Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-11
MEETING OF rsE STATE DEMOCRATIC
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CALLED.
Attacked by Women and Badly Beaten
Burned TO Death Railroads
other Notes.
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president Ot the NatlOnM FARMERS mir
ance. arrived here to-day. and Will can
yass North Carolina as national lecturer
and State organizer of that order. There
are to-day $40 alliances in North Caro-
Imam increase of IA SINCE the LIST oil
January last.
A. J. Galloway, of Goldsboro, was to-
day appointed a director Of the Eastern
Insane Asylum at Goldsboro'.
Two negro women attacked IN the
public road man named Dixon, who Is
superintendent Of Nash county poor
house. and nearly beat him to death
with clubs Both women are in jail.
The commissioners Of Durham county
have ordered that the execution OF
Iucian Rowe, the negro voodoo doctor,
shall be publc at the county poor
house. The date which Governor Scales
has fixed for the execution is March the
9th. Rowe is working hard to secure a
communication Of the death sentence.
John Hopler, David White. and Will
liam Templeton are in jail at Statesville
charged with killing Abraham Barker at
his mothers house, in lredeli county, on
the 26th of last December. 1t is charged
that these men attacked the house. and
when Young Barker appeared in defence
of his aged mother shot him. They
have been suspected for some weeks.
Templeton was so overcome when he
realized his terrible sltuatlon that he
tainted.
Meningitis of fatal type is prevalent
in a part of Iredell county, and several
deaths have already occurred.
DROWNED.
Near StonewalI, Pamlico county. day
before Yesterday Gilbert {. Jones had a
lit while on board the schooner Mary
Bryan and fell oyerboard. He was seen
no more. His body cannot be found.
Some of the early-planted vegetables
in truck-farms IN the northeastern
counties have been killed by the cold
weather in January.
Lenoir comfy has resident named
Lewis Pipkn who is in his one-hun-
dredth year and has been seven times
married. he says he intends to marry
again.
New machinery is being put in the ice
factory at Wilmington, and its capacity
Will be increased.
THE REPUBLICANS.
The chairman Of the Republican State
Executive Committee has been at Wash
ington fortnight talking over campaign
plans with the leaders Of his party. There
is general comment upon the tactics
which that party intends pursuing in this
State. Some Republicans say they will
have money enough to change 10000
votes. The Democrats viii show them
that that is a very idle boast.
BURNED TO DEATH.
John Hastings, little son of Curtis
Hastings, was burned to death at his
home in Wayne county few days past,
during brief absence of his mother
She returned, found him on fire, and
was badly burned in attempting to save
his life.
1t is said that the name Of B. II.
Woodill, of this city, will be presented
at the next Republican State Convention
as a candidate for Secretary of State.
He is grand secretary of the Grand
Lodge of Odd-Fellows.
pie express a desire to have criminal
court or, rather, TO have the jurisdic-
ton of that court now in Mecklenburg
and New Hanover extended to Cumber
land, so as to make the three counties
compose a district over which Judge
Mears will preside.
RAILROADS.
The portion Of the Cape Fear and
Yadkin-Valley railroad leading to Mount
Airy, it is expected, will be finished not
later than May 18th. Then work begins
on the line towards Patterson. The latter
place is in Caldwell county, on the Yad-
kin river, and in a lovely and fertile
country, which only needs such develop
ment to make it a marvel. The people
there anxiously await the coming of the
road. The State has contracted to fur
nish convicts to build the line to Patter-
son. Ii should be said to the credit of
this company that it always carries out
its promises, builds rapidly, and will and
has done wonders in the way of develop
ment
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
At meeting of the "North Carolina
Historical Society" at Chapel Hill,
Wednesday, Hon. Kemp p. Battle,
president of the University, read very
curious and interesting paper on the in
terruptiOn of Hillsboro's court in Sep
TENDER, ITO, by the famous "Regula-
tors" under Harmon Husbands and
others. The interruption continued and
the court was finally adjourned until
the March term, III. The Regulators
seized the records and made entries of
their own upon them. These Regulators
had many grievances to bear and have
been much misrepresented. They col
lected 1900 men and fought for four
hours at Alamance, but the cannon and
discipline of the British troops conquer
ed them May 16, III.
The Historical Society has decided to
begin at once the collection Of all OBJ
tainable material showing the part this
State took in the late war, including not
only the part taken by the soldiers, but
also the suferings and prlvations of the
people.
Pneumonia is reported as preyailingi in
parts Of Halifax county, and OF a very
fatal type, particularly among the colored
people.
Fatal accidents by burning have been
numerous in the past sixty days There
have been over a dozen such cases. Day
before yesterday, in Harnett county,
three year-old daughter of Josiah Hud-
son was fatally burned.
The store of r. Il. Jackson & Co.,
at Pullet, Pitt county, was burned
night before last, with all its contents-
general merchandise. The post-ofllce, in
the same building, was also destroyed.
At Fayetteville yesterday Mr. Gle
ment w. Huske, of Fayetteville. was
married to Miss Alice S. Haigh, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. George W. Haigh. editor of
the Fayetteville Observer. Both bride
and groom are widelv known