Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-03
NORTH CAROLINA.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE OLD
NORTH STATE.
A Third Attempt Mt Suicide Successi"i--
The Exodus Fever
Notes.
.a...,s, telegram TO tho pl.pa.ch.l

R,rrrcH. N. c., April 2.--Sone months
oc m a. Nswberne. Washington Newly at
tcmnted suicide by cutting his throat.
Faiisnc in the attempt and recovering sui
Rcientiv TO leave his house. M again en-
deayored some weeks since TO end his NE
Inv browning. and was a second time pre-
vented AZ the last moment from accom-
plishing his purpose. lie was perslsten.
and few days ago he was missed. Next
day his hat was found near the wnari, ana
yesterday his body was tound noatlng III
Nense river. The coroner deemed an in
ouest unnecessary, the conduct OF Newly
having been such ~ to prove 1t was case
of suicide.
A carload Of negro exodusters passed
here last night from Johnston county on
their way to Mississippi. Many OF the ne
eroes who left here last autumn and winter
are in Sunhower county. Miss. where the
danger from overflow is so great Just now.
As Margaret Bush, notoriou: negro wo-
man, who gets twelve years va the penn
Tertiary for abduction, was taken from
Durham YESTERDAY she said to her friends:
Don't grieye for me. am going where L
can 90 to Sunday school and church every
Sunday" She evidently had \ high APP
probation of the religious features OF the
penitentiary. 80
In the Pasouotank section most of the
truckers who lost their early peas by the
bitter weather have replanted and thepeas
are coming up.
The danger from frosts has not yet end
ed. There was frost IN this section OF
the State this morning.
To-day in this city O committee repre-
senting the businessmen OF Oxford met
with President John Nj. Robinson, of the
Seaboard railway, relative to connection
with that town.
The negroes who have gone TO Kansas
from this State are reported TO be greatly
dissatisfied with their life there and are
going somewhere else.
BY tho 18th instant cars will he running
to Elkin, on the northwestern extension OF
the Richmond and Danvile railway.
TIE Boyle trials cost this county about
$4,000.
There are now sixty convicts engaged in
improving the roads in this township.
They are all under sentences at hard labor
on the public roads, under an act OF the
Legislature which allows judges to impose
that punishment.
oDD-FELLows.
There is a continued and remarkable
growth Of the order Of Odd-FellQws in the
State, and the showing which will be made
at the meeting Of the Grand Lodge at Will
mington in MAY will crafty every member
of the order. The growth during the past
twelve months is greater than ever before
in the same period. The degree team of
the Raleigh lodges, which will be there. Is
pronounced by Deputy Grand-Sire Busbee
the best in the State.
The proposed railway from Charleston,
s. c., to Norfolk will greatly shorten dis
tances. BY it. for instance, II will be only
IA miles, while by the Coast Line it is
now 2l2 miles. Pennsylvania men are the
proiectOTR of this enterprise.
Five thousand more spindles are TO be
put in the cotton. mills at Rocky Mount
and new machinery costing $500 is to be
placed in those at Tarboro, All over the
State there will be this year a marked In
crease in the capacity of mills.