Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-15
In NORTH CAROLINA.
NEWS NOTES CAUGHT UP AT THE
STATE CAPITAL.
A street Fight-He Was Saved by n
Dream-PoiiticaI-Th Gold Excite
ment-New Enterprises - Physical
Culture ut the University.

RALEIGH, n. c.. April H-tSpecial.) j.
The Supreme Court to-day took up the
appeals from the Eleventh District Mex,
week the regular call OF the docket will
end. with the Twelfth District, which has
large list OF cases.
The directors OF the pententiary meet
in semi-annual session tomorrow. Very
satisfactory reports as to the farms on
the Roanoke river will be made. There Is
a large increase In the acreage of cotton
on these farms.
Six convicts were brought TO the peni-
tertiary to-day from Pitt county, and two
from Northampton.
Mrs. Pattie d. u. Arlington has in
stituted suit against ex-Judge Spier Whit
taker for 1890 damages.
There was a street fight yesterday
afternoon between A. NJ. McPheeters, Jr..
superintendent OF the Raleigh Water
Works. and plumber named Wilson.
A pistol was fired, but no one was hit.
McPheeters was badly cut over the eye
by blow by Wilson who is a very large
and powerful man.
An effort is 10 be made to induce the
Board of Public Buildings to have the
interior Of the dome OF the Capitol re-
paired and handsomely frescoed. 1t is
now very shabby. Much Of the plaster
has fallen and parts Of 1t are discolOred
SAVED BY A DREAM.
Engineer Peasants, OF the Seaboard
Airline, who was scalded In a collision
at Manly, is out, but has not yet the use
OF his hands. Skin was taken from the
bodies of his wife and daughter for use
on his hands. Pleasants's regular fire.
man refused TO go with him the day Of
the accident, saying that In a dream, the
previous night he saw a collision and
himself killed. The substitute fireman,
who was making the run, was Instantly
killed
Some of the local Republicans are by
no means pleased with the terms on
which the Populsts and Republicans
fused" in Warren county, and say the
Populists will fuse anywhere on such
terms; that they took everything and
gave US the balance"
The recent cold weather has consid-
erably thinned out tobacco plants.
TO WORK UP WASTE.
Burlington Is 10 have a large furniture
factory In which considerable capital Is
being placed. A mill is being equipped
at Salisbury TO Work up cOttOn-Ndste
from mills In that section.
As mark OF respect TO the memory
of the late Ex-Governor Holt. yesterday,
every one of the twenty-five cotton-mills
in Alamance county shut down and their
bells tolled. Great numbers OF mill ope-
ratives attended the funeral
Excitement in regard to the gold dis
coveries in Cabarrus county continues.
The twenty four-pound gold nugget Is the
prime cause, but a miner has on exhibit
ton nuggets valued at $500, which he
has picked up on the surface. The State
Museum desire a plaster cast Of the big
nugget Some papers speak OF the latter
as the second in size ever known, The
biggest was found near Baliarat, Austria
LA. and weighed l25 pounds.
1t is quite evident that the Republican
State Executive Committee will have its
hands full at its next meeting-the day
before the State COMMUNICATING dis
putes and contests as 10 delegations.
Nothing like the number OF contests was
ever before known.
The gold-standard men in this State
are now saying that they have really
more strength In North Carolina than
the general public is aware OF.
The university has secured as profess
sor of physical culture for next year
Mr.. ii. Il. Mechling, OF Springfield. Mass.
For three years Mr.. Mechling has been
instructor I'm physical culture in the cele-
brated School for Christian Workers, in
Springfield He will bring to the uni
versity the methods Of physical measure
ment and specially adapted physical cul-
ture in use at Springfield and widely
known as the Sargent methods, and Will
doubtless make the university as famous
for gymnastics as 1t Is for scholarship.