GREENE COUNTY, NC - Newspaper - Court House Burned, 1876.

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           "The Court House in Greene County Burned"

      From the Carolina Messenger published in Goldsboro, NC,
                Monday, Mar. 6, 1876. (microfilm)

"Our Snow Hill correspondent informs us that on last Thurday morning, 
the 2nd inst., at 3 o'clock, the Court House in that town was discovered 
to be in flames, and in less than two hours it was a smouldering ruin. 

Every Record in the office of the Register of Deeds was destroyed, as 
was also every article in the Sheriff's office. More than half of the 
Records and documents in the office of the Superior Court Clerk were 
also consumed by the fire. In a very few minutes after the alarm was 
given, the citizens were on the ground battling manfully to save what 
was found not entirely beyond hope. 

The jail caught fire twice, but by well applied efforts the flames were 
subdued, and the Court House is the only building whose loss is to 
record. 

The fire was evidently the work of incendiaries. It seems the fiends 
fired the passage, the court room and the Register's office 
simultaneously. It is to be hoped that they may be brought to speedy 
justice. 

It is thought that the County Commisioners will probably select the 
commodious hall over Mr. John Murphrey's store, as the place for holding 
the next term of Greene Court, which will be on the 13th. instant. 

About a year since the county jail was destroyed by fire and that 
building has just been rebuild [sic] at a heavy expense tot he tax 
payers of the county, and now thay must be saddled with the expense of 
building another Court House. It is too bad, these hard times. Our 
Greene County friends have our sympathy in their misfortune."