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Gin Bagged- Other News. [Special telegram to the Dispatch.1 N. C., November 11.-A house, in which a Williams was asleep, was and burned was fell named fired Pitt RALEIGH, county George Williams house negro not awakened until the roof of the of the on him. When he got out that in he was so terribly burned rests building in a few hours. Suspicion Best, another negro. on and made a full he arrested died Esseck confession. white He man, was He said that Godfrey Elks, a belonged hired him to do it. The house desired Elks and was insured. Elks declared to obtain the insurance. Best at that to he thought Williams was absent and the time he fired the house. Elks in Williams are both under arrest and jail. The dam of Hope Mills Cotton-Facto near Fayetteville, has been swept of away. ry, It will cause a suspension work for several months. The Fayetteville National Bank end will into voluntary liquidation at the the go of the year and begin operations new next day as a State bank under a charter. Duncan Miller (colored), aged twenty ob has been arrested for placing structions years, on the track of the Short- AllCut railway in Harnett county last He gust. The evidence is direct. was to captured at Kenansville, and is in jail be tried next week. A large posse of deputy revenue col- of lectors have made important seizures illicit distilleries and material in Cleve- Buff land county. They captured Peter and two men named Pruett. Last year the body of an unknown white man was found in Catawba river, Tredell county. Ever since the identity coroner has made efforts to discover the found of the corpse It has just been out that it was that of a peddler named Ashe Gaff, whose headquarters were in county. The large cotton-gin of Best Brothers burned Greene county, was at the Shine, day before yesterday. Loss, $3,000. was No insurance. Considerable cotton also burned. William F. Askew, a well-known Falls resident of this county and owner of the this of Neuse paper-mills, died there morning ;aged sixty three. Heury D. Coley, who for years published the North Carolina Alinanac here and was for several years State Librarian, home was stricken with paralysis at his here last night. His age is seventy. His condition curious is critical. case was tried this week at A the very Superior Court of Orange county. Albert Colonel J. I. Allen was sued by Johnson (colored) for $5,000 damages from for taking Johnson's wife away verdict him. The jury returned a for Johnson for $2,900 The excitement in the cotton market great. has been for the past few days very The rapid advance prices caused sensation. The question was asked It caused the sharp increase in prices. s a a d in reply by farmers here that reason was the miscalculations is in other words, requires 1,200 pounds to perhaps short of the this year cropestimates. Cotton ginning while yield are bale, this it large and heavy in 80 1,400 pounds of often usually 00-pound remarkably requires season the bale. cotton seed that In the seed to yield 400-pound parts of this State this fact is noted. This It so here now to a large extent. fact is of course reduces the estimates elements very materially. It shows how many enter into calculations on the crop. The East Carolida Land and county Railway of Company has applied to the to aid Craven for 840,000 subscription Newt in the building of railway from for a berne to Washington, N.C., and $60,000 subscription to aid it in building (in connection with the Wilmington, railroad) a Onslow and East Carolina railway from Newberne to and Wilmington, Onslow through Jones, The people Pender, of Newberne are counties. stirred up by the projected ex- of greatly of the Scotland Neck branch to tension the Wilmington and Weldon railway Washington. This will, unless counter- Newaction be taken, seriously injure also fear berne'strade. The Newberneites will the Wilmington and Weldon that build a branch to tap the fertile both section, sides. and thus cut them off on The election on a $60,000 subscription, is orthe same as the one mentioned, in dered to be held December 27th, measure It is said the Onslow county. will be carried. The fairs at Fayetteville and Tarboro successended to-day. Both were very ful. It hasbeen decided to establish another Duplin home for orphans at Magnolia, institutions county. There are now four for orphans in the State. Wilmington's increase in cotton rethis season is over F. King, the editor Knights of ceipts Mr. of C. the 30,000 Labor bales of of this the has written an open ply to All inquiry as the legislation it State State, plans organ of his It says order that and to as the to purposes letter children legisla- in and desires. tion it asks a law prohibiting factories, under fifteen from working in and mines the weekly payment shops, in money, not in script of employees of ten hours a lawful day work the making women when doing the same pay receive men's health measures looking to to safety of employees work and stringent as men to attention the people of working of the convict Mr. King says: In a system. the the abolition grievances for contract justice. word, Knights of Labor ask be semblance of law that can a and twisted to suit but the of moneyed warped Not the monopolists, the conve- rightby the strong arm of a of paternal government and privileges to which of eous guarantee rights nience and every neither citi- the entitled." He says that zen is political parties has it workingmen's wants, and general the the present the that satisfie is which makes of talk among North of a to-day the this topic workingmen political fact party. formation Carolina new Rev. W. M. Clarke, of Chapel Hill, of accepted the call to become rector this the has Church of the Good Shepherd, city.
