Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-28
NORTH CAROLINA.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED HERE AND
THERE AT RALEIGH.
n c~,rnrsted Casc-Pcr>cnai and General
Mathematics from Charlotte and
Greensboro.
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R.Irrau. n, c., February 27.-Interes'
In the case of J. +. Davis, at Pittsboro
and his conviction Of the murder OF JONI
A. Horton is again great, and ~ ~ now
proposed 10 exhume the body OF Horton
and make closer examination. Inc couh
ty superintendent of health has wr,tten
letter requesting permission TO dlsintei
the body and 10 allow him and otner pny.
sic;ans TO make a thorough exaininatlon
Of the wounds He now thinks the WOUNDS
were made by bootjack as claimed 10y
DAVIS, and not by the Ratchet as IN
sisted by the prosecution. hhothei
sensational point about TINS case mas ius'
deyeloped. Davis stated that he put nor.
toms body in closet in barn ana nlo
not bury il until FIVE nights after the
homicide. The State, 10 rebut TINS
proved by Mr. Scott that he had eX-
amined the closet and could not find any
sicns Of the body having been placed
there. After his conviction Davis stated
that ne had nailed down a plank IN the
closet 10 hide some blood. and if any one
would 90 10 the closet and take up the
plank he would find the blood. Parties
Yesterday went 20 the closet, removed the
plank. and did find the blood. Davis has
now appealed to the Supreme Court. lie
swears that Horton was trying 10 shoot
him, and that TO save his own HE ne
KILLED HINsEIT
CAPTAIN W. II. III. Tyson shot and killed
himself dav before yesterday IN Chatham
county. His mind had been deranced Tor
several months. Arrangements were being
made u take him 10 an asylum here. ana II
il said that he killed himself 70 prevent II.
He was IA gallant soldier during the late
war.
A man named CoGey. Of Blowing Rock,
Watauga county. has captured an immense
eagle which had made two attempts 10
carry on little son of his who was play
ing in the yard.
SATURDAY. afternoon revenue officers cap
tured and destroyed an Illicit still IN
Hickory Mountain township, Chatham
county, which was in full blast.
J. r.. White. general merchant, OF Bur
lington. has made an assignment. His la
bilities are SAID 10 be 5000; assets about
the same.
s. L. Parrish & Co.. dealers in dry goods
and millinery, at Rcidsvlllc, assigned
yesterday. Liabilities, $1,000; assets,
$1,000.
Tom McCirt is home from Florida and is
now confined IN Richmond county jail FOR
an attempt 10 wreck west-bOund passen.
ger train on the Carolina Central railroad
on the evening of December 18th last. A
woman made affidavit before the grand
jury that she saw Tom in company with
two Others, place crOSstie on the track.
She swCre falsely. however. for McGirt can
prove that he was in Florida on that date.
Robert II. Holt. IT.. and l.. III. Holt have
purchased land at Burlington and will
build mill 200x75 feet. two stories hlgh,
10 spin such yarns as are used for knitting
purposes. 1t Will be the third or fourth
mill of this class III the South.
The rn,itfo~v baxa hpqu tV1t lragCn from
duty at Rocky Mount, but close watch IS
still kept up by the citizens and special po-
lice.
The town Of Henderson has decided tC
put in system of water-wOrks. The work
is TO begin in sixty days and be completed
in nine months. Eight miles OF man Will
be laid.
The cotton-oil mills in Edgecombe county
have proposition from Philadciphi;
firm TO make linseed-oil after the cotton
seed season is over.
TURNED THE SWITCH.
II was learned to-day that night before
last when the train on which the Cover
nor's Guard was returning here from the
Newberne fair reached Garner, flag sta
ton eight miles south of here, it was
found that some wretch had turned the
switch so that the train would be thrown
down the embankment. II is limited that
il was possibly the work of "a discharged
railway employee.
Many gamblers have been at the New.
berne fair. Last night the police raidcd
them aid captured four. Three escaped.
The police went ont on the train this
morning, and some miles from NcwbernC
the train was tagged by three gamblers
The police made "a rush at them. and, GOV
ering them with reyolvers captured all.
One of the heaviest rams on record Eel
in Greensboro this morning. 1t was near
" like cloud-burst. Railway tracks wert
under water. and so were the streets.