Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-26
RALEIGH'S BUDGET.
THE WORK or THE STATE
SUPREME COURT.
. Proposed Public Road Through
s,atc swamp Lnnd-Ciovcr and
crain--Tbc Cotton Crop-Poiiucni-
Personal and General.

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The North Carolina Methodist Episcopal
conference meets in this city December
1st bishop Hargrove is TO preside The
conference viii elect delegates TO the
General Conference. which meets at Bal
timore next May.
The Supreme Court deyotes this week
TO the hearing OF appeals for the 9th.
only one or two Of the district dockets
are now heavy. AS a general thing,
there are now about 200 appeals heard
AZ each term Of court.
Mr Urhane. state Superintendent Of
Public Instruction. to-day decided to
change the date OF the meeting Of the
State Board Of Medical Examiners from
october 18th to November 9th.
r.. Il. Williams, OF Craven county. was
here to-day 10 confer with the state Su-
pcriDtcndent OF instruction relative TO the
building Of a public road from Riyerdale,
I'm Craven, TO Stella. in Carteret county
through 10000 acres OF state swamp
lands. state Engineer John A. Ramsay is
TO lay of this road, and the state Is 10
furnish thirty convicts TO grade II.
Rain continues. and so much has fallen
that the streams are now at their normal
height FOR the first time in several
months.
INTERESTING CASE.
In the Superior Court here this morn
ing the interesting case Of John ii. Pear
son against 5. Ohio Wilson was argued
before Judge Robinson. This is the
case in which Pearson. who is Governor
RusseTs appOintee as Railway Commis-
sioner. seeks to Dust Wilson. They were
both present and so was l.. c. CaldWeH,
who IS another OF the Governor APP
rointecs. TO succeed James ". Wilson as
commissioner.
Farmers say clover and grain are
coming up admirably. thanks 70 the wet
weather. The crop Of small grains Is
10 DE the largest ever sowed in the state.
The Populists want 10 know whether
Secretary -of-State Thompson and Auditor
Aver are Butler or anti-Butler Populists.
Neither of them attended the conference
OF the Butler men or the anti-Buuer men
last week. Thompson has for some
weeks been put down on the lists as an
uncertain quantity.
Among to-days arrivals are AdJutant-
General Cowles OF Statesville; John D.
Shaw, of Rockingham.
THE COTTON CROP.
Farmers say that over seven eighths
OF all the cotton Is picked that the TOP
crou in a few specially cultivated ana
fertile spots. is practically all remaining
I'm the field: that all the good cotton Is
picked They say they think the crop Is
one quarter Off, as compared with It's con-
dition August LIST, but that the crop IS
better than was thought october lst IL
would be. The increase in acreage brings
IL up TO a normal crop.
a Guilford man has succeeded III
making cigars entirely from TOBACCO
grown I'm Guilford county.
The State Labor Commissioner says ne
finds statistics regarding tobacco the
hardest Of all TO secure.
Twenty North Carolina gold mines are
now making deposits of gold at the assay
office at Charlotte. He says that every
week a new mine Is being opened. while
AT the beginning of this year nearly All
were idle.
The Commissioner Of Agriculture dis
covers that a cOtton-mill was omitted
from the list as published i'm the Septem-
her bulletin. 10 is the Mckinley cotton
mill at Mount Pleasant. Cabarrus coun-
ty The bag-mlll of T.. p. willard, at
wilmington. was also omitted. Mr.. VIII
lard estimates that it makes 100000 bags
annually. and that il is the only mill in
the state which imports burlaps.
The hop culture near Hamlet proves
TO be decided success. Next year II
viii be conducted on larger scale
a. L. Swinson. Of Goldsboro who was
Enrolling Clerk of the last Legislature,
is here. his suit against Auditor Aver
Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and
Sneaker Hleman having been argued IN
the Superior Court to-day. He sues LOT
Slg7. balance Of salary of himself and his
son. who were both summarly ousted by
REYNOLDS and Hileman during the ses-
sion.
Swinson is n Populist, but says the peo-
ple I'm the Goldsboro' section are discon-
tented with the present administration
and that the political situation is very
unsatisfactory.