Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-12
ANOTHER VANDERBILT PURCHASE.
The state Board OF observation-disclosures
e-Caps-Generai News.

Especial telegram to the Dispatchi
RALEIGH. n. g.. October 1l.-George
VI. Vanderbilt has purchased more land
near Asheville and has paid SlO, 100 Tor
tract near Asheyillo Junction and
has taken the option on another tract Tor
S22. 600. Up TO date his investments in
Bumcombc-county lands aggregate three
quarters of a million dollars.
The state Board Of Education has held
nm irnDortant meeting and accepted pro-
position from W. 7. Caho, of Pamlico
county. 70 act "a its agent III the sale Of the
swamp lands in the eastern ana northern
sections of the State. There are about q
million acres Of these lands. The agent
proposes TO sell them 10 northern syndi-
cate. He is to receive 10 per cent. com
mission on his sales. II IL probable that ne
viii in a very short time make large sales
as negotions are now IN progress. recent
! " the State was offered l2H cents per acre
| for these lands.
Interest in the marriage next Tuesday NJ
the State Fair OF William Bateman and
| Miss Josephine Knowles Is very great:
| Presents are pouring IN from all parts OF
| tho State. Rev. j. j. Scott, chaplain OF The
| Stote Farmers Alliance. writes to-day that
! he will be here and Will perform the mar
riape ceremony. 1t will take place at noon
| at the grand-Stand.
| II is learned to-day that the baby which
! vas taken by Robert Bcrricr from hls mo-
thcr-in-aw. Mrs. Herbert Walser, IN Da-
! wilson county. has been found, though
/ Rerrier is vet nj large. Ii will be remem-
| bered that he killed Mrs. Walzser because
| she declined 10 surrender the baby.
The Catholics are putting the finishing
| touches on q handsome church edlnce at
| Goldsboro' II will probably be dedicated
next month.
Evangelist Pearson will begin n revival
meeting in TIbOrC' next week
The frosts in the southern section OF the
! State this week are the heaviest seen there
! in thus season OF the year. Young cotton
| i'm low niaces has been almost entirely
| mined II is estimated that frost has dam
| agod Arson county many thousand dollars
and an already short crop NiI be made
much shorter.
Rev. r. VI Taylor, q well-knOw Metho-
! 1isf preacher in Caldwell county, has been
! Transferred from the North Carolina Con-
/ ference 10 St. james Conference, and VIII
| leave AZ once.
II IS stated that some of .fhe Cher0kces
who hold lands in the western part OF the
State in foe simple are willing 20 receive
| and adopt Geronimo and his Apaches, who
are now located IN Alabama, granting thCm
| al the rights and privileges which the
| CbCr0kCes now have.
large surveying party will arrive at
/ Aehevillo next week 10 begin the survey
| Of the Atlantic, Ashoyille, and Baltimore
road-survevs. They will first be made to
| the Virginia line and then to the South
| Carolina line.
John Roberto has been beaten 10y White
! CAPS in Rockingham county. II j. said he
was drunk The White Caps clipped ins
hair. BACKED his face, and then whipped
/ HIM.
A. c. Nicholas Il Co.. proprietors Of 2
general store at WaGesboro', have assigned
to J. ". Mills. Assets, $500 liabilities
| $500
Rev. Dr.. james Atkins, Jr., Of Asheville;
will accept the presidency Of Emory aud
1 Henry College, Virginia. which IS TO be
| rendered him next Tuesday.
! At Chapel Hill yesterday Andrew Jones
| cqrclessly pointed pistol ut Walter Lloyd.
II was discharged. and the bullet struck
| the latter la he face. The injury le very
serious Both men are well-known clu-
| Zeus.
II ia stated that in the yard Of the resi-
| dence of Or. W. 5. Anderson, III wilson
county, rain began 10 fall on the morning
Of the 5th instant, and has continued to
| fall ever since without intermisslon.