Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-03-31
STATE NEWS.

: Edward D. Hall a newly elected
Alderman Of Wilmington, has been
elected Mayor Of tina: city. !
Mrs. Frank Leslie will probably
spend some days at Tokay, n. c.,
this spring, as the guest Of Congress
nan Wharton j. Green.
Charlotte Observer Hoke Sc
crest, the celebrated wife and child
murderer of Union county, who was
acquitted OF the charge on the plea
OF insanity and sent to the asylum,
from which he escaped las, fall, has
been captured in Columbia.
The Oxford 1;orchltgM says that
the latest mathematical question
runs as follows: Two girls me,
three other girls and kissed. How
many kisses were exchanged C;n
any one of the readers Of this paper
give the correct answer to the above
question
Bishop Lyman has expressed his
modification at the reports that he
gave his daughter $4,000 for a
wedding present and that a grea,
deal of fnary was shown at the nup
tails. He says that the wedding
was simple IL AL t.'ects a:a ,tat
20 presses II sAne1 yalnc .tttt H.
cei,el II Is h:'1c.
Tie @t".e>y..'y J.un5H".1L -voi1-
a,~teneirn.,o a iiit ite,sion If IL.
Supreme Court, (name of the case
not given to the effect that dealers
in builders supplies are not entitled
to the benefit of the mechanics lien
law. The laborer can get the bene
{ fit Of it, but not the man who sup
plies the material-such as a saw
mill man, etc.
The Charlotte Observer tells of a
? very singular disease, A son of Mr..
. A. NJ. Wilhelm, Of Cabarrus, aged
20, is the victim. 1t says: 1t is d
t most peculiar case, and the disease
IS what the doctors term "hypera
thesla." An ordinary bathing tut
can be filed with cold water, and
the boys ieet placed therein, and il
less than ten minutes the water vii
o be made so hot that one can feel tn
heat through the slaves of the tub
# The boy suffers agony as if he hat
l bis feet in a bed of Goals all the time
o and was carried from his father
house TO Salisbury with his fee: in
tub of water.
d The Carthage Moore county, G..
zette says We learn from the pa,
d ties that went in search Of Mrs. a
len Williamson and her daugh,cl
that they found them in Cumberlan'
county, near Longstreet. They 60
n on their track about five miles c
: this place, and kept it till they car,
~ up with them. Mrs. Williamso
k, had been TO several factories tryiA
to get work. On the certain intoI
= nation that the woman was rf
dead, Allen Williamson and Il
is mother were released from Jail o
is the 10Th inst. We are glad to KIN
that they are not guilty of the inl.'
man and bloody crime of murderi"
10 the woman and child.
IN At Graham, n. c., Friday, Marc
= 23d, at eight minutes past lively
ar O'Clock, Jerome Holt, colored, W;
hanged for the crime OF rape, con
"a mitted on the 10th Of February las
lis upon Mrs. VIM. Terrell, of Al
- nance county. His execution ";
be strictly private, only 25 persons b
W ing admitted into the Jail var.
while about 200 persons stood on
y side. Holt was conducted TO Il
- gallows by Sha rif James I. Hun,t
Of an admiral = fife, :.d bis Il, =
ties, r. L. f"InuteY ard IL c l1udi
70 Holt was calm As h. stood upon Il
er scaffold, and said Il am prepared
en- go. am prepared tor death. Ia
IS. ready. Good bye" Then the blas
'rt cap was. put upon him, and at Il
end Of eight minutes from the tin
he stepped upon Tie platform Il
drop fell. The pulse ceased to be
IS, in ten minutes, The neck having be,