Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-11
THE OLD NORTHSTATE
A BUDGET OF NEWS GATHERED
AT THE CAPITAL.
A Good, Round sam-No wonder II
ExpIoded-Do Not Like the Letter.
They are Friends Again-Brief
Items OF interest.

RALEIGH, n. c., February io.-tSpe-
ciaI.)-To-day the Railway Commission
was to have given the Southern Express
Company hearing on the matter OF re-
duction of rates, but the company asked
for a continuance until the 18th instant.
and this the commission granted.
state-Treasurer Worth to-day received
from the North Carolina railway, through
p. b. Ruffin, treasurer, 100000. being the
semi-annual payment OF tho lease money.
Six months hence he win receive $4,000.
as the sum received to-day Is S'A per
cent. and the annual rate now paid Is
6i5 per cent.
one of the best informed Democrats In
this State said to-day that he was positive
three fourths OF all the voters In the
State. regardless OF party, are for free
silver.
Among to-day's arrivals here are X. r..
PEBBLES. Of Northampton, and Thomas
N. Hill, Of Halifax. who are attending
the Supreme Court, which tomorrow
takes up appeals from the Second DISTRICT.
Upon an investigation OF the Doiler
which exploded at Hagwoods saw-mlli'
Wakefield, 1t is found that II was honey
combed with rust. Ii had been soid
no less than twelve times. Ii had Just
been put in use by Haywood, and mad
not been in operation over hair an nour'
when it went to pieces. killing three men
and badly injuring three.
DON'T LIKE HIS LETTER.
The Populists are saying mighty harsh
things about Senator Pritchard, on ac-
count of the letter he published last week.
They are rid.culing the Republican decia-
ration that the latter party can carry the
state unaided. But, on the other hand,
II is quite clear, II positive assertions
go for anything, that all the Republicans
will get together by November LIST, no
matter how much they may quarrel now.
DR.. McGeachy, assistant physician at
the insane asylum here, left to-day for
New York, to be absent six weeks, and
will specially study nervous diseases.
CoTTON-MILLLs.
In Rutherford county. near Thermal
City. on the Ohio-River and Charleston
railway. a 100000 cotton-mlll Is TO be
built. to be finished In eight months. The
two Henrietta cotton-mills. at Henrietta,
on which work is now In pros ess, VIII
cost 81 100000, completed. Colonel Frank
Coxe's new mill will be at Fowler Shoals,
in Rutherford county. They survey OF
the railway from Henrietta to Spartan
burg, $. c., Is finished, and IL Is found
It can De built for $4,000 1t is to pass
by Colonel Coxe's new mill The state
ment is now made that an electric road
Is to be built between Rutherfordton and
Asheyille via Chimney Rock. There Is a
charter for such line. The water-power
is ample to operate II.
There is much cotton In the country.
A Raleigh dealer last week bought 1900
bales from a farmer in Georgia, and the
latter has yet to he ginned about COO bales.
Through the Intervention OF mutual
friends, United States Marshal o. j.
Carroll has made the amende honorable
TO Editor Josephus Daniels, Of the News
and Observer, for the personal assault
made upon the latter last Friday morn
ing, and all matters OF personal difference
between these Two gentlemen have been
amicably adjusted.
United States District-Attorney Aycocls
has gone to Durham 10 investigate
charges made against certain United
States commissioners and deputy mar
shals There are intimations that several
commissioners and deputy marshals In
his district are likely to be dropped from
the rolls
Twenty convicts were sent from the
penltentiary this afternoon to the new
state farm, near Wadesboro', and 100 more
viii be sent next week.