Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-09-22
10 SIGNS OF A BREAK
ma Drought in North Carolina
Continues
r,, TALKING ABOUT SILVER
Gaming Convcntton-What
rr,,cbnrd Says-Recognfxed ms
-Tbe Doctors saved Her-Gov-
nor Carr's Pcssimistic Views.

,JrIGH. y. c.. September H.-tSpe-
~ the Weather Bureau II Is said
~, e no sign OF break in the serious
s.orghi Streams are dwindling. cotton
=. ,oi,x cooked by the sun. ploughing Is
,,o,,ei The temperature keeps up near
-, 40 notch. superintendent Leazar. OF
~. ,enl,entiary. left to-day for the con-
49,, f,rms on the Roanoke. lie says that
a. ,binks the heat. by checking the
with ot the too Iuxuriant cotton In
.,o low lands there. will really benefit
.,o crop. II is the upland cotton which
che unnatural heat is opening prema-
turey.
I G.. L. Harris. the Populist-Republican
father of fusion" says that the silver
lees are coming TO his way OF belief
rat they must drop party and work for
.gyer. and can then go back TO their
f,rrner parties. Treasurer Worth, also
a, ardent silver man. says there will be
o.. RIG attendance Of Popuists. and a
.e,y Republicans, also good attendance
~ Democrats as | think many OF the
LITTER are really with us on the silver
question. Republican Editor Goslin
f-esv't want the Republicans 10 come
~, they Will come. a dozen or so. Two
1r three Of the big ones Joined in the
cali for the convention. didn't they?"
North Carolina is the only State which
h4s Ns exhibit AT the Atlanta Exposition
n place. The Seaboard Air-Linos ex-
intt is also entirely ready. The EXPOSE
ton opened a month too soon. Workmen
arc everywhere. Things are very incom-
rie'e. So say obscrvant people just from
Atlanta. by the middle Of October the
,r0tcr time TO see all will begin.
From some OF the counties to which
II chambers Smith sent the calls for
The oliver convention they were not re-
turned. II is said no Democrats and 400
popuHets will come from Cumberland
county. This Smith denies.
HOWDY. BOSS.
Yesterday At Salisbury farmer went
no 20 Senator Butler and said to him,
with a low bow and hat I'm hand: "Howdy,
boss"
Walter r. Henry. the new convert TO
T0pul SIN. says he was invited TO join the
Republican party. lie also says he was
ofered a mission to kill Republicans.
Al the POpulist free-eilver speaking
Yesterday the audieuce was divided be
tween Populists and Republicans. 1t is
alleged that the Populists are not at
tr7cting as large audiences as usual.
Mrs. Ellen Mccall. OF Mecklenburg
county. drank a quart OF Kerosene and
an ounce OF laudanum. Her life was
saved. She was given some preparation
a. gold and drank an ounce OF It. Again
physicians saved her
The plan for the Episcopal cathedral
here is for n granite structure Sox120
feet.
NO BREAK.
Senator Pritchard was interviewed and
enys that there is no break in the fusion
a. Populists and Republicans; that it
VIII continue next year. and that by
these comrades Of last year again putting
their strength together. they can again
succeed He ridicues any fusion of Pop
ulists and Democrats. and terms II I'M
natural.
Governor Carr will IN n few days take
trip through the sounds In Northeast
ern North Carolina, as the guest OF
Lieutenant Cantwell on the cutter Alert,
now at Elizabeth City.
The Governor was told that he was
thought far too pessimstic in his state
mert 20 the New York World that the
outlook in a business way is not bright
IN this State. He says that he wants to
know what farmer in the State has made
q cent out OF the recent boom in cotton.
IL is fair to say that businessmen here
take issue with the Governors views.
ana think the outlook bright indeed.
\ great deal Of tobacco is this year
grown In Robson county. Tobacco barns
DOT the farms. 1t is indeed a new de-
Jarture Tobacco is grown in fifty
counties now. ii is stated
ARE HIT HARD.
Hundreds of county merchants in the
western part Of the State are hit hard
ly the failure OF Wallace Brothers. the
great herb dealers These merchants
used 10 buy herbs. for which there is now
% market.
4 plan Is again on foot for the build
ing OF a railroad from Wilmington to
Southport
The fine water-power at Big Island. on
the Broad river. is being surveyed for
use for a cotton-mill. a New England
syndicate. with millions OF capital, will
build mills In that section and along the
line Of the extension of the Carolina
Central railway. between Rutherfordton
eri Spartanburg.