Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-19
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
NEWS NOTES HERE & THERE.
A Sensation spoiied-The schoot-fak cn's-
ton - Prohibition-aloonshi Captured
Trucking Personal.

A Sensation spoiied-The sehooi-rak en's-
ton hibi,ion-a Ioonshiners Captured
Trueking-PersonaL
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
RALEIGH, N. c., February 49,
DR.. Eugene Grissom, superintendent OF
the insane asylum here, has made
careful examination Of John b. Stur-
divant, the white lad who it was SOL
EMMY asserted had been stricken with
blindness by Divine agency. DR.. Girls
som says the boy is clearly epileptic,
and that several cases similar in charac-
ter are to be found in the asylum.
Clerk-of-the-S upreme-Co Bagley
is reported to-day as sinking. His
death is only a question Of days.
The recent decisions Of the Supreme
Court in the school-tax cases, notably
the test case from Sampson county,
have, perhaps, sowed for a harvest
of injunctions. One has been served
on the town Of Durham to prevent the
collection OF the graded-school taxes.
Ii will. of course, 90 to the Su-
preme Court and will be fought
by prominent lawyers of various
points in the State, who have been re-
tanned. 1t was predicted weeks ago
that the opponents of the graded schools,
of whom happily there are but few,
would use this last means of antago-
Dizing them. The suit is based on the
claim that the levy Of the taxes for
graded schools is in excess Of the al
lowance by the Constitution. Every
place of any importance in the State
has a graded school, and the alarm
ought at once to be sounded.
1t was decided to-day to make appli-
cation to the commissioners to order an
election on the question Of prohibition
in Raleigh. This will result in a con-
test second only to that at Atlanta.
The time at which all prohibition cleo
tions are held is fixed by law on the
first Monday in June.
A daring and successful raid was
made upon the moonshiners' " settle
ment in the swamps Of Lenoir Monday
night by II. p. Dortch, United States
deputy revenue collector and q posse.
They captured two stills and succeeded
in arresting the owner of one, white
man named Waller, who is now in Jail.
Large quantities Of liquor were cap
tured. There has been much illicit
distilling in LenOir county.
Truck-farming in this State received
a bad blow by the cold weather. The
crop will be short and late.
To-day a man from Virginia had a
long interview with Governor Scales,
and urged him to pardon white man
named Taylor, who was convicted Of
forgery at Goldsboro' year ago and
sentenced to Imprisonment in the peni.
Tertiary for five years. He Taylor
pretended to be the agent of beer
botting establishment at Alexandra
ard swindled Fred. Smith out of quite
a sum Of money. Governor Scales has
not yet acted on the case.
Divorces are not common in North
Carolina, but remarriages of divorced
couples are yet rarer. At Asheyille
yesterday John Glance and Josephine
Glance were remarked by preacher
named Ball. Years ago they were
married, and for five years had been as
strangers. They were thrown together,
new love sprang up, and they again
face the world as husband and wife.
1t is the first case known in the State.
1t has been decided that work on all
public buildings will be resumed the
lst of March. Work was suspended
over two months ago. Great progress
will be made on the west wing Of the
penitentiary during the year, Warden
Hicks says. Work on the Governors
mansion, owing to its fin eness, will
be very slow, Judging by the
past six months. 1t is now
said that the mansion cannot be
made ready for occupancy in less than a
year. Governor Scales's lease Of his
private residence is for year. The
Governor is much pleased with his
quiet home life, preferring that to life
at hotel-in this differing from Gov
ernor Jarvis.