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HiENSBORO NORTH STATE: Thursday, January 8, 189 ORYiOF WHY, CERTAINLY. 'Not one of the names of the Uailfd Stat i begins with TV ftvscrtcd Bjone, and he refnycvl to answer when Bjenks aked. him cA.sal- FKOM ALL OVER THE STATE. -Plym6atli bad a 60,000 fire Aednesday night of last week. on lue omceoi the Rockv MoNnnt r- oiauwas destroyed by fire Monday Pj Osborne, one of tha most prominent business men in Charlotte, nas made an assignment.

Charles Satterfield an old ''npo-rn Summit; W. Wiley, Jamestown, dems. 1 Halifax W. W. Hall, Wei Jon; A.

B. Hill, Scotland Neck; dems. Harnett M. V. Prince, d.

Mar. Haywood R. D. Gilmer, Wavnes-ville. Henderson J.

W. Anderson, Del-mont. Hertford Maj. J.L. Anderson, Win-ton.

i Hyde Julian S. Mann, d. Middleton. Iredell J. B.

Holman, Cool Springs; man, got drunk Christmas dav at Mt BOUND HOUSE BURNED JSaeigk I wor, Dec 23. About three o'clock yesterday ly tnfh jug the Round Hon of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company wan dis covered on fire. There were seventeen locomotives with their tenders in the building, many of which were piled up with wood, some of it liphtwood from Moore county, full of rosin. On uua ut tune lenueia, iu iuu wuuu, lb IS andVrnnnldl till th uJt 1 1. I.

a iwua Buuiuieuk vu ami wueu discovered no amount of work could avail anything. The; 'angry flame hissed and played tip in the roof of the magnificent building until what there was of wood was disappearing rapidly in smoke and the grand structure soon began to tumble and waste away till nothing was left but the blackened, smoking ruins of that once magnificent building and the indestructible' parts of seventeen railroad locomotives. The property burned -will not fall very much short of $200,000. is estimated that the damage to the locomotives will be about $2,000 each. In the effort.on the partof our fire companies to save the property, the rescue hose wagon broke down aud became disabled before reaching the fire.

Also the rescue double reel was disabled by breaking the tongue. RANDOLPH ITEMS. Miss Lillian Dicks spent a part of the holidays in AsheboroJ Mr. Will Pickard left this week for nil-ford College where he will enter school. Mr.

Wallace of Greenaboro, and Mr. Jim "Walker, of High Pojnt, were among the young men who gpent a portion of tho holidays in Asheboro. Mr. and Mrs. C.

C. Handle man returned to their home in this place Tuesday night, after a Week's visit to Yorkville, S. C. Miss Martha Hammond, of Archdale, visited Miss Lizzie Petty in Asheboro last week. Mr.

W.P, Byuum, a prominent sttorney of Greensboro, spent last Sunday in Asheboro. The Simmon of Archdale, of which Mr: Herb Tomlinson, formerly the popular clerk at the Benbow hotel, is a moving gave an entertainment at the Academy Saturday night, December 27th. I ltusiness in Randleman the past year has been exceptionally good. The merchants hare had a good trade and the cotton mills have all run on full time the whole year. DIED.

In South Greensboro, on New Tears day, Master Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. aged two years and six months.

On Saturday last at the home of son, Mr. N. A. Jeffreys, in this city, Mrs. Julia Wilson, aged about seventy years.

At his home in this place on December 21st, Mr. Joseph A. Albright. Mr. Albright, was a merchant on East Market street.

He was about 35 years of age. In Friendship township, on Christmas Sve, Miss Gilly Kirkpatnck. aged about 60 years: At the Morganton insane asylum, on Monday last, Miss Flora Kirkman, daughter of the late Leven Kirkman. She was Labout 20 years old. On Sunday last in Thomasville, Mrs.

H. F. McCarty, wife of Capt. McCarty, formerly of this city. Mr.

Hartis, son of. Wm. Hartis, of Union county, was killed New Year's day while at work in the Hemby mine, large rock falling in on him. oct 30-3m a E. M.

ir How about Wyoming?" 1 The poorest man of all he who in not willing another shonld enjoy whatever ituiT be. otlee of involution. i hereby RtTen tht th firra. known as Ji W. Andetnou Co hrdwre" mifrch'ant.

of been dissolved by thS death of tr. An ler-son. The butnHui will on and after Jan. 1st, 1831, be conddctl by Thoa. S.

