Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-01
OLD NORTH STATE.
A BUDGET OF NEWS GATHERED AT
RALEIGH.
Want Farmerv Institutes He1d-Hs
Declined to Answer-Bec Culture
ton-NiIIs-Fought in Three
Wars-Psrsonal and General.

RALEIGH. n. c.. November @.-tspe-
ciaI.)-Many letters are being received by
the Department Of Agriculture, urging the
holding OF farmers institutes in various
counties. The next Legislature ought to
provide fund for these
A handsome chapel Of granite Is near
ly completed at St Auzustine's Normal
College here.
There are III pupils at the institution
for the white blind here There are los
at the institution for the colored
deaf-mutes and blind. There were two
cases of scarlet-fever at the latter. Both
recovered.
Ex-Governor Pattison, Of Pennsylva-
MIA. will be the guest OF ex-State-
Treasurer Tate, at Morganton. next
week. He and other prominent Pennsyl-
vanians will hunt cartridges in that Sec
ton.
All the sheriffs. save OF Jackson coun-
ty. have completed State-tax settlements.
The State fiscal year ended to-day.
Republican State-Chairman Hatton
when asked whether Senator Marion But
Ter had lost any of his influence, de-
cilned to answer. He also declined to
answer question as to what he thought
of the prospects OF Senator Pritchard' s
reelection.
Deputy Revenue-C Collector Davis yester-
day captured near High View, Person
county, Sam Tuck's 60-galion Illicit
whiskey distillery.
There is a good deal - had feeling here
about Thursdays football game played
at Richmond.
BEK-CULTURE.
The State Experiment Station here has
completed arrangements for carrying on
work in bee-culture, to give the best
information regarding Bookkeeping. and
also to ascertain how best to make II
profitable. IL now I'm some parts OF
the State yields handsome returns. DIR.
IL. w. Hunter and Mr.. w. Fl. Hall.
both Of Forsyth county. will have charge
of the new work. Director II. Is. Bat
tie. OF the station, desires the name Of
every bee-keeper in the State.
The negroes here will almost solidly
vote against the issue OF $4,000 street.
/ improvement bonds.
COTTON-MILLS.
Quite a number OF people are leaving
| the southeastern part Of this State and
| going to South Carolina to work In cot
| ton-mills- Fifteen hundred OF them are
wanted there.
Machinery is being rapidly put In the
| Lincoln cotton-mills. near Iincolnton.
| These mills will spin the finest thread In
| the South-i0s. to Co.'S All the machinery
is English. Twenty carloads OF ma
chinery for the Henrietta cotton-miiis
| have arrived. The building of the Prox-
! unity cotton-mills. at Greensboro. Is
nearly done. These mills will have l0,oo(
| spindles
Michael Patterson. Of Burke county
| IL dead, aged "a. He was In three wars
and received two United States pensions
| and a State pension.
The Bank OF Marion Is to begin bust
| ness next week under the State-banking-
| law.
The Professors Alternately at Ruther-
| ford College claim that enemies there
have made q regular conspiracy TO drive
| them away and break up the college.
| A PopuIist magistrate IN Mcdowell
county Is In trouble. He married a
| couple who had obtained license In Ru'
| therford county.
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