The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-22
PRINCIPALLY POLITICAL.
I.ntcat Developments in the Three.
COrnerol EiEhI.


COrnerad Fight.
Raleigh. N. c.. Aug. ol.-(SpeciaD-It
aDpears to be quite generally conceded
tE.t w. w. Kitchen vii, beat Thomas
Settle for Congress in the Fifth district.
The Populists In SEVERAL counties will. 1t
IS said. endorse Kitchen, the democratic
nominee. 1t Is more or less openly In
timated that many Republicans are
'Ouite lukewarn towards Settle. Early
In the summer some Republicans APP
peared to really desire his defeat, be-
cause of the fact that he had nntagonlz-
ed Pritchard and Russell.
The Democratic and Populist State
chairman will spare no efforts to induce
Russell to participate in Joint canvass.
The odds ares largeiy that he will con-
tinue to decline. n challenge 10 him from
Guthrie Is expected daily.
At Salisbury President Spencer. of the
Southern Railway, turned on steam a.;
the great shops of that system to-day. Ii
Is said that shops are next 10 the lnrSes.
I'm the South. Vice Presidents Baldwin
and Andrews were present at the care
monv.
Sunday the News and Observer will
publish ia,Ge special edition on the
fish and oyster industry in North Caro-
lima
CONGRESSMAN 4. c. Shuford's nomi-
nation for Congress in the Seventh dis
trict by the Populists was not uneX-
pected The Popul!sts have made four
denominations. the others being Skinner,
Strowd and Martin.
In the person of II. A. Dough,on nom
mated for Congress by the Eighth dis
trict DEMOCRATS, q very active and pop
ular campaigner is put In the field. Mr.
Douchton. as Lieutenant Governor, has
made fine reputation.
II is the talk that Walter II. Henry
will now see IF he cannot get the nominal
ton for Attorney General. Like n good
many other Popul!sts he does not s. @
how that party can endorse watson.
after the plain statement that the latter
Is a Mckinley man. Yet there are per-
sons who offer to bet that the Populists
will after all. endorse Watson, beca
this was. and still appears TO be, Sena-
tor Buffers plan.
Candidate w. j. Bryan is certainly to
sneak at Greensboro next month.
To-day the new company of Infantry
a. Edenton. commanded by Capt: Chas.
II. Banks. was equipped. The Fourth
regiment has been completely equipped
for its practice march and encampment
September 9 to 10.
The Agricultural Departments admit
| rable book. THE Resources of North
Carolina" is now being stereotyped by
Chicago firm. The edition is of 5000
and if the demand is great another will
| be issued The issue is expected 10 be
out in October.
The top crop of cotton Is growing
nicely in this section.
Rain is badly needed. The NeuEe
river near this city is abou, as low
| us 1t was ever known TO be.
AT Southern Pines to-day al the an
nual convention of the State Horsicul-
tural Association. orchards and vine
yards were Inspected, officers elected,
and there were addresses b" Colonel
Cunningham, of Georgia; o. w. Black
| we'll of liittrell; DIR. @. II. Saddlcson,
and Baldwin Won Herif. Papers were
h1- In Era MI Ia
Hesc. and Alex. Rhodes. This evening
| the conventions work ended.
EX-Cong:ess Buck" Kitchen Is
much stirred up because OF the tumble
| of Populist politics. He cannot keep
| up with the changes and lacks that
party makes.
| Governor Carr has been informed that
n negro who assassinated young John
| Lee, at Whitcvile. has been captured
and confesses that he and James
Haynes. colored, did the deed. He says
| Haynes paid him a few dollars to com
| mi; the crime. They fired through n
window at Lee and his mother. 1t APP
pears that white man is implicated i'm
| the affair, as the captured negro says a
| white man met them al point three
miles from Whiteville and took them
| In his buggy. and aided them no escape
They We're traled by blood hounds to n
| point where they got in the buggy.
| Haynes Is still at large.
| There having been complaints tina.
| the rates of fare on railways in this
| State was excessive, Chairman VIII
son of the Railway Commission. makes
| the statement that the rates are low
er than in any State in the South. They
are az and ga In Virginia they are
3. Sh and A.
| Senator Butler, in speaking TO a Re
! publican about the work OF his Popu-
list State Convention. said he gave his
| people what they wanted, but gave II
in way different from what they ex
peeted.