The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-02
FROM OUR RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
RALEIGH, N. c., Sept. 20, 1891.

TUT SoF0Tdi uayS peTSOns nave Doen mere
arranging for the formation of stock
company with $4,000 capital, to keep
the great horse Pamlico in the stud
Peg-Leg Williams, the we'll known man
ager of the negro exodus, is one of the
company. The horse will be kept here
and will do great deal to improve the
| stock of trotting bred horses in North
Carolina.
The oyster trouble appears to have
| blown over for the present. The surveys
of oyster grounds in Pamlico will be com
pleted, then there will be stop until
the Legislature meets. That body will
be asked to order a new survey of the
oyster waters. The present one gives no
end of dissatisfaction, and arouses the
lawless element in that part of the State.
1t was at one time thought that troops
| would be needed in Pamlico, and nine or
ten companies were last week ordered
of the trouble is now over. The oyster
patrol boat will go in commission Octv
ber l, at Newbern.
As yet the Department of Agriculture
has not been called upon to make any
seizures Of fertilizers this Fall so far.
There were only two or three manufac
turers who gave trouble, and last Springs
sharp work gave them a lesson. The
Alliance fertilizer gave the most trouble,
and started no end of newspaper talk.
The Supreme Court having gran ted
licenses to twenty-five lawyers last Sat-
urday, on yesterday began the call of the
dockets. The latter are rather heavier
than they were last term, at which time
they were tho lightest on record. All
the Justices are upon the bench. The
health of Justice Davis has clearly i'm
proved, and Chief Justice Merrmon ap-
pears to be more robust than at any time
in two years past.
The giving of the cent mile rate three
days in the week on all the railways, will
result in bringing throngs of people to
the Southern exposition here. The ad-
vance guard has already arrived, to be
here at the opening Thursday. There is
nothing like an exposition to make city
lively or to develop latent public spirit
and private enterprise. Everything will
not be completely ready by the opening
day, this being due to the delay of the
counties to SEND their exhibits. By the
middle of October everything will be
complete. The colored people have a
separate department, in their own build
ing, and this opens October Is. They
have made many promises, and the white
people will naturally expect meritorious
display.
Raleigh is prepared to entertain six
thousand strangers every night, and does
not propose that they shall be considered
strangers, but people at home. All the
better class Of houses here are open for
visitors. There was never so general a
movement. Raleigh will, during the Elk
position, be like big boarding house.
1t is the only way to make the people
comfortable. Many people did not until
the past few days realize the magnitude
of the Exposition, and the benefit it will
be to North Carolina. 1t is spIendidly
advertised all over the North and Vest,
and of course over the South. By reason
of the lateness of the season the visitors
will be able to see the cotton fields and
to get ideas of farm work. Many of those
Awho come will visit other points in the
State.
The cotton is now opening rapidly.
The wonderfully fine weather has done a
great deal to develop the crop in this Sec
ton. There is an abundance of labor.
The farmers are in better plight than
heretofore, thanks to last years heavy
crops This seasons tobacco crop is a
partial failure. Much cotton was held
and some of the Alliancemen are angry
because they were advised to hold. The
sub Alliances in many cases directed this
to be done, looking for an advance to IL
cents, but things went just the other way
, and so there is large loss.
The State Treasury officials have in
the past few days destroyed nearly a
quarter of million in old bonds, for
which the new 4 per cents had been is
sued. Old bonds are now exchanged
slowly. There are not, in fact, many now
outstanding, and perhaps in 1893 the ex-
change will cease by limitation. Bienni.
ally the Legislature has extended the
time.
} In 1868 the State penitentiary was be-
, gun. In 1870 some Western contractors,
who were to have built the great struc.
ture. laid the granite foundation and stop.
ped. At that time, and indeed in 1880
! the convicts were quartered in log houses
The State itself began to build the prison.
First the east wing, then the women's
cells, in a separate building, then the ad
minstration building, the foundry, the
shoe factory, and last, the west wing
t were constructed. Now the very last
> work on the building is in progress that
, is, the covering of the roof of the wes
wing with slate. The pile of buildings is
vast one, and the stone wall surround
ing three sides of the prison is one of the
!. finest in the country. None of the con
r victs are now employed at any trade save
J brickmaking, so there is no competition
with free labor. The earnings are mainly
from railway work in fact one may say
t entirely so.
n Aluminium is the metal of the future
r It exists in all clay soils; the sole pro
u blem being its extraction cheaply. Elec
L tricity, the wonderful force, is again har
messed, and at Leaksville, N. G. J. TuI
e ner M orehead and others have the larges
b dynamo in the world, which will be use'
to make this extraction. 1t has beer
said for years that wherever aluminium
Il could be produced at SO cents a poun'
| there would be revolution in human
l. progress. To North Carolina belong
Il much honor then, for Mr.. Morehead say
:. the great dynamo will produce it at tha
figure, from corundum and from bauxite
the latter being kind of clay found il
J, | Erapca apd in this State For "a ner tn