The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-02-27
\ s; S Al PRINTER.
; st|I|l Providing for the State Employing
Printer will Probably Pass.
TIE EIE:. OFFICE Of is NOW VERY EXPENSIVE

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KS Portrait OF the r.ntc senator
V1ence--Kici From ~ hosauii" Hiic
*: Contempt for Populists.
h I, Raleigh, N. c., Feb. 2G.-{speciaD--
,iNeSt Tuesday the public printer will be
Il Il chosen. Quite u number Of people be-
sEleve the bill OF Representative Young,
~ erect q public printer and pay him a
q s .;ay Will pass. The printing under
N.Y. present system Is very expensive.
4s'uut. me Republican idea Is that one Of
4 .h Ell party must have this place
l5i, Inc gDll ia create Il State board for
L. the equalization of taxes will probably
become law. It is asserted that It
a =, - Jesuit IN securing nh increase Of
I $3.50 600 In taxes
5,.. ine charter granted the Winston
y salem South-bound railway Is a very
Z. lneral one, indeed. 1t is probable that
Il qu1te number OF convicts will be called
51or TO grade the road
UDGE IN ''WATERPROOF."
very amusing incident occurred here
FEDERAL Court. lie wears n robe, some
& !hlng never done here before. * Dur
4 mann man, q witness in 4 case was asked
e VINO was Judge. He replicd: ''I don't
k know tne man. lie takes the place Of
y Judge seymour and he wore u water
= proof all day." The gown was quite be-
4 yond his comprehension.
yesterday at Durham TWO negro chill
Is uren were burned to death and 4 baby
4 SO badly burned that It may die.
The "anti-university faction" in the
8 state IS literally overwhelmed 1t was
BADLY beaten two years ago. this time
IT ~ literally crushed.
FATAL MOSQUITO BITE.
r. G. Hcnly, Of Randleman, aged IS,
& Was bitten On The wrist by u mosquito
three months ago Blood poisoning re
suited His arm was ampuatcd. Yes
terdaV he died. The case attracts much
attention.
The bill TO prevent Acknowledgement Of
the cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail
way, which was introduced in the House.
mas not as yet been acted OH.
The House Committee on Elections de-
clded by II party vote that James II.
Young. colored, sitting member from
Wake, is to hold his seat, which was
contested by n. Il. Broughton or
course this was fully expected
There was Il meeting Of the bar here
last evening at which resolutions or re-
spect to the memory OF tile late Judge
Seymour were adopted.
PORTRAIT OF ZEB VANCE.
There was on exhibition ut tie Capitol
to-day n portrait OF the late Senator
Vance. painted by Query. of Atlanta,
which Mrs. Query desires the State to
purchase. The collection Of the Vance
memorial fund is ptifuily slow, and the
erection OF the statute seems very far
away indeed.
Cards are out to the marriage at
Grlmesland. Pitt county, March 10TH OF
Miss Charlotte Grimes, daughter Of the
late Gen. Bryan Grimes, to Maj. Alfred
Williams, Of Raleigh
Many tobacco warehouse men were
here to-day for n hearing OH the bill
TO reduce warehouse charges Your cor
4 respondent is Informed by Chairman
Aiken, or the Committee on Agriculture,
that arguments on this bill will be heard
ut o'clock next Monday afternoon on
THIS important bill, ut the Agricultural
building. The Legislature two years ago
reduced charges to the lowest living
limit, and now Person, OF Wayne, n
F'opulist, proposes to reduce them yet
more
4. CONTd0AhPT FOR POPULTSTS.
The Republicans show plainly some
times the contempt which at heart they
have for the boiling Populists. Luck,
IN the House yesterday, told a boiler he
K had sold out" and then been kicked out
d Of his party's caucus. and the man at
whom THIS thrust was made said not a
word IN deply.
The legislative proceedings are in a
k Susll. with sessions morning afternoon
and evening. by resolution no moro
dis can be introduced after February
2Sth The number OF bills is enormous.
@ A highway robber was brought to the
penitentlary to-day from Rowan county
to serve seven years
3B Engineer Jake Hicks" who for forty
years has been running on the North
II Carolina railway has ut last retired
from service.
IIE IS IN LINrBo AGAIN.
G. c. Campbell, a. young white man.
\ who was released from the pententiary
yesterday, after serving two years, was
s. arrested on the train here by the Sheriff,
p and to-day taken to Charlotte TO be
tried for horse stealing He Is q des-
A perate man and declares he will kill
Warden Fleming. Of the pententiary.
& THE RAILWAY LEASE.