Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-24
OLD NORTH STATE.
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE AND THE
BRIGHT TosA, eco COMBINE.
The Cnsc OF Barnes--Shs y ana H'''ed HIM.
scir-Iiiicit DistiIla ~ Seized
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g.,r,ou n C.. December 23.--The an
,n,rcc,nen. Of The untimely death Of
Henry ". Grady was received in this city
with deep regret That will be the senti-
nent of all North Carolinians. Editor
daniels. OF the SsI'e Chronicle. to-day sent
Mrs' GRADY the following telegram: !" The
people Of North Carolina mourn with You
The death of Mr.. Grady. They feel that the
South has lost its greatest leader" Mr..
GRADY had been invited to attend ban,
Duet hero TO be given in his honor and had
accepted.
THE TOBACCO COMBINE.
Tho Farmers Alliance Convention. com
posed Of representatives from the b7ght;
tobacco counties, Is 10 meet At OXFORD
Januarv 9th. The Farmers Alliance organ.
the Prone ssipe Turner. Will say IN Its issue
at is generally understood among the
tohacco-crowers of the State that the
cigarette manufacturers have combined
and have arranged for controlling the price
O! the particular class of tobacco used by
them in the manufacture OF their cigar
cites. Ii is charged that they have par
colled ont those markets among them,
selves in which tho particular and deslred
oualitv Of tobacco is sold. and VIII NOT
esnd their buyers or agents 10 any Market
TO compete with each other. This and
other grievances will be looked after IN
the meeting OF the tobacco growing conn
ties which is 10 bo held at oxford:
Let every county in the tobacco belt
fake immediate action 10 be well repre-
rented in that meeting and lot every true
Alliance man throughout the state and the
country stand 10y our brethren III thor e.
fort to maintain their Just rights. The To-
bncco men stood lovally by the cotton men
IN their fight with the infamous Jute trnst;
now LEI the cotton men stand manfullY ana
faithfully by our good brethren IN the TO-
bacco belt The cause Of our state Is the
cause of all the States The cause Of ono
mans the cause Of all the men IN our order.
and let our enemies and the world so un-
derstand t. Lot there be a TOusinS meet
ing at oxford on the 9th.
The Alliance organ also strikes key
note in making q demand for a railway
commission. II SAYS the last Legislature
ignored the petition Of 10000 voters and
tax pavers and that no more demands
will be made upon the Legislature the
time and place q making demands will he
in the primaries and nominating conycn-
tons. and at the ballot-boXes. The An
ance will. 10 that extent, take a hand IN
politics in the next campaign.
,BARNEs.
II turns out that Frank Barnes, the
young man who was arrested mt Kchmond,
and who escaped by jumping from a fast
train. was wanted 81 Rocky Mount Tor
shooting J. ID. Armstrong last spring. Tho
bullet broke Armstrong; arm,
The Farmers Alliance viii build large
tobacco warehouse at Rocky Mount.
There viii be five executions Of criml-
mails ia the State next month.
There have been only five lynchings in
the state tins year. This IS a smaller num-
Der than since 1850.
A second crop Of green peas has made
its appearance in tho eastern counties
The spriug-like weather continues without
intermlsslOn.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
David Young, farmer Of Johnston
county. accidently shot and killed himself
while rabbit-huntiug Sunday morning. lie
had shot rabbit and was examining 1t
when his gun. which was 10y his side. cX-
ploded. and the load Of shot nearly blow
OF his head.
An observant gentleman remarked TO
your correspondent to-day that the mort
gage system was doomed; that the people
would rise uD against It. The movement
is even now beginning. There Is great
social unrest.
The steam tug Stctson. owned bv tho
Atlas Dredging Company was sunk Satur-
day in an unaccouutahle way in The Cape
Fear river. fourteen miles below Whining
ton. The tug WAS all right the previous
night, but in the morning 1t was suddenly
discovered that water was pouring II. HE
crew had barely time TO escape.
BY the LIST Of February trains will be
running on the Cane Fear and Yadkin-
Valley railway from Wilmington to Mt.
Airy.
DisTuIFEIYs sTIzTD.
Revenue officers on Friday seized two
illicit distillcries in Person county. owned
and operated by Jasper BOwln aud Henry
Bowlin. No arrests were made.
Some capitalists in Maine have inst pur-
chased 1900 acres Of land in Rutherford
county, and their intention Is to establish
d colony there.
There were S5G negroes on the special
emigrant train which passed here Saturday
on the way TO the far South.
All the matters III regard 20 the electric
street railway at Mlnston-Salcm are set
tied, and by the lst of next November four
miles of track are to ho IN operation. The
company viii also own and operate the
electric-light works. $4,000 having been
ua,d for the franchise of the latter.
A few days ago Martin Evans. a foreman
of the construction force on the Atlantic
and Danyille railway. was killed by blast
in Caswell county. 4 stone was thrown $50
yards and struck him on the breast, causing
instant death.
Three prisoners escaped from Jail at
WhNntSNllle SdtuiudN hlrut. lI'N bibhe
through the wall and let themselves down
by means of blankets.
IL il learned TO-DAY that the exodus will
assume far larger proportions after the
holidays. Negroes are crowdlng around
small railway stations waiting Tor labor
agents TO take them away.
The Baptist Tabernacle of this city yes
terdav extended unanimous call to Rev.
j. j. Hall, of South Mills, Camden county,
az its pastor. lie il graduate of Spur
geons College in England, and has been
In America fourteen years. He was at one
time president of the Baptist College IN
Minnesota.
sENTTNCE COMMITTED.
Governor Fowle to-day cOmmuted 10 life
Imprisonment the death sentence of Bill
Alexander. the negro who last October was
convicted Of burglary at Charlotte and
sentenced 10 be hanged December 9Th. He
was then repricved until January 81. The
Governor made the following endorsement
upon the papers: This man Is not from
the facts the bold burglar who would take
life II necessary to his escape whom tho
law means 10 punish with death. lie Is a
sneak thief in the night time. and upon
the petition of some of the very best cltl-
2ens of Charlotte | commute his sentence
20 life Imprisonment in the penltentlary at
hard labor This noted case will probably
lead 10 such change of the law rs Will de-
tignate degrees OF burglary.