Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-02-08
PINE-TAGS, GALORE.
GOVERNOR YowLE OFFERS REWARDS
FOR ESCAPED CRIMINALS.
New County Proposed Burned 70 Death
Railroad nstters-Work OF the Le-
gislature.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch

RALEIGH. y. g., February l. Governor
FOwle to-day offered 4 reward OF Sl0O Tor the
capture OF Chancey Proctor, a white man
and escaped convict from Cleveland county,
whose offence il larceny. He also offered a
reward Of 800 each for the csptuleoi Henry
Brown, an e%x-conyict, and Linyille Ems,
both white men OF Ache county, who broke
| open and robbed store there.
John W. Cotton has not resigned The colo.
nelcy Of the First regiment.
A bill 10 create a new county ont oil paris
Of Halifax aud Martin will next be intro
duced In the Legislature.
4. johnson Il Co, general merchants, OF
| ~Laurpnburg. have assigned to 4. +. Lee.
Two more deaths % negro children by
burning have occurred 10 Halifax county.
A enid OF Mary Ptchiord w,s lett 10 the
house by ITS mother It's clothing caught
fire and u was burned 10 death. A five
/ y%esr.oid son Of MsreDna Hsryey was left IN
the house bY his mother. lie fell into t1c
fire ard was fatally burned.
Application VIII be msde TO the Legisla-
ture for an amendment % the charter % the
Durham and Lynchburg railroad with a
view 10 extending the road from Durham
through Chatham, Moore. aud Barnett cOun-
ties 70 Fayetteville.
4 passenger tram killed Jesse Mclean
lcOl0redl near Red SprIncs. The man was
in the at Of crossing a %trestle. When hall
way across he stopped and looked back,
The engine struck him. INJECTING Injuries
from which be died in three hours.
Tuesdsy y. +. Holiness barn and stables
ut Bluff Mills, Cumberland county. were set
on fire and burned. together with a quantity
Of corn and forage. \ negro who slept
above escaped with bis lie by jumping from
a window.
samuel n. Thompson, an old citizen Of
Chatham county, was accidentally killed
Tuesday. lie was driving a wagon loaded
with logs. In going down a hill the team
ran away. lie was brown under The wagon
and SO badly injured that he died before q
doctor could reach him.
Editor Langd0u, Of the Pittsboro' Record,
has bought the Home. Of the same place,
which viii be consolidated with and merged
INTO The Record.
Among the bills introduced In the Senate
today was a very important one 10 make an
Investigation Of the railway corporations
Who do not pay taxes.
Among the bills passed were the following :
To authorize The state Treasurer % sell 4
per cent. bonds and purchase the constitute
tiou bonds bcld by the United states, as
suggested IN Governor FOwlc's message; 10
charter the Norfolk and Southern railroad
end allow il 10 build a road through Eastern
North Carolina. and to build branch roads
% the length Of fifty miles.
A bin % prevent combinations and trusts
wss made the special order i0f next Tues
dav.
The farmers alliances again flooded the
House to-day with petitions 10 stop free
passes ana the giving away OF the LABOR Of
convicts, and demanding the creation OF q
railway commission.
An extremely important bin was intro
duced. which proposes an amendment 10 the
homestead law. 10 will give the owners Of
home.teads the right 20 waive The right Of
exemption bv written agreement, the wife
joining in The san at the time OF making the
contract, thus avoiding the necessity oi
making . mortgage.
A bin passed 10 allow the Roanoke and
Southern railroad TO complete its line and 20
use conyicts, paying 500 yearly for the
latter.
The school bill passed its final reading.
The House had 4 long aud warm debate
on The resolution introduced by Sir. AIMS
Ntadical member from GranVlle), attacking
the present COUNTY government sysiem. sir.
AIMS wss severely haadled aud the resolu-
ton VS., tabled.
This evening The Joint committee on the
railway commission perfected a bill to create
a COMMISSION. and Tomorrow it will be in-
troduced in both houses aud be- made the
spccia' order. II j. almost ideatically the
same a. the Georgia law. Your c0rre.pond-
ent is assured that lis differences from that
law are 30 triling Is not 10 be worthy Of
EXCITEMENT AT GoLDsBORO'.
There is much excitement at Goldsboro'.
growing out Of q circular OF a very ianail-
cal character issued by negroes who are
wild over a scheme for wholesale emigration
TO Arkansas. The circular has been gotten
up by negroes and scut in all directions. II
calls - meeting Of negroes 40 GOldsborO'
Saturday next a. / O'Clock. to which no
white person will be admitted. II says The
hand OF God Is in this movement, and
that the negroes must 20 TO Arkansas.
which The circular describes as q land u
plenty where men can earn 81 a day. The
negroes are throwing mp their iarm-labof
contracts and deserving the farms. In some
sections not a negro remains. IL i a VerY
matter 10 farmers. The circular has
by ITS outrageous character excited much in
dignatiOn. and very properly, on the part Of
the white people, al whom 70 appears TO be
specially directed. There arc some rumOr
that there NAV be trouble Saturday, due
to the presence &C GOldsboro' Of such a
and. Of course, excited mass OF negroes
from the entire county Of Wavne, but any
thing Of that kind would OF curse be
promptly repressed.
Major Richardson, Of Mississippi. who has
been gathering hands for his immense cot |
ion plantations there, and who is taking
away whole families as laborers, arrived
here last night.