The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-14
Out GOING iND5COMING
ssdtgga9nlalnnfss d FaYar ot Increasing Railroad
Assessments and Reducing Rates.
slREahlLR0ADlAlE DISPUTE TIE CONTENTION
BBRaaldsnE or the Stone Mountain Road
s Observation-Disclosures or Negro
sclsoot& committeeman Gives Dis
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Young ana the
R0teiEh Postosllcc.~

sS,ss &HsaFslgh, N.eC.Sl&&July l3.-The hearlns
3eSerss The railway commission yeste,
nay goes$o the{reoord as one OF tbs
nos impoTtan t.NR perhaps the most i'm,
portae1t !nsits history. or the three state.
is nenss laid before It in the nature OF 4
ST SastlaId TOT an Increase OF the rate Of
VI RSseSsment$an and a lowering of the pas.
s. senger anu freight rates that OF Coy.
tttSsusssu was by. far the most able. and
was the strongest; presentation yet made
a @odshls rite OF the, case. But the railway
g who made statements dwe!t on
81 tisesc liants. First, tho pcople are moi
IL ctsa iaaolETlnS Tor an INCREASE in valuation
IS 1 LILO a. decrease In rates. Second. the
IS rates are. now lower than in most states.
S1sailro, railway property Is row assessed
5s ~ ashigher rats than any other proper
s5ty.
s&.SI the commission resumed the
The officials CT h a pc Fear
81 Valley railway. George NJ.
fs ttcse Fry md Kyle. all spoke in on
position to the increase in assessment and
Il rape IoWer:ns, They urged on the other
nanG mat the board reduce the Value
US lyon which they claim is excessive in
view ,ttSW OF the struggle this system is max
Ing. 8
Ihe Western Union Telegraph Com
s#pany, represented by j.. Il. Tree and
Settopedt G. Strong, wa next heard.
58st state Treasurer North was present at
sa soSdaS's hearings, which was brief. Gov.
~ itusSellN Will return here Tomorrow. He
Il 1hs said that he rtScrved thA right to
y the statements The railway ON
q eaa!s made, If he Thought proper, He
INSISTED that All the pleading be III writ
4 !ns, ard thot he should bar the right
a{ 70 answer any new matter. The chief
attack Of All the railway people are ti-
VI EScked at Associate Justice Walter Clark,
WiNto mas Tor q year or more past Wr.ttCn
81 AND spoke 40 much against railways.
sneaker OF the House a.. J. lic!e:nan
arrlVed to-day To attend the suit brought
g against him and Lieutenant Governor
tteyfclds by a. /. Simpson, who was
dismissed as enrolling clerk Of the Legs
lature and not paid. The case Is conlin-
uen until next September.
5. = !. s., fnrtune finds his rrCgrass very
~ slow In getaing the c,erkship Of the d.
II 9. District Court. He expected TO get In
= NY LIST, He hopes to gel tha Circuit
Court ~clcrkship also. Senator y,rItchorI
writes that Judge Gor Is favorable 70
"a him. :
a promoters OF the St5na
INV are this week going, over the
s route It IS TO follow. 1t will ccnnect
Win Virginia road. It's building is
There Is 2 row hers over the apnoint-
s8 nlent5 of a negro on The sci,oo, carmit
Il tee IN each township ii the county. An
~ eIort 10 prescribe that these ne.ro,s
" should have to deal ,wi.h only TIA ~.
gro Schools failed
35s$ u IS ASSERTED .t'rnt Senator Prltcharo
"a nnd AGaNclnqr Russell have endorsed
! Sahass a., Dun co!ored, FOR postmas-
lea, here: yet is ccrs1in that Ralei.h
will not aflr> q negro itastmas,or.. Char
III iplte wac threatened Vita suCl, a thing
SatCo, but the P-ca;dcnt will moi mako
g. such appointments.
Iherc Is a fight against tho railways
ny Caesar Ccele, the wa,i kncwn mill
nun put railway 2ficia:s say his IS be
~ cause Gone demanded 4; rate OF ST ne,
Ion on ccal from Tcnnessce to Greens.
poro; aiao&a tfhraugh rate from points
& south to NeW4YarS Vii GraansN1;-a. nj.
III though he desired the gcnds shipped NJ
greensboro ana put through his finish.
30 ing mills.
Many persons are !nruirins I,nw i, is
By h j.. L. Graham, late CHIEF c,c;k r.
2% the state Superintendent OF Public In.
So stTucticn. who Eus trica for arson
s was nNt convicted or il, but or misia.
msanor, and fined $500. Under sec.
tonsl,iGl of the Code, &ny tcran, wI,c
shall during his ted,an,ry destroy @,
Dufn q dwelling, shall be guilty OF a
nltsdelncanor.
n Ihe 4nats;.s yesterday ard last nigh,
We're more general than any in a lon,
Whle and favc dc:ie an im,ns,;,
amount Of good. There was a sn?al
Washout on the Scahoard Air Line. nea!
Monroe, which caused but g shart del,,
lsof trains.
3@ United States Marshal Q. !. Ca~rcl
ought to deny the widely circulated ri
NOR that he has made n "G2n!" VT:
Senator FritcEard.
Three %crAvicts from Rohe-9n count,
arrived at the peNitenttary to-day. Twt
are! white, and NeWtnn. II murderer q
Jesse Toler, who ret thirty years each
Governor Russell was telcrraDhct
yesterday to como here to-day any
meet the Councl Of S;lats. hut did no
n get the telegram. The desire is to hay,
7 the Superior Court to pass ct once nrn1
the constltut.n'ha!ity OF The new pubii,
81 school tax law,