Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-11-10
FRESH PINE-TAGS.
A GATHERING OF HAPPENINGS IN
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
what Raleigh Has to Report In the Way
of News Notes-Personais
and Briefs.
Especial telegram to the DIspatch.l

| this district, lnlOfIns your VI e 81
! Tonight that no cases of violation OF the
election laws at the last election have Deen
officially brought to his attention,
| The Executive Committee or the Con-
! federate Veterans State Association met
here to-day and appointed VI: y. sheriff.
of Newton. Catawba county, State canvass
or for the Soldiers Home. H..
News received late tonight is that
marty of negroes went to the house OF Mrs.
| Brown and took her and her little grand
son from their beds. carried them into the
ward of the house. and there shot them;
| The bodies were then dragged to smalI
stream o hundred yards away, where they
were found. 1t IL also ascertalned that
Mrs. Brown was an important WIVES
| sion county next week for the capital
crime of burglary. and it IS now unqer-
| stood that the murder was committed "
get her out of the way. :,
IL is learned that President HARRISON IN
tends visiting Wilmington in company WIN
Secretary Window es guests OF some plon,-
| inent Republicans, and will go on hunt-
fichtv negro exodusters left Kinston
Yesterday for Mississippi.
| s. #. Ushers turpentine distlllery, IN
| Montgomery county, was burned nlght De-
fore last. .,. -
A delegation of colored citizens from
Clayton, led by q colored lawyer OF Ia;
leigh has called on Governor ROWE anu
stated they wanted tho aid OF Executive
power in bringing TO justice the parties
who killed negro in Clayton week ago
The canital stock Of the Exchange Bank
of Mt. Airv being insufficient TO make IL
paw, the stockholders have decided 10 close
| it and have it placed in receivers Names.
| All depositors and other creditors VIII oe
paid in full rs soon as the iunds uue 'ne
| 10 oil a1
At Sanford last night J. d. Monger's no.
tel caught FIRE from store IN whlch o
| kerosene-lamp bad exploded. HARD work
| bv citizens saved the building, with loss
of about $1,000.
r.. w. Brooks. Of RoxbOro', went 70 Hen
dersOn to-day to sell tobacco, ana WINE
there had hemorrhage of the bowels. bis
| condition IS critical.
Asheyille will have the free-deliyery sys-
! TEN January 1st next.
| DIR. Mallett, of Morehead City, died
| Thursday, after brief illness.
The attendance ct the Young Mems Chris
tian Association district convention, now
| in session 1T Durham. IL quite good. Inc
| University. as well as Trinity ana "aAe
Forest colleges, are represented.
| Mr. Francis Winslow IL meeting with de-
cided euccess IA his oyster planting, and
has contrived to do a surprising amount
of work in that line.
The revenue ruling requiring three GAL
Ions of whiskey to be the product OF
bushel Of corn creates unlimited 1lscon-
tent among the hundreds of dlstlllers IN
the mountains. whose primitive apparatus
and crude system do not permit them TO
get good yield.
Evangelist Bill Fife has closed very
successful revival ut the town of Washing
ton. He made $50 conversions and re-
claimed about as many backsllders.
| lo,r Q n0TlflpG
| Of HYDE county are making no efforts to
stop the rObberies of the oyster-beds. The
pirates are said to be az work there. The
| next Legislature will no doubt enact law
Giving the Governor full authority to regu-
late this matter. The counties evidently
cannot handle.
EIGHT RAGoRs.
It Is said that eight razors were found on
the person of c. j. Garrett, the man who
made such desperate attempt at suicide
on a train THURSDAY
The Virginia negroes are now alleging
! that they were not allowed to yote-that
is. their names could not be found on the
registratiOn-bO books, and that by tnls l,lo0
Of their votes were not cast in Norfolk and
orls.lOuth. They cay tho white Repub-
icans have deserted them and they believe
that Blaine put underground influences ut
worl, 10 defeat Malone. They say iur-
|
thew think il time TO quit politics.
When the election under General Can
bv's orders was held at Fayetteville IN
1853 two complete sets of boxes tor ballots
were proyded-one set on each Oh TWO
sides of the maTket-house, the whites
using one set, the negroes the otner. ms
custom has ever since been kept up, ana
thus each race votes separately. The plan
is found TO work well.
COTTON.
This years experience shows that cotton
is no longer the proper crop for North
Carolina 1t will lead TO diversified ton OF
crOus. Bitter though tho experience IS. and
oreat as is the financial distress in what
Is termed the "cotton belt" yet If the les
son is needed it will be cheap one. 1t
may be said that 1889 is an unfortunate
wear in half the counties in North Carolina.
Nowhere are farmers hurt who planted
various crops. Cotton has for. ten or
twelve wears been curse to half the
farmers who have made it their crop Of
crops.
ton in the autumn Of 1891 appears TO be
popular
GRAY TROUT.
Two hundred thousand gray trout have
been caught in deep water near Beaufort
with hook and line in two weeks. The
| scenes there are anu
travellers of those en- the banks of New
foundland The boats are out day and
night and hundreds of them have gathered
there, some from distant points. Every
body fshes-rich and poor, high and low.
white and black. The average weight Of
the fish is three pounds, and the water
where they arc caught Is some sixty feet
deep. The fishing, so unprecedented, has
practically become the sole employment as
well as amusement, and these are flush
times" at both Morehead City and Beau
fort Money Is more abundant than at any
time since 1860.
The people of Louisburg have voted in
favor of an issue of bonds to pay tor the
| building of town hall.
q NOTES.
There was a strange accident in Arson
county day before yesterday. A negro
woman climbed hlckory-tree in order to
knock off the nuts, but fell and broke her
breast-bone. Her injuries are considered
fatal. d,
Work on the railway from Salisbury to
Norwood. Stanly county, has begun.
The citizens of WadesbOro' are stirred
ND by the gross violations of the local
option law by people who operate dlstllle-
RES and who drive 10 the town limits loads
Of whiskey. Two arrests OF sellers, have
been made, one of a twclve-year-old boy,
Tramps are reported TO be very numerous
at Reidsyllle. They are moving south
ward.
The labor agents are arranging for the
exodus OF quite number of white people
from Johnston county.
The COloredP Presbyterian Synod OF North
. Carolina Is in session at Statesyille.
Much interest is shown thus far in adj
vance in the trial in January of the Lex
ington lynchers. Mir. Andrew Berrier.
father of Robert Berrier. the Young MUIR
derer who was lynchod. is the man who
went to Statesville and there swore ont
before the clerk OF the court warrants
against thirty-two Of the iynchers. He will
also spend money in pressing the case, an d
IS said TO be well-t0-do. The trial will be a
decided novelty. it being the first time a
mob has been called TO account for its
deeds.
Feeling is yet intense at Marion in re.
gard to the verdict of the jury aequitting
Edward Brown OF the murder of Colonel
} Page. Both sides are stirred up. Brown
/ has money and friends. but there Is strong
sentiment against him which does not
: abate.