snowstorm, fire at the shanty, diphtheria
1879-11-25 - Oxford Torchlight
- Diphtheria in Raleigh
- Policeman Knott is “playing the wilds with perambulating hogs,” whatever that means
- The convicts working on the railroad ought to get Thanksgiving off. And a nice meal.
- Snowstorm in Orange and Wake Counties last week
- Someone at another paper said the Torchlight’s mailing clerk is “a Chinaman”
- Warning to Parents: unsupervised kids burned to death in a fire
- County is selling the Poor House land to settle its debts
- Fire in town at a “dilapidated shanty … [operating] as a barber shop, hotel, oyster saloon, mattress making establishment and livery stable headquarters”
- Trial of Miss Linklaw in Lumberton. She charged a Mr. Hartman with “seduction” and shot him when he refused to marry her; gave birth shortly after. Mistrial.