Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-11
BIG LAND DEALS.
PURCHASE 4Y A PHILADELPHIA SYN
plcATE OF LARGE TIMBER TRACTS.
Successful Search for a Two-Year.Oid
Child--A Fight with Knives-Regis-
tered Letters RiHed.
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CsAn1orry, N. c.. January 10.-The
street 6oht of Drs. 4. g. Register and ID.
O'Donoghue here yesterday afternoon. rs
teleoraphed the Disp0tch last night. is still
all the town talk. Both gentlemen APP
reared before Mayor Mcdowell this morn
ing and all the circumstances OF the I'M
pleasant affair were brought out. These,
however, were substantially the same as
telegraphed the Dispatch last night and
have already been printed. The Mayor
fined DIR. O,Donoghue five and DIR. Register
three dollars. To-day it was whispered
around that further trouble between the
two gentlemen might he expected, but
upon careful investigation. your CORE
spondent fails to find any foundation for
the sensational rumors. Both gentlemen
now say the matter is at an end. The epi-
sode is very much regretted by everybody
here, and especially by the medical ira
ternity.
DEATH OF Ex-coN0RgssMAN HARPER.
Hon. James c. Harper, the most promi:
nent and best-knowD citizen OF Caldwell
county, died at his home. at Patterson.
yesterday of asthma complicated with
heart-disease and other troubles. Colonel
Harper was about seventy years OF age. lie
was a native of Pennsylvania. but moved
to North Carolina before the war. In 1870
ne was elected to Congress from his dis
trict and served one term. He was men,
Der of the Building Commission OF the
Western North Carolina Insane ASYLUM,
and in that capacity rendered the State In
estimable service, and from the organlza-
ton of the institution named he has been
one of its most honored and most useful
directors He was respected for his great
wisdom and honored for his spotless In
tegrity.
LITTLE WAIF FOUND.
The little two-year-old daughter Of James
NJ. Morgan. of Rowan county, got lost IN
the woods Wednesday. Search was at once
instituted. Darkness came and the mo-
theirs grief and anxiety for her little girl IN
creased with every moment. general
alarm was made and the search continued
until S O'Clock the next morning, when
they stopped to rest and wait for day. AS
soon as dav dawned the search was re-
newed and the searcbers increased in num-
Der until there were over one hundred.
About O'Clock Yesterday morning the lit
tie wanderer was found over q mile from
home about twenty-five yards from the
road beside log. The father was the first
to find the child. She was chilled very
much. There were thirty ladies In the
search.
TO THE FINISH.
Two negroes. Dave Sheriff. and Ed.
Lewis, had fight TO the finish near Beth
lehem church, in Iredell county, last night:
They fought with knives or razors, and
both were badly cut up. Lewis got cash
down his back a foot long. Both were cut
in a number of places. but neither fatally.
TIE BOND TRACT SOLD.
A big land deal was effected yesterday in
Morganton by which the title to the Bond
timber lands in Caldwell county passed to
l,I, Il, .a,.ital.cta in axrhanUn for
, big pile of gold. The Bond tract consists
of 1s.440 acres of fine timber and mineral
lands. and was the property of Miss Louisa
NJ. Bond. Colonel $. Mcdowell Tate exc
cuted deed TO the purchasers under pow
er of attorney from Miss Bond. The pur-
chasers are Joseph W. Janney, Charles N.
Allen, and Aurin h. Nichols, of Phlladel,,
phia. Pa. and the sale was eiiected
by Mr.. w. b. Council, Jr.. prominent
lawyer of Boone, Watauga county. Mr..
Council has also effected the sale to the
same parties of Dase's entries in Caldwell
and Watauga counties, containing about
II. 900 acres of land. SO that the Phladel-
phia syndicate have control Of $4,000 acres
of the finest timber lands in the South:
Most of the land lies along the base and
southern slopes OF the Blue Ridge, III
Caldwell county.
wANkMAKER's "CooNs."
Some keen post-office inspectors are
needed in this section to nab more OF
Wanamaker's thieving coons." Numerous
complaints are being made about letters
being rifed. 1t is learned TODAY that a
registered letter recently mailed at Ruther-
fordton containing a check for seventeen
dollars and ten ten-dollar certificates was
riHed en- route TO Statesville. The check
was received all right but the one hundred
dollars in notes were missing. The en-
velope gave plain indications of having
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