The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-06-11
Final Exercises Of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College.
pOpULlsTs ARE OPPOSED TO FUSION.
A POpulist Organ Declares the Party
I'm the State VIII Never Cooperate
North Carolina Collcse-Rumored
Rebuilding scnbonrd shops.

commencement day at the Agricultural
and Mechanical. College. Most Of the
students had gone home, and only about
80 were present at the close. w. a. Or.
Clark was Chief Marshal. The gradu-
ateS with the degree of bachelor of
science were Daniel Allen. George s.
Fraps. Marion ]. Green. John Howard.
William G. Jackson, Robert c.. New
borne. Levi r. Whittro. Henry L. Will
liams: with degree of master of science,
Samuel E. Asbury. Charles y. Williams,
with degree of mechanical engineer.
David Clark and William II. Harris:
with degree of civil engineer. Charles
NJ. Prtchett. Orations were delivered
as follows: Agricultural Progress" by
Allen: Fiction as Moral Agent, by
Mewborne: The Iron Age" by Wihittro;
"Weighed-W Wanting" by Howard; 1.-The
Food. of Plants" by Traps The Follow
ing won special mention. their average
for the senior and Junior years being
over 30 per cent: Allen. chemistry ag-
riculture and botany; Traps all studies;
Jackson. agriculture and botany; New
borne all studies; Whittro. pure mathe-
maticss electricity and civil engineering.
The Railway Commission is notified
that the Wilmington. Columbia and Au-
Gusta Railway has purchased the Will
mineton and Conway Railway
Grasshoppers are reported to have done
considerable damage. to crops in Onslow
county: mainly to potatoes, tobacco and
gardens.
Major ]. Turner Morehead. of Spray.
was here to-day to attend a meeting OF
the State Geological Board. He says
his carbide works. which were burned
two or three months ago. will be in OPP
Grafton in ten days. The buildings are
rebuilt. and machinery is arriving. The
output there will be a ton a day. AT
Halcomb's Creek. near Lynchburg, he
Is building a 5-ton plant. He says the
export of the carbide Is heavy, and 1t
brings about 500 ton, while at home
1t brings only s25.
Kew. NJ. g. Scherer accepts the Presi-
dencv OF the North Carolina College and
resigns the pastorate of ST. James
Clutch. Concord. in order to do so.
Populists Hell e King and CYRUS
Thompson. of Onslow say 1t Is reason
ably certain that there will be three
State tickets this year. Ex-State Demo
cratic chairman says that II now seems
that there will be three tickets, and that
he believes the Democrats will -nominat 10
a straight ticket. EX-State Democratic
Chairman Ed. Chambers Smith saws
there Will be three tickets. He says Hi
King told him the Populists do not in.
tend TO permit the Republicans to con.
troll the State. and so they propose &c
hold the place of favor.
senator Buffers Populist organ saws
the Populists intend 10 hold the balance
OF power and intend 10 hold 1t for the
public good" 1t demands a campaign
OF living Issues. with no bloody shirt
or Niger" issue, and that "it will strike
10 XIII the party which calls to Its aid
dead issues" The paper declares that
good national Government: is in this
campaign an issue paramount to good
state government. and says the cry OF
&c
II makes the asse rc!on that leading
democrats are making propositions for
their party to nominate certain Popu.
ISIS for certain S:a:e offices and con.
Lludinc that II this can he done IN
fopuiisis VIII reciprocate the favor by
endorsing other nominations which the
democrats may make, thus establishing
the fusion. The Caucasian SAYS i'm Cant.
tai letters. that ''The Democrat tic marty
| as an organic force is one with which
the North Carolina Populist party viii
never corporate. We believe we spea \
the living truth when we say That be.
fore the Populists would consent 10 such
a course they would go, horse. foot and
dragons, rank and file, bodily into the
Republican party and do what they
could to insure a Republican victory In
North Carolina. We are stating and
describing a condition. one which we be.
lleVe VIII know no change this year.
The paper makes the most bitter attack
on the Democratic party. 1t attacks II
for division on the silver question and
for flying from the State silver con.
vention after having sanctioned the call
for It,
Some persons here. who claim TO be
| we'll informed, make the positive asser.
tom that the shops of uhe Seaboard Air
Line will be rebuilt here.
MURFREESBORO.