Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-24
NORTH CAROLINA.
TWO SINGULAR ACCIDENTS = FOUND
DEAD IN A SPRING.
The Prcposed Industrial school-Enter-
tained-Evading Prohibition-Boiier-
Exnlosion-Personal Notes, &c.
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RALEIGH, N. o., July 23.--lI IL
difficult to please people this year in the
Usv of politics. II is said that the re-
fusal TO renominate Judge Gudger in
the Twelfth judicial district will cause
a good deal of bad feeling among the
Democrats Of that section. He was not
a brilliant judge, but was both sensible
and popular. Mr.. Merriman, who will
succeed him, is certainly q brilliant
man.
The Sunday-School Convention OF
Mecklenburg Presbytery is in session
at Charlotte. The attendance is large.
BY nearly everybody Senator Vance
is believed to be native Of Buncombe
county. 1t is an error. Senator
Vance and General Robert B. Vance
are natives of Madison county. Su-
preme- Court-J Judge Merriman is ma
tive of Transylvania A.torney-Gene-
raj Davidson native Of Haywood.
FOUND DEAD.
W. Hill, Of Richmond county, left
Shoe Heel on foot yesterday morning.
Later in the day he was found dead
living on the side of railroad embank-
ment with his head downward in a
bunch of briers. A jury held an in
quest and agreed upon the verdict that
he came to his death from the effects of
q fall. q
Yesterday the two-year-old child Of
John Hackney, Of Chatham county,
was found dead in spring. The child
had wandered away from the house.
AGRICULTURAL BOARD.
To-Day the Board Of Agriculture was
again in session, and disposed Of much
routine business. The details Of the
establishment Of the industrial school
were agreed upon. The Board adjourned
ut noon to meet next October. 1t is
proposed to begin work in August upon
the industrial school building. 1t will
be of brick, and will stand on an ad-
mirably-situated lot of four acres.
At Whitehead's mills, Chatham
county, four-year-old daughter of DR..
John Whitehead, was caught in the
machinery and whirled around until she
was badly bruised and torn. She was
rescued from death by Mrs. Smith, who
was herself painfully injured.
ENTERTAINED.
To-day was pleasantly and proiitably
spent by Colonel Randolph Harrison
and DR.. Gascoigne in the inspection Of
the State experiment station and mu-
scum. They greatly enjoyed the inspec-
ton, and were particularly pleased at
the admirable equipment of the station.
These gentlemen, who have made most
pleasing impression here, haze been
handsomely received by the Governor
and officers Of the Department of Ag-
riculture. They were given an informal
lunch at the Capital Club, and have
been shown attention in various ways.
CONFERENCE.
Raleigh District Methodist Confer.
ence is in session at Henderson. Rev.
DR.. n. II. D. Wilson is president, and
DR.. d. W. Balm secretary.
There is q conflict between the gen.
eral laws and the prohibitory laws on
the subject of the sale Of native wine.
The law says native wine can be sold
anywhere. Prohibitionists claim that
it cannot be sold. The matter came
up to-day in Wake Superior Court,
when man charged with tie offence
was upon a special verdict found not
guilty. lie sold a bottle Of native
wine, corked and sealed, which was not
drank upon the premises. 1t was a
test case. No appeal was taken, which
is evidence that the Prohibitionists
yield that point.
CHEAP CLUBS PROPOSED.
Attempts to evade the law are nume-
rous and varied. As the Capital Club
has the right to sell to its own men,
bers, there is proposition to form
clubs on cheaper and less elegant plan.
The State Convention of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union of
North Carolina will meet at Charlotte
on the Doth Of July. Delegates will be
present from all the unions. Mrs. Sallie
+. Chaplin, of South Carolina, superin-
tendent of the South Carolina Associa-
ton, will be in attendance
REVENUE OFFICERS.
Revenue officers are lively in the Pied
mont section. a large illicit distillery
and a great quantity Of liquors were
seized on Cherry mountain, Rutherford
county, Wednesday night. Dock Wa
tiers, moonshiner, was decoyed and
captured. The revenue deputies sent
a man to his house to give the alarm.
Waters dashed TO the still-house to con-
ceal the stills. There he found the OFF,
GERS with cooked revolyers. He sur
rendered, yet contrived in few hours
to escape.
There is considerable complaint
among farmers in southeastern Ala
nance and adjoining parts of Chatham
and Orange on account Of small black
bug that is doing great damage to the
corn crop.
The Twelfth District Congressional
Convention has been called to meet at
Asheville early in August.
BOILER-EXPLOSIoN.
AT Franklinsville, Randolph county,
a boiler in the Randolph Manufacturing
Compsny's mills exploded. Several men
narrowly escaped injury. Only one
was hurt--Thomas Steed. He was
badly scalded.
Quite large number Of new applica-
tons for pensions are coming in. The
Board will examine them, just as was
done last year. Experience has taught
many useful ideas.
1t is very probable that Louis q.
Latham will be nominated for Congress
from the First district to succeed Skin
Der. Latham is making an earnest can
vass for the nomination.
Drought has set in in this section, and
crops suddenly nipped by it may be
damaged in few days more.