Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-01-23
THE SIMMONS FIGHT.
FEELING AGAINST SENATOR VANCE
For HIS OPPOSITION.
on 10 tho Holt-Jones Wedding Mt Mont
Eomery-The Goidsboro' Fighters-
Valuable Horses Burned.

RALE1GI. N. c., January 22.-(Speciai)
There f. great deal OF bitter feeling
prominent Democrats here say very
frankly. against Senator Vance for his
continued fight against simmons's con-
firmation. They make no bones OF say
ing that 1t IL the worst step the Senator
ever attempted to take.
Sheriff II. ID. Harris. of Hyde. to-day
completed his settlement Of State taxes,
paying In $2,sss.0i.
Mr.. II. c. Brown, clerk OF the Railway
Commission. returned to Raleigh to-day
after visit to Cuba.
Private Secretary s. r. Telfalr and Cap
tain Ed. Is. Engelhard left yesterday for
Montgomery, Ala, to be present at tne
marriage Wednesday OF Mr.. Charles Holt
and Miss Eugenia Jones, daughter OF the
Governor of Alabama. Mr.. Thomas M.
Holt, Jr.. the groom's brother, Will be his
best man.
Mr.. Dallas Haygood. one Of Raleighs
oldest citizens, and the Oldest living ex-
mayor, is quite sick. His age Is 50.
THE FIGHTING EDITORS.
There have been two fights at Colds
boro' between Marion Butler and editor
Roscower, in both of which third parties
took hand. There were two trials sat
urday. Butler and Roscower were fined
$40 and costs each In each case. while Dr.
Pat. Exum, who was the Third party
nominee for Governor, was fined $40. and
Holland, "a one-legged veteran, was hned
$.
Lee DeGraff, who was charged with
highway robbery in Stokes county. has
been released from custody, there DeinS
no evidence of his guilt. The other man
charged with the crime Is held.
At Carthage n fire destroyed the stables
of the Carthage Hotel, OF w. II. Black
and Kelley & Co. The loss is $3.50. with
no insurance. Some valuable horses were
burned.
HAS SINCE DIED.
D. ". Underwood, one of the owners
of the saw-mill at Broadway, Moore
county, who was so badly scalded by the
boller-explosion. has died.
Charles Cox died yesterday In Moore
county, at the age of III. He had Tor
eighty-ive years been member Of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
John Ridley and wife, Rosa, OF Durham
county. are In Jail to serve a TWO years
sentence for perjury.
HEAVEN AND H-ADES.
Pasco Hodges, 80 years old. died at
Wilmington last Friday. Many persons
vouch for an extraordinary occurrence
at his death-bed. After the physicians
had pronounced him dead and after he
had received extreme JUNCTION at priest
hands. some persons standing by spoke OF
heaven and hell, and one man declared
he doubted the existence OF either place
Suddenly the man thought dead sat up
in bed and said there was n heaven ana
hell that he had been TO the latter
and was going to the former. lie then
fell back dead.
The Wilmington and Weldon railway
has regularly acquired the Albemarle and
Raleigh railway as part of It's system.
CRIME EVIDENT.
The body OF the negro found In Pender
county half eaten by animals Is ascer-
| tanned TO be that Of Sylvester Lamb, a
| man who had come from Georgia to buy
a home. He had money. Governor Carr
| is asked to offer a reward for the muir
| derer, as there Is now no doubt as "a
! a murder having been committed.
J. r. Callum, general merchant at Bur
! gaw. has assigned. with 900 liabilities,
of which s1,1OO is preferred.
w. T. Knight. of Edgecombe, has made
a full tax settlement. paying in $1,000
O. J. Carroll, appointed United States
| Marshal of this district, to-day sent his
| bond for $4,000 to Judge Seymour at
| Newberne.
To-day the heirs of the estate Of Mrs
Mary Smith Morehead were paid 5000,
| dividend here. This is after all the lega-
cies are paid. Other dividends will be
paid.