Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-06
THE BOODLERS
EXPECTED TO LEAVE CANADA FOB
RALEIGH TO-DAY.
Iocsl-option Election ordered-A String
OF Libel suits-Personals
and Briefs.
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RALEIGH, n. c., April o. Mayor
Thompson, Of this city, to night received
the following telegram from Chief-of-
Police Heartt, OF Raleigh, who is now IN
Toronto after Cross and White: ''No
compromjse has been made. The cause
of delay il that Caldwell Hardy, cashier
of the Norfolk National Bank, is still
here demanding his money taken by the
prisoners. Cross and White are willing
10 return TO North Carolina. We hope
to leave here tomorrow with them.
This is the most direct and encoura-
ging news vet received. If the prisoners
leave Toronto tomorrow they ought to
reach here Sunday afternoon.
The commissioners OF Chatham county
have ordered an election at Pittsooro
June 4th on the question Of whether the
local-option law shall be in force.
To-day the work of putting in the ma
chinery Of the knights of Labor Smoking
Tobacco Factory, in this city, began.
Nearly a year ago the factory was shut
down and the machinery then in use re-
moved.
Governor Scales to-day accepted the
military company at Asheville, of which
j. Fl. Barnard is captain.
Governor Scales and staff received in
vitations to-day to be present at the
ceremonies Of the unwilling of the Con
federate monument at Washington, n.
C.. May 10th.
LIBEL SUITS.
The string of libel suits here attracts
much attention. That against Sperry
W. Hearn. formerly Of Tappahannock,
Va. now editor of the Wadeshoro' Intei-
Ii0enccr. is the first, and Judge Ship IS
now hearing IT, J. l.. Stone will follow
il witha suit for $40, 600 damages against
Hearn for libel; then will come one
AGAINST j. p. CASTOR for libel in writing
m article in Hearn's paper, which called
forth Hearn's editorial denouncIng
Stone as a swindler and his alleged
Zephyr" cotton (at $50 tive-pOund
boz as a fraud The aim OF Hearn IN
the case now on is to show that tins cot
ton with the new name Is really only
Bailey or Peterkin cotton, the seed
having. he alleges been bought from b.
=. Williamson, of this city, for 20 cents
n bushel. The seed we're sold in
the fve-pOund boxes. TO be PAID
for next autumn, aud lien on property
taken with each sale when cash Was not
psid) and a guarantee given If the
seed did not turn out good. The great
number of witnesses and the widespread
interest in the case make this brief state
ment OF the matters IN concern OF value,
Stone Will also prosecute A, b. Gillespie,
editor of the Statesville Mail. for re-
publishing Hearns attack upon HIM.
Ii was also pretty broadly intimated by
Stones attorneys that suits would be IN
stituted against the Farmers Alliance III
Arson county, which adopted denuncla-
tory resolutions regarding Stone and the
cotton seed. 1t ought to be stated that
with each box of cotton seed was ticket
or "chance for grand piano, Stone
being q musical instrument dealer.
There is TO be another stirring libel
suit in Moore county, it is stated, AS
surances are given that d. II. st. Clair,
editor Of the Sanford Express, will be
prosecuted for maliciously hbelling Judge
Philips, OF the Superior Court. This
case was first mentioned IN this CORE
spondence, and is a very remarkable one
Steps are being taken by the people OF
Fayetteville to establish a fruit and
vegetable fair.
Reports from the Par leo section are
10 the effect that the rice crop will be
large one. The only danger feared is
from bugs.
An important meeting Of the stock
holders Of the Nevberne and Beaufort
Canal Company will be held on the 1lth.
The people Of Goldsboro' are con-
sidering a plan OF issuing 800, 900 IN
bonds for public improvements.
A special invitation has been extended
to the North Carolina Press Association
TO hold its next meeting at Wilmington.
THE WATER.
The water in the upper portions OF the
streams has fallen. The lower rivers
are vet very high. The Cape Fear Is
four or five miles wide in some parts OF
discourse from overflow of great stretches
Of bottom-lands.
The Artesian well at Wilmington has
reached a depth of $50 feet and the
boring progresses very satisfactorily.
Hon. Kemp p. Battle, president of the
State University, will deliver the annual
address before the literary societies at
Davidson College.
The Vance County Guards, Hender-
sons new military organization, has
elected the following officers Captain,
W. II. 5. Burgwyn; First Lieutenant,
George Fields; Second Lieutenant, &.
A. Servis.
NOTES.
There are complaints by truckers in
the Washington section that the Irish
potato crop will be failure in great part
owing TO the fact that the seed-potatoes
have rotted in the ground.
W. L. Page 4 Co., of Jacksonville,
Edgecombe county, have assigned. They
are general merchants. The assets and
liabilities are not stated.
In Robson county Martin Campbell
(colored) was shot and killed few days
since by white man. After the murder
the body was removed some distance
and a revolver placed in one hand to
create the impression that it was case
Of suicide. The white man who com
mitted the crime has disappeared.
Trains on the Murphy branch Of the
Western North Carolina railroad are now
running as far as Charleston, the trestles
and bridges wrecked by the recent
foods having been repaired as far as that
point.
The county commissioners Of Durham
have ordered another local-option cleo
ton 10 be held in the town of Durham
June 4th. Petitions for such an election
were signed by over one fourth of the
qualified voters in the town.
The town OF Durham has accepted the
new water-works, and q contract will be
drawn. This terminates the long-exist-
ing trouble between the town and the
contractors.
FIFrIETH CONGRESS-.