The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-10
Coming Back to The Democratic Party by
Hundreds.
ESCAPED MURDERER CAPTURED IN TEXAS
Progress or tho PoweIIsvilIc ana Wei
Z. linston Halfway Piedmont Hank
neutrality-suspicious.. About Cotton
hates Two Prospective Ncwspn-
pers.

Il Raleigh. n. c., Dec 9,-tSpeciaD-
sspector- General b. S. Royster to-day in
5 spected the State arsenal. In this Is
= Kept camp equipage for Il brigade of
1000 men,
The Populists are going back to the
Democrats BY the hundred That Is
Z what they say in the country. Disgust
with cent cotton and the State admin
iStration are the prime causes. SO say
& Populists themselves. Senator Butler
and Harry Skinner have both lost
power with them.
There Will be much criminal business
not disposed Of at the present term df
8 the United States District Court here
and tie adjourned term, which beg.us
January Sd, will probably continue two
: weeks.
1t is ordered that the execution Of
SONY Ryan, wife-murdcrer, at Green's
+; noro, he private. on the 23d instant He
is the most hardened criminal ever
known IN this State.
knston Is to have a hosiery yarn
mill. or these there are comparatively
few here.
Some OF the cotton-gro express
p great Indignation ut the proposition TO
regulate cotton planting. by prescribing
4 .ne acreage, and say they would never
submit to any such thing.
Niccteen miles of the Wellington and
tpwellsVille railway Is completed. II is
thought this road will finally be oper-
ated by the Atlantic Coast Line as n
part or line between Newhcru and
Norfolk, l Is to so TO Ahoske
Ihe Piedmont Bank muddle ut Nor
canton will not be settled until the
18TH as there are three receivers and
Two Injunction suits. The Supreme
q Court Will, no doubt, be called on TO
strictly define the right of the State
& treasurer to exclusively make motion
for appointments of receivers of state
hankS, It Is contendcd that the court
IN the Bank Of New Hanover case
really conceded him this right.
II complaints are fled with the Rail
way Commission that the Seaboard Air
Line Is not adhcring to the schedule of
freight RATES en- cotton fixed by the
hallway Commissioners.
GoTerno: Russell's statement that
during his term OF Office he desires no
applicant for admission into the Insane
asyiums to be rejected will attract
much attention. If that idea be car
RED out all the asylums will go In debt.
Il iact, present appropriations barely
sGiice 10 maintain them. The one here
ia ln debt this year $500
The State Association Of City Schonl
ESuperlntendents Is called to meet at
greensboro December 2Sth.
large Pennsylvania colony is to
settle In Rowan county y Phlladel-
phla capitalist will build 800 dwell.ngs
IN Salisbury That town and section
arg making great progress.
I.s De'Nclf Hopper presented "El Capt
lar, here this evening to mn audience
among which were large numbers OF
people from near by towns
III is stated that the promoters of
the Concord and Aberdeen railway have
raised $1,25o,oO0 Nothing has been re-
Gently heard OF the Stone Mountain or
the South Bound railway.
3g DR.. r. p. Ellis, who was recently par-
elyzed. has resigned MS Coroner OF this
county.
5a The Republicans say they have ar
ranged to have their tri-Weelily organ
here arnear January 18TH
- Raleigh Is largely represented at the
; g;lA ptist g State convention, which met
sSS$ Gilbert Ward, the white man WIN
Sm1urdered Mag Dlnkins, q diasolute
woman, four years ago in Wayne and
:ssfied to Texas, was brought back last
might, He was taken to Goldshoro and
then brought here and jailed for safe
keeping.
ia Edgar ~. Womhle win establish here
january list a novel paper, the Mon
1 day Morning Mail 1t is to appcar
only on Monday mornings
3f Next week the Farmers Alliance shoe
factory will begin work. making fifty
pairs daily.
Arrivals to-day: Charles Price, Sails
bury E. *, Wright, Wilson
so The State charters the Asheboro
Telephone company: capital, 1000
Is, John A. NIeeder, pag;oftlce swindin:,
: from Warren county, who has victims
1 the hundred in various states, mainly
{ South of here. was bcfol~ the Federal
Y Court here to-day. and sentenced to Is
d months Imprisonment and 5000 fine.
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