The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-06-06
MAR "REMINISCENCES
aaefal Officer Wants to Know t NJ
Capt0r Has His Sword.
PAPERS ON THE PICKET LINE
INSURANCE Company Doing Business
aassss ~ tfpout Ltcense-Norfoik Man Sc.
cares a ,Contrnct-Teache 1nsti-
suites to BE IIeld-Dastardiy Crime
ne Durham.

ssssSssiS az Durnnm.
s Raleigh, N. c., June 5.-(speciaLl-
1.-The late Legislature appropriated $500
for the extirpat ton of the San Jose scale
Ear nd other fruit pests. To-day the State
paid out the first money for this work.
trees have examined andSnumbers
81 lgstroyed, particularly near Fay
ssattepille, Southern Pines, Greenville and
5SAskeyllle.s Some other scales We're also
sE3destroyed near Asheville, such as the
ssoyster scale.
S$aS The Secretary of State to-day re-
HsCRived absolute proof that the Aurora
Fire Insurance company of Philadelphia,
ssSas without license, and doing business
this State. J. H. Hatchet, Of Balti-
s;Esmore, is the general Southern manager.
IN Offices are sent to all the sherlffs. The,
& asspenalty for any agent Is $500 and ninety
sgdeYs imprisonment.
iss5s "A large excursion composed solely Of
sscotton mill employees from Durham, ar
rived here to-day
SSss The Commissioner Of Agriculture Of
sEt hls State Is making efforts to keep
arlon and Willlesboro open as points
ssfor8the shipment Of cattle, by securing
modifca ton Of the government. quar-
TSE anttne line against Texas or splenetic
AGeyer. He says this Is what used to be
sAaerned distemper; that II cattle are kept
LOTT the range so ticks cannot get on them
There is little chance Of their getting
Is the disease which is due entirely to
81 ticks. The United States Secretary OF
agriculture, says cattle must not be
.Eariven across the quarantine line for
sEshlpInent to other States but that oxen
stt1Nsed IA hauling can cross the line.
Sssssf JSDwyer, Of Norfolk, gets the con-
tract to build the brewery at Green's
sborD for the Old North State Brewing
sseonpany, which was chartered last
Is the purpose Of the State Super
Of Public Instruction to have
&teaGhers institutes held in a number
Y tof$ ssa counties during the next three
Il months Among those who will hold
ssssshen are Charles D. McIver, ]. Y. Joy
S@sf1ec5 nd P. P.s ClaXton.
tSsa3 excellent reports are made rs to the
demolition Of the land and the crops at
~ the! hnesAnson farm, the newest Of all the
Estate farms.
ysSy&S An gu trageous case of arson and ait
exempted murder is reported at Durham
sssJlnesdoors Of the house Of white ma
4 named House We're saturated with ker-
II sosene and fired. House and his son
assnad agnarrow escape, the son being bad
sSly# scorched
;ssS An In teresting war incident was de-
iS:Yeloped to-day by letter from Henry
Il S.&Burrage, Of Portland, Me- to Gov
#ernor Russell. Mr.. Burrage says that
sINoyember 1st, 1894. in front Of Peters
Sb4rg.he vas capturned while brigade
S1theer Of the day; that in the morning
IKE met a Confederate officer, who gave
II his name as the major Of the Second
u Mississippi Regiment, for the purpose of
newspapers; that he got
three Richmond papers but that as he
son.ys had one paper he promised to re.
SsSTofn IN the afternoon and give another
ssfthat IN the afternoon he went back 70
sathes picket line, but did not see the Con
safederate officer, so tried to call him out
fssHnd was then captured; that he was
taken to Colonel Cowan, who said he
#n s,l not to have been captured, but as
sSheShad seen so much Of the Confederate
Zines It would be proper to hold him a
SSfeWMdays; that he was then sent to
s#sIeneral Heth, and by him to General
3s.A.. Hill; that Heth said the major
the Second Mississippi had been
for months; that he thought
.sRurrage was looking over the ground
to an attack; that General
sS1Ieth has since the war told him that 1t
a9Shis own courier who made the ex-
ssy#schange of papers, and that there were
sSsaFonS why he did not care to give the
gfacts5as they We're to General Hill; that
HI tWo weeks Roger A. Pryor, while
tempting to exchange papers at the
Same point, was captured in retaliation
slpyA oMeers Of Burrage's regiment and
5sent to Fort Lafayette; that an arrange
s1nent was made and carried out to re-
sslease SHnrrage If Pryor was released al
CSC that the officer who took Burrage's
sSsyVord was Captain Sans, of the Thirty
ssfhird North Carolina. Burrage wants
SO know Il the captain IL alive and has
ssssl1is sword.
THE president OF the board Of trustees
iisGf$ the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
slegs have authorized the statement that
sspplitics will cut no figure In the man.
sAgement, and that If the board max es
ssssanyS changes in faculty. e.cl, they will
ssase nom political. Mex: Monday the board
#Jneets.
s s hellman PEBBLES, colored, Is in hos
sapttal hers, perhaps fatally wounded.
& Ills brother, aged II, shot him, and to
screen himself. said a white man had
ssSNhot him.
ss III the big cooking main between Hall
ssgaI and Raleigh birds at Wilmington for
$500 q side, Halifax has been the winner.
Raleigh sports lost considera BILE money
Reports to the Agricultural Depart