Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-06
RALEIGH'S BUDGET.
VIEWS NOTES GATHERED AT TIE NORTH
STATE CAPITAL.
Railroad Mattsrs-charged with Poisoning
His wife-young Mems Christian Bsso-
citation Personal Items-Brisfs.
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Especial telegram to the Dlspatch.l
RALrIeu. April 5.--tolonel +. II. Fries
arrived here to-day from salem and made
contract with the authorities OF the penlten-
tiary for 200 conNicts 10 work on tne
Roanoke and Southern railway atSloO yearly
for each convict. The first lot OF convlcts
will he sent 10 this road next week ana all IN
thirty days. One hundred more VIII be con-
trac,ed for In July.
A SERIOUS CHARGE.
BRYANT Carroll, a fisherman. who lives IN
Brunswick county, u 10 jail on the charge
Of poisoning his wife. lie IL q native OF
Johnston comfy ana recently moved 70
Brunswick. Day before Yesterday at dinner
Carroll. 70 is charged, gave his wife drink
OF wine I'm which he bad put poison. The
wife was heard 70 cry out. what hAve you
given me 2" In an hour she was dead. Inc
stomach OF the woman has been sent 10 The
State chemist at Raleigh for analysis. Car
roll has little TO say about the matter, but de-
MES the charge.
The Young Mems Christian Association
has determined TO build ball on The campus
AT the state University 10 cost $4,000.
Alexander MeIycr, OF Pdtsbero'. has been
elected chief marshal at the state university
commencement next jane.
OPTICAL INSPECTION.
The Durham and Northern railway was
Yesterday officially inspected by President
John II. Robinson, Of The Seaooard system;
John C. Winder, general manager, ana
party OF railway officials.
White Caps are at work in Currituck
county. AZ place called Trails they
whipped man feW nights past. Several
ether persons have received warning notices
marked with skull aud cross bones. IL is
said that few nights ago at Washington
one Of the White Caps was pursued by bis
intended victim. and IN attempting 10 es-
cape over the fence OF an Episcopal church
yard was caught aud given terrible hog
ging.
PRES.
The houses Of David Sutherland and W.
A. Lea. in New Hanover county. were
burned day before yesterday, il is believed
BY incendarics.
Daniel simmons planing-mils at New.
berne narrowly escaped destruction yester-
dsy by a fire which broke out In the dry
kiIns. and which DESTROYED 4 quarter million
feet Of sawed lumber in the yard-. The city
was in great danger. and 1t required TWO
hours hard work 10 control the FIRE slim
sons loss is $4,000, with no insurance.
The work on the Governors mansion will
be FIRST to put in order the rooms on the low
or door, which are those TO be thrown open
10 tue public. These are to be very CAREFUL
" fnished in strict accordance with the
plans adopted six years ago by Governor
Jarvis.
Professor Tiernan last summer married
fs ~
known TO the readers OF novels as Chris
tian Reld.' Mr.. and Mrs. Tiernan have
just returned after having spent the winter
iD Mexico.
There is some talk about the date OF the
encsmpmeni. which Is july 9th. Many OF
the troops In the East think the latter part OF
July better time. II is expected thst at
least | 800 men Will be ia camp. The date
NAV be changed to a later one. ~ no general
order has yet been issued IN reference TO the
matter.
1t has been decided that the state Press
Association shall be represented at the
AyOca celebration and will be gwen ban
quet Tue Governor will leave here for
Avocs on the 22d snd will open the celebra-
lion the following dav. he then returns to
Raleigh and leaves here on the 9Th for New
York with his siafi and his daughter, Miss
Helen FOwle. Tbe:e will be sixteen per-
sons IN the party. which has already been
made up, and aii the arrangements for the
trip have been perfected. TIE Metropolitan
Hotel will be the Governors headquarters.
He will not appear mounted in the process
sion. lie has not been on horseback 10 quite
awhile.
Editor J. II. Whc9ard, OF the Salisbury
Herald, was married day before yesterday at
ALBANY, Ga, TO Miss Ella c. Roberts.
The depots on the extension Of the Cape
Fear and Yadkin-Valley railway from
Fayetteville to Wilmington have ell been
located. There are eleven OF them. sud
strange TO say nine are in one county Samp-
sou.
1t il urged that the Grading of the Clinton
and Point Caswell railway be completed. II
Is very nearly finished. but no work on 1t
has been done in some time.
There is a considerable demand for miners
at the gold-miues near salisbury. The mining
business in all that region is in a healthy
condition. 1t appears.
There are now 30 pupils on the rolls at
Wake-Forest College. This Is q highly fa-
vorable showing.
4 mule which was forty years old died in
Ashe county few DAYS ago. The animal
served in the war In cavalry regiment and
was alleged TO be the oldest mule in all North
Carolina.
Ezekiel b. smith. OF North Carolina,
the Minister 10 Liberia, writes 10 col
ofed people here that be finds the
weather not so hot and trying as he ex-
pected, and that he does not consider the
much. talked.Oi and dreaded "Airlcan
fever" as dreadful thing An his
family had the fever last autumn, and
found II to be about the same thing a. the
quite familiar chils aud ieyers peculiar to
the coast districts Of the southern States.
He appears in fact 10 be very well pleased
with the country, and TO think that the ne
groes who have emigrated there are doing
very well. There is clearly quite move
ment towards Liberia, or rather desire to
so. Some thousands Of negroes say they
wish TO go; that they regard the United
States as a white mans country, and wish
TO get TO their fatherhnd. Yet it il curious
TO note tina, since the late war only a trlfe
over 1000 have gone TO Liberia from the
United STATES, while last year only forty
made the trip.
Track-laying at the TsFbOro' end OF the
Norfolk and southern railroad began day
before yesterday.
The Farmers Cotton-S Seed OIL Mills al
Shiloh, Edgecom6e county, will increase
their capital stock and build q refinery.
10 Henderson county little son OF Alex
ander Robertson, while playing in some
straw. sat Gre 20 The straw, and was SO badly
burned that there Is no hope Of his recovery.
TobsccO-hands who have been on q strike
nj Winston for an increase Of wages have
returned 10 work.
The suit IN the Superior Court OF Greene
county OF William Whitehead against Hon.
Louis HiIhard. Of Norfolk, Va, for $4,000
damages Tor defamation OF credit was dis.
missed at Daiptid'ys cost
Reports from the eastern counties are 10
the effect that the farmers are making extra
ordinary preparations for their crops.
News of a horrible crime comes from
CLYDE. in Haywood county. Miias Curtis,
white lad aged sixteen, Was found lying ~ a
field in an UNCONSCIOUS condition. Both
ears bad been cut Of close TO bis head. He
sisted that Frank Palmer, twenty -four years
old. who was a ncighbOr. committed the
crime. The two had been together the pre-
yiOus evening and Palmer was drinking.
Suddenly be strucG Curtis a blow on The
head, wDich Knocked him down. then sprung
upon him aud Of ouce cut Oh bis ears. Curtis
had lost great deaf OF blood aud has SUI
fersd agony all night Once he crawled to q
a 49, a. A l..