The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-09
STATE NOTES
Commissioner Of Agriculture Mobiles His
Statement In Regard 10 Crops,
COTTON FAR BELOW EXPECTATIONS
GDldsbora Water pronounced Puro-
.Sbcriu of Nntnicsn taken to TASK
Mad bog Observation-Disclosures
Nniiroah Extension - Prisoners
nrcak Jas.- Miss Wuite's Reply.

Raleigh. n. c., Sept. S.-tSpeclaD--TIle
revenue collections i'll his district dur
Ing August were $Sl,7S6.2 &c. Of which
Sio,'sae was ON wlisskey. SIZES on e.ilrs
and cigarettes and $51.30I on tob.c sJ.
II Commissioners or Agricuitur said
o-aaS: Il van to modify greatly my
statement made August 18th to the New
Orleans Ttmes-DemDcrat regarding the
cotton crop. In many places the crop Is
fully as good as II was last year. u
month aso It promised To hc Il Grea;
crop. But II has failed greatly and is
still failing. 1t IS no bctitr q crop
Than last years. 1'here has been IL
wonderful change for the worse ia thirty
Gays. ltusl Is the result Of the drougns
and us, certainly hurts cotton. our
reports on the corn were never so g1Ut-
as those as to cotton. The bugs nrd
worms damaged the corn much carly In
the season. when it was 50 cold and
wet. and 1t u hard to get a good
starld.'
NO State CROP report for September
VIII be made, as no inquiry blanks were
sent out. The Agricultural Department
people say that there will be mention
OF the o in the bulletin. but it will
be merely co~njcctural. The bulletin
VIII contain u list of all the manufactur-
Ing enterprises RI the State.
Mr.. Hymns, the new hotauist of the
Agricultural n Mechanical College, ar
rived to-day from StateSville.
IL Will require two weeks time TO get
the exhibits rearranged in the old por-
tten of the State Museum and the fur
niture and exhibits in the new rooms
VIII not be ready before October LIST.
AN analysis of Goldshoro's water sup
ply Is said to show that II IS pure.
The Sheriff of Wataugn county Is
summoned tn antln,r y laFrra tln S,t,tD
board of Tax Equalization for his care
lessneSs IN falling to make returns.
Inspector General b.. S. Register this
morning Inspected the Governors
Guard. Under the new regulations In
spect:ons take place in marching order
and with MI campaign equipment.
There Is much excitement ut Sails
pury by reason Of the presence of mad
doss. Two persons have been bitten.
one Will be sent to the Fasteur Hospital
at Baltimore.
There is uow talk of n railway from
Shelby to Eli2ahcthtown, Tenn. via
caldwell, Burke and Watauga counties,
passing by Blowing Rock. Twelve
miles OF the line, near Shelby, are
graded. 49,
Two prisoners broke out or Warren
%county''s jail by tearing a steel bedsteod
10 pieces and using che of the lonr,
parts of the frame as 81 lever. Exactly
the same. plan was pursued here when
OrafSe Page, the murderer, and ten
other prisoners escaped t:lree years ago.
MISS Katie Waite, secretary of the
Cumhock Coal Mining who
was charged by S. p. Langdon with be-
me a married woman. has officially filed
ner denial and say he Only made tho
charge to wound and annoy her. she
mas placed LanGGon In : very awkward
position.
Clay Mccarthy, a 1~5-year-old white
BOY. or Asheville, an incorr!giblc, who
IS In the rcnitentiary here, escaped
night before last. but was quickly re-
captured in this city. Governor Russell
wanted him held here until he could
get him In a reformatory. He had on
Citizens clothing and slept in a guard
room. He stole $3.50 from a guard,
sipped out and scaled n wall. Now he
mas heen put at hard work, after a good
thrashifE with n switch, administered
oy the warden. the Governors brother
Striped clothing Is now on him. Nc
Carthy. with q knife. cut in a horrible
hhnnher another boy at Ashevillc.
one OF the negro convicts in Tho
Capital Square this morning refused To
roll a wheelbarrow. Warden Russell
was sent for and the fellow nj once
went TO work. Tonight he was whippcd
WITH a strap, which Is uscI on the older
criminals, a switch being used on the
younger onces In the good old fashion.
Ihe rebellious convict Is a life prisGner
ana q desperate man.
The fence around the Capital Suuorc
Is not TO be removed this year, at least.
framps arrested In this city are being
SEM to the roads for thirty days.
Forty-two convicts at work at Seven
springs and siNty-fivc at G%oldsboro Will
be sent to Wilmington next Saturday
or Monday.
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