Uowlft A 3o; All accoanta due the said finu cr its jredecor are due and pajalde to Tho. Bowie A i. Tht Jan I. Vs" Tu. S.

IJowu: fa W. AXTKtSO? fc Ccx The Greensboro Music Scliool, (Odd Fellows Building) MissjLauea L. Bkockmanx, Will Open Jan: 1st, '91. PIANO, VCCAL. VIOLIN, CTC.

Competent and Thorough Instruction. Piano, Oagan and Harmony, AUKS JiKOCKMANX. Voice and Piano, Mks. M. HlLDr-SHCMEJl.

Violin, Flute and other instruments, ClIAS. J. BltOCKMANN. iSFIn8truments can be furnished. Small violins for children.

CHAS. J. BROCK MANN. decl8-ly. Business Manager.

ale of Land. By virtue of an order of tho Superior court of Guilford county, I shall sell at public auction at the court house in Greensboro, on Monday, February 2,, 1KU, for partition, the following lands of the late John B. Taylor, deceased, viz: The tract of land on which said John B. Taylor at one time lived, on the public road leading from Greensboro to Asheboro, adjoining J. W.

Weatherly, the Bennett place, and the Crabtree Siler place, and others, containing, including a small 3 acre tract adjoining it, about lOJijacres. This Slace has a good dwelling house and out-ouses, an excellent barn, a well of good, water, 35 acres of timbered hmd. 5 acren of good meadow, the balance good tobacco land, with light sandy soil, and in good neighborhood. Also a tract known as a part ot the TL C. Caldwell land, near Guilford College aud New Garden meeting house, in Guilford county, adjoining the lands of D.

1. Caldwell, letitia Husaoia and otUr, oou. tainining 69 acres of which only about 7 acres is open land, and the balance is, in timber. This is very desirable land. I shall at the same time sell for cash, a top buggy and a jersey wagon.

Terms of sale of. the land. One-half -cash, and the balance on a credit of six months, with interest, secured by bond and good security. Michael M. Tatxok Dec.

20, 1890. Commissioner. E. M. Caldcleugli -DEALEKS ry CROCEEBT, C1HI1.

1 CL1SS-1T1EE, Have just received a large, complete "and well selected assortment of theso goods direct from the most reliable manufacturers in the Unitid States and Europe. v. TEA SETS, DINNEB SETS AND TOILET SETS. U2f We have received the largest variety of goods in the city to select from. Our goods are new and reliable.

1K cannot be undersold. Wo will be pleased with an early call. Respectfully, Dec. 31 ner escaped fi-om the Newport, roar ut the brick floor of their iail i ringing unaer me louuuauoiu El.iri'l-' Tierce, j- i as lie1 I tobe secretary of tne City association, of Wilmlni- a defaulter to -the ex- 1 1 V. pre 'V lin were oldat auctioa at the mansion, IfuiTalo.

They broujjht 1 1-1 i I). i. iner, a wen kdowu cureen or arvl brother-in-law of the late dropped dead lata drug He has been an Inveterate irettes. Columbian Tower companr, to i teet hich, commemorative lie 10. o- 11" i incurporavea av sprinjriieia.

Ml tock.is 51,00 "i I fa1 a 4 deaths and 36,23 births In i 'J i' i at were burned Pug. rv. L-. $. vJ -witti no insurance.

Cor i elerted president' of the pi i. tL.i!) 'v' pounas live, pouury-were lire at West- Washlnifton N'w Vorii city. Kv i ii says she has not been 4 Miice ner release irora prison, t'lfn 5 d.iys stay In Philadelphia. dt-Htit from diseases of the res- piratryr nrm occurrea in umaon last Thi ii due to tne unusnally cold weatLer. TT 1 1 Thf Known street firm of Bate- miik-l-- has suspended.

Charles Coon, sec retary of the treasury, was a member of the Friday, Jan. 2. Tbe thermometer registered 60 defirffees be-' ji zero at Ft. -'Fairfield, Me. f- TLe Denver Times was sold to II.

