Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-01
WAITED FROM PINES.
THE NEWS DOWN IN THE OLD NORTH
STATE.
Items Gathered mt RaleiEli--Thc Pension
Qucstion-Gcneral Personals and
Briefs.



is quite noticeable in oil parts of the State.
Strawberries are now being shipped |
North from Fender county, near Whining
ton.
A suit for 5000 damages for breach of
promise of marriage has been brought by
Miss Emma Smith. well, known young
lady of Winston. against Thomas Pepper, |
recently married Miss Lippford, ofClarks- |
vile, Va. The suit will be an extremely |
interesting one. All the prominent law |
yers of the place appear on one side OF the |
other.
Ii is said that some young men OF CASTOR |
county few nights past attacked negro |
and perhaps fatally injured HIM by beating |
him on the head. Tho assault was unpro-
yoked.
Trans on the Winston and Wilkesboro' |
railway are now running TO point only
fourteen miles from Elkin. Fifteen hun
dred laborers are at work on this road:
II is said that since the war there have
been forty homicides in Ashe county. Tho
last occurred few days ago. Noah Shep- |
herd killed James Baker. Shepherd IL a
desperate, who year ago deliberately
walked up to Colonel James Grayson whiie
the latter was making speech IN favor OF
q railway, drew a knife. and wounded him
seriously. Shepherd is yet at large.
A. ii. Temples general store, mile from
this city, was burned last night. The loss
is some $1,000. The building was large |
one, Of wood. the family occupying the
second story. The loss is partially covered
by insurance. Temple, who Is revenue
officer, is absent on duty.
SEARCHING FOR ROUTE.
Surveyors are now searching for agood
route for the western extension fthe Nor
folk and Danville railway. II is considered
l..l.1 ID L., unto
touching Mt. Airy, and then go westward
through Allegheny county. They seek q
point at which to cross the Blue Ridge.
Another instance of q negro mothers
carelessness resulting in the burning to
death of her child is reported from Orange
county. II is the sixth death from this
criminal carelessness IN week; i
There is arobin-roost near Hillsboro' ana
the birds are killed there at night and ship
ped in all directions. The people who i XII
the birds get Sl.25 hundred for them.
One firm shipped two thousand birds in six
days. One man killed two hundred birds
in one night.
The neck of John A. Saunders, an opera
tive at q mill in GuilfOrd county. was broken
Wednesday evening by belt which he
was endeavoring to change from one pulley
to another. Saunders was fifty years old
and unmarried.
MILITARY.
The Governor has accepted the company
of infantry ut Burlington. and upon ITS
compliance with requirements it Will DO
mustered into service.
A trip through the country in this sec
ton shows such progress IN farming way
rs was never before seen in January. Az
least a third of the land has been ploughed,
and much care has been given 10 itS pre-
paration. The appearance OF many OF the
farms is that usual in March. These fore
handed farmers will certainly spare no pains
TO do good work in 1890.
There will be reduction of the acreage
Of lands in cultivation east OF here. VI
this there is no doubt. II will be apositive
benefit and not loss. The increased at
tention to truck will be marked also.
PENSIONS.
As soon as Acknowledgement Davidson
returns from Washington the state Pen
sion Board will get to work to prepare the
blanks and group the pensioners into the
proper classes. The annual payments 10
pensioners will this year aggregate some
$50. 900 Heretofore the annual appropria-
tiOn has been $4,000 and was a direct APP
preparation. Now it is derived from spe-
cial tax of three cents on the 500 property
valuation and nine cents on each poll.
The estimate that there are now 10000
IN this State is no doubt an excessive one,
and perhaps $500 would he nearer the
mark The order has lost both prestige
and membership in the past three years TO
a remarkable extent. The mingling OF the
races in some of the assemblies had great
deal to do with this. One tnlng IS certain,
the order has now no political force III
North Carolina.
II now appears quite certain that the
next Legislature will be asked TO enact a
law to regulate the taking of Iaborers from
this State. IL is very sure that the taking
away of such labor should only be per-
mitfed between November 18TH and Febru-
arv list. Then it would not interfere with
farm contracts.
Several large lumber-mills in the east
ern counties have been burned in the past
few months. All are being rebuilt. The
lumber interest in that section IS now OF
far greater importance than ever before.
| IL has caused the building OF at least eight
| RAILWAYS in the past three years IN that
part OF the State alone. In Robson county
| there is another marked development OF
the same business.
II was expected that the grand jury
| would at the present term OF Edgecombe
| Superior Court make some presentments
| for dealings in futures, but nothing OF the
| sort was done.
Secretary Wilson says that the State
Fair this year will be by far the best ever
| had.
~ il said that n number Of farmers in
Edpecombe county have lost their cotton
| seed. which were piled up, and which be-
came too greatly heated by the warm wea-
| Their, and thus their vitality was destroyed.
| As a result these farmers will have TO pur-
chase seed. There are IN progress efforts
| 10 induce the farmers to exercise greater
care this year in the selection of cotton
seed. Upon such selection great deal de-
ponds. =.
Careful estimates as to the number OF
negroes who have left Edgecombe county
| this winter place it at 1000. Yet, as IN
! Wilson county and in Lenoir, there VIII DO
enough labor.
SUPREME COURT.
The Supreme Court met to-day-Justices
| Merrimon, Shepherd, and CLARK on the
bench The day was devoted TO the ex-
animation OF twenty-three applicants for
| license as attorneys.
The exodus AGENTS have been warned to
leave Craven county. These agents ap-
reared at Newberne and were advised to
make no further attempts TO take negroes
| from there. The agents then went to Core
| Creek, in the same county, and began
work. As soon as the people who had
warned them to leave heard of this they
| took an engine and car and fastened TO
! Core Creek. and when they reached there
told the agents they. must leave at once.
| The result was the departure of the agents,
leaving the negroes behind them.
| Iaborers are now being engaged In the
Newberne section to work on the railway
from that point to Jacksonville, Onslow
county.
Rev. DR.. W. W. Landrum. of Richmond.
Va, is to preach the Baccalaureate sermon
at Wake-Forest College commencement.
Colonel Folks condition was to-day con-
siderably improved and he is believed TO
be out of danger.
1t is reported that the Hessian. fly has
| literally eaten the small grain crop in some
| SECTIONS of the State southwest of here.