Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-29
NORTH CAROLINA.
NEWS NOTES here 8. THERE.
A SInsular Dcnib-Cour Matters Notor'"s
Character Killed Desperate Attsnipt at sni

CaDarruS county, near the ho"An h"S'
died from a very unusual cause. In
May, of this year, she was bitten oy
spider. Up to that time she had been
in excellent health, but Immediately
afterwards parts Of her body were very
much swollen. Some time since sue
became partially paralyzed. Finally
she got completely parllyzed, dying
within twenty-four hours after receiving
the stroke.
Professor j. L. Love, of the Uniyer-
sity Of North Carolina, was married to
Miss Julia Spencer, daughter OF the
gifted Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Spencer.
Christmas appears to have been as
rule pleasantly observed in the State.
No casualties are reported.
Four sudden deaths occurred Sunday
and to-day-three Of them at Durham.
Some are said to have been caused by
drinking.
The residence Of W. II. Tomlinson,
at Fayetteville, was burned yesterday,
causing loss Of 81, 500.
The Grand Lodge Of Masons meet
here January l2th.
The Supreme Court met to-day in
consultation. but fled no opinions. 1t
will meet from day to day, and file
opinions probably for a fortnight.
Hal. Harrison, school-teacher, was
found dead in the woods in BERTHE coun-
Is. lie was born here, and during the
war was captain Of company IN the
Forty-seyenth regiment Of North Caro-
lima troops. The cause of his death is
said to be heart-dlsease.
The statement was made last week
of the elopemont of preacher in Ran
dolph county with the wife of citizen
there. The preacher is NJ. +. Hawer,
of the Methodist Protestant Church.
The woman with whom he fled is Mrs.
Parish, a farmers wife. She look with
her a son seventeen years old and
daughter Of two years. Hawer left a
wife and four children. The clippers
are supposed to be in Texas or Arkan-
SaS.
At the Capitol Saturday and to-day
no business of Importance was trans
acted. Governor Scales has received
several petitions for pardon, but he IS
not disposed to be too lenient to crmi-
nails even at Christmas. Saturday the
Governor and number of other promi-
nent gentlemen visited the penitentiary.
The Governor addressed the conyicts
and a number of presents were given
to those who by good conduct had
merited them. The exercises were
quite remarkable.
Reports from parts of the State west
Of Greensboro are that the winter
sown wheat has been somewhat dam.
eyed by the freezing Of the ground,
which forces it out. The prospects are
yet good for a large crop.
On account Of lOng-continued and
severe sickness, Major Herndon has re-
signed as clerk of Buncombe County
Superior Court.
Walluka Chair. an Indian from Che
rokee county, convicted at the last term
Of the Federal Court for illicit retailing.
died in jail at Asheyille yesterday of
typhoid.pneumOnia. His term would
have expired to-day.
Near Fayetteville. on the Cape Fear
river, Jim Darroch, a negro of noto-
riously bad character, was shot and
killed while in the yard Of Guilford Nc
Donald. One ball struck him, sever
ing an artery, from which be quickly
bled to death.
Since the purchase Of the Albemarle
and Raleigh road by the Wilmington
and Weldon road all freights on the
line of the road are shipped North by
way of Rocky Mount. This takes off
a large amount Of freight from the Roa-
noke-ryer steamers. which was trans
ferred to Norfolk. The Roanoke steam
ers may be withdrawn.
An eighteen-year-old girl named
Hattie Robson was burned to death
Sunday at Abbottsburg, Bladel county.
She vas lying before the fire asleep,
and when she awoke she was all ablahe.
The house was locked. Hattie broke
out and ran across the fields, her cloth
ing burning all the time, until she fell
and expired in great agony. All her
clothes except part Of her corset were
burned OFF.
A Jersey-Stock Association has been
formed at Hickory. Mike Bollinger is
president. The object of the assOcia-
ton is to secure the right to register
Jerseys in the State and to encourage
the breeding Of thoroughbred cattle.
1t is again asserted that January
10Th the Chester and Leroir narrow
gauge railroad from Newton to Lenoir
will pass under the control Of the
Western North Carolina railroad, thus
making Newton the terminus Of the
uarrow-gauee. The road from 1icko-
w to Lenoir will then be changed to
broad gauge.
On last Saturday afternoon William
Key, aged seyenty-fve years, residing
in Surry county, attempted to commits
suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor. In the morning he had some
unkind words with his wife. lie pro.
cured a rope and put it around his neck
saying ne intended to hang him,el ant
gave his wife $1,000 in money all
bonds. His son coming up, got the
rope from his father. lie then seizei
the razor and started for the woods
No attention was given him. a.
he often made threat. Later it
afternoon the son and mother went tC
look for him, and saw him sitting by a
tree with his coat on, his sleeves rolled
up, and his arm tightly corded. liz
Immediately made stroke across hi
arm below the elbow. He then ran away
into the public road, and with a Quicl
motion of the razor cut his throat. A.
the wife and son came up he expressed
his desire to die, and begged them Il
finish him. His injuries are probabl!
fatal.