Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-22
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Out Oh VIC pllulc ODJttto vi tuo uih-
ance is to fight and break up the mort
gage and crop-lien system. This is only
one of the reforms it has set about 10 in
augurate. 1t appears to be very much
more practical i'll its work than the
oranges, though the latter are renewing
their youth, 80 to speak. But where the
grange has ten members the alliance
has 200. But a few months ago it had
barely struck the State ; now it is the
talk Of the farmers in half the counties,
and there is a perfect rush for charters
OF local alliances. 1t is said that it will
take no hand in politics. Il will be
power if it does
Winston falls in line, and will have n
street railway. Work is to begin April
lst. A Virginia company gets the fran
chise and IS pledged TO do the work
quickly. Winston is up with the times.
There are three street railways now in
operation in the State, nine cities and
towns are lighted with electricity, and
nine have water-works systems III opera
ton.
A very patriotic gentleman remarked
il-tidN liltl II tlAflt was any AiAillkf my
department Of industry or of education,
in which North Carolina was not going
right to the front he would be glad TO
hear Of it.
At the next term Of Perquimans SUI
pori0r Court some cases involving i'm
mcnse tracts Of swamp lands will he
argued. = hey are instituted by the East
Carolina Land and Lumber Company
against the State Board of Education and
It's agent and engineer, General W. q.
LOWS. Some $50, 900 acres are involved.
BY reason Of the non-payment OF taxes
these lands fell into the possession of the
state. The company claims title to
them. One tract aloneis Of $4,000 acres.
There ere many witnesses and the con-
test viii he lively one
Wilmington now claims that vessels
drawing eighteen feet of water can come
up to her wharyes. A great work in
deepening the channel and increasing
the depth OF water on the bar has been
done. twenty feet is wanted. 4 vessel
drawing eighteen feet IS now there load
ing.
ANY number OF new enterprises are
on foot in the State. As a rnle the
Piedmont region gets most of them.
Charlotte's progress has been spoken Of.
hnittiug-mills Will he established ut
Mount Holly, Castor county. Mr..
Patrick, Commissioner Of immigration,
tells me that wherever North Caro-
liuan is ready to put - Goa in mn enter
prise northern man stands ready to
match his money and team right III with
him. The investments Of northern
capital in every department OF business
are very large jrst now. \ fine start has
been made thus iar IN 1899.
A census Of Wilmington is to be taken
in March. It is said that city will show
$4,000 people, bona ti1c residents.
Plans are being made by Pennsylvania
capitalists to buy large body of land in
Arson county, erect spoke and handle
factories. and build a town.
tits said thatJ. ". Culbreth (colored),
OF Harnett county. is the only man in
the State who can boast of five children
born in wedlock in one year. In June,
1897, his wife had twins In December,
1887, she had triplets.
There appears to he a belief in the ex-
istence of coal IN Granville county not
far from Oxford. A shaft is TO be sunk
and careful examination made, with q
view to discover the value and extent of
the deposit No news from the engineer
in charge Of the exploration OF the Dan
Valley coal. beds has been received very
recently. At the last report be was well
pleased with the outlook.
How many persons are aware that the
State Of North Carolina in April and
May, 1861, furnished Virginia with
IL. 600 muskets and rifles A letter from
Hon. Warren Winslow, secretary of the
Board of Military and Naval Affairs,
dated in June, 1861, so tells President
Davis. Your correspondent finds it in
the original records here.
Rev. Mr.. Pearson, the widely-known
evangelist, will begin a revival at States
Vile this week. lie has been at Spar
tanburg, S. c. His return to North
Carolina is hailed with pleasure.
The Tarboro' Souticyner, in very
pleasant and adroit way, puts Mr.. Elias
Carr forward as candidate for Cover
nor. Mr.. Carr is a representative farm
er, and presided over the great mass
meeting (or conyention) of farmers re-
Gently held at Greensboro.
The residence of I. j. Rowe, near
Black Creek, Wilson county, was burn.
ed night before last by an incendisry,
evidently. The loss was 3, 600, with no
insurance. A barn and dwelling in Hali-
fax county near Scotland Neck, belong
ing TO DR.. Il. NJ. Johnson, were also
burned.
There are 1875 laborers at work on the
extension of the railway from Scotland
Neck to Greenville. Another large force
is at work on the Ohowan and Southern
road from Norfolk to Tarboro'. The
latter road will be exactly ninety-five
miles long. At Kelford it crosses the
Roanoke and Tar-R River road.
Gold-mining is reported to be look
ing up, and q great work in that line
will be done during the present year.
Some old mines are being reopened in
the west.
A large hotel is to be built at Avoca.
on Albemarle sound. Ii is proposed to
make the place q winter resort. A town
has been laid off there.
Rev. Mr. Bostwick, of Concord,
graduate of Wake-Forest College, ac-
cepts the call to the pastorate of the Bap-
fist church at Durham. He has done
good work at Concord and is an able
man.
William A. Potts, the murderer of
Paul Lincke, in Beaufort county, swings
on the 26th. All hope of Executive
interference is abandoned, il is stated.
He is now in Beaufort jail awaiting the
hour of execution.
Mr.. b. f. Skinner, the manager OF the
Agricultural College farm, &C., has ar
rived here.
The fishermen in this State arc nu-