Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
SIEGULAR DEATH or A CHILD.
ssHseated In n Cetsss-Psls-Raiiresd Wers-
The stste FaiF-Perssnai Nescs.

The state FaiF-Perssnai Neses.
Especial telegram to the Dispateh.l
RALEIGH, October l4.-Judge Con-
nor has issued an order restraining the
sheriff from collecting all taxes levied
IN Craven county IN excess OF the con-
stitutional limit The case will be
heard before Judge Phillips on the 29th
instant.
Its probable that the high tides and
storm of Monday has caused great deal
Of damage to the rice crop in the Cape
Fear section, but reports cannot be had
as 20 the actual condition.
Cattle shipments are becoming active
in Western North Carolina. number
Of carloads having been sent the past
week to northern and southern markets,
and a number more engaged for this
and next week. Carloads Of fine ap-
piles are also beginning to move to the
South. This shows the effect of the
new lines OF rail.
a large force is building a new rail-
road bridge. Of the Howe-truss pattern,
across the French Broad, Al Asheyille.
for the Western North Carolina rail-
road.
4 fouT-year-old son OF Mr.. Clements.
IN Patterson township, Durham county,
was found dead yesterday III 4 pile Of
cotton. The supposition is that the
child dug a hole IN the cotton. crawled
into 1t, and the cotton closed IN around
him, and that he died from suffocation.
About five miles Of iron have been
laid from ASheVilic, on the Asheville
and Spartanburg railroad. Work goes
on rapidly. -Four miles OF iron have
just been delivered at iIendersonville
for the same road. Hopes are enter
tanned that cars will run through by
December lst.
Colonel v Z. Blackwell. OF Durham,
opens his new drIving-park there Octo-
Der 2oth. The track Is said 10 be the
finest halfmile track in the South.
The gospel tent at Durham mas been
taken down. The meetings continued
q fortnight and resulted IN the conver-
sson OF over thousand persons.
Rev. Robert Strange has returned to
North Carolina and will become pastor In
charged the Church Of the Good shep-
herd this city. lie Is the grandson Of
Judge Robert Strange, OF Fayetteville,
and SOL Of the late Colonel Robert
Strange. OF Wilmington.
Pursuant % call the North Carolina
Bar Association net here this evening.
There were q number OF members pre-
sent.
The State Board of Agriculture Is IL
session to-day. a committee re1re-
senting the State Horticultural AssocIa-
ton appeared before the Board and
asked the establishment OF a sub-de-
partment to be devoted specially to the
work Of disseminating information as to
horticulture. The proposition will
probably be favOrably entertained.
The close season for birds ended to-
day. and there will be thousands of
hunters all over the State. Quail are
unusually abundant. AL kinds Of
game have increased IL the State since
the passage OF the game laws.
The storm 81 Monday as reports
coming show. caused no loss Of life in
this State, hut did considerable damage
al many places. The tide was pke-
nomenslly high at hewbern.
The attendance at the State Fair to-
day wa smali-much smaller than IN
years past-despite beautiful weather.
The exhibit Is merit0rious. though not
a. large a. usual. There are about
two thousand entries IL all depart
nents.
Andrew Butler, a young man Of
Hoffman. Moore county, went to South
Carolina Oh pleasure trip yesterday,
and at q baT-room near Chester was
shot and perhaps mortally wounded by
a man named Mcdonald.
Governor Scales has been indisposed
to-day. ard was not at the fairgrounds.
Many prominent men from all parts
Of the State are here, and the city Is
gay. as Is usual fair week.
L. y. best, Of Washington, to-day
presented Governor Scales with q large
chart showing forest, farm. waste, and
uncultiyated land IN North Carolina.
There are now eighteen million acres
OF forest IN the State.