W. Haw-le. of for $17.000. Admiral Aube, of the French nayy, formerly minister of marine. Is dead.

A national convention of railroad commissioners has been called to meet In Washington March 6. The Boston and Maine-Fitchburg rate war ia beniuniatr to assume large proportions. Tbe Ikmton and Maine is now selling second class kets from Boston to Chicago for The price should be $18. I Count Franz Deyon, the Austrian 'ambassador to (Sreat Britain, and Count de laitzow, the secretary of the Austrian embassy, fought abloo-llesrt duel in consequence of a dispute concerniW the social precedence of their wives. F.

N- irksdale has been placed in charge eftheentipe advertising departmjent of the J'ennsylvani Itailroad company in place of IL Hauekel, who has been gjfanted six months leave of absence oa account of ill Lealth. Saturday, Jan. 3. The Berlin council has voted 10O.0J0 marks for the Herlin Art exnibition of 1J1. Alphonse 1'eyrat, the French author and senator, is dead, lie was bom June 21v 1812, at Toulou-io.

1 The late James L. llubbard was burled at Norwich, yesterday. He left an estate of ovtr i.oo.ouo, which goes entirely to his wife and son. I A dispatch from Shanghai announces the death of 1'rince Ch'un, the father of the emperor of China. Admiral Mason S.

Cooper, of the Haytien navy, died at his home in Brooklyn yester-dar. a'ed 4J years. 1 A family of five i persons without a home, who have been! tramping through the countrv. were funrt Kv- ft roadside near Ca m- bride, Englaud, all frozen to death. I The Hon.

DanleV Clarke, judge of the t'nit States district court for New Hampshire, and one of the most prominent characters in the political history of the state for more than half a century, is dead. Monday, Jan. 5. The First Presbyterian church of Newark. N.

yesterday' celebrated the 100th annl-rersary of its foundation. Henry Leaman.j a prominent farmer of Ftra-hurtf, l'u, has assigned. Liabilities, fS.iHn assets about the same. i Two shocks of earthquake were felt at El-wood. the first lasting 3J seconds, the iectm.il..

No damage was done. i Walter Abell, pue of the sons of the Ute Mr. A. S. Abell and one of the proprietors ot The 1'altimore Sun, i3 dead.

1 Four cars on he Kanawha arid Michigan railway went through a bridge near Dexter, 0n inlirthe river. one was injured. Astray bullet from a party sportsmen hooting at turkeys, near Shelby vUe, entered a school house and dangerously inured Borie Fix. 10 years old. I Louis Sherry and Len Smith, rivals forthd hand of a colored girl near Swifton, Ark.

Sherry found Smith in her tompany and shot him dead. j. I The Chicago IireH-inr? comninv. which ia' the Enclisli syndicate that a year ago a majority of the Chicago breweries, ta dt-f iared a seml-aunual dividend of 15 per ni. Its neirt dividend wiH probably be 3) ir i eat.

I- I Tuesday, Jan. O. I Charley White, the father of negro mln-trelsy. is dead. He was 69 years old.

i The president has appointed John B. Jackson, of New Jersey, second secretary of legation at Berlin. I While chanting the Last Rose of Sum-tner" in a hotel at Beverly, N. John Smith was called out and three men lbeAt him Into Insensibility. i Judge Henry B.

Brown, of Michigan, was Iworn into office as an associate justice of ths npreme court of the United States! an I took bu seat on the bench. A few yearn ago a man named Hooney died I'lattaburg. N. leaving $14,000 between three so as. ne of the sons Jias since Own frozen tof death while Intoxlcate'd, an-ptaer was killed In a runaway accident, while luira was burned to death.

THE MARKETS 1 Quotations fVom the PhllAdelDbta and New York Exchanges. fHILADErPHlir Jan. Th rrlVrlrt wm MtiTe railroad. Lehfeh Valley ind Uhig Navigation were firmi The ea-are of the market was Reading, which was Jte The preference income bonds wvanced sharply, and the general mortgage isere strong. f-; oowiBg are the closing bids: high Valley Reading m.

4s. 78H 221 Reading 5s. 59 Reading 24 pf. 5s. 37 Reading I2ki pf.

3s. 29 17H 4 NVN.Y. 7H Pennsylvania. Reading 48 52J4 Vhigh Nav. ew York Produce fAi-lrt.

