Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-02
A REVENUE RAID.
eomr LIVELY WORK DOWN IN THE
OLD NORTH STATE.
A very Brazen Feliow-Ths Killing Of Sim
Lowery-A Singular
Case.


fr rrvuar raid in Johnston and Harnett coun-
~. T., ,vb;ch thew captured three Illicit
S;st;lleries. They destroyed all the pro-
perry. None OF the operators were arrested,
all having made their escape. Two Oh the
Mr.. A. II. Temple, the loss OF whose store
and dwelling near here yesterday was re-
norted saws the value of the property was
&c 900 and the insurance S3UV.
RE Grand iury of Buncombe county has
found q true bill against Alfred McEirath,
A fourteen-year-old negro, for the murder
of Charles Ricketts,, a negro lad.
DR.. II. Il. Heriot committea Suiciae a.
Rrevard. Transatlantic county, last wed
nesdsy by shooting himself in the head
with a revolver bullet. de was seventy
two wears old and q native OF GEORGETOWN,
SO. For long time he had been NC
tim Of suicidal mania. ,,.r
A cotton factory is to be built at Marion.
There will be great development IN TINS
line in 1890. The agricultural department
last wear published list OF 132 factories.
That is under the real NUMBER inc coui-
missioner informs me.
DIR. G.. C. Mccoy was found dead in his
he'd nj his home at Marion last "Wednesday.
He was seyenty-two years OF age.
Colonel J. NJ. Hick. of this city, widely
known as a coal-mine owner, and the giver
of the soldiers home at Ridgeway,. IS very
sick at his home here. with bronchiaipneu
j.. ]. Thomson & Co., general merchants
Mt Old Fort, Mcdowell county, have as
signed TO George Il. Thomson, Tor the
benefit Of creditors.
The military company at. wilson. Gap
tain Bruton. has been assigned TO the
Second Regiment as Company u, and tnat
at Burlington, Captain Holt, to the Third
Regiment as Company L;
IL is said that 800 people from Richmond
and Arson counties have gone to South
Carolina TO live, having obtained employ
mont in cotton factories. There Is also
said TO be a considerable movement OF
young men from the Catawba section TO
Tennessee and Kentucky.
William Leigh, of Virginia. hos pur-
chased for $4,000 the extensive iron ore
bank in Lincoln county, and Will soon
begin work there with large torce.
ABRAzEN FELLOW.
C.E. Day. the man hailing from Phila-
delphia. who not long since at Henderson
married q Mississippi lady. was tried it ok
ford for forgery, and was sentenced TO hye
years imprisonment in the penitentlary.
His marriage was the result of an adver-
tisement in matrimonial journal, which
oauoht the eve of the Mississippi girl. BY
appointment thoy met the first time at
Henderson and in an hour or two were
married in the hotel parlor., In week
the groom began his criminal career. lie
is brazen fellow, and said to Judge Arm
field after sentence: "Please have me sent
to the penitentiary as soon as possible.
Anywhere ~ preferable to this jail"
The trial of Jordan Pritchard for murder
is in progress at Oxford. Once Pritchard
was adiudgcd insane and was sent to the
asylum He escaped, but, was arrested.
AT the last term of Granville court he was
tried. The jury hung, 30 the case comes
up again at this term.
Rev +. l.. Humphreys, q Baptist
preacher, died at Oxford day before yester-
day after long illness.
Efforts are being made to induce the
farmers of Cumberland and Robson to en-
gage in the trucking business. The soil IS
well adapted to it. the climate is very soft,
and the railway facilities are excellent.
| Rev, j. l.. Wise, of South Carolina. has
taken charge of the Baptist church at Red
Springs, Robson county.
Trains on the Cape Fear and Yadkin- Val
ley railway will begin their regular schedule
on the 18th instant, leaving Wilmington at
$3.50 A. NJ. arriving at Fayetteville at l:45
p. NJ, Greensboro at 6:15, and Mt. Airy at
1918. Fayetteville is to be the dinner sta
ton for all trains.
THE KILLING OF SIM LowEEy.
There were some very curious circum-.
stances in connection with the killing OF
Sim Lowery, the young Croatan Indian.
at Maxton, by Donohoe Mcqueen, the
night Waterman of the town. The three
shots were heard Just before midnight, and
few minutes later Lowery's body was
, found. There was mystery as TO his
slayer. Mcqueen said not word, The
next morning at breakfast he was asked If
he had heard the shooting. de gave an
| Ltrt naralnQQ-
" that there was dead man IN conse-
| quence Of the shooting. That day was
. Sunday and Mcqueen went to church and
| partoOk of the communion. Afterwards ne
read in his room, and in the afternoon quiet
" walked into the room where the Coroner
was holding the inquest and took his seat.
, A little later he suddenly rose and said 10
the Coroner: There is no need of more
questions. l shot the man-that is, l shot
one man three times last night" On his
trial he was acquitted. 1t is very curious
case.
Apples of the second crop have ripened
in Pender county this month.
1t is learned that very large hotel Is 70
be built at Swansboro'. Onslow county.
The directors of the Burgaw and Onslow
! railway met at New York hlsweek and de-
cided to push work on that road.
| Governor Fowle declined TO commute
the death-sentence of John Wilson, oil
} Yancey county, who will therefore be
hanged next Friday for the murder OF a
man named Edge.
| Colonel L. l.. Polk was out to-day after
! a critical illness, and returns to Washing
3 ton city tomorrow to take charge or his
Office.
) Kleber Denmark was to-day at Colds
, boro' awarded So 900 damages against the
Atlantic and North Carolina railroad.
Cotton is still opening in Chowan county
. and pickers are now In the fields there.
The revenue collections in this district
during January were $4,000.
3 The Supreme Court to-day granted
? licenses to the following to practice law
Hayne Davis, Frank ID. Hackett, and j. Il.
4 Watts, Of Iredell; John b. Leigh, OF Ty.
. rell; John F. Mclyer, of Moore; II. L,
: Murphy, of Pender; A. M. Simmons. OF
! Hyde; Henry b. Stevens, James d. Car.
rier, and ". D. Fitzgerald, of Buneombe
i. +. Iron, of Pitt; Eugene Withers, OF
: Danville: T. II. Woodley and J. O. Fletcher
3 of Washington; Allen b. Brown, of New
Hanover; Edward L. Travis, of Halifax
A, S. Houghton and James Thomas, OF
l Craven; Abner Nash, of Robson; Il. A
} johnson, OF Wake, and II. L. Peck, Of
Davidson. Three applicants rejected
FERTILIzERs.
Fertilizer Inspector Terrell reports
/ that with the exception OF Washington and
l Newberne no fertilizers have been shipped
r to any points east of the Wilmington and
Weldon railroad. To points west of it ship
. ments have been quite heavy.
There is rumor that the Atlantic Coas'
} Line has made proposition to assume pay,
, ment of part of the cost of the building Of
, the new union depot here.
: DESPERATE MooNsHINER.
Neill Thornton. a desperate moonshiner,
/ 4. 80 "a
is now in jail here.
Twenty thousand dollars worth Of ticket:
have been sold at the Salem ticket Office tc
negro exodusers. -,
Fx-President Cleveland and wife viii
very probably visit Wilmington before the
middle or this month.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.