The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-27
ALL OVER THE STATE
SACaIafu|!y Prepared Survey Of the Entire
55.5 North Carolina News Field.
,PURRELL GETS 4 FEDERAL jUDGESHIP
An Appointments blade After n Long
4EHg Deiny-Ihe Real authors OF the HI.
III sane Asylun Bills insurance Com.
s.ss nnuy Said TO be WnritiHg Without
Ltcensc--ScRbonrd wreck.

U Raleigh, n. c., Apr. 2G-(SpcciaD-T. Il.
81 Purnells name was sent 10 the senate
A. to-day for the United States judsship.
y He Is here ana received many con
g organizations to-day. The delay III the
y appointment of n judge for this district
seaused much unfavorablc comment here
q and elsewhere. The missing OF two terms
& OF court at Elizabeth City and New
81 hernc IS remarked upon as rather
n shameful. There are prisoners in jail
whose cases will have 10 go over.
sSSSts, THE REAL AUTHORS.
&S5E nj ention was made some days ago Of
\ the charge that the miserahly prepared
S##"insane asylum bills" which actually
Il excite the ridicule Of the judges. We're
drawn by T. r. purnell. y letter to-day
s. from a widely known Republican, says
$she knows positively that J. G. L. Har-
Iris and Charles a. Cook drew the bills,
with the assistance Of Governor Russell.
& and are responsible for them. 1t is
X further ascertaincd OH the same high
81 authority that at q conference or eau
SScus of the boiling PopuliSts. Walter II.
u Henry read these bills and said they
6 We're very defective, and that he would
h not guarantee them to hold good.
sgE State Treasurer Worth says the part
8of the last revenue act. which taxes
Il drummers $50 each, is very unfortunate
e because it only applies to those who
adds that this provision was knocked
VI out by the Finance Committee, but iii
1.-THE Legislature was reinstatcd. The
81 outside 0rummers cannot be taxed. One
stNorth Carolina firm was extremely anX-
a9ious to have the tax levied, as it would
" protect Its drumnerS from the annoy
"a ance of having to go outside the limits
Il of many Of the towns to do business,
while at the same time representatives
gsor out-of-the-Stat firms were selling in
& the town without molestation. But the
5I!other State firms did not want the
d tax put on.
a#5fss WORKING WITHOUT LICENSE.
$f$ Secretary Of State Thompson says he
N has received four inquiries rs 10 wheth-
" or the Aurora Fire Insurance company
SS IS licensed to do business in this State,
land is informed that 1t is doing bust
Il ness. He says It had no license last
year ana has none this year. He de-
3s$sires information SO that he can prose
q cute, and declares he fully intends to
protect the licensed companies and
agents. No doubt j great deal OF fraud
NJ mas been practiced by unlicensed COM
& 3panies.
&'the labor commissioner, who is now
II by law Inspector OF mines, begins May
18th tour which will occupy three or
4 four months. He has already secured
y lists OF over 500 mines
tgltE othlng is being done in manaZite
i mining now. che manaZite is used in
q making nantes for the Welsbach
u burners. 1t is found only at the foot or
N the South mountains, in this State.
5f$ Men there have made rs much as Sc
55s day getting out this valuable sand.
The discovery OF manazile in Brazil in
81 such quantities that ii can be delivered
%;ln New York at cents pound utterly
a knocks out the North Carolina Lusi-
Ct ness. Senator Prit chard * IRVINE. i, :,
IS get specific tariff Of cents :, bound
q imposed. But 1t is said several Senators
Il mold Welsbach stock ManaZite used
a TO sell nt from to 20 cents per pound
WRECK ON THE S. A. l..
5iS There was q wreck on the Seaboard
n Air Line near kitrelis Yesterday morn
Ing. NO one was hurt. One freight
d train ran into another.
syt Ihe revenue officers and the moon