Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-02-10
NORTH STATE NEWS.
a Bill 10 CREATE A RAILWAY CON.
MISSION INTRODUCED
osAsr Legislative Msttsrs-A Fire ~ VIA
ston-TAe Trouble Expected at Colds
bore Yesterday Did Not Occur.


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RALslon, y. g., February 0.-The bill to
create a railway commission was placed 10
the hands OF the members OF the Legislature
today. IL provides. an stated, Tor three
commissioner OF experience IN law,
one . prsctcal farmer. and one OF experience
IN mercantile. manufacturing, or mechanical
pursuits, or IN rsilwsy business. The terms
OF the commissioner are TO benin April j,
1889. and oxnire N two. four, and six years.
As tbty expire vacancies are TO be filled by q
vote OF the people. None Of the commits.
sioners shall have any connection with any
rail way or owu railroad stock or bonds.
Toe commission II 10 have It's headquarters
Sat Raleigh and % be allowed a clerk nj a
sslary OF Sl,20a. The penalty for violations
OF the rules made by the commission rs nxed
by the bill at from 81 1000 to $1,000.
There have been expressions ~ fear tnstthe
bill 10 reduce the legal rate OF interest to o
per cent. will pass the Legislature. IL an
error. II will net pass.
A reward Of $500 is offered Tor the detec-
ZION OF the person who maliciousiy drew the
bolts Of q switch near here yesterday ana
caused the wreck Of the FAST train on the sea-
board road. The track was cleared to-day.
A large force OF mechanics from the shops
worked sll night ta effect this.
lNt NNAtN fNo's
reading a bill a%pproprtltin0 $1,000 Tor the
annual encampment OF the State Guard.
The discovery Of extremely rich gold ore
has been made In Nash county. The vein Is
opened for a distance Of a mile.
Judge Giimar was to-day commissioned
by Governor FOwle 20 hold Duplin court in
the place OF Judge Ship, who is SICK.
The Legislature has only one more con-
tested-electicn case TO dispose OF, which ~
chat OF Covington against Wooten, from
Richmond county.
J.. ID. Psslor's store, at Winston, was
burned night before last with all It's stock.
IL Is believed 10 have been No incendiaIy
FIRE.
Tho CAM Of the engineer corps on the
Winston and wilkcsboro' railroad was
burned night before last, and the engineers
barely saved their lives.
New steel rails on the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway sre all laid save Tor a dis
lance OF two miles.
General Malone has secured pledges OF
mppert irem a number OF prominent Re-
publ'cans.
There f. q heavy fight between Thomas
Cooper and John r.. Esves for the collector
ship. These men and their factions are at
dsgeer's points.
The trouble which bad been so carefully
guarded against at Goldsboro' to-day did not
occur. A good many negroes gathered there
ready 10 leave for Arkansas or the promised
land, IS they believe II TO be, but they found
no trains ready to take them. Special trains
and special rates for negro labor traffic baye
been withdrawn by the Richmond aud Dam
willie railroad. and the negroes who now 20
10 Arkansas will have 10 travel on regular
trains and pay regular fare. A great crowd
that was in readiness TO 40 yesterday did not
get OF. Some started on freight trains last
night.
There was no disorder to-day. One white
mar who was turbulent and inclined to get
up a row was arrested by the police. The
authorities we're fully prepared 10 suppress
1T once any demonstration. IL Is said that
the negro lawyer VINO wrote the Incendiary
circular aud which 30 greatly stirred up the
negroes has left GoldsbOrO'. IL was believed
that colored Presbyterian preacher named
billiard aided 10 toe preparation OF the card,
but he denies this positively to-day over bis
own signature. Billiard saws he knew no.
thing OF IL TILL after 1t had cone out, and II
came TO his hands as IL did TO others. He
says be has not encouraged a single man to
20 TO Arkansas, but since be understood the
locality 10 which these people are being car-
IleG he Is bitterly opposed to their going.
The senate to-day passed a till 10 give the
deaf, dumb, and blind institution State lands
near this city Tor a farm. Also a bill allow
ing three judges OF the supreme Court to sit
la the absence OF the other two. The COM
mittee TO investigate railway and other ccr-
poratIons which fail to pay taxes was raised.
IL the House a bill to make ten hours n le-
gal days work failed TO pass, but u bill
passed to make ten hours a legal days work
in manufactures where women and chll-
dreu are employed. Other bills were passed
incorporating the Greensboro stieet-rallway
and Bank OF Greensboro.
Yesterday eighty.one families OF negroes,
in all some 400 persons. left a point near
GOldsbOro' for Arkansas, in charge OF q
man named Williams, OF that State, who IS =
labor agent. Williams went with them and
will hardly return. Msjor Richardson, Of
Mississippi, who has been gathering labor
ers in the Goldsboro' section. hss gone to
Charleston, S. c., and In View OF the excite
meut caused by the taking away OF laOorers
has entirely suspended operations. Tie had
sent an agent TO Wilson TO gather together a
large number, some l,400. OF laborers Tor his
cotton plantations, but in view OF the state
OF affairs has ordered this agent TO leave the
state. The excitement among the negroes
ba. been with regard to Arkansas, and about
that they are crazy made SO by the infiam>
mstory circular to which allusion has al
ready been made.
PROPOSITION.
II is said that n proposition will be made
20 paw the State $3.50, 900 in cash for its IL. 600
shares OF stock In the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway. Tue information comes
10 your correspondent that parties with am
pie means aud Of high financial standing Will
make his proposition. IL Is very probable
the Legislature will take hold OF the
matter In such n case. IL will give $50 per
share for the stock. which has been as low
as 81, but Is now quoted at S22. There will,
OF course. undoubtedly be strong opposition
TO any sale OF the road.
Tn be cotton.iac,ory at Tarboro', which
cost $40, 900, will be ready next week to be-
gin operations.
Quite n body OF troops will accompany
the Governor 10 Newberne on the 18th iu-
slant Us an escort.
There L. great fight over the collectorship
OF the Western district. The scramble FOR
Office by the Republicans exceeds belief.
There Is a struggle for the Raleigh p~ost-ofice
which Is stirring things up. Its triangular,
aud Logan Harris. Congressman John
Nichols, and State Senator Banks, OF Wake,
are the contestants.
The magistrates, OF whom some 1,400 are
to be sppolpted by the Legislature. are being
very slowly. Already half the ses'
sion has ended.
The site Tor the permanent encampment OF
the State troops IL at wrightsyille on a bold
bluif forty feet above The sound. There are
sixty-seyen acres OF ground. with q sea
front OF 1900 feet.
LTH. CON6nEss-sEC0ND SESSION.