Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-14
NORTH CAROLINA.
a PROBABLE rArAL AccrDgsr TO A
vIR9fNIAN.
Result Of Attempting to Jump from a
Moving Train Fires Railroads
Personal Notes
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Especial telegram - the Dispa,ch.l
RaLEroH, N. c., January 13.-Ncws
has been received here of probably
fatal accident at Wadesboro'. A man
named Finney, Of Abingdon, Va, well
known as a dealer in horses, attempted
TO get off OF rapidly moving train early
yesterday morning. He was thrown TO
the ground and struck on the back o! the
head. AT last accounts be was still IN
conscious, not having spoken since the
accident ACQUIRED.
Two sheriifs made full settlement
with the State Treasurer to-day-Riddick,
OF Gates. and Mnrrell. of 0nslow.
Considerable snow fell in the western
parts of the State last night. Here there
was very little. The weather to-day has
been very bad all over the State.
Il. J. Reinhardt's cotton.gin, in Lin
coin county, has been burned. Loss,
$1,000.
Rev. J. l.. Stewards barns and seven
teen bales OF cotton have been burned
at Clinton. Loss, about $1,000.
Your correspondent to-day obtained
specially important and interesting piece
OF information. The United States Su-
preme Court has advanced the special
tax bond cases, so that they will be heard
in April. These are the cases which went
before the Supreme Court on the State S
appeal from Judge Bonds decision IN
the District Court here.
The estimate is made that the expendi-
ture for commercial fertilizers in this
State per annum for the past ten years
has been 81, 600, 900, while the value OF
the cotton crop is put at $4,000, 900,
which would make the fertilizers alone
amount TO 90 per cent. OF the value OF
the crop. The figures are rather start
ling. They are not vouched for, but 1t
is claimed that they approximate cor
rectness. The home made manures are
very largely displacing the commercial
fertilizers A comparison Of 1887 with
1886 shows that the sales last year were
S2.550. 600 and the year before S3,325,-
600. There will be another sharp reduc-
ton this year.
IL is said that there is considerable ex-
element in part OF Buncombe county
about mad-dogs. Many dogs have been
bitten by dog that had genuine rabies.
Some days ago statement was made IN
in a paper here, in n Washington letter,
that Charles A. Cook, OF Warrenton, bad
been designated by the Republican Tx
ecutive Committees as the real head OF
the party in this State until the next con-
ventioD. and that he should preside over
that body. Mr. j. G. l.. Harris. chair
man of the new" State Executive Com
mittee. was asked this morning what
truth there was in the statement he
said: alt is not a fact at all. When
DR.. Motifs committee and my committee
met here last month it was agreed and
expressly decided that | was to be In
in charge of and at the head of affairs,
and should have full control OF the party
work and plans in this State until the
convention. This was the result of a
perfect understanding between DIR. Mott
and myself-en amicable agreement
Harris tells me that he is fixing things
all right among the clashing brethren IN
the Second or black congressional dis
trict. he says he Will go down to the
mass-meeting of Republicans at Wilson
on the 10Th, and help in the restoration
of harmony and the preparation OF an
active campaign.
There is an attempt to arouse interest
in the projected line of railway from
Charlotte TO Sanford ria Albemarle and
Troy. Something may yet come OF that
scheme.
There is considerable belief at Durham
that there was foul play in the case OF
Mangum Harris, the negro who was
found cut all to pieces on the railway
track near there few nights past 1t IS
suspected that he was murdered and bis
body placed on the track TO divert sus-
picion. :.
Mr.. John Lowe retires from the edi-
torshlp of the Wadesboro' Messenger, Of
which Mr.. James q. Boyton now has full
control. :,
At Charlotte Wednesday John Perdy
was seriously stabbed by Baxter Bird.
Both were engaged in an ARRAY.
+. f. Stearns's cotton gin, in Cabarrus
is reported burned, the loss being 81 800,
with no insurance. The fire was acct
dental. Some packed and seed cotton
was also burned.
Another attempt is being made to
buld a street-rallway in Wilmington.
There was such road ten years ago, but
it was soon afterwards torn up.
The new steamer Manteo of the Old
Dominion Line, has arrived at Newberne,
and the people there are delighted with
her.
The sheriff of Craven is constructing
the gallows for the execution of Charles
L. Jones.
Miss Laura Wood, a young lady Of
Lenoir county, who is extremely plucky
and pretty, found that the dogs had
brought deer to bay near her house.
SEEING a double barrelled gun and a
knife she ran up, and after firing two
shots and killing the deer cut its throat
in a style any hunter might envy. The
deer was fine buck.
G. A. Dale, general merchant at Ma
rion, Mcdowell county, has assigned
Liabilities and assets are not stated.
The crops in Jones and OnslOw coun-
ties were poor, and many people would
now be in a very embarrassing condl-
ton, IL is learned. were it not for the
lumber boom which has just struck that
section. Tfamways are being built IN
all directions and much valuable timber
is being secured.
Cora Wright, a negro woman in Edge
combe county, killed her sixteen
months-old child by strangling it with a
string and hiding its corpse in a hollow
stump. 1t was not dead when placed in
this living tomb, and when it was dis
covered the sSfn was found scratched of
in many places. This was done in its
vain efforts to escape. The woman is in
Jail, as is William Ponton, her alleged
accomplice.
The Failure of the BIZ of Mr. Hays.