidson College it was de cided that the commencement exercises be held a week earlier than usual this year. The commencement will therefore be on the 12th of June. Ten thousand dollars have been added to the capital stock of the Fayetteville Cotton Mills. The factory is fitted up with the latest improved machinery and has orders for all of the thread it can turn out by running day and night The. Mail carrier between SmithviJle and Sparta reports that a barrel was found floating down the Caney Fork River and caught at the mouth of Indian Creek, containing a live baby about a week old. It had floated about seventy miles. A report is in circulation that an Eng lish syndicate has an agent traveling through this State making arrangements to buy up all the cotton factories, but judging from careful inquiries the "agent" is traveling to produce a sensation merely. Miss Fannie Miller, a twelve-year-old daughter of Mrs. Sallie Miller, living near Mirauda, Rowan county, was burned to death a few days ago. She was in the kitchen, and when her clothing caught fire she ran out in the open air and all her clothing was soon burned off. Arthur Davidson, a ten year-old negro boy, was found dead in a pile of cotton seed hulls at the oil mills in Charlotte one morning last week. He had been seen digging holes in the hulls some days be fore, but it was not known that he was buried for nearly a week afterward. The Press and Carolinian says that the firm of Cilly & Murrill have been em ployed to bring suits for $10,000 each against the railroad companies for the families of Robert Moose and Charlie Sherrill, who were killed in this county on the Western and Narrow Gauge roads. The First National bank of Winston, has purchased a lot 43x100 feet, next to thS Hanes building, for $5,500 from Brown & B own. These gentlemen have exhib.ted a very commendable public spirit in pricing this very desirable prop erty at so low a figure. Twin-City Daily. The New lianover county poor houe was burned on the night of the 18th. The county lost about $1,500 worth of property. Mr. S. H. Terry, the superin tendent, lost considerable private prop erty. The Wilmington Messenger is satis fied that the fire was the work of an in cendiary. The people of Fayetteville were much worked up over the "false alarm" pub lished in the Greensboro Patriot about moving the. C. F. & Y. V. shops to that point This can never be done, as the company's outlay and preparations for the future are too great, besides other con siderations. Governor Fowle has signed the follow ing military commissions : R. A. L. Hyatt, Captain of Company C, Fourth Regiment, at Waynesville; S. S. Hyatt, 1st Lieuten ant of the same. H. G. Ryan, 1st Lieu tenant of Company K. Fourth Regiment, at Dallas; E. L. Mason, 2d Lieutenant of the same company. One of the fertilizer dealers says that there was not more than one-fourth the fertilizers bought by the farmers of this county, as compared with the sales of last year this time. He says that his sales in many of the adjoining counties have some what increased, but in Edgecombe there is great decrease m the sales. Tarboro Southerner. Winston Daily: Bro. Pepper, of the Reporter-Post, thinks there is no doubt now regarding the building of the Danville, and East Tennessee road from Danville, Va., to Mt Airy, N. C. He informed us yesterday that he was in receipt of letters from the president of the road, Gen. Tnos. E. Ewing and Senator T. B. Piumb, of Kansas, who are making inquiries re garding the resources of Stokes and adjoining counties through which the road will pass. ! . The Greene boro Worlcman of Saturday evenfng has the following news: "The Ry. T. M. Joiner, who has had his name in th news papers so ruuch of, late on account --.f.. hi- app -a'intr ' ttv th British mini.-ter W prot iviw;, boa ded the r rain with his wife this morning for Cincinnati Atrleast he had his baggage checked to that point" . " e attention of Justices of the Peace is. palled to the law permitting them to serhtfcce crimiLals to the chain gang for a term of 30 days." Jf Justices have the aWoveright all over the State it would be a mKt 00( Pan t0 exercse lt instead of sending petty cases to the Superior Court and inflicting a big bill of ccst on the county. Ex. The Wilmington Messenger says : " The good people of Goldsboro are always public-spirited and progressive if anything, and we are not surprise b it yet extreme ly gratified, thai her subscription to the general fund of the Y. M. C. A leads the State, being $425. The contest seems to have been between Charlotte and Golds boro, aud the latter won." The Charlotte