Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-22
OLD NORTH STATE.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED HERE AND
THERE AT RALEIGH.
Tie state Penitentiary-Thc Farmers and
the Crops-The Asylum Scandal
DIR. Grissom.
Special telegram to the DIsputch.p

RALEIGH, n. G., August 21.-The
BOARD Of Directors of the State peni-
tertiary met to-day. all its members be,
ing present. II has much important
business TO transact. The Chairman OF
the board said to-day that it was greatly
hampered in its efforts TO make the penl-
Tertiary sustaining by Legislative acts,
which permit the Roanoke and Southern
Railroad Company to have a hundred
and fifteen convicts, for which 1t pays q
hundred and twenty-five dollars per an
mum. They sub-let to contractors al
a dollar and twenty cents per day-a
clear profit of some eighty cents per
dav. Bad weather has cut down re-
ceipts from the labor Of convicts fully
so per cent. during the months OF june
and July aud some Of August.
THE STATE FAIR.
Your correspondent had m interview
with p. NJ. Wilson, secretary Of the State
Fair, who has returned from an extern
siye tour OF the State. Mr. Wilson says
that in his opinion the crops are better
than is stated, and that the prospects are
nowdaily Frightening. Tobacco is curing
remarkably well, and good prices Tor the
new crop are readily realized. Even
primings have cured so well they brought
S21 dollars per hundred. The cotton
crop depends upon an open fall. Mr..
Wilson says that while the loss of crops
in bottom lands is very heavy 1t tails. az
o rule, upon people who are financially
able to stand It. Upland crops, particu
larry corn, are the best in years, and tins
proves of the greatest possible advan
tage to the poorer class of people, who
usually own these lands. Mr. Wilson
saws that he finds the interest in the
State Fair greater than ever before. lie
has made admirable arrangements where
by exhibitors at county fairs can all have
an opportunity to compete for the pre-
miums at the State Fair.
Track laying on the Wilmington ex
tension of the Cape Fear and Yadkln-
Valley railroad has progressed as far a;
Point Caswell, Pender county.
Some fine tobacco has been sent tC
market from Pender county, and, it Is
claimed, that section is well adapted tC
its growth.
Rev. Thomas, Leitch, very earnest
revivalist, is conducting an extensive re-
viyal at Monroe.
ACCEPTED.
The Governor to-day received tcle
gram from John Is. Broadfoot, OF Fay
etteville, accepting the appointment az
director of the North Carolina Insane
ASYLUM. The full Board of Directors
will assemble tomorrow morning. II il
stated tonight that DIR. Grissom's resig
nation as superintendent will be ten
dered the board upon its meeting, anc
that DR.. Grissom will also issue letter
tomorrow, which will give his views o.
the case. He published n card to-day
in which he SAYS the mind of DIR. f. T.
Fuller, assistant physician at the asy
lum. is impaired. DR.. Fuller has beer
sick swo weeks, and the publication o
this card is another of the sensations
which mark this remarkable affair. Dr.
FuIler's friends claim his mind is a'
sound as that of any man in the State
John Williams and l.. l.. Smith (bOtt
negroesl have been arrested, charged
with forging the name Of j.. r. Ferre
bee. laborer commissioner OF Little
Rock, Ark, and thus obtaining money
from the Negro Exodus Society at New
berne for the purpose of buying tickets
to Arkansas. Williams was captured al
GoldsbOro'.
The Atlantic Coast Line has made az
extensive purchase OF a waterfront a
Plymouth, with twenty-four feet deptl
Of water, and is building very large de
pots and wharves.