The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-01
/ Nesting Of the Historical Society Of The
North Carolina Conference.
B On i } Is; DIES OF HIS WOUNDS
soiisisor Hiscs boys TO Tessiry-Col-
orsa Teacher a.cnvcs d Good sum
% Enaow a scholnrship Statistics
OF fnrtninG mud Condition of
Tabor:

Il The antl-liQuor crusade Is attaining
large dimensions In Raleigh. Rev. j.
SsW.4Lee, the evangelist, Is Its promoter
Tonight there was a mass meeting in
Vi its interest.
s Scores OF delegates to the North
& Carolina Methodist Conference arrived
9EE5to-day. They get a warm welcome.
Il The historical society OF the conference
ii at It's annual meeting, at Edenton
s. street NJ. T. church this evening, heard
Il the annual lecture BY Rev. Dr.. Yates
Il OH Rev Or. Gloss. Edenton Street
vi church, in which the conference will
II hold Its sessions, Is one OF the largest
Il In tho State.
5sg Senator Butler will in his paper to-
&,morrow repeat his denial OF the senti-
rnents which 1t is sworn he expressed
s. In his speech Mt Rocky Mount.
sSSs Hammond, the man who killed young
b Ayeritt at Salisbury. gets or with u
light sentence, two years in the peni-
$atentiary. 3.35-liy5 s
Engineer Bum gardner, OF the South
/. ern railway, who was shot by a white
& tramp, Osborne lambert, died Sunday
4 night. For his murderer 5000 reward
offered. sg5
ut Is asserted that in Rowan county
3 the Solicitor offered boys attending the
public schools ~ each to testify before
the grand jury as to merchants from
whom they had bought cigarettes
l5.SS The telegram stating that the negro
who murdered young Stevens in South
x Carolina had been burned, was not
Il believed here. Now 1t turns out that
! the negro Is In jail at Conway, S. c..
4 and ccalfcsses the killing, but says 1t
was accidental. III Ell3,
Avn The average yield of cotton In this
: State this season Is nineteen pounds per
acre greater than that In Texas.
There was much political interest to-
s. day in the meeting OF the Democratic
4 State Committee tonight.
Among to-day's arrivals were DR.. S.
Up. billiard. OF Rocky Mount; S. Gal
lert. OF Rutherfordton: Edmund Jones
< and w. C.. Newland, of Lenolr. 4
Rev, Caesar Johnson qualified to-day
as executor OF Prof, II. c. Crosby. col
fored WHO died here yesterday OF con-
sumption. For twelve years, UP to last
I May, Crosby had been the superntcn-
dent OF the State colored normal school
at Plymouth. He was "a. graduate of
Shaw University here, md left It
nearly all his estate, valued at $500.
4 to establish scholarship for younG
men.
The Supreme Court got at work this
morning on Tenth District appeals.
Nearly all are criminal appeals.
~ AT the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion Conference, ut Newborn. $1,000
Was raised in one hour In subscriptions
to the Coleman Cotton Mil at Concord,
L.
The State fiscal year ended to-day.
The treasury accounts Will not be COM
pleted until December 18th, when the
inspecting committee meets.
IN AT the request OF Governor Elerbee,
of South Carolina, Governor Russell
Fappoints the following delegates from
the State at large to the Cotton Grow
4 ers' Convention at Atlanta, Ga, De-
Scernber 14th: ]. p. Sossaman, OF Neck
] lenburg;W p. Bachelor and II. II.
Jones' of Wake. The object OF the COM
4 Initteesis to consider the planting, sale
a and price of cotton and to devise, IL
possible, a plan by which the price may
3s5be brought above the cost of produc-
sJtion.f5 sS ,,4s6
The percentage of tlllable land in
The State this year is 30. The average
acreage OF farms is u.s. The average
E:uninlpFoyed s5.b2. About Al per cent
$&ofH the land is still in timber. Hired
81 laborers on farms are on an average
{Semployed seven months In the year. re-
sceiYing In summer s7.S1 per month and
In winter .05. Forty-two counties re-
port that the fertility of the land Is
slabefng maintained, while eighteen say II
li$ Is not, Thirty-three counties say tina,
something Is being done towards re.
y aiming land by ditching, terracing
": to-: fourteen say nothing. Thirty
S three counties report labor as abund
G Et I'll fourteen state is II scarce thirty.
seven that Dor can usually find EN-.
8 ployment all the year; twenty-four thai
\ they cannot; iorty-four that the educa.
% tionalt condition of working men.is I'M.
proving; fifteen that it Is not; forty.
Il Y two that their moral condition is i'm.
S proving eighteen that 1t is not.
ss5ssi The Post, the new Democratic morn.
" Ing daily, appears Tomorrow In his
salut DRY. Editor Furman says: "Tht
ii:ss5j .Angl o-S5a xon must and shall rule II
S. North Carolina, To the Democratic,
81 party only, uncontadninated and unde