Mrs. Edith W. Way, of Moore County, handles the most beautiful merchandise in North Carolina; she owns and operates the largest orchid greenhouse between New York and Florida.
A religious revival started by a lay preacher in a North Carolina camp for convicts, has converted 73 of the 81 inmates. The Bible spreads from cell to cell and convicts organized their own study club.
Taken from the Monroe Journal (no citation), no military unit left a better record than the 26th North Carolina regiment, which at Gettysburg lost more men in actual numbers and in percentage of those engaged, than any other regiment in the both of the armies.