Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-26
NORTH STATE FIRES.
gDGICoMBg JAIL AND OTHER BUILD.
IEes BURNED.
The Prisoners saved-eentenoe commuted-
An Old Church Burned
Other Notes.
Special telegram to the pispa.ch.l


night fire at Tarboro' burned the jail
Of Edgecombe county. Several prison
ers we're in the building. All were
safely rescued, Fireman's Hall and two
private residences were also burned.
There was no insurance on any OF the
property destroyed.
To-day Governor Scales committed
the sentence of Crawford Walters. nov
in Columbus county jail, to a fine Of
twenty-five dollars. Walters was con
victed of slandering an innocent woman
and was sent TO jail for twelve months
and fined one thousand dollars. He APP
pealed to the Supreme Court, which de-
cided that both the fine and imprisOn-
ment could not be imposed. He was
then given an eight months sentence.
He has served five months, and the ply
slcian states that further confinement
would ondanger his life. On this ground
the Governor commutes the remainder
of the sentence TO fine Of So.
Six sheriffs to-day made full settle
ments of taxes with the State Treasurer,
asfollows Cobb, OF Edgecombe, ~, 800 /;
Winston, of Perquimans, $1,000 ; Jones,
Of Tyrrell, 81 .3U0 Kenan, of Duplin,
=, 500; Blanton, of Rutherford, 50, 700 I;
Sharpe, of Alexander, 81, 800.
Steele Creek church, in Mecklenburg
county, was accidentally burned yester-
day, the fire originating in the furnace.
The building was of wood, very large.
and was built thirty years ago at cost
Of $1,000. II was occupied by one Of
the oldest Presbyterian congregations in
the South, organized one hundred and
thirty wears ago. 1t was the largest
church in the North Carolina Synod,
having q membership OF over 500.
News was received here tonight of a
homicide at Rich Square, northampton
county, yesterday. A man named Burch,
overseer on farm, had a quarrel with a
negro and shot the latter four times with
q revolver, killing him i'll his tracks.
II. Hollingsworth, general merchant,
at Magnolia, Duplin county, has assigned
to Jacob Heath. Assets and liabilities
are not stated.
1t is reported here that the election in
OnslOw county yesterday on the ques-
ton of subscription of $50, coo TO the
Wilmington, Onslow and East Carolina
Hallway was favorable.
The citizens Of Wilmington tonight
presented petition with a great num-
Der of signatures asking the aldermen to
order another election on the question Of
100000 subscription to the same road.
The Commissioner of Labor Statistics
tells me that he is rapidly sending his re-
port to his 1900 correspondents in the
State. As rapidly as the reports come
from the printers hands they are sent
out.
Enough new steel has been received
for the Atlantic and North Carolina rail
way to complete the track-laying TO
Goldsboro'. BY March LIST, it is now as
serted, it will all be put down.
Professor J. Il. Corlew, the superin-
tendent of the Charlotte graded schools,
who has recently been the cause OF a de
cided sensation there, has returned from
New York and announces that he pro
poses to face the music. He will not
leave Charlotte until the charge THAT he
has a wife and child, and, keeping that
fact a secret, has played a false game at
CHARLOTTE is either proved or dispioved.
Meanwhile the Charlotte people are
casting about for new principal of their
schools.
A Young man who from OverwOrk and
insomnia had suddenly lost his reason
was brought here from Chapel Hill yes
terday. His insanity took the form of a
wild desire to have the societies of the
university meet at Raleigh. lie pub
lshed notices in the papers, &c. 1t IS
hoped that the case will quickly yield to
treatment.
An artesian well will be sunk at vii
mington by the company which supplies
that city with water. The object Is to
supply drinking water, which is not now
furnished.
&. w. Werner (colored) was danger
ously stabbed at Wilmington yesterday
by man named Johns.
The surveying party on the Durham
and Northern road are now III camp
on Neuse river, having gone that far
from Durham.
All railway work has received n bad
setback this month. Not a great deal
is apt to lie done before March.
Meningitis is reported as prevailing ut
several points in the State. It is due in
large part to the weather, many persons
believe. Mr.. John Carter, a well-known
planter of Rockingham county, died Of
it day before yesterday.
Claude A. Matthews, young man
whose home is at Reidsville, is in jail at
Wilmington on a charge of forgery. He
was here for day or two, and narrowly
escaped going to Jail.