Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-08
NORTH CAROLINA
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Especial Telegram to the pispsten.I
RALEIGH, n. c., September 7.-
Your correspondsp. has fancied ssvsesl
time in the past lew days, or rslAse
nights. that be could feel . slight but
remarkably constant tremor Of the
earth, lasting perhaps hours. Il wss
ct first attributed to fancy, but II must
be real, ss il Ia confirmed by observs.
tiops CT others. IL appears that this
constant tremor is felt nightly ct VIII
mington IS we'll ss here, and that Ill
the buildings have faint motion. This
is . new feature, and perhaps ono Of
the most curious Of ell connected with
the earthquake. Since Professor Pow
ellis report, or rather statement, that
the earthquake originated here, some
people appear to believe this to DO .
fact. He had very little upon which 70
base his conclusions.
STEEL RAILS AND THE GOVERNOR.
The Atlantic and Noyth Caroline
Railroad Company has purchased 1000
tons Of steel rails for use on that road.
Rails are now being distributed between
Newberpe and Kinston. Good work ID
being done. Governor Scales expects
some time soon to take trip over the
road in company with several directors.
II is now stated that the Governors
mansion cannot be put in complete
readiness for occupancy before next
spring. Governor Scales, whose style
Of living is very quiet and modest. does
not seem to be specially eager to in-
habit that big and stately building. Il
is not known what steps the Legisla-
ture will take at its session NEXT win
ter in making an appropriation for fur
nishing the mansion. The appropria.
ton for the building is said to bs
practically exhausted. So much ofths
labor is done by penitentiary authori-
ties that the real cost is difficult to
discover.
AGAINST CIvIL-sERvICE.
A paper IN this State which is re-
msrkably antsgonistic to the civil
service idea makes the plain statement
that McClammy and Rowland, the
Democratic congressional candidates for
the Third and Sixth districts, will give
civil service a black eye in their cam
paigns. There is, no doubt, more an
tagonism to that idea than was gene
rally known three months ago. Poll
ticians who got no places are leaders
in this species of agitation. The mass
of the people, as was stated weeks
ago, do not care about that matter.
STEAMER BURNED.
The old side.wheel steamer Wacca.
nav was burned to the waters edge 1t
Wilmington yesterday forenoon. The
Gre is thought TO have been caused by
boys who were seen leaving that
side Of the river in small boat just be-
fore the fire broke out. The Waccamaw
was built during the late war by the
United States Government for . gun
boat. After the war she Was convsrto6'
into a ferryboat and brought to VII
mington in 1865.
DOUBTS AND FEARS.
The earthquake will give brick.ms-
sons some work in this State. More
chimneys were damaged than people
generally know. Chimneys are thrown
out Of plumb, or partially damaged,
and will have to be torn down and
rebuilt. The chimneys Of st. Johns
hospital here are thrown away from
the walls, and many feet Of one broken
off. This hospital building is fine
old mansion, the former homo Of the
late Governor Manly.
A phenomenally low tide was OBJ
served at Wilmington yesterday, and
excited comment, as did also the ex-
traordinary loud roar Of the surf Sum-
day night, heard there with startling
distinctness.
tANbibalEo .'Osi ~ N Ebs
Up to this date nine senatorial dis
tricts have nominated Democratic can.
didates, and in IS ofthe 90 counties the
Democratic nominees for the House
have been named. By the end Of next
week nearly all the nominations will
have been made by the Democrats.
Over half of the counties have thus far
made nominations for county officers.
The crop of independent candidates
continues to increase, but they have lit
tie backbone, and are not reported IS
making any particular hsadwsy.
The news from Asheville is that seys-
raj earthquake shocks were felt there
Sunday at noon by people who were
on their knees at prayer in the churches.
Sunday night there were three distinct
tremors felt there. The people are now
becoming accustomed to earthquakes in
North Carolina, and fear is passing
away.