The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-09
llhsral Amount Contributed by The Baptists
ia Il. t.s1- Is r.t-ts-::--.E.-I 81 .shi-
During the Past Year.
PEOPLE COMING UP WITH THEIR TAXES
Cobb Makes Hard Fieh, for The Col.
Iectorship-E Exposition Car Hrndy
To sstnrt-rror, Massey Resigns
Ryan Sentenced to re Hanged ncc-
enhsi 70.

Raleigh, N c.. Dec. S.-tspccinD--
BRev. Mr. Str!neheid who has been and
q Still is collecting for the Baptist Female
35t University, being built here, has gone
4 TO the convention ut Oxford with his
rcnort. He has collected this year $l2.-
oeQ 1t will require $4,000 additional to
complete the building and COMP IT,
and he hopes to make good collections
towards this amount from the ccr,vcn-
s ton. This building Is a beautiful one
and is beautifully situated.
The Auditor says that there will be
a greater amount of taxes collected this
year than was first thought. MANY
counties are reducing the insolvent list
ana many persons who have not paid
taxes For Years here, through fear OF
Imprisonment for non aymcnt are
coming up with their taxes. In Rowan
county the Sheriff has collected $}6,-
ogo, as against $4,000 this time last
year.
There are now forty-cight prisoners
In Wake county jail. or course this
number Will be reduced each day as the
judge passes on through the docket
+ before the court.
II seems that George Cobb. OF Eliza
Y peth CitS, Is bent on benting Duncan,
OF Carteret for the Collectorship for
this district. Cobb Is Harry STEAMERS
man and Skinner says. IL Cobb does not
get The place 1t will mean Il Democratic
Congressman in the First District and
a Democratic Legislature
The exposition GAR will soon start on
US trip through thirty States. Those
In charge OF ii here wiilSin n few DAYS
have the eXhlh!. complete, ana they
ShaNs g:tndercd 1t 10 St. I.uke's Circle of
kihG 5 Daughters. Ten cents will be
charged for n few days for persons
washing to 30 thronga the car, ana
this NANCY will so to the "Old Ladies'
Home" Ehlch charity is under The
care of st. Luke's Circle.
s.@ Jhuge Furnell hns Issued an order to
transfer all criminal cases from the
Circuit Court 10 the Raleigh District
SQUIRT: This is q blowsat Clerk Riddick
and 70 give moro pile TO purnell's
anpantce, J. b. Fortune
Prof. Massey, of tho Agricultural and
Mechnnical College, has resigned as
hotanlst and chronological to. the State
Pest Commission This : commission
meets here on next Monday
Ryan, the wife-murdercr. Mt Green's
noro, has been sentenced by Judge
Spencer Adams to be$hunG December
I'd lie is indifferent to his fate
/. Mi, Sam Walt. who came so near
being killed by street car In October.
has been moved from the hospital 10
his home, In the city
3 Keeper Burns at the Capitol Is busy
planting out $50 roses in the square.
filed an opinion In. the case of cx- Chief
Clerk S.. p. SattcrGeld, of the House.
J: Mention was made the other day Of
the fact that the Sheriff OF Wayne
county had gone ito Texas after u man
who four years ago. murdered his wife
solicitor Pou, of this district. has direct
cd that the man be placed in jail ut
ISnleiEh fer safe keepIng.
Tho news that JShn C. Davis, the
Wilmington cmbezzler, is to be dis
charged from the insane asylum here.
Is Interesting. There ara people who
do not believe and never have believed
thai Davis was insane
Ms The penitentiary will have truck and
strawberry farms crl quite a large scale
on the Castls Hayne property. which it
purchased last week
s3 II 4s now certain that p, II. I.ybrook
Will get the pos;mastership at Winston.
AS TO the Raleigh office everything is
yet "in&the clouds"
Hs9QNhe rewards for Osborne Lambert,
the "a ssaEsin Of Engineer Bumgardncr,
OF the Southern railway, now aggregate
no less than SLIGO,
MR. IIeEe, Of the poultry experiment
farm here, says that the poultry show
alftisAshevflle is to be "A grand one. The