Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-15
NORTH CAROLINA.
MEETING or cExrRAE STATE DEAo'
CRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Mapping Out WORKMAN Cut to Pieces by
aRailroad Train-Incendiary
Fires, &C., &c.
lepecI,l TELEGRAM TO the DIspstch.l

afternoon the Central State Democratic
Executive Committee met here aut
mapped out some business for thu
State Committee, which meets here to
morrow morning. The Central Com
mittee elected w. S. Stronach, OF this
city, q member to succeed the late j
j. Litchford.
The knights Of Labor now number
1850 in Raleigh. There are five as
semblies. Assemblies are rapidly
being formed in this county, embra
cipg laboring men Of all classes
Knights say that in twelve months thu
entire State will be thoroughly or
ganized.
Mrs. Mary Towle, wife Of Hon. Dan
iel G. Fowle, died early this morning
aged forty-two. She was q lady very
prominent in society, and was widely
known and esteemed. She was
daughter of the late DR.. Fabius j.
Haywood and granddaughter of the
late State Treasurer Hon. John Hay
wood.
At Hickory train on the Chester
and Lenoir narrow-gauge railway rar
over and cut to pieces +. A. Keever
He fingered some hours and then died
William II. McCrary, one Of the
leading and wealthiest businessmen o
Wilmington, died yesterday; aged six
ty-three. lie was born in Lexington
this State. He was buried with mill
tary and other honors.
The Commissioner of Emigration re
ports that many immigrants are noH
arriving. Most Of them appear to pre-
fer the Piedmont section. The bulk o.
new settlers are from Pennsylvania
though quite number are from. the
New England States.
Rev. DR.. Theodore Whitfield, fol
years pastor of the Baptist church al
Goldsboro', yesterday resigned and
accepted call to the church at New.
berne.
The report Of the death Of Rev. j.
N. Stallings, Of Townsville Female
College, has been widely circulated. II
is untrue. That gentleman is alive and
we'll.
people Of this State have great in
terest in the small industries. One of the
most promising of these early in the
spring was truck farming. Reports
from the Goldsboro' section to the De-
partment of Agriculture say: "The
truck crop has reached such q stage
that speculations can be safely made as
to how it is going to 'pan out for
market. In addition to the crop being
exceedingly short-so short in fact
that there is hardly any crop at all
it is moreover considerably behind in
maturipg-two weeks perhaps"
The bodies Of the four persons who
were drowned near Charleston, Swain
county, two weeks ago have all been
found. The last found was that Of Mr..
Cook, which was taken from the Ten
ncSsee river in Chilhowee Valley, forty
five miles from the place Of drowning.
1t is reported that not more than one
half Of the tobacco crop of the Ashe-
vile section has been marketed. Up
to the present about three million
pounds have been sold on the Asheville
market.
Commodore Marshall Parks, in CON-
pany with Captain W. II. Bixby, Of the
United States engineer corps, who has
charge Of certain river and harbor i'm
provements in North Carolina and South
Carolina, and other citizens, visited the
Newberne and Beaufort canal to-day.
The failure Of the river-and-harbor bill
at the last session of Congress has de-
layed Government work on the APP
proaches to this canal An effort is
being made to have the canal made of
national importance and part Of the
great inland route from Maine to
Florida.
Next week the Federal court will be
opened at Statesville, and the docket,
containing over 100 cases, will be in
readiness for Judge Dicks attention.
Following the term at Statesville comes
Asheville term, aud then the Charlotte
term.
Yesterday incendiaries burned the
residence, barn, and all of the out-houses
of Tobias Lyerly, near Salisbury. All
the buildings were fired at the same
time-about | o'clock in the morning.
Several horses and number of cattle
were burned to death. Blood-hounds
have been taken to the place, and at
tempts are being made to trail the in
cendiaries.
Tom Heilig, who was shot in a row
among railroad hands at Blacks sta
ton, and was taken to Charlotte a few
days ago for treatment, died yesterday.
Reports Of the fruit crop Of the Blue
Ridge section are gloomy in the ex-
IRENE, and the loss in money will be
very great. There will be few if any
peaches, while the cherry crop is killed
by late frosts. To the apple crop (by
far the most important of ally great in
jury has been done, if the entire crop
has not been killed. OF early apples,
there seems none left, while later fruit
seems to have suffered almost as greatly.
There was another death by drown
ing in Tuckasegee river Sunday. Five
persons were crossing the river near
Whittier, the boat capsized, and three
were thrown into the river. None could
swim. Two were saved, and a man
named Wikel was drowned. The others
were nearly drowned. The body of the
drowned man has not been recovered.
News has been received here of the
killing of Annis Sutton by John Messer
near Webster. The parties, in COM
pany with q man named McMshon,
were intoxicated. Sutton made dis
respectful remark concerning Messer's
wife, and was shot through the heart.
Messer fed, and has not been captured.
Henderson Notes.
Correspondence ofthe Richmond Dispatch.
Farming operations in this section
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