York. Jan. 5. State arid western ruar Quiet: anrhinnxl-lm i iiot. i nulls.

mills patents, S5.ioa i. .2 red. strong; 'ljlc np; I THE GENERAL, ASSEMBLY. SENATE. 1st District Currituck, Camden.

Gates, Chowao, Pasquotank and Perquimans Jas. Parker. Gates ville; P. Morgan, Shawboro; dems. 2nd District -Tyrrell, I Washington, Dare, Martiu, Beaufort, Hyde and Pamlico W.

HI Lucas, Mi'ddleton; Chesson, Mackey's Ferry; I 3rd District Northampton andr Bertie Goorge Bishop, Wipdsor; dem. 4th District Halifax county W. E. Bowers, dem. 5th District Edgecombe Dr, R.

H. Speight, Wrendale; dem. 6th District-rPitt county Willis R. Williams, Falkland; dem. 7th District Wilson, Nash and Franklin Dr.

H. I. Freeman, iTaylor's; P. LA. Davis.

Lonisburg; dems. 8th district Craven Edward W.Bull, New Berne. 0th District Jones, Onslow and Carteret T. E. Gillmait, I Jacksonville; dem.

10th District Duplin anil Wayner B. F. Ay cock, Fremont; J. Bryan, Kenansville; dems. 11th District Greene arid Lenoir Dr.

Wi C. Galloway, Know Hill; dem. 12th District New Hanover and Pender D. Bellamy, Wilmington; dem. 13th District Brnnswick and Bladen R.

P. Allen, Kelly's; dem. 14th District Sampson Marion Butler; Clinton, dem. i- 15th District Columbus and Robeson Dr. M.

Culbreth, Whiteyille; J. L. McLean, Maxton, dems. 16th District Cumberland and Har- net John A. Green, Dunn; dem.

17th District Johnson-4W. N. Rose, Jr. Harper's; dem. 18th District Wake A.

C. eigh; dem. 19th District Warren and Vance Albert L. Alston, Mountain 20th District Durham. Orangei Per- son ana Uaswell K.

tr. JSusseii, South Lowell; Robert S. Mitchell, Ruffin; dems. 21st District Granville-iG. L.

Allen, Wilton; dem. 22nd District Chatham and Alamance Jno. W. At water, Rialto; dem. 23rd District Rockingham Dr.

W. J. Courts, Reidsville; dem. 24th District GuilfordJ. L.

King, Greensboro; dem. 25th District Moore and Randolph Capt. George Carbonton; dem. I'' 26th District Richmohd and Mont- gomery-r-J. G.

Skinner, Pekin, rep. 27th District Anson and. Union G. C. McLarty, Monroe; dem.

28th District Stanly and' Cabarrus Eli Shankle, Norwood; dem. 29th District Mecklenburg W. E. Ardry, Pineville; dem. 30th District Rowan and Davie S.

N. Hobson, Cleveland; dem. 31st District Davidson-fZ. V. Walser, Lexington, rep.

32nd District Stokes and Forsyth John Ft Winstcc, rep. 33rd District-J-Surry and Yadkin E. D. Stanford, r. ta 34th District Iredell, Alexander and Wilkes W.

D. Turner, Statesville; W. IE. White, Avilla, dems. 35th District Watauga, Ashe and Al leghany Benjamin, P.

Grigsby, Fig, Ashe dem. i 36th District Burke, Caldwell, Mc Dowell, Mitchell and Yancey T. Avery, Morganton Df. J. T.

Reid, Old Fort; dems. 37th District Lincoln and Catawba J. W. A. Paine, Kiddeville; dem.

38th Dis trict Cleveland and I Gaston Dr.lL. IN. Durham, Shelby; dem. 39th District Rutherford and Folk Dr T. B.

Twitty, Rutherfordton, dem. 40th Distaict Buncombe and Madison W. C. Sprinkle. Marshall, rep.

41st District Hay wood, Henderson and Transylvania Joseph o. Jjavis, Iron Duff; dem. 42nd District Jackson, Macon, Clay, Cherokee and Graham J. S. Bell, Brasstown dem.

MOW THE SENATE. STANDS. Democrats, 43 Republicans, 7 Total, 50 HOUSE OF BePRESENTATTVES. Alamancer R. W.

