Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-08
WAITED FROM PINES.
THE NEWS AS GATHERED IN NORTH
cAROLlNA'S CAPITAL.
A Cotton-Gin burned - Executions
Most Deliberate sIurdcr-,1iscciia-
Moons Notes.
rsnecial ,eleeran, to tho pi,pa,ch.l

RaIrreH. N. c., February lit was ~
| certaiued to-day from the State Secretary
OF the Farmers Alliance that there are
now 2.07s alliances in operation in Norm
! Carolina. The growth OF the order Is pneeo,
/ nomenal. There are very nearly %,oOo
members. a.
The colored alliance has an entirely dis
tinct organization. and il is learned that II
has considerably increased its membership
recently.
About two charters day are issued to
the white ALLIANCES.
OYSTER PIRATES.
report has been received from Conyock.
| N. G.. which shows that q large capture
| Of Virginia oyster pirates has been mace.
! The report is as follows. and is made by the
! commander of the armed vessel now In the
lover sounds: 1--WE seized eleven vessels
YESTERDAY as they tried TO go through the
sanal. We arrested all the captains and
carried them before q magistrate they
were heavily fined and promised TO let
oysters alone in North Carolina. We ex;
| pect another feet tomorrow. we shah
stop them. We expected a hight and were
prepared for it."
Executive Committee of the North Caro-
| lima Confederate Veterans Association 10
! canvass the state to raise funds Tor the Sol
| diers' Home.
A citizen of Chatham has executed
mortgage to o citizen of Randolph TO Sc
| cure debt Of sixty-one cents, the pro-
perty conveyed being asingle-barrelled gun
/ and a scythe. The officers fees Tor Its pro-
! bate and registration amounted 10 seventy
| five cents.
Ex-Lieutenant Winslow says the state
ment that negroes are employed by hum IN
oyster-work and of his being driven from
| the oyster-waters are incorrect.
| The cotton-gin Of J. 7. Rattif, in Arson
| county. has been burned by sparks from
| an engine.
The sous of J. II. Holt have purchased q
site for cotton-factory at burlington and
| will have work on il begupa ut once. 1t VIII
| be the fourth cotton mill In that thriving
| town and will be afirst- class one. A branch
/ of Morehead's Bank is 10 be established
at Burlington at once.
Lloyd Arnold has been taken to Wash
| ington Beaufort county, by Sheriff Ches-
son. of Washington county, by virtue of a
\ writ of hdbeds corpus. lie Is charged with
numbering his wife.
EXECUTIONS.
! II il stated that never until to-day were
4 three executions at rs many points IN tins
| State. The execution of Manley Pankey
at Troy, Montgomery county, was for a
murder which was nearly as deliberate and
| cold-blooded rs that of John Wilson. III
| Yancey county. Pankcy quarrelled with
| another negro and then made public an-
nouncement that be intended to kill him;
He said; | am going to get gun ana
shoot that niggers heart out. lie
walked two miles aud got his double-bar-
1 relied gun. returned. and asked where the
negro was. When told, he went after him.
| Presently he met another negro and said;
| | am going TO shoot your heart-strings
! loose. The other negro was unarned, and
raising his hands above his head, laughed
| and said, shoot. Pansey at once fired, and
a heavy charge of buckshot tore the
noero's throat He died in an instant.
Pankey was convicted, but appealed. lie
excepted to the verdict, because the
formality of requiring him TO stand up
| and face the Jury was omitted. The Su-
preme Court affirmed the Judgment, and
! ruled that this omission was unimportant;
The people Of the Second congressional
district now believe that the Democrats
| viii carry it in the next election and that
Z. NJ. Simmons will be its representative
| There will be called meeting OF Abe
marie Presbvtery at Wilson next Tuesday.
| The negro exodus has not only been
| GOOD thing for the Democratic party, but
| the removal of SO mlch surplus LABOR Will
reduce the amount of crime this year. The
| unemployed negroes would III many cases
| have committed theft and the penltentlary
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| a practical view of the situation. There Is
an abundance of labor now after the de
parture of $4,000 negroes, and this Is proof
| that there was a surplus.
There is a current rumor that the grand
| iury of Granville county found true bill
| against the cigarette trust, but there APP
pears to be no foundation for II.
A suspension bridge Is being built OF
| Walnut Cove. to replace the one which
| -. ,,,..,.4 o,,.o,, h,, tho rroat frpqhpt last
year.
TOBACCO.
A good deal of tobacco will be grown in
| Pitt county this year. Experiments with
| il will be carefully made. 1t Is one step IN
| the Great movement in the eastern coun-
ties for diversihcation of crops. Tobacco
grown in Pitt last year brought good prices.
The truckers along the line OF the At
Iontic and North Carolina railway are
planting Irish potatoes. The crop area
will be larger than ever before.
The labor agents have taken away in the
nighttime some labOrers who were under
! contract in LenOir county. AT most points
they have refused 10 take negroes who
| were under contract.
The Ninth District Sunday School Con-
! vention will be held at Concord next Tues
day. These conventions are composed OF
| all the Protestant Sunday schools.
|
The emigration fever has again broken
ont in Edgecombe county. IL was an
uounced ten DAYS ago that no more exodus
parties would be taken from that county,
but the agents needed more leborers and
| are again taking them away. This month
400 have left Rocky Mount, Nash county.
| Negroes who have influence induce other
negroes to leave and aid the white agents
in making up the parties. 1t Is sad That
| Il. tn nNcntQ
Wilmington and Weldon railway TO sell no
more emigrant tickets willstop the exodus
But thenegroes walk great distances 10 take
trains on other lines. They thus 60 TO
Selma, Johnston county. from wilson,
Tarboro', and Rocky Mount, and there take
special trains. More negroes have thus
loft Selma than it would be believed could
have gathered there. IL is estimated that
40 900 have left that little station, having
assembled there from six or eight counties.
The people Of Newberne have given warm
ing to the agents 10 discontinue their ope-
rations at that point, and thus IN Craven
there is Il check. 80.
The people of Alexander county this
week voted on the question OF the adoption
of the stock or no-fence law. IL was
adopted by q majority OF FIVE votes. About
halt the counties in the State now have this
law, which is an admirable one.
A man named John Branch escaped from
States1lle Jail last autumn. He was re-
captured IN Burke county few nights
h. past in o singular manner. He is an expert
performer on the violin and was PLAYING at
a dance. The jaler and posse made dash
and surprised Branch. The music stopped
in the middle of q tune and the prisoner
was taken back to jail.
STIRRED UP.
The people of Guilford county are con-
siderably stirred up, and very properly; by
the outrageous conduct of the white
preacher Joiner and white man named
Conuet, who are stirring up the negroes.
They teach and practice social equality
1t is said that last Sunday Joiner, while
preaching to negroes. showed scars on bus
arm which he declared We're from wounds
! inflicted upon him in Randolph county oy
, white people because he was uphoiding
the sacred cause of social equality. Trust
worthy negroes who heard his harangut
say that he called upon the negroes &c
avenge his wrongs with the torch II neces-
sary. The people of Guilford county are
patient and law abiding, but their en-
durance has limits.
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