The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-03-19
HQNEnS S0yS He Is Confident ThQ|.
He Mil Be Elected.
HUNDREDS OF D0LlHRS CHANGE HANDS
GOV. Tyler Coming TO oTIdewatcr-Col.
ored Republicans Endorse ohm III.
smyth Cor RcEister-CoI. wickham
Wtli Rum for Congrcss-Goid Sock
cFs Going TO British Columbia.
Richmond, va, Al'1rch is, 1898.

6pNefnor 1U1Cr expects ta laayes
Glcr:dny cm his trip to Tldewater. He
VIII spend ~ week In that section In or
der TO gather information concerning
piEi oyster question, especially with
as TO who should be appotaed to the
State Board OF F!she:a.S The &se{ffss,-
ernor will be at Newport News neXIsS
Saturday TO witness the launching o.s
the Kentucky ard Kearsarge. He has
s9nt invitations to the staff to meet
him there
~ nesting Of oolcred Rurubg.caGs
'wae held here to-day and John II.
StrHEhc, of this city, waLs endorsed for
Register OF the Treasury to succeed the
late Blanche Il. Bruce Smythe bs an
eX'Alhr'aater to Liberia and Is one OF
the brightest men amtng his race.
Attorney General Montague has
reached no conclusion as TO the steps
he will take in order to ascertain
whether or not the position of Register
of the Land Onioa has been abolished.
lie has been busy in court for day
or uHp. but will give his alteration to
the Registers case Tomorrow
Superintendent Of Public Instructions,
j. w. Scnrthall, has received a letter
from the Wrmans Christian Tempec-
ance Union of this city, asking him to
fix daae when he will receive q, com
mittee from that bodD. HE has named
March 50, The ladies did not say what
The objer2Ih OF their call would be, but
1t Is presumed uilt they wish TO i'm
pnass on the Superintendent the neces-
sity Of having public school children
Instructed in hygiene, especially with
reference tcl the effects CT alcohol on
the human system.
1t is said Col. w T. Wickham the
chairman Of thE, Republican Commit
tee Qamb facticCD maGl be a candidate
for Congn:e.s in Fourtr:l District next
fall. Ele has since his marriage IL few
Yeas ago resided in Pcwhatan ucRlEr
ty and has his law office I'M Richmond.
Hon. r. c. Pitcher the veterans mem
ber OF tina House of Delegates from
Fduautcr, will probably run for Con-
gress in the Eighth District next fall.
HcG,. j. l.. Rixcy is thc present repre-
sentative, but ii is generally conceded
that he Will not be returned. Mr..
Pi!<rtar will make a red hot canvass
if ha decides ~. ent'sr the fight.
There will be Il recount <Sf the vote
cast in this city for Commissioner OF
this, Rcvenua. A. majority OF ':the mem
bers tif the City Democratic committee
haw4 promised TO vote fcT it. Mr.. o. a.
Hawkins, the defeab2h candidate, will
file his p;ti:ion i'o-morrow. He says
he is contldEnt that the new coulst will
elect him. Mr. Hawkins does not and
will not charge fraud but he claims to
have evitsscIcc that ser!tms clerical err
rcrS w@re made.
Hundreds of dollars changed hands
cn The resuh. of the primary election.
One gentleman who struck the ,entira
combination won $l,700. Scores Of bats
Of 500 We're m21a.
Delegate Harry I3. Owen, of the AIiari-
chester district, has recently decided tn
become n candidate for Senator in 1899.
to snccsed Mr.. Flanagan. Mr.. Owen
is one cf the most popular mem in lthe
HOUSE, and The Democrats Of his district
say he Is tlra very man to put up to
defei-'. Mr.. F'isi-ngan, lha Republican
leader, himself q very popular man.
All 2:15 o'clock Tomorrow afternoon
abcut fifteen Of the sturdiest young
citizens OF Virginia will lsave by way
of tEa Chesapeake and Ohio railway for
British Columbia, there to dslve In tlle
earth for gold. The psrty has been maxi
ing preparations for lthe trip for m,:mths
past ard Will be amply provided with
stores OF all kinds and mining nrachn-
cry. The expedition goes out under COM
TRACT with the Brhtish-American Mining
and Trading company, of Baltimore,
Md, and will work the Robertson Plat
Ger mine, said ITO be ene of tbs, richest
in that section DIR. C. b. Woodley, OF
North Carolina, who accompanies the
QUILT will hpk after the physical we'll
baing of the party. In, addition &, Ghcse
mentioned number of others are
expected TO join them on the way irt
cludnG three miners Of experience. The
Br.tish-American Gold Mining lsC,,l
Trading company, under the auspices
It which I.he expedition gees out, is said
~ he o:le Of the most substantial con-
Germs of its kind IN the couc,try.'
COTTON siWTNDUDR. ARRESTED.
st. Louis. Mo, March ia special
to the Republic from El,Glas, TEX,
says: Officers at Terrell. have three
ousEness men of Wills Point under ar
rest. charged with cottl.n swindl1:tg
through bogus bills Of ha,dt..g. The
prisoners are James Dybrand,
banker; j. l.. Cheatham, a piano
6nHer, and G. r.. Matthews, Cheat
hams tslss.1St Stant. The charges are
brought by $. NJ. Bond, a cot ton buyer
of San Arl,lonio, wits s7ys t..at tHa
swtndle was originated and operated
by Lybrand 81 & s. slss .5';.ss
Lyband is out om heavy bonds and
the two '-lsher meGl are in jata a t Terrell,
Prince Bismarck Will celebra te S;s on
March 25th the, 60th anniversary Il b his
erlteriIg ihe Prussian army.