Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-09
MANY RAILROADS.
Ae,o LET m COURSE or coNsTRUc-
TON N NORTH CAROLINA.


tereet OF the Baptist Femaie oo',ske' ~ -
90 DO ready 10 act when tho ESecut,ve
Committee meets in Raleigh next Auesuay
10 consider ell the propositions.
Thcre are many railways now III course
of construction in the State. Among these
r,,av be named the Western North caro-
Ina Three Cs. Marietta and North
Georgia, Cnpo Fear and Yadkin- saiey'
Sadkin-vakey and North and veal, moa-
noke and Southern, WINSTON ana wi h,
snd bmrbam. (}roencsyille and Kinston,
Iherdecn and West End. Norfolk and Caro-
Ina Winston and Mocksvillt and WI
m;nofoY,- Opslow and Fast Carolina. There
are vet others. but this list vii show the
activity Of work. There are some 900 con-
Victs and six times as many free iaporers
engaged in the construction OF RAILWAYS.
James Moffitt, OF McDoweu county,
while cutting timber near Old Fort iast
Wednesday. was struck by o falling tree
and fatally injured.
BErTYR BE CAREFUL.
Il ia hoped that the troubles in Hyde
comfy between Francis Winslow and the
people of Ocracoke, regarding oysters may nlay
he settled without resort TO force; Inc
people there are very Determined sorI'
and 10 handle such matter requires care.
ON the l4th instant the literary societes
of Wake-Forest College will celebrate then
ffty-ffth anniversary. 49,,
At Reepsville, Lincoln county, iarsu
barn and its valuable contents. owned by
Hon. w. p. Bynum. of Charlotte, were
burned. IL is believed, by an incendiary.
n A Blackwilder, one of the Leading
citizens of Cabarrus county, died very SUD
denly at his homo at Mt. Pleasant last
Thursday afternoon of apopiexy.
New discoveries of gold are being mace
IN Montgomery, Nash ana tapar rus f Io.tnr
county are very rich. The properties are
guarded by armed men.
DEMAND FOR oysrEI-LAws.
The claim is made by HYDE county peo-
ple that some of the valuable oyster
Grounds were gobbled up and are held now
Nv private parties. The next Legislature
may have 10 Las new oystcr-laws and TO IN
yestigate these complaints.
The people in some of the mountain
counties are made angry by the presence
ri the census agents from the North, who
are collecting statistics. They ask II there
are not Republicans in the State who can
do this work. 1t is another grievance
AGAINST the Harrison Administration.
The bar of Oxford, as well as many visit
ing attorneys, held meeting Yesterday IN
memory of the late Colonel TazeweH L..
Hargrove,. ex-Attorney-General OF tne
STATE. Colonel II. Il. yenable presided.
Fuller. II. w. Winston, L. G. Edwards, and
J. 8. Amis. ana appropriate resolutions
II Is learned that q new daily paper,
which will take press dispatches, Is to be
established at Winston this month. -,
Grading on the Winston and Mocksville
railroad is completed to point eight miles
from Mocksyille, and new convict camp
established in four miles of that place. In
n few weeks the entire road-bed will be
ready for the iron =,
The execution in Yancey county was the
Rrst ever held in its borders
IL is now expected that by June 1st the
Jynchburg and Durham railway Will DO
completed to Roxboro'. Person county.
BEAVERS, WOLVES, AND OFFERS.
A large party of trappers from Alamance
county are in Caswen county trapping
beaver on the Hyoo river. The reappear-
ance of beaver in this State IN the past few
wears. for so it may be termed, is certainly
Semarkable. The number of offers has
also increased greatly. 1t is certain that
there are many more deer and bear than
there were ten years ago. wolves nave
not yet been entirely killed out in few of
the mountain counties, and bounties Tor
their scalps are occasionally paid. ,.,,
A little child of j. A. Lowe, in Wilkes
county, was burned to death few days
pgo while playing with fire; 1t had been
left alone. The fist of children burned to
death this winter. usually by reason OF
parents carelessness. is long one.
MUcHLY RELATED.
In Wilkes county this week January and
June were united, MIR. John Nichols, aged
eighty, marrying Miss Myra Crysel. The
father of the bride is the groom's brother
in-law as well as his father-in-law:
William Miller, who IS wanted IN Bun
oh N Irvmnn
last summer, has been captured at knox-
Vile, Tenn.
Al Asheville yesterday John Berry, who
Is on trial for the murder of George III.
Bell, was a witness in his own behalf. lie
swore that the shooting was done In self
defence in Bells shop, the latter having
weight in his hand which he was in the act
of casting at Berry. Mrs. Berry then went
on the stand and swore that Bell had in
ruited her and that she had informed her
husband of It, Berry is twenty years old,
his wife only sixteen, and they have been
married eighteen months. There are many
witnesses and the case will be stubbornly
contested.
PAY AND VOTE STRAIGHT.
Not long ago story was circulated that
Che Primitive Baptists in the western coun-
ties, headed by a preacher, Israel Holler,
were announcing that the end OF the world
d at hand. The Primitive Baptists say the
story is false; that there Is no preacher III
their denomination named Holler. They
do not use the term reverend" 1t must
be borne in mind that tho Primitive Bap-
fists in this State are good, honest, God
fearing people. They always pay their
debts and vote straight. II is pity to see
these good people maligned in such way.
There will be this year five gallons OF
Borchum made in this State where one was
l. ohnua w GOOD
Fense the people have. Edgecombe county,
II is asserted, produces more sorghum than
any other county. There Is an active de-
tnand for all the product.
To show the carelessness of some of the
negroes towards their children it may be
stated that since the exodus began several
have attempted TO leave the State and
leave behind them some of their little
children. In every case such attempts
have been frustrated. This week, in Nash
county, q negro family thus attempted to
leave behind three small children, having
i've In all.
OH. MY!
The records of Lenoir county, in the
courthouse at Kinston, show that Rich
ard Caswell, the first Governor of this
State under the Constitution, was indicted
there in his young days for stealing hog.
The charge was disproved but 1T stands
upon the record ana as n warning 10 srhnu
juries 10 be careful how they find true bills.
Judge Merriman. in charging grand jury
. day or 30 ago used this matter very forci-
tde to show the need of care.
Near Burgaw few nights past as Angus
Williams and another man stepped out OF
The door of the formers house they were
fred at by some one in ambush. Several
6uckshot struck Williams In the stomach.
knd the other mar was struck IN the fore.
head. John Costen, negro, IS III jan
charged with tho shooting.
Rattlcsnakes are very rarely seen until
spring in this State, but this week one OF
these deadly reptiles bit the eleven-y year
old son of Mr.. Isaiah Carroll, in Pender
county. Prompt attention was given, as
the boy was near the house, and his life
was saved, though his suffering was in
tense.
Fayetteville is growing quite rapidly. and
now claims to have 5000 residents.
II Is not now probable that tho people OF
Wilmington win have the proposed cele-
brstion in honor Of the completion of the
Cape-Fear and Yadkin-valley railroad on
the 18th and Of tho passage Of the first
train rom that city "a Nj Arg