Chronicle says thk At lanta and Charlotte Air Line, part of the Richmond and Danville system, at a stock holders' meeting, have elected the follow ing directors : Eugene Kelly (president), P. P. Dickinson, James H. Young, Richard Irwin, R. H Rochester, H. W. Sibley, Joseph Bryan, B. R. McAlpine, 8, Wil mer, ;C. S.' Fairchild, Charles M. Frye and Michael J enkins. The Raleigh Visitor has the following to say about a furniture factory : " Two gentlemen from Tennessi e, experienced in the business, have been in Raleigh this week with a vie w to establishing a fur niture factory. They are much pleased with the prospect and offer to put $11,000 into a $20,000 plant, which they say is quite sufficient to enter upon the business on a large scale. Capt. P. S. KneelanJ, civil engineer, assfsted by Mr. H. McNama, has just com peted the survery of the railroad from Concord to Mount Pleasant. Mount Pleasant township voted some time ago an appropriation of $28,000 for the pur pose of starting the work. The road begins on the old street car line at the old court house square, by the fair g ounds, thence eas-t to Mount Pleasant. Henderson Tomahawk: Mary Robin son a colored servant at the Hotel Massen burg, trod or a nail the night Southerland's stables burned, but continued to attend to her duties, till Tuesday midday when she complained of a soreness in her jaws, arid- Mr. Metsenburg sent her home ,at Ridgeway on the one o'clock tra:n. While preparing the banquet table Wednesday night, Mr. Messenburg received a telegram from Ridgeway stating she had just died of lockjaw. Maj. A. A. McKeithan will shortly have in operation another bucket factory, fit ting up the west buildings of his exten sive carriage manufactory, which are capacious and well located, and in every way fitted for utilization to this purpose. Maj. McKeithan is negotiating for the needed machinery, with which he will turn out buckets, churns, etc., juniper be ing used solely as material. Fayetteville Qbserver Concord Timfs: Several farmers in No. 5, we learn, are ploughing up their wheat and sowing oats inrftewfl. Miss Emma Phillips, of Concord, diel here last Sunday morning of consuarption. She had been ill for some time. She was 32 years old. Mr. Christopher Overcash, of near Enochville died last Sunday in his 81st year. His wife survives him, they having been married over fitty years, They had fifty-four children, grand children and great-grandchildren. The Monroe Enquirer and Express brings news of a terrible accident in Union county a few days ago. Messrs. Hillie McCall and W. N. White were riding in a dog cart and were carrying their guns. Their dogs set a covey of birds near the road and while Mr. White was getting out of the cart Mr. McCall dropped his gun and the hammer coming in contact with some part of the cart, it instantly exploded, the entire load enter ing Mr. McCall's side and ranging upward. The unfortunate man expired in a few moments. An Asheville detective thinks he has located Walter Bingham, the deaf mute murderer of Miss Turing ron, at Antwerp, Germany, and ij so certain that he is on the right track that he has offered to go across the water at his own expense, if the government will reimburse him if the man is found to be the one wanted. A letter to that effect was written to the Attorney General, but he replied that he had no authority ia the matter. T. e re ward has been withdrawn, and unless the State cares to take 3ome steps in the matter it will rest as it is. ; Capt E. E. Everett, a conductor on the Carolina Central Railroad, has in vented a device for keeping cars on the track when the wheels leave the rails. It is a stationary steel shoe about half an inch from the rim of the car wheel, and is so arranged on either side that it catches on the track when the wheels Jeave the rails. When it falls to the rails the brakes are put on by means of an attach ment in the bottom of the shoe, which closes the valves, thus stopping the cars. Railroad men, who have examined the invention, say that it is a valuable one. Capt Everett has gone to Washington to confer with prominent railroad men in re gard to putting it into use. Charlotte Chronicle. THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD : FOR A WEEK. Stettin, March 18 All the ship car e:.ter m this' city have gone on u stnke. It is reported that a fraudulent transac tion involving $2,000,000, has been un earthed at Frdericksburg, Va. London, March 18. The outlook for a victory for striking miners grows more favorable hourly. .It look now as if the men would surely win. . Peoria, 111., March 18- The large dry