Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-11
RALelGH'S REGISTER.
Scattering Notes Picked Up at the North
State Capital.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
D.rrnrr " q Anril 10 1900

rCorrespondence OF the Richmond DlspachI
RALEIGH, n. c.. April 10, 1890.
Very earnest efforts will be made TO Sc
cure an enlargement or the Insane Asylum
here. There are hundreds of insane III
poorhOuses and jails, many OF whom are
in q deplorable situation. The capaclty OF
the asylum should be doubled, so that IL
can contain 800 or $50 patients. Inc au-
thorities of the counties are already
moving in the matter, and it Will be one OF
the special matters which will be brought
TO the attention of the Legislature.
The people of Reidsville vote next Mon
day on the question of issuing bonds Ior
tho construction of water-works.
A voung white man named Gowen IS in
Jail mt Greensboro on a charge OF stealing
81 in Rockingham county;
Fanny Ellington, a well-knOwn woman or
Reidsville. was found dead yesterday.
The pupils of the Baptist Orphanage at
Townsville by invitation spent Easter at
Trinity College, and were most Hospitality
entertained.
Prominent negroes tell me that, as mat
ters now look, not over two thirds OF tnelr
neople will vote this year. They feel no
interest in politics, they say. and their
chief desire is TO in some way repay the
white Republicans for bad treatment.
Some tobacco-growers are reported to be
so much discouraged by the scarcity of
plants that they will plant corn on their
tobacco lands. The rayages Of the insects
(the fy) in the plant-beds continue.
The wheat crop 10 reported TO he an enc
tire failure IN parts OF ttranyille county.
The losses bv forest fires in various parts
of the State during the past thirty days are
unusually large. Some of the eastern coun-
ties have lost great deal of valuable tim
Der. 49,
Eight schooners from Virginia loaded
with oysters were on Monday permitted to
pass CoinjOck bridge without molestatlon..
MANY vessels have been seized there ana
the oysters confscated, while the captains
were fined.
II is stated that Frank p. Broadway,
the man who murdered Lee Crayer III Da-
wilson county, Is now in Ionnes@ee-it II
believed in the vicinity of Nashville.
Every effort is being made to capture MN.
The State reward l. 500. .,
Track-laying on the WinstOn-Salem rail-
way will begin next week..
There was a phenomenal hail-storm and
rain-stoIm AZ Winston last evening. Many
people believed that there was q cloud
burst. The hail-stOnes were as large as
partridge-eggs.
Two of the party of five revenue officers
who were charged with shooting and kill
ing Henry McAianner, the negro school
teacher in Orange county, have been bound
over to the Federal Court. The other three
officers nave been discharged, there being
no evidence that they We're concerned in
the shooting. The two bound over are
Kirkpatrick and Patterson.
II is said that Cadet David Worth
Cowles. who committed suicide Tuesday
at oxford, was deeply in love with a young
lady there and that out of this grew his
melancholy state OF mind.
General Robert b. Vance will deliver the
annual address before the students of
Rutherford College May DIST. There are
over 200 students at this college.