The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-05
NORTH STATE NOTES
Pupu|lst Magnates Coming TO the Parting
of the Ways.
MAYBE BUTLER WILL LOSE HIS GRIP
Rnlcigh'a BoEdcd ncbt Reduced
Salisbury Interested In Isnsrbnii
Tar Heels "t f"rt Monroe-r:vti
Results of Public Executions -
NntcIIinE 0%stricIcs.

Raleigh, n. c., Sept. 4.-(Spccia)-Dr.
r. a. Cobb. OF the Popul.st State Exc
cutirc Committee. says a break between
OHIO Wilson and Senator Butler win
smash the latter SO far as the commit
tee Is concerned; that is. he will lose
cccitrol OF It.. He added: wv would
not have stood back ut our last meet
!ng, but were Il little afraid. Now we
can take the step" Cobb is n; minority
iopuiist and what he says Is hence tho
expression Of the anti-Butler sentiment.
The bonded debt of Raleigh is only
slSV'loo to-day. Yesterday $27, 800 of cam
celled bonds were burned.
There Is now the question, as to the
iSrlchftes, or SanctiGed Band, In the
southeastern part of the State-wil
lhcy pass In 10 South Carolina? This
state longs to be rid CT them.
salisbury wants to get in the South
erh baseball league. This State Is now
Ill no league and Interest Is on the wnne.
one hundred convicts from the State
Iarms are. under private contract. diIsing
the Arlington farm GEAR GGldsboro.
III inns county the assignment of the
lease OF the North Carolina RAILWAY 10
me Central Trust Of New
hork. by the Southern railway, was
registered To-day.
Justice Furchss grants n rcbc,r,ny IN,
the Supreme Court OF The Charlotte
water works bond case. which ut last
term the Supreme Court decided adj
versely to the city.
IL Is remarked that the pc%nitentiary Is
apt to furnish the next sensation.
w convtcts were Drought to the
p~enttentiary to-day by the Sheriff OF
John2tun county.
IL is sad that over 2aO enlisted mon
IN the First Artillery, u. S. A., head
quarters at Fort Monroe. are from East
cru North Carolina. Colonel Frank.
lhe rcEinciltnl commander. sets great
store ny HIS North Caro,inians.
The War Departments ct Washington
desires tc correspond with members Of
the various North Carolina. regiments
%a.ch participated In the Battle OF
Antlctam GSharpsbureD
Eight thousand people were at Snow
Hill Tuesday to see Dock Black. the
negro who outraged aiIss Jane Shipp,
puhliclH hanged. 1t was cOnclusively
shown that it Ia n very bad plan to have
a public hanging. MH3id curiosity
drew most OF the crowd. ana nlstols.
KNIVES and clubs were on view all aay,
II was hard to avert q riot and race
war Inc negroes were excited and
the guards drove them back by putting
guns pistols In tllelr faces. Rlac;x,
Standing on this gail1ws. warnod them
10 10 DICK, saying he had committed tho
crime ana deserved his fate After the
crop Tell the negroes tired 20 make an
other rush nHd a lot OF them had to be
driven out or the town by the white
reoNc, rs they made the worst threats.
Charles 3. Rouss. Of New York, has
cent to Mrs. Armistead Jones. of this
city, half the money needed To put up
the memorial shaft - the North Caro-.
lima dead In the Stoncwall Cemetery.
at Winchester, Va.
Worms. Of a kind rot before seen
mere. have attacked tobacco in this
section.
In n fortnight young ostriches will
ne Matched at the poultry experiment
1Rrm here by +. y. l!cge n n new pat
tern incubator.
There is no doubt That the crops arc
hadly cut Oft by the drought.
II Is asserted that there are ,oo
bicycles here. 800
tfcrernor Russell does not exhibit the
evidence on which he based his demand
on me halfway Commissioners IIc save
me iettcr3 are confidential ar,d thot
ne mas no power to sumnnon witnesses