Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-07-08
NORTH STATE POPS.
corNTIEs TO ELECT DELEGATES
no THE NATIONAL CONVENTION
RubbIing over with Advice 10 the
Democrats-The Pension LISA
Handsome PubIIcntion-Perso
Notes-.ryvo Suicides.

RALEIGH. y. c., July 7.-(special)-
The counties viii elect delegates to the
National Populist Convention at st.
Louis. July 22d. This is new departure
1t means a great many delegates. IL Is
said that James NJ. Mewborne ana the
other Populists who were making
great row because Senator Butler ala not
call the State Committee together ana
have a state convention now, are satsiied
at the new method Of choosing delegates
and have stopped the row.
The Populists fairly bubble over with
advice to the Democrats, but the latter
are. Of course, not needing 1t. Inc
sentiment of the Populsts towards the
Democrats IL expressed by the secretary
Of the Populist state Committee in this
wise: THE Populists will fight the
Democrats wherever they find them.
brother Of Senator Butler says. the
Democrats are only lot OF interhal
hypocrites at best. anyhow. Anu yee
some Democrats have been cha.ins
around after Populist votes. They merely
wasted breath and time.
STATE PENSION LIST.
The State pension lists are a little slow
I'm coming in. and all will hardly be In the
state Auditors office before August. The
delay Is due to the new law, IL Is SAID.
All the copy for the new publication or
the Agricultural Department, "North
Carolina and It's Resources" Is in hand'
and the last of II goes 10 the puDiic
nrinter tomorrow. The handsome full
mage photo-engravings 10 illustrate the
book are being made at Chicago. Inc
book will be ready for circulation oy
November. The edition will be OF oWo
copies.
Governor Carr to-day received notice
Of the sixteenth annual meeting OF the
state Horticultural Society, at Southern
Pines, August 10Th.
Editor Daniels. OF the News and OBJ
server. who was yesterday elected North
Cardinals National Democratic commit
teeman. had that place secured before ne
left here, IL IS now learned. IL was IN
derstood that ex-senator Jarvis would be
the chairman or the delegation, but again
he failed Of success, for that honor goes
10 Theodore T. Kluttz, Of Salisbury VINO
was temporary president or the recent
State convention.
CAUSES TALK.
There Is a good deal OF talk about ex-
ConQressuaan John Nichols. or haielsh'
and his ITOmpton OF tAS <NAAN. $500
tective Association fight In this State.
The question was asked whether this was
being done to get up religious war on
Robert N. Douglass, the Republican can
didate for Associate Justice OF the su-
preme Court He is pronounced roman
catholic. CONGRESSMAN stroud maze IN
oniries the other day whether 1t was not
a plan TO put up Nichols as the con-
gressional nominee and appeared to think
it quite possible.
William l.. Council well-to-do mer-
chant of Elm Grove, Chatham county
Committed suicide Sunday night, after a
spree. by taking the contents OF three
bottIes of laudanum. He was 10 years
olG and leaves young wife and three
children. one only a few days old. John
Howerton. a Guilford county farmer,
aa,,,r,itted suicide yesterday by shooting
h,nself in the head with his squirrel
rife. He told his wife he was going
hunting.