Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-14
A FATAL FREAK.
Mild Cases Of La Grippe--Northern Cap
italists Lease Iron-Beds-In an ASYLUM
Again-Charged With wife-Murder.

Mild Cases of La Grippe--Northern Cap
italists Lease Iron -Beds-In an Asylum
Again-Charged With Wife Murder.
Especial telegram 70 the Dlspatch.I
RALErGH, n. c., January l3.-It is learned
to-day that the body of j. Claude Parrish.
the white man who was hanged here last
Friday. was never buried, bat that il was
secured by medical students. II il said
that the body was taken to some thick
woods Friday afternoon. and was there
hidden. and that at night the people who
wanted IL went after il and secured il.
At Hot Springs, Saturday, as q fast train
was entering the town white man fred
several shots from q revolver and then
spTang of the forward platform Of o car
He was thrown with great force against
some rocks and his injuries are thought to
be fatal. His skull was crushed. one eve
knocked out, and leg and an arm broken.
His name il Van Henderson and Hot
Springs is his home. He was drunk and
had been cursng and fighting on the tram.
He jumped of 70 avoid arrest.
The visit OF Ex-Governor Underwood, OF
Kentucky. grand sire OF the Supreme Grand
Lodge. |. q. y. f., l. awaited with much
interest by the order here Mr.. Under
wood will visit all the southern States.
The students Of the University will have
its usual celebration Of Westinghouse
birthday. Henry Johnston, of Edgecombe,
has been chosen 10 deliver tho address.
ENCOURAGING THE EXODUS.
Some Of the negro politicians are said 10
be doing all they can TO encourage the ex-
Odus movement among that race.
l.. T.. Clark, general merchant at Avery.
Mitchell county, has assigned for the bene-
fit of creditors. Assets, Sl,SOO; liabilities,
$1,000.
There is much depression in the lumber
market in Mitchell county. The boom in
timber has caused many farmers to neglect
their crops.
There IS now fine battalion of Uniform
ed Knights Of Pythias IN this State. Grand
Chancellor 4. d. Meares organized two new
lodges last week.
There are a few cases Of IN grippe at VIII
mington. but thetype is mild Not adeath
has resulted from this disease III North
Carolina.
At Marion a few days ago hand-car on
therailwav ran over Henry Johnston, sec
tion-master, and fatally injured nm. In
eudeavOring to avoid the tongue OF q
wagon. which projected over the track, he
fell and the car passed over has body.
CRUsREDBY ALoo.
While William Wiseman, seventy years
of ace. was cutting logs in a mountain side
in Mcdowell county he fell Just as he had
cut OF a log. The log rolled down the
mountain side. crushing him az il rolled.
Rev. Mr.. McDnflie. OF Wake county, has
been called to the pastorate Of the Third
BAPTIST church. Durham.
Northern capitalists have leased for q
term of years the large lron-ore beds near
rincOlntOn and will develop them extern
sivciy.
Some wheat Is Already coming IN JOINT, "
rs the farmers say, and there are fears that
n cold snap will on tnis account DO speclhi
damage TO this crop.
The Roanoke and Southern railway off,
cials are confident that they Will complete
that line to Madison by the time speclhed
in the agreement.
DR.. Eugene Grissom, ex-superntendcnt
of the North Carolina Insane Asylum here,
has been offered Il position III an asylum
at st. Louis. 1t is probable that he WI
accept the offer. as the position IS sald 10
be one TO which handsome salary IS a.
tached. He has just returned from ~.
Louis. having gone there TO look after TINS
While some young friends Of Charles
Hendricks were serenading him IN mock
fashion at his home at sulphur springs
Buncombo county, q gun burst and lien
bricks was hurt in the face. =,
The electric fre-alarm system Will De NJ
once put III operation at Asheville. Ihere
will be fifteen boxes.
The first semi-annual exposition OF the
Normal Collegiate Institute VIII De heiu at
High Point January 18TH.
BEAVERS RE-APPEAR1NG.
The beaver was some years ago practi-
cally an extinct animal IN thlr Siate'
Strange to say, they are now rapidly IN
,,, L4rs CpNaTal l0CAiltlDS.
This is particularly the case on the Dau
river.
ACTUATFD BY REVENGE.
Llovd Arnold (colOred) has been com
mitted to iail in Washington county. lie
Is charged with having murdered MS WE
last June. He was tried some months ago
for abducting a negro girl from .her pa
rents with the intention of marrying her.
Afterwards he did marry her. Some p9o-
ple saw the charge of murder IS made Dy
enemies of Arnold, who are animated Dy q
spirit Of revenge. $780,.
crop ever planted in Wayne county Will DO
cultivated this year. ,
The Cape Fear and Yadkin-Valley rail-
vav will be formally opened for business
from Wilmington TO Parkersburg, q dls-
lance OF sixtg-twO miles, on the 2Oth III
slant. The tracklayers are IN elSht mics
OF Fayetteville.
MASONIC.
The Grand-Master of Masons Samuel II;
Smith arrived here to-day, having been NJ
Oxford. where be visited the Orphan Asy-
INN. Tomorrow evening the Grand Lodge
of Masons begins its annual commuhlch-
tion here The attendance Will De large.
Grand Master Smith says there has Deeh q
gratifying increase Of membership curing
the year. ,,.,.-., ,,o, &,
George Kidder of Wilmington, was To-
day commissioned assistant commlssary-
general.
PENSIONS.
The State Board of Pensions VIII meet ,
Tomorrow in the Executive Office 70 taAe
action regarding the new pension acl
which goes into effect this year. Inc pen
sion roll win now amount to some seventy
FIVE thousand dollars. or about two anu
half times as much as it has been hereto
fore.
GOOD SPECULATION.
II is understood that Table Saunders SOFA
his famous cold mine in Montgomery coun-
Nv for $4,000 and that the purchaser al
once sold IL for gu, 900. c...
j. Il. Gordon, pastor OF Edeh'on-o.iie ',
Metbodist church here, who tor some Gays
has been critically sick with pneul1onua, Is ;
In more favorable condition tosoay, snu
lis physicians are now quite hopeful. Only