Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-17
NORTH CAROLINA.
THE FIGHT IN THE REPUBLICAN
RANKS GETTING wARK.
rFo,t, TO Crush Mott ia Young Girl
BADLY Burned Tobacco Crop
Heavy Rains.
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| Especial tfleEttm w tno DnpHst
RALEIGH, N. o., August l6.--Re-
publrcaps who belong to what is CON-
monty known as the anti Mott faction
are daily receiving accessions. The
| movement for a convention will over
helm Mott. 1t is not probable, alter
ALI that has been said, that ticket for
| Supreme Court justices will be placed
IN the field. The purpose Of the con-
v.n,ion il to elect q new Executive
state Committee, aud thus dispiace
Mott and Humphrey.
In Wake county an attempt to bring
opposition to the no-feDce Law into poll
| tics has proved dismal failure. In
Buncombe county attempts are being
made 10 make much Of that question.
Republicans there are seeking to make
the stock law and county government
issues of importance, and by antago.
MIXING them both draw to their ranks all
disafiected persons. The policy OF the
Republicans in this State has always
Fbeen snesking and undermined, but
this year it is absolutely vile, shrinking
at nothing TO achieve its end. The
Charlotte Observer intimates that Inde-
pendents will seek to make Roadway
against the Democrats in several dis
,ricts. That paper is itself rather on
the fence in its opinions, and one of the
Asbeville papers is giving vent to some
rather remarkable utteraDces. The
Democratic press is standing like wall.
1t is daily becoming evident that labor
questions are entering into politics. In
this district John Nichols, ex-postmas-
ter, and at present secretary Of the
State Agricultural Society, will run as
a labor candidate. He poses as an in
dependent, but will receive the solid
Republican support. lie says openly
that be counts upon the labor vote. If
his estimates be we'll based, Major
Graham has work to do.
SERIOUSLY BURNED.
Near Stokesburg Louisa, a sixteen
year-old daughter of j. T. Culbreth,
was very seriously if not fatally burned.
| Her fathers hands were also badly
burned in his efforts to save her life.
A most extraordinary and ruinous
rsin-storm passed across Limestone
township, Buncombe county. The
rainfall was like q cloud-burst, and all
the streams were flooded. The wind
blew violently. Corn was snapped of
and tobacco-leaves turned over. Then
floods came to submerge and PROSTATE
the crops. There were many serious
individual losses. 1t has been . notable
year fo- local storms, and there has
been considerable loss of life and stock
by lightning.
TOBACCO.
The tobacco crops in Chatham and the
western part of Durham and Orange
counties are reported to be poor. Some
fields are of so little value that there
are said to be doubts whether the crop,
when sold, will pay for the fertilizers
used. There are few reports at all IA
vorable to this crop as to its quanti-
ty, but it is certainly curing well, and
the color is in many cases very good.
This is the only really favorable fact in
the matter.
Saturday, at Smithfeld, the dogs
were discovered dragging the body Of a
child in the street near the hotel. 1t
was found that they had partially eaten
the BODY of the infant. The child had
been killed by blow on the head, and
it's mouth was filled with wet paper.
Several parties are suspected Of the
crime of infaDticide.
Farmers having laid by their crops
are now having what is really their
chief pleasure during the yesr-thsir
reunions and bsrbecues. One Of these,
in Jones county Saturday, attracted
more than $500 farmers and their
wives and daughters.
Considerable cotton. land on the Lower
Neuse, Cape Fear, Roanoke, and Tar
rivers is now under water-the second
time since June 18th.
A CELEBRATED CASE.
This afternoon argument in the ha-
beos corpus case of James Ii. Miller
was continued before Associate Justice
Merrmon in Chambers. The arguments
were by T. G. Fuller and John Calling
for Miller, while John Devereux repre-
sented Attorney General Davidson.
Justice Merrimon said he had no power
to review the acts Of Judge Phillips,
whose sentence is appealed from-both
judges being Of equal power-and he
therefore remanded Miller to Jail. Coun-
sci for Miller appealed from Judge Merri-
mons decision. Judge Merrimon said
be would grant the appeal if possible.
lie continued the case till tomorrow
' morning, when there will be argument
on the question Of whether the defend
I ant can appeal. The case has come to
I he very remarkable in all its aspects,
1 and is exciting attention everywhere.
: Miller has now been in jail seventeen
days. 1t does not appear that he stands
much of showing to get out of Jail.
: His time already served is counted as q
portion Of his thirty days sentence, Of
course.
In The Sixth district there is to be q
o SuAightout Republican candidate fol
n the congressional nomination in the
o person of John II. Whiteman (colored)
b of Wilmington.
e In the Ninth district there will also
9 be q Straighout Republican candidate
In parts Of Wayne county the cot
e ton-worm has made its appearance il
J. great numbers, and is doing bad work
4 Its ravages will reduce the crop.
!, To-day several cases were tried be
n fore justices Of the peace against the
d commissioners Of Wake county. Eacl
d suit was against the commissioners t.
d recover 5000 forfeit for failure to dis
Q charge their duty as commissioners il
d refusing to grant license to sell nativ,
% wine and beer by thu quart in less thar
$ mile of the city limits. The case
Q were decided in the plaintiffs favor
!, and appeals were taken to the Superio
l. Court. These are test cases. AL
l. were almost precisely alike, the point