Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-29
THE LAWYERS DAYS.
The GOVERNOR OFFERS A REWARD
FOR A MURDERER.
Frost--Good Tobacco Crops-An Eiope-
ment - Religious Reunion - Ball
roads - improvement Appro-
priatioh Nearly Exhausted.
special telegram TO tho DlspAtch.l

ming and s. :. Mann, Hyde; N. j.. MCNEIL,
Moore; J. Parker, Alamance q: n: DOCK
cry Richmond; X. b. Bailey, >. ~ MeSau'
O. r. Sterne. j. 4. Bell, and u. n. Pharr'
| MecklenSurg: r, S. Blackburne, Wa
tauca: Q. T.. Jervis. Madison; G. w. Rice,
/ Catawba; A. j. Marshall, New Hanover;
! w. Rush. Randolph; I. g. Brooks, Per-
sons; II. w. Rice. Franklin; L. L. Ihorne,
! Halifax: n. Newly, Perquimans; -. ".
I Robinson and l.. Il. Webmore, Lincoln; q.
! b. Atkinson, Buncombe, and }. II. lnghs'
| Robson.
IA executive reward of $500 was offered
( to-day for Daniel Comatzer, OF, DAVE
/ county, who stands charged with the muir
der of David Call on tho public highway
/ in that county two weeks ago.
( Frost this morning was pretty general
/ here and west of here, but does not appear
/ TO have done damage to the tobacco crop,
I which il being gathered rapidly. Frost has
/ done great damage to the crops in Macon
county. The tobacco crop IN the west mas
been nearly all cut. 1t is large crop, and
Of much better quality than IN some
Joseph Mitchell. of Walnut Cove. Stokes
county. has eloped with the daughter OF
Mr.. William Bondurant 1t IS reported
! that Mitchell hasa wife in Virginia.
The negro named Mcpherson, whose
| head was cut open by Abe Mcqueen, in An
son county, has died. and Mcqueen has
! fled.
A great union meeting of tho Missionary
| Baptist church began at Bayboro'. Famiico
county, to-day.
Track laying on the Wilmington, OnsIlow
and East Carolina begins next wednesday,
sixteen miles having already been graded.
Arrangements are in progress for the ex-
tension of the Asheville electrlc-rallway
system to the town of Weavervllle.
The Government steamer General Wright,
which is MT work on the Improvement or
the Upper Cape Fear river, Is dong excel
! lent work but the Improvement appro-
pTiation is nearly exhausted. >.
Track LAYING on the Norfolk and Carolina
railway between Tar river and Habgoods,
in Edgecombe county, began YESTERDAY
Che bridge across Tar river, which Is OF
iron, has boen shipped and viii be put mp
| at once. Work on tire bridge over the
Roanoke is DELAYED, but 10y the end OF the
year the road Will be in operation.
Night before last pistol-shots were heard
at the Merchants Hotel, and there was
strong odor of kerosene. One Of the rooms
was found on FIRE, which il was evident was
incendiary. The fire was quickly eXtln-
guishCd.
Joshua Wright. an old citizen Of Hender,
son. went cunning few days ago. lie did
not return and search was made. II was
found that he WAS in the woods paralyzed.
/
two DAYS and two nights when found: lie
was spcechless and In a terrible condition
and parnlvZed on one side from head TO
foot. His condition is still critical.
Garter q Murrills general store, at
Brinkley's, Brunswick county, was burned
early Yesterday morning. The loss Is about
| twenty-five hundred dollars, with some in
surance.
MANY horses have died of blind-staggers
in HYDE county. and this has proved quite
hardship 10 the farmers. In the past
two weeks thirty-five horses have died IN
Carteict county from thus dreaded disease.
Miss Mamie Barber. Of Wlkesboro', was
! thrown from her horse few days ago, the
animal having been frightened by the
men. The young ladys injuries are very
| serious and her condition is critical.
A SUCCESS.
The Hickory Fair. like all the fairs held
| this season. is q great success III point OF
both exhibits and attendance. 1t ended
| yesterday.
James Owens. of Lilesville, Arson coun-
| ty. was the victim day before yesterday OF
/ the first fatal accident at a cOtton-gln IN
the State this season. His arm was torn
/ off and he died IN few hours OF shock
! before amputation could be performed.
! II is claimed that ". III. ). Burgwyn, OF
| Henderson, was the youngest captain in
/ the Confederate army. He was first lieu
| tenant at seventeen and a captain before lie
was eighteen.
| 1t is stated that passenger, mail, and ex-
press trains are to be put Oh the Scotland
Neck and Greenville railway at once.
RAILROADS.
| The Dositive assertion is now made that
! by juno LIST next trains will run Oh the
Georgia, Carolina and Northern railway
from Monroe to Atlanta, Il is said that by
next February all the grading viii be I'm
| ished and the bridges built.
Arthur Cox. a negro living in Union
county. recently engaged IN fight with
another negro and was bitten on the arm.
! The result was blOod-pOisoning and the
arm had to be cut off. Cox IS now county
charge, but is slowly recovering from what
was almost fatal bite.
The people of Asheville are considering
| the plan of taking down the tall iron
towers which now lift the electric lights so
| hioh above the town. The blowing down
and complete wrecking of one OF the towers
during the gale few days past brings up
] the matter.
The people Of the town Of Louisburg
| have lust held O novel election. II was to
| decide the question whether the town
treasurer should be relieved from paying
1885 lost by the smash Of the State National
Bank at Raleigh last year. All the votes
save two were cast in favor OF relief IRON
payment.
| RX-CoNPEDERATE PENSIONERS.
Year after year there has been an in
crease in the number of eX-COnfederate
pensioners, aud it is probable that tins
| year will be no exception to the rule.
There will probably be 1000 pensioners,
and nearly three times as much IN PENSIONS
as was given last year Is to be distributed.
| A revenue-stamp Office IS to be cstab-
| lshed at Oxford. There are many special
requests for 1t.
Some persons appear TO have intimated
that the students Of Rutherford College
bad hand in the lynching Of Frank
| lin Stack ut MorgantoD. Stack was III
! Jail charged with assassinating Robert
| Parker. a student at Rutherford College.
Dr. Abernethy, the president of the college,
saws that on the night of the lynching all
the students were III their ROOM and that
they had nothing to do with the affair.
/ This lvnching has excited a greater sensa-
tion than any ever heard of IN the State.
! Some people have demanded that the
Governor should offer rewards for the
| lynchers. But he cannot do this. None
| OF the lynchers are named and on none OF
them have warrants been served. The
Governor has no authority to issue rewards
save for specified persons.
NOTES.
The Southern Interstate immigration
Bureau, of which j. L. Patrick. OF this city,
! is the head, is now busying itself in estab-
! fishing branch bureaus in this state.
The frosts in Ashe county have done
some damage TO the corn, it 10 learned.
John Coz, for whom search has for quite
! awhile been made. has been arrested IN
| Jones county and is now III jail at Kinston.
He stands charged with the murder Of Will
liam sutton (colored(.
The Carolina Roller-Mills and Supply
/ Company has been Incorporated at Fay
etteville and viii operate the $4,000 mills
recently built there.
Henry L. Wyatt, who was in the Edge
combe Guards of Tarboro', was killed at
Big Bethel, aud the claim has always been
made that he was the first Confederate
| killed in battle. His mother is now in
needy circumstances, and his old company
is collecting funds 10 send her.
1t is now certain that many of the mill
tary from this State will attend the Lee
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