The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-17
GREAT CALCULATIONS
ARE BEING lf1DEBY BOTH BUTLER
And PRTTCHARD POPULISTS.
An Editor Has a Fight--Good Price for
Raleigh improvement Bonds--State
Penitentiary Farm Pays.

RALEIGH, ". c., october 16-speclal.-
Senator Butler will be here next week.
He is beginning his campaign early, as
he 50 well knows how to DO. He IS GER
talnly a shrewd worker He now calcu-
Iates on crushing the "Pritchard Popu-
lists" or boilers, and they as certainly
calculate on crushing him. The Populist
State Committee is tolerably evenly di-
vlded so far as Butler is concerned.
Robert Graveley, a delicate white youth
Of eighteen was placed in the peniten-
tiary Yesterday afternoon to serve fifteen
years for the murder Of young Law. in
Surry county. In a drunken quarrel the
murder was done. Gravcley fed 20 Nir-
ginia, but two months ago was captured.
Tho tobacco in the burned prize houses
at Durham is yet on fire. Much or it,
below the glowing mass. is said 10 be as
yet intact The outline OF the burned
hogsheads IS visible.
FOUGHT OVER WATER SUPPLY.
There was n fight at Durham yesterday
between Editor Robinson, of the sun,
and Mr. Niche. the water works super
intendent, in which the latter was the
aggressor. It grew ont Of comments on
the short water supply
A gentleman just from Kinston says
that the gunboat Neuse which was par
TALLY burned there during the war, IS
now high and dry and many yards from
the water, so low Is the Neuse river.
The boat IS being stripped Of iron work
boilers, &c. It Is the first time IL mas
ever been visible since IL was burned.
Superintendent Smith says that big
report Of the penitentiary will be MADE 10
the directors next week by him. He SAID:
Il have nothing to say except that
am satisfied"
A merchant here says Smith got good
prices for his cotton. which was recently
sold-SisO more than the merchant had
offered.
SAYS IT PAYS.
Ev-Superintendent Leazar. OF the penl-
Tertiary. absolutely disprOves the accu-
racy Of Auditor Ayers statement that
"the penitentiary cannot be made SELF
sustaining" by saving that last year he
made it self-sustaining and paid every
cent Of expenses out OF the money II
earned"
In one section Of the state there have
been great rains this week. In Surry
county the damage TO farms and mill
property IS put at $4,000. Many farms
were nearly ruined. Trees were levelled.
There must have ben cloudburst.
There was a rumor last night that
James IT, Young (colored) was sure 10 get
the Raleigh post0hice. Young said to-
day that Just as soon as Postmaster G.
NJ. Bushels time expired he would enter
upon the duties of postmaster. But no
ono save Young can be found who be-
lcves any such thing. White Republic
cars laugh at the idea.
NEW ENTERPRISE.
Greensboro is 10 get a 100000 shoe rae
tory plant. which is TO come from the
North.
Tho first cotton yarns ever spun in the
South are now being made az the reiitted
Lircoln Mills. near Lincolnton, and viii
be on view at the meeting of the Cotton
Sn,nncrs' Association at Philadelphia
South Carolina mill men appear to be
inducing q great many North Carolina
mill operatives to 30 to their State. A
few years ago they took hundreds OF peo-
PIE from the Southeastern part of the
state 10 Pelzer. Now they have taken
the night force OF the great Odell Mills at
Concord.
The Southern railway, just as was pre-
dicted. has completed all the arrange
ments for the building Of its line between
M0cksville and Mooresville. The stakes
are being set for the grading force. Work
begins I'm ten days. There will be very
large force and work will 20 on in three
sections.
The attendance AZ Shaw University, col
ored, here. during the coming term, viii
be very large. There VIII be an increase
in the number Of foreign students.
Judge Purnell leaves for Elizabeth City
tomorrow to hold a term Of the Federal
Court.
The Railway Commission to-day gave
"A. w. b. Glover. traffic manager Of the
Seaboard Air Line a hearing that Of him
having exception 10 the commissions or
der lowering rates on cotton shipments.
RALEIGH BONDS.
There IS great satisfaction here az the
high rate 0O9 1-3) paid for Raleigh's $4,000
s per cent. street Improvement bonds.
This city has a small debt. taxes are very
low and the finances are admirably man.
aged.
The Railway Commission files its an
swer 10 the Western Union Telegraph
Company I'm the case which comes up at
Wilmington. November 1st. II SAYS rates
arc too high; that profits are charged on
watered stock; that over per cent. Of pro
fit has been made on fictitious capital.
and that an enormous surplus has been
accumulated.
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