Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-15
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
RALE1GH,s NEWsY BUDGET.

A jail FIRED By . Prisoner and several
Heuses Bu,ned-GaiIsns Rsscus-Raiirsad
Matters.
Especial telegram To the Dispatch.l
RALEIGH, N. O., December A.
The town leck-up at Rocky Mount was
fred by negro who was imprisoned
for stealing horse. Upon arrest he
confessed and was awaiting transports
ton to the Nash-county jail. He was
rescued from the burning prison nearly
sufIocated and was sent to Nashville
Jail. Fire consumed DIR. Tillery's
stables, the Mayors Office, William
Soden's tenant-house, and j. II. Chap
mans tenant-house. The Presbyterian
church and Office Of the local paper
were damaged.
The case, against Emigration-Agent
Williams was compromised with the
understanding that he was no longer to
take an active part in inducing negroes
to leave Richmond county for Kansas.
Energetic steps are to be taken to pre-
vent luftneT enilgIatlOus
Twenty more convicts have been sent
from the penitentiary and put to work
on tho Pittsboro' railroad.
A good deal of surprise was ex-
pressed here by persons not in the Sc
cret at the news Of the sals Of the AL
bemarle and Raleigh railroad to the
Wilmington and Weldon. The line ex-
tends from Tarboro' to WILLIAMSON.
A. the latter place, on the lower Tar
river, there is seventeen feet Of water
q. the wharyes. The line is surveyed
to Raleigh, and three townships in
Wake county have voted $4,000 each
towards its construction. Ii was un-
derstood up to few months ago that
it would be completed to Raleigh.
Some persons say that the Wilmington
and Weldon will now extend it to this
point, its destined terminus; while
others say it was purchased for the sole
purpose Of preventing its possible ex-
tension to Raleigh. Important devel-
opments may be expected by the mid
die Of January. Meanwhile the Will
mington and Weldon road will tho
roughly equip its new purchase.
The father Of the murdered man SOL
ONION WEIGH was in Rockingham Sat-
urday, and interviewed Lee. his sons
murderer. Lee admitted that he killed
Solomon, but denied knowing anything
of the whereabouts of Charles WEIGH,
brother of Solomon, whose disappear
ance is unaccounted for. 1t is believed
by many that Lee killed both of them.
Lee is safe in Jail.
The Federal Court convened in Char
lotte to-day.
A white man named William Bur-
CESS, aged sixty-six years old, has died
in Cleveland county under singular cir
cumstances. He was hermit. He
Stunned society, never owed any man,
never attended a funeral during life,
never heard sermon, and nsser saw a
town. Sunday morning heSwas found
dead in bed.
At Washington, N. c., Friday, the
residence of Thomas Bowen was burned
by an incendiary. The Masonic Tenn
pie was barely saved.
At High Point, while the mercury
stood at the freezing point, remarka-
BILE current of hot air swept through
the town from the south, lasting ten
minutes. 1t occasioned alarm among
the superstitious and was the subject
of conversation for all. 1t felt like
steam.
News of a sensation comes from
Randolph county. A minister has
eloped with neighbours wife. The
woman deserted several children, and
the man leaves a wife and several chill
dren.
The trial Of Wendley, Stewart, and
Newberry is in progress at WashiDc,. Ion.
They are charged with the murder o,
William Waters, for the purpose Of
procuring the amount of policy of in
surance held on his life by Wendley.
All the deeds in the State must be
registered by the LIST of next January.
This is specially required by the new
law. In Wayne county, in the Supe-
rior Court clerks office, are deeds
which have been held lying there for
twenty years unregistered. Doubtless
in other counties the same state of az
fairs exists.
In Mecklenburg county Mr.. John
Beattie discovered tenement-house on
his farm in flames. Finding the door
locked, he broke it in, when a little
darby tumbled out and ran off. The
interior of the house was ablaze. Dense
smoke screened everything in it from
view. Beattie heard the voice of q
child crying. He boldly entered the
house, and in a corner which the flames
had not quite reached pulled a three
year-old child from under table and
safely made his way with it to the open
air. Beattie's whiskers and hair were
badly singed. The parents had gone
off to spend the day, leaving two chill
dren locked up in the house.
A great meeting of people interested
in railroad extension will be held at
Rutherfordton tomorrow. A great
fight is in progress between the Caro-
lima Central road and the Boston Con-
struction Company. People from o
dozen counties will attend the meeting.
Sunday Mr.. John McIver, who lives
near Jonesboro', had q centennial. The
occasion was the celebration of the
one hundredth birthday of his mother,
Mrs. Jean McIver. This old lady
came from Scotland in her girlhood, is
still in good health, and able to 60
, about the house.
The Inferior Court of Northampton
county is to be abolished.
James Sims is in Jail at Durham for
| shooting lis wife in the thigh with .
revolver. Ii was the result Of quar-
rel.