Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-24
OLD NORTH STATE.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED HERE AND
THERE AT RALEIGH.
Movements of the Govcrnor--A ncged
Criminals Brought Back-fncendiary
rircs-pcrsopaI Matters.
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Stanley county has voted on the pro-
posit,on to subscribe 100000 to the
capital stock OF the Yadkin railroad
from Salisbury TO Norwood. The sub
scIiption was carried 10y majority OF
200. The prospect for the early build
ing Of the road is good.
Miss Helen Fowle, daughter OF Gov
ernor Fowlc. returned to-day from
European tour. The Governor will leave
tomorrow afternoon for the Hot Springs,
n. c., 30 spend a week. .,
In Beaufort county, Pantogo Mlils
owned 10y the Roper Company, have
been DESTROYED by fire. II is supposed
10 have been the work Of m incendlary.
The loss Is 81. 800.
Major John Hughes, of Nowberle IS
Frustrated by partial paralysis at beau
fort
BROUGHT BACK.
Information was received at tho Execu-
tive Office today that David and Mary
Ballou, charged with child-murder' had
been brought 10 Asheville from Chatta-
nooga. Tenn. They are charged with
burning 70 death Ira Bailou, their adopt
ed child. In 1881, and cOnceallng the re-
mains under the hearthstOne.
The Governor to-day pardoned David
Johnson. OF Beaufort county, out OF the
pcnitentiary. He was convicted OF h0Wl-
eide. The pardon was granted on the
recommendation Of the Judge and so
Lc,tor and by reason Of q statement from
Ex-Governor Scales and the extreme Ill
ness Of the prisoner VIE. 49,,
A. b. Deans residence ut Wilson was
partially burned last night.
DIR. Ward. assistant physician at the
Norcanton Insane Asylum, arrived here
fbis afternoon to take that position at the
Raleigh asylum until the board elects q
second assistant.
AT Senator Vancc's home, in Bun
combe county, tho survivors OF ms Old
company had q reunion day before yes
terlay. Twenty-Five Of the veterans at
tended.
Bethel Academy, Haywood county,
las been burned 10y incondiaries. Loss,
$1,000. which falls on the Methodist
Episcopal Church. The academy will
he rebuilt.
VETERANS AND OTHER SOLDIERS.
On tho 27th instant n special train
from Chester. :. c., will pass here with
cx-Coniederate veterans on their way to
Petersburg, Va.
The Fayetteville Independent Light
Infantry to-day celebrated ITS ninety
sixth anniversary. 1t is one OF the
oldest companies in the country. This
evening its members, active and ho1o-
rarv. had the annual supper ct the Hotel
Lafayette.
DR.. Grissom will, it is said, make
Raleigh his home He has secured Il
house here. There are reports that he
has congressional aspirations
The reyiyals in RObesen county are
numerous and phenomenal in results.
In six or seven weeks there have been
1900 conversions There IS no abate-
ment in the fcryOr.
HEALTH or THE ROANOKE.
There are fears on the part of many
peOple that tho excessive oveTfows of
fhe Roanoke river will cause sickness.
But well-informed and venerable resi-
dent on that river says that there IS bet
ter health after these great freshets than
during summers when there are none.
The reason he gives for this Is that upon
the subsistence OF the stream there is left
a thick deposit of sediment, which covers
the decaying vegetable matter and pre-
vents the suns rays from reaching 1t.
afR. DAVIS LOOKED FOR.
Congressman Wharton J. Green,
of Fayetteville, will pay ex-President
Davis a visit at Bcauvoir. He will urge
Mr.. Davis to on no account fail to visit
the centennial celebration at Fayette-
Vile next month. There IL every assn
rance that he will be present.
This celebration will be on very ex-
tensive scale and very great public IN
terest will be aroused IN regard to 1t.
Ex-Confederates IN great numbers will
attend, and there will be a handsome
representation of the State Guard.
NOTORIOUS WHITE MAN
named Mozingo is in Jail at Fayetteville,
charged with burning the Cape Fear
River Transportation Company ware
houses at that place.
II. 4. Hartstield, the young man who
was arrested at AshcvIlie some days ago
for passing counterfeit silver dollars. is
from this county. An attorney OF this
city said to-day that Bartstield had been
engaged in that business here some years
ago, and was tried.
II is stated that the State Tobacco AS
sociations convention. which meets nj
Greensboro next Tuesday, will not only
lie well attended, hut be of unusual IN
terest.
BEARS IN ABUNDANCE.
Bears are remarkably abundant in the
eastern counties, particularly IN Pamllco,
where they are doing considerable
amount of damage to the growing corn
Many ARE killed. There Is no doubt that
bears have greatly increased III numbers
In TINT section III the past twenty-five
years. They destroy many cattle every
year.
The burglars continue their work al
Wilmington. Many OF the burglarles
and attempts at burglary show not only
daring bat skill.
The nee crop on the lower Cape Fear
is exceedingly good and shows marked
improvement
THE STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
There will be a long list of names oil
persons suggested for the presidency Of
the State agricultural and Mechanical
College, from which the trustees are tc
select a man well qualified to i'll 50 try
ing position.
j. T. Webb, Of Hickory. is seriously
injured 10y fall from church-splrc a
the town of Maiden.
Active work on the water-worGs q
Goldsboro' begins on the LIST OF Sep
TENDER, and the pipe Will all be laid 10y
the end Of the year, the contractors say
JUDGE AGAINST CIGARETTES.
Judge Bynum. OF The Superior Court
is speaking very earnestly against tn
cigarette IN his charges to the CRANE
juries. In charge at kins.on he sal,
there are more men IN the penitentiar.
in consequence Of the sale Of cigarette
than from liquor-driuking, he argue
that boys OF from seven to fourteen
fy,.,,, tla ..,vavat4o H.h,f o,,l tIa do