Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-23
ACROSS THE BORDER.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED At NORTH
CAROLIyAs CAPITAL.
The Rains-The state Fair-Grounds-
A Queer Fire--A had Outbreak OF
Feycr-Thc Fishing Intercst-Pcr-
sonnI and General.

RALEIGH, y. c.. July 22.-(special)--
The rain ended to-day. Too much has
fallen in some sections Of the State.
Governor Russell commissions Judge
BRYAN TO hold Guilford Superior Court,
vice Judge Hake, who is in Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Baltimore. for treatment.
Treasurer Worth left to-day for More
head City. to join Auditor Aver, in pre-
paring for the county officers convention,
and will remain until it ends.
Secretary Ramsey. Of the State Board
Of Agriculture. and Secretary Nichols,
Of the state Agricultural Society. visited
the state Fair-Grounds to-day and IL
spected the buildings. The State owns
the west wing of the main building (Which
was part of the state exposition building
OF 1850. and this is found 10 leak. The
state will repair and repant it, and this
year the Agricultural Department WILL
for the first time in five years, make an
exhibit in il.
Superintendent Smith. of the peniten-
tiarv. saws positively that no bid greater
than the states bid for the phosphate
mine AT Castle Hague has been made, or
will be made.
a QUEER FIRE.
There was q queer fire here In the yard
Of the Southern railway about o'clock
this morning. fireman .ade up fire
in engine COZ. and then left IT, As a
result the cab was burned and some
Of the coal i'm the tender. The fire de-
partment was called out. The damage
is some 500. it is said.
The Charlotte News takes the Mergen-
thaler type-setting machines which the
defunct Tribune used here.
Tomorrow the STATE bankers meet to
form a State bank association, at More
head City.
Ex-Governor Carr spent last night here
on his way home from Washington city.
Claude Bernard, solicitor OF the First
District. has for months had his eye ON
the place now held by c. b. Aycock, as
United States District-Attorney, which
pavs $4,000 When he was last here he
appeared pretty sure he would get it.
II now seems that he is the winner.
There is a bad outbreak Of fever In
Rutherford county. 1t is diagnosed as
typhoid. but f. as malignant and fatal
as tvphus. and extremely contagious.
Last year there was much fever in the
sand-hll country. but this season it is said
there is very little.
Ii is the purpose Of the company which
holds the patent for making the cylindri-
cal bales Of cotton to put up presses in
this State II was only the cost which
prevented the State from using these at
the Roanoke farms. a 50-horse-power
engine. a 60-horse-power boiler, and four
gins are part Of the equipment. The
state is the largest cotton-grower, and
ex-senator Ransom the next largest i'm
North Carolina
SUMNER TRAVEL.
Summer travel is very heavy. and the
excursion business is greater than ever.
The summer resorts in the State seem
TO be doing well.
Ex-State Senator W. w. Rollins, OF
Asheville who is here. was the first man
TO employ convicts on the Western North
Carolina railroad. I'm 1872 he thus used
several hundred in the work Of grading.
But for the convic,s. this road would
never have been built.
There is considerable inquiry for to-
bacco lands east OF here A syndicate In
the West wants to buy 1900 acres.
The fish interest in this state will be
shown by the Labor Statistics Bureau
TO be much larger than ever before. Re
ports are now coming I'm.