Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-01
ACROSS THE BORDER.
AN INTERESTING BUDGET FROM
NORTH CAROLINA's CAPITAL.
Delegates TO Conference Arriving
Delegates TO the Cotton-Growcrs'
tistics-PtIsonuI and Political.

RALEIGH, n. c., November 30.--Csps-
! cial)-Scores Of delegates to the North
| Carolina Methodist Conference arrived TO-
| day. They get a warm welcome. The
| Historical Society OF the conference, n
| its annual meeting, at Edenton-Street
| Methodist Episcopal church. this evening
| heard the annual lecture by Rev. Dr.
Yates on Rev. DR.. Gloss Edenton-Streei
| church. in which the conference win hold
| its sessions, is one of the largest in the
! state.
Senator Butler will, In his paper to-
morrow. repeat his denial Of the sentl-
ments which 1t is sworn he expressed In
his speech at Rocky Mount.
Hammond, the man who killed young
Averitt at Salisbury, gets off with a ligflt
sentence-two years in the penitentiary.
Engineer Bumgardner. OF the Southern
railway. who was shot by a white tramp,
Osborne Lambert, died Sunday night For
his murderer 5000 reward is offered.
1t Is asserted that in Rowan county
boys attending the public schools were
offered 81 each to testify before the grand
jury as TO merchants from whom they
had bought cigarettes.
The average yield of cotton In this
State this season is nineteen pounds per
acre greater than that in Texas.
Among to-day's arrivals were Dr. s. =.
billiard, of Rocky Mount; S. Gallert, Of
Rutherfordton; Edmund Jones and w. =.
Newland. of Lenior.
The Supreme Court got at work this
morning on the Tenth District appeals.
Nearly all are criminal appeals.
The State fiscal year ended to-day. The
Treasury account will not be completed
until December 14th when the Inspecting
Committee meets.
At the request of Governor Ellerbee,
Of South Carolina, Governor Russell APP
points the following delegates from The
State at large to the Cotton-G Growers
Convention at Atlanta, Ca, December
l4th: j. =. Sossaman, of Mecklenburg;
w. T. Bachelor and II. r. Jones, of
Wake. The object Of the convention is
to consider the planting, sale, and price
Of cotton, and to devise If possible, plans
by which the price may be brought above
the cost Of production.
The percentage of tillable land in the
State this year is 80. The average acreage
of farms is rs. The average value Of i'm
proved land is $l34S, and of unimproved,
S5.52 About Al per cent. Of the land IS
still in timber. Hired laborers on farms
are on an average employed seven months
in the year. receiving in summer 1871 per
month, and in winter S70j. Forty-two
counties report that the fertility Of the
land Is being maintained while eighteen
say il IS not. Thirty-three counties
say that something is being done to-
wards retaining land by ditching. ter
racing ETC.. fourteen say nothing. Thir-
ty-three counties report labor as album
dant; fourteen state 1t is scarce; thirty
seven that labor can usually find employ
ment all the year, twenty-four that they
cannot; forty-four that the educational
condition of workingmen is improving,
fifteen that 1t is not; forty-two that their
moral condition is improving, eighteen
that II is not.
The Post. the new Democratic morning
daily. appears tomorrow. In his saluta-
tory Editor r. VI. Furman will say: THE
Anglo Saxon must and shall rule in North
Carolina. To the Democratic party only,
uncontaminated and undefled. can the
people look for such rule. We shall APP
peal TO all people, regardless Of differences
on questions OF mere policy. to unite with
the Democratic party on this line"