Hillsboro recorder., 1888-06-21
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tongue.
The Senate on Monday confirmed the
nomination Of Ex-Governor Samuel
Douglas McEnery to be associate justice
of the supreme court for the term OF
twelve years in place Of Robert b. Todd,
whose term has expired.
Peter Mccartney, a noted counterfeiter,
was sentenced in New Orleans to ten
years imprisonment at bard labor in the
Columbus, o., penitentiary, and to pay a
Ene of $3, 600; for raising hills-and pass
ing cGunterfeits. Mccartney finished a
fifteen years sentence in Michigan re-
Gently.
North Carolina.
Mad dogs are doing great damage in
Bumcombe county. Nearly every dog
has been killed. Cattle and horses bit
ten have in all cases been killed.
w. ]. Palmer, aged 81 years, formerly
superintendent of the North Carolina
institute for the deaf and dumb
at Raleigh, died at the insane asylum at
Morganton on Tuesday, from injuries in
tiicted by another inmate.
A party Of roughs was causing dis
turbance on the streets in Matthews when
Town Marshal Hurley came up and at.
tempted to arrest then. He was forci-
bly, resisted, and one of the toughs,
named Bowden. drew a revolver and
swore he wo,;ld shoot him dead. Hurley
took shot gun from one of his deputies
and put four hundred shot In Bowden's
body.
Alfred Blackwell, Of Barclayville,
Sampson county, was found dead Satur-
day at his saw mill, and most fearfully
mutilated. He had been trying to run
his saw mill alone, and it is supposed ac-
cidently fell on the saw, when he suffered
4 most shocking death. He was gal
liant soldier in both the Mexican and Con-
federate armies, and at the time of bis
death was drawing pension as Mexi.
:an veteran.
south Carolina.
During a thunder storm in Orangeburg
county, lightning struck a tree under
which there were thirteen hogs lying and
ten were killed. Their bodies showed
no outward effects of the stroke.
Gen. Jas. w. Harrison, Of Walhalla,
and at one time a lawyer and
politician Of prominence, died on Mon
day from paralysis. Before the War
Gen. Harrison represented Anderson,
both in the House Of Representatives and
in the Senate. Prior to the War he was
a man of wealth, but the end o. the
struggle left him almost penniless. He
was prominently known in connection
with the Blue Ridge Railroad.
Tennessee.
Jay Gould, the millionaire, was in
Chattanooga on Tuesday.
Fisk university, at Nashville, came
very near being destroyed by fire on
Wednesday.
Rev. Z. A. Taylor, pastor Of the First
Bsptist church at Knoxville, has sent in
his resignation, to take effect September
1st. The members Of the church have
not decided on successor.
The board Of directors Of the Perry
Stove works (recently burned), met in
Nashville to consider the question Of re-
building the burned factory. The board
decided to partition the foundry build
ing, so as to make mounting and pat
tern shop. They will Immediately pro-
cure an engine and a blower, and be-
gin the restoration Of the lost patterns.
Texas.
Dispatches from Gainesville report
that 800 cowboys are assembled in the
southern part Of the Chickasaw Nation
lands, ready 70 resist the imposition OF Q
tax of 81 head levied by the Indians
FOR cattle grazing on their lands. Gov.
Cav hes ordered out his militia only 10C
in number--and the u. 5. troops, nj
Fort Reno, have been ordered to be in
readiness.
Virginia.
An incendiary fire on Wednesday
night. destroyed the great Touring
mills, six miles from Lynchburg.
License was issued on Tuesday, by the
County Clerk at Charlottesville, for the
marriage Of Miss Amelia Riyes, the au.
ihoress, to John A. Chandler, Of New
York.
A mortgage was recorded in the cor.
poration court at Lynchburg, from the
Roanoke machine works TO the Norfolk
3 Western Railroad Company for s5, 900,
900.
Fire broke out shortly after midnight
on Monday, in the building belonging TO
the Boston Wharf and Warehouse Com.
pany, and formerly occupied by the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad company, in
Norfolk. The building and contents, in
cluding $50 bales OF cotton, were con-
sumcd. The British bark Verona Of Que.
bee, lying at the wharf, had her mnsls,
rigging and sails badly damaged by fire.
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