Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-10
SERIOUS QUESTION.
vHs COUNCIL OF STATE OF NORTH
CAROLINA.
A Life Hanging In the Bslaness-A Terri
big Brutal crime-General
Notes.
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deaih-scntence of Charles 4. Jones, of
Craven county. Nothing was done to-
day in the matter.
The report made 10 the Superintendent
OF Public Instruction shows that the
negroes in this State hold about four
million Of dollars in property.
Ike Bailey and Lee Wilson icolored)
are in jail at Roxboro' on tho charge Of
killing Bill Dunn. 10 is alleged that
Wilson held Dunn while Bailey cut open
ms abdomen.
A report was to-day received by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction
that the Cabarrus public schools will be
kept open for four months, as the Consti-
tuition directs.
Governor Scales says he believes the
people are becoming moro and more OPP
posed 10 capital punishment IN North
Carolina. He is led TO so think by the
great number Of petitions for commuta-
tiOn OF death sentences which come III.
There are now only four capital crimes
IN this State-muIder. arson, rape, and
burglary. Forty years ago there were
about twice as many.
A large trade is springing up between
Durham and Germany ia leaf tobacco,
with possibilities Of great extension, 1t
is said. All the markets in the State
have had layo but this week bust
ness begins again in lively fashion.
Manufacturers are increasing their orders
on markets in the State, preferring to
get their bright leaf at first hands The
report from Person county Is that the
crop, the best IN many years. is nearly
all IN the hands Of growers, very little
having Yet been marketed.
The Parrish tobacco warehouse at
Durham, burned some time since, has
been rebuilt and is now 225xllO feet
in size. It's formal opening, with APP
propriate ceremonies, is fixed for the
18th instant.
Tho number of pupils in the five
graded schools here has risen TO some
thing over 1900; very crediteble
showing for a place with 10000 popula-
ton. In the University, colleges, and
private schools, here there are over
1859 more.
Bishop Theodore b. Lyman left yes
tcrlav for California ria Little Rock,
Arkansas. At the latter place he will
become a member of an excursion party
ma the Southern Pacific road. At
Greensboro to-day he was joined by Mr.
j. Van Lindlcy, "A prominent nursery
mhu and iruit-Grower, who goes TO Cali
fornIa 10 attend fruit-groWers' conyen-
ton.
NcEntire. Warlck & Co.'S plug-to-
bacco factory, IN Burke county, has been
taken in charge by the United States
marshal. The charge IS crooked work.
The jails and pOOrhouses III the State
are evidently, as rule, not up to the
proper STANDARD. in the view of the State
Board Of Health. In some counties
their condition has in the past few years
been greatly improved, but great deal
remains TO he done. Generally the con-
struction If the jails is SO faulty that
the security Of the prisoners is incom-
patihle with the admission OF fresh air.
Now when one remembers how many
lunatics are, for lack OF asylum accom-
modauons, kept IN such jails, the
thought Is very saddening. The Board
of Health is doing what it can to bring
about a reform. The board, in report
lust issued, saws vaccination Is greatly
neglected in this state. Happily no
small pox is reported
The work of dredging the approaches
TO the NewberDe and Beaufort canal has
begun. A dredge of new pattern Is
engaged and is said to operate success
fully. There Is a great desire Ill that
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important for NewDeTne.
4 curious bit of news comes from
Enfield county. While an aged negro,
Isaac Baten, was fighting with his grand
son and a woman he fell dead. The
woman and the boy were jailed, Amin
quest was heldand post H'Orfcm made,
which satisfied the county physician that
beart-disease caused the death, SO the
lad and woman have been discharged.
Mamie Leslie, the dissolute woman
who was concerned in the shooting of
Murphy 10y Keen i'll Salisbury last week,
has been arrested at Fayetteville and
taken TO Salisbury as a witness.
The extension of the railway from
Neck to Greenville is to be so
rapidly pushed as to practically insure
its completion by next August.
Wake Superior Court, criminal term,
began to-day. There Is a heavy docket.
Ten cases are for violations of the local
option law IN Raleigh.
There are such complaints abroad as
10 the gauging Of spirits turpentine at
as to practically shut out
that market. The Produce Exchange
viii TO morrow give special attention to
the matter There are differences IN
cAuging which give rise to the trouble.
Congressman W. r. Cox has of
late been devoting his attention almost
entirely TO his plantationsi in Edgecombe
He is a large landowner and a
very good farmer. kumors that he is to
be placed on the Civil-Service Com
he says, are unfounded. He
appears to be ont of politics. The dis
met certainly feels his absence from |
Congress and will feel it even more.
Winston leads all the State in the mat
ter OF tobacco-factories. 1t will have |
in operation this year.
The papers this week will contain |
broadside advertisements of lands TO be
5Ol0 fOr taxes que. 1utSe safes are 10 /
be made Oh the 9th day of March, in &C
cordance with chapter 1877, section 50, of
the laws of 1887. This Is an entire
change from the old law. II remains TO
be seen how it will work. The lists are
ong ones. In Wake county there are
more delinquents than usual, large as the
number always rs
The negro woman Adeline White, who
Iast Friday drowned her infant in a pond
near Winston and then fled, has been
brought back there, and jailed
Out Of the one hundred men over
twenty-one years Of age who live in and
around the town Of Wilkesboro fifty-fve
are over six feet high, the average being
nearly six feet two inches The tallest is
Nix feet seven inches. North Carolina
keeps ahead.
The cotton-gin of j. o. Askew, in
Hertford county. has been burned Loss,
81, 800 no insurance.
DR.. james Il. Duggan, professor of
at Wake Forest College, who
Tor five weeks had been sick with typho-
Inalarial fever, meningitis, and pneumo-
MIA, died yesterday morning at 7:30
D clock. He was from Linton, Ga, and