Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-07
THE DOG A CLUE.
LARGE CROP OF WINTER WHEAT
PLANTED.
IAgss1ation Invoked TO Relieve Distress
Proposed Removal Of Geronime's
Bapd--rrsgedy IN Nc
DowsIi Cosnty.


.s,r.sors ~ messenger coach. A man who
WAS on the rear platform saw pccniary-
marked dog near the track. saturday 90 s
tcrtiyea went there and this man WIN
them. The dog was founo WIN t% %S o ~.
srea fourteen and fifteen years. The iads
are white. and the evidence against them
H. ss;d 10 he poeitive. They erepromptly
arrested The %, nishmont for their offence
is bv special act made very severe IN TINS
The contractors who have been engaged
for FIVE months t,ast in making excavations
for the sewer system here VIII TINS week
eompleie II. There are about twenty-five
miles Of sewers. 49,, ,,,:t..
between Wilmington and fayetteviiie
masses through tho battle-ground OF
knoro,s crook and in three hundred yards
OF tho monument erected there some years
ego TO mark the place.
THE CROPS.
The Commissioner OF Agriculture says
that letters and reports show conclnslVeiy
thai more winter wheat and oats have been
sown than ever before. so lar these crop,
make a good showing. There Is good
stand. Clover is also more e1.ens,ved ~ ~
area than ever before and has improved ia
conditon-thanks 10 much-needeu molS-
ture. . c.1o.f
The loss by the burning OF Greenleat
Johnson's lurnber-mills of HOwards Berthe
county. il now said to be $4,000 The
mills are 20 be rebuilt at once.
General NJ. h. Young, OF georgia, rs
81 Asheville TO arrange for the sale OF the
Okefenokce swamp in that state. III con-
tains 100000 acres.
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.
John Clark. a negro desperate, has boen
captured in ChOwan county after des-
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fougbf with cart-rungs. SO savage was
CLARK that he had TO be shot and beaten
into insensibility before he surrendered or
ceased 10 fight the deputies.
Ex-Congressmen Kitchen says the peo-
ple Of Halifax county are not in favor OF q
special session Of the Legislature 10 relieve
the pecuniary distress from short crops.
The people will get along. The distress %
70 degree local and temporary.
GOING TO oFoEGIA.
Four NIGHTS past 1000 negroes passed
through Wilmington on thelr way 20 !De
Georgia turpentine-forests. The following
nleht $50 moro passed there. These people
will not return to the State. For ten years
INST they have been thus going TO Georgia,
bat always returned al Christmas and re-
NAMED week or two. They then returned
80 Georgia, in many cases leaving their
families a public charge. SO the poorie
~,
their habits and take their families WIN
them. A..
Colonel Thaddeus Bryson. one Of the
most prOminont men IN the Blue hluge
country, died at his home in Swain county
n few days ago. He was sixty-six wears Old,
and for FIVE years had been an lnvalld.
He had served many terms IN the beglsla-
ture, and the county-scat OF Swan was
given his name.
Senator Vance. General George Crook,
United States army, and Lieutenant Ken
non. of the staff Of the latter, have been
in the Cherokee Indian country looking
after matters connected with the removal
of Geronimo and his band of Apache In
dians 10 that section. II is not known
what will he done in regard TO this matter
which caused quite stir some months
ago.
THE POWELL MURDER.
The nows Of the killing IN Algiers, by
Rev. Clay l.. Powell Of his little daughter
has proved quite "a sensation Later news
Of the terrible affair received to-day ls as
follows: Rev. Mr.. Powell had been in the
French ASYLUM at Algiers but 1t was
thought had recovered his mental BALANCE.
lie was permitted TO 60 home. II at once
resumed his work. and after having spent
some hours distributing Bibles and tracts
returned to his house. He took Bible
and began reading. Little Ruth Royal
Powell, his daughter, aged two years and
eight months, went to him as was her
custom and climbed on his knee. He
quickly pulled out pen-knife and cut her
throat. Dr. Leach was IN the house az inc
time else the child would have died imme-
tiatcly. Aided by another physician he
performed an operation and the child lived
two DAYS. Powell made "A desperate at
tempt to kin his wife. He was taken to
the French hospital. The United States
Consul will endcavor to send HIM 10 AK,
IN France. Rev. Or. Maynard, mis-
sionary, Will bring Mrs. Powell to North
Carolina. and after delivering some lee
lures here will return To North Africa.
n. B. Killobrew, of Edgecombe county
assigned Saturday. His liabilities are
about S11 900. Short crops caused the
failure. He is one OF the largest farmers IL
the county. -.
The negro Cxodusters who are waiting al
Tarborc' TO get away are begging white
people for food.
AL Conetoe Saturday little negro child
was burned in the house of its parents,
who had locked 1t in and gone away.
When the mother returned, after such
criminal carolessness she found the body
lying near the fireplace.
HOG AND HoMIYy.
Captain ". A. Darden. who is travelling
over the State in the interest OF the Farm.
ers' Alliance as lecturer, saws that while
the condition of the farmers in the East Is
truly deplorab!e, they have planted more
small grain than ever before ana are re-
solved on "hog-and-hOminy "policy. In
other words, they will raise their own sup
plies, more than before, since the war.
WHISKY NOT MEAL.
From q most trivial cause there grew 9
row which resulted in death in Mcdowell
4. l.. ~ Il ffnn uff.
Francis Dixon borrowed q quart OF mea
from Alexander West. a neighbor. 1t wa
old meal aud when Dixon returned it h,
took new meal, which West declined TO re.
ceive. demanding old meal, which Dixor
could not obtain. West and his wife met
Dixon and James Dixon, his thlrteen-year
old son, in public road. West and M;
wife, powerful and angry woman, fell
upon Dixon and knocked him down. They
were preparing TO kill him when young
Dixon ran upand placing gun within foot
of West fired the load into his abdomen
Mrs. West was using knife very savGgely
Her arm and thigh were broken and sh'
was otherwise hurt. Old man DIXON wa
nlso badly injured. Vests injuries ar,
fatal. The DixOns are IN Jail. WblskeN
was the primo cause of the combat and o
the quarrel.
FOUR EXECUTIONS FEBRUARY Urn.
Governor Eowie to-day issued death
warrants for the execution of the follow
ing criminals: Manlcy Pankey (coloreO
al Montgomery county. for the murder OF
Cambu. Leak hy shooting him with shot
gun: John Wilson, of iancey county. for
The murder of John Eagle by shooting him
Samuel Halford and X L. Wills, OF Ruther-
ford county, for burglary. All these four
men are 20 be hanged February eth. All
had appealed 10 the Supreme Court. which
affirmed the decisions OF the Superior
courts. Wilson was drunk at the time b.
committed the crime.
NEGRO INTIMIDATION.
II was learned to-day that yesterday
Rev. Tony scott. a negro preacher al
GOldsboro'. received notice 10 leave that
place IN twelve hours or take the cOnse
quences. II is believed that this threat
was made by negroes who are angry al thu
position Scott has taken in antagonizins
The exodus.
6. W. Cox 4 CO.. general merchants, o.
Dlnn, Harnett county. have assigned &c
James II. Pou, Of Smithfeld, and j. ID
Underwood. general merchant, also OF
Dunn, has assigned TO +. +. Jones.
Ro8DEEIEs.
Robbers lat night entered the store OF
Scott d Co.. at Greensboro. and stole 2