The state chronicle., 1892-04-06
City News.

dlsLrlct OF Iare county.
Mr.. Weston Il. Gales, assistant
State secretary Of the Y. NJ. {. A.,
will be here this week, to take charge
of the Raleigh association.
The travel on the street cars Sun.
day was the heaviest since the exposi !
ton. Six cars could have found plenty
to do on the yellow line alone.
One of the old street cars has been
handsomely repainted and reftted and
has been sold to the Greensboro street
railway company. Some of the other
cars are being Gttel up for use as
''trailers" here.
A special term of Lin 3oln county
superior court is ordered by the Gov
ernor, to begin May %, to continue
two weeks, and to be for the trial OF
criminal and civil cases. Judge By
mum will preside.
here was report yesterday that
"a the railway west of and near here
negro man had made a desperate at
Tempt to cut the throat of q negro
woman, but that the wound though
bad was not serious.
Mr.. G.. b. Afford, who was here yes
terday, gives bad account of politics
in the Holly Springs section, declaring
that Third party men are plentiful
there. He knows of 45 in his imme-
date section But he is faithful, and,
as he smilingly said, proposes ''to hang
on to the Democratic tree. even if all
the other fruit falls off,"
Yesterday the Supreme court sent
down to Gov. Holt certified copy Of
the proceedings of the appeal of John
Cox. The latter was convicted Of the
murder Of William Sutton in Jones
county and was sentenced to be hanged
December 18th. He appealed. The
Supreme court sustains the court be-
low, finding no error. The Governor
has issued a death warrant for Cox,
who will be hanged at Trenton May / 3.
Mr.. Council, one Of the best farm
ers in west Wake, was here yester,
day and says the farmers are planting
no cotton in his section, but are put
ting ali their land in corn. In a
stretch of eight miles he did not see q
field in which cotton would be planted
but the planting of corn is going on
even spare bits OF land near dwelling
being used. There is a most commend
able disposition on the part of the farm
ers to 'make every edge cut"
Mr.. T. X. Bruner says the trip O
Prof. Holmes, Mr. p. M. Wilson an
himself to New York and Philadelphi
was very successful, They secure
the co operation of some eminen
scientists, as well as glass manufat
turers, fruit packers, &c, in the wor
OF aiding in making the North Care
lima exhibit at the Worlds Fair. Th
States are striving to secure noveltie
North Carolina will not be left in sue
race. A lot Of gem stones have bee
placed in the hands of lapidaries to
cut for exhibition purposes.
, Yesterday afternoon Eddie Dewa
the a year old son of Mr.. w. !
Dewar, and grandson of Mrs. Bank
fell into well in rear OF Mrs. Bank
boarding house on Fayetteville str ae
and gave the people a great frigh
The little fellow was walking on IL
wooden top of the well. Part of
gave way and down he went son
thirty feet into the water. AS
came up he seized the iron pipe of
pump and held on pluckily.
Tas fully a quarter of an hol
oefoJe he was rescued Poll
officer Walls was one of the crov
which gathered and he sent-lown in
the well a young negro boy, some
years old whom he knew. The b
brought little Eddie up, safe a
sound save few cuts about the hes
Several physicians attended the lit
fellow. He was wet and cold, and h
lost some blood from the wounds
the head.
Gov. Holt yesterday commuted t
death sentence of Gilbert Dunlap, W
was to have been hanged May 9th,
Carthage, Moore county, for the m
der of Robert Hoover, August IA
1891. The sentence is commuted
five years in the penitentary, for
following reasons: The Judge W
tried the case writes that the defend
was technically guilty of murder,
does not consider that the crime
mands the extreme penalty of the Il
that the mortal wound was infic
under circumstances of great prove
ton; that there was strong testim
to the fact that the defendant az
in the necessary protection of
life, and strongly urges commutat
The solicitor and jury, the entire
who heard the trial, anu very IL
number of the best citizens of
county all strongly urge commutat
In fact many favor the idea that
prisoner acted in self-defense
should not be punished at all. Aft
careful review. of the case the sent,