Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-08
UrxRxsr IN THE APPROACHING
arATK DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Tn. supreme Court Sentence COMMITTED
Fatal Lightning-sbot Of a Pic
Yic-- Railroad Notes, &c.
,sp.c,sl telegram to the Dispa,ch.l

Allu f1uueu. VINO arc pIlacipshy ue"NN
as the new men, will displace Smith |
and Ashe from the bench. Several |
counties hsye instructed for Pruden !
and Smith. while others have endorsed |
the present court A movement foy |
an increase Of the bench 10 five justices |
appears to meet with favor. Many pa
pers are entering upon the dispute as
10 tho old or new court, and the mat |
ter will soon become much warmer.
DBATu-sRNTENCE CoMaUTED.
This evening Governor Scales COM
muted the desth-sentenco of William
Gooch and james Smith, the murderers
OF James a. Chatham. These men
we're TO have been hanged September |
llth. The case has before been fully |
described. TIE communication, which
was entirely unexpected by the |
majority Of people, is to tgen-
ty years at hard labor in the
penitentiaTy. The prisoners will be |
taken there tomorrow. The crime |
was committed in June Of last year, and |
both have been in jail fourteen months.
A writ Of hdjeas corpus in the case
Of James II. Miller, the gambler who
is now in jail, was to-day set by Judge |
Conner TO be beard before him in cham
hers az Hillsboro' next Thursday.
STEAMER SUNK.
The steamer Wave sank at her an
choraee last night at Beaufort. The
Wave had been recently repaired and
put in thorough order. She formerly
plied OIL the Cape Fear river.
Governor Scales says the conrics
force now of one hundred men will be
kept in Hyde county several months
longer improving the public lands by
drainage.
A SENSATION.
A desperate white man named Bailey |
created a sensation at Pittsboro' Thurs
day by going to the house Of man
named Philips, whose daughter he had
married. lie announced his purpose
oftaking the girl away by force. Bailey
is wanted in court for bigamy, and
Phillips WAS greatly incensed against
him; row followed, and Bailey
shot at Phillips thrice, woundiug
bin badly in the wrist, and then
fed. A party pursued him, and
while making a search for bin,
found q negro, who ran aud was
shot st, as he was thought IN the
darkness TO be Phillips. lie WAS only |
slightly hurt in the head. Bailey was
no. long ago found BY party Of pur-
suers in church at night. They order
cd him to como ont, and he refused.
Presently ho threw o table out Of the
door. His pursuers fired at it. 1t was
bis scheme to draw their fire. He a!
once rushed ont before they could re-
load and vas unhurt.
THE REPUBLICANS.
The Republican State Executive Com
mittee meets here next Tuesday. Some
interesting Developments may then be
confidently expected. DR.. Mott, of
Statesyile, is chairman, and desires to |
remain so. 1t appears to be tho
policy of the Republicans to have
no State Convention this year. 1t !
is, in fact, openly announced that
there will he none. The question |
whether it was desirable to place any |
candidates in the Geld for Supreme
Court justices has been decided in the |
negative, it is reported. There are no |
limitations Of nominations for Superior
Court judges in any district. There |
may be an independent candidate for |
Solicitor in this district; if so, the !
committee may endorse him, and also
Linney and Malone as independent con-
sressionAl candidates.
RAILROADS..
Seventy convicts have been trans
ferIed from the Pittsboro' railroad to |
Rsndleman.
Parties are here seeking 70 secure
fifty-years' franchise for street-rsil-
way. They propose to work under the !
charter of 1881, which grants extraor- |
binary privileges, among others the use !
Of steam-power and of hauling freight. |
There will probably be contest over
the matter.
JIM. O'Dell, Of Concord, has pur-
chased for 100000 the Cynum cotton
factory, in Chatham county, and will at |
once reit it and run it at its full ca.
pscity.
FATAL LIGHTNING.
Near Shelby Thursday, as two negro |
girls, daughters of Wesley Schenck,
were at work in field, the lightning |
struck them, instantly killing one and
stunning the other, who has since re-
covered.
SHOT AT A PICNIC.
At colored Sundsy-schOol picnic
q, Matthews, on the Carolina Central
railroad, Lee Hunter, of Charlotte, was
shot and badly wounded by Jacob Pc
tiller.
Rufus Merrill, private soldier OF
the United States, is in Jail At Newton
for the robbery of store. Merrill is
deserter.
In Stokes county this week the wife
Of 9 man named Merritt gave birth to
four children, who are all alive and
healthy.
A report on the tobacco prospects in |
Stokes SAYS but little good tobacco will |
be grown, most Of the crop being too
far spent to make anything choice. The
crops Of corn and cotton improve here
daily, and the prospect brightens.
Good rains have fallen in the past three
days.
No news has as yet been received OF
Cardwell, the Wilkes-county despe-
RADIO, who VAS taken from jail by his
friends. IL is uow claimed that many
people in Wilkes believe him innocent,
and think his wife and daughter per-.
jured themselves 10 secure his convic- |
ton.
Reports to-day received from the !
Wilmington section are much more en-.
coursging than any received in six |
weeks. Lowland crops there are. OF |
course, ruined, but the upland crops are |
larger than usual, and will, in large
measure, make up for the dsmsge by |
the rains.
STILL AT LARGE.