Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-08
PROHIBITION.
RALRIeH, NORTH CAROLINA, TO lest
THE QUESTION AGAIN.
The Farmers Allisnce-Bapid Growth OF
the 0rder-The Insane Asylum
Personal Notes.
rspec,aI telegram 10 tho Dispatch


RALEIGH. n. c., March THE Board
Of Commissioners of Wake county de-
cided to-day TO order all election on the
prohibition question in this city. This
afternoon they issued q formal call fol
the election. which will be held Monday,
June 4th. One thousand signatures were
necessary to the petition for such cleo
ton, and nearly 1900 were obtained,
The Observation-Disclosures are quite enthu-
siastic, and say they expect to carry the
election by 800 majority.
To-day Colonel Polk, State secretary,
issued the 500th charter to sub-alli-
ances. Such rapid growth OF any order
was never before known in North Caro-
lima.
Sheriff Rogers, OF this county, who
went to Wadesboro' last evening to arrest
Editor Sperry w. Hearne, of the Wades-
boro' Intoltjgencer, on the charge OF
criminal libel, made the arrest to day.
Hearne will be brought here tonight and
tried tomorrow morning before Justice
Barbee.
Governor Scales to-day granted par
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out three years sentence in the peni-
tertiary. He is from Cabarrus county,
and was convicted two years ago OF lar
ceny. The pardon is granted upon the
Recommendation of the judge and So
licitor. There was some doubt as to
Baxter's guilt.
Eugene G. Harrell widely known in
A I. - IF fhn hnNth Corn-
lima Teachers Assembly, was last night
elected captain of the Governors Guard
of this city.
The Governor and nearly all the heads
Of the State departments have decided
to 90 to Newberne on the 18th instant
and attend the fish, oyster, and game
fair to be held there.
The Board of Directors of the North
Carolina Insane Asylum at Raleigh met
to day in annual session and reelected
DR.. f.. Buske Haywood president, John
w. Thompson steward, Mrs. Lawrence
matron, and James West engineer. The
Committee on Examination made care
ful tour of the building and grounds, and
reported the health of the asylum excel
lent and its sanitary condition better
than ever before. DR.. Eugene Gressom,
the superintendent. expresses gratifica-
ton at the results OF his efforts in having
the patients take great deal of outdoor
exercise. The death rate is very small.
though the asylum is crowded.
The colored people express gratifca-
ton at Rev. Joseph c. Prices declina-
ton of the Liberian mission, and say he
took proper grounds in saying that his
race cannot spare him from the great
educational work he is doing for them.
There is considerable interest in
Cleveland county just now over impor-
tant discoveries of tin ore, which, 1t is
said, will assay 10 per cent. Tin was
first discovered there four years ago.
The schooner Matte L. Hites, which
struck last week on Gull shoal, Pamlico
sound, has been brought to Newberne.
The cargo is greatly damaged but the
vessel only slightly injured.
The Board of Directors Of the Eastern
Insane Asylum at Goldsboro' for colored
patients met to-day and reelected all OF
the officers.
A savings bank at Winston has been
organized, with E. A. Ebert president
and y. W. Long cashier.
Already construction trains are run
ming five miles southwark from Monroe
towards Atlanta on the Monroe and At
lanta railroad. In two months the track
will be laid to the Catawba river, twenty
two miles from Monroe.
III {,h,,Io troinc Of tha (fooct mo
railway are now passing through this
city until the Pee Dee bridge is re-
paired.
The Republicans are already begin
ming their campaign work, and are send
ing men out into the highways and by
ways. The party, one of its leaders con-
fesses, will need all its forbearance to
keep up its present semblance of good
feeling. There is likely to be pretty
quarrel between the editors of the Signal
and PrOtectionist.
1t is claimed by not few persons that
there is more protection sentiment in this
State than is generally believed.
The report of the State Superinten-
dent OF Public instruction is in press and
will soon appear. 1t makes a good
showing for 1887. There was very de-
cided increase in the attendance at the
public schools. The improvement in the
construction of school buildings, as well
as in the number of new buildings
erected, is gratifying.
The new electric-ight company formed
here will probably never operate. 1t
has turned over its contract for lighting
the city to the present company. The
new gas company-the People's-has
turned over its contract to the old gas
company. The city will be Illuminated
both by gas and electricity.
Mrs. J. f.. Il. Stuart, Of Staunton,
Va. has become a member of the North
Carolina Teachers Assembly, and will
attend its great meeting at Morehead
City in June. There are numbers of
members from Virginia and South Caro-
lima in the assembly. It's total member
ship is BOW over 1000.
The present steel rail on the Raleigh
and CASTOR railroad is being replaced
with heavier rail. The ballasting goes
on rapidly. All the preparations for
through travel are in progress. Ger
tainly in six months there Will be through
trains on the Seaboard line, and Raleigh
will cease TO be way-station.
The Attorney General has moved ont
of the Capitol into his quarters in the
new State building. The Superintendent
of Public Instruction will not move un-
til next month.