The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-04
RUSSELL IN HOT WATER
Finds Ills Principal Diversion In Retaining
Lawyers for the State.
CURIOUS FEATURES OF TAX RETURNS
Barnes Bros. Masters of thc Pnblio
Printing SitunttOn -Peniteniiary
TO Bc DcpopuIntcd for Cotton Pick.
inE-seIection Resardiess OF Quail.
I1cations.

Raleigh, N. c., September 3.-tSpe-
~ciul)-rhe returns of taXable property
: as made to the Auditor and the state
Board OF ia Equalization are very odd
sometimes. In the one from New Han
over county the total amount or provis-
ions on hapd Is given.as only 1865; gross
incomes, $1,000; shares IN Incorporated
companies. including bank stock. s4l5,-
619.
The total number of students at Wake
Forest college Is 200, and about 60 more
are expected.
The Agricultural ana Mechanical col
lcgc here opens OH the 9th instant, and
will have many new students. thanks
to the most active canvass o.. the State
even made limits interest.
barnes Bros, printers TO the council
or State." to-day occupied their new
Office here. They will print Senator But
lcr's paper and also tho Presentation.
Guy Barnes, or Tho firm, when asked II
he considered himself the public printer,
replied: NO. The Council Of State is
the public printer. ] have L contract
for IT," The fact Is Barnes appears TO
have beaten Stewart Eros, of Winston
at II ~latter's own game.
The governor appointed lawyers to
fght the lease of the North Carolina
railway to the Southern. yet when the
new directors of the North Carolina rail-
way met thry voted these artorneys
$4,000 for this. The former board had
paid attorneys 1000 to defend the
lease. "
There is NOW trouble about the row
ernor'S stepping In and employing four
lawyers to represent the State in The
case of the Western Union Telegraph
against the railway cGmmis-
sion. The attorney-gencral had asked
Tor legal assistance. but had asked 1t Of
the railway commission, and not the
governor. But the latter directly en-
ploys counsel, and hat without consul
talon with the railway commission
which Is itself Il court. and really n 90.
ordillhte branch OF the government.
Ihe governor thanks the FanreGuarls
or henderson, for their excellent work
In guard duty nj the execution of George
Brndse. ut Henderson.
More rain fell last night; very little
hcrfSSut considerable ncur here. Every
drop OF IL was needed blythe crops.
me negro organs are putting out The
statement that II the Democrats rrt
the legislature next yer they will dis
i~rhnchise SO per cent. OF the negro vote.
Snnrlotte'S twelfth cotton mill thr
Louise, began operations yes. rday. In
nllr:iler OF cotton mills Charlotte lends
II Is said that forty ndian from The
Shcfokec reservation, In this State. arc
w SoNtl ullIpll .SpnDOl at rrJlicln
Pa. N'"'t
y court officer makes The quite s,art.
ling assertion that 10 pei, cent OF tho
adult males in the State. or certainly
In his section. carry pistols. This mms,
surely be n gross ovcrcstima.e
Inc trustees CT the blind anu deaf
mute institutions here last nii,ht elected
Key. Joseph Perry, colored, ~sup,rin-
tendent " the negro dc2ar;mnnt IVA
other aspirnni was named patil!o. Mi.
ther he nor Perry knows anything al,ou,
teaching deaf-mutes. 1t used TO he The
ruIe that experience woc ,nnut.,1 ,,..
n trustee says the hoard has changed
phat. The same trustee say one of the
rules Is that an examination mus; be
passed but tina as no penalty is pro.
Vlded IN case Of failure, there are no ex-
anihotiors.
one hundred convicts are being select
ca lrom one OF the State farms on the
foanoke TO go to Wilmington next Mon
day, to build Il road connecting the Al
iantic Coast Line ana It's new purchase
the New Berne and Wilmincton road
~ SOVH us UnlS INK Is Duilt Tho CON