MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPERS -- LOCAL AFFAIRS, FEB 1893a

LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, Feb. 1, 1893 - Vol. VII,
No. 16

 - Why not have a State motto? 

 - The snow has nearly all disappeared. 

 - Mr. Geo. A. Jones returned from Raleigh Monday. 

 - Solicitor Geo. A Jones went to Raleigh last week on business. 

 - Edward J. Ames, of Baltimore, was at the Allman House Friday and
Saturday. 

 - Mr. T.B. Higdon moved to Ellijay Monday. We shall miss him in
Franklin. 

 - Hon. Roger Q. Mills has been re-elected to the United States Senate
from Texas. 

 - The new Democratic Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, is in Asheville at
the Battery Park. 

 - The North Carolina legislature very appropriately adjourned on
receiving news of Mr. Blaine's death. 

 - Governor Elias Carr, though a strictly moral man does not belong to
any church. His wife belongs to the Episcopal church. 

 - Through the kindness of Mr. H.H. Mashburn we acknowledge the receipt
of an invitation to attend the 58th anniversary exercises of Wake Forest
College on the 17th of February. 

 - Married Jany. 26th, at the residence of Mr. Thompson, of Horse Cove,
Mr. Zebulon Alley, of Jackson County, to Miss Cora Davis, of Clay
county, Rev. D.H. Comann officiating. 

 - The Franklin Library Club meets at 7:30 o'clock next Friday evening,
being Feb 3rd, at the residence of Mr. R.L. Porter. All of the members
are requested to attend and pay their monthly dues. 

 - Mr. D.C. Cunningham who left home last week with sixteen head, of
mules and six horses, telegraphed from Spartanburg, SC., Monday that he
had sold his mules, but had horses still on hand. 

 - Owing to the inclement weather the presiding elder, Rev. J.C. Rowe,
did not come to the quarterly meeting at Iotla at the time appointed,
but the meeting will be held at Snow Hill next Saturday and Sunday and
it is expected that it will be protracted. 


PHILLIPS BROOKS DEAD
Boston, Mass., Jan. 23 -- Bishop Phillips Brooks died at 6:30 this
morning, of heart failure. It was quite unexpected, the bishop having
been sick only since Thursday. 

JUSTICE L.Q.C. LAMAR DEAD
Macon Ga., Jan. 24 -- Justice Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Lamar died
here at 8:50 o'clock last evening of Bright's disease. His death was
sudden, for although he has been ailing for some time, he appeared to be
gradually gaining in health yesterday. 

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