Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-03
pARDONED.
A wrrK.srArEa oErs our OF JAZZ.
North Carolina Experimental Parms-A
Methodist Parsonage Burnsd-Pain-
fully stabbed Foil Dead.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l


that Truelove would die if longer con-
fined.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
arranged for experimental farms in nine
counties, and proposes IN the course OF q
wear 70 establish them an most of the
counties in the State. lie will give seed
and other aid possible. and proposes to
distribute 800 in premiums among
tho superintendents Of these farms as
awards for the best exhibits made at the
State Fair. The largest premium Will
he $500, and there will be nine smaller
ones.
Governor Scales to-day consented to
the exchange of superior courts by
Judges so that Judge Conner will hold
The two weeks term of Greene Court
and Judge Avery q term of one week
each in Stanley and Montgomery.
Rev. A. ID. Blackwood died at Chapel
Hill this morning. His age was sixty
eeven and for forty-three years he had
been a Baptist preacher.
Yesterday in Cleveland county Joseph
Cabaniss was run over 10y wagon and
killed. The horses had run away and
thrown him from the wagon.
The sensation of this week 1T Char
lotte is the trial in SANDER suit brought
BY Miss NJ. Z. Bowdeu against A. b.
Bales. The punishment for slandering
women is by recent legislation made
very severe IN North Carolina.
Captain Alonzo Lewis arrived at New
berne to-day and reports that he found
nesr Raccoon the body of Captain Jones
Spencer. who fell from the schooner
Sarah Mydette several weeks ago in
Broad creek and was drowned.
Work WIS resumed yesterday on the
Wilmington and SeacOast railway. Ru-
mors had been current that the work
would stop altogether The road will be
completed by July lst.
Night before last the Methodist par
sonage at Mt. Olive, Wayne county, oc-
cupied 10y Rev. J. T. Abernethy, was
burned accidentally.
II is probable that elections on the
question of local option will again be
held in several OF the dry towns besides
Raleigh. Pittsboro' will probably be one
Of these places. 1t was said day or so
AGO that Durham would again try vote.
it went dry last year. 1t is really sur
prising to look into the matter little
and ascertain the number of towns,
townships, and counties which have voted
for prohibition. The movement has GER
tainly never lost ground since the present
method of voting came in vogue, some
four or five years ago. StGtesyllle IL
preparing to vote on this question IN
June.
Mr.. Julian s. Carr. of Durham, shows
his usual public spirit by a gift OF 81. 900
10 the Wake Forest College Students Aid
fund. That fund is very rapidly III
creasing.
The settlement is made that the sub
scriptions TO the Winston and Fayette-
Vile railway assure its construction at an
early date Fayetteville. like Durham,
is becoming quite an objective point for
railway lines. The public spirit of the
Wilmington people in voting the $3.50,
900 subscriptions TO the Cape-Fear and
Valley and Wilmington, Onslow
and East Carolina railways is heartily
commended. Craven county will vote
on the question Of subscription to the
latter road (Which gets $1,000 from
Wilmington and $50, 600 from Onslow
county,. and it is very probable the vote
will he favorable.
It is claimed land the matter ought TO
be investigated that General Hardy WAS
the last Confederate general officer who
surrendered. His headquarters at the
time were at Trinity College.
The State Historical Society, which
has its headquarters at the University,
will begin a difficult task-that of col
lecting matter relative to the war history
of North Carolina. The purpose OF the
State authorities is to assign the spacious
room now occupied by the State Library,
in the Capitol, as historical and relic
room. The work is begun at a very late
day, and the collection will never APP
proach that possessed by Virginia. But
what can he done will be done.
Interest is undated in the question,
Who will be the Democratic candidate for
Governor The Republicans claim that
this failure 10 concentrate now on a par
ticular man is q sign of weakness The
Democrats say it is on the contrary a
sign of strength, as showing that their
party possesses such number of adj
mlrRble men available as candidates.
But the question is asked daily scores of
times, Who will be Governor? Will it
be Stedman. Clark, Jarvis, Holt, Alex
ander, Armfeld, or Cooke?
1t is said that Minister Jarvis expects
TO leave Brazil in May. Rumors we're
current few days past that he had
abandoned his plan OF returning TO the
State next summer but they appear to
be without foundation.
+. &. Potter, Simon Blow, and Erastus
Boyd are in Jail at Greenyille, Pitt
county. for tho highway robbery Of Mr.
John +. Willoughby. They were cap
tured at Washington, where they had
gone to spend the stolen money.
The contractors for the construction OF
the Oxford, Clarksville and Durham rail-
road are concentrating on the line force
OF iaborers sufficient TO insure its compile
ton by next August. The people on the
line are gratifed at this.
There seems to DO opposition in Dur
ham county to the proposed railway from
Charlotte 10 Weldon Ella Durham.
Mrs. Martha Shore, of Wilkes county,
committed suicide Tuesday by hanging
herself in her house.
Meningitis is abating in Iredell county,
though there are yet some dangerous
cases. Over 90 per cent. of the persons
attacked by this dreaded disease in the
western counties have died. II is said.
Mr.. James Jones, citizen of Camp
bellton, near Fayetteville, fell dead yes
terday while walking on the railway
track on his way TO shoot birds.
Near Fayetteville yesterday Priscilla
Sykes, a poor woman, was burned to
death, having had fit and fallen into
the fire.
The stockholders OF the cotton seed
oil mills at Tarboro' have organized and
expect to begin work III few weeks.
Captain w. ii. Kitchen, OF Scotland
Neck, was painfully stabbed in the back
with knife by a lad named Maddry =
day or 50 since. Captain Kitchen was
in an alteration with an older brother
OF Maddry and blows passed. Captain
Kitchens injuries while painful are not