Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-20
CELEBRATED CASE
wHrcHaRFw OUT OF TROUBLE AMONG
THE DOCTORS.
A Heavy rine-,Arrested on Serious
Charges Some Railroad Notes
The Blair Bill.
lsrec,.I ,elegrnm to the Dispatch.

RALEIGH, N. c., March l9.-The
celebrated case Of the State against
DIR. w. @. Murphy, indicted for horse
whipping DR.. W. T. Emmett for alleged
circulation Of slsnderous reports at the
last meeting Of the State Medical So
ciety in Durham, was disposed Of in the
Fender Superior Court-Judge Gilmer
imposing fine Of s400 and continuing
DR.. Murphy under $4,000 bond Tor
twelve months. Petitions were numer-
ously signed asking that the fine be re-
mitted, but the defendant objected to
their presentation to the Judge.
Persons from Yancey county repre-
sent money matters more gloomy than
for many years past. The people have
cattle and horses in abundance, but can
not sell at any price. The same ap-
plies to Mitchell and most OF the coun-
ties west of the Blue Ridge, save in the
extreme northwest of the State.
L. McCurry and j. W. McCurry,
charged with illegally disposing Of mort
gagged personal property-the former
being also charged with embezzling
$1,000 Of tax money collected while
deputy sheriff of Rutherford county
have been arrested in Hickory by
Deputy Sheriff Harris. Of Catawba
county, and taken to Rutherfordton.
They were given preliminary hearing
and released on bail, L. McCurry Civ
ing $500 bond to answer the first
charge and $1,000 to answer the
second charge.
In the Joyce muir der and burning case
at Asheville the State seems to be
Cracking the defendants very closely.
There is a rumor that the Norfolk
Southern railroad has been purchased
by Philadelphia syndicate that bought
the GAINESVILLE and Washington road.
1t is also rumored that the Wilmington
and Weldon Company has bought the
Norfolk Southern railroad.
Congressman j. W. Reid accepts the
invitation to deliver the annual address
before the students of Kernersyille High
School, May 2lst.
Rev. DR.. F. NJ. Hubbard, Of this city,
is rewriting Moore's North Carolina
History. There were inaccuracies in the
first edition.
There is much talk about the Blair
bill. Most persons favor it. The
State officials as a rule do nOt-the
Superintendent Of Public Instruction
especially. About twenty-five papers
in the State antagonize the measure and
about seventy-fve favor it. A
majority of the politicians are COM
mitted to it by its endorsement by the
Legislature.
The application for an injunction
filed by the Carolina Central Railroad
Company against the Rutherford Rail-
way Construction Company and the
MASSACHUSETTS and Southern Construc-
ton Company to restrain the respond
ents from building to Rutherfordton
from Shelby will be argued at Lincoln
ton before Judge Avery March Goth.
A fatal stabbing affray occurred at
Green & ITealin's railway-laborers'
camp, near Shelby, recently. Some Of
the hands had been gambling. After
retiring one rose and stabbed another
four or five times, inflicting such dan
gerous wounds that the negro cannot
recover. The murderer escaped into
South Carolina, and has not been heard
OF since.
The Department Of Agriculture,
basing its calculations on the beds thus
far examined and worked, estimates
that the phosphate supply in the Samp-
son-Duplin territory is over fifty mil
lion tons.
There is much speculation in regard
to the Democratic State Convention.
Usually the State Convention is held
about the last of June, but this year it
may not be held before August. There
will be no need Of holding the State
Convention earlier than August. Nom
nations to be made by this Convention
are for judges Of the Supreme Court and
some of the Superior Court districts.
Last night the Goldsboro' people had
a grand celebration, commemorative of
the return of the flag of the Goldsboro'
Rifles, captured in 1868.
Colonel II. G. Dwight, Of the Twenty
seventh Massachusetts, Regiment AssO-
citation, presented the flag, and also a
new flag. His speech was in excellent
taste. The response was made by Cap
tain Swift Galloway, a gallant ex-Con-
federate soldier. Major Peck, Of Massa-
chusetts, also spoke. A banquet fol-
lowed these ceremonies,