Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-03
OLD NORTH STATE.
THE SOLDIERS -HoMe FUND = THE
COLLECTOR DISCOURAGED.


EAxx10H. N. o., January 2--Ihore Is
xreAt need for more interest IN the raising
Of the Soldiers Home fund. The agent
does not meet with the results no had
reason to expect He's rather discouraged
ct the prospect.
Your correspondent learns that Congress-
man Brewer viii name the successor of
Deputy Collector Briscoe b. Bouldin, about
whose removal from the revenue service
there has been so much talk. hwopos of
this Bouldin matter. prominent Rcpubii-
can told quite an interesting story to-day
relative TO John Wanamaker and the last
victim OF Republican malice. MIR. BouIdln's
father-in-law was Presbyterian preacher
IT Philadelphia. He literally picked Wana-
maker out OF tho gutter, had him educated.
gave him start In life. made him what be
Is. Now this Republican wants to know II
Wanamaker Is going to stand by and see
Bouldin GO TO the wall. Rumor has IT that
Wanamakcr will interfere.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College
resumed its work to-day after the holiday
recess. More students are expected during
the present month.
TO SPY OUT THE LAND.
Three months ago the negroes of Edge
eombe county made up purse 10 paw the
expenses OF one OF their number named
Gray Tice to Kansas, So that he might spy
out the land. He went and returned with
Glowing tales about that bleak and inhos-
pitabls country. He took the. names of
credulous negroes who desired TO go 10
Kansas. With each name he required a fee
OF 80 cents. 1t is said that. lice, who IS
aided Nv his uncle, has booked 4 900 names.
He told his victims that on New Years
Day the agents would be at Wilson TO take
them away. The negroes sold their little
property and focked to Wilson. They be-
came objects OF charity.
This shows how little love the negroes
have for their own race. They have mono
of the finer feelings of charity. The dis
quiet among the eastern negroes has DC
moralized labor more than at any time
since the war. There is great Indignation
against Tce and his confederate, who have
done so much mischief in this respect.
THE cRoATAYs.
The Croatan Indians are determined to
run the outlaws out OF Robson county.
il was Croatan named Lowery that cap
tured Purdie Jacobs. The latter made
desperate resistance, and Lowery was COM
PEELED to shoot HIM before he could effect
the capture. Jacobs is also Croatan.
DR.. w. II. McNairy died night before
last at his home, in Guilford county.
j. l.. Hammer, an employee at saw-mill at
Greensboro, was fatally injured while at
work. A plank was thrown back by a saw
suited in tweDty-four hours
IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
An important capture was made in Cald-
well county a few days ago by detectives
and Deputy United States marshals from
Tennessee. They captured John Crumley
alias Frank Stanley, who murdered O man
named Bowers in Carter county. Tenn,
and who escaped from jail in that State
last September by cutting his way out OF
steel cage. He made no resistance when
captured but said be was tired of lodging
the officers. De declared that he could not
sleep at night by reason of the dreadful
visions Of the murdered man which came
before him.
II is the intention of the Richmond and
Dapyille railway TO complete the road from
Winston to Wilkesboro' by June lst next,
even if it requires work both by night and
day.
operation at High Point during 1889, and
others will be built this year.
TRAGEDY.
Details of a tragedy at Big-Rock Creek.
In Mitchell county. have been received.
which show it TO have been the worst affair
during the holidays. The place is on the
Tennessee line, and the people are among
the worst ia the country. There is dis
tillery there operated by man named
Hobson, and free use of the whiskey mode
at this caused the. trouble; There was on
Christmas day large gathering there, all
the people being white men well armed. as is
the custom in that region. A drunken row
followed and three men, one named Lewis
Garland, another named Coke, and the
third not yet known, were shot and killed.
Two DAYS afterwards Monroe Garland, a
brother of one Of the victims, rode into
the place; A crowd & people was gather
ii ~
up near the crowd and fred both
barrels Of a gun loaded with buck
shot into the group. The result
was the killing of three men and the
wounding of twelve Others. Hobson's is
Government distillery and has been the
scene OF murders previously. 1t is said
that in the crowd when Monroe Garland
did his deadly work were the men who had
killed his brother and friends. Mitchell Is
a dry" county. though it is evident the
prohibition law is not obseryed-certalnly
at Big-Rock Creek. All the rest of the
State was quiet and peaceful during the
holidays.
The corporators Of the French Broad
Valley railway advertise for proposals for
the road out of Asheyille. The road is to
run through Yancey, Madison, Buncombe,
Henderson. and Transylvania counties TO
Greenvilie, 5. q.
A fire at Asheville day before yesterday
In the general store of J. Nj. Jarrett Il Son
damaged their stock to the extent of
e2,50O, and did the building, owned by
James Buttrick, $1,000 damage. There
was no insurance on either stock or build
ing.
Governor Fowle to-day authorized an
exchange of courts between Judges Brown
and Bynum whereby the former will hold
those in Bladen, Columbus, Brunswick,
Arson, Cumberland, Jiobeson, and Rich.
mopd, while the latter will hold those OF
Caldwell, Ashe. Watauga, Mitchell, YAM
cey, and Mcdowell.
Eleven hundred and forty negro exodust-
ers passed through here last night for Mis-
sissippi. Many hundreds more Will leave
Goldsboro' day after tomorrow.
II is not yet positively decided that the
next session of the North Carolina Teach
ers' Assembly is to be held at Morebead
City. The people of Asheville are making
efforts TO induce the Executive Committee
to hold the next session at that point.
Acknowledgement Glenn reports that the
actual effective strength of the Stete
Guard at this date is 1906.
La grippe has made its appearance at
Wilmington.
The Hessian fy is reported as doing con-
siderable damage to the oat crop IN some
sections. There is great desire for cold
weather to kill out the insects.
A six-year-eld negro boy in Rockingham
county last Sunday drank a pint OF whis-
key and died the same day from its effects.
A Fire at Tarboro'.
Especial telegram 10 the Dlspatch.l
SCOTLAND Neck, N. c., January 2.-The
1evoa bousa md several of the small hOuSeS