The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-20
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Glover not Dead-The Drummer
Evangelist's Success.

WINSTON, N. c., Nov. l9.-[Special-
Thomas f. Glover, the Virginia drum
mer (From Rishmond', who was last
week reported by number of papers as
missing and presumably dead, is not
dead at all. He is in Salisbury at a
MOTEL, sick, and his mother is with him.
He was not injured by the jump from a
moving train, but is supposed to have
bcen "out of his mind" at the time.
For several years s'Bill" Fife was a
commercial traveller" and is said to
have been engaged in an attempt to
drink all the liquor as fast as it was dis
titled. He also had other similar ''ac-
complishments," and was generally
accredited as being one of the hardest
nuts on the road.
He was born and reared in an adjoin-
ing county to this (Forsyth), but a
short time ago he took up his residence
at Fayetteville.
About two years ago no was converted,
and for over n year he has devoted his
whole time to the cause of the Master,
and is now known throughout the State
AS "the drummer evangelist"
His success has been almost as re-
markable as that OF Sam Jones. though
AS yet he has been confined to narrower
limits He has not been out of the
State, so far. but has held many rclig-
iOus revival meetings in this State
principally in the Piedmont region, and
has converted thousands of people.
mostly men.
Ho wages an uncOmpromiSing warfare
against the liquor traffic wherever he
goes, and is particularly successful in
reclaiming the young men who are adj
dicted to drinking. He has just closed
big meeting at Moorosvillc, small
town between Charlotte and States
vile, and here is the report of his weeks
work there:
At the least calculation, there were
600 professions and rcclamations. Two
hundred and three applicants for church
membership have already been re-
ceivcd; 1900 men took the pledge never
to touch another drop of whiskey and
mover to enter bar-room again: 400 re-
nounced dancing and card playing.
MIR. Fife made an appeal to the Pres
byterians present for money sufficient
to build parsonage for the Presbyter-
IAN Church. The appeal was responded
to by subscriptions to the amount of
$4,000, Mr.. Fife contributed $50 himself.
"A number of members of other churches
also contributed to the same cause Four
hundred dollars was raised to pay on
the tabernacle building, and purse of
$3.50 was presented to the Evangelist.
Over $500 worth OF Bibles We e sold dur
ing the meeting by Mr.. tife's Bible
agent
That record will compare favorably
with the results of Sam Jones meetings
In largo cities, and if "Bill" Fife i'm
proves with age and experience he is
destined to become as famous as the
Georgia ex-cracker.
The Eastern Field Trial Association.
OF New York, will have It's next meet
ing Mt High Point, N. c., instead of
Amelia county, Va. High Point is only
twelve miles from Winston, and there
IS much fine game and many fine-bred
bird dogs in this section.
North Carolina was divided into two
conference districts by the last general
conference OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, to be known as the
North Carolina conference and Western
North Carolina conference The former
conyenes at Winston on Dec. 10th, and
the latter meets at Concord on the a6th
OF this month. Bishop IIargrayc will
preside at both.
DR.. L. ii. Jones, dentist of Martins
Vile, Va, has located in Winston, and
will practice his profession here