Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-16
FARMERS INSTITUTES
a NUMBER TO BE held IN NORTH
CAaOLIaA.
North State News Notes Gathered AZ
Raleigh Dropped Dsad-Rail-
road Matters.
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/ RALEIGH, n. c., February 15.-To-day
/ the Commissioner OF Agriculture makes
( the announcement Of o series OF farmers
Institutes which he will hold in nine
counties in the northeastern part of the
State in the following order; Camden,
Pasquotank, Perquimaus, Chowan,
Washington, Tyrrell, BERTHE. Gates. aud
Hartford. Beginning next Friday these
institutes will be held regularly until the
10Th instant. In each county the instl-
tute will be held at the countY-seat
The Board Of Directors of the Peni-
Tertiary was in session to-day, but took
no action in regard to placing any more
conyicts on railway works. There are
yet less than 200 convicts in the prison
proper.
The trustees OF the University meet
here to-morrow-Governor Scales pre-
siding. The annual reports of the pres-
dent and officers will be submitted and
some matters of importance discussed.
The University losses 81, 800 annually 10y
the diversion to the Agricultural and
Mechanical College OF that much Of the
fund it has heretofore had annually.
The Farmers Alliance of Wake, which
is body Of some twelve or fifteen hun
bred farmers, have perfected trade ar
rangements III accordance with the plans
OF their order, and will effect large
saving. In several counties these trade
arrangements are being put IN order, and
that plan is finiing favor.
Robert Tvey while pioughing in Robe
son county yesterday on his fathers
farm fell dead. He was only thirteen
years old.
1t is announced that if the vote of
Wilmington IS in favor of n subscription
TO the Cape Fear and Yadkin-V Valley
railway the contract will be awarded and
work begin Immediately. All these pre-
liminary arrangements have been made
in advance.
The force of convicts, numbering 100,
which by reason of high water was
forced to suspend work IN the swamp
lands turnpike in Beaufort county, will
begin operations on the canal between
Broad creek and Alligator river. 1t is
work OF importance to a large section.
Within the next two years the State
Board Of Education contemplates doing
a good deal in the way OF drainage and
opening Of the vast bodies Of lands it
holds, aggregating very nearly 100000
acres.
The magnificent scheme for n system
Of canals. both for drainage and trans
portation, which the last Legislature
projected, fails CT accomplishment, and
nothing is nowadays heard of it. The
act provided for nine or ten canals in as
many or more counties But when the
bill for the maintenance of the peniten-
tiary came up the reformers stepped in,
reduced the appropriation to starvation
point, and as a result the conyicts cannot
be used on the big improvement scheme,
but have IL earn their living on work for
which the State gets 1925 year apiece
for their labor. The whole matter is one
OF the curious legacies left by the last
Legislature.
The Dispatch's manly and frankly
spoken words about the Blair bill met
with very hearty commentator in North
Carolina, as one often hears. As is said
bya State official who ought to know
what he speaks about, 9J9 ont OF every
1000 North Carolinians demand the
Blair bill or something OF that character.
The white people wish it; the colOred
people, to a man, desire it,
The truckers IN the eastern section
though in some cases they lost early
crops by reason Of frost-are doing very
well. they have good prospects. Last
year they raised a large crop of cabbage,
and this winter fewer northern cabbage
than ever before have been seen. 1t is
a good sign.
An Arabian woman, member of
band of strollers, was run over and killed
by train on Sturgeon trestle, in Bruins
wick county, Monday.
The warm weather of the past few days
is having its effect. Several kinds of
flowers are abloom here. At Goldsboro
peach-trees are in full bloom.