Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-06-26
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OXFORD ORPHAN ASYLuAs


RALEIGH, June 2S.-There has been
much comment to-day upon the Ma
sopie celebration 1t Oxford yesterday,
end many prominent men will start :
movement to secure from the next
legislature an appropriation Of VS., 600
annually for the Orphan Asylum. The
Masons will bs solid In this matter.
Auditor Roberts now gives notice
that il will not DO necessary TO file
new applications for pensions this year.
Clerks Of the Superior Court have
merely to certify that the party who
received . pension last year Ia alive.
OF course, in the case OF applicants
net heard from last year, regular appli-
cations will have to be filed. j.
A considerable force OF lsborers IS ~
work dwelling Moncure Robinson's Pal
msnto railroad from Hamlet, N. O., to
Choraw, s. O., and getting 1t ready Tor
iron. But little work will be necessary
TO do this, as the road.bed is but slightly
washed. Ii is said Moncure Robinson's
next step will be to secure the con-
s.ruction of . railway from GAINESVILLE,
Va, to Ridgeway. 1t is evident
though these matters are kept quiet,
that some scheme is on foot.
Reports received from the Teachers
Assembly at Black Mountain are par
ticularly satisfactory. There are
sevepty.fiye more members now there
than were present last year, and there
are daily sccessions. The instructors
of the teachers appear to be well chosen
Music Is being made special feature
Governor Scales leaves here next Mon
dav for Black Mountain, whore be de-
liyers the annual address on Tuesday.
The Governor says he has never seen
such interest in educational matters as
exists this year, and in the Governors
opinion Major Finger, Superintendent
OF Public Instruction, fully shares. :.
II is possible that the Second, Third
and Fourth regiments Of the State
troops will 60 into camp at Smithville,
near Wilmington, at their own ex-
pense.
Arrangements are complete for the
hanging Of Frank CASTOR (colored) at
Salisbury next Friday. The execution
will be public, the county commission
ers having so ordered. 1t will attract
thousands Of people from oil that
country.
An old fisherman speaking OF the
mortality among the fish Of Shallotte ana
Tabs inlets. Brunswick county. says
he remembers o similar occurrence In
the neighborhood years ago, when 1t
was ascertsined that fish died from
disease. lie thinks this probably is the
cause Of the present great mortality at
Shallotte, and suggests that the oily
scum noticed on the surface of the
water there results from the decom-
position of dead fish. Fishermen from
Mason Bow and Wrightsyille sounds
report fish in those waters unaffected
BY disease and very abundant.
The official report Of the action OF
the stockholders of the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad at Morehead
Yesterday says a resolution was passed
empowering the directors to negotiate
q loan, not to exceed 1926, 900, for the
purpose ofpayiDg judgments and bonded
debts, also for permanent improve
ments Of the road. The loan is to be
secured by q mortgage on the road.
The bonds will run for thirty years.
The directors of this road have re-
elected Washington Bryan president
. very just compliment to his good
management.
Improvements in the way Of hotels
are working wonders in the western
part of the State. The White Sulphur
Springs, five miles from Asheyille, were
purchased yesterday and $4,000
hotel will be erected as rapidly as pos
sible. Battery Parker Hotel at Ashe-
Vile, which costs about $4,000, will
be completed in fortnight.
The Knights of Labor held an enthu-
siastic railroad meeting last night ut
Durham, in which the resolutions OF the
recent mass-meetiDg were endorsed.
A committee of three were appointed by
the chair to confer with the directors
Of the Lynchburg road and secure posi-
tive assurances that no convict labor
will be allowed. Opposition to the
use of convict labor in the construction
of railroads is on the increase.