The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-19
up 10 TO THE AVERAGE.
The State Fair This Week Win Be a VERY
Good Exhibition.
LATE CORN CROP PRACTICALLY
business Affected by the Drop in Cot.
son-scnsHtion ut thc nnp,ist Tnb.
crnnelo-Esanging on Thanksgiving
bay-Sesro Politicians CInmorous
For Patronage Pastry.

Raleigh, M c., October 1s.-(Speclal1
The State fair which begins tomorrow
VIII be up to the highest average. The
weather Will DO fine and the attendance
large. The exhibits are varied Mr.
George Vanderbilt sends notable ones
from his Biltmore farm. They came In
u number of special cars and Include
cattle, sheep, swine, farm and truck
crops and poultry. One COW has re-
cord Of 1000 quarts of milk 4 month. and
z'a pounds Of butter daily
ihere Will be n large staf OF marshals
ana good music, Chief Marshal =. II.
I-yhrook, OF Winston, and many Of his
assistants came yesterday. Grimes Bat
qery or portsmouth arrives tonight 1t
VIII not bring it's guns and horses as the
harness is not in proper condition.
The prompt steps taken to punish the
persons who have violated the CATTLE
quarantine laws at Richmond and Nor
folk give much pleasure to cattle raisc:s
an this State. whose business was about
ITO be ruined
Farmers say THE late crop of corn is
practically failure. The early crop
was one of the finest ever raised, and
much Of It Is housed
Mrs. Nora Wilson was arrested ycster-
day at Durham charged with biGumy
The warrant was issued on complaint of
james Tyson. the father of her last vic
rim. She married young Tyson last
month in Cumberland county
The Southern Railway will put 1000
men to work grading IT'S line between
Mocksville and Mooresville.
Last night the Academy of RIdgeway
was burned. 1T was built about twenty
tiTe years ago. as the Albion Hotel. At
Uhat time there was quite an English
ana Canadian colony ut Tlidgeway The
hotel was quite q large one.
The Slate convention Of the Young
Mems Republican League meets here ut
2:30 o'clock Tomorrow evening In the
Senate chamber. There will be q pretty
light over the offices. 1t Is said. Five
negroes will be here as delegates James
IL Young will be one of them, holding
THE proxy for Brunswick. The League
people are now talking about having a
newspaper. r..
There are 231 students at the Agrl-
cultural and Mechanical College.
Commercial travellers say business Is
qufte dull in North Carolina. The great
drought (Which, by the way, Is again In
eIecD and 1.-THE drop In cotton have done
the mischief.
Mamie Gray, n fifteen year-old girl
mas been rescued from life Of shame In
thurman, where man named Aldridge
took her. They were engaged at War
rem Plains She eloped with HIM to Dur
ham only to learn there that ne was n
married man, and there he attempted
her ruin. He was given Notice to leave
There or take the consequences.
The cotton oil mills here are now
brushing seventy tons n day. A $50.
horsepower Watts Coyllss engine has
just been put In and other additions
made to the plant
AT the Baptist Tabernacle here last
evening there was quite SENSATIONAL oc.
currence Rev. DR.. Simms, the pastor
attacked Hon. John Nichols secretary OF
the State fair, for petltioning the board
of aldermen ito permit the barrooms tc
be open all night during the fair. N. B
Broughton, superintendent of the Sun
day school, who was a member Of the
fafr committee, resigned as soon as the
sermon was ended.
The alumni building of the State Uni
Sersity will he modelled upon the lines
of the Boston public library. It is to
contain all the offices and lecture rooms
and laboratories, and the removal of
these from the buildings will give great
~ needed dormitorfes for eighty more
students. The material Of the new build
ing will be buff brick and granite.
There Is some comment on the sem
tence Of George Johnson, negro rapist