Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-04
TEACHERS INSTITUTES.

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The holding of the county teachers in
stitutes will be resumed on the 10th IN
slant. Professor Charles ID. Mclver VIII
conduct the institutes in Vance and War
rem and Professor Alderman Will conduct
those for Greene and Lenolr.
The Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton mas tabulated the county reports.
The schools are holding their own. The
report is for eight months, the new law
having taken effect April /. 1889. There is
no marked increase in the number OF
children attending the school.
Gentlemen who have been in the eastern
part of the State, where the troubles with
the Virginia oyster-pirates are alleged to
have occurred. say the statements are
grossly exaggerated. There have been no
fights, save one between two young North
Carolina boatmen. growing out OF quar-
rel as to which of the two was the first to
reach q Virginia pirate" schooner. The
people there seem to be very glad to sell
their oysters, it IL said. Formerly they
sold them for three cents per bushel, and
they now obtain eight and ten cents. 1t Is
said that many of these people are bitterly
opposed TO the new law which permits the
entries of oyster-lands. OF course 1T will
take time to educate them so that they can
see its benefits. They have been reared 10
believe that fish, oysters, and wild fowl aye
rs free as the water and the air. They
therefore are glad to sell the oysters, and It
is said that by reason of such sales this
season they have more money than ever
before. In other words they have struck
a bonanza.
BRUTAL FIGHT.
Two white men, named Rollins and Pace,
had a brutal fight at Tryon City, growing
&c with Rollins
bit off PAGES nose and then mutilated him
shockingly by jumping on him and kick
ing him in the face. Rollins is in jail.
The negroes who have emigrated to Texas
are sending back very favorable reports
from that State. Not over i.500 have gone
there from North Carolin, but it is proba-
bic that before three months have passed
this number will largely increase.
Hale Brothers. general merchants ut hall
fax, have assigned to y. +. Clark for the
benefit of creditors. Their liabilities are
81, 600: assests not stated.
The iron bridge on the Norfolk and
Carolina railway across the Roanoke river
is 455 feet in length and will cost 10000.
There is an S0-foot draw for boats. There
are $500 feet of trestle leading to the
bridge.
THE NEGRO EXODUS.
To show the extent of the negro exodus
il may be stated that from the little town
of Kfnston, ON the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway, the labor agents have in
the past two months taken away 800 per-
sons. The movement will continue to be
heavy all this month. II is believed that
this withdrawal of so much labor will make
il necessary to diversity crops in that sec
ton, heretofore given over to cotton, and
that thus good will be done.
nh = II Ill. AoVs hoo a
into effect at Asheville.
The cotton-seed-oil mills at Kinston have
commenced operations, and are running
night and day.
g. 4. Andrews, liquor dealer. in business
at Kinston and Trenton. assigned day be-
fore Yesterday to Henry Andrews, of Kins-
ton. Liabilities, about $1,000; assets, APP
proximately the same.
pIsr1rIxaY CAPTURED.
Deputy revenue collectors mado q raid
in Lenoir county night before last and cap
trred an illicit distillery operated by w.
The property Of the Cashie and Roanoke
railway has been purchased by the Bran
ming Manufacturing Company for S3l60, 000.
The property consists OF thirty miles OF
railway, steam tugs. barges, dc., and over
100, Oo0, 900 feet of standing timber.
Many tobacco farmers in Nash county
have burned their plant beds and are pre-
pairing for new crop. The next crop in
that county, so well adapted to tobacco,
viii be . large one.
LARGE LAND PURCHASES.
It il learned that an English company
has made very extensive purchases OF pro-
perty in Nash and Halifax counties, con-
sisting Of vineyards, tobacco plantations,
cold-inines. Understands, waser-powers,
franchises, &c. Congressman b. HI. Browne
Is ono Of the attorneys in this matter. The
deal d sid to be the largest ever made III
the eastern part Of the State.
Tho Town Mhrshal of Kevser, Moore
county. Who Was shot and killed last week.
was George w. Curtis (coloreD. The man
Who murdered him was Lewis Stogner. a
Robson county desperate. Curtis At
fsmpted 10 arrest drunken white man.
6tofneF took sides With the latter and shot
Curtis fwioe r. the head stosrlsr has hsd
4 "a Gouth Carolina