Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-09

70 be in South Carolina Patterson IS
wanted for the murder OF Jesse Patter-
son in Mitchell county last month. He
is believed to be hiding in Fast Iennes-
see. All the parties wanted are white.
CAMPAIGN WORK.
Spier Whitaker, chairman OF the
Democratic State Executive Committee,
is perfecting q plan for a lively cam
paien in Eastern North Carolina in DC
tober. He will put the ablest speakers
in that section and will arrange Tor
steady and careful work.
TIE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
The following bulletin OF the North
Carolina Weather Service for this week
was issued this evening: 1.-The rainfall
for all districts has been considerably
above the average. with injurious effect
upon crops. Much damage is thought
to have been done 10 cotton in the east
ern districts. Rsinfalls are reported in
Duplin county Of 1875 inches Richmond
county, 7.50 inches Union county, Gil
inches. The temperature and sunshine
have been below tho average. The et-
feet upon crops wss unfavorable. The
report from Durham IN tobacco is that
farmers are Just beginning to cure to-
bacco and have poor success. The re-
port from Richmond county is that cot
ton is very much damaged The report
from Stokes county is That tobacco will
take q second growth and Tlpen green
and rough"
A NEw GROWTH or TOBACCO.
To-day your correspondent inter
viewed several tobacco warehOusemen III
regard to the effect Of tho terrible wea-
Their on that crop. They say that the
farmers inform them that the rains are
having q worse effect than the long, dry
spell. The tobacco is taking new
growth. the older leaves are not matu-
ring, but ere getting in bad condition.
The maturing of the crop will, in conse-
quence. he slow, while the quality will
! necessarily he affected. AS one ware
houseman remarked, "The farmers say
the weather could hardly be more I'M
favorable for the crop. This Is the
eighth day Of the rains. They fall day
and night without break, and the last
sunshine seen was last Sunday"
Dockery, the Republican candidate
for Governor. is in desperate straits. lie
now makes the assertion, clearly with
the intention of pleasing the Farmers
| Alliance, that the reason why he did not
ct first accept the nomination for Gov
| ernor was that lie wanted to see If ). Is.
! Alexander would be nominated. Dock
cry then went on TO say elf Alexander
had been nominated l would not have
been n candidate, but might IN all probs-
bility have supported him.
CArAwBA COUNTY FAIR.
The weather is giving sOme concern to
the managers OF the Catawbs County
Fair, which is to open st Newton next
Tuesday. 1T is hoped that the weather
will be favorable then, as a fine exhibition
is to be made. The people are enthusl-
astlc and have done good work. Some
able speakers will be present at this ban
ner Democratic county far.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. i. B. Dancy and wife and Miss
Mary Lily Kenan will be home next
week from O. long tour OF Europe. Mr..
Dancy is assistant to State-Chemist
Battle.
There will be some twenty-five appli-
cants for law licenses to be examined by
the Supreme Court, which meets week
after next.
The furniture for the State Library
and Reading Room has arrived. AssoOn
as il is IN place the entire State Library
and Supreme Court building IS to be
illuminated and thrown open to the pub
lie for inspection. A collection OF por-
traits Of distinguished North Carolinians
has been begun for the Library.
COTTON BAGGISG.
A prominent cotton-buyer OF Raleigh
returned to-day from Boston, where he
went TO look into the matter OF cotton
bagging. lie says the mills favor the
farmers plan of covering cotton with
cotton. Some OF the men who ship
foreign soy that if the bagging is to be
accepted It must be made much heavier
and stronger. 1t is now too thin, and
will not bear the rough handling and
usage to which it will be subject. The
matter of bsgging made from fine straw
fibre has not yet come formally before
the northern exchanges. 1t IS now
claimed that tobacco stalks yield valu-
able fibre which can 10 utilized.
RAILROAD SUBSCRIPTION.
Casvell county is to vote on pro-
position TO vote 100000 towards the
building of a railway from Reidsville
ria Yanceyville to some point on the
Raleigh and CASTOR railroad. passing
through Oxford probably. Reidsville
will be asked to vote 100000 towards
this road
Twenty-Five miles OF the extension of
the Cape Fear and Yadkin-V Valley rail-
road, between Wilmington and Fayette-
vile, is now graded and ready for the
track. BY the LIST OF April next the en-
tire seyenty-eight miles will be graded.
The Independent Republicans of
New Hanover have nominated a candi-
date for the Senate. His name is Alfred
Lloyd, and he is a negro.
,The cotton-seed-oil mills here will be-
gin operations next week.
JAIL~BREAKERs.
Two prisoners, John Page and John
Wilson, both transferred from Washing
ton county, where the jail was burned,
both escaped from jail at Plymouth
night before last They we're aided 10y
outsiders. Some prisoners refused 10
leave the jail.
At drunken frolic in Arson county
Alexander Hicks (colored), aged eigh-
teen, was shot and killed. The crowd
got drunk in the old-fashioned style Oh
hard cider.
KILLED by LIGHTNING.
Mrs. T. G. Covington was killed by
lightning yesterday at Marion, 5. G. a
bolt struck the residence and killed her,
while it seriously injured her husband
and two visitors. Mrs. Coyington was a
native Of L.aurinburg, Y. c.
The Atlantic and North Carolina rail-
way yesterday paid $4,000 for steel
rails.
WATERS RISING.
Cape Fear river is yet rising rapidly,
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