Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-26
UPPER CAROLINA.
ssAeoARp SYSTEM TO BE EXTENDED
TO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.
KNIGHTS Of Labor Collaborating with tho
Farmers' Aliiance-Neerccs Kicking
Against the Party.
rspec,.l ,olegram % the DIspatch.l

RaLxraH. N. c., April 25.-The State Sc
cretary Of the Knights Of Labor IN an inter-
view to-day says that the confederation OF
The order with the Farmers Alliance upon
certain lines has had tendency TO aiiay
great deal OF the once strong ieeilng IA
North Carolina against the hnigh,s .,
Labor organization. The result Is q marked
increase In membership during the present
wear. as there are now 275 assemblies, with
a total membership OF 10000 about equally
divided between the white and black races.
The order has assemblies in fifty counties
and il recovering its former strength.
The residence Of Rev. :. &. Page, at
Smiths Ferry, Cumberland county, mas
been burned with most OF ITS contents
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.
Fx.Conpressman Wharton J. Green, Of
FAYETTEVILLE. Will be a candidate for the
congressional nomination IN the third dis-
trict McClammy, of Fender, ana AycocK'
of Wayne, are also candidates. -,
Branch Davis, O veteran Of the war with
Moxco. is in iai AZ Hillsboro' for shooting
AT James Turner with n shotgun.
A young man named Jefferson Fowler
was dangerously, perhaps fatally, hurt at n
saw-mill in Orange county few days ago;
A piece OF timber struck his abdomen anu
disembowelled him. The wound was -FOUR
inches wide.
II IS intimated that the Scaboard system
will extend the Carolina Central railway
from a point near Nj. Holly ctd StaiesViiie
and Wiikesboro' to some point III oouth-
western Virginia.
TO pyNoUNcE TIKI q. o. y.
The negroes OF the Piedmoud sectlVh
nropose 10 hold mass meeting next month
10 denounce The Republican party whlcn
they declare has treated them most
scurvily. oioa.od
president of the North Carolina steel ana
Iron Cnmpnnv. C. d. Benbow, of Green's
boro', secretary. e 5o,,,,,
There appears to he no manner OF DOUBT
az 10 the denomination OF John ,. hehuer-
son and W. II. n. Cowles for Congress.
In Nash county this season the TOBACCO
acreage will be four times "a great as that
of last season. This is said to be careful
estimate.
In Wilson county Daniel Conyers Color
cd was accidentally shot and killed IN his
own house bv Hill Bryant. also cOlored.
I'LL had the gun, the men having Just re-
turned from a hunt. and fell at the d0or;
the gun striking a step and the entire load
passing through Conyerss body.
As EXODUS TO TEXAS.
II Is very probable that great part OF
the negro emigrants from this state next
autumn and winter will 90 to Texas, as II
is said railway people ana laiuieIS thcIe
will make special efforts TO secure negro
labor there Some negro speakers are
now urging their people not TO leave North
Carolina TO go anywhere.
A oold-mine in Nash county has Just been
Sold 10 a northern syndicate for 10000.
The veins Of gold are large, well defined.
and rich.
The Vance Guards Company c, Third
regiment. Of Henderson. will 60 - Rich
mond May goth.
This evening ID. l.. Watt, Of this city.
n,sbing goods, assigned to j. $. Winnie for
the benefit of his creditors. The liabilities
are not stated. The preferred debts are
seventv-fiye hundred dollars, of which
twenty-five hundred are to Joseph q.
Brown. of Raleigh, and the remainder to
northern creditors. The assets are not
stated