Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-20
AMONG THE PINES.
HAPPENINGS HERALDED FROM THE
OLD NORTH STATE.
. p,dect from RaIeigh--Raiiway Notes
The Work Of the Wcather-The
Joiner observation-disclosures.
ccorr..,ondonco OF the Richmond pl,p..ch.I


RALEIGH, N. c.. March 10, 1889.
II islearned today that rights OF way are
being secured for the railway, to be oulit
bv tho Wilmington and Weldon haliway
Comnanv from Springhope, Nash county,
TO Raleigh. ,..,, v,,,
two Office daily as 30 whether there has
been an application for Communication OF
tbo death sentence of James p. Davis, who
ia IA he hanged March 18th. No such ap-
nIicotion has been made. nor is 1t probable
II will be- A respite may be asAeu ior' put
even that is not very probable. Inc evil
dence of Dayis's brutal muruer ol JOih ~
Horton is too clear.
The LARGE farm mile south OF Raleigh,
which has for several years been Guilt
waited bv the penitentiary authorities has
boen relinquished, save tract OF 100 acres,
and private parties have leased the lands.
Among those who have secured these lands
is William g. Upchurch. president OF the
State Agricultural Society.
The directors of the penitentlary beid
meeting to-day. The expenses TINS quarter
exceed thereceipts on account OF the cost
of materlel &c purchased To ut out the
farm on the Roanoke river. The excess
will be some Sll coo, II - stated.
WORK or TIE wEATHEr.
The cold weather IS said to have entirely
destroyed the plUms. both wiid ana cult
waited. The trees were far advanced. Inc
damape to truck is daily shown to be even
oreater than was at first supposed. The
small Grain is badly hurt. All the wheat
which was iointcd was killed down. ms
nupears to have been the case everywhere.
Half the peach crop is lost in some see
tions The late fruit Il said TO have been
benefited by the severe weather.
In the Superior Court at GOldsboro' there
is an interesting trial IN progress. IL IL Tor
$40. 600 damages for the killing OF FRANK
Deans last year near Goidsboro'.
DON'T WANT SUCH MES.
Tho negro Methodists say they do not
want any such men az Rev. i. NJ. JOINER 10
proach to them. aud that they do not care
10 have ANYTHING 10 do with white men
who have been cast ont by the white race.
The fisheries are dong well Oil along the
sounds and in the lower rivers. Great
numbers of shad and herring are beng
caught and prices are well sustained.
The prospectus or the Bessemer steel
furnaces. at Greensboro. was issued to-
dav. II states that two furnaces. each OF
seycntv-five tons daily capacity. will he
built. and that the company controls IRON
mines in Chatham and Moore counties;
limestone deposits IN Stokes, and coke and
fuel at POcahOntas, Va. ana Oh DeepIlFti
and Dan river in North Carolina.
A careful estimate Of the damage 10 the
crane crop was made officially to-day. and
il is that one third Of the early grapes are
killed by cold weather. About one fourth
of the grapes in the State are OF early va
rieties and are affected.
Road-Master ElMore, OF the Carolina
Central railway, has captured and placed
in iall at Elizabethtown, Bladen county, a
NEGRO man who smashed the windows m
the private car Of John G. Winder, general
manager of that road.
IL IS learned from reports to-day that the
intensely cold weather iii the western coun-
ties has done much damage to the apple
crop.
Work has begun on a rallwav from Ashe-
Vile to George Vanderbilt's suburban
place. "Biltmorc." distance of three
miles. The road will be built and operated
by Mr.. Vanderbilt for his private use IN
conveying material TO his place.
Reports were made 10 the Agricultural
Department to-day Of the discoveries OF
large and valuable phosphate deposits in
Cumberland county, and specimens were
sent for analysis.