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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1892
Page
8
The Chronicle notes Raleigh weather with a high of 47 degrees and a low around 34 with 0.66 inch rainfall. Forecast calls for much colder conditions today and Friday. Washington reports North Carolina generally fair but colder with northwest winds.
Slow tax collection and heavy roads after the freeze and rains. Sheriff Grant and family ill with grippe. Cars from Lynchburg report snow. Most cotton marketed. cold wave seen. Lonny Crawford left for Columbia to become a locomotive fireman. Goldsboro shows no business failures last year. R B Britt & Bro Enfield fails with 2000 liabilities. Y M C A directors to meet at Dr Battle’s office. Caution against beggars near stores and homes. Albert Hardie near recovery in Memphis news. Odd Fellows orphanage building near completion in Goldsboro. Robert W Donnell, once Greensboro businessman, dies in New York aged 70. Relief committees order three carloads of wood. Contributions to Mr Pullen at Savings Bank. Wm G Hill Lodge No 218 A F & A M called meeting at 7:50 pm for second degree. Ladies foreign missionary society meets Jan 7 at 4 pm. M H Edwards of Franklinton dies of typhoid in Elkhorn WV. body on way home. Simmons Liver Regulator recommended for water rvas t and sour stomach.
Caroline Shipp, convicted of poisoning her husband in Gaston County, is scheduled for execution by hanging in Dallas on the 22nd. Governor Holt refused clemency, stating he cannot override the law or oath, and notes no reason to spare a woman, despite petitioners’ pleas and moral concerns.
Judge McIver explains he will not cite the Red Springs mass meeting for contempt of court over McDougald’s acquittal. He says advisers urged action to uphold dignity, but he found the meeting acted under a misapprehension as far as he is concerned.
The line promotes a liver regit ator product as a cure for dyspepsia, implying relief from stomach issues but uses awkward phrasing and unclear product name.
Judge Thomas C. Fuller of the United States land court toured the West liking Santa Fe and Denver but saying North Carolina stands with any state. He dismissed insanity rumors about Dr. Grissom and noted his February departure for Santa Fe after a Denver visit. The railway commission upheld a 75 cent freight rate promised by Western North Carolina railway after a West Asheville brick company complaint.
The Special Sale of dress goods silks and velvets continues daily at McGeer and Moseley’s. Faille silks once 135 now 60 cents per yard. Sarah silks once 90 now 50 cents. Velvets once 1.50 now 50 cents. The business will close as soon as possible. 5S. F. Mordecai Trustee.
Burt and Packard's Korrect Shops offer gents hand-made shoes and Wright and Peters ladies shoes. Prices listed include $3.73 for gents, $3.00 for ladies at McGee & Moseley, with S. F. Mordecai as Trustee overseeing the sale.
W H and B S Tucker and Co announce a special display of seven bed chambers on their ware rooms floors. The modern and classical pieces are true to period with complete furnishing and ornament. Visitors from nearby towns are invited to tour the new exhibit and it is described as superb and costly.
Old time ad copy touts Royster candy for freshness and variety and Simmone Liver Regulator for biliousness and headaches. Dr R Schiffman of St Paul MN offers free trial of Scuir eMann’s Asthma Cure promising instant relief and cures, asks recipients to send name state and address.
Notice that the city tax list for 1891 is in the hands of the collector C B Root and will be available daily 9 am to 5 pm for payment. Taxes unpaid by December 1 incur a 1 percent penalty on the first day of each subsequent month until paid. A separate ad offers fresh candy boxes for sale.
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