The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-04-22
FRIDAY. APRIL %. 1892.
SIX PAGES.


The supreme court reaffirmed its recent de-
,ision as 20 trial by jury.-Ihe city committee
decided to give Colonel Spotswood the re-
connt and recanvass after lively meeting
The Masonic fair continues.-Ihe Walker
Light Guards will celebrate their anniversary.
The Blues Band gave concert.
VIRGINIA.
steamer will be put on the Mvsnna between
Columbia and Palmyra.-Mr. G. l.. Barden, OF
Rovkins lost his barn and four horses by ire
The Buena Vista paper works will, SIS reorgan-
,zed be n large esta bishment.--Buena
Vista chamber of commerce is collecting
an exhibit for the Chicago FAR
Rev. Luther Doggett of Philadelphia. was
married TO Miss Fannie Hinton. OF Petersburg.
a large tract of land has been sold IN Din
widdie county to Northern syndicate.--Mr.
A. s. Edwards of Surry county, has made an
sssienment.-A committee of citizens from
Newport News are visiting Washington In the
interest Of the naval review.--Miss Jennie
Watkins died at Farriston, Charlotte county
Anaval board will convene at Norfolk to-day.
Miss Denina Holden of Norfolk Is dead.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Third party is thought to be dead in Hall
fax county.-A mass meeting was held IN
Edgecombe by those who favor aThlrd party and
a convention called.--Trucking interests
around Wilmington are in a favorable condi-
tion-There is a strong prohibition feeling in
Northampton.-A seine fishery has been estab-
Ished on the Roanoke below Weldon-The
quantity Of guano sold in Eastern North Caro-
lima has been small.
GENERAL
The Chinese Exclusion act was discussed at
length in the Senate.-The House continued
consideration of the Rockwell-Noyes election
case yesterday.--The North Carolina Railway
Commission handed down two opinions yester-
day.-Mrs Raspberry again won the suit
against her stepmother in Atlanta yesterday.
james H Cockerham, of Des Moines, Iowa.
Killed his divorced wife and then shot himself
The Indiana Democratic Convention in
structed for Gray for the presidency yesterday.
The Paris police threaten to strike unless
their pay is ncreased.-Serious trouble Is
brewing among the settlers of the new Territory
THE last census report gives some interest
ing figures as to the numerical proportion of
negroes in the New England States. In
Rhode Island it is 22l per cent; in Connect
cut. LIZ; in Vermont, 80 per cent, and only
rs per cent. in New Hampshire. New Hamp-
shire is the home of Chandler. who has
always made himself 80 notorious rs the
friend of the race In the New England
States, as a whole. the negroes have in the
course of the last ten years fallen off in a
marked degree. The Boston Journal seeks
70 explain this fact by Offering the following
reasons. which will be accepted for what they
ore worth
The prejudices of centuries are not to be
conquered all at once, even in liberal New
England. For some reason the coored youth
have not become conspicuous in the factory
system which furnishes employment to so
many thousands of our immigrants, and like
our native white town-bred youth they seem
generally indisposed to farming. Like our
white youth, therefore, there is often no
course for them but to leave New Englan for
other newer States"