Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-05
FATHERS MAD DEED.
orv me. POWELL BECOMES INSANE
AND KILLS HIS DAUGHTER.
o,s.r New. from All Parts Of North Caro-
iina--rarming and Warm Weather.
Railroads, Etc.
,s,.,,,, ,,,errsm % the Dispa,ch.I

Rlfrfng, N. c.. January 4.--heV. y. ~.
Powell. Baptist preacher. went few
wears ago as an independent Missionary
from North Carolina 70 hlglers, S ,a,, ~
H. hs hsa lost his mind and killed his
Jauohfer Inv cutting her throat with a
,,ocEa. knife. His daughter was SIX years
Ia un cleo made an attack upon his wife.
oh OH. I'D and thus saved herself. He Is
nov nn in an insane asylum in Algiers. His
family consisting Of wife and four chill
dren desire TO Get home. Rev. Dit. row,
ell's mind was affected some years ago, anu
he aren't month in the insane asylum ~
Raleigh. He had been IN an a-yium ae ~,
giers: but. having improved, was alioweu
70 20 home, and soon ailef iii"oe '''e 'A'"'
derous attack.
KILLED HIS BEorHER-N-LAw.
Columbus Fry died at his home near pan
bury, Stokes county, o DAY or 30 ago, nom
wounds received on Chfistmas-day az the
hands OF Pleasant Lawson. his hrother-in,
law. The trouble grew out OF quarrel
between the children Of tho two men,
n is said That 100000 worth OF build
inps are In course Of construction AT Oxtoru,
and the most prosperous sectiOl Oi NVttn
Carolina is that between oxford ana WIN
ston.
So warm has the weather been that tur-
pentne has been taken from trees IN oahlp-
son county in the past few days, ana ia par
rel was sold yesterday at Clinton. Ihls Is
unprecedented.
been discovered in MOntg emery county;
The railway from West End to Troy will
pass near the stone, the quantity OF stone
being immense.
The burglars are now paying consIdera-
attention TO Monroe, and are very daring.
FARMING MATTERS.
There will be notable extension OF
! truck farming in the eastern counties du-
ring the coming season. Already prepare
1 tons are in progress.
Even more important will be the increase
| in the acreage of tobacco in what may, be
called the new counties-Wake, Franklin,
| Mach, Edgecombe, Johnston, ana wilson.
| In all these fine brights are produced.
The Baptists in this city are very activee
| in their efforts 20 secure the location OF
the female college OF that denomination at
Raleigh. -,
By next season homemade sorghum VIII
be q standard or staple article IN use IN
many parts of the State. The. manufac-
| ture has passed far beyond the expert
mental stage and sorghum is now one Oh
| the regular crops. There is steady de-
mand for all the syrup that can be bought
MEMORIAL NETTING.
| There will be memorial meeting Of the
people of Rocky Mount next Monday IN
honor of the late Hon. Jefferson Davis.
| The following are delegates from tins
State TO the National Guard Convention
at Washington. February 9Th Adlutant-
General J. ID. Glenn. Quartermsster-Gene,,
raj +. A. Odds, Colonel j. L. Anthony, OF
| the Fourth regiment.
I A., ot a6 tho rQInC haV0 greatly
benefited crops, but aided by the warm
weather have also developed vegetation
amazingly. Beets and lettuce are growing
! in tho open air here as luxuriantly as III
| Nav. A dozen kinds Of flowers, daisies
violets, hyaeinths, buttefcups, &C., are III
| bloom.
There are now ninety students at Judson
College at Hendersonville.
RAILWAY SUBSCRIPTION.
The people of Henderson county are
very enthusiastic in regard to the election
on the question of subscription to the
French Broad Valley railway. Tho vote
will be cast on the 2ist instant.
Next Monday the Executive Committee
of the North Carolina State Farmers
Alliance will meet here, and will elect a
secretary to succeed Colonel IL. L.. Polk,
whose election 10 a far higher position has
Il
The people of Macon county are greatly
interested IN the building of railway
from Franklin, the county-seat, to Iallu'
lah Falls, Ga, or to some point on the
Western North Carolina railway.
The people of Newberne vote next Thurs
( day on the question of subscribing 500
O00 to railway running north and south
through that place. Jacksonville. OnsloW
county, TO be the southern terminus.
4 l.A n
further advanced than III twenty year:
past.
EscAPED CONVICT.
Henry Watson, young white convict
escaped from the Edgecombe county chain
gang. He wrote from Fayetteville athreat
| ening letter to the Sheriff of that county
who went after him, and found Watson IL
| jail at Fayetteville, charged with burglary
| committed during the centennial celebra
| ton. Watson says he murdered man IL
Caswell county.
A few days ago Daniel l.. Barker. of Gas
cade, Va, and Miss Sallie Meeks, of th'
same State, were married near Leaksviile
on q public road.
Great interest is felt in the convention
of the Farmers Alliance at Oxford on the
9th 10 fight the "Tobacco-Cutter Trust
1t will be a big meeting.
| Burcn a. 20, Oh my Il oihs, nav "9'ir ~
to f. d. Steele. Liabilities, $3.50; assets
| S1.025.
4 warrant was to-day issued to Adiutant
| General Glinn for 81. 800 to meet the an
nual allowances by the State to companies
of the State Guard.
II is learned that there is every reason Il
expect in the near future the discovery o.
natural gas in Egypt, Chatham county
This is on the authority OF MIR. JOB ATKINS
Explorations for gas are now in progress
and all indications are entirely favorable
The shipment of bituminous, coal from th'
mines at Egypt has now regularly begun.
1t is believed that the contest for the pc
sition of secretary of the State Farmers
| Alliance will be between d. III. Rittenhous
of Halifax, and e. G. Bedding6eld.
L. l.. Polk, president of the Nationa
pointed James Graham, of Hillsboro', hi
private secretary.