goods house of Petedu, Mills & Co., was destroyed by fire this morning. The loss will be about $200,000. Grenada, Miss.,. March 19. Mael J. Cheatham was hanged at half past one o'clock this afternoon for the murder of a negro named Tillman. Fiftv thousand women are reported as having voted at the school election recent ly neld in Kansas. Many of them were elected on the school boards. Two men attempted to rob J. B. Wes ton, of olorado, in Salt Lake City last week. Weston killed both of them and then surrendered to the police. At Orri ville, Ohio, on the 19th, while at a birthday party, a young man, Finley Casky, killed himself because other young men were paying attention to his sweet heart ' ; , A dispatch from Chattanooga states that City Auditor Whitesides is short in his accounts to the amount of $6,882, and has fled. It is thought that he has gone to Canada. ; . j .New York, March 18. The proprietors of the big steam laundries in the Unitedj States representing, it is said, $25,000,000 in their plants, have decided that the Chinese laundrymen must be driven out of the business. Richmond, Va., March 18. General Jubal A. Early has just sent his check for a thousand dollars to the Lee monu ment board to defray the expenses inci dent to the unveiling of the statue of Gen eral R. E. Lee on May 29 th. State Treasurer Noland, of Missouri, has been found short in his accounts in the sum of $35,000, and he has been sus pended from office. ,fThe money is sup posed to have been lost at draw poker. His bondsmen will foot the bill. A dispatch from Manchester, England, brings the information that fourteen thou sand loooms are standing idle and three thousand people1 are out of employment. The factories cannot get coal to run on account of a strike among the coal workei s. Indianapolis, Ind., March 17. During a fire this afternoon, in the Bowen. Morrill & Co., Book and Paper Company store, the rear wall fell and killed a dozen people, and seriously injured a great many more. So far seven bodies have been taken from the debri and seventeen ot the injured recovered Berlin, March 18. There is a crisis on in government circles. Its exact nature cannot be positively stated this morning. The entire ministry has resigned. Prince Bismarck has resigned. So has Count Herbert Bismarck. The resignation of Prince Bismarck, it is understood, has been accepted. Liverpool, March 18. The striking dock laborers have become riotous. Thirty thousand of them marched through the streets in procession to-day, and assumed an attitude so threatening that te magis tracy were compelled to invoke the aid of the military, which were called out to keep them quiet Charleston, S. C, March 19. The trial of Robert James, who hired two negroes to murder his father, in order that he might inherit his estate, has just been concluded. It was p ved that James gave the negroes $500 each for their bloody work. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree. He was remanded for sentence. The Louisiana Lottery Company for warded to the Governor $100,000 to be used to protect the people of Louisiana against inundation in consequence of the Mississippi river. This money was de clined by the Governor because it is on the eve .of the session of the Legislature, during which tha renewal or extension of their character will be acted upon. Pittsburg, March 17. Mr. Leishman, of Carnegie & Co., says that the 2,000 tons of Bessemer pig iron ordered by the firm from Alabama, proves to be unfit for the making of steel. It contains too much phosperous and sulphur. The firm will order no more Southern iron, and Mr. Leishman says the Southern ores will never be shipped to this district on any extensive scale. Moreillton, Ark., March 19. Deputy Sheriff James, of this place, was murdered in cold blood at Germantown Monday night He saw two men in camp near town, and believing they were wanted for safe burglary at Depot, attempted to arrest them. He was armed with a shot gun and had one attendant who was un armed. He invited the men to a saloon and they accepted the invitation. While on the way they divined his purpose and shot and killed him. They escaped. Prof. K. StoLe Wiggins, the Canadian weather pn phet, has predicted a violent ftocni. He, as it will be felt &' over the woild, Ki;d w ill reach Europe from the 17'h to 19fh jnst It wi:' 1 nrst over u.e continent of America bctwuea the 21st and 22d inst Nothing short of a miracle, he says, will prevent the de struction of shipping that may be caught out of harbor. