Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-08-20

annual meeting Of the stoeBholders was held on
Thursday last MAJ. d. g. AIcHae presiding, and Mr.
We learn from the Report Of the President and
Directors that the road has been eted from Fay
etteyille to Puppy Creek 153 milesthat of Messrs
Jones Barbee's contract for 20 miles, from Puppy
Creek to Blues Bridge miles have been completed :
miles more will be completed by Sept. 1st; and
the entire distance by Jan'y. 1854. Twenty miles
of road now under toll
Sufficient subscriptions to construct the road
through Richmond county not having as yet been
received no work has been done beyond Blues
Bridge except the survey from that point to Titles
Mills 1t is to be hoped that our friends in Richmond
will take speedy measures to the construction
through that county of road promising immense
benefits to them and to us.
Liberal subscriptions have been made in Mont
gomery and doubts entertained of procuring the
necessary amount for the construction OF the road
through that county.
The Stockholders accepted the amendment to the
charter authorizing change of terminus, and adop
ted the following resolution:
ResoIUed That the road be now located from
near Titles Mills in Richmond county to or near
Swift Island in the county of Montgomery, by such
route the President and Directors may select and
that the location of the final terminus be for
ent postponed.
Messrs Jas G. Cook Geo. MCNEIL, Henry Lilly,
j. G. Shepherd, T. S. Lutterloh, II. L. Myrover, E.
W. Vikings of Fayetteville, and Messrs Isham A.
Dumas and r. Bostick of Richmond were elected Di-
rectors for the ensuing year. At meeting of the
Board of Directors, Jas &. Cook was elected Presi-
dent, and j. M. Rose, Secretary.
We learn that a proposition has been submitted to
the Directors to construct Branch Road from near
the Hon. L. Bethune's in this county, via McLean's
Bridge lover Drowning Creek and Laurel Hill, to
MeNair's Store in Richmond county, near the S. G.
line The proposal has been accepted provided
sufficient amount for the construction of the Branch
be subscribed. Messrs. John Mcneil, M. w. Nc
Nair, Jno. c. McLaurin, VIM. Buchanan, Daniel Nc
Lean, Ferdinand Mcleod and VIM. Mclean have
been appointed to procure subscriptions in Richmond
county. Fayetteville Observer.
FRANKLIN GRAY. Franklin Gray, who committed
suicide few days ago, by throwing himself before
the cars at Rochelle near New York city, and whose
case, from his domestic relations, appears to excite
great sympathy in the North, is very well known in
the West and South. He lived at Helena, Arkansas,
and kept Indifferent drinking house, with room
for faro and other games He was a professional
gambler, and having been detected in tricks at
faro, by which he attempted to defaud respectable
gentleman of Phillips county out of considerable
sum of money, the citizens having become enraged,
demolished the GROCERY tore down the building and
obliged him to leave, without his coat at midnight
He went to San Francisco, and by the successful
tricks of his trade amassed large fortune, and
turned up in Washington about year ago, the
millionaire Col Gray, one of the merchant princes
of California He stayed at Browns Hotel-had
fine suite of dressed -effulgent with
diamonds and brilliants of the first water-he
not long in making sensation in that diplomatic
city.
He soon acknowledged the beauty and charms of
his present wife, whom he had met at one OF the
weekly soirees at Browns Hotel, where the wealth
of Col Gray obtained for him a facile entree, and
through the influence of dsnterested friends he laid
at the feet of the young adys mother his diamonds
money and rent roll. The bait was too much to be
rejected. The engagement became the subject of
public conversation. The mother cautioned a.
gainst the connection, but the rent roll won the day
The wedding took place in the church, and was
grand affair. The magnificent trOuSseaw of diamonds
with which he presented his bride, displayed to
the public gaze, and it is feared many fair maiden
sighed because she not the fair recipient of Col
Grays vows and money.
About 10 years ago. Franklin Gray married the I
widow of a respectable lawyer of North Carolina,
much his senior, but snowy and intelligent lady |
1t was the same Mr. and Mrs Gray who were mixed |
up in the rumored attempt to poison with champagne
Gen. Santa Anna, when prison,r at San Jacinto !
He came to Arkansas from Texas and lived in that
State from 1887 until this affair at Helena Often
poor and ekeing out living by the pre-
carious results of his profession, his wife, who hear
tily abhorred their of existence, became dis
satisfied and Gray and herself quarreled and separa
ted. Gray became rich, and married the beautiful |
Miss French, without having divorce, and the first
Mrs. Gray went to New York and threatened pros
ecution for bigamy against her legal husband. His
will in favor of his second wife will be legally tested
by the party claiming priority as wife.
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