Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-08-06
THE OLD NORTH STATE
A VARIETY OF NOTES CAUGHT IL
AT THE CAPITAL.
More Cotton Miiis-Frost-A Big rs
tate md Probable Coutes.-Tb,
Naval Reserve-southern Hallway
Eahibit-GenernI Notes.

RALEIGH. y. C.. August 5.-(special)-
The capacity OF the Monroe Cotton-Mius.
at Monroe, now 900 spindles. ls % bo
doubled. The Bessemer City Cotton.
Mil. valued at 1880, has been purchassl
by $. j. Durham, OF Gas,0na I'll,
$1,000. There were several bidders. 81
Buffalo Shoals, In Iredeli county NH,f
cotton and flouringmlN VIII be bgt.
Nearly all Of the stock f. SUBSCRIBED
The water-power will b. furnished by tlt
Catawba river.
There wac frost at Blowing Rock. SAT.
urday morning. The Temperature az sun.
rise was ~ degrees.
The amount Of the estate of the late ur.
w J. Hawkins. Of this city. as De.
queathed. Is $4,000. The remainder 81.
by the terms Of the will. O. 900 % tie
children OF Marmaduke Hawkins T. 70
now found that this residue e. 5000
50 there il an effort to break ne VIII.
THE NAVAL RESERVES
Governor Carr has requested Colonel
r. w. Strange. OF his STAFF. and Colonel
Walker Taylor, OF the Second Regiment.
70 represent him at Southport to-day IN
Kidding Captain Wise and %. other
officers Of the Monitor Amplitude. v-..
come 10 North Carolina waters The
old monitor Nantucket. was yesterday
taken down under steam ~ WImire.
ton. manned entirely by naval reserves
The trim down the Cape Fear Vac
made In about five hours
II will be six weeks. State-Llhor-Com-
missioner Lacy SAYS, before ail fte ra-
ports from factories are In hand. lt 10
extremely hard to get many details
wanted.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY EXHIBIT
The Southern railway will trans
fer It's exhibit from the Atlanta
Fxposition 70 Washington. and viii make
n permanent Mr.. George Green. Wh)
Is now collecting. will be- boz charsa n O..
II IS learned to-day that The Etml.t.n
coal-mines. at Gulf. Chatham county,
has been sold 10 Pennsylvanans. who pro-
nose 10 operate them. This coal D. nearly
anthracite. In 1864 the mine Was opened.
with the idea OF using The coal on book
ade-running vessels from Wilmington %
Nassau.
GtIBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENTS
I
The Governor has appointed ms delesat.i
10 the National Farmers Congress al AZ
lanta Robert y. Vance. John s. Cunning
ham. ]. j. Iaughinghouse, h. x. Cox. %
wharton J. Green Calvin Barnes. j. A'
| Galloway. W. r. Capehart. j. X. lilr'y'
II. p. williamson. ana W. J.. William p
He has appointed as delegates o. ti
National Prison Convention ~ Denver
| J. A. Turrentine. ". J. Battle. Inaf.rs L.
| stevens. l.. ". Pease. :. c. lt1nAn >.
. Mcmillan. o. II. Allen. Thomas p'
skinner. and J. ". Mcneil
The director Of the Agricultural hAitH'
ment station is at southern Pines. con-
Quoting exhaustive experiments WIN .
view 10 discovering the best fertilizer ior
fruit trees.
The Popullst and Republican maes'
trates OF this county met here today -
see II they could not take the taX-Nsis
from the sheriGs and appoint th~ town.
shin constables tax-collectors. They nj
legal advice, and were tod that ny
could have elected the constabies taN-cQi'
lectors had they taken that step 10 juno
and cast their votes for them, but that ~
was now too late.