Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-06
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.
Not Much Observance OF the Fourt"
MT Raleigh.


RALEIGH. N. c.. July 5.--tspeciai'
| The observance OF the Fourth
amounted to nothing. 1t was TOO not "
celebrate. 1t was the eighth day Oh 'n0
intense heat. At no time during that pc
Rod has the maximum been below 70 ue-
grees. The national and State fiags were
displayed at the Capitol The puDno
buildings were closed. .,.,,,o,
Work goes on rapidly at the lns'',u 80
| for the colored deaf-mutes and piihu'
| The annex Is half completed.
| Commissioner-of-Agr NeWpo,ne
! left Yesterday for Kinston, Where Ms
wife is critically sick.
In Marks Creek township SATURDAY
| night Berry Cook (colored) murdered mo
wife. The Coroner was sent Tor anu ne,u
an inquest yesterday. Cook was prousn.
70 fail to-day. He will probably be trieo
at the term of court which began To-Day.
| There is another capital case.
The plant of the Daily Tribune, which
was bought by a creditor TO protect hiii-
| self. will be sold by him on the oth IN
slant. II is intimated that there may DC
several bidders. Some printers want 10
| buy, they say. in order to start Papei'
professor Collier Cobb. of the Univer-
|
| ed nv the Executive Committee Oh the
National Educational Association mem
her of the committee of five to present
the subject of physical geography, ana
| Invited 10 sneak at the meeting Vi the
| rationaI association at Milwaukee July
Sth. >,....
| A track-walker on the Western North
| Carolina railway was caught IN cut ny
| a train and struck by an engine ana lost
an arm. He sued for $1,000 damages, got
"a 600 and on appeal by the defendant mas
Lost his case. IL being held that he was
negligent.
| ARRESTING TRAMPS.
Tramps are being freely arrested along
,ho RAILWAYS in the Piedmont section
and are being sent to the roads TO WORK
The Southern railway is particularly ac-
| tive in its efforts to capture all trahps
| on it's line.
The Uendersonville and Brevard rail-
wav was sold to-day under a decree OF
The Superior Court TO satisfy judgments
for labor and material furnished.
The number of convicts received at the
nenitentiary during the past thirty days
is so remarkably small as to attract
attention. .
The Populist newspapers are attempt
ing to make denial Of the fact that the
! Renublican-Populist revenue act will inn
prison people who fail to pay taxes. NO
amount Of talk or denial Will ahect the
fact that there is such law
Much antagonism to the special tax In
aid Of public schools Is developing. In
| some sections 1t is taking an organized
form.
The dispensary law is in full swing at
| Iravetteville. and sales of liquor are
| heavy. There were up to June 30th
twelve bar-rooms in the town. IL Is
said that an "original package" store Is
TO be established there by Baltimore
house
In September the people here are to
vote on the issue Of $4,000 in bonds for
street improvements The odds are
greatly against the success Of the mea-
SIRE. The present Board OF Aldermen
IS not popular. as a whole, and between
II and the Mayor there Is almost
breach.
FUNNY INJUNCTION CASE.
This is a notable year for injunction
cases in this state. but the queerest of
all of them came up at Durham to-day.
colored Baptist church, claiming II
had first employed a band TO play at a
Fourth-of-July festival to-day, obtained
an Injunction 10 TeSlidlll inc ptiu rum
plaving for another church Of the same
denomination.
Julian S. Carr has gone to Denver,
Col. as a delegate from this State to
the international Gold-Mining Convention.
THE main building Of the Home for Ne
gro Consumptives at Southern Pines, is
soon TO be dedicated
The Republicans have formed State
association to control Federal patronage
There IS little or no attempt to disguise
its purpose.
AT the penitentary to-day the convicts
had holiday. They gave some sort Of a
theatrical exhibition.
This morning a negro man went TO the
MAYORS office to make complaint against
a white man for fighting him on the
street. The white man followed. and
in the presence Of the Chief OF Police
struck him. He was instantly arrested
and heavily fined. The court was not In
session when this attack was made.
The number Of criminal insane thus fai
received at the penitentia1Y is seven-al
from the asylum at Goldsboro'.
Rankin's new furniture factory. al
Fayetteville, was burned yesterday
Loss, 5000; Insurance. 5000.