Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-16

The following Is 1T Of persons hurt !:
Peyiou e.. Brown, conductor. 0rtlsel-
allie To walk this afternoon; W. A. May.
engineer, bruised painfully; William F0~.
i,t. engineer, scalded OF the bead ana
,Louldtrs-th The wort burt Of all; Walter
q. Adams, bridge foreman Of the North
"a DINA division, bIui,ed slightly; n.
Stednsn, drummer Of Raleigh, Spans and
nIuiscs: l.. {. Pope, drummer OF Rich
mond, arm bruised painfully; II. III. PA
tersou and young daughte', OF Chapel hill,
slightly hut. No bones were broken OF
ny OF The injured. Pope and Fowler we're
brought here TO the hospital tins afternoon.
The tIain was moving slowly. The cars
turned completely over rs they fell. In one
car were four Kegs Of powder. These ex-
plodcd when tire reached them with noise
ne ,rd mil,s away.
lie Legislative Committee to EX mlne
the Books Of the state Treasurer devoted
al OF to-day TO counting aud destroying
coupons Of bonds.
sheriff j. 4. Ellington, OF Johnston, has
settied taxes with the State Treasurer. For
iour years he has been the first sheriff to
,ctlle.
CONSCIENCE. FUND.
The first contribution to the conscience
fund OF the state Treasury has been re-.
c, iyed. Rev. Mark ;. GrOss. a priest Of
,he Roman Catholic Church OF the Sacred
Hart, this city. sent $40, VITA the ioAow-
,rg statement: " A certain person, through
my ministry rs Catholic priest, wishes to
return to The state treasury Of North Caro-
INA this sum-
Governor Scales today pardoncd George
w. T., Gle, white man, convicted OF larceny
and receiving at toe spring term OF & dies
county superior Court and sentenced TO
Two Years imprisonment in the penlton-
t;ary.
". II. Markley, Of Brunswick county,
Mas found dead III stanle. 4 wound on
I've forehead showed that death WAS caused
ty Tie Kick OF "a mule. MIrkiCy WAS a
Pennsylvania, and was formerly con
ucctcd with FOrepaugh's mcnagerie. He
'i1s brothers at Philadelphia AMI san Fran.
cIscO. -.
To-day. at Norwood, 5. J. Pemberton, d
Prominent lawyer and schator-elect from
aha,rus and Stanley counties, was III rrit d
10 Miss Julia Games.
The news from Wilmington is that there
are no further signs Of Iiot there. The
police continue TO do double duty. The
union labOrcrs have ceasedtu interfere with
the non-uDiOn men.
Conductor Cantrell, who was so terribly
injured by train on the Spartanburg and
Asheyilie railroad, Is dead.
Henry Ledbetter, a negro employe OF the
CaIolina Central Railroad Company, was
shot through the heart ut Charlotte ycster-
day by FIR, nix Thomas (cOlOrcdJ The lat
ter confessed, but said Ledbdttcr bad visited
bis house and fired two shots at him.
The cott0C.ein of Hewitt & Battin, in
Mccklenburg county, Ia, been burned.
Loss $40; no insurance.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.
An attempt was made Inst night at vii.
mjngtOn to murder William Howe, a ncgr0
whose employ mcnt Of non-uniOn steve
dOIcs has led TO trouble there. Several
NEGROES watched for Howe. Sim0n Rich
ard>on (colored) passed near them. Mis-
iakinc him for Howe. one Of the aSsiSsin-
fred on him. The ball entered the back OF
the hip ana lodged near the groin. The
WOund i, serious. Wien the mistake VA
disco, crcd several negroes went to Rich
arG>On's house ana told his wife her hu,-
ranG rad been shot by mistake.
Nathan Jones, charged with being one q!
a.sassinS. Is in jli. IN belongs to the Ia
hUr union.
ILLICIT DISTIGLING. So.
4 gentleman, IN position 10 have lniOr
nation on the subject, said 10 your coz.
responder. TO-DAY that h" believed there
is Is much Illicit Disabling done in tie
state now rs at any time in the past four or
GVc wears. He says The number OF arrest
the past few months has been small. ana
that he is informed that IN that spi't OF
time the num5er Of illicit jistillerie' has IN
crCaSed-hc thinks for the manufacture Of
liquor to ill holiday dcm1ndS. He gave an
other fact which merits attention that
there is more Of such Illicit dI1til'ng done
near places when have adopted The PROM
LiuOn law. He rather intimated that some
deputies were not ~ thorough aud as earnest
IN their search for violatOrs OF the Law a,
they might be.
TIE STATES PORTRAIT COLLECTION.
The Governor and the Treasurer are bott
collecting portraits Of their predecessor,
and quite number have - far been Sc
cured-sOmc iu oil, Others in pastel, and
vet others In the way Of photographs. o
iOJmer trPasufers. there are displayed OF
ihe walls the portraits OF ID. w. Courts,
Jonathan Worth, Kemp L. Battle, j, VI.
Worth, and d A. jenkins.
MOEg ABOUT CONGRESSMAN REID.
The talk about Mr.. Reid continues. II !,
now said he was in Washington lust Fri
day or Saturday, and that he drew hi
mileage through = colleague. Inquiries
made concerning him at Washington ar
said to have elected replies that no one
knew OF his whereabouts. HIS colleague
are reticent on the mater.
THE BENEFIT OF TIE BANS.
The recent rains in the southeastern sec
ton OF the state have been very beneficial
| The streams are far from fun. but have
! fair volume Of water. The ciSternS are vel
flied. The people there viii be glad to SEE
more rain in the next few weeks.
TIE wONuS's PRESS ASSOCIATION,
| which Is called TO meet a, Greensboro
| n,Nt Monday, will b., il L. asserted by thost
| n,ere sted, quite Lar2c Gathering. The
number OF ladies engaged in newspaper
| work in the South il far larger than /,
| imagined. some ladies own papers, other.
ere connected with the management, and
sOIc are reporters. The purpose OF thi'
| me ting il 70 form regular association
| sinllar in all respects TO tie one composed
| II men.
PERSONAL.
Rev. Thomas Z. Hay. Of Aiken, ;. G..
VITO recently accepted call TO the pisiorate
Il The PrcSbyteTiln church at GOldsbOro'
has been compelled to decline on account OIL
III health.
Chief.Justice Smiths opinion in the
drmmer's.l icen.e case, synopsis oil
winch was sent to you yesterday, Is con.
sidered able. IL was the only case OF gene
rsl importance on the docket, aud the opin
Ion was awaited with eIgerness.
Dir. w. A. WitherS, OF the Department
Of Agriculture, was summoned to hi,
home, at Davidson COLLEGE. yesterday b,
news OF the fatal illness oi his brother.
MARRIED AGAINST THElR WILL,