Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-13
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
RALElcRs NgWsY BUDGET.

A Causelsss Murder--Aeeidentaliy KILLED
u,ms. Head Found--Cssngc Of Gauge Of
q Railroad.
especial telegram 10 the Dispatch.l
RALEIGH, n. c., june l2.---Jack
Lambert. a white man, was convicted
At Charleston, Swain county, OF the
murder of J. Thomas Wilson, in Jack
son county, last winter. lie was SEN
fenced 20 be hanged July the 3D.. lie
took an appeal, and has been taken to
Asheville Jail. The murder was brutal
and causeless. Wilson passed Lambert
and called the latter out to know who
Il was. Wilson replied, at is only
us" and then Lambert fred into the
wagon and killed Wilson, saying
"D--n you, I'll know who you are"
This was all that passed.
Judge Merrimon will deliver the adj
dress at the New Garden school on the
2Sd. the occasion being the closing ex-
ercises Of the Institution.
In an old field near Leicester, in Bun
combe county, is dilapidated hut
which has been deserted for years. In
this lonely locality was discovered a
human head, apparently that OF man,
severed from the body, no traces Of the
latter being anywhere found.
WI. D. Pope, well-known citizen
of Cabarrus county, was accidentally
killed at Poplar-Tent church by run
away horse. Pope was riding the ami
ma, when it became frightened and ran
away. lie was thrown and struck the
ground with such force as to cause
death within few hours.
The change Of gauge on the Midland
TO conform to that Of the Wilmington
and Weldon railroad was consummsted
by 10 O'Clock Wednesday morning. A
large force was put to work in mile sec
tons at 6 O'Clock A. NJ, and by the
hour named the entire gauge was
changed. The new owners will at once
90 to work improving the rolling stock
and the road-bed.
A mob recently broke into the jail at
Taylorsville. Alexander county, and
forced the iailer to release j. c. Marley,
desperate, who has committed many
offences against this State and the
United States.
Mr.. A. NJ. Buie is manager of Con-
gresham Wharton j. Green's vine
yard. near Fayetteville. He was yes
terdar hurt while fixing a drum in the
gas-house, where gasoline is used. He
threw monkey-wreneh aside, and 1t
accidentally struck a match on the
floor. which ignted and caused an ex-
ploSion. Buie's clothing caught fire.
A negro woman soon extinguished it,
but not until he was considerably
burned.
Colonel W. II. G. Adney was very
badly injured by a Devon bull at his
farm. near Pittsboro'. The animal had
always been docile, and was petted by
Mr.. Adncy but while he was gently
patting him the bull suddenly turned
on him and attacked him in the most
violent manner, cutting agash and crit
icslly injuring him internally. Mr..
Adney is native Of Pennsylvania, but
for many years has resided in Chatham
county.
Judge W. X. Skinner, a highly-re-
Spected citizen of Edenton, died on
Tuesday morning. He was in the sew
enty-seventh year of his age.
A storm blew down large tree
across the Raleigh and CASTOR railroad
track near Weldon, at a curve on the
road, and the passenger train would
doubtless have been wrecked if two
little cOlored girls had not remained
and stopped the train. The tree had
TO be cut out of the way.