Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-20
RALEIGH GLeANINGS.'
Another Blockade sill Captured-White
Praying Pardon-In Favor of Rich
mond-,iinor Mention.


Another Blockade sill Cap;ured-White
Prsying Pardon-In Favor Of Rich
mond-,iinor Mention.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
RArT1eH. n. c., December 19.-1he quar-:
torly financial report Of the directors on
the penltentiary shows the earnings TO be
in excess of the expenses. Total expenses
for the quarter ending November Goth were
S57.8iO.G2; the total earnings were SGi,-
1926.
Charles T. r. Balsley, general merchant
OF Ihomasvillc. has assigned for the bene-
Git Of his creditors. The liabilities aggre-
gate -. 200: assets, estimated TO be SS,OOO.
George Fox was bound over to the court
in Catawba county on suspicion OF having
shot Miles Huffman two weeks agO ! OK
while drunk dropped some words lndica-
ting his connection with the shooting.
FATALLY SHOT.
The eleven-year-old son Of Iyey Dorset,
Of Randolph county. was fatally shot by a
negro lad day before yesterday. They
were PLAYING with q revolver II was DIS
charged. and the'bullct passed through the
boys lung.
Deputv-Collector Brown to-day reported
the capture of large illicit dlstillery IN
Harnett county yesterday.
IL is learned that extensive quar1les OF
hrOwnstOne are 10 be opened III Moore
county near Carthage.
Your correspondent was informed by what
was considered perfectly reliable authority
that Dr. IL. K. Gregory, of Grcensboro',
was dead. 1t is pleasure to state that the
report was untrue.
ANOTHER BLOCKADE STILL.
Deputv-Collector Jones captured another
-pla 81 Ill
tie Orange and Chatham line. lie also ar
rested three men VINO were AT the still.
Spier d Quinneyby. general merchants Mt
Bells Ferry. haze assigned Tor the beneht
of their creditors.
WHITE PRAYING PARDON
Ex-Cashier Samuel c. White, defend
ant in the White and Cross forgery and
State National Bank cases. Is circulating
petition among the citizens Of Raleigh re-
questing the Governor 10 pardon him. lie
has secured hundreds Of signatures. Io
exhibits afiidayits which state that charles
If. Gross. Cx-Dresident Off the bank, SAID that
OF the forgcrics for which they were con-
vlcted White was entirely innocent; that he
did not commit them and did not know
that they had been committed. White
says he did not use this evidence on the
trial because be did not desire to do Cross
any injury. Cross Is out IN card. IN when
he SAYS Whites statement does me an
Injustice, which / am satisfied was not in
tended by Inn; and while would he the
last man TO throw any impeachment III the
wav of Whites pardon, al tho same time l
do not think | am called upon TO be
silent when the petition for par
don is based upon false state
ments detrimental TO myself While
it IS true that White did not forge any OF
the names to the fraudulent paper found
l. ON. 4 90, | lt.,tsa
stated time and AGAIN., yet he had fuli
knowledge that the bank contained such
paper. also the object for which 1t was
placed therein. This White not only adj
United TO his counsel. hut swOre TO i'll orr
plea in abatement before the Superior
Court of Wake county This publication
will destroy Whites chances, If any, Tor
pardon.
THEY Favor RICHMOND.
The Interest felt IN this State in the final
intcrmept Of Mr.. Dayis's body al Richmond
IS very great and general. The old soldiers
are outsp0kcn in regard TO the matter 1t
! is always Of interest TO know the views Of
HE ladies' on such matters. One and all
thew favor Richmond. While Governor
| Fowlo said in his speech at New. Orleans
that he thought the burial should be IN
that city, doubtless if he gave the subject
attention he would freely admit Rich
Richmond.
INFANTS THROAT CUT.
At Henderson day before Yesterday the
dead body OF an infant WAS found AT n to-
hacco warehouse. Its throat had been cut
il a manner which showed some famlllarl-
tv with SURGERY An investigation IS now
in progress, but no clue has yet been dis
covered
RESIGNED.
Rev. Frederick Skinner, rector of Trinity
church, Edenton, has resigned to take
charge of church at Albany, n. \.
UNLAWFUL DREDGING.
II is said that fifty vessels are now I'M
lawfully engaged in carrying away oysters
from the natural beds in PamlicO sound
and other sounds and rivers near by. In
some places they have taken all the oysters,
and it is said II will require ten years time
to restore the beds TO their condition a
year ago. In Carterct county at twopOints
the people, armed. have ordered the pll-
laoers TO leave. The people are very angry
ut the state of affairs. The oyster-canning
business in the State has been seriously
crippled 10y this plundering of the beds,
which is the work of non-residents.
MISoR MENTION.
The Supreme Court will take a recess
day after tomorrow until after the holl-
days. 1t is the only court in the country
which keeps up with its business. Its
members will during the holiday recess
Tile opinions and close up all its business,
so there will be no delay and no accumula-
ton of cases from term to term.
There is need of a more general effort by
the counties 10 secure funds for the Con-
federate Soldiers Home. Funds do not
come in as rapidly as is desirable. There
ought to be no delay in putting the home
in shape for occupancy.
All work on the Sanders gold-mine, in
Montgomery county. has been stopped,
pending final disposition of the property.
1t is said an English syndicate proposes to
purchase 1t.