Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-14
RALEIGHs BUDGET.
New Insane Asylum Building-Pcr-
sonaI and Political.


RALEIGH. n. c.. January 13.-(Specia)
The last touches are being given the new
male annex at the insane asylum. 1t is
a beautiful building The ceilings are
all of steel. Many Improvements OF the
grounds are in progress. Most of the
grounds have been regrassed. The pa
TENTS are building some excellent mac
adam roads. Dr. Kirby is showing mucn
interest in the varied improvements IN
progress.
Rev. Dr. Babb. chaplain at the State
farm. is here discharged for the third ana
last time. The two former discharges
were mere bluffs. Babb says affairs are
I'm bad shape at the farms. Peter Hughes
Republican, Of Alamance, is bounced
as supervisor Of the Halifax farm.
The Populist office-holders are saying
with much exultation that the many ana
varied scandals which are marking Gov
ernor RusselTs administration are all due
to Republicans; that none are chargeaDie
to Populists.
Republican leaders are saying their nope
this wear Is i'm Democratic dissensions
They add that they will have the negro
vote solid by crushing any negroes VINO
show an independent spirit. and that they
will tell the Populists II they do not get
I'm line. and the Democrats carry the
State. the latter will disfranchise them.
-Four more cows of the fine herd at the
Agricultural College. making twelve N
all. have been killed on account OF tuper-
culOsis.
There is a good deal Of quiet laughter
at the Railway Commission Tor what IS
regarded as a backdown in the matter oil
the contempt" cases. 1t Is no secret
that the papers were prepared yesterday 4,
and that in the afternoon 1t was declatd
not TO put them IN the Sherins hands
and not TO commit for the so-called con-
tempt.
In the Superior Court here to-day John
d. Graves. young white man. was put
on trial the second time for killing henry
Wall (colored). near Wake Forest. Groves
went 10 the house OF negro ana calleu
Wall ont The chief witness was the
house-owner. X is conjectured ihat IN
cit whiskey was at the bottom oil the
trouble.
Tabor-Commissione Hanrick has gone
Fast TO get statistics as TO fish and truck.
Te saws that next year he will oeVote
rnuch space in the report 10 these IN
dustries as he will have but little trouble
in securing facts as TO mills and mining
interests.
r \. Duke. Of Durham. makes the Ok
ford orphanage another gift OF SIJcO, CO.
tjngent upon the raising by the Grand
Lodge of Masons of like sum. his
gifts aggregate 1880. YESTERDAY the
Grand Lodge raised $l,eO OF the desired
amount.
Walter f. Moore. OF Wilson, is re-elect-
ed Grand Master Of Masons.
THE Secretary of State charters the
/. q. Everitt Lumber Company, Of Beau
fort county.
chairman Caldwell of the Railway
Commission. makes the remarkable as
sertion that Commissioner Abbott goes
down town and talks one way TO news
naper men. and then comes back ana
votes with Pearson and myself.
Two convicts from Pasquotank arrived
at the penitentiary to-day.
The Park Hotel here is TO be conducted
as a clearinghouse.
Judge Robert r. Dick left last night
for Johns Hopkins Hospital. His wife
and Judge Douglas are with him.
The opponents of Wheeler Martin for
state Solicitor are saying he is the man
who really caused the nomination OF Rus
sell for Governor. They hold this as
grudge against him.
some Moore county lumbermen are In
terested with a Raleigh syndicate IN
building the railway from here towards
Ellington.
In the great Van Lindley peach orchard
near Southern Pines there are now 55'VD
trees. There are 40 acres In fruit.
Wheat in this section Of the state Is
small. but the stand is very good. wheat
growers say there Is more than since 1853
The news that there is a case of small
pox at Wilmington. the first In the State.
was received to-day with much surprise.
There has been considerable vaccination
here in a quiet way recently.
Carl Duncan may get in as Revenue
Collector by the end of next week: most
nrobablv not before February LIST.