The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-01
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
rrDrR.J coURrF FOR THE EASTERN
DISTRICT IN SESSION.
THE Case OF Zach Rhodes, "a Revenue ohh-
Ger, Charged with Murder-ihe hgyp'
Railroad TO be Extended Northward.

WELDON. n. c., Nov. S0.--speeial.-
Tho Federal court for the Eastern district
Of North Carolina is now in session at
Raleigh. Judge Seymour, of the district
court. presiding. Judge Bond is detained
q, home by sickness, neither is IL though.
that Judge Gon will be present during the
term. There are thirty cases on the ciVli
docket and twenty-six on the criminal
docket. The latter will be increased by
presentments from the grand jury. An
,unortant cases before the court is that
OF the State Of North Carolina against
Jack Rhodes. a revenue officer, chaFsed
with murder while attempting 10 seize
on Illicit dlstillery. Another important
case Is the suit Of Mrs. Crabtree, OF wash
ington. this state, against the Old DO
minion Steamship Company for hVe thou-
sand dollars damages for injuries received
bv a fall on one OF the companys steam
ers.
Hoke Secrest. charged with the murder
of his wife and child near Hickory' some
years ago. and burying them IN a secluded
frot. was captured at Sp~artanburg, >. e.
this week. Secrest was tried Tor the
crime in Mcdowell county a short time
after the murder was committed and was
sentenced to death, but he secured a new
trial. which resulted in sending him TO an
asylum on the plea OF insanity. lie twice
made his escape from the asylum. 1t is
said ne will again be tried for his life in
Mcdowell county for the same crime.
The Egypt railway, which at present eX-
tends from Colon, on the RaIeigh ana
Augusta Airline to Egypt, in Chatham
county. Is to be extended quite a number
- .,gloc rUocfuFa ri and bonds 10 DHX
for this extension are now being Heated.
Rut meantime the Glennclif and Gulf
railroad. a corporation chartered by the
last legislature. is under way and has
trespassed. the Egypt road claims, upon
its property. or rather taken unlaWful
possession Of it's right OF way ana graded
II for two or three miles. A SUIT was
brought, and the question argued at OK
ford before Judge Conner. at chambers,
but no decision has been rendered. The
Egypt company wants to build it's road.
The company In addition TO the o
now operated and to be extended, also
owns the famous coal mines in Chatham
county. which experts say will yield ff-
teen million tons Of coal. New machinery
has lust been put in, which will make the
daily yield three hundred tons.
Last week i'm Cleveland county, John
holland. aged forty-four years. died a
most horrible Otdln AIDHl iNuiOlHobld
About five months ago holland was bitten
on the hand by n dog supposed to be
rabid. He went to Lincolnton and had
a mad stone applied to the wound. The
stone adhered repeatedly, and 1t was
thought all danger was over. Some days
ago he complained Of feeling bad and OF
a difficulty i'm swallowing water. and the
next day while attempting to drink was
sliced with commissions and died In a few
hours in great agony, Notwithstanding
the efforts Of the physicians to relieve
him. He chewed his tongue literally 10
pieces.
The dwelling house. furniture and some
money Of George Guilford's, at Durham's
Creek, near Washington, were recently
destroyed by fire. TIL whole was a total
loss, there being no insurance.
Capital stock for a second bank has
been subscribed at Washington, and 1t
will soon be open for business.
The records Of Wayne, Sampson, Du-
pin and Johnston counties show a recent
transaction Of considerable magnitude,
the North State Lumber Company hav-
ing executed to the Baltimore Trust
and Guarantee Company a mortgage to
secure the issue of one hundred thousand
dollars I'm gold coupon bonds for the pur-
pose of constructing a manufacturing
plant.
The towns located at junction points
throughout the ~company's property are
all making strenuous efforts to secure
the plant, and the Richmond and Dan
vile. the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
roads and the Atlantic Coast Line are
also interested in the location Of the
mills.
]. NJ. Morris, general agent Of the
Atlantic Coast Line. recently visited
nrrham investigating the adVisability of
extending to that place the branch road
which now runs from Rocky Mount to
S~pringhope. 1t has long been thought
that the branch would be extended, and
Raleigh has been nXiou to have 1t,
but nothing definite is known of the In
tention Of the railroad officials. 1t is
evident. however. that the road VIII
finally be extended to one of those places.