Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-14
IMPORTANT SESSION
OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD
OF AGRIcULTURE.
A Missing Block Of Bank stock-who Has
TIT The Farmers Alli-
ance-fire,
lsreclal ,elesram . .hs pIspaten.l

Will De deNOtcu 10 tsic aStNV'Nstn au'
Mechanical College building-fund. Fo
this reason il is not deemed expedient 4
make exhibits this year at any pom
outside of the State. A committee wa
appointed to redraft plan OF organiza
ton for the farmers institutes Thu
board made appropriations for tn
remaining half OF the fiscal year. 1t IVA
ordered that new roof he placed on TIKI
agricultural building, and that extensive
repairs to its interior be made. Opera
lions we're ordered resumed at the STATE
experiment farm. A salary of 81, 600 pei
annum was appropriated for the super
intendent Of the farm. This Office is nov
vacant. The salary Of the Commissioner
of immigration was increased to 81. 600.
The next meeting of the board will be
held Nav 3lst. The fiscal year OF the
Hatch fund ends that day.
DR.. 4. f. Rockwell is dying at his
home near StateSville. He is native OF
Connecticut, and graduated at Yale in
the class with the late Chief-Justice
Waite and Chief-Justice W. \. II. Smith,
of this State. He has lived in North
Carolina for fiity-eight years, and was
for many years pastor OF the Presby-
terrain church ut Statesville. Later he
was professor of Latin at Davidson Col
lege, and president of the Concord
Female College at Statesville.
In Caswell county a dead body was
found lying in a clump OF bushes within
twenty feet of the road. 1t was found
10 be that of Robert Oliver, worthy
colored man. His teeth were beaten
out. skull fractured, and face horribly
mangled snd covered with blood Near
the body wss a heavy oak stick with
blood and hair on II, evidently being the
weapon with which Oliver was murdered
In Stanly county yesterday a party
while fishing discovered the dead body
Of a man apparently about sixty years
OF age. 1t was identified as that of
Zedekiah Coggins. of Stanly county.
The cause of his death and appearance
in the river are mysterious.
One of the queer things about the
plunderng and failure of the State Ma
tional Bank of this city is the disappear
ance, if that term be allowable, of $780,
600 Of its capital stock. When Cross
became its president he took that much
stock. putting In, as Is now believed,
forged notes to that amount He has
apparently transferred the stock to some
one. bat to whom That isthe mystery
The holder of that block of stock, or if
he divided IT, the holders are, of course,
liable for twice its amount. SO they do
not reveal themselves at all. The stock
is in hisown name On the books. 1t is one
of the several curious things about this
matter. CrOsss wife is noble woman.
She has given up her luxurious home
here to retire to quiet lodgings. 1t turns
out that the diamonds which Cross
bought only day or two before his
flight were gwen 10y him to his wife. He
told her then that he was going away.
She has given the diamonds to Bank
Examiner Tate. There have been many
statements that Cross and White told
their families some time previous 70 their
departure that they would go. 1t is now
positively stated that Cross said so only
or Saturday. the day he left, and that
White merely said he was going to
Chapel Hill, and would return in a
day.
thomas II. Dillahunt. whose home is
near Newbene. has disappeared quite
mysteriously. and nothing has been seen
or heard of him for month. Foul play
Is suspected.
At Charlotte to-day the trial of vii
liam f. McCun for the murder Of Leroy
Shields began. The crime was com
mitted March nth, and Shields was
killed with blow on the head with
plowshare.
Governor Scales will ask that Colonel
earle A. Woodruff. Second United
States artillery, be detailed as inspecting
officer at the approaching encampment
OF the North Carolina State Guard.
At the conclusion Of Rev. II. q. Pear
sons revival meeting at Wilmington
night before last $40, 900 was pledged for
a Young Mems Christian Association
building at that place.
No less than l,2S5 persons at this
meeting voted in favor Of memorializing
against the issue of Sunday papers, of
Sunday trains and steamers. and Of the
use OF livery horses and carriages on
Sunday.
A local dramatic company of very
considerable talent has been organized
here. aud takes the name of the Star
Dramatic Club.
The work which Commissioner of
Agriculture Robinson has done in or
ganizing the farmers in various eastern
counties, establishing experiment farms
aud farmers institutes has been given
the heartiest endorsement by the State
Board of Agriculture. The board de
sires that the work be continued and
that it be prosecuted as rapidly as possible.
This special line is conducted under
the provisions of the Hatch bill The
experiment farms in the counties will be
operated in connection with the State
experiment farm here. An order was
issued for the resumption OF scientific
work at the latter. Ii was suspended
last autumn owing to the scantiness of
funds.
Captain s. b. Alexander, the head OF
the Farmers Alliance in North Caro-
lima, and beyond doubt one of the best
farmers in the State, is here. He is
chief OF powerful order. The disci
pline, the hold-together power of the
alliance, your correspondent is assured,
tANttuo Nlidt VI lAAt hllkllNo VI 1
Labor or any other order OF its class |
ever before in existence in this State. 1t |
is a vast machine which an INSCRIPTIONS !
man might use as powerful lever in po-
litical work. But Captain Alexander is |
by no means that sort of man. He is |
honest, straightforward, fearless, and |
though he is very prominently mention
ed in connection with the gubernatorial !
nomination by the Democrats, would |
not use the order III that way at all In
fact were he nominated he would resign
its leadership. The alliance has now
over 700 sub-slliances in the State. By
the LIST Of July there will be 1000.
The selection Of MIR. Peter NJ. Wilson |
as corresponding secretary Of the State
Agricultural Society gives general salts
faction. Mr. Eugene q. Harrell is the |
active secretary. They will do great |
deal towards securing success for the |
next State Fair. Both are men of en-
ergy and very popular.