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NORTH CAROLINA. The bank of North Wilkesboro will open up March 1st. Salary of the mayor of Winston has been increased to $1,000. The new Atlantic Coast Line machine shops are to be built at Rocky Mt. Salisbury is about making an organ ized movement again.t the saloons. The State Sunday School Association meets in New Berne March 29th. Average death rate in cleven town of North Carolina is 16.0 for the whites per 1,000, and 17.4 for the blacks. Jno. T. Patrick has been notified by the Commissioners of Agriculture to "move his plunder" from the Agricultural building at Raleigh. Governor Holt is at Haw River, where his aged mother is quite sick. J. D. Bridges, dry goods merchant of Shelby, has assigned. Liabilities about $10,000; assets $5,000. The First and Second regiments of the State Guard are to encamp in July at Wrightsville, the Third and Fourth regiments at Asheville. Dr. Albert B. Hart, professor of American History at Harvard University, is delivering a series of lectures at Chapel Hill before the faculty and students of the State University. Governor Holt offered a reward of $200 for R. . L. Askew, a white man who in Bertie county murcered Charles Hardy, also white. It is believed Askew fled to Virginia. In Lewis Fork township, Wilkes county, Amos and Matt Hamby got drunk and had a row. The latter received ten knife wounds and will die. Rev W S. Plumer Bryan, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Asheville, has received a call to Cincinnati with a salary of $5,000. He has it under advisement. Sheriff J. B. Smith, of Cumberland, completed his settlement of State taxes, paying to the State Treasurer $9,080.95. He is the fifty first sheriff to settle in full. Jaunty Crankfield, of Wilkes county. dropped dead the other day, aged 80 years. He made a request sometime before his death that his body be buried in a "Republican graveyard. Geo. A. Shuford, of Asheville, the newly appointed Judge of the 12th dis trict, vice Judge Merrimon, resigned, was born in Henderson county, and is about forty years of age. He studied law at Dick and Dilliard's law school at Greensboro, and after obtaining license, located in Waynesvide, Haywood county, moving to Asheville in 1882. Castor Pope, of Batt'eboro, went to New York to buy "green goods" and got scooped for $500. The scoopers generously gave him $15 and he got home ou it. He is pros trated with grief. The sale of hickory timber at Rock well, Rowan county, has amounted to nearly nine thousand dollars this winter. This industry has brought a lot. of money to Rowan. The timber is shipped to various points in the State, and is used in making spokes, handles, etc. SOUTH CAR LINA. The year book of the City of Charleston for 1890 has just been issued Governor Tillman offered a reward of $50 for the capture of the person who burned the barn of J. P. Cook, in Newberry county. A stage line is to be established between Orangeburg and the nearest sta. tion on the South Bound railroad. There is a movement on foot to form a new county out of portions of Orangee the and Berkeley county with Holly and our prices. u H. K. SMITH eshington obate d 5 Jan 29 As a