Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-10
THE CROP BULLETIN.
PEACHES RUINED, BUT A SMALL
YIELD OF OTHER FRUIT.
c.,a,,,on Of Strawberries. Grapes, Potn'
toes. and Other Products-A Preacher
Held for Arson.

| ,ssued by the state this evening. ii says
Undoubtedly. the peach crop Is ruined
but there will be small yield OF other
fruits. especially apples. Grapes also
were badly damaged. but will grow out
again. producing something like half a
cron A good many Strawberries were
saved by covering, as were also some po-
tatoes In the Eastern District. The loss
of truck was very great. Reseeding u
we'll under way. and there Is time Tor
good crops. Wheat. oats, rye. tobacco.
and clover were also more or less dam
aged by frost.
UNFAVORABLE.
Notwithstanding there are many reasons
for encouragement at the beginning OF the
season the reports Of correspondents show
that the weather has not been favorable
for growth Of crops. Though favorable
for teamwork. vegetation Is now some
what behind The reports for the Eastern
District say tobacco plants are slightly
damaged. Huckleberries were destroyed.
Wheat and oats suffered very little These
were worse damaged in the Central Dis
trict than elsewhere. though they look
badly in the Western District Tobacco
plants .werc not In the ground in the
Western District. Some have replanted
oats there.
REWARD OFFERED.
Governor Carr offers 500 reward for
Frank Benton. charged with numbering
Wiley Dixon in Wilson county.
Early yesterday morning the house Of a
man named Bah. quite near the Soldiers
Home, was burned. 1t is some distance
beyond the city limits. The home was
in danger. and so was the county work
house, and the eighty-five conyicts in the
latter were handcuffed and made ready for
removal.
Those grape-growers who pruned their
vines have lost practically all their grapes,
while those who were behindhand and did
not prune Will have a fine crop.
CORFIRMATION.
Bishop Cheshire yesterday morning con-
filmed twenty persons at Christ church
here. He preached to a great audience,
taking as a text. 81 know that my Re
doomer liveth." In the afternoon he con-
firmed five persons in the chapel Of ST.
Mary's school
Colonel William II. Richardson to-day
became the city editor Of the new after
noon paper here. the Press.
Johnston county again has the honor Of
leading all the counties IN the number Of
students at the State University.
In the Johnston county stOre-burning
case at Selma, Rev. l.. W. Mangum and
W. l.. Barber are held 10 appear AZ court
for arson. II. +. Majors. another of the
firm, is discharged as there IS nothing
against him.
- Is gas Hs h.r fe ~ Ia W
against prize Sighting in North Carolina.
SCARLET-FEVER.
A little son Of United States Marshal O.
j. Carroll has scarlet-fever. II is the only
case in the city, and is thoroughly $50
lated.
The water-gas plan, has been aban-
doncd. After careful test it has proved
failure. The gas smoked so that COM
plants poured in.
The brother Of Mr. Ham. G. Jones. Of
Troutsyille. tells me the latter was shot
from ambush. presumably by a negro
named Perry. who. it is alleged, came all
tn way from Georgia to commit the
crime. Ham. Jones having three syears
ago convicted him while sitting as mag
istratc. About 1C0 shot struck Jones. An
arrest Is expected in a few days. it Is
rumored
The military company ut Fayetteville,
which is now independent, and which was
mustered out OF the State Guard. has
purchased fifty rifles by means OF a pOpu-
lar contribution by the town people
To-day the body Of Mrs. j. l.. Drinkard.
whose death occurred here yesterday, was
taken to Petersburg FOR burial.
LYNCHERS GONE.
The lynchers Of Dan. Slaughter in Ale
gheny county, who escaped from the
Sheriff. it is now learned took the Nor
folk and Western railway, and went 70
the far West. They have arranged for
their families TO follow them later.