The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-20
Superintendent Of the PenItenlIaTy Expects
10 Have Il Picked In Ten Days.
A%URDERER'S SENTENCE COMMITTED
Rntler Called ON the Governor TO DIs>
miss HnncOck-Iish aud Oyster Iu-
b~ci-Ncgro convict Drops Dead
Ira. watson Dies LA Baltimore.

Raleigh, y. c., jan. 19.-(Special,)-
observed here by the closing Of the
banks and the capitol and the display
OF State flags on the latter. The various
departments were open, however. At
the public schools there were exercises
appropriate for the day.
Superintendent + whorne,o of the pen
itentiary, said to-day: II will, In about
ten days, or when all the cotton IL pick
ed, have all the female convicts sent
from the State farms to the peniten-
itary, so they can work In the shirt fac
tory. There are about twenty OF them.
] think the penitentiary the roper
place for them. / think, with other mat
ter. cotton picking can be finished in
ten days. The crop is 5000 bales on
the Caledonia farms Alone. 1 do not
think we can furnish any convicts to
work on railways this winter. We need
all the money we can get and the con-
victs must bring revenue"
To-day. before the Governor, there
was n plea by J.. c. T.. Harris for the
pardon of Tom Robertson, the young
white farmer. who was sentenced TO
work on the public roads in Wake for
five years. for seducing Julia Hester.
Robertson's people raised $1,000 as q
compromise, 1t is said that Miss Hes
ter's attorney demanded 500 more.
Yesterday afternoon, q negro convict,
who last Saturday was sent to the
roads here to serve n 4-months sentence,
fell dead In the road just as the gang
a started on the march to quarters.
Senator Butler in his paper to-day
editorlally calls on the Governor to re-
1p0pa Robert 1Io npnnl- nc NrasiJapt 80
the Atlantic and North Carolina rail-
way, saying If the facts are as repre-
scented Hancock is not fit to hold any
public position, and that he is sure II
the Governor, upon investigation, find
the facts to be as stated he will remove
Hancock at once.
Senator Butler attacks the recent
convention OF Middle-of-the-road Popu-
lists. saying that their action was a
prostitution Of the referendum vote,
which is part of the Populist platform.
To-day investigation of charges OF
cruelty to Rowan county's %convicts be-
gan at Salisbury. The charges are made
by 4 newspaper and are direct.
The statement that the fish any oys-
ter trade in the State is over 81, 900, 900
annually is of much interest, as the
figures are greatly larger than was ex.
pected.
POSTMASTER Clark, of Southern Pines.
sues a paper here. The suit grows out
of n statement made regarding his son.
who, az stated, lately left Southern
Pines and resigned as u. S. Commits
stoner Young Clark is now in Raleigh.
Ii is intimatcd that Senator Pritchard
has already selected a chief clerk for
Carl Duncan, revcnue collector.
The Bell Telephone Company in eX-
ceptlon to the railway commission or
der reducing rates says the two new
commissioners are not the legal ones.
This takes advantage Of the fight of T.
w. and Ohio Wilson. The company will,
while doing this, give the new commits
sion the information it has.
1t was the purpose of the directors Of
the Moore county and Western rail
road aberdeen and Concord) to work
yesterday, but there was no meeting.
Officials OF the Stone Mountain railway
say that bonds cant be marketed now,
pending the trouble as to reputation
by certain counties. