Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-06-19
NORTH CAROLINA.
pArrpoap NorIs-PusHrFa con-
sTRucrIoN IN THE WEST.
A Raid BY Noonshiners- Masonic celsbra-
Drowned in fish-Pond-
Curious Case.
1areeiaI ielegran, 70 the Dlspatch. /

news from the new railroads west oil
Shelby is that they promise early COM
pletion. Track-laying will begin the
list Of August, and the whole work
will be pushed to Shelby. The Massa-
chusetts and Southern Construction
Company promise to have trains running
to Shelby before September. The force
has been increased. The Carolina Gen.
trail authorities are working day and
night on their line westward. A costly
iron bridge is now being constructed,
and as soon as finished track-layipg
will begin.
General-Deputy- Collector yanderfort
captured wsgon-load ofcrooked liquor
in Wilkes and lodged i'll farmhouse
for safe. keeping. The place was raided
Wednesday night by moonshiners, who
recsptured the team and liquor.
Richmond Shoaf, twenty years ofsge,
Of Davidson county, was drowned in
fish. pond. He was in company with
two other young men. Not knowing
the depth Of the pond, they went in too
far. Being unable to swim, Shoaf was
drowned before his companions could
render aid.
The Masons have arranged q pro-
gramme for the exercises at the Oxford
Orphan Asylum next Thursday, that
being St. Johns day. In the forenoon
there will be Masonic procession from
the hall to the asylum and addresses
will he delivered by Hon. R. b. Vance,
Governor Scales Superintendent-of-
Public. Instruction S. NJ. Finger, and
others. In the afternoon the corner
stone of the industrial building will be
laid by Grand Master BusBee. There
will be addresses by Captain Octavius
Coke and others and exercises by the
orphans. Several thousand people will
be present, nearly all the officers Of
the Grand Lodge Of Masons among
them.
Returns of local option from Burks
county show that three townships
Lovelady, Lower Creek, and Smoky
Creek-voted for prohibition and Up
per Fork and Linville for license.
1t is probable, as there is no en-
encsmpment this year, that many COM
panies Of the State troops will attend
the Richmond Fair and participate in
the grand celebration at the laying Of
the cornerstone Of the Lee monument.
Governor Scales returned from Da-
wilson College this morning. lie was
greatly impressed by the commence
ment exercises there, in which he took
an honored part yesterday.
The druggists Of Monroe have pledged
themselves to sell no man whiskey for
medicinal purposes unless the man be
really sick, and the doctors have also
pledged themselves to write no man a
prescription unless he be sick and really
needs liquor. Monroe voted for proh-
bition. The physicians and druggists
in other places where the election re-
suited that way will take the same
course.
The State Board of Education has
sent its engineer, General Lewis, to
make an accurate survey Of the swamp
lands in Columbus county owned by
that Board.
John E. Osborn, of Iredell, reproved
q man named Shoemaker for his disre-
gard of their contract. Shoemaker
became enraged and struck him heavy
blow with a double-bladed mattock,
knocking him insensible. lie and his
sons then struck Osborn several blows
with mattocks and hoes.
By midsummer the ex-Confederates
will have perfected their Veteran Asso-
Citations in one half of the counties of
the State. 1t is thought that out Of
this movement, and in no other way, q
soldiers home may result.
There has been much talk recently in
the papers about the birthplace Of Ed
win NJ. Stanton, President Lncoln's
Secretary Of War. He was born about
four miles from Beaufort, Carteret
county, and was over ten years old
when he left there. Relatives now live
in that county.
A very unusual case, which puzzles
the lawyers, is on trial at Marshall.
The plaintiff, named Gudger, sues the
Western North Carolina railroad for
$40, damages for personal injuries
received in the town Of Marshall, caused
by falling over stake which, as al
legged, was negligently allowed to re-
main in the ground after the survey by
the defendant railroad company.
William l.. Saunders, Secretary of
State, who was appointed seven years
ago to prepare the colonial records
of North Carolina, has completed the
work, and the copy is now in the hands
Of the printer. About ten thousand
pages have already been published.
The residence Of j. X. Loore, in
Rutherford county, was burned Thurs
day with all its contents. An infant
in the house was saved with great diff
fculty.
To-day the Press Convention, in ses-
sion at Morehead, transacted consid-
cradle routine business.
A poem, the subject of which was
intemperance, was read by III. G. Wall,
Of the Rockingham Rocket, and an ad-
dress upon the life and services of the
late Randolph S. Shotwell, of the Ra-
leigh Farmer and Mechanic, was deliv-
cred by Josephus Daniels, editor of the
Raleigh State Chronicle.
There is hot fight for the congress
sional nomination in this district. w.
R. Cox, the present incumbent John
A. Graham, of Orange B. II. Bum,
Of Nash, and Charles NJ. Cooke, of
Franklin, are the leading candidates for
the nomination. Bunn's prospects ap-
pear to be bright. John W. Graham is
his strongest opponent, it is thought.
At o'clock this morning fire broke
out at Louisburg in A. & L. Bryant's
grocery store. There were no facilities
for extinguishing the fire and no fire.
apparatus. The store was DESTROYED
quickly, as was also large hotel-build-
ing near the courthouse. There was
no insurance save 1000 in the North
Carolina Home on the burned store.
None OF the stock was saved. In the
old hotel DR.. E. S. Foster, a physician,
and b. II. Rogerson, a barkeepsr, lost
some property bv breakage. The court