Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-11-16
OLD NORTH STATE.
TIiE FUNERAL OF CHIEF-JUSTiCG
SMITH OF THE SUPREME COURT.
The Paii-Bearers and the honors Paid the
Dead-Generai North Caro-
lima Notes.
rsnnclnl telegram 20 tho p!sps,chl


RALEIGH. n. c.. November l5.--Tho re.
mains Of Chief Justice Smith. who died
YESTERDAY. TO-DAY lay in state In the STU
Treme Court room. This afternoon mem
bers OF che court bar and many distin-
cuishod citizens escorted the remains 10
the First PRESBYTERIAN church. whore the
funeral services were held. conducted by
Rev. Dr. J. : Watkins and Rev. DIR. j. NJ.
Atkinson. The .ntcrnent was at lakewood
cemetery. The pall-beaIers were Governor
Daniel G. Fowlc. ex-Judge Edwin G..
Reade. Pulaski Cowpcr. Thomas {. Fuller.
Burke HAYWOOD. ". G. Stronach, Joseph
b. Bachelor. Thomas $. keenan,, Augustus
NJ. Lewis, Richard III. Battle. J. NJ. Mckee,
and J. H. Burwell. The Judges and cN-
Judges ofthe Supreme and superior courts
and members of tho bar. conducted by
Marshal Bradley. of the supreme Court,
constituted the SPECIAL escort.
Leutenant-Governor Holt was also IN
attendance. All public business WIS sns-
pended TO-DAY, and flags were at hali-mast
and public buildings 'n mourning.
FoyEs.
The foxes in Moore and Richmond conn
ties are gong mad and IN several cases IN
the past few days have entered yards anu
attacked dogs. The foxes thus affected 10y
rabies have been killed by people. In one
case Mr.. Mckinney wac attacked by q ioS
IN the public road ncag Hamlet. and had to
defend himself vigorously. ihe ioX near
~ tore away the legs OF his trousers duflhg
This strange combat.
There are pow 2Oi pupils IN the white
and coloTod departments of the Institution
Tor the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. Ot
these 10 are white and ~ coiored.
James Lynn's cotton-gin. IN tins county,
was burned night before last. the loss be-
ing $500. Thanks to much greater care
there are fewer losses of cotton-eins ana
tobacco-barus this season than ever be-
fore.
The grading Of the railway from Green
willie 10 Kingston II 10 begin December 1T
and becomploted by Iay l-tncNt. The road
vii bc built and operated by the Whining
ton and Weldon railroad.
The Wilmington and Onslow railway will
certainly be completed by the lst of next
June. 100
Ii is learned that Edward 4. Oldham,
late editor Of the Durham q ois. VIII 90 TO
Washington. d. c.. and establish "a news
bureau.
ZION C0LrTGr
The canvasser for Elon College. az Gra-
ham. which is the Institution 10 bo NAM
tain.d hf the Christian Church. hes been
IN Nirriuil raising funds. lie says he has
been very successful. and that work on the
college win uow hc rapidly pushed.
News has been received of several mail
rohb,ras ia Arson county. Registered let
t,r- mul.l 30 Whites store have been
opened. nearly al tbe money ab-tractcd,
aud tl,u ro~D1ioi and forwarded.
The ffit-l.urth annual session Of tho
North Carolina gud Virginia Christian
Church Conference begin, next Iua-dgy 40
HAMS chapel, Chatham county In ,his
,oufarouc, tH"re age - churches and -
min -'.rs Rev. J.. T. hlapp VIII preside
1 @ .f-
nuM address At the last session the Con
erai Convention was asked to divide the
territory embraced in ibis conference.
TOBACCO.
Tho tobccco markets. All appear to bc
dong w,l. Prices are high and are W'H
maintained. It is % noteworthy fact Chat
tho fal i-h market l@ oL far better foot
in tlau M-i year. There is marketed hore
good tobacco from ass far east rs Dupin
county. II is surprising 10 many persons
To- cover what tine grades ~ tobacco
can b, grown and are crown east OF Ia
leigh
f. appear. from The best estimates to this
date that the cotton crop VIII NOT go over
On per cent Any estimates above that are
fancy ouce Il ls claimed that the tobacco
crop i- short. TIE LARGE crop 81 upland
corn. tine best ever gathered, Is the only
bright ioatur. for most farmers. LoWland
corn Was failure.
Tie Greensboro Patriot is 20 make its
appearance again next week with John IS.
Iiu-~cv a~ editor.
The question as 20 whether Methodist
Conference shall hay. State lines n thclr
boundaries - becoming quite heated. Ii rs
claimed that the eastern counties now ia
the bounds of the Virginia Conference
really desire - bee placed IN the North
Carolina Conference. The matter Will be
.t+. D.. nf tor
body.
Tic farmers Will put in large crons Of
small IRA %. mich already planted. II
j. claimed that the destructive chluch-bUgs
are gradual dviug ont.
Another section OF the Winston-WilkoS-
boro' railway VII soon Zoe ready for traffic.
The lgayouipg oi public opinion IN re-
gard o. the great necessity for longer terms
OF the public schools has begun. The Stale
Superintendent Of Public Instruction has
this matter al heart. The white people of
the State, who PAY 70 per cent. OF all the
taxes, are virtually maintaining the whlto
and negro schools. OF course there Is
strong opposition 10y many white persons
10 this payment of taxes for tue mantle
nance OF nero schools. They contend
that each race should maintain its own
schools. But there IS large class which
fayOTs an increase of taxation and deems
the present short terms and small school
appropriations as wholly unsatisfactory.
Thirty couvcts were sent yesterday to
Halifax county 10 improve the extensive
farms which the pemtcnuarv has leased
there
Rev Dr. Diaz. Of Cuba. was here yestcr-
day on his WAY 10 the Baptist State Con
yontion at Henderson.
The reconstruction Of the Pee-Dee river
cottOD-mills Is completed and work will be
resumed next Monday.
The cloud-hurst IN August swept away
the dams and undermined a part of one OF
the largest mills.
HEANCIENT CAPITOL.
The town of Fayetteville was the capital
Of the State IN 1889. The convention met
in the capitol, which stood on the spot
now occupied by the market. Of the capi-
toll only one stone remains and this is IN
the floor of the maTkct-house. A hundred
yards away Is a stone which was the door
step Of the house of the famous Flora Nc
Donald.
Ii is not generally known that the hus-
band Of tins historic woman was o British.
or, rather. Tory officer. aud that he Was
captured and kept for many wears lsevcn,
perhaps) IN Halifax Jail. His wife re-
turned 10 Scotland. and while there rc-
ceiyed letters from him written from this
Jail.
Fayetteville. which is to be the centre Of
attraction next week 10y reason of the Con-
stitutiOnal Centennial celebration. is the
quaintest place in the State. "Curftw " Is
yet RUG there, Just as It has been unin-
terruptedly for more than a century. At
o'clock every night the old bell gives the
signal to cover fire. Before the recon-
struc'iOn era the slaves had 10 be indoors
by that hour OF else answer TO the patrol.
NORTH CAROLINA GOLD-FEVER.