The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01
The OLD NORTH STATE.
Small Items of t|ewsy and Per-
sonai Character.
speciaI p!spa,ch to The virginian.

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Ii has for some time been rumorcd
that MIR. Josophus Daniels would
resign quite soon his position OF
Chief Clerk of tho Department of
the Interior. A letter says he will
resign January 7, in order that he
may come here and take charge of
his newspaper, the News aud OBJ
! server, IN which he has invested q
considerable amount of money aud
which 1t is his purpose to make
one OF the leading papers in tue
| South.
Gov. Carr has honored requisi
| ton by the Governor OF Georgia
for Lloyd White, who is wanted for
assault with intent to kill and who
il now in iail at Elizabethtown,
Bladen county.
| Information is received that Avery
Butler. the young white man who
escaped from the penitentiary six
weeks ago and who was recaptured
In Henderson county. committed
burglary III that county. He will
pot be tried for that offence, as he
is already i'll for life, for the MUIR
der Of his father. A very strong
petition for his pardon was in the
Governors hands and, perhaps, he
might have been pardoned but for
the fact that there was strong
counter petition.
In making mention of the death
of James Ii. Marlborough here
Christmas day, it was said that he
had served seven years as a convict
in OHIO. 1t was en- error. He WAS
| tnf
The State Geologist. Prof.
Holmes, has completed his field
work for the year. with tho excep
ton of the examination of some
water powers on the Roanoke river.
Interest on the work on the water
power OF the State has greatly in
creased during the year. 1t will
contain 2oO pages. Tho examina.
ton by Assistant Geologist Mite,
has been very interesting. This
rare and useful mineral is siound
moro largely in North Carolina than
III any other State. A corresponds
enco with several European mineral
dealers who were not aware of the
large quantities to be had here, aud
next yenr monuZite will be mixed on
a larger scale than ever before and
the value of the product will approx.
innate 100000. Prof. Holmes has
been examining the olnys. building
stone aud the Egypt coal deposits.
The Trenton, n. j., potteries use
clay from Jackson county, and say
IL is the finest III the market. The
forestry examinations during the
year have been almost entirely III
the eastern counties.
Tho supreme Court, in the nota-
bic case In which DR.. John Il. Moss,
the Republican postmaster at Hen.
derson. tried to soil to a. NJ. Basket
tue position Of postmaster, decides
that Moss cannot sell land which was
Involved in his deal with Basket.
Your correspondent last sprlug re
ported this case aud was threatened
with suit for the publication of the
facts. Moss contracted to secure
baskets appointment to the place
as soon as Moss tenn ended, The
sum which Basket, u countryman,
was to pay was S972. and he gave
Nj oss decd for l25 acres OF land.
Basket did not get the place, yet
Moss claimed he had to pay the ex.
penses OF people who went to Wash
ington, and he insisted on enforcing
tha deed. The court throws out his
case auu repfimauds HIM in severe
language for the attempt to sell an
Office.
Tho Supreme Court decides the
case against Hill and Dockery,
deputy SHERIFF.. who two years shot
and killed Andrew Bryson. He
was under arrest i'll Cherokee coun-
tY. but when near the Tennessee
line ran over into that State. The
deputies, standing on this side the
hne, shot and killed him. They
were tried for murder in Cherokee,
and were convicted. They Az.
pealed on the ground that the muir
der WAS done III Tennessee, A mol
pros was entered and they were dis.
charged. The Governor of Tonnes.
see made requisitlon for them.
Itey resisted arrest under this.
tanning that they were not fugitiyes
from Tennessee's justice. The Su
preme Court 80 holds. The ONLY
thing to be done is for the Leglsla.
tnre to pass special law to cover
their strange case. There never
was such case. and the Constitu-
ton does not provide for it.
In the case of the Moravians of
Salem against the Commissioners of
Forsyth county, who had levied
taxes on church property which
they deemed exempt, the Supreme
Court decides that property and
redtals used only for religious pur.
poses are exempt.
-Four inches of snow fell here last
night, ard about half an inch more
to day. The fall ceased at noon.
The, weather is to-day much warmer
and there Is a partial thaw. In paris