. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903 . cle May 25, 1903, with How-ard A. Banks as editor. The first telegraphic news servicereceived in Charlotte was by the old Observer in March,1874. The Observer issues a semi-weekly edition, and theNews also issues a semi-weekly known as the Times-Demo-crat. Besides these are the Mill News, the Peoples Paper,Southern and Western Textile Excelsior, Carolina MedicalJournal, Star of Zion by and for colored people; Presbyte-rian Weekly Standard, and Quarterly, and the publicationsof the colleges. It is noticeable that as


. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903 . cle May 25, 1903, with How-ard A. Banks as editor. The first telegraphic news servicereceived in Charlotte was by the old Observer in March,1874. The Observer issues a semi-weekly edition, and theNews also issues a semi-weekly known as the Times-Demo-crat. Besides these are the Mill News, the Peoples Paper,Southern and Western Textile Excelsior, Carolina MedicalJournal, Star of Zion by and for colored people; Presbyte-rian Weekly Standard, and Quarterly, and the publicationsof the colleges. It is noticeable that as Mecklenburg has grown richer andmore populous, the farms have increased in number anddecreased in size. The average number of acres in a farmin the county is seventy-five. There is only one which con-tains more than a thousand acres, and 64 per cent, of themcontain less than one hundred acres. There are 227,995acres of land, and the farms are occupied by 1,226owners, 290 part owners, 22 owners and tenants, 55 mana-gers, 631 cash paying tenants and 1,966 share TRANSITION PERIOD: COUNTY COURT HOUSE, 1888.


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