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A mixed summary of regional items: Johnston’s plantation fire near Haw River. E W Effand assigns with assets $3 500 liabilities heavy. Henry Hobson of Davie County raises a hair coated chicken. Rabbits abundant in Chatham. Hicks town sympathy meeting for Cuban insurgents fails. Sells Bros and Barnum Bailey merged into world’s largest traveling show. Diphtheria raging in western Yadkin. James Crocket arrested for burglary in Salisbury. Distilleries shut due to low streams. Mrs J M Barbee becomes Murphy public school principal. Buffalo Bill closes Wild West show. $200 000 earned this season. Possible winter pause on Baptist State Female University work. E A Covington donates $1 000 to the University. Two new churches near Shelby. polemic battle foretold between Lutherans and Baptists. J L Curry to fund NC State Normal and Industrial School with $2 500 this year. Carr orders Jones County superior court term for graveyard insurance cases beginning December 19 with Judge Graham. J T Killingsworth of Yatesville reportedly raised 33 barrels of corn on one acre. Spray to get a 10 000 spindle cotton mill. Winston to host broom factory. Mayodan at 100 workers building a 15 000 spindle mill for Norfolk and Western. Dilling mill at King's Mountain doubles capacity.