Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-21

DATES FOR THE SERIES OF
FARMERS INSTITUTES.
Training Stables Established-Difn-
Guilty of Collecting Certain Tnxcs-
Fusion and the Electoral Ticket
4 Zig Brick Plant.

RALEIGH n. C.. December D.-tSpe-
cial.)-The third series of farmers insti-
tutes viii be held in January. as ioi-
lows: Lenoir. 9Th: Newton, sth;
Nooresville, 10th. Commissioner Patter-
son and Professors Massey and Emery
Will attend these. 1t Is the purpose OF
the State Board Of Agriculture to con-
tinue these institutes during 1896. and to
hold more OF them than ever before.
In the new Virginia and North Caro-
lima commercial fertilizer combine"
there is only one North Carolina COM
pany, this being the Durham Fertilizer
Company. The name Is the Virginia
and Carolina Chemical Company" with
headquarters at Norfolk. and ten compa-
MES not OF this State are In 1t.
There will be steeplechase races here
during the holidays. with gentlemen
riders.
Mr.. James Boylan has established
training stables at the State Fair
Grounds. and now has forty horses there.
Twenty-six more horses may come from
New Yolx to be wintered.
DlF UT tOi<i<f<t iiO%>.
State-Auditor Furman says 1t is with
extreme difficulty that the taxes imposed
by the last Legislature on doctors. dem
lists. and lawyers, and on hotels and
boarding houses are collected. In the
-.njority of counties the abstracts of list
.; iaxables have been returned. be-
cause none of these taxes were reported.
Governor and Mrs. Carr are at their
farm. in Edgecombe county, and expect
to return tomorrow.
Two convicts from Jones county were
brought to the penitentiary to-day.
The Legislative Examining Committee Is
now inspecting 500 vouchers. filed in the
State Treasurers office by the various
public institutions. etc, OF which the
Treasurer is ex-officio the treasurer.
The "Vance-Day' exercises by the
children Of the white public schools OF
Raleigh yesterday were extremely inter-
esting There were 1909 OF the pupils
present.
THE ELECTORAL TICKET
The winston Republican, the organ OF
the white Republicans, to-day says the
discussion expressive of opposition TO
fusion Of Republicans and Populists on
the electoral ticket will bring to every
true Republican what he so much de-
sires-victory on the legislative. State,
and electoral tickets-and that only a
trihingly small per cent. Of either Repub-
leans or Populists favor fusion on the
electoral ticket.
A great deal of new machinery Is
being placed BY the Southern railway I'm
the shops at Burlington, and the old ma
chinery is being removed.
Joel d. Whitaker. Of -tHs city. has
arranged to establish at oncest HiDsboro
a brick making plant, with a capacity OF
1000 bricks a day. IL Will furnish
bricks for the large cotton-mill 70 be
built there.
The city Of Raleigh will issue 300
in street-improyemnt bonds. without
submitting that question to the popular
vote. This is decided on. The recent DE-
cIsion Of the Supreme Court makes
this course legal. 1t is said.
In Alamance county three men fought
at a church and an aged negro woman
was so badly frightened that she died
suddenly
JR. Wallace's registered whiskey dis
tillery the largest In Mecklenburg coun'
ty. was seized yesterday for alleged IT.
regularities.
The man who. II Is charged, broke In
the heads Of the whiskey-barrels and
emptied 500 gallons at McNeeley's saloon
at Morganton, has been arrested. His
name is S. b. Pearson, and he has tc
give 5000 bail