Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-19
NORTH CAROLINA.
erpur1,c.S STATE CONVENTION TO
rypT IN RALEIGH WEDNESDAY.
Ano,her Great Rain-supposed Murder
Anew County.Railrosd Subscription
Died from Fright, &c.
,.,,.o,., ,sleQram to the Dlspa tch

In is hoped that IL was chiy iocal.
us,m weather is now a necessity, and
INV such rainfall as this depresses
farmers and businessmen greatly.
some fear it is but the beginning oil
long and severe equinoctisl storm
there was a remarkable storm OF rain
At Weldon this week, no loss than seven
inches falling in thirteen hours. AT
Greenyjlle, on Moccasin river, no rain
fell. and the people were astonished at
seeing that stream rise more rapidly
than ever before known. The rush of
the water swept away span OF the
long bridge there.
SUPPOSED MURDER.
The authorities here were to-day 10
formed that yesterday afternoon An
derson Lee (coloredD was found IN the
woods near his home, In johnson coun'
~. with his throat cut from ear to ear.
The superstition is that he was muir
dered, as bad feeling was known to ex-
ist between him and some neighborins
colOred people.
A NEW COUNTY.
Steps we're yesterday taken looking
to the organization Of a new county
composed of parts Of Johnston, Will
son. Wake, Nash, and Franklin. but
the Legislature is very averse to forming
new counties, and all attempts made in
recent years have failed, save in the
cases Of Durham and Vance counties.
OPPOSED TO CLEVELAND.
Some of the Democratic papers in the
State are working up feeling against
President Cleveland, and are saying
bitter things. Civil-service rules fur
nish the basis for their attacks. These
rules prohibit office.holders from taking
| any part in politics. Now that rule is
violated daily. One paper, the Char
lotte Home, Democratic,) concentrates
its wrath, and boldly says: "We re-
peat what we said few weeks ago. If
all the Federal oflice.holders are to be
prevented from working for or aiding
the Democratic party, how does Cleve-
land expect to keep up the Democratic
party? BY making those who get no
Offices do all the work Cleveland has
injured the Democratic party more than
| Blaine could have done in a hundred
years." That is the plainest talk yet
heard.
COLORED FAIR.
The colored people are making
preparations for holding here the finest
State fair they have yet had. They
held their first fair in 1879, and have
excited the surprise of all visitors.
This year the fair will be held in No
vember. The 10th of that month they
have set apart as sducational-day.
They confidently look for ten Thousand
visitors. The last fair was the most
successful of the six yet held. The
officers Of the fair have secured as
speakers Governor Scales, Mr.. NJ. Nc
Cihee, Senators Vance and Ransom,
Senator Blair of New Hampshire, Pro-
lessor John NJ. Langston, Colonel L. L.
Polk, and j. S. Carr. The white peo-
| pie feel and manifest the liveliest in
terest in these fairs.
RAILROAD SUBSCRIPTION.
The temporary restraining order
granted by Judge Montgomery at the
Burke Superior Court has been heard
by the same Judge at the Caldwell
Superior Court. lie decided to dis
solve the order, and the county CON-
missioners of Burke are ready to issue
bonds amounting to 100000 to the
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago
railway as soon as the work is done
according to the stipulations.
A call has been issued for great
meeting Of ex-Confedsrate soldiers to be
held at Tarboro' November 18th. II
is extended to all veterans in Eastern
North Carolina.
DIED FROM FRIGHT.
Yesterday a negro boy arrived a
Greenville and told a remarkable
story, which bears all evidences o
truth His home was at Penny Hill
Pitt county, and the night Of the earth
quake his father, mother, and himsel
were asleep in the house. When tn
shock came his father became so badly
frightened that be tainted and fell to th'
floor. This frightened his mother, anC
she, too, tainted and died in few min
utes. His father never regained con
seriousness, but died the following
morning. The boy could not stan(
living in the locality with such fearful
experience, and was looking for nov
home.
POLITICAL.
Charles Il. Jones, independent can
didate for Congress, is taking the bolt
and dangerous step Of speaking sgains
the present system Of the county gov
eminent. That is one matter which i
absolutely essential in the maintenance
Of white supremacy in North Carolina
There has, Of course, always been
: feeling against it in the western coun
ties and where negroes are few in NUN
bers, but it is the one supreme blessin
ard mainstay Of the eastern couutle:
in so many of which the negroe
are in overwhelming majority. Thi
year the Democrats are too much at va
riance-labor questions, quarrelsom
farmers, civil-service friends and oppc
nents, and all sorts of disappointed pee
pie pull and haul one another here an
! there-and forget for the moment thei
only safesuard-the Democratic party
1t shows great and lsmentable lack {
; consistency and devotion to the party.
. Late last night John Nichols spok
: here in reply to Major Graham. Hi
y speech throughout was in defence Of tb
J, Republicans and an attack on the d.
J., mocrats yet no poses as an lndepen(
u ent. lie is practicing fraud in this r,
. spect, just as other Independents ii
doing.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
> The Republican State Conventic
= meets here Wednesday. About half
~ the counties in the State have held col
:, ventions and chosen delegates to i
. The Convention will be q lively on
, IL will elect n nav SLate EYecuti,