Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-03
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
NEwsY BUDGET.

AarteunursI Fa,ss-Ihe Rice crep-Aner
the Diss,iiefs-Fites- Railroad Matters
Especial telegram TO the Dispatch.l
RALEIGH, n. c., October 1.-The
State Fair opens at Raleigh on the 18th
and continues until the 18th inclusive.
The outlook is full Of promise. The
assurances are that the exhibits will
surpass those Of any previous Fair in
agricultural products and fine stock.
The interest in all the fourteen fairs to
be held in the State is remarkably great
this season.
The rice crop on Cape Fear will be
very good this year. II is being har-
vested in first-rate order and prime con-
dition. 1t now commands from 9 to
sl.l5 per bushel. The crop in Eastern
North Carolina will be small as COM
pared with that of last year, and will
bring from IS cents to 90 cents per
bushel. This low price, as compared
with the Cape-Fear rice, is from the
fact that the former is cultivated out
side Of tide-wateT.
Last night StoIekeerer Hoffman,
with posse Of eight men, left Shelby
for raid upon illicit distilleries. The
party went to the place of Burk Car
penter, ten miles from town. Every
body had fed from the place, but the
officers found a still yet warm and
several tubs Of mash. These were de-
stroyed. The new revenue officers in
this State appear to be doing their
work faithfully.
Moses A. Hopkins, the colored min
lister to Liberia, lectured to the colored
people Of Ellington few evenings
since. lie gave them good advice. lie
advised them 10 work and keep out OF
debt. to make no mortgages, to quit
buying old horses, to stand up to their
friends, and not to wait for forty acres
of land and mule. lie said President
Cleveland told him to tell the negroes
that he was their friend, and he believed
he was sincere.
1t is now said that the railroad from
Durham to Franklinton will certainly
begin in the next few months.
Mr.. j. Y. McEntire at Mooresboro',
Cleveland county, had on hand great
quantity Of tobacco, manufactured and
in boxes, ready for stamping, bat
he was unwilling to pay the tax on the
same, and few days ago it was burnt
in a huge pile by the Government in
spcctor.
News has been received here of ex-
tensive robberies in Brunswick county.
The stores Of w. W. Drew, ID. Il.
Walker, and G.. II. Cannon were bro
ken into at night and all robbed Of
large quantities of goods and Of money.
The robberies appeared to be the work
of large band Of robbers.
1t is said that the Western North
Carolina railroad from Asheville to
Paint Rock is to be laid with steel rail.
Dempsey Eubanks was found dead
in totton-feld yesterday near Pitts
boro'. He had been a faithful servant,
and was said to be l03 years old. lie
leaves children aged eighty and eighty
four years.
The public school-house for whites
in Rocky Hook township. Chowan
county, was burned night before last.
Some trouble occurred several weeks
since between the School Committee
and the patrons of the school, which
resulted in unpleasantness and acts of
doubtful propriety. The burning is
thought to have been the work of an
incendiary. Some clue to it has been
found.
Thursday night the waste-house Of
Maiden Cotton Mills, Catawba county,
burned. There was in it at the time
oil, baggiDg, and ties, and about fifty
bushels ofwheat. Fire was discovered
in time to save most of the contents Of
the house and keep the fire from reach
ing the main building. The origin Of
the FIRE is unknown.
Steps were taken to-day for the be-
ginning Of work November 18th on the
railway from Moncure to Pittsboro'.
One hundred convicts will be put at
work there, and no stop made until the
line is completed.
President Julius A. Gray, of the
Cape Fear and Yadkin-Valley railway,
reports that work progresses rapidly,
though more convicts are needed. lie
says that l24 are at work twenty-five
miles this side Of Mount Airy and
fifty-fve at Mount Airy.
The Supreme Court Of the State
meets mex: Monday. Cases will for
the first time be heard from Twelfth
judicial district. There will be about
twenty-five applicants for licences as
attorneys. These will be examined
next Monday and Tuesday.