Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-03
A FATAL ACCIDENT.
SAD xHDYxa OF A NORTH CAROLINA
HUNTING TRIP.
the. himself Immigrant statisties-striek'
On with Paralysis Congressman Hen
dsfson penies-Personsl Notes.
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RaLrrcH. January News was re-
coived here to-day OF fatal accident IN
tbe eastern part Of this county. Charles
I. Hinton and l.. V. Weathers were
riding in a buggy on their return from a
hunting trim. Weathers had gun be-
tween his knees with the muzzle to-
wards him. In adjusting the lap'robe
he discharged the gun and the load pcne-
trated his abdomen. de died TINS
morning. ~
Commissioner of immigration Patrick
reports that during the year Just ended
two Thousand immigrants, mainly from
PENNSYLVANIA and New England. came
into North Carolina, settling mainly west
OF Raleigh. A.,
George W. Thompson, one OF the
most prominent citizens in all tins sec
ton. was stricken with paralysis yester-
dsv al his home near Wake Forest Col
lege. ~
here about the telegram IN the New
York Hcr0ld stating that at the banquet
nj Iona Mich, Congressman john L;
Henderson, of the Seventh district, mad
uscd gross language, been assaulted
therefor. and had apologized. The
Congrcssman's friends here Indignantly
denied the report He himself says 1t
is false. He is a gentleman Of the highest
honor and discretion, and all who know
him felt sure that the language attri-
buted 10 him had been, to say the least,
grossly exaggerated. -,
John Quincy Adams Leach, one ofthe
oldest and wealthiest citizens OF Chatham
county. died this morning at his home at
Pittsboro'. Last week he sustained an IN
Jury by fall and this was followed by
pncnmonsl, which caused his death. lie
was prominent contractor on the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley railway, and
also on a road in Virginia One of his
sons. George L. Leach, is a prominent
businessman in New York. Others are
in business at Raleigh, Litueton, and
Oxford.
The first No. Of the Southern To-.
bGcconist and Manufacturers Record
appeared to-day. 1t is published at Dur
ham by l.. G. Hackney and James A.
Robinson, and is a weekly OF sixteen
pages.
The people generally appear to be in
good spirits better than at tins date
last wear. Conversations with number
of business men reveal the fact that the
best spring trade in many years is looked
sof. Purchases have been more liberal
this winter. There is more ready money
and an easier feeling all around. In "a
few sections of the State there Is some
money stringency The smallness Of
the number of failures is another proof
of the general improvement.
The Wilmington and Weldon railroad
Ass declared semi-annual dividend OF
per cent, payable on the 14th instant.
News has been received of fire at
Newberne which damaged thirty-one
bales of cotton. che latter was on fiat
car, and caught fire four miles from New
berne. 1t was thrown from the train
and later waspicked up and taken to the
city. The fire brCke out again and 1t re-
CURED the efforts If the fire department
to extinguish 1t.
Photographic views of all the leading
educational institutions of the State are
being taken for reproduction III the his
fOIX Oh GUlNAllOu III -fOith &bioiihoi
which the Government will shortly issue.
Wilmington makes fine showing foI
1887. That city for the first time feels q
boom, and is waking up 10 its i'm
portance. II is 10000 bales ahead OF
1SS6-'S7 on cotton receipts thus far.
During the year its exports were Sc, O8S,'
25l, as against 81, 800, $50 for 1886. The
increase is in the last six months of the
wear. for that period alone the exports
being s., 49, S3.
The report of railway construction II
1887 gives this State 1870 miles. 1t Is al
underestimate, for over 300 miles were
built, as can be shown. North Carolina
more than trebled Virginia III this re-
spect.
The new jail of Fender county isprac-
tically completed. That county has been
keeping its prisoners IN New Hanover
Jail.
Officers of that already powerful or
gsnization the Farmers Alliance say
it will more than double its membership
in this State in the present year. 1t has
now $50 local alliances, and Its growth
far exceeds anything ever seen IN tins
part of the country. The Knights Of
Labor are nowhere compared to 1t, so fai
as increase is concerned.
The work OF putting the heating appa'
ratus in position in the new Supreme
Court and library building begins to-
morrow. 1t will be pushed so rapidly as
TO allow the Supreme Court, library, &c,
to be removed by the 18th instant. The
apparatus will next be placed IN the
Capitol, and for the first time that great
pile of stone will be made comfortable,
Its heating arrangements heretofore
have been remarkably primitive and de
fective, and many men have contracted
fatal diseases in it, as is well known.
There is considerable talk about the
attempt of the Governor OF Tennessee tc
secure the persons of the prominent
Asheville merchants as fugitives from
jus,lce, the facts in which matter were
published Saturday. acquisitions fol-
such persons are only honored by Gov
ernor Scales when the parties as crimi.
mails have violated criminal law and
fled TO this State. In this case the idea
OF the Tennessee people was to secure
the arrest Of the merchants on a crimi
nal charge and then try them on civil
charge-for an alleged debt. They had
not fed from justice at all. 1t is an at
tempted misuse Of very important
power, and in these days, when laws are
so often strained, and legal meanings a'
we'll, it is pleasure to note Governor
Scales's firm and proper attitude in this
matter.
The rosin refinery Of Starr johnson
near Wilmington, has been burned. The
loss is several hundred dollars, with nj
insurance.
VALUABLE REPORT.