Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-07-29
AGREED UPON A MAN.
A NEW PRESIDENT FOR TRINITY col
lECe ALREADY SELECTED.
cord-Miiis Eesu,ne work-ststc Peni-
Tertiary statistios--A Heavy Loss.

RALEIGH. n. G.. July Especially
II is learned from prominent Methodists
that the trustees OF Trinity College. or
majority OF III m. have agreed upon a
man for president TO succeed Professor
| Collins Denny. who declined the position:
| that the new president is a South Caro-
| linian Of experience. a fine platform
| speaker, and good businessman. Next
Tuesday the trustees meet to elect.
Day by day the cotton crop improves,
| until IL Is one Of the best on record.
| Twenty farmers said yesterday that II
| they got I cents pound for their crop
| they could pay all their debts. In some
sections there IL too much rain. letter
from Edgecombe county. FOR instance.
! dated two or three days ago. said it had
rained every day in July.
RESIGNED.
Colonel Adam G. Davis has resigned
as commandaut Of the Davis Military
! School at Winston. His brother, Mr.. J.
Davis, succeeds him.
The Stanley-Creek CottOn-Mills, In
Rowan county. re ume work next Mon
day. after a long shutdown, and viii
run on fuil time with fun force.
Three convicts from Cumberland county
were brought rs the penitentary. OF the
l.1s2 couyicts ys7 are from this state, Il
from Virginia, 81 from South Carolina.
L. from Tennessee II from Georgia, ana
only are foreign born. Six hundred and
eleven are Nliterate, 100 can read. $50 can
read and write. have good English
education. and only are college gradu-
atcs. one r. by profession civil-ensi-
neer, 2 dentists, l Jeweiler, farmers l
merchant l,l2J labOrers. and teacher.
Fifty-four are under - years of age
325 under o. as under 20. ~ over 90. 8
over ". and oyer 70. There are III
white males and females; 907 color,d
males and Cs females; l Cherokee Indian
and Croatan Indians. Three are ~
yorccd. ~ widowed. ~ married, and 'sS
siusle. one is serving q fiith term,
fourth term. q a third term. ifi Sc
cond term, and 1906 the FIRST term OF
imprisonment.
POLITICAL CHANGES.
There Is a great deal Of talk among The
politicians about the remarkable number
Of changes in congressman and Judges
which the people are now making IN the
conventions.
IT is asserted that by the decision ~
Judge Simonton. retaining General Gin
kln-Vallcy railway. the North-State I'm
provement Company, the real owner or
mat road. loses milton dollars. Many
Of the members OF the company have
fAilcI
WILL NOT ATTEND.
The editor OF the leading Republican
paper I'm the Piedmont section announces
that he viii not attend the meeting 81
the Republican Stat. Executive Commit
tee. called by II. J.. Grant and Y. 5.
Lusk at Raleigh July Goth. for the pur-
pose OF comforting with the Populists In
regard TO fusion. The editor SAYS he does
not believe in fusion. and urges other
members OF the committee and Ropubii-
cans generally TO keep away from RAJ
leigh on the 30th
The assessment OF the various railway
systems, &c, for taxation this year IS
as follows: Atlantic-Coast Line, S66I9. lo2;
Southern. s5.2,l2Gl. S@aboard AIRLINE.
H.7l95s4 miscelaneous railways, T,3ss 1872;
Pullman-cars. So. eD9, steamships. &c,
$4,000: telegraph lines. ,,o9.9ij. Increase
Of all over 1873 assessment, S2IVO