The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-03-05
HEAD OF THE HEAP.
WAKE SUPERIOR COURT.
HODGE VS.. THE RAIL
ROADS, SUPREME
COURT.

Cross and White---Trinity and
and the Baptist Female UNI
versity---A. and nj. Col
Iege---The Exodus---
Cotton Mills.
RALEIGH, March 1.-Wake SUI
perior court for the trial Of civil
cases only opened last Monday morn
ing, when tine first case on the cal
endar, Ellington, Register & Co., vs..
Trustee Of Wake Forest College,
about building the ChemicalLabora-
tory, was taken up and was given to
the jury on Wednesday night, and
a verdict was returned on Friday
morning for the plaintiffs for So, 700.
There are just forty cases on the
calendar, State ex rel. Hodge VS..
forty different railroad companies in
the State for the penalty for failing
to make the reports Of their opera
lions az required by law. Your
readers are not interested directly in
any Of them except those againstthe
Pittsboro Railroad Co., and the
University r. r. Co. These suits
are generally known as the Alliance
suits against railroads, as Hodge is
supposed to represent the Alliance
movement to bring the railroads to
some obedience to thelaw. The de-
cision of the Superior court will not
amount to much, as go which way
ut may, the cases will land in the
Supreme court. The Supreme court
is BODY Of FIVE men, of ability and
learning and entitled to the conf
dence Of the people. The courtnow
has a full bench, Merr1mon, Chief
Justice, and Davis, Avery, Shepherd
and Clark Associate Justices.
There are some fine oil portraits
ii the Supreme court room that can
not fail to attract attention. There
is large life-size portrait Of Chief
Justice Ruffin, represented as stand
ing. II is an admirable work of
art, and is the gift Of Mrs. Paul C.
Cameron, Of Hillsboro, his daughter.
Chief Justice Rufiin sat on the
Supreme bench for "a years, and
was Chief Justice for 10 years.
There are fine portraits of Chief
Justice Nash, Judges Manly, Read,
Ashe, and Jno. Hall, who was one
IF the original court when first or
ganized in 1918. There is also a
fine portrait of that great lawyer,
the late Hon. b. L. Moore.
The case Of Cross and White was
called in the Supreme court on
Thursday for final disposition upon
the opinion and mandate Of the
Supreme court of the United The
Attorney General beng at the New
Bern fair, the case was land over. In
a few days it will be heard, and the
opinion certified down to the Su-
perior court Of Wake. As Cross and
White are bound for their appear
ance at March court, it is probable
that they will not be troubled until
then. But at that time they will
be removed promptly to the work.
house gang, and begin TO serve out
their sentence ON the public roads
White is here and can be seen al
most, at any time, about the court
house and on the streets and seems
decidedly gay and cheerful. Cross
is also here, having come up from
Gates county to receive his doom,
but keeps himself secluded, and is
rarely seen.
There is not much excitement
here over Trinity College and the
Baptist Female University. The
Raleigh people seem to regard beth
as fixed facts in Raleigh's improve
ment that can not be undone. But
you may have a fine building on a
fms site, and a fine faculty, andstill
not have Aourishing college II
takes something more than these to
draw students. | regard the success
Of both these colleges when located
at Raleigh as problematical. Ger
talnly il will be q slim university
that can be built for $4,000. But
we shall see what we shall see.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College Is dslng fairly we'll under
all the circumstances. The two
Literary Societies organized have
been named Leazar and Pullen from
two stannch friends Of the College.
The cotton mills are covered in
and rapidly approaching completion.
When finished, il will be ona Of the
largest cotton factories in the State.
Besides, it is q move in the right d.
rection, and brings prosperity 10
everybody, and the farmer has a
deep interest IN manufactures, as il
gives him a ready home market for
farm products.
The Exodus has injured farmers
in this county very seriously, and III
1t is still going on, il keeps the
planters unsettled, not knowing on
what labor they can rely.
Gov. Fowle returned Thursday
evening from the New Bern Fair,
and expresses himself as having
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