Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-23
NORTH CAROLINA.
RxlgIeTS NEWsY BUDGET


Amer the Gemb,ers- Chaseh Blow" over
Csnres ceafsrence--ssa,e Bends-Msns
Descendants.
fspec,ai telegram 10 the Dispatch.l
RALEioH, N. c., January o.
MANY bills Of indictment for Sunday
liauor-selling and keeping gambling es-
tablishments in GoldsSoro' are pending
before the grand jury Of the present
term Of the Superior Court. With the
punishment Judge Clark last week i'm
posed upon James ii. Miller at Raleigh
of o 90, 900 fine and thirty days in Jail
as a precedent, il is likely that those
Who may be convicted Of offence at
Goldsboro' will be severely punished.
Burglars in Iredell county in one
neighborhood forced entrance into and
robbed the dwellings Of Alfred Hanna,
John Long, l.. Beard, ID. l.. Barkley,
and Ed. Miller. No clue can be OBJ
tanned that will lead to the apprehension
Of the burglars.
Petitions are being circulated for sig
natures asking the Durham-county com
missionsrs to order an election on the
prohibition question in the town OF
Durham the first Monday in. June.
Over three hundred names we're secured
the first day.
Thomas D. Tinnin, who was appoint
ed postmaster at Iillsboro' few
months ago, has resigned.
A convocation conference Of the
clergy and laity Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in that portion Of
the Diocese Of East Carolina between
Beaufort and Fayetteville will be held
at Wilmington Wednesday and Thurs
day next.
Tuesday the church of colored Meth
odists, at Murphy's Bridge, Bladen
county, was blown over by the wind.
This is the second time they have lost
their church building. 1t was once de-
stroyed by fire.
At Magnolia, Duplin county, Viii
liam Robertson, aged eighty-one years,
died Monday. lie left wife eighty
one years Of age, nineteen children,
one hundred and forty-four grandchil-
dreD, and forty.three great-grandchll-
dren, besides one son who had gone off
and married, but the number of whose
children is unknown. The total known
number of descendants is two hundred
and six. Mr.. Robertson was born and
raised in Duplin county.
Saturday night the sheriff Of Beaufort
was called to the door, and when he
responded found Sylvester Well. col
ored, seeking admittance to the county
Jail. lie confessed to having shot a
negro woman seven times, but did not
know whether she was dead or alive.
In Chatham county Tuesday Robert
Palmer was cutting down trees in the
woods and one accidentally fell on him,
injuring him very seriously. The lower
half of his body is paralyzed. The
same day James lensley was hurt in a
similar manner seriously.
The cold weather killed two people
in Arson county; one was Jesse Bill
Kingsley, an old colored man, and the
other was Margaret Cash, a venerable
negro woman.
James Swink, demented white man,
escaped from the Anson-cOunty poor
house, and was found by the roadside
badly frost-bitten. He will die.
The new schedule on the North Caro-
lima and Western North Carolina rail-
roads is not at all satisfactory. 1t re-
quires now thirty hours to 60 from
Goldsboro' to Asheville. There is a
delay Of nearly twelve hours at Sails
bury.
State-Treasurer Balm to-day sent the
following statement Of bonds to the
New York Stock Exchange Four per
cent. consolidated bonds issued by the
State of North Carolina, of date of
July |, 1880, denomination of 1000,
a2,329, 600; Of $500, s439, 500; Of
sl00, sl50,000; of $50, $4,000
aggregate issued to date, 29,550,O0
These bonds are thus listed on the New
York Exchange to make them good de-
livery,