The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-31
The Crop Certainly Larger Than The Farmers
Are Willing TO Admit.
LARGE ADDITION 10 THE PENSION ROLL
oIorcd state Fair TO BE n Crrditnblo
-Durhnm's Treatment
for cramps Russell Rats Deserving
tho ship-SoIicitor Pou,< sharp
Refort TO Butler.

Raleigh, n. c.. October 3O.-(Spcc.al)
--As yet there has been no frost here.
This is phenomenal. The result has
been the opening Of all the cotton. The
crop Is certainly larger than the farmers
will admit.
The auditor says there were about
1900 new applications for pensions this
year, of which something like 800 passed.
but quite IL number were dropped from
the roll, owing mainly 10 deaths. This
Is particularly the case as 10 widows.
Superintendent John X. Smith, of the
pcnitcntiary. says his son, Dr.. Kirby
Smith, Will return from New York in
about three weeks. He says there is
nothing in the statement that Governor
Russell will make icquisition for Kirby
Smith, as he could not do so until the
latter had been indicted.
Clerk Wimbish. of the pcntentiary,
did not relish the publication of his
queer letter 10 Rev. DIR. n. w. Blbb, in
which the latter was gently dismissed
as pcnitentary chaplain. But the lei
ter, the treasury officials plainly told
him, was attached to and fled with
Babb's voucher. and hence was II public
document. The fact Is, the treasurer
did not relish paying out the $50 to Babb
for preaching any more than he did the
$l32 for whisky. which was covered by
.
The officers of the colorcd State fair
which begins here next Tuesday, say
that the exhibits viii be Very credit
able. The only colorcd military COM
pnny In the State that of Captain G.
s. l.. y. Taylor, of Charlotte, will be In
camp At the grounds with It's full
strength, forty-th.ee men,
Durham people have a new treatment
for tEamps who refuse to work out costs
M, t..y.,I In
by. an ankle, his hands were tied be-
hind him apGMc thus made tour of
the town on foot.
State Chemist w. A. Withcrs returned
to-day from Washington. where he at
tended the National Convention or
Chemists. Hc says the chief question
discussed was that OF pure food and
food aduteE2 ton and that the question
will be niors widely discussed this com
Ing winter thnn'ever before all over the
country.
The fact that reports arc In hand from
no less than 20i gold mines In this State
Shows a very remarkable and rapid de-
Fclopmcnt aong that line, when the
status of gold mining ten months ago IS
taken into account
Reports to the Bureau of Labor Stalls
tics from lis of the 1S5 cotton mills in
this State which spin ana weave show n
daily consumption of 1,137 bales, or 1885,
Csc year.
The railway commission certainly
gives Governor Russell's attorneys the
cold shoulder. In fact, 1t does not rcco.-
nize them at all. The encouragement,
Whom 1t does recognize, Is the quietcst
OF all the State officers
The petition for Il change Of route OF
the Raleigh and CASTOR railway at Gas
ton brings up again before the railway
commission that matter. The conditions
were made such that last winter the
road dropped the project.
1t Is not good news which comes from
southport TO the effect that the Lynch
ties or Sanctified Band propose to settle
there and erect II tabernacle. 1t is said
these people are really afraid to go any
further South. particularly into South
Carolina. North Carolina people Ger
talnly desire them TO pass on.
The Increase In the number OF assaults
upon women in the State this, year Is
SO great As to attract general attention
The papers have recorded over thirty
such assaults. ana one legal execution
and one lynchln:; are the net result so
lar. Ihree persons are to be hanged in
November.
~ veteran Republican remarked to-
day: The Russell rats are deserving
the ship" BY this he referred to the
men VINO a yea: ago posed as friends OF
dusscll, and who now repudiate him.
The old people arc declaring that the
seasons have changed: that there is no
lonSeC spring nor autumn; that the sea-
sons have. in fact. lost their identity.
me Weatherwise predict Il cold and wet
winter.
NO time should be lost in macadam-
iziAs the streets here. 1t liz strange but
true that some of the worst are those