Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-31
AMONG THE PINES.
NEWS NOTES COLLECTED At
RALEIGH, n. C.
A Sailor Drowod-Two Children Burned
20 Dcath--A singular Murder
Minor Mention.
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R.rr,cu. N. c.. January 90.--Ycsterday
Peter johnson. sailor work on the hull
of the British bark kamehamha, fell into
tbe river and was drowned. A British
so,lor made an effort to get boat and go
10 tho mans relief, but no sank out OF
sight. w.,s
will he opened tomorrow and in fort
night work is TO begin.
Rev. r. G. Pearson, the noted evangelist,
is reported very sick:
The prisoners IN jail at HENDERSON are
reported TO be in instruction. They defy
the taller and the latter finds Unnecessary 10
summon helm IN order to put the prisoners
in the cells.' Tho prisoners declare they
intend to break out of jail.
Tho General Assembly OF the knights of
Labor of North Carolina is in session at
Tarboro'. There are fifty delegates in at
tendance representing forty-fve counties.
BURNED ALIVE.
Yesterday house in Edgecombe county
WAC consumed by fire and two colored
children were burned alive--one three
wears old and the other an infant. The
children had been left alone IN the house
by their mother. who had gone of to work.
II is now alleged that not over loo ne
five hundred have left Kinston, but the
other 500 came from adjoining counties.
IL is said there is enough labor lett TO sup
ply all demands. ,.,.
To show how desperate is the condition
of the Republican party in this State II IS
stated that in Greene county, one OF IT'S
strongholds. it will put no ticket III the
field this year.
MURDER.
News was received to-day of a murder in
Onslow county precisely similar TO tnat OF
last week. The victim is O man named
Winsberry, who was engaged in growing
oysters and owned number OF OYSTER
gardens. He had gone to look after his
paintings and was spending few
DAYS. Last Sunday night he started
on visit TO the house OF a
lady acquaintance. Hewas standing on the
threshold ready to enter when some one
near by fired at him and put seventeen
buckshot into his body. Winsberry Ieii
dead As in the Gill case the murderer IS
not known and suspicion sufficiently
strong to warrant an arrest rests on no one;
One man has suddenly left the vicinity and
his whereabouts are not known. but II they
were there is no evidence against him, and
he could not be mOlested.
THE CENSUS.
There will be protest in all parts of the
State against the collection of census sta
tistics by people who are non-residents.
The agents are from the North, and are
now all over the State. In Wake there is a
refusal to give them information. Post
bly the ZANE course will be adopted in
other counties. The desire is that people
here shall do such work and be paid for It.
Complaints in regard to this matter now
come from Durham county.
In Orange and Durham counties insects
are doing great damage TO the wheat ana
oats. The warm weather IS SAID by the
farmers to be the cause OF the trouDie.
Very cold weather is needed TO Kill out the
insects. which promise to be very nume-
rous and troublesome this year.
INTERESTING SUIT.
An interesting suit for $4,000 damages
is on trial before Judge Whitaker in
Wayne Superior Court, The pialntlh;;
Kleber Denmark, sues the Atlantic and
Carolina railroad, an engine of which cut
of his leg some sixteen wears ago.
At Goldsboro' last night the store of
James II. Jones and five other buildings
were burned. The five buildings were all
cottages occupied by negroes. The loss is
SO, 900, and is covered by insurance. The
property was all owned by b. +. Mayhew's
estate.
A lamp explosion in L. Edwardss store,
at Goldsboro'. night before last. did
damage estimated at $500, covered by in
surance.
The total loss by the burning of the fish,
market at Wilmington Tuesday was about
81 200.
There are four capital cases on the trial
docket st the present term OF the Robson
Superior Court
Sixty-two miles of the Western Unions
telegraph line between Fayetteville and
Wilmington is in operation.
VirQil Larkins, an old negro at Whining
ton, has disappeared in mysterious way.
The number of deserted negro cabins N
Wilson, Lenior, Wayne, and Johnston
counties tells the story of the exodus.
Hundreds of such cabins stand with open
doors, their former occupants being now
in the Yazoo delta.
A swindler who gives his name as Clark,
and who claims 10 be the advance agent or
Secretary of Agriculture Rusk, in seed dis
tribution, is deceiyng the farmers IN the
southern tier of counties.
All tho arrangements have been COM
pleted for building large tobacco-ware-
house at Wilson.
Wild geese and ducks are now abundant
in the sounds, but keep well out from the
shore and few are killed.
A seyen-year-Old son or Spencer sawyer
was crushed to death few days ago by
log which rolled over him.
The fruit trees are full of sop, and 1t IS
said that a cold snap would destroy all the
prospects for a crop of fruit.
The Winston Electric Street-Railway
Company was regularly organized yester-
day. with L. j. Sprague as president. Work
on the road is to begin soon. The plant,
&C., is now owned by New York parties.
Track-laying ON the Roanoke and South
ern railway is now completed TO the Dan
river, near Madison, ard work on the
bridge over that stream has been begun.
The revenue officers have been active the
past few days in Caldwell county and have
The capital stock of the Raleigh cotton
mills has been increased to Sl25,000. The
mills begin operations July 1st.