Dr. Tippo Saib BROWNLOW of Warrenton, died on Wednesday the 27th January, aged 55 years.
Source: Roanoke News, 6 February 1879, page 3. Available online at DigitalNC.org.
Category Archives: Roanoke News
Local (February 6, 1879)
Excerpts from the Local column:
- P.H. WINSTON Jr. of Bertie county paid us a visit on Tuesday.
- Rev. A.S. SMITH will preach at Grace church on Friday night and Sunday morning at the usual hour.
Source: Roanoke News, 6 February 1879. Available online at DigitalNC.org.
Good Word About the Roanoke News (1890)
The Danville, (Va.) Daily News has the following good word to say of us: While we have not yet done so, it is still not too late to mention the fact that the Roanoke News, Weldon, NC, has recently undergone a change of proprietorship. W.P. BATCHELOR, Esq., and Capt. J.G. LOCKHART have sold it to Messrs. W.W. HALL and L.M. LONG, who have assumed sole control. The new proprietors are young gentlemen of fine intellectual qualifications, energetic and public spirited, and will doubtless meet with success in their new field of labor. Under their management the News has already been much improved in appearance, while the general tone of the paper has been changed for the better. it is kept up to the standard of a first-class family newspaper, and deserves a liberal patronage. Our sympathies flow out in a tidal wave of well wishes for the old craft upon which we first ventured out upon the treacherous sea of journalism, and we shall ever watch with pleasure the success and prosperity of the Roanoke News. Long may it live to defend the rights of the party and people it represents.
Source: Roanoke News, 6 February 1879, page 2. Available online at DigitalNC.org.
Col. W.L. Saunders Retires (1879)
Col. SAUNDERS has retired from the editorial staff of the Raleigh Observer on account of ill health. During his life, as a journalist, both in connection with the Wilmington Journal, and the Observer, Col. SAUNDERS made many friends among newspaper men, and his opinions were always entitled to, and always commanded the highest respect from the members of the press. To this, the notices in our exchanges testify. We hope Col. SAUNDERS will recover his health in a short time, and again resume the duties to which his abilities so well fit him.
Source: Roanoke News, 6 February 1879, page 2. Available online at DigitalNC.org.
Capt. Turner W. Battle in Weldon (1878)
Capt. Turner W. BATTLE and family of Nash county have been in Weldon during this week, being detained here by the serious illness of his little boy Gordon.
Source: Roanoke News, 21 September 1878. Available online at digitalnc.org.
I. Pipkins Visits (1890)
Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:
A pleasant call on Tuesday from our young friend, Mr. I. PIPKINS, of Murfreesboro, who is visiting his father, Capt. I. PIPKINS of steamer Bertie.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 18 July 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Fisticuff (1878)
Moses HICKS and another colored gentlemen of the town had a pretty brisk fisticuff early on Thursday morning.
Source: Roanoke News, 30 November 1878. Available on digitalnc.org
Osslan MILES Is Injured (1879)
Osslan MILES a colored man who was cutting wood at the Emry House, received a painful wound last Thursday. He laid one end of the wood on a log and tried to break it with an axe, when the stick flew up and struck him in the face, cutting one eye entirely out.
Source: Roanoke News, 30 January 1879. Available on digitalnc.org
POTTER, McLean (d. 1879)
DIED — Mr. McLean POTTER died at his residence in this place on the 25th inst. His funeral was preached on Monday by Rev. A.R. RAVEN of the Methodist church.
Source: Roanoke News, 30 January 1879. Available online at digitalnc.org.
HOWELL, J.L. (Mrs.) (d. 1879)
Mrs. J.L. HOWELL of Northampton county, whom we reported in our last issue as being very ill, is dead.
Source: Roanoke News, 30 January 1879. Available online at digitalnc.org.