The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-05
Railway Commission Case Heard In the
ID Supreme Court.
AuRGAKT0a TO HAVE A NEW BANK
Right of Way Bcing Sccnrcu for n
Rnilrond Phosphate Rcds 10 he
worked on u Large ScaIo-0ystcr
Indnstry-staiIstics of the Bnptis,
church,

~ Raleigh, N. c., Dec. 4.-(SpcciaD-
The Railway Commission case argu-
ment was the event at the Supreme
2 Court to-day. There was quite an ar
M ray of counsel. The Attorney General
did not appear. lie is not taking sides
In this matter
Albert Johnston, the oldest locomotive
engineer III the United States, died sud
denly at his home here to-day. aged SIS.
He was native of Petersburg ian an
engine there siX'sy-seven years ago,
brought the first engine into Raleigh on
the Raleigh and Gason railway. He was
for three years in the employ
ment of the latter company.
1t appears that there will be only
four delegates from this State to the
Cotton Growers Convention at Atlanta
December III. p. Sossanlan, NJ. n.
Leach. W. P. Bachelor and H. r.
Jones.
The business manager of the Morn
Ing Post here left for New York TO get
the Mergcnthaler ma chimes, to be de-
liYered January 1st.
1T is asserted positively that one Of
the pcnitcntiary officials has installed
az d HoN'oG 3lei - us Ills mistress n white
woman who served six months us n
convict and who was quite recently
discharged.
The brick work on the Capital Club
building here has begun.
Ohio Wilson declares that Governor
Russell is the associate and chief
hacker of Senator Buffers paper"
The address Of Rev. DR.. KiIgo last
night before the Methodist Conference
here was n very able one.
The right-of-way for the Durham
and Charlotte railway is being secured
between Gulf and Durham. This is an
independent road, the Southern having
to do with II.
Hickory capitalists have gone to Nor.
canton to establish a bank to take the
place Of the one which has failed. IT
appears that the failure was not I'M
expected In that part of the State.
Monday seventy-siX convicts will be
sent from the completed extension OF
the Carthage railway to Elrod, to grade
the branch of the Atlantic Coast Line.
The best mechanics at the various
farms are to be sert at once to the
Castle HaNne phosphate mines, to put
things in shape for work on an extern
slye scale. Superintendent Smith says
the penitentiary has bought and paid
cash for this Castle Hayne property
and that 1t did this out OF money it
made out of cotton sales. He says $50
convicts will be put to work mining,
and that contracts are made for q large
ohtput-1,5O0 tons for the Caraleigh
mills at Raleigh, 5000 tons at Char
lotte, etc. He says 1t Is found that
this particular phosphate mixed with
Tennessee rock makes a perfect ferti-
izer, and that large quantities OF the
latter rock are also being bought
i It appears that eX-Congressman Buck
Kitchen is again hack to his first love-
the Democratic party.
at Shaw University here there Is nm
African, Prince. He is q grandson Of
King Khama, of South Africa, now
dead. The present King Is King Will
liam. The Princes name IS Alfred
Impey. His father was Impey Khama,
his mother was named Balise. He
speaks quite good English, and Is a
Methodist, as is also King William
Alfred is studying theology and medi-
cine.
"a Theophilus White Chief Shell Fish
Commissioner for this State, reports
: to the Labor bureau that nearly all
the North Carolina oysters are taken
with hand tongs; that about 900 persons
are engaged in this industry; that the
capital invested Is comparatively small;
that from the waters of Pamlico Sound
and its tributaries there We're sold dur
ing the year ending May 1 last 100000
bushels, the price ranging from Is to
40 cents bushel, these being from
the natural beds, cultivated oysters
selling at 60 to so cents The labor en-
ployed commands good wages. The
supply Of oysters Is almost IneXhausti-
ble. White says all that is needed is a
market which will induce buyers to
come to the State. and this requires
that dredging, now forbidden, be al
lowed.
The BAPTIST State Convention will
meet in It's sixty-seventh annual session
December 9th, with the church at OK
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