Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-09-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NUGGETS.
AMOUR TIE SOLDIERS HOME.

Joseph Dobson, Of Winston. solicitorof
the Fifth judicial district, died yester-
day aged about ffty-hye.
Charles NJ. Busbee, of Raleigh;
James F. Payne, Of Monroe; and John
+. Woodward, Of Wilson, leave to-
morrow for Baltimore, TO represent this
State at the sixty-frst annual session Of
the Sovereign Grand Lodge Of the In
dependent Order Of 0dd-Fellows.
Colonel w. r. Beasley, who is presi-
dent Of the Soldiers Home, is making
a special tour Of the State in the inter-
est Of that as yet incipient charity. lie
is here to-day. lie says that II the peo-
ple Of North Carolina do not subscribe
the necessary amount for the erection OF
a homo. he can quickly and easily secure
the amount north Of MaSons anu
Dixon's line. -,
Work ON the Wilson and Florida
railroad Just now progresses somewhat
SLOWLY. The officers OF the road claim
that by December the first trains will
run from Wilson to Smithfeld. Some
of the work done on the road Is pro-
nounced not very good.
The little village Of Yatesvllle was
considerably excited Wednesday night
by the announcement that Israel Eborn
had shot and killed Grey Davis, q CO.
lored man. Eborn was promptly ar
rested and committed to jail. The re-
ports are very conflicting. Eborn, 1T is
said, went to the house Of Davis, called
Davis out, and Immediately on his
coming 10 the door the contents Of one
barrel of Eborn's gun was discharged.
Davis fell and Eborn departed. Eborn
says there had been some difficulty be-
tween Davis and himself. He went to
his Dayis's) house for the purpose OF
talking the matter over. Davis began
to curse and make threats, and asked
his wife to hand him his gun. While
his wife was in the act Of passing the
gun Eborn fired and left.
Deputy Collector ii. y. Dorth is
making a great effort to break up illicit
distilling in Lcnoir county. lie de-
msnded that the people should INFORM
him if they had been guilty, whereupon
over one hundred told him that they
had been in some way connected with
thu business. They all promised to
stop upon the assurance that If they did
80 absolutely they would not be prose-
cuted. This is the plan agreed upon
in this State by the Democratic officials
a. best calculated to break up the prac-
tice Of moonshining. 1t is having are
markedly good effect, and shows the
advantage Of kindness over rough treat
ment.
Edgecombe county yesterday elected
the following as officers of the Inferior
Court: Justices, Frank Nash, j. ii.
Chapman, W. II. Powell Solicitor,
Donnell Gillian; Clerk, Joseph +.
Porter. This is the only county in the
State now which has an inferior court.
All others were abolished after the in
crease of the number Of supcrior-court
districts.
Isban Balch. the owner and planter
of large nurseries in Caldwell county,
died suddenly yesterday near Lenoir.
Work on the new bank at Reidsyille
began Wednesday.
The colored people Of the State will
have al orphan asylum at Oxford, where
the white asylum is. They have Sc
lected the following capable and promi-
nent white men as the board of trustees :
A. II. A. Williams, j. S. Amis, and j.
W. Hayes. The prospects of the asy-
lum are very bright.
\ meeting has been held at Warren
ton for the purpose of arranging for the
construction of railway from that
place to RansOm'S Bridge. A surpris-
ing amount of interest is manifested in
the building of these short lines Of
railroad.
II has been Gsccrtained that the in
cendiary who burned the mills and
machine, hops Of Hadley's, in Chatham
county, was a negro who had recently
been discharged from tie penItentiary.
lie is now being searched for.
To illustrate the wide spread of to-
bscco culture in this State, it may be
nessee to Wilmingtou. In New Han
over county success attends the first
efforts at its culture. The people
OF the State are surprised at what can
be done. Reports as to poor crop of
tobacco as telegraphed from Lynchburg
certainly DO not apply to this tobacco
belt, nor, in your correspondents opin-
ion. VIII there be any falling off in the
cTop Of the state.
There was apparently disgraceful
state of affairs at the recent term OF the
court in Arson county. Three hundred
persons were drunk in the town Of
Wadeshoro' st one time, 1t is asserted.
The editor of the LteAigeHcer, who is
town marshal, arrested the editor of the
Times for carrying concealed weapons
and attempting to shoot a farmer. One
drunken man was taken before judge,
whom he cursed, and was fined 5000 and
sent TO jail for thirty days.
Charlotte has opened training school
for teachers. and the first results are
satisfactory.
Governor Scales, Hon. James w.
Reid, Colonel 4. &. Fuller, and other
prominent men, have promised to speak
at the grand railway celebration at
Lewisbwg.
The army-worm has attacked the cot
ton in Edsecombe and Green counties.
In the former one farm of one hundred
acres has been eaten bare. Nothing is
left but the stems and bollS. Ii Is
feared that all the bollS not matured
before the visitation OF the worms will
never open. 1t is rather late for the
worms TO DO much more damage. They
are spreading. This is the first time
that this section has had them in large
numbers.
The Carolina Central railway is TAX
ing steps to complete its line to Ruth
erfordton, and is clearing away the line
formerly graded preparatory to perfect
ing it. This is the western end of what
was chartered years ago as the Will
mington, Charlotte, and Rutherfordton
railway. Tomorrow the first shovel
ful Of dirt will be thrown on the new
railway from Rrtherfordton to Morgan
ion Great interest is felt in this limo