Scott Hawfields. Alexander-T. F. Murdock, York Collegiate Institute. Alleghany R.

A. Dough ton, Sparta. Anson Col. W.M.Pickett, Lilesville. AsheGreenbury Phipps, r.

Beanfort--J. R. Galloway, Aurora. Bertie M. Tu Wood, Lewiston.

Bladen Dr. M. McI. Tatum, White Oak. Brunswick E.

Hichman, Calabash. BuncumbeM. L. Reed, Biltmore, J. P.

Lowry, Sandy Mush, dems. Burke Honck, Morganton. Cabarrus A. F. Hileman, Concord.

Caldwell--S. L. Patterson, Patterson. Camden W.P.Walston,d,Camden CiH. Carteret M.

Edwards, Mer rimon. Caswell Bobt L. Walker, Milton. CatawbaS. T.

Wilforig, Newton, Chatham A. H. Perry, Kimbolton, J. MJ Foust, Mt Vernon Springs. Cherokee-J.

M. Cobb, Cobbs. Chowan-HVIA. Bond, ton. CJlay H.

Haysville. Cleveland E. D. Dickson, Fallston. Columbus J.

J. Long, Vineland. Craven John Chapman, col. r. Cumberland T.

EL Sutton, A. D. Gill, FayetteTille: dems. Cnrri tuck John J. Morse, 6 May ock.

Tare G. Daniels, r. if: Davidson W. A. Beck, McKee and J.

P. Hedrick, rr Davie-- Henricks; r. Duplin D. J. Middleton.

d. Warsaw. Durham Dr. Durham. Edgecombe -Aaron Bridgets, St.

Le w- is; Jesse Brake, Bocky Mount dems. Forsyth J. A. Lineback, Salem. Franklin P.

G. i Alston, Centre ville; G. G. Gill, Louisburg; dems. i Gaston Moses Snapp.

J. Gatliug, d. Graham W. ML Taylor, d. Bobbins- '1'" rm GranvilJe W.

T.1 Adams, Dutchyille; J. F. Cole, Satterwhite; dems. Greene A. Edmnndsou, Shine.

GuUford Dr. U. K. Brown's x. o.i wiiiiams, looresvuie; tlems.

Jackson C. C. Cowan, Webster. Johnson R. H.

Gower, Clayton; C. Kirby, Selma; dems. Jones Sam. Hudson, Pollocksville Lenoir Col. N.

Whitfield, Seven 1 Springs. I Lincoln C. L. Wilson, d. Reepsville.

Macon J. Frank Ray, Franklin. Madison J. C7 Pritchard, Marshall. Martin J.

B. Coffield, d. Everett's. McDowell J. W.

Biddie, Turkey Cove. Mecklenburg J. W. Hood, Hood's P. W.

D. Mayes, Caldwell; R. A. Grier, Charlotte; dems. Mitchell Luke Banner, r.

I Montgomery C. R. Watkins, d. Mt. Gilead.

Moore W. P. M. Carrie, West End. Nash J.

B. Phillips, Battleboro. New Hanover Geo. L. J.

T. Kerr, Wilmington; dems. Northampton B. Peebles, Jackson; Dr. R.

H. Stancill, Margaretteville; dems. 1 Onslow E. Francks, Richlands. Orange Nelson R.

Hall, Caldwell Institute. Pamlico James F. Brinson, Grants- boro. Pasquotank Hugh Cole, uny, r. Pender R.

C. Johnson, Rhyne. Perquimans Thos. White, Hartford; d. Person Maj.

J. T. Yancey, d. Collier. Pitt Harry Skinner, Greenville; J.

D. Cox, Redalia; dems. Polk A. B. Thompson, Saluda; r.

Randolph Dr. W. A. Woolen, Randle-man; p. B.

Kearns, Farmers; dems. Richmond jjoshua Chappell; r. Robeson-Jf S. Oliver, Affinity; T. M.

Watson. Purcepolis; dems! Rockingham T. W. Hopkins Monroe-ton; R. P.

Henry, Douglass; dems. Rowan S. A. Earnhardt, Salisbury. Rutherford Thos.

F. Toms, Washburn. Sampson R. Bell, Faisons; W. K.

Pig-ford, Clinton dems. Stanly James P. Nash, Palmerville. Stokes J. C.

