The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-07-12
To All The Crops Of North Carolina by
the Recent Severe Gull Storm.
OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN LAST FALL
P6pui,s,a shy, That Democrats Have
T, Committed u FcIonious Assnnit on
the Party Bryan and watson
Cinbs Forn,ca governor Carr Or.
ganizes One al Haicsgh.

one mali mcncS OF ram feu mere. IhC
head of the State Weather Bureau says
that next week will be fair and warm.
The Gulf storm, which has swept over
this State, has done immense DANA sc.
The official reports show that this
morning the Roanoke river at Weldon
was thirty-Scvcn feet above gauge. and
II is expected that ii will so to forty.
The same river ut Clarksvillc Is lbs
which Is extremely high. The Cape
Fear at Fayetteville is d9.5, which IL
within half an inch of the highest ever
reported. The streams. save the Cape
Fear, are higher than In four years,
The Cape Fear was as high two years
a.o.
State Geolosist Holmes says this as
TO height of rivers and he has his force
now at work measuring with electric
meters the height and the velocity vi
current of all the important rivers.
Governor Carr says that one OF tls
three State farms on the Roanoke, neal
Weldon, known us the Pope farm. Oh th"
Halifax side, is under water, and that
It's whole crop IL destroyed. This is the
only one of the farms not dykcd on
course farming on the Roanoke Is like
blockade running, so great Is the FISK
but yet when there Is SUCCESS II is great.
The QuartcrmaStcr-G General to-day
shipped 150 tents from the arsenal to the
Second Regiment. which cncampS ~
Wrightsvilc on the 17lh. a new COM
pany of infantry, commanded by capt.
BOND, has just been accepted ana be-
comes Company l. of the Second. 1t is
us II cannot be equipped In time. The
new company ut licrtford lis l of the
First The latter, now has eight compa.
MES. the Second having seven.
The Fourth Regiment begins It's prac-
tice march from Statcsvillc To Charlotte
August IL. The State furnishes II VIII
100 tents and with complete mess Quilt
1t will devote four days To the march
camping each night. IL viii have Il
small wagon train. Mai. Hayes. United
States Army. will accompany H. Tho
officers and men are delighted with this
tour of duty, and the people along the
rout. OF march are equally Interested
The coed example thus set VIII no uoub'
he followed In the course oil tiinc Dy th'
other regiments
The Populists are like bees driven out
of their hive. Some arc pleased, somt
don't care, but the mass are nan uaHcu
by the platform and the nominees of the
Chicago convention. Some resent II, and
one Of them high in position SAID: "Tho
Democrats have committed II icipniouS
assault on Populism." Another said.
I'VE have nu lee left 10 stand on. The
Democrats have stolen our platform ana
all our tiundor."
Spcor Whitaker, just returned from
Rohesun county, where he made Pop
ul!St speech said: 81 am very much
pleased The platform is as-sopd AS any:
thing we could 90 At 81. Louis. II is
thoroughly Populi.tic and has in Il ever!
demand of The Popul!sts save govern
mcnt ownership Of railways and tclc-
graphs. Brother Ephraim certainly got
She coon an gone. say, let's set to
Ecthci | am not a Republican annex. !
don't care how | get To heaven, so ! set
there"
Several Bryan and Watson clubs were
formed here yesterday, The Raleigh
people claim theirs was the very first, as
it was organized in he Capitol hy Gov
ernor Cart and others, directly upon re-
ceipt of the news of Bryan's nomlna-
ton
The silver Democrats are jubilant. l.
c. Rcckwfih. who last evening presided
a the Democratic club meeting, said his
morning:
II am mighty glad to see that all tbs
gold Democrats have 10 eat the dog
hair. hide ana all, and swear they like
Some mere rain fell last night The
streams are booming. Yesterday after.
noon the Deep and Ilaw rivers, near The
point where Fey form Che Cape fcal
river. were within five feet Of tile Sea.
board Air Line Railways bridges Thou.
sands Of acres of as fins cnrh as WAS ovcJ
seen In this section are entirely covered
The iivcrs are higher than IN years. The
damage all the way to Fayetteville is
said to he great. The Ncusc is extreme
" high. Many factories have shu
down owing TO his'A5watcr.
Late Yesterday afternoon two miles
from this city Deputy Sheriff Charles NJ.
Walters and young man namcl Row
land had II most cXctHG adventure Will
mad log. They had been In pursui'
nj nj y,I ma L ip., ,io tI,s
road wien they mot the dog, which Il
once sp;ang at Walters The latter sho
the dog IN the head but this did no
o3cck The animal. Then the battle he
gan. Walters caught Tic dog, whic!
tired to reach his throat. 1t failed Il
do his, but hi. him on The leg above
The knee. The dog was shot three NOR,
Tires, but got away. Walters wound:
were cauter.Zrd. His friends urged hin
20 20 10 Durham to-day and have wha
people term maidstone" applied. Wal
ters, after the dog had boon shpt. beat /
repeatedly on the haad with his pistol
and his pants and clothing were coycrc,
with tho dogs blood 1t was found II
dav thai the dog had come from Ra'cg,
and thai was seen to bite AZ dog her
and afterwards WON'T along the primo!
pal sircct,
B Thrcc'pegro mon charged WITH passin;
cormtclfei. silver were. lodgdl in jail
r'ere3tordaY. They : Walter Blackwell
CHARLES Broadway and Sam n$Innean.
The washout which iouscq ahe grea
delay of the Chatianooga-N tffolk trai,
yo7.crtlay waT between Safebmy anc
hslicyillc, The rain was twflvo hour
Mate. &p3A l5iJs Tx 81 ittt
%SS.CcnGrcssrnn w III Kitchen
= Nscr of the Populist Staff
t.on''9,sttce. says his parry Is going 70
.i'ee si'SSs wherever 1t 1ndf it.