Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-05-05
THEOLD NORTH STATE
TRIED AND CONVICTED AFTER
TWENTY YEARS.
Remarkably Constructed stiiis-New
Hanover bank Cases-Unique CUES
tions-stonewaif Jackson's Grand
daughter to UuveiI the Monument.

RALEIGH. NJ c., May 4-(Special.)-
Deputy-Collectors Davis and Bagwell re-
port TO Collector Simmons the seizure
yesterday. near Evans. Chatham county,
Of an S5-gallon Illicit still. 1t was
made OF wood. A stll on exhibition
here, which was seized yesterday In this
county. Is made OF a water-bucket, 90
pound lard-can. and a piece OF gas-pipe.
Albert Johnston. OF this city. yesterday
in King william county. Va. in 1873. He
Ia the oldest living locomotive engineer
and machinist. lie Is remarkably active
for his age. In Washington. d. c.. nifty
six years ago, he was married. His wife
Is living
mass-meetlng last night To-day was
the last Of the six days OF registration
under the new city charter. The books
were open until o'clock p. NJ. The re-
gistration Is the most thorough ever
quite confident they will elect W. NJ.
Russ Mayor. Next Monday Is election
day.
The new school law is "botch." The
Attorney General decides that the pres
ent county superintendent cannot hold
over for year from June LIST. The new
law amends the old one. yet leaves many
sections of the latter in effect; hence. the
confusion. The law requires school books
to be chosen by the county boards Of
education. yet these boards are abolished.
GETS TWENTY YEARS.
Hoke secrest, the WIFE and childmur-
derer, gets a sentence OF twenty years
in the penitentiary. lie was tried in
rutherford county. Twenty years ago
he murdered his wife and child. Their
bones and part Of their clothing have
been kept all these years as evidence
against him. He was tried twenty years
ago. convicted. appealed from the death
sentence. got new trial, pleaded in
sanity, was sent to the asylum here.
escaped, turned up In the South Carolina
Penitentiary as a cow-thief under an
assumed name. revealed his true name
by accident, was arrested when his term
ended, and taken to Rutherfordton for
trial. He is now an old man. His coun-
sci submitted to the sentence for man
slaughter.
Mitteldorfer. of Richmond. is taking
contracts for the decoration OF buildings
here May 10Th.
Governor Cars invitations to the Gov
ernors Of Southern States TO be here
May 10Th asks them to be his guests, at
the Executive Mansion.
NEW HANOVER BANK CASE.
Judge Starbuck in the Superior Court
mere this evening rendered his decision
in the case of the State Treasurer against
Bates and other directors Of the defunct
Bank Of New Hanover. He overrules
the defendants demurrer as to the first
plant and sustains IL as TO the third
cause OF action. The two first causes al
lege that the directors by published re-
ports as to the condition of the bank
winch they knew. or by their negligence
Jailed 10 know, were false. caused the
plaintiff to place and allow to remain
deposits in the bank. and that these re
ports were made for the purpose of in
ducing the plaintiff TO make deposits.
Little Julia Jackson Christian. grand
daughter of General Stonewall Jackson
and daughter Of william f. Christian.
Of Raleigh. has been selected 10 unveil
the North Carolina Confederate Monu-
ment here May 20th.
UNIQUE LEGAL QUESTIONS
In the Superior Court here to-day before
Judge Starbuck. the important case OF
Governor Elias Carr, as citizen, against
the Secretary -of-State. was ably argued.
The case Of certain judgment creditors
against /. Il. wyatt, OF Raleigh. which
also involved the legality of the much
discussed mortgage law. was called at
the same time. Carrs suit against Coke
was 10 prevent the latter from delivering
to the public printers the mortgage
law" which never passed the Legislature
though it was ratified. The Judge dis
missed the Carr case for want of juris-
diction TO grant the relief prayed for In
the complaint, on the ground that
the Court cannot go behind the ratifca-
ton of the act as the same now appears
in the office of the Secretary-of-State. Ii,
dissolved the injunction in the Wyatt
case. In both cases there are appeals
TO the Supreme Court. The cases are
absolutely unique in North Carolina legal
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