The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-02
THE THE TAR HEEL CAPITAL
Stewart Brothers still Claim That They
Are Public Printers.
RsBDAll's PAINTING OF THREE COLONIES
Railroad commissioners Deny Alle-
cations ana Sny the Govornor lIns
No Power TO Remove Them
net"iis Of Ii Shooting OF sherin
P~ritGhnrh. .

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Raleigh. N. c., Sept. 1,-fsnecia,>-
M. !, Stewart Of Stewart Bros. late
pubic printer, to-day presented bill
against the State for s6,71I. He SAYS
the state owes as much more, and that
Stewhr Bros. consider themselves The
public printers. because no others have
been elected and qualified. He adds
that the Council of State was in Indecent
haste TO Isl his firm. He made a
statement to the effect tina auditor
aver said to him at Winston that Il
pcen agreed to,give out the public
printing In Raleigh and that the persons
getting II would take the Caucl sian
senator Hutlers pGpcr) press and use
" anu enable that paper to be Issued
at much less cost than ever before.
Stewart says he made no proposition,
ana that Aver told him the thing which
hurt his feelings most WAS tina some
one had said there was $1,000 for him
personally II the printing was put back
at Raleigh.
Rains fell all around this section last
night and yet more liz needed.
The painting 10y w. G.. Randall of the
three colonies OF the Goth North Carolina
Tcgiment-Nance. Burgwyn ana Lane,
Is nearly completed. Col. ii. S. Bur
gwyn Is here aiding the artist. He did
not like the tint of the picture anu
changes are being made. The portraits
are excellent.
l.. OBJ. Branch Camp of Confederate
Veterans Will so to Winchester on the
lfth instant, to be present at the laying
or the cornerstone of the 10
the North Carolina dead In Stonewail
cemetery.
The chairman of Randolph county's
commissioners Is here arranging to pro-
cure state convicts 10 work ON the pub
lie roads under the provisions Of the
new and excellent law.
The State superin;eacn. or p,,h,Ic IN
strucilon accepts invitations 70 make
speeches at Durham on the ith; Mt the
laying OF the cornerstone Of the pub
Tic library; ut the educational rally al
lilSh Point on the 18th. and at another
raily NJ Columbus on the 2Jth at Dur
nam. He responds to the sentiment.
The State and the Public Library"
Ihe lI-Ncar old boy, whose legs were
cut or here yesterday by 4 train on
winch he playing, died In the hosuital
last night.
Work on tho First Presbyterian
church has been resumed. 1t is decided
that the main portion shall not be bulls
until neN year.
Durham county has begun TO macad-
amizc the public roada, using convict
labor.
The depot of the Southern railway ut
!Nuillh was struck by lightning ycslcr-
day and burned with all its contents.
News as 10 the shooting OF Senator
lritchard'; brother. Sheriff P%ritchard,
OF Mitchell county. by the 10 year old
desnerado, Garland. l. Interesting.
garland dared tho sheriff 70 come after
mn. The boys pa:ents told Pritchard
who he was and begged him to capture
him, but not to kill him. Pritchard and
q deputy found Garland IN an orchard
retreatlng. Both the sheriff and Gar
land fred az once, and il 45-calibrc bul-
let passed through each. Then here vas
another exchange Of shots. Pri.chlrd
fell. but got up and fired again. while
he held onto a fence. Then the deputy
killed Garland. The physician said
P!ftchard would die but the plucky man
said no. He will be out IN ten DAYS.
Garland had said ~ soon as he killed
Pritchard, he would kill his father if
the latter would net give him $500 so he
could leave the county.
Col "A. Il. Andrews and his fnmily.
wife. daughter and four sons and his
private secretary. H. W. Miller, have
gone To the Pacific coas, to remain untn
October LIST.
During August there were My IL
deaths In the ci,y-a very fine record.
Gov. Russell is invited 10 make the
address at the rutherford county fair
Al RutheIfordton October 81.
The popular interest vas great TO-
day In the replies by chairman James
w. Wilson and Otho Wilson OF the rail-
way commission to the charges made by
Gov. Russell II Senator Butler. Mai.
Wilson makes an explicit denial Of the
charges. He also files n certificate from
Capt. V. =. Mcliee regarding the ap-
pointment Of j. W. Wilson, Jr., as sta
tiGn agent al MorSanton; TO the effect
that the appointment was made by him
in 1893: that 1t WAS made without con
ference or consultation with Mai VIII
son; that for several years before Will
son had been a clerk At the uilice and
has proved himself competent TO fiji the
agency. All the merchants Of Morgan
ton testify 70 young Wilson's high char
ac;er.
Replies - charges made by the Gov
ornor against Chairman Wilson and
Ohio Wilson. Of the railway commission.
were read TO the governor This afternoon.
They are absolute denials of all charges
and certainly place the governor in an
awkward situation. Counsel for the
commissioners argued that ;hry ara a