Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-04
OLD NORTH STATE.
NEWS GATHERED At NORTH CARO-
LIyA'S CAPITAL.
DEGREES in the CumnOck CoaI-Minc
Cases-Teachers to Discuss Poll
tics-stnte Tsxcs-An Earthquake
StOry-Driefs.


at chambers, Judge Purnell signed two
DEGREES I'm the Cumnock coal mining
cases. One Of these orders that all the
property covered by the deeds Of trust
OF the Egypt Coal Company and the
Langdon-H cnszey Coal Company be sold
In three months from to-day for cash.
The commissioners are A. II. Taylor, OF
Baltimore; John w. Hinsdale, and
Thomas Il. Womack. Langdon. of Phla-
delphia, was making great fight to Sc
cure this sale. The other decree signed
approved the compromise I'm the nine
teen suits for $1,000 brought by relatives
Of miners killed In the explosion of De-
cember. 1895, at this mine. BY the terms
Of the compromise. only 5000 is to be
paid I'm full OF all the claims.
The State granted a charter to the
High Point Table Company, OF which
f. ID. Stule. w. B. Stule, and John
Marsh are the corporators.
There Is to be n new feature at the
State Teachers Assembly, at Morehead
City. There is TO be n political day"
at which politics will be broadly dis
cussed.
This evening J. C. l.. Harris. chair
man Of the trustees of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, gave a reception
in compliment to the faculty and stu
dents.
Another cotton-mil Is to be built at
Lexington. The contract is to be award
ed this week.
The most interesting event of next
wqalx ic no Iqfarn II,
next Tuesday, at Ashevllle. in which the
matter Of the legality Of the lease of the
North Carolina railway is involved.
STATE TAX RECEIPTS.
Lieutenant Governor Reynolds says
that upon a proper assessment of lands
in this State the amount received in
taxes will be doubled. He declares the
inequalities in assessments are now out
rageous. Trucking lands, worth easily
$50 an acre, are assessed at s., and lands
which at sale would not bring 81 are
assessed at S.
The moonshiners are reported to have
done most daring thing in Davidson
county. 1t is asserted by the owner OF
a registered distillery that they stole it,
Some of the revenue officers seem inclined
10 think this story rather fishy.
Quite batch Of United States prisoners
will be taken from here this week &c
the penitentiary at Columbus, o.. among
them, enc who has six wives and thirty.
nine children, and Charles Lanier, who
gets four years for forging a signature
to a money-order at Washington.
one of the most curious things tn,
earthquake last Monday did here was
at the home of Mr. A. VI. McPheeters
a clock had been wound only an houl
before, and when the hour hand wa.
almost at o'clock It flew back two
hours and indicated noon. The cocl
also struck u instead of q He and hi,
brother. DR.. McPheeters, OF ST. Louis
witnessed this queer occurrence ant
vouch for II.
RAILROAD QUESTION.
The question whether the Southbound
railway will be built from Winston
Salem depends upon whether the STATE
will furnish the convicts-250-free OF al
charges. as provided in the act of 1891.
Inquiry was made the other day az
to who is the wealthiest man in Nortl
Carolina, and 1t was stated i'm reply tina
ex-senator Ransom was among th'
wealthiest. The Dukes, OF Durham, ar,
perhaps the wealthiest family.
The University Magazine, publication
of which was suspended last year. vii
be revived next year. IL is understood
that no more honorary degrees are to b.
conferred by the University.
The increase in the ranks of men wh'
favor the admission OF women into IN,
University your correspondent finds e
be large. Some leading men say in fiy'
years it will be an accomplished fact.
The Council Of State Will soon discus
the question of borrowing the $4,000
of the educational fund for the purpos
of meeting the various special appro
priations made by the last Legislature
1t is said the Treasurer thinks thl
ought to be done, and that Governor Rus
sell desires this course taken. o
course. the next Legislature would MAKE
the money good. Much of 1t would b'
USED in paying the special appropriation
to stimulate private aid to public schools
The summer law school at the Uni
versity opens July 1st John 5. Man
ming and ex-Judge Shepherd will be tn
instructors.