Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-25
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
News Collected by Wire and Mail From
All Parts Of Dixie.
NORTH CAROLINA.


him are being made.
Rev. II. G. Pearson, the famous revi-
valIst, will hold meetings in Newberne
for the next fortnight. He goes to Will
mington March 18th, to remain month.
Calvin Stockton, coIored, has been ar
rested at Winston charged with having
caused the death of George Harris by
striking him upon the head with stick.
Adeline Allen, a negro woman tried at
Winston, n. c., for numbering her in
FAINT by drowning it in mill-pond, has
been convicted of murder, with recon-
mendatiOn for mercy.
Mike Cook and William Lending, the
negroes charged with burning the town
of oxford, will be tried at the next term
of Durham Superior Court, the case hav-
ing been moved there from Granville
county.
Joseph DOrtch and Seabury Sasser, ne
groes, have been arrested at Goldsboro
for robbing John G. Coke. prominent
farmer, on the ridgeway near that place.
They ''heid up" Coke and got all his
money.
Within the next two years the North
Carolina State board of education con-
templates doing good deal in the way
of drainage and opening of the vast
bodies of lands it holds, aggregating very
nearly 500, 200 acres.
The North Carolina COlored Teachers
association meets in Raleigh June 18th,
at Shaw university The programme is
very complete. The meeting continues
six days. Rev. Joseph C. Price is presi-
dent of the association.
Miss Josephine Williams was burned
to death at her mothers residence near
Raleigh She caught fire in the house
and rushed out When the family caught
her, all her clothing, save her shoes, had
been burned off.
A gold mine in Lincoln county has
Just been sold to English capitalists, and
other party of Englishmen, who not long
ago bought the noted Christian mine in
Montgomery, are preparing TO spend
three hundred thousand dollars in its de-
velopment.
Last week three men were arrested in
assassinated Abraham Barker in his moth
cr's house. Another man, named Will
liam Hepler, has been arrested charged
with completely in the same oiTensc, and
is in Jail at Statesville.
A colOred man, while engaged in cut
ting down trees near Charlotte was
caught under falling tree, and instant
ly killel. 4 similar accident occurred
about the same time, another cOlored
man being caught under falling
tree and probably fatally wounded.
At Salisbury, n. c., johnson S Ram
says tobacco factory was burned, with
ali its machinery and stock of tobacco.
The latter was insured. There was no
insurance on the buildings, the tobacco
being property of j. l.. IIcrrici;. At
one time the town was in danger of de
structiOn.
At Elizabeth City, N c., unknown
persons entered the dental Office of J. II.
White and robbed him of all his dental
instruments and apparatus, and tried to
set fire to the building by turning over
the stove, after putting kerosene and
paper on the floor. But strange TO say
il was only partially burned.
Governor Scales has committed the
death sentence of Adeline Allen, color
cd woman, to imprisonment for life in
the penitentiary. She murdered her in
FAINT child last autumn BY throwing it
into a mill pond near Winston. The APP
plication for cOmmutation of sentence
was signed by the judge, solicitor and
jury.
Revenue officers, finding some irregu-
larities going on at the bonded distillery
of J. b. England & Co., near Mnrganton,
seized the distillery with all the fixtures
and 175 gallons Of whiskey Storekeeper
ID. F Denton and all the distillery firm
were held in bond of three hundred
dellars each for appearance before the
commissioner.
The roaring noise in the wells IN the
vicinity Of Glenwood, Johnston county
N. c.. continues. The same phenome-
non is now reported in Duplin county.
| At nearly regular intervals. one well there
on the premises of G. Byrd, is thus affect
ed. The sound is that Of boiling and
trembling. and is audible at a distance ol
nearly hundred yards from the mouth
of the well.
The body Of negro man was found in
the suburbs Of Raleigh, lying in a pool
Of blood. The body was that Of Andrew
Fenner, who had store near by. Two
negroes. with whom he had recently had
a fight were arrested. While Fenncr's
body was laid out in his store awaiting
the arrival Of the coroner. a negro named
Alfred Pearce broke into the place and
stole q pocketbOok aud other articles
from the dead mans pocket. Pearce was
CAPTURED and iailcd.
/ At CottagevilIc colored boy named
Toney Dore, fell back upon a
circular saw while il was running and
was nearly cut in two pieces. The saw
struck him across the buttOck and eui