The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-31
! Railroad Commissioners llt' Preparing The Way
for q Reduction ID Rates.
GOVERNOR AND STAFF FOND Of PossuH
SAnsi- Busler Clerk VIII I,oHo His Job
Il Stanley County PEOPLE lRepud,nto
~ ;IS Tho Reputation Ia en- u emocratio
Director RssiEns from state
Bonrd.

s,sa taielsn, N u, Dec 30.-(Speciu)--
The Railway Commission to-day adopt-
ed the following: Ordered that quar-
( terly report form B be amended so as
to show a detailed statement of freight
ana passenger earnings, opera ting ex-
penses, etc.; ordered, further, that n
separate detailed report OF earnings and
expenses shall be made for each main
z and branch line or division; ordered.
further. that this report shall be filed
IN the office of the Railway Commission
within thirty days after the close of
each quarter. directive on and after
January LIST, 1898 There Is no doubt
that this ds the preliminary step to n
reduction of rates. AS Commissioner
Pearson says. the purpose Of this is to
make every tub stand on It's own bot
Z tom. II, for Instance, one division of n
ROAD Is earning much money, the rate
can be reduced, while on another diyI-
sion 1t would stand. z. Each branch road
VIII be treated as a line. The purpose
\ OF the resolution is to- get at the Ias-
/, senger and freight earnings separately
and for each line, division or branch.
Pearson says the whole idea Is Just to
the roads. which, he thinks, will appre-
ciate 1t, n Si} 15i5i5Sl'g - - ~
Governor Russell deeplyregrets his In
ability to go to Newman, Ca, TO the
'possum supper, which Governor Atkin-
son gives Tomorrow. The Governor
and all his staff are devoted to 'possnm.
" John Graham, OF Rldgeway, denies ].
z G. L. Harris story that he is ito be
Z made Commissioner of Immigration at
$4,000 a year in case the Fertilizer ton
+ mage tax case is won in the United
( States Supreme Court.
Isl. To-day Mrs. Watson who was shot
IN the back by her husband here in
october, was takenYto Johns Hopkins
Gospltai. From the waist downward
q CO, t<xs~. -. g..
The bullet is lodged near the spine.
For several days Senator Sharpe, of
z lredell, has been steadily at the Rail-
way Commission office. It turns out
9hat the new commissioners telegraph
ed for him the other day to come here
and take the place Of Charles c. Pagan,
3 VINO is clerk to 1.-THE commission in Its
capacity as the Board OF Tax Dquali-
cation. Pagan Is a minority or anti
# Butler Populist OF the most pronounced
4 type, and, of course, DIS persona non
grata to Chairman Caldwell, of the
commission. who Is a Butlerite of the
e butterflies. This morning the board was
in secret session considering this mat.
ter of Sharpe VS.. Pagan
i. The atty public school superinten-
dents made good showing as to in
crease in attendance and interest. The
public schools In this city have no
high grades such az they have at most
places. i{ 81
The Stanly county people are denying
z that they repudIated the 100000 Yad-
{ Kin railway bonds, and claim that the
Y company has never given the county
the stock subscribed for and that
II therefore. $4,000 year interest was be-
Ing paid on something Intangible.
Judge Purnell appoints John NJ
s Wolfe, OF Beaufort, Carteret county
United States Commissioner.
Adjutant-Genral Cowles, receiver OF
the Piedmont Bank at Morganton, says
1hat he took charge without any trou
4 ole. Many depositors are glad an out
& slider has been appointed receiver. as
they they think he will collect more closely
n than Morganton man would do.
THE negroes of Guflford county vii
hold a fair tomorrow.
Major Hiram l.. Grant, of Goldsboro
81 fs here. He is the officer (then major
OF the Second ConnecticuD to whom
5. Battery Buchanan, near Fort Fisher
Z was surrendered
"A. H. Plant is appointed auditor O
the Southern railway.
1t is said that If. Oscar ]. Spears de
4 sires the Assistant United States Dis
z trict Attorneyship Of this district he cal
Il have It,. He was a candidate for The
Attorneyship.
AZ Editor Ellis, OF the winston Republi
4 can, was here yesterday to see Gov
ernor Russell Upon this there wa
some remark, as the Indifference. not t.
say GOODNESS, of that paper towards tn
u Governor has been very apparent.
AT 1880 this morning the State con
yentton Of County Supervisors of Pub
i. atc Education met in the House of Rep
resentatiyes. about thirty counties be
I ing represented.
MrstsI. r. Faison. OF F,aison, present
the State University an oil portrait @
the late Rev. DR.. Charles r. Deems.
There is a queer little story curren
/ that the advent Of John r. Smith a
Commissioner of Agriculture has some
thing to do with the going out of Jas
w III. Young, colored, who has a clerkshi