Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-08
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
A BUDGET OF NEWS FROM THE
STATE CAPITAL.
school Book Fisht-PetriHcd Forest.
Northern SettIers-RaiIroad Ru-
ors-PoiificsI Points-GcoIogicaI
MOnOgrnphs-Great Expectations.

RALEIGH, n. c., May 7.-(Special)-
Commencement at the State Normal and
Industrial School. at Greensboro. occurs
May 18th and 10Th. Rev DIR. f.. A. Yates.
OF Durham, breaches the sermon, and a
life-size oil portrait OF Senator Vance
will be unveiled May 18th. r. III. Battle.
! OF Raleigh, delivering an address on his
personal recollections Of Vance Cwhose
private secretary he was). The Vance
portrait is by w. G.. Randall. Of North
Carolina. May 10th. Dr. Charles W. Dab
ney, Assistant Secretary Of Agriculture,
delivers an address on industrial educa-
ton. DIR. j. l.. NJ. Curry will participate
in the exercises.
Mr.. Peter +. Smith. OF Scotland Neck,
IS preparing d model of the ram Abe
marie. which he built on the Roanoke
river.
The number OF visitors TO Southern
Pines during the winter season was 1000.
IL Is said there are now 200 school-boOk
publishing houses in the country. and
that there are 400 book-agents in North
Carolina, all endeavoring to get the
counties TO adopt their school-books.
Discoveries OF a petrified forest are
made in Moore county, near Pinehurst.
Some of the logs are very large. The
State Museum will have specimens.
Mr.. Van Lindley. who now has 450
acres in peaches near Southern Pines, will
set out seventy acres more. 1t is the
rumor that the Southern railway is to get
TO Southern Pines by the route now fol-
lowed by the electric railway owned by
Mr.. j. w. Tufts. between Pinehurst and
Southern Pines.
George S. French. one Of ID. j. Rus
sells chief managers, assures me posi-
lively that the latter will get the Repub-
lican gubernatorial nomination on the
first ballot.
NORTHERN SETTLERS.
II is said by John T. Patrick that
there are near 1000 northern settlers in
Moore county.
No time is fixed for the meeting Of the
next Northern Settlers Convention. Cen
eral Lewis. the president and the Execu-
tive Committee can fix the date. The
convention just closed was certainly
remarkably fine body.
II is rumored that the Seaboard Air
Line intends TO largely increase the
capacity Of it's shops at Portsmouth. and
TO do much iron work there. Some OF the
FORCES from the burned shops here are
being sent to Portsmouth and measure
ments Of ground are being made there,
perhaps for additional shops. As yet no
steps are being taken for rebuilding the
shops here. The loss is $4,000. The in
surance was $4,000 on machinery and
$4,000 on the building. or the 125 work
men who were employed there. thirty are
now i'm the temporary machine-shop and
the engine-repair shop; ten have gone TO
Portsmouth and a number 10 Newport
News and Burlington, while others yet
have gone further south.
SPECIAL MONOGRAPHS
state-Geologist Holmes is now printing
special monographs on gold deposits and
mining, water-powers. timber trees,
clay deposits. clay industries, and mica
mining. Monographs on corundum and
monazlte are just from the press, ana
ready for distribution The field work
Of the geological survey this spring and
summer will be river measurements 10
determine the water-power Of the Roa-
noke. Catawba, Yadkin. and French
Broad. and later all other important
rivers. More perfect maps Of the Pis-
gah and Asheville regions viii be made.
Professor Holmes. I'm the monographs on
trees. shows that carelessness with fire
has destroyed mere long-leaf pine than
the lumbermen. He also says that on
an acre one nOB Iholfu NY anu haiiNN
1000 young iong-leaf pines.
The Caucasian, Senator Buffers paper,
saws positively that the Populist State
Convention will heartily endorse the
Populst committees refusal TO fuse with
the Republicans
The Russell men say the vote as ii
now stands on the Republican guberna-
torial nomination is as follows: Russell,
SO: Dockery, 50; Boyd, 16; Moody, l6; Lusk,
G. uninstructed, 49, delegates to be elected,
IA; contested seats. 30.
Burke county claims more northern
settlers than any other county in the
State.
AND STILL ANOTHER.
II is no secret that William a. Guth-
RE expects the Populist nomination for
Governor, and to get 1000 to 5000 sill
yer votes outside that party.
What is known as the "cool season I'm
May" is here, and light overcoats are
seen.
Two convicts from Ashe got a years
Imprisonment for stealing an engine
whistle.
The Supreme Court to-day adjourned.
as a mark Of respect to the memory OF
ex-Justice John II. billiard.
Three of the inmates Of the Soldiers
Home are dangerously sick.
Nessrs. McCombs, Brauer. and Harris.
all cattlemen OF Richmond, called on Gov
ernor Carr to-day to urge him TO
take some steps regarding Secretary
Morton's order placing North Carolina
in the cattle infection district.
Probably Norwegian Colony.