Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-02
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
RALsIoRs NEKsY BUDGET.
CIR Tor the rurpenssns Feresss- ssseemsa
Lsnds--tIurnsd 10 Desss-fem Dead.


CIR for the Turpsnsns Fsresss- Rsseemiss
Lspds--i8urnsd 10 Desss-fem Dead.
Especial telegram 70 the Dispatch,
RALEIGH, N. O., January 1.-Two
hundred able-bodied negroes passed
through Wilmington last night on their
way to the turpentine forests Of Georgia.
Some had been home from the South to
spend Christmas, and were returning to
work, but there were large accessions
to their ranks gathered by agents Of the
turpentine-men in Onslow, Duplin, and
Wayne counties.
To-day was the last in which lands
sold for taxes and bid in by the State
could be redeemed under the act Of the
last General Assembly. The act is
one Of extraordinary stringency, espe-
cially in its provisions regarding fail.
ure to redeem by to-day. 1t will re-
quire large additional costs hereafter to
redeem forfeited lands, besides running
the risk Of the States obtaining full
possession of them.
William Williams and Mitchell Rose
were out in q small, heavily LOADED
boat between Oyster Rock and the
mouth Of the Douglas canal, in Hyde
county, Wednesday, when a strong and
sudden wind capsized the boat. Both
men were drowned. A party went in
search of thu bodies, but up to the last
report nothing had been found except
the canoe in which they were sailing.
Yesterday while Mrs. Amelia
Beacham was preparing dinner at
home, in Beaufort county, her clothing
caught fire and she was soon enveloped
in flames. Being alone at the time, the
woman in her terror rushed out into
the open air, and the gale blowing
served to render her condition hope
less one. She would have burned to
death Immediately had not her husband
and others near by heard her cries and
arrived upon the scene at once. With
much difficulty they succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the fiery mass, but not
until the entire lower portion Of her
body had been literally roasted. She
died in few hours.
Work has been commenced on the
telegraph line from Asheville to Spar
tanburg, S. g., through Henderson
vile. The new commercial wire from
Charlotte to Statesville, just completed,
will connect at Asheville. In all pro-
liability Asheville will be made the re-
lay Office.
Colonel A. B. Andrews and Major
j. W. Wilson went over the Asheville
and Spartanburg road yesterday. The
work of leyelling the track is proceed
ing as rapidly as possible. 1t is hoped
the regular through schedule can be
fixed before many weeks. AS soon as
practicable this will be done.
Yesterday Ada Edwards, the young
girl who was so terribly burned Mon,
day night at Asheville, died Of her in
juries.
| j. T. Pickens died near Asheville
Yesterday. lie arose very early APP
parenily in usual health, walked to the
fireplace, looked at the clock, sat down
by the fire, and almost instantly fell
over-a corpse. He was over seventy
years old.
FATAL AFFRAY IN CHARLOTTE.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., January IA
Davidson College to-day a street en-
counter occurred between. j. d. Hood
merchant, and j. W. Summers,
lawyer, in which Hood was shot, and
it is supposed, fatally injured. Hoo
and Summers are brothers-in-law am
ouarrelled about the settlement of al
estate. Hood was attacking Summers
with Ratchet when the latter used hi'
pistol.