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes will take place in the Soutk and on the PHjifict coast and also Ja Europe. London, March 18. The outlook for victory for the. striking miners grow more favorable hourly. It looks now at if the men would surely win. Many more of the mine owners in NotiDghamshiro and Lancashire have conceded the de mands of the men. The feeling is grow ing that the men will refuse to meet oa Thursday the committee of mine officers appointed for the purpose of conferring with the men and adjusting their differ ences. It is believed that the men will insist on their demands iu full. f The fastest time on record, for the world, for a lorig distance, was made oa the Pennsylvania Rulroad, between New York and Washington, on Monday last The occasion was an entertainment to bo given in the latter city for the benefit of the Actors' Fund, by the Madison Square Company. The object was to play ia Washington City in, the afternoon and at New York at theiilsual hour at Light, and it was accomplished. The distance between the two cities is 227 miles and th"3 was accomplished in 4 hours and 17 minutes coming South and 4 hours and T8 minutes on the return. It was a special train consisting of 'three cars and a baggage car and it was pulled by the biggest engine on the road. There were 80 people on board. Flagmen were stationed within sight of each other along the 227 miles of road, so that the engineer had a signal always in view. The average running time was 54 miles per hour for the 454 miles covered and at times the speed of the train reached 70 miles an hour. The receipts of the benefit amounted to $2,143.50. These facts are gathered from a very interesting report in the New York Star. YELLOW FEVER IN BRAZIL. Paris, March 18. Telegrams received here from Rio De Janeiro state that yel low fever has broken out at Campinas and San Paulo, Brazil. THE PRICE OF FINE COTTON GOODS TO BE AD VANCED. Montreal, March 19. The Gray Cot ton Manufacturers' Association has agreed to an advance of 1 cents per pound on the price of the finer cottons. a railroad collision. Baraboo, Wis., March 19. A collisioa of passenger trains occurred at Lavalle on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad this morning. Four passengers were seriously injured and several others were slightly hurt, SEVEN MEN KILLED BY INDIANS. Silver City, N. M., March 19. A man named Carmichael, who arrived here on Monday night on the Coney stage, report that seven persons have been killed by the Indians on the Litt e Blue, which is about 20 miles from Alma. WAYLAID AND SnOT DEAD Wrightsnille, Ga., March 18. Mr. Bob Raiford, lumber inspector at Garbutt & Co.'s mil', at Shann, Ga., was shot dead by a negro, who waylaid him on his way to work this morning. The murderer is still at large. Port Townsend, Wis. March 18. Miss Regina Roschild, aged 17 years, left here lat night to race around the world against George Francis Train. Citizens of this place contributed $3,000 to defray her expenses. city of Mexico's fine hotel. A syndicate of Mexican capitalists are erecting in the city of Mexico a hotel which they say will be the finest on the American cominent. The lowest estimate of its cost is $2 000 000. Of this sum the Diaz government will provide $1 000,000 in the form of a subsidy, in addition to granting the importation of free material to be used in the construction. The hotel will be five stories in height, and will contain 400 guest chambers built about a court, the dimensions of which will be 100 by 225 feet. Parkeesbcrg, W. Va., March 19. Perry Goff, aged 1C, was stabbed to death by Morgan Rose, a school teacher in the Beach Hill school house, Clay county, on Monday. Goff came to school late, ahd the teacher attempted to correct him. Goff resisted and the teacher knocked him down with a club. Goff then went away and returned ghortly after with his father and two others The quarrel was resumed and Rose stabbed young Goff, killing him almost instantly. A general free fight ensued, in which the eider Goff, Rose and several others were injured. OFFICIALS INDICTED. The interest in the investigation before the New York Legislative Committee ot the present and former sheriffs of New York increases every day. The evidence so far discloses a lack of system that is most shocking and a corruption that ought to be punished. The indictment of Keat ing and McGonigal has bee n swiftly fol lowed by the arrest of the Deputy Com missioner of Public Works, Bernard F. Martin, for bribery, of the ex-dt puty of the sheriff's office and custodian of the Register's office, Philip V. Walsh, f-r bribery, and of Deputy Sheriff Patrick Fitzgerald for petit larceny and exjortion.