Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-05-10
PINE-TAGS.
PlNE-TAGS.
ABuregroF NEWS NOTES FROM NORTH
CAROLINA.
An Assignmont-Au unsuecsSsfui Raid OF
Revenue offoers-Personal Items
and Briefs.
rsreelsl telegram to tho pIspasch.l

to-day for The bcneft 81 creditors u y. NJ.
BrouChton. Their liabilities are said 10 he
$4,000; ssscts S2.100.
The psrty 81 revenue officers which made
AFRAID lsst night into Johnston county after
Sugg, the man who shot Deputv- Collector
Bouldin, returned to-day. Thct pursuit
was unsuccessful. Sugg's friends hsd re-
moved him, though lie il wounded.
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
In IN Interview with one Of the chief ofi-
GERS OF the Farmers Alliance to-day IL was
learned that the delegates from North Caro-
lima 10 the meeting Of TIC National Alliance
Will favor the use Of cotton IS a material Tor
hacgiar. and 10 is then belief Il will Ger.
isiny be adopted. They state that pine
straw lseeiug will stain the cotton. II is
their belief that good grade OF bageing
made from cotton can be furnished For nine
cents, and perhaps less.
q. o. Noilers. general merchant az Lau-
rinburg. hiss assigned TO Il. /. Lee Tor the
benefit OF his creditors. Assets aud habiii-
ties not stated.
There Is new departure 10 the war which
people In Rockingham county hsye begun
against the payment o. the tax on fertilizers.
one Of the farmers alliances IN that county
hoscotted a Grm which was popularity be-
lieved % have furnished the Department OF
Agriculture with information which led To
the seizure ~ fertilizers upon when The
licensc-tax had not been paid. There are
fweniy.siX hrapds OF fertilizers made In
Baltimore which are licensed, and 1t was
Baltimore firm which gave the department
the Information referred TO.
STATE BOAgD or AGRiCCLTuRC.
The STATE Eoard Of Agriculture resumed
its session this morning. Several members
expressed their recret at the resignation OF
John 4. Patrick as Commissioner OF lmml-
grafton. lie becomes General Commissioner
Of Immigration 1.-THE southern states, and will
have important work 10 connection Win the
Permanent Southern Exposition, which Will
be held ~ some point IN the North next su-
tumn. This evening the board reelected
John Robinson COnmis sioner OF Agricul-
iure; Peter VI. wilson. immigration Agent
Herbert T.. Battle, Director Of toe state EX~
pertinent Station. and Thomas il. Bruner
Secretary Of the Department Of Agriculture.
The Board oi Trustees Of the state Agri-
Asys.urAi and Mechanical College met to-day
and elected William :. Pumresc AS its chair
nan for the next two years. The college
was found 10 be in an excellent state o. pro-
Cres-. aud the way is clear for IFS Opening
IN september. Election Of president and
faculty was arranged 10 be held at meeting
next month. The following proiessorships
were created: Agriculture. horticulture
Srboricuiure and botany, chemistry, prSct-
cal mechanics and mathematics. and Eng
Hsh. IL was decided 10 have no military
feature at the college.
Noel Eltman. who was on trial for the
murder Of Jahn Bottoms. IN Nash county,
has been acquitted Of the crime.
). p. Peterson has been reelected mayor
Of Goldsboro', with j. r. Hurst as chief OF
police.
Rev. b. {. Bronson's resignation as rector
OF 81. T.mOtby's Protestant Episcopal
church at Wilson has been accepted.
The first inStslment 81 subscriptions TO the
Confederate Soldiers Home has been limited
20 $4,000. The main difficulty will be in
raising the first 10000 OF that amount.
The engineers engaged IN the survey OF the
BurClw and Opsiow railway are making
good progress. The Wilmington section is
becoming quite n centre OF railway activity,
and this is n particularly favorable sign.
Very slow progress ia made in forming
state league OF bSse. bali clubs. The season
Is now advanced aud nothing bas been done
save 70 tall about the matter. Raleigh, Will
niugtou, NeWbeue. GodsbOro', Durham,
Greensboro. Fayetteville, and Charlotte
could easily form such a league and con-
tribute a GREAT deal towards making the sum-
mer enjoyable.
one Oh tDt btSt-inloIfDeV pUnlc Nltu III tue
state remarked to-day that he had been look
Ing into the mortgage system aud sees dan
ger ahead for North Carolina. In some
western States 50 per cent. OF the land Is
mor.gaved, and the farmers occupy pretty
much the position OF tenants on irish estates.
~ those states there are at all sorts Of places
wbat are known rs loan agencies. These DO
the WORT. Capitalists work these and by
and-Dv get an the resi- estate, while mean
time they suck the very likelihood OF the
state. T1is lolr-9gency business has now
been started IA South Carolina, after IT has
been worked out 10 the eastern and western
agricultural sections. The crop-lien system
in North Caroliuais bad. but 10 is not so bad
n this system Of mortgages on real estate,
which finishes matters and brings absolute
ruin
Governor Fowlc las been invited to at
tend tie exercises o; Bingham school on the
I7th instant. and will probably attend. He
viii be rendered a review 10y the cadet bat
TALON, while the battery will fire salute in
bis honor.