The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-22
NORTH TATE NOTES.
sY!oahs Brewing Between the Southern Rail-
~ var and Engineers and Conductors.
CAR load 0Es COTTON FROM NEW YORK
From ERsty TO Ono Hundred Town
5is5ss ships Expecscd 70 Vote Special
KS Sss school Tax Weekly Weather Crop
$50 Ttcport snys tho Crops arc Flour.
tsiltnE ThFouEhout the State.

s n Raleigh, N. c., July 2l.-(Special)-
s. AT the white institution for the blind
Il many alterations are being made. The
q north3wing is being cut up into fourteen
4 music rooms. No new buildings will be
4 erected this year.
The ex-State printers, Stewart Bros,
i are here closing up their business They
& will not attempt to press their claim
: Tor printing fertilizer tax tags. This is
d the disallowei claim.
55s, Much of the talk among Republicans
B here Is about the reconciliation Of Gov
Il ernor Russell and Major Grant. 1t was
certainly. unexpected,
$sSsI t is said that some trouble Is immi-
\ nent between the Order of Railway Con-
ductors and Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Il Engineers and the Southern railway.
& relative to the short notice regarding
& the change Of terminals to Spencer, ~
2 G., and Marion, Va
8 20 the defense OF President KilSo, Of
& Trinity College, and makes a lively at
4 tack on the State University.
,s. a carload of cotton all the way from
y New York has arrived for one Of the
mills here.
The State Superintendent Of Public
+ instruction said to-day he was glad to
4 see SO active q campaign III progress IN
s Lincoln and Buncombe counties for the
special tax for public schools. Hc was
asked In how many townships he eX-
peoted to see the election success, ana
replied Tin about fifty. DO you not
think that n good beginning? Editor
4 Bailey OF the Biblical Recorder, expects
to see it succeed in 100 townships. There
L are ntnety-siX counties. with al average
OF say twelve townships EACH
~ The State Commissioner Of Labor
Statistics is preparing new blanks for
farm product returns, and also Il spe
J cinl blank for truck crops, fertilizers.
etc He has just returned from the
mountain country and brings the news
Sof much activity in mining.
United States Marshal Carroll IS al
Washington. Some Of his party friends
are urging that he deny over his own
signature the Injurious rumors In circu-
lation that he has made n deal with
! Senator pritchard. These rumors have
dtLthat when he was charged with hav.
I Ing assessed his deputy marshnls for 4
campaign fund he filed in denial state
ments that this could not be true. as
! he was not III sympathy With Bryan and
free silver. Yet the marshal was un-
derstOod to have given literally OF his
\ own means to the campaign fund.
siE The rains in the State this week have
ranged from three-quarters OF an inch
to two and a quarter inches. 1t is the
best rain in three months In some sec
tions.
NJ Millner and Price, the men charged
with robbing the Taylorsvllle postoflice,
have been put in jail at Statcsville, as
they cannot give bail.
S The summer school at the university
I Is declared by experts to be by far the
best ever held there.
k$SSs Professor ClaXton, Of Greensboro, and
\ Professor Toms. OF the university will
next month begin the publication Of the
North Carolina Journal OF Education
at Greensboro.
&G County Commissioner Z. D. Snead, of
Johnston, asked the Attorney General
whether the additional county commits
sioners appointed under section 5. chap
8 ter slS, acts 1895, had a right TO fill out
their uneNpired terms, and whether they
We're appointed by chapter sG6, acts
1897 repeating the law under which they
We're appointed. The Attorney General
replied: 1T is my opinion. and I have
50 expressed 1T to q number Of gentle
I men who were appointed under this
law, that they would fill out the terms
+ for which they had been appointed.
The general rule OF law may be stated
1 to lbe that the repeal Of a statute leaves
nninpaired those acts which either have
become vested or tsough connected Will.
u, have an Indifferent existence. You
/ have a vested property right in the ON
fces and the act of 1897 does not iivest
You: OF It."
&s3 The weekly weather crop report saws;
that In general crops are flouris hing.
Cotton is very good. Corn is about laid
\ <zhas improved, though Ii VIII be
ia"lt Bottom land corn Is fine. Tobac-
go has greatly improved and cuttinm IS
pretty general in the Eastern district
N. Nj crops arc making good progress
sweet potatoes are very fine.