MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPERS -- LOCAL AFFAIRS, JUNE 1892

LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, June 22, 1892 - Vol. VII, No.
14

- Wheat is good but a very small crop was sown in Macon last fall. 

- We regret to learn that Mrs. W.A. Cabe, of Smith's Bridge, died last
Thursday. 

- Charley Perry has moved into town and occupies the rooms over E.H. Frank's
old store room. 

- Hon. Kope Elias left home Friday morning for Chicago, to attend the National
Democratic Convention. 

- Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Deal left monday for a visit to Raleigh and other points,
and will be gone perhaps two weeks. 

- Mr. W.R. Stalleup has had fresh green corn, crop of '92 for dinner
yesterday, the first we have heard of. 

- Charley Perry captured a large rattlesnake at Burningtown Gap Friday and
brought him to town Saturday. 

- Misses Garland and Mary Conley, two winsome young ladies of Tesenta, gave
our office a pleasant call last Thurdsay. 

- We learn that Will Dryman, of Smith's Bridge, was paralized in the left side
Thursday, and is unable to get about. 

- Rev. S.H. Harrington, a Baptist Minister from Franklin, NC., has been
appointed to take charge of the work at Murphy -- SCOUT. 

- Hon. J. Frank Ray, of Macon, put the name of Hon. W.T. Crawford in
nomination at Waynesville last week, but he did it in felicitous style too. 

- Mr. F.S. Johnston left Saturday morning for Forsyth, Ga., to join his wife
who has been on several weeks' visit to relatives. They will return home next
week. 

- Rev. John Morgan's horse standing hitched to a buggy at J.F. Palmer's shop
last Thursday became frightened and ran up the street, but was halted near the
livery stable without causing any damage. Mr. Palmer had one wheel off the
buggy working on it at the time. 

- Mr. Flack's little girl in jumping from the loft in the dwelling, to a bed
below, last Thursday, was thrown from the bed striking her face on the edge of
a trunk, which cut an ugly gash above her right eye.  Dr. Brabson was in town
and dressed the wound which was painful but no bones injured. 

- The fifth annual report of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics is before us.
It contains a great deal of valuable information, and is of especial interest
in conection with the labor question and questions of reform. The
Commissioner, Mr. John C. Scarborough, has performed well the duties of his
important office. 

- The people of Anson county, NC, are very indignant at the news that D.C.
Hardin, postmaster at Morven, is to be displaced and MeCain a negro preacher,
put in charge of the office. The people in the Morven section publicly
announce that they will boycot McCain and do no business through the office.
They declare that the postoffice department may as well abolish the office as
to put a negro in charge of it. -- STATE CHRONICLE

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