Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-20
THE FIRE FIEND.
SEVERAL FIRES IN TIE Old NORTH
STATE.
A Hotel at Wadesboro' Burnsd-Jumpei
frsm Window-other Fires
Y. NJ. c. A.
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day work on the State Agricultural and
/ Mechanical College near this city will
/ begin. A force OF conyicts will com
mence excavations for the basement.
News was received to-day Of a destruc-
tive fire at Wadesb0rc yesterday, which
quickly swept away the grand Central
| hotel, its liyery-stable, and two stores
and n residence. The loss on the hotel
is S2OO and the total loss is fully
| $40. COO. lFhe hotel was new, of brick,
and three stories high. Nearly all OF it's
furniture was burned. w. ]. Hardison
sprang from a third-story window and
is badly hurt
w. j. Whitaker's large saw-mill, near
Hoffman, in Moore county, was burned
night before last with large quantity of
! lumber.
1t was learned to-day that the peniten-
/ tiary had about fifteen thousand dollars
/ of its funds in the smashed State Ma
tional Bank. This fact has not before
been stated. The deposit was made by
W. j. Hicks as architect and warden of
the prison. This bank was one Of those
named as a legal place of deposit for
State funds.
| Two weeks ago young white woman
in Necklenburg county disappeared mys-
| tcriously, and not one trace OF her has
since been found until day before yes
terday, when some fishermen found that
one Of their hooks had caught in n body
and tore out piece OF flesh and irag-
ment of dress. The body sank and can
not be again discovered.
T.. Y. Sraughan's residence, in Chat
ham county, WAS burned last night. The
fire originated in a defective hue. The
/ family barely saved their lives. The
loss is IS, 000 with no insurance.
The store and dwelling OF 5. h.
Eyerts, Of Currituck county, has been
burned with the stock OF general mer-
chandise. The family had narrow es-
cape. The loss is over 5000, with
| 81 GOO insurance.
A whale was to-day reported as caught
in the nets of the great porpOise fishery
near Morehead City, but broke ont Of
the seines, tearing the latter 10 pieces,
and liberating a large school OF por-
poises.
The State Convention Of the Young
/ Mems Christian Association began at
/ Charlotte this afternoon with some 200
delegates present. After temporary or
ganization had been effected the general
secretary, A. T. Jamaison, discussed the
gynaslum with reference TO It's place and
usefulness in the association work. This
evening General Rufus Barringer, OF
! Charlotte. delivered an address OF wei
come 10 which Rev. DR.. Thomas Hume,
of the State University. responded.
General National-Secretary I. A.
Harding, OF Washington, ID. c., discuss
ed the aims and scope Of the cOnyen-
/ ton: after which the convention took
ND the question of whether association
work should be confined exclusively to
young men.
Governor Scales and party returned
/ this morning from Oxford. All were
greatly pleased with the railroad celebra-
/ ton and with the attention paid them.
There was n grand ball at Oxford last
evening in one of the tobacco ware
houses. which was specially decoratedand
prepared for the affair. The attendance
ut the ball was very large, and the affair
did not end until nearly daylight this
morning.
News has been received here OF the
dangerous illness of Major John Cat
/ ling, a prominent lawyer Of this city,
who is on a visit to Gates county. A M
NOR Of his death was current last night,
but was untrue.
It's learned that orders have been
given for the extension of the Nashville
branch Of the Wilmington and Weldon
road formerly known as the Albemarle
and Raleigh to Wakefield, which is IN
this county and only sixteen miles from
this city The section thus ordered 10
be constructed is ten miles in length.
Enough men have returned to work
on the Winston Wilkesboro' railway to
put an end to the strike. The force
employed is not a very large one just
now. OF course later it will be largely
increased
Rev. DR.. Edward Rondthaler has re-
signed as principal Of Salem Female
Academy.
The disease known as "pinkeye, y
which has affected the horses in the
Charlotte section, has greatly abated.
A number OF horses have died OF this
disease.
The floods OF fresh water pouring into
Albemarle sound from the rivers have
kept shad and herring in PamlicO
sound, and the catch there has been I'M
precedented in size.
The negro arrested at Aurora upon the
suspicion that he was the murderer Bill
Williams proves upon examination to be
another party. The search for Williams
is unaysillng.
Ex-PresIdent Davis expresses his re-
grcts at being unable 10 be present at
the ceremonies at Washington, y. c.,
/ MAY 10th. when the noble monument to
the Confederate dead is to be unveiled.
The loss by the burning of the saw
mill of George W. Kugler d Sons, in
Pamlico county, is 5000. The old mill
and the lumber in the yard were saved.
A committee waited on the editors Of
the Wilmington daily papers and pre-
scented a petition signed by some l,SO0
persons asking that the publication OF
Sunday papers be discontinued, and that
instead the papers be published Monday
morning. The editors decline to accede
to the request. and say very plainly and
pertinently that there is much less Sab
bath-breaking done in getting out Sun
day morning paper than one on Monday
morning. They are right, too.
S. q. Brice's store, near Shelby, was
burned Monday night with its stock OF
general merchandise. The loss is s., 500,
with $1,000 insurance. Other build
ings, including the depot, were by great
effort saved.
The railway from Oxford to Durham
will be completed by October LIST, it IS
now stated.
THE EASTERN SHORE.