Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-06-04
THE NEWS AT RALEIGH.
AN IMPORTANT AND INTER
ESTlNG TRIAL.
Elijah J. Moore and the Fayette-
willie Bank - James HI. Harris'
Funeral-Am Eloquent ColOred

willie Bank - James HI. Harris
Funeral-Am Eloquent ColOred
Man.
RALEIGH, June 3.-[SpeciaI. THE city
is largely emptied today-thal is a spe.
cial element is now wanting on tho
streets--in attendance upon the com.
fnencement at Chapel Hill.
There Is, however, another element ap.
parent today which fits some vacancies.
The Federal court is insession, and many
well known lawyers are here from
abroad. Among the,e are exjudgc James
c. McRae, ex-speaker George M. Rose,
Hon. A. M. Waddell, Mr.. Sutton and
Others. Examiner Tatcis also here, and
one case in which is officially concerned
will most probably come up for trial;
this is that of the bank wreckcr
Elijah ]. Moore, of Fayette-
vile. This man was President
of bank in histown with whose money
and credit he played until the town woke
up one morning To find itself half ruined.
an unusual expcricncc-not IN ruin. for
Fayetteville had become accustomed to
calamity-but in the experience of dis
honor, which it had never known. The
wreck caused by Moore was thorough,
and involved the property of conliding
women, some OF them relatives of his
wife, one Of whom became insane from
her losses, and the whole system was
carried through with a heartless rcck-
lessness that deprives the perpetrator
OF all sympathy. Five years in the U. s.
penitentlary, it conviction follows; and
the wish for that result | think is uni
vcrsal and heartfelt.
Yesterday the funeral of James II. Har-
ris, the noted negro politician, took place
here, and was said to be an uncommonly
large one. Harris had lived here since
The war, had been an active politician,
was several times member of the state
house OF representatives, and was can
didatc for congress from this district, but
was said to have yielded to the ban-
dishments of a heavy pecuniary consider
alton to make way tor an ambitious
white rival. He was a fluent, audacious
speaker, and could hold his own very
ably in debate. He had a position under
the Harrison administration, in Wash
ngton City. where he died suddenly Oh
Monday of heart disease.
| saw another prominent negro today,
the Rev. ]. {. Price, an able man, of
more elevated character, and much more
useful i'll his field of action. He has long
been known as an eloquent speaker in
the cause of prohibition, really not re-
latively eloquent, because no partially
OF surprise that negro can speak 50
we'll can lessen the impression that his
copious and elegant language, his strong
reasoning powers and his fine elocutiun
make upon every audience. He has es-
pecially undertaken the improvement of
his race through practical education. He
has Travelled this country and England
all over in behalf of his purpose to pro-
vide good schools for them; and the three
hne brick buildings on the western edge
of Salisbury 10 proof of his success. He
left today to travel through the south i'll
the interest of the negro department Of
the southern exposition.
Buncombe, as usual did we'll when
called upon to make her contribution to
the exposition. She gave one thousand
dollars. find that Mecklenburg did the
same. Wake gave So, 900, and so far as
heard from about $25,000 have been
voted for by the joint boards OF commits
sioners and magistrates.
Yesterday the little abandoned infant
of which the Raleigh papers have
said so much, died, aged about two
months. 1t had fallen into kind hands,
and childess wife had found i'll the poor
little waif something to fill the aching
void. Exaggcration will attach every
where to the cowardly father and the I'M
natural mother who abandoned. with
less of the tenderness of the wild beast,
the helpless offspring left to live or to per-
ish as accident might decide in the soli-
tude of desolatc vacant lot. Such crca-
lures deyelopc no conscience, else We
might invoke and await the tortures of
its stings.
Yesterday on the afternoon train on
which was a passenger, information
was given that a car load Of cotton was
on fire. on the track just ahead. Consc-
quently our train was brought to stand
still with the prospect of waiting till the
car and cotton were consumed, the track
destroyed and then rebuilt before trains
could pass. But Capt. Murphy and the
engineer were not the men to stand idly
by and see slow fire so on deliberately
with it's work. Though it was fearfully
hot work, a chain was in some way
passed around burning bumper, rope
made fast to that and the other to our
engine, which then backed down far west
of the depot, drawing the burning wreck
on the side track until out of the way OF
doing further mischief, and then with
windows all closed, we shot by, after
about hall an hours delay. Even in the
short interval in passing, the heat was
intense, the frame of the car being all
aglow, and all the cotton, except two
bales, which had been thrown out, in a
blaze. The origin of the fire was char.
actcristic. The car had been run up on
he main track to be unloaded into the
depot. Among the negro hands at work
unloading the cotton, was one smoking
pipe, a spark; fell upon a loose lock Of
cotton and then the fire C.