Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-16
RAILROAD TICKETS.
NORTH CAROLINA COMMISSION CON-
sIDERs REDUCED RATES.
TALK ABOUT THE PENIYEHTIARY.
Chairman Of the Board Would Like
TO Sell to the GOyernment-Pro-
posed Reduction of Express Rates
on Fish.
ON Fish.

| RALEIGH, N. c., March 15.-(Special.)-
To-day's session OF the Railway Commits
sion was Of special interest, as the mat
ter in hand was the passenger rate. The
| exceptions of the three great systems tC
the reduction of the rate to 21-2 cents fol
irst-class and cents for second class
which were filed ten days ago, were read
and there were special statements by
prominent railway officials. W. G. Elliott
and T. NJ. Emerson represented the At
lantic-Coast Line; w. w. Finley, W. A.
Turk, w. A. Henderson. Fairfax Harri-
son, and f. II. Busbee the Southern; f.
st. John, II. w. b. Glover. and l.. X.
Watts the Seaboard Airline. Tho small
office Of the commission was crowded.
there being number Of prominent lis
teners.
Chairman Claudus Dockery. of the
Penltentiary Board, said to-day: Il am
anxious 10 make sale Of the penitenti-
airy to the government. 1t is the finest
prison i'm the South. over 100000 are
tied up there. i am deeply interested in
getting every one Of the State convicts
at work on the public roads i think the
farms ought to be given up. The leases
of nearly all of them end in couple Of
years. Those Of the Halifax and North
ampton farms expire next year. l do not
think the leases will be renewed / know
the one of the Halifax farm will not be.
The Board of Directors of the Institu-
ton for the Blind here last night award
fha an.afr % f.r.
mitory, for S2l, 800, to j. d. Elliott, OF
Hickory. 1t will be three stories in height,
with frontage of 1l3 feet, and will be Of
brick and granite One thousand opera
chairs or use i'm the concert hall In the
new building were bought at IS cents
each. For the colored Institution for
Dear-Mutes and Blind here nineteen
acres Of land, adjoining, have been bought
for $500. and this will be the farm on
which supplies for both institutions will
be grown Five thousand dollars has been
expended for an addition 20 the colored
department.
MUST RAISE SOME DEVILMENT.
PopuIist who is a bitter opponent Of
Senator Butler says the latter confessed
in Washington a few days ago that his
party was gone in North Carolina. unless
he could raise some more deviment."
Two convicts, one each from Pender and
Davidson, arrived at the penitentiary to-
day.
A delegation Of Morehead City, Beau
fort, and New Berne fish-dealers this af-
ternoon appeared before the Railway
Commission and urged it to reduce the
express rates on fresh fish. 1t is asserted
that these are so per cent. too high.
Ex-Governor Peter II. Bell, of Texas
who died at LittletOn. n. c., few days
ago, was SO years of age. He was a ma
tive Of Culpeper Va, and married a |
daughter OF William Eaton, of Warren |
Governor Russell made inquiries yester |
lay as to the probable number of North |
Carolinians who would volunteer In case |
If war with Spain. and was told not less |
han q, OO0 whereas he expressed his plea
sure
S. A. SchlOss, of Wilmington, is here, |
ooking into the matter of leasing and |
managing an opera-house. There ought to
De a new and modern building.
George Coffee, who is 50 years old, and
Who lives in Raleigh, says he had a son
N the Maine
The gathering OF Populists at their con-
erence here tomorrow promises to be a
arge one