The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-26
ALL AGAINST RUSSELL
Prominent Republicans Join Democrats
In Denounclng the Governor.
THE WILSON'S WILL FIGHT HIM HARD
Proposition to Lease Convicts Vtr-
iuaIiy Killed Northern Visitors
Expected mt Southern Pines
Veterans; nisIn .sscd from tho sol-
diers' IIoin q TO r. Fighting.

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Raleigh, \" q. Sept. 25.-(spccial.)-l
The letter 10 Governor Russell from
Major Wilson chairman OF the railway
commission. was so cutting as TO ey-
cite general comment. Many people ask
who besides Senator Butler IL backing
Governor Russell in his effort TO GUST
Major Wilson sund Ctho Wilson. Repub-
iCalls are lot bnclninS him. Tho At
torney General, two weeks ago, openly
said the Governor was wrong. Ohio
Wilson says Dire did not answer the
Governors letter OF suspension. He
says he told his lawyers that he knew
nothing about law, and THAT If they
would attend TO that branch OF this
matter. he wGiild Look after the politics.
He has us attorney J. G. l.. Harris, r.
Q. Burton and Spier Whitaker while
Major Wilson has II. Q. burton, John y.
Shaw Thomas N. Hill, Spier B. Wihi'ta-
ker and Bynum & Bynum. Two score
lawyers volunteered their services as
counsel. Ndt only this, but prominent
men all over the State, among them
Republicans high jill position, have writ
ten. condemning i'll unqualified terms
Governor Russell's course. The latter Is
angry and obstinate, 1t is declared, und
70 trying to ride rough-shod. Ohio
Wilson makes 1t a personal mater with
Senator Butler, and the Senator need
have no desire TO meet his former first
lieutenant.
The keeper OF THE capitol the Rev.
Dr. Burns, yesterday was plainly told
by the Secretary of State that his med
ding was intolerable. and that If Ut was
NOT stopped he would be ousted
The Commissioner of Labor Statistics
says that iii his recent visit ito the Duck
town copper mines he found the veEe-
tmtson for miles around the mine had
been killed and that residents have
brought suits for damages for an i'm
mcnse sum.
IoDhcco warShousemen here say the
commission merchants arc checking the
growing Of tobacco by refusing 10 make
advances to growers, and hence forcing
the cultivation of cotton
Letters from the Piedmont and west
ern sections say there will be q large
increase In the acreage In small grain
1t now appears as If the agitation re-
gardLnG the lease OF the convcts will
absolutely prevent dts being affected.
Many law students arrived here to-day
and Thursday, md will be examined by
fihe Supreme Court. There will be 0t
least forty in the class.
People from Southern Pines say pre-
par1ttons are IN progress for the great
est nur'' Der of Northern visitors ever in
that section. This applies also to Pine
hurst A colony of 400 Pennsylvaniaa,s
will settle on the line of the Scaboard
Abr Line in that section. The Seabo,lrd
Is a great developer.
Near here to-day DR.. D. Reid Par
ker, SItate Farmers Institute conductor,
held an Institute. Only u few moro Will
be held this year.
Warden Russell, of the penitentiary,
says that fully three fourths of the CON
vdcts an neither read NOT write. Ha
Gays crime In this Stnte Is almost entire
ly among the uneducatcd.
Reports from some points west of
here ore THAT the winds, light as they
were. have badly blown out COTTON
The States claims against Stewart
Bros. ex-publlc printers, for money
which st Is alleged was obtained by
maud. aggregate very nearly $50, 600. The
Stewards are denouncing the State Of
fcers and saying they are acting tile
gally.
Governor Atkinson, OF Georgia, and
his hosts the Greensboro Fox Hunting
club, who are at Manchester, Cumber-
land county, 1lavo so far caught three
foxes.
In Henderson county q lively pursuit of
a negro raplst is in progress. He Is IN
the laurel thickets and has several times
shot at his pursuers.
OF the three men killed by the eXplo-
sion OF O. boiler at Aguon, two were Vir-
ginians. The body of ]. 3. Barlow was
sent to Midlothian. and that OF J. c.
Barlow do Charlottesville
AS to THE politics of the new ap-
poirtees OF the Governor as railway
commissioners. 1t was said to-day thar
l.. G. Caldwell Is n "Butler Populist"
and John II. Pearson u Russell DEM
ocrat."
John B. Smith, when asked this morn
Ing who was In charge of the inmates
OF the criminal insane wards at THE pen-
atentiary, said: CDR. George Kirby Is in
charge now and has been all the time.
There will be no one under him."
A carload of convicts will neNt Mon
day be sent to tho State farms on the
Roanoke leaving only thirty In the
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