Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-11
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
News Collected by Wire aud Mail From
All Parts of Dixie.

All Parts Of Dixie.
There are now 2f3 students at Wake
Forest N. G. College,
Another national bank is to be es-
tablished at Salisbury, N. G.
Simon Elias, clothing merchant at
Florence, S. c., has failed, liabilities
$40, 900; assets So, 900.
The latest estimate is that 1900 bales
of cotton were burned in the fire at
Charleston, S. G.
The old war between the ports Of
Newport News and Norfolk, Va, has
been received at Washington.
Revenue officers in Alabama captured
several stills, 10000 gallons of wiskey
and seven moonshiners
W. X. Gilkerson, prominent dry
goods merchant of Laurens, S. c., has
failed, liabilities $5,S7s; nominal assets
$13,731
James Hudson's residence, IN Rowan
county N. c., was burned q few nights
ago, with all its contents. Loss, 81, 500,
with no insurance.
A Republican State Convention has
been called to meet in Jackson, Miss, on
February 9th, to elect delegates to the
National Convention.
Winstead & MCGOWAN, hardware deal
ers, at Greenville. S. c., have made an
assignment. Liabilities, $1,000; assets
said to be $4,000.
The firm of Jackson g. Shaw, at Car
~ oil 1o
for the benefit of creditors. Liabilities
and assets ere not stated
Rev. DR.. J. T. Wheat, of Salisbury, N.
c., one of the most venerable Episcopal
clergymen in the State, died at his home
at Salisbury. He was the father-in-law
of Hon. Frank Z. Shober ex-congress-
man from the seventh district
Counterfeit money is becoming so
numerous in Laurens county, S. c., as to
suggest the idea that the factory is not
far away. The coin appears as bright as
a pin, and is clever imitation.
Near Longview, Texas, passenger
train on the Texas and Pacific Railroad
was derailed by defective switch. The
engineer was killed and three trainmen
fatally injured.
Walter Bristow, the one armed man,
who this week at Palmyra, Halifax
county, killed ]. H. Hemmit, has been
acquitted on plain proof that it was JUS
tifiable homicide.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, re-
fuses to surrender the Hatfields. for
whom requisition has been made by
kla nf ~.osa 10
courts must decide the matter.
A serious stabbing affray occurred at
Sandy Flat, near Greenville, S. c., at a
party given in the neighborhood Sam
Lynn, while recklessly handling an open
knife, stabbed Charlie Collins, seriously
wounding him under the arm.
At Danville, Va, the amount of leaf
tobacco sold from warehouses in January
was 2,700.000 pounds. For the first
four months of the tobacco year the sales
were 100000 pounds, as against
$500, 900 pounds for the same time last
year.
The two men charged with being con-
cerned in the Pinkens, S. c., lynching,
were granted bail in the sum of 1000
CdNns IiNhdiQ hNbhlpf Nhp ndo tthNAtt-
ed at the term of the Court, made his es-
cape from the Jail at Abbevile. He has
not yet been caught.
Fire broke out at Williamson, Martin
county, N. c., in the recently finished
residence of S. II. Newberry. The large
frame livery stable caught fire from the
residence, and both were entirely con-
sumed. The Masonic hall and other
property near by sustained some damage.
Newberry's loss is $4,000. Insurance
81, 300.
Miss Alice Savage, of Hamilton, N. c.,
was so badly burned that her recovery is
hopeless. Her dress is supposed to have
caught fire before retiring, thereby set
ting fire to herself and the bed. Her
father, mother and brother-in-law were
painfully burned in extinguishing the
flames.
Two miles from Makelyville, in Hyde
county, N. c., man named Lupton kept
a barroom and grocery. In the morning
his store was found in ashes with his
charrcd remains in the midst He is sup
posed to have been murdered, robbed and
store set on fire. There is no cue to
fhe murderer