Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-02
RALEIGH'S BUDGET.
PARTRIDGE HUNTERS WE'RE VERY
MUCH DISAPPOINTED.
The state Supreme Ceurt--sfnrrfagc
ounccments--Bntler Must lie
EIiminated-The Rockingham As
sault Case Charter Granted.

RALEIGH, n. c., November i.--lSpe-
cial 1.-The partridge hunters, who for
weeks had looked with fond anticipation
10 to-day, the opening Of the shooting
season, were disappointed. for last night
and to-day rain fen in torrents.
The Supreme Court will tomorrow take
up the docket of appeals from the Sixth
Judicial District. The court has never
filed decision in the case OF Satterheld,
the principal clerk of the lower House In
1886, who was convicted in the Superior
Court here OF fraud in connection WITH
the passage of the assignment act.
Invitations were received to-day to the
marriage of Miss Louise knight, daugh-
ter OF Major John @. ID. knight, United
States army, OF Wiliet's Point. n. l., 10
Lieutenant George Pierce Howell, OF the
Corps OF Engineers. United States army.
Lieutenant Howell is a native OF Colds
boro'. n. c.
Among to-day's arrivals here was john
3. Hussey. of Washington, D. C., once
Senator Buffers confidential secretary
and web known as correspondent Oh
Republican papers.
Mr.. William II. Williamson, owner OF the
Pilot Cotton Mills here. is elected direc-
tor Of the Citizens National Bank, Oh
Raleigh. He is now sick with fever. His
marriage with young lady OF THIS Guy
is set for November 18th.
The drop in the price OF cotton causes
another shadow to fall upon the farmers
They cannot understand the fall in
prices. and to the last combat the fact
that there is a big crop.
Republicans who go in for cooperation
with the Populists say that Butler must
be eliminated; that ''he can take his fac
ton OF the party and so wherever ne
likes"
The discharge of John Reid from Gus
tody I'm connection with the charge OF
attempted assault upon Miss Cole az
Rockingham, leaves John Evans, the
negro in jail here, the only man now held
on that charge.
The filing of cases in the two new
rooms at the State Museum is now in
progress. They will contain over eight
thousand specimens of ores and milne
rails.
The capacity OF the sulphuric-acid
works at the Caraleigh Phosphate-Works
here is being doubled.
Farmers say they purpose to MAKE
very light PURCHASES of Fertilizers next
spring. They spent A,00O,0o0 this year IN
this direction, and by reason of this fact
have been quite badly pinched in many
cases.
The State grants charter TO the North
Carolina Publishing Company, which will
publish the new morning Democratic
daily In this city. Among the stockhoid-
ers are O. j. Carroll, 7. II. Briggs, ana
ID. Il. Everett.
To-day T. Il. Parker. the new state
business agent OF the Farmers Alliance
took charge. His Office is at Hillsboro'.
The penitentiary authorities say tnat
as every convict available is needed 10
nick cotton at the State farms, they must
refuse all demands for convicts by coun-
ties to do road work. out OF 700 convicts
on the farms only 400 are able to work.
owing to malarial troubles.
Congressman Harry Skinner inquired
that only eleven out Of the twenty-iour
members of the Populst State Committee
were in accord with Senator Butter. rms
is an error Ohio Wilson, OF the commit
tee. says only seven are now Butterflies
The State Labor Commissioners informs
the secretary of the New Orleans COTTON
Exchange that North Carolina has now
30 cotton-mills, with l400 knittlng-ma-
chimes. 2l,sH looms. and 1,Ol6,2H spindiesi
that "A run at night, and that III znS
working days. the yearly average time In
operatlon, they can consume 52O9Jz baleS'