Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-23
RALEIGH's BUDGET.
Heavy Dividends-Convicf Escapes
Personal md Political.

RALEIGH, n. c.. January 22.-(Spe
ciaL)-It is said here that but for his age
V. s. Lusk would probably succeed Judge
Dick. Lusk was 60 his last birthday.
The effort is being renewed TO get the
Farmers Alliance out OF politics. Very
few persons, other than Populisrs, ore
now members.
| 1t is said that the fate OF John Evans,
| the negro convicted OF criminal ssault
at Rockingham depends entirely upon
the recommendation of Judge McIver ana
Solicitor Seaweli. The Governor has writ
ten to them.
The Railway Commission subpoenas su-
perintendent. w. j. Croswell, OF the
Southern Express Company, to appear
next Friday as witness.
The commission will get very little evil
dence out Of the Pullman-car people.
Very few passes are issued. and a Pull
man man says none at all since the de-
cison was made that free passes are IN
lawful.
Early this morning a mad-dog was shot
and killed by a policeman at the corner
of the Capitol Square
The Underwriters Insurance Company,
organized last evening at Greensboro,
has $4,000 capital, and the following Off
GERS: President, j. Van Lindley; Vice
President, Z. +. Wharton: Secretary and
Treasurer, a. w. McAllister The COM
pany will work in concert with the South
err Stock Mutual The latter declared
20 per cent. dividend to policy-holders.
The wife of Mail-Agent Clingman Ben
ton, who was killed in the collision one
Sunday last spring at Harrisburg. sues
the Southern railway for $4,000 damages
for the killing OF her husband.
J. II. McIyer. who for twenty-one years
has been a penitentiary official and for
ten years supervisor of one Of the con-
Wet farms. retires.
A T.. Moore, of Raleigh, IS appointed
by Governor Russell State Keeper OF
Weights and Measures. to succeed the
venerable Albert Johnson, who died in
December
Governor Russell is invited TO attend
the commercial congress at Tampa. He
has only been out Of the State twice
since his term began-to the Nashville
Exposition and to Washington in the in
terest of Charles A. Cook.
The Blackw ell-Durham Tobacco Com
pany declares per cent. semi-annual
dividend on it's 100000 capital.
Joseph Martin, a convict who was
serving a thirty-year sentence in the peni-
Tertiary, made his escape, owing. it is
charged. to the connivance of a guard.
Martin is from Wake county
Up TO last year convcts serving life
terms were always kept in the peniten-
tiary. but the pressure for labor to pick
cotton was so great that they were near
ly all sent to the farms on the Roanoke
by Superintendent Smith. Superintendent
Mewboorne will return them TO the peni- |
Tertiary. The fact as TO the cotton crop |
planted last year on these farms is that |
it was much larger than could be pro- |
perly picked
The Attorney-General decides that pub
lic-schooi teachers are not liable 10 in
dictment under the revenue act for teach
ing without a certificate or license.
The State Agricultural Department is
making heavy sales OF fertilizer tax tags.
The receipts some days exceed 800.
1t was said on Thanksgiving-Day that
all the penitentiary debt would be can
celled that day. 1t was an error. There
IS yet a debt. The amount will not be
known until Chairman Dockery makes
settlement with the ex-Superntendent and
makes his report 10 the directors.
The number OF cartridges killed and
sold in the State this season is well
Known to break the record. on the sly
good many are shipped out of the
state. There is quite a trade mere in
as there is also in 'abbits.
Most of the latter come dressed. and
mainly from Chatham county. One North
,arolinian has so far caught and shot
500 rabbits this season.
Concord is to have another cotton-min
There is steady increase In the number
n the State.
Miss Bessie Stockard Will graduate at
he State University this year. and has
he honor of being the first lady gradu-
tie Seven or eight years ago Miss Sim
mons graduated with very high hoaors at
Wake Forest College. There are three
Their lady students at the university.