The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-03-08
GATHERED AT GREENSBORO.



GREENSBORO, n. c., Mar. Special. f.
Goldsboro is said TO De moving TO build a
handsome monument 10. the late W. T..
Dorich, Of that place, recently deceased.
lie was one Of the ablest and most flyOra-
bly known lawyers 0i the state.
A Sir. l.. b. Bass adNerises in Wayne
county local paper for one hundred old
fashioned gourds.
At tbs station Of Tuscar0ra, on the Allan
tic and North Carolina Railroad. a freight
train in charge OF Engineer Hunter ran over
and killed "a negro, mansling the body I'm a
terrible manner. lie was supposed to lie
drunk.
The town ~ Go'l.horo has bought a new
iiro-alarm leii wtislin. ., 100 pounds. The
authOrities ufl nltet4lI- about the location
of the tower upon which IL is % De mounted.
Dr. $. :. ,atchwell, one OF the best-In-
formed and scientific men Of the medical
profession I'm the State, delivered Il lecture
in GOldsbOrO last week on Religion and its
Bearings on Human Nature"
A negro woman who "cNOdustedn from
Iarb0rO and went % Texas. gOt word back
10 her friends that "fOur was as hard % get
in Texas as a iye-dOllar bin was i'm Tar
b0rO.n
Rutherford County Farmers Alliance is
building "a roller Touring mill.
The conversions resulting from Evangelist
Flies meetings no Burlington are put at
lju.
At Alamance Court last week there was
only one man on the grand jury who had
ever served as juror before. The foreman
had never done Jury duty Of any kind.
ON Tuesday night. the clcyen-year-0ld
son OF Henry y. Albright Of Alamancc
county, while handling a pistol, exploded
the weapon and shot himself IN the bowels.
The wound was serious. but not necessarily
dangerous, as the ball did not penetrate the
Yital-.
Mr. e.. G.. Harris, of Lexington, took the
honey from two bee hives on the I'D OF Feb
uary. and got thirty-tiFe pounds Of honey.
Governor FOwle said at the Newburne
Fish Fair that there are more white men
now at work in North Carolina than
there have ever been before.
The capture of mountain trout is now in
order, and the sport promises good returns.
A county editor in Lincoln county went out
a few evenings ago and landed fourteen Of
the beauties.
IL. NJ. Asbury, Of llartland, Burke coun-
ty. owns the old "Bull's-Eyer silver Eng
lish watch that Bishop Asbury brought
across the Atlantic generations ago, and
who gave it 10 Daniel Asbury. who was "A
presiding elder OF the Methodist Church,
and lived in Catawba county. The owner
has been offered free tuition for his son in
"a full course by the Vanderbilt University
authorities, for the custody Of this highly
priced relic % remain in the University
Museum while said son shall remain in the
school. As the said gentleman mas no son
% educate, and fearing the loss OF his heir
loom, il viii be kept at home.
AZ 4 HITrlff son Of Rev. X g.. barrett
has just passed q successful examination
for position in the United states signal
service. Mr.. Barrett is AN alumnus Of
Trinity College, and Will be assigned 10
duty Ia Kentucky.
ON a recent raid By revenue officers in
~urry county they cut up and destroyed
fourteen distileries. This is an ''irrepressi-
bic conflict" for the mountain distiller
can never be brought 10 See the justice Of
being compelled 20 pay a tax for the priv
ilcge Of making his own corn or fruit into
mountain dew
10 is reported on good authority that
already seventeen candidates for the 0ilce
OF sherin have "bObhed up" in Rowan
county. and it Is still several months yet be-
fore the conventions will get IN their work.
Noah Brown. Of ladkln county, who was
indicted and brought 10 trial on the charge
that ''he won the horse ia "A game OF cards. p
The Presbyterian synod for this State Will
convene in the city OF Asheyille on the 10Th
Of NAV and remain IN session ten days.
oliver II. D0ckery, United states Minister
10 Brazil, has resigned his position and VIII
return 20 this country, about the 10th Of
March
fue Board OF Trade Of the town Of Mon
roe has subscribed $4,000 Of the neeoed
$4,000, for cottOn factory al that place.
R0berdell Cotton Factory, IN Rockingham
county, had its splendid stone dam blown
up by cloud burst last saturday. The
dam was built six years ago al cost OF
5000. IL was much damaged by ireshet
last August. The work Of rebuilding VIII
occupy two weeks. and POO operatives will
be- out of employment while the machinery
Is at c stand-stlll.
The town u Winston recently elected
three negroes, out OF nine commissioners,
From 100 20 100 men arc at w0Fs 10 "