Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-19
OLD NORTH STATE.
a NLw YORK BOUND STEAMER IN
DISTRESS.
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railroad Nattrrs-Lawycrs VIII Resist n
Tax-Not 30 mad or After All
Illicit DisiIleries.
rspcrIal telegram 70 tAe pl,p,,,N,

E0nGH, \. c.. December is.-The CLYDE
Y ac Steamship Calf Stream arrived at
southport last night with the American
Steamship Raleigh in tow, which she pick.
up 90 disabled condition, bound from
p.h3v. tia., 20 New York.
ilc survoyors Of Colonel George y. Nor
t. proposed Cape Fear and Cincinnati
, road arc sin in the field.
l.nreiiSt Flies meetings closed at tho
rar-ft Tabernacle here tonight. They
.1Da NOT been successful.
.n' people of tdgocombe. Il IS now said
.-.,s. financially 81 bad oil ~ their COM
aa.r's would lead one 20 believe.
lh. lawyers here who have been notified
o - rgW tax levied on them by the city
lntmatod that they VIII resist its col
a.a ou constitutional grounds.
ILLICIT uIsruI5mEs.
20 learned that revenue officers have
.f't in The past ten DAYS in making
-. ..1urcs otillicit distillerics in Wake.
nn. and Granville counties. They
Also arrested several moonshincrs.
matter has been kept quiet.
COMM ~-loucr-ot Agriculture Robinson
reports from all parts Of the State
'at ine clover crop IS IN a bad con-
nai badly injured 10y the unusually
weather now prevailing. There has
'a. a. raln for three weeks.
INK FARMERS.
learned that the next issue Of the
which rs the organ 81 the National
0rd labOrcrs Union will contain
Information decidedly startling IN
....tr. IL wall make public for the first
.. ul % the recent convention al St.
BID. II was ordered that much of
p-HccoiirEs should not be made public
t.us officially published in the organ
. .' order.
INV TAILURTs.
n. r.,o the hard times in the eastern
.' shore are comparatively few fall
r- tN uEa IL D. feared there will be moro
let year. Yet The people are pull
together and helping one another.
N-. good crops next year there viii be
.. reaction.
Az ABSURD CASE.
Ih.rowspapcra have t1ld Of the obl.era-
..f 'ae name % Jefferson Davis from
INHn Badge. near Washington. An
-i o-e ~ thc sort occurred here IN
fr 1853 the United States Coast Sur
t a..-. were here and placed marks
.r Capitol Square showing the true
0ul South. Sc. There were two
stones 0nl between these one almost
Jewel with Che earth. On the top Of
n.re Tire letters ct. S. &. ). ~ mean
... No course. " United States Coast Sur
Whom the Federal troops were here
- tler attention was called 10 the
and they were told that years before
d. -. had been placed on the stone.
e. tlat u lsol the Confederate Govern
.' lad placed on II the letters " G.. s
offer letters were 40 once ordered %
erased and were cut ont, so that they
. uow barely deciphcrablc.
DROWNED.
ID
..-r. employees iu an Ashcyillc shoe-iac-
uDf, drowned Monday night. They
...0 n the lrench-Br0ad river ma boat.
..musnr with small boy. Five miles
fhe river from AsheYlle the boat
1.I. Tia" boy escaped. walked back
.nu. and carried the news.
.r. 80 ben general store &c Peterson
1 lrurd e0u 80 Goldshoro' damaged the
More damage was done by water
.... ur tre. There is 1000 insurance on
stock.
general store of Albert A. Sanders
49, Iwu-ton was burned early Yesterday
u~ The loss IS about $500, with
.j insurance.
BRIEFS.
Trains today began running on the
Norfolk and Carolina railroad from Nor
fo the Roanoke riyor Heavy fresheis
.. delayed work ou the bridge over that
lH4. otherwise the line would he com
l..ta 90 Ialhoro'. As 10 D.. there VIII hc
fer at the river, 10 which trains from
r.0ro' are running. II VIII De hut %
le Dme before the road is running INTO
.eigh.
Doe Durham Stfcet-Bailwav Company.
nch TWO weeks ago was purchased 10y
a Guthrie. of that place. for $40 has
r sold by him - tk" Penn Con
.. ti.u Company. of Philadelphia. for