Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-27
LOCAL HAIL-SToRMS
BUT NO DAMAGE or MOMENT TO
TRUCK CROPS IN TEE EAST.
Albert stevens Charged with EN-.
be.slement and Bisamy-Semi.Cen-
tenniai Of the Deaf, Dumb, and
blind Institution.

RALEIGH, N. c.. April B.-tSpeciaL)-
Reports TO the Agricultural Department
state that there have been heavy loca
hail-storms In the east. but, 80 far a.
known. these have done no damage o
moment to the truck crops. which arr
extremely promising. The shipment o
strawberries has begun In the Whining
ton section. The crop will be heavy ano
no doubt profitable. Last year one grow
er's crop sold for $4,000. He now mas
l75 acres in berries.
Next Sunday Rev. c. A. jenkins, a
well-known Baptist. will preach his ias'
sermon at Fayetteville. He goes to
Brunswick. n. j., to take charge OF
church.
Albert f. Stevens. who has lived at
Fayetteville three years. as dealer IN
musical instruments. and who married
the daughter of a prominent farmer III
Robson county. is in Jail, charged with
embezzlement and bigamy He has
wife and three children In Richmond
county and was sent TO the penitentiary
from that county and served a term OF
years.
AGED io7 YEARS.
News reaches here OF the death oil
Mrs. Salle Carswell. In Burke county
at the age OF io1
Next week will occur the semi-centen-
NAL Of the institution for the deaf and
dumb and the blind. which had as Its
first principal W. ID. Coake. OF Virginia.
The outlook for tobacco IL reported by
the Agricultural Department TO be good.
The department will in a few days issue
its first monthly report for 1895.
The late Legislature enacted a queer
law, giving TO one man the power TO
settle the long-disputed question as to
the boundary between the counties OF
Alamance and Chatham.
In the Superior Court here to-day there
was argument In the important case of
the State Treasurer against Bates and
others. directors Of the defunct bank OF
New Hanover at Wilmington Counsel
for the directors contended that the
Treasurer had no right to bring suit
that II he had any right at all he ought
to have brought suit as a creditor and
on behalf OF himself and all other credi-
tors. Counsel for the State asserted that
the proceeding Instituted by the Urea
surer was the proper one. and that his
right was clear.
THE VANCE MONUMENT.
Governor Carr to-day received from
Dr. Il. j. Boykin, DR.. Pugh. and other
Baltimoreans So for the fund for the
Vance monument. Governor Carr tells
me he now has $3.50 in hand. and 500
more is reported while $500 Is the
amount reqcired.
As yet no positive proof can be OBJ
tanned as to the lynching Of Isaac Wright.
the Raleigh negro. in Johnston county.
For many years Wright was a press
man in the old Sentinel newspaper office
here.
Mention has been made of the fact
that the protest of Ray Of Macon, and
thrty-three other Democrats in the late
House against the false statement spread
on the journals by the Fusionists, could
not be found. Speaker Walser told Ray
he had ordered ii placed on the journal,
as Ray demanded. 1t is now ascertaned
that j. ID. Brown. one OF the Fusion
clerks of the House. has the protest at
his home. at Burgan. Pender county.
He has TO right to ii. II is. by order OF
the Speaker. a part Of the records. The
Secretary Of State may take steps to
get 1t.