Newsome, Five Forks. Surry C. B. Denny, Pilot Mountain. Swain J.

A. City. Transylvania W. W. Zachary, Brevard.

Tyrrell David Alexander. Bay. Union T. Chears, Lane's Creek. Vance J.

M. Watson, (eol), Henderson; r. Wake A. D. Jones, A.

M. Sorrell, Raleigh; W. B. Upchurch, Morrisville; George W. Davis, -Wake Forest; dems.

Warren W. W. Long, Areola. Wosbintan W. Sneii, Shinncrs- ville, r.

Wautauga Dr. J. B. Phillips, Su gar Grove. Wayne Jno.

W. Bryan, Hiram J. Ham, Goldsboro, dems. Wilkes J. Q.

A. Bryan, r. Wilson Nathan Bass, Black Yadkin W. H. Vestal, Chestnut Bridge; r.

Yancey J. R. Dobinson, Burns ville; d. HOW THE HOUSE STANDS. Democrats, 102 Republicans, 17 Independent democrat, 1 Total, 120 SUMMARY OF BOTH HOUSES.

1 Democrats, 145 Republicans, 24 Independent democrat, 1 Total 170 PHILEMON B. DEATH OF HAWKINSr Raleigh Observer. Yesterday morning, as the second sun of the new year was reddening the sky, General Philemon Benjamin Hawkins died at his home in Louisburg. Gen. Hawkins was the fifth son of Colopel John DJ and Jane A.

Hawkins, and was born atl the ancestral home in Franklin county on the 11th day of May, 1823. Some of his brothers have attained distinguished success in life in the more southern states, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, but Gen. Hawkins, like his brother, Dr. William J. Hawkins, remained in North Carolina and passed his life of usefulness and honor tajithin hex borders.

He was for a long time, both before and after the war, engaged 'in the work of a railroad contractor upon a large scale and was tor some years a director of the North Carolina railroad. Much of his life was spent in agricultural pursuits, and he represented his native county in both branches of the General Assembly, both before and af ter the war. He married his consin, Fannie MJ Hawkins, who, with two children, yet survive him. His kindness of profuse hospitality and his affectionate disposition" endeared. him to his family, his relatives and his friends in no ordinary He had been in failing health for some months, and had a severe attack of typhoid fever, possibly rendered more severe from the effects of an in jury received in a runaway accident.

He died as no uvea, witnout an ene my, a consistent member of the Episco pal churcn. and in tne mil nope ox a clorious resurrection. Gen. Hawkins was an uncle of CoL A. B.

Andrews. SOME TURNIP. Ms. Editor; The, Guilford sub-Alliance No. 2070 last year offered one dollar as premium to tne member wno wouia pro duce the three largest and heaviest turnips.

Mull berry Sellars said turnips and water made the most satisfactory and palatable meal he knew of. Dec. 20, 1881, the competing members of our Alliance met and give in" the best turnips they had. It made a creditable show. Mr.

E. Osborne took the premium. He furnished three turnips which weighed a little less than fifteen pounds, I is A A H. Airy and froze to death that night. The recruiting office at Charlotte nas had a dozen or so applicants and ad have been examined.

Several of them failed to meet the requirements, ine station there will probably be made 1'criuaneni one. -The county commissioners of Mecklenburg have decided to strictly enforce the law against those who failed to list their taxes last June, nnd will make no exceptions, so the amount of double taxes to be paid in consequence will be large, Three new postoffices have been established in Craven county. on Neuse road, about six miles from the city.and "Chery Point," and "Bachj-elor," both in the lower portion of the county near the Carteret line. In Surry county on December 26thi James A. Brown stabbed Barnett Low to the heart, killing him instantly.

The men had quarreled during the but just previous to the homicide ap peared to be friendly. Both were men of families. i Rev. J. D.

Arnold, of the faculty of the ABheville College, was united in marriage to Miss Nannie Clark, 5 sister of Associate Justice Walter Clark, in Raleigh on New Year's day. Rev. J. B. Walker, Secretary of the Board of Ministerial Education of the Methodist Protestant church, and oiie of the most promising and enthusiastic workers of the denomination, died on tne morning of December 28th, of ty- pnoia pneumonia.

The one hundred and fourth annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Acceptea Masons- of North Carolina will convene in Raleigh on Tuesday evening, January 13th, at Masonic Hall. Reduced rates have been secured over the various A train on the Ducktown branch of the W. N. C. railroad was derailed near Pigeon river on the 26th at a point1 where there is a bank 75 feet There were 35 passengers on the train! and had the cars left the cross-ties a ter rible disaster would have realulttd.

Tilla J. Grady and his dauerhter-in law were brought here yesterday and committed to jail, charged -with the murder; of Grady's -wife by Grady is about sixty years old, and his daughter-in-law is about twenty-two and has a child only a few months old. Raleigh Observer. The Roanoke Times says that the work on the Roanoke Southern which was suspended on account of the recent snows, has been Resumed. It is expected to have about 500 men employed at the Roanoke end of the road early this month.

The office of the Winston 'Daily was destroyed by fire on Christmas morning, but Mr. Foy having recently purchased the Sentinel property was enabled to continue the publication of his paper without interruption. The Sentinel office narrowly escaped. A fire occurred last Sunday morning at jRed Springs, destroying the freight and passenger depot of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railway, together with a quantity of freight, Hof-hce fixtures, furniture, amounting in all to a loss of "several hundred dollars. The fire is thought to have been the work of an incendiary Fayetteville Observer, i The old Ray mine in this county, which is now owned by a company of Baltimbreans and North Carolinians, is beingworked right along.

Capt. Lewis, the miner in charge, said they are working i good i gold out of the new schute just (discovered, and the future prospect of the mine is good. Charlotte Cltronide. I i The Observer says: Fayetteville has again been visited by a very destructive fire, this time consuming the large and extensive saw and planing mills of the Fayetteville Milling and Lumber Com pany, causing a loss of $8,000 or 000. The loss is partially covered by insurance to the amount of $7,500.

The fire- was accidental and supposed to have originated in the dry house. Maj. Joan C. Winder, general man ager of the Seaboard Air Line, announces the appointment of Mr. George E.

Hunter as auditor of receipts and. dis bursements of the Raleigh Gaston, and the1 Raleigh' Augusta Air Line Railroad Companies, with offi.ee at Ral eigh, N. a. and Mr. H.

Boatwright as of receipts and disburse ments of the Carolina Central Bailroad Company, with office, at Wilmington, Mr James Loner Was. accidentally fdint and killed while out hunting rab bits in Union county, near the Cabar- rnft lino. Mr. Lone, was in a cotton natch and climbed upon a stump so he could see the rabbit if it came his way. Ho had his crun on the stump by his RirlA- and it (dinned off.

the hammer Rtritinc the stump as it went down and was sending the whole load intr riia riMa. He died a jew: mmi utes. j' 1 jA-yourig Italian named La- Chevalier Da i Liernbri "committed suicide at ith n. nistol. He W03 in his room alone and died in four minutes after the fatal shot was fired.

Young Lig-nori came to Winston a few months ago from Teriesta, Austria, and 'was a grad-: uate of the school of fine arts of VeniceJ and also-of a technological institute. Disappointment in matrimonial aspirations is 'supposed to have been the cause from letters found in his possession, i 1 CALDCLEUGH Greensboro, 1. W. R. LAND CO.

SOLICITS THE SALE OF MINING PROPERTY AND rCorrespondence Solicited. (JqK you want to save money, don't fail to call onOf) G. H. ROYSTER, 1 Who has ost received for Fall and Winter 1800-91 ft largo stock of Dry': Gibds, 5otibnsf Hats, Caps, Trcnts, Valises, Unlrclhs, Boots and Shoes, All. kinds of plush goodsx and fancy goods for Christmas presents, By the thousand, anfl at prices lower than-you ever heard of.

In fact almost i anything yon. 'want in' the Dry gooda line at prices as low as tho lowest. A good nickel watch for $3. Come early and get a bargain. We be undersold.

Headquarters for farmers to buy their goods. G. H. ROYSTER, extssboeo, N. C.

Benbow House, 112 Sauth Elm St. Saltmen G. H. Royster, Iacy Ei.k, H. L.

Dick. WOODLAND, LL SITES, FACTORY SITES, CITY LOTS. P. O. Box, 121, Gexxxsboko, N.

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