Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-10
THEY WALKED BACK.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NEGRO Ex-
oouSTeRS FOOLED BY AN AGENT.
Wayne County Orders New Educational
Ccnsus--Newbcrne Voted Upon Rail-
road Bonds-A $50. 900 suit.
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RArxrou, N. c., January 9.--Colonel L..
I. Polk, president Of the National Farm
ers' and IAborers' Union. left for Washing
ton this afternoon to take charge OF that
position. He was accompanied by Mr.. ~.
II. Rlttenhouse.
So large is the exodus Of negroes from
Wayne county that the commissioners OF
that county have ordered a new cduca-
fional census TO be taken the latter part OF
this month. No doubt this course Will be
followed in dozen other eastern counties.
A negro labor agent named Applewhlte
afew days ago hired in Wayne county lou
negroes to 90 TO Arkanas. He said he was
a euh-agent of the well-known Peg-icg
Williams, and promised the negroes LARGE
wages. The party left hut when 1t had
rp~c he'd a point some forty miles away the
negroes were forced TO leave the train. the
agent telling them to get back as best they
could. Thew all walked back 10 Goldsboro' .
arriving there in an entirely destitute con-
dition. Applewhite IS negro.
A railway-man said TO-DAY that Williams.
the man alluded 70. Is the finest labor
agent in the country. and that this year ne
will make so. 900 out Of his movement OF
negroes from North Carolina.
The people OF Newbcrne to-day voted on
the question Of the issue Of bonds 20 Sc
cure the building Of railway from that
point 10 jacksonville. OnslOw county.
The road is TO be built and operated under
the charter Of the East Carolina Land and
Railway Company.
MUST LEARN TO SWIM.
The fire DEPARTMENT Of the town Of Will
son gets It's water from large tanks. The
Chief Of the FIRE department has issued an
order that all the frcmeD shall learn to
swim. as there is danger of falling into the
tanks and thus ieopardizing their lives.
81 .ar oil a f.engf
soon be built Of Goldsb Jro'.
The coiored fremcD Of this city last eve
ming presented to Captain L. Il. tngclhard,
chief of the FIRE department. a handsome
cane as a mark of their regard. The pre-
sentation was made by James Ii. Jones.
who tor twenty years has been foreman OF
the Victor company. one OF the finest or
CARNATIONS of colored lremen in the state,
and the Chief made pleasant speech IN
accepting the GIFT.
DELIBERATE MURDER.
Day before Yesterday. ut MillborO', in
Randolph county, man named John
Wheeler, who had once been guard of
oonyicts on the Millboro' branch railway,
and had been discharged for drunkenness,
walked up % a guard named George
Lemon, Of Moore county, and placing a
pjstol close TO the lattcr's head fired. The
bullet entered the skull. causing instant
vocation whatever for this horrible crime.
Wheeler was at once arrested aud JAILED at
ASHORE He claims that the shooting was
accidental.
At Greensboro before John w. Graham.
as referee q suit involving over $4,000 -
IN progress, the plaintiff being the Excel
sior Iron Works. of Chicago, and the de
PENDANTS Henry McK0y. tho Appalachian
Mining Company, and the Express and
Trust Company of London. The point at
issue isthe value Of machinery furnished
by the plaintiff to the defendants for use
at the latters gold-mine in Montgomery
county, and which is claimed TO be detec-
tive.
BUSINESS BRISK.
II was feared that there wOuld be q
great falling of in trade after the HOLIDAYS,
but this fear proved 10 he uniounded.
business is certainly better than was ex-
pected. The Farmers Alliance is doing
much TO relieve the strain on the farmers
In securing supplies.
The receipts of tobacco at the markets
are large.
MIR. Vanderbilt has had 1900 acres of his
magnificent domaiD near Ashevlllo plant
ed Ia white pine. Tho trees came from a
nursery near Chicago.
The County Commissioners of 1ransyl-
wanna have revoked their former order,
subscribing $50. 900 10 the French Broad
Valley railway, and wish TO consider a
proposition from the Atlanta, Asheville
and Baltimore railway which they appear to
prefer.
During the past wear sG5O.0OO was paid
for revenue stamps at Durham.