Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-29
NORTH STATE.
cxAItYSex 70 FIGHT A puEI-wHar
LED 10 II.


HALEiCHs M Wv @pfh
interest has been manifested here TO-
DAY in the news received from Ashe-
vile 1t late hour last night Of chal-
ienes to . duel sent by Richmond
Pearson to tombstone Jones. II grew
out Of publications By both in regard
10 the stock law for Buncombe county.
The following passage in General Jones's
lengthy communication probably was
the casus bell.
"Mr. Persons sole apparent reason
for voting against the fence-lsw vas to
redeem bis pledge. He made formal
and nominal redemption Of that pledge,
and this is what be calls consistency.
Consistency is indeed jewel, Is has
been POLITICALLY sxid but. its copgenisl
home IL in . crown Of virtue, beside
those other gems OF human conduct
fidelity TO public trust, generosity, and
honor-wbich the great Stonewall Jack
son once said are TO brave man dear.
er than his life.' He seems very care.
fol Of his reputation for consistency; If
he had been equally careful Of his repu-
tstion for courage lif he has such repu.
tatiop) he would not have yielded IT
without . struggle to the assailant 10
the street in Raleigh and become supine
the rest Of the session Of the Legisia-
ture."
The Code of the State is very severe
on duellipe, and il is not at all proba-
bic that anything further will result
from this. The Code says:
"If any person shall send, accept.
or bear q challenge to fight q duel,
though no death ensue, he and oil such
as counsel, aid, and sbet him shall be
guilty Of misdemeanor, and moreover
be Ineligible TO any Office Of trust,
honor, or profit in the State, any par
don or reprieve notwithstanding. IL
any person fight duel in consequence
of . challenge sent or received, and
either of the parties shall be killed,
then the survivor, on conviction there.
of, shall suffer death, and all their
aiders or abettors shall be considered
accessories before the fact"
Jones is Adjutant-Ge Of the
State, and Is q bonded officer. His
hands are in q measure tied. The
affair creates Q great sensation in the
State.
George McNair (negro), last year at
Jacksonville, Onslow county, was con-
victed Of sssaulting q white woman.
His counsel appealed to the Supreme
Court. 1t was claimed that McNair
was under fourteen years Of age, and
that the Judge in charging the jury in
timated that be vas over that age. The
Supreme Court confirmed the ruling of
the lower court. McNair was there
upon resentenced to be hanged May
7th. His counsel to-day wrote to Gov
ernor Scales asking for reprieve, that
they may present evidence concerning
his age, which they allege has an i'm
portant bearing on the case. Governor
Scales is absent. 1t is hardly probable
that a Ieprieve will be granted.
An electric-light company, with a
capital Of hundred thousand dollars,
vas yesterday incorporated at Will
mington.
There are now in operation ia the
State forty-three railways. In three
months there will be two more.
The county Of Wayne offers a large
reward for parties who a night or so
since set on FIRE and burned large
number Of panels Of the county fence.
This outrageous course has been pur-
sued in several counties by the oppo-
nents of the stock laws passed by the
last Legislature.
Captain w. A. Gill, one of the
wealthiest men and most prominent
merchants of Laurinburg, died yester-
day; aged fifty.eight years. He was
for years master mechanic of the Caro-
lima Central railroad.
Reports received by the Department
Of Agriculture in regard to cotton,
corn, and tobacco are in the main salts
factory. The cotton acreage is about
the same as last year, and the same is
probably true as to tobacco in the State,
though in some sections the latter has
increased. In the southern counties
cotton il large enough to require work.
ing.
A fortnight drought, with heat re.
markable for this early season, ended
to-day. The rain will prove of great
value as all the crops needed it badly.
The people Of the State are gratihed
at President Cleyeland's action in ap.
pointing Colonel A. d. Andrews, Of
this city, member Of the commission
to examine and report upon the section
Of the completed line of the Northern
Pacific railway in the Cascade range, in
Oregon. Colonel Andrews's experince
is great, and his selection is not only
high compliment to him, but to the
Richmond and Danville system, which
he so well represents in North Carolina.
He leaves for Chicago in few days,
and will proceed thence to the place
where the examination is to be made.
The decision Of the Supreme Court
in the Durham Graded-School case re-
verses that Of Judge Walter Clark, as
rendered at Greensboro last month.
Only one school is in operation there
for whites, and the taxes Of both races
are used to maintain 1t. This Is held
By the Court to be unconstitutional be-
cause Of discrimination between the two
races. The Court holds that tho col
lection and distribution Of the tax
money are so connected and dependent
one upon the other that they must be
taken Is IN entirety, and one part be-
ing unconstitutional affects the whole.
The act Is confined to the town Of Dur
ham, % in other places in the State
there ere schools for both races. The
decision will put an end to the school
or else lead to the establishment Of one
for the colored race.
Greeusbor0' Notes.