Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-21
RALETGH'S BUDGET.
TIE POLITICAL csLnRoS IN TOE OLD
RostH STATE.
Republican Convention cell-Minister Jar.
Wis and the 0ubornatorial Eomins-
tion-Trying to Harmonise.
rspcclal telegram 70 the Dispatch.l

RALEIGH, n. c., January 20. The Re.
publican convention for the Second
congressional district is called to meet at
Weldon May the Both. II is said that
Charles A. Cook. Of Warenton. will pro-
badly be ITS choice as candidate for Con-
gress.
Grading on the extension of the Scot
land Neck railway in the direction of Hob
good Fork is progressing quite rapidly.
The weather this week has retarded rail
way construction in most parts Of the
State.
II was reported yesterday that Bill
Williams, the murderer OF Deputy
Sheriff Luke Russell. had been captured
at Washington. A deputy from Craven
county went after the man. who proved
TO be not Williams but W. II. Keller,
who last week killed Arendall Williams
of Morehead City. Keller was captured
IN Martin county after having been Shot.
He is now in jail at Newberne.
1t was decided to-day by the Shotwell
Memorial Association to erect mona
ment to the memory Of the late Captain
Randolph A. Shotwcll with the funds
now on hand.
The Improvements effected by that
able engineer, Captain BiXbv, United
States army, OF the bar at the mouth of
the Cape Fear river have produced the
best results. Day before yesterday the
Eta, the largest vessel that ever
came up to Wilmington, arrived
there without difficulty. She is
full-rigged ship Wilmington is making
great strides now. The bar and
river improvements, the completion
OF the Cape Gear and Yadkin
Valley railway to that point and the
construction of the Wilmington, Onslow
and East Carolina railway, all tend TO the
development OF the city. North Carolina
has been at a disadvantage in having no
place of considerable SIZE. WllmingtOn's
growth is really an advantage TO the en-
tire State. Ii is said that some of the
Fayetteville people believe that the
building of the Cape Fear and Nadkin f.
Valley railroad to Wilmington will cause /.
an injury 10 the commercial interests of
their town, and hence oppose the exten- /
sion. There Is "a special desire on the I
part OF the Wilmington people that the .
shops of the road should be located III .
that city.
4 great deal of satisfaction isexpressed /
at the work done by the North Carolina /
gentleman who visited Washington this /
week 10 secure a modification of the /
Odlous internal-revenue laws. Mr.. X. /
II. Battle has received many compli- /
ments and congratulations upon what .
Was done. 1t is said that revenue mca- /
sure will be reported 10y the Ways and .
Means Committee not later than Febu- /
nary 18th The Importance of earnest .
and prompt action on this question is .
very keenly felt in all parts of the State. |
Rev. Il. T. Gray has been ordained n
minister Of the Baptist church at Fayette /
vile.
Charlotte is showing special enterprise .
just now i'll putting on foot schemes for
the establishment of manufactures. The .
businessmen are pulling together, and
rs a result three cotton mills are assured. /
Cooperative factories, with shares at a
low value, so as TO enable every one to
take stock. are also being made a special
feature
Agentleman who signs himself can
Old-Line Democrat" in an eastern
paper, comes out squarely for eX-Gover-
nor Jarvis for Governor, and says he
honestly believes the latter to be the
choice of nine tenths Of the Democrats
in North Carolina.
The O'Hara and Abbott factions of the
Republican party in the Second con-
gressional district (the black district met
at Wilson yesterday to effect recOncilia-
ton on the same style as that recently
patched up between the Mott and Harris
factions of the Republican State Execu-
tive Committee. Harris, the head of the
party in the State, went to Wilson and 4
took part in the work of harmonizing
elements, which have certainly beenvery
discordant, and fought each other in the
last election. twas owing to their quar-
rel that Congressman Simmons got in as
the first Democrat ever returned from
that district. The Republicans say quite
boastingly that no more Democrats shall
be elected from that district.
The railways in this State have adopt
ed-no doubt To- their profit and certain
~ to the convenience of the public-the
plan of selling cheap tickets to the lead
ing cities IN the State on Thursday of
each week. 1t is done for the business
advantage of the centres, which have I
made 50 much complaint that the rail
ways were shutting them out and show
ing them no favors whatever. The sys-
TEN was inaugurated yesterday here.
The Attorney-General received no no.
tice whatever of the advancement of the
special-taX bond suits, nor was notice
given any of the State authorities. At ,
first they did not believe the statement ,
as 10 the Advancement
State-Chemist II. b. Battle has made
all the arrangements to publish the
analyses of fertilizers weeks before the
usual time. The work of analyzihg the !
samples sent in 10y the inspector has
already begun. |
Judge James II. Merrimon is holding
the Superior Court at Durham. In his s
charge to the grand jury, referring to the {
local-option law and the sale of liquor /
by druggists. he said that no prescrip- '
ton for spirituous liquors should be
filled more than once. \ druggist who I
fills the same prescription of this charac- I
ter more than once is declared guilty of !
n misdemeanor. 3
The Philanthropic and Dialectic soci- i
cites at the University have elected their /
commencement officer. p L. Ransom, /
n son Of Senator Ransom, is chief mar n
shall .
A noted desperate named Tom Ro- q
bertson was brought TO the penitentiary n
yesterday by the sheriff of Wilkes i
county. He is said 10 have been a ter a
ror in that section, and it is stated that a !,
number Of people were so afraid of him I,
Mat they dared not sleep at home Ro- h
bertson gets seven years Imprisonment |,
For six months past he had been in d
Statesville Jail for saiekeeping. v
The editor of the Brcuard, Transylya- q
MIA county, Mr.. Z. S. Warrock, writes +
that his paper has suspended The of a
flee was raided at night by roughs who
were angry at the publication of their .,
names when they were brought before Il
the courts. Mr.. Warrock says the h
roughs have complete control OF the :;