The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-22
THE TAR HEEL CAPITAL
PsnlfentIary Directors Considering a Propo.
SItlon 10 Lease The Outfit,
RAILWAY FREIGHT RATES ON COTTON
hniswny haSnntcs Attend tho Hear.
inE Nobody Knows Anythin,.
Aoo"t hob Rrncisctt's f%.ynchcrs-
interest In Gold Mining Revived.
NeckIy Report on Crops.

"cch'y Report On Crops.
Raleigh. N. c.. September 2l,-fs,e-
Sai:!-ihe secretary OF State to-day
granted a charter to tho Newberno In.
Nestment Company. or which >hGm,s r.
DANIELS, j. w. Stewart and Enoch Wmd-.
worth are the incorporators. The clnI.
TAI Is 100000. The company purpose,
10 10 a general zeal estate and invest
1nent business.
one convict from Allegheny and seven
from wayne arrived 1t the ncn~;teuii,rv
Today. 1t cost $i0.45 to deliver the ono
3toni tfi'snnhy and $23.0j the seven from
wayne. The sheriff Of Alleghan sava
last weeks weather in the mountains
broke the record Tor heat. the ,empeta-
lure ranging owe %, and sometimes
nearly 100 degrees.
fhefe are now thirty companies In
inc State guard, and one indcnondcnt
company. There are no less than 50 an
plications on file for permission TO form
companies.
me gang Of convicts which for q
month has been putting down bri,k
pavement In the Capitol Square, Will end
that work this week. The slowness of
The work Is the subject OF general com
ment.
The friends of John II. Smith, eupcr-
~lntendent of the penitentiary, consoles
mat nc Is badly handicapped by the
board OF directors. He wished to retain
The trained officials, while the board do
manded that new men be put In. For
some time plans for leasing the pcniten-
tihry awe been under considerations
inc institution Is n white elephant" on
the Republicans hands. They simply
can't manage It. 1t has lost money
and made none this year. and the ssrug-
gle TO make both end meet has been n
tax of which the officials are heartily
tired.
John II. Windcr, formerly general
manager of the Seaboard Air Line, mndn
q proposition to-day which Governor
russell endorses, to. take all the convIct,,
ana maintain them and the pcnitcntiary
without cost to the Slate provided he
gets all the returns of their labor.
This morning the railway commission
TOOK up the complaint of the North Car
DINA Freight Association regarding the
freight rates on cotton. II. G.. Stanard
the manager of that association. was
present. OF railway officials there were
present I. NJ. Emerson, traffic manager
OF the Atlantic Coast Line; w. w. Find
ley, vice president; j. NJ. Culp. traffic
manager; W. y. Henderson, general
counsel; j. II. Drake, general freight
agent, and J. b. Munson, division freight
agent OF the Southern: II. l.. Pretlow, of
Virginia; II. w. r.. Glover, rattle man
ager of the Scahoard Air Line. The as
ISOLATION wants lower rates on cotton.
Ihere is no complaint OF discrimination.
There are complaints of Interstate rates
IRON points north to North Carolina.
These the commission heard. If sustain
ed, they will be sent on to the inter-
Stale commission.
Artist w. G. Randall leaves here in Il
Inx, -, 4,,@ F1,~
oil portrait OF the late Major S. NJ. Fin
ger for the State Normal and Industrial
College.
Judge Purnell has gone to Ashcvillc to
clear the docket of the United States
Circuit Court.
There will De u hearing here on the
2Sth of September of the evidence Of
certain Raleigh people In Governor Rus
sells case against the old directors or
tho North Carolina Railway. Willis c..
Erlggs. who was city editor Of the de-
funct Tribune, will be n witness. The
subpoena for him was Issued by the
clerk of the United States Circuit Court,
at Greensboro. The hearing will he be
fore Special Master Kerr Craige. SO far
the Governor has mad Il conspicuous
failure In his attempt to show fraud on
the part Of the old directors.
1t Is quite remarkable that 50 few
ENotlH SdIOiiHldIS nave NlSFtcu the ell
nessce Centennial Exposition.
Elizabeth College, at Charlotte, will
open October 18th. General regret Is eN-
pressed that the Baptist State Female
Univ 'sity, at Raleigh. cannot opcn be-
fore'the autumn of 1898.
The effort at Hendcrsonvillo to secure
evidence against the men who lynchcd
Bob Bracket, the negro rapist. IL so far
a conspicuous failure. All persons who
are examined swear they know nothing.
Yet the lynchers Were not masked.
A so-called divine healer is low de-
ceiving people at Greensboro.
Several persons In Tennessee are send
Ing red foxes to this State for breeding
purposes. The gray fox is quite plenti-
full, but the red fox is very rare here.
The news from the gold-hearing region
OF the State Is that there is great inter
est In mining properties.
There are 2l1 students now present at
the Agricultural and Mechanical College
here.
Prof. w. f. Massey finds very little Of
the Il Jose fruit scale in the State. In
a few days he goes TO the extreme south
west to examine trees.
Bernard r. Harding. car ana fuel In
spector of the Saaboari al Line, who