Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-21

grlef ana III ~ IeaI'u HE IhihN w. y
wav under the strain. He had several
spasms last evening and had 10 be waiteu
on by two physicians.
THOROUGH CANVASS.
A committee is making thorough can
vass OF the city on Wilmington for sub
scriptions To the Davis fund" and a very
good beginning has been made.
The cotton-gin of j. NJ. Williams. IN
Moore county. wGs burned q few nights
past. causing quite heavy loss, with no
insurance.
The negroes are NJ last beginning 10 cry
out against those of their race who are OK,
odus agents, and who get so much a head
for people they furnish who arc wiling 10
90 TO the far South. She negroes AZ n race
have no sympathy for their own people.
The lack of this sort of human kindness
NAV be broadly termed race characters
tic The exodus movement has moro
clearly than ever demonstrated that TACT.
II is said TINT one labor-agent has made
$40 600 out Of the exodus. He gets 50
each for the able-bodied hands delivered
at a town near the plantations. 1t is
claimed that he pays the negro sub-agents
81 head for negroes delivered at railway
stations in this State.
II Is thouGht that the Supreme Court
NAV tomorrow file a decision in the Boyle
case.
Mr.. Henry T.. Fries, Of Salem, who is one
of the trustees of the State Agricultural
and Mechanical College, has made the first
contribution towards a fund to be used IN
aiding poor and worthy students in secu-
ring an education at that institution. 1t is
to be lent upon notes given by the bene-
ticiaries, and # repayment IS made within
two years no interest viii be charged
Some of the private schools IN the eastern
q QppHnnf nt tnA
short crops. &C.. until next autumn.
A factory which viii turn out shuttle
blocks and bobbins is to be at once estab-
lishod near Kinston.
Rev. AIpheus McCullcn viii leave the
Methodist church at Reidsville 10 take
charge of church at Hannibal. Mo.
Two negroes, Ward McCalap and Joseph
Sloan. ouarrelled at Clinton a day or 50
ago. and the latter with stick of wood,
crushed McCalap's skull, intllctlnS fatal
wound. Sloan has escaped.
Two negro convlcts made their escape
from the Cape Fear and Iadkln-Nalloy
railway, in Sampson county. a few nights
past.
There is now at Wilmington the largest
cotton ship ever there, whose cargo VIII
DC 5000 bales.
~ BLOOM.
The fruit trees are in bloom in several
sections Of the State: Along the coast the
roses are putting out fresh leaves. They
have not. in some places, ceased 70 bloom
since last April. The temperature is just
that OF summer.
Examiner Staub. Of the Department of
Justice, is here, looking into the manage
ment Of the Federal Court clerks and
United States commissioners Offices.
Mrs. Catherine Ferguson died ut tayette-
Vile n few days ago. She vas relative
of the famous Flora Mcdonald, and WAS
eighty years old
The buckvheat crop in Watauga. usually
very productive county. IS short this
season. The other crops were good:
The sowing Of whcat goes on: II can
safely be said that the breadth Of fall and
winter-sown wheat and oats Is larger than
ever before. Where the wheat and oats
are up there Is good stand, and the plants
look well.
The courthouse of Moore county. at
Carthage, work on which goes on rapidly.
will be handsome structure.
STRANGE ACCIDENT.
A very strange and fatal accident oc-
Cured q day or so ago near Gibson. Rich
mond county. The children OF Mr.. sam
uel Huggins had made holes in "a large pile
of soed-cotton. 4 fve-vcar-Oid boy went
N '
that he could not get ont. lie was not no.
ticed for some time. He was found by his
parents dead from suiiOcatiOn.
The boilers of the GOldsbOrO' water
works are being put up at Neuse riYcr,
where the pumpng-statlon Will be- located.
The Silver CITY Chatham county A0cs
will suspend publication after this weeks
issue.
To-day sixty more convicts Will be sent
. 10.
on the Roanoke river. which the directors
Of the pcnitentiary nave leased Tor term
of wears.
The canal at weldon is to RI opened at
once 50 as to furnish 500-horse power.
Large grist-mills are to be built at that
point with Il capacity Of 1900 bushels
daily. Phe company cannot secure lands
it desires. otherwise 1t would furnish 1900
horsepower
NEW DEPARTURE.
The colored farmers alliances Of Halifax
county propose a new departure. they
have resolved to provide TOR the establish
ment of an independent school system to
be conducted under their auspices. They
will hardly carry out their idea to any de-
gree. The white people OF the state arc
now educating the negroes, and VIII, OF
course, continue 10 do 50 as long as they
pay 95c on each 81 of taxes.
A party of revenue raiders day before
yesterday captured an Illicit distlllery III
operation near Hillsboro'.
NoENDIARIEs.
Incendiares few nights ago IN Nc
Dowell county set fire to the sore of o
man named Barnes. Ii was near his dwell
ing While Barnes and his wife were at
the store trying TO save some of Their pro-
perty the incendiares set fire TO the dwell
ing. Both buildings We're burned and Mr..
Barnes. who il Old and feeble, Is left en-
tirely destitute. An attempt had preyi-
ously been made to burn the store.
In Burke county in the past thirty DAYS
three little children have been burned to
death in houses where they had been left
alone. The last victim Is a three-year-old
son of Mr.. Clontz.
A BOLD EscArE.
In Caldwell county q deputy collector
and two deputy marshals went into wild
and rugged country known rs the Per-
simmOn Woods" IN search OF notorious
moonshiner named Kelley Sudderth. lie
was captured while at work at his stlll by
moonlight. lie was handcuiied, and the
party siartod. Sudlerth asked leave TO 90
home and see his wife The two deputy
marshals went with him and removed his
handouts. Mrs. Suddorth met them and
walked Just III rear Oi utI uuSUdilu alVhH
the mountain path. which led along the
edge OF an almost Perpendicular height.
Suddenly Sudderth, Ike flash, sprang
over the edge, and at the same instant
Mrs. Sudderth. powerful, broad-shoul-
dered woman. sprang like tlgress at one
deputy and pinned him TO the ground:
The other fred at Sudderth as that bold
moonshiner disappeared, but to no pur-
pose, for Sudderth yelled back an invita-
ton to all revenue officers TO go TO HI"
Mrs. Sudderth coolly told the deputies
good-by, and LETT.
NOTES.
A moonshiner who is in jail at States
vile has written an open letter IN which
he charges that the men who run Govern
ment distilleries make more " blockade"
whiskey than do all the Illicit manufac-
turers.
The negroes will at few points in the
State celebrate emancipation "-day. As
q rule they take no interest in IT.
The people in the western counties made
a great deal of fruit brandy expecting to
ship II South in kegs; but the revenue
people have stepped in and seized all such
packages upon the presumption that the
tax is not paid. The brandy-makers are