05 Nov 1890
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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1890
Page
1
Fragmentary poem by Rose Hartwick Thorne recounts a curfew bell scene and a fairy child seeking Heaven with a guiding figure. The text cuts mid narrative, with lingering imagery of heaven and a bells and pathways. The source ends abruptly in a Newbern Journal line.
A correspondent in Scotland Week reports Rev. Smith as state evangelist, traveling the state to preach to his congregation before moving on. The piece praises Mrs. J. D. Carpenter’s revival efforts in Clinton and comments on women speaking in church, noting Sam Jones as a comparison.
Fragmentary notes from a transitional market column mention shortages and efforts to move grain. The text references locations in Carra gay and VUwharrio regions and implies local disposal or sale outcomes amid harvest conditions.
Mor tis de Hirsch de Gereuth, 59, a leading European financier tied to the Bischoffsheim and Goldsmidt houses, built railway links from Bada Peath to Varna and funded schools in Galicia and Russia. He spent much time in England with his Paris residence. his wife and he support wide charitable works and education.
Tom Woolfolk was executed by hanging in Perry Georgia for the nine murders in his father's household on August 10 1887. The massacre included his father Richard Woolfolk his mother Susan Pearl and siblings aged 7 and 6 as well as three others. A crowd estimated in the thousands watched as Woolfolk proclaimed innocence in a dying declaration. He had been tried in Bibb County and retried after a prior conviction if the 1880s process.
State Auditor Sanderlin says Forsyth County is the second wealthiest in North Carolina by tax totals. A Greensboro church appoints Rev. W E Wingate of Roxobel as successor to Rev. W R Gwaltney. Exoduses decline as crops and wages improve. Newspaper items report anecdotes from Shelby, Guilford College, and Detroit. various local notes and incidents are mentioned with regional figures and events.
Andrew Phillipot, a farmer near Sallisaw I A T, set out to visit a neighbor and entered a woods where he fought a pack of wolves with a stick. He beat off a big wolf wounding it and kept wolves at bay until help arrived as he fainted from exhaustion.
A stylized plea in dialect warns that anyone who keeps wrongfully placed pennies will have their name announced loudly. The message ties honesty to accountability and emphasizes rightful ownership.
A Danville encounter recounts a possum hunt with a known manufacturer a bookkeeper and a hay trader plus three loud hounds driving to a friend’s house. The chase through gulley creeks briar patches ends with a misadventure and a claim of an unfortunate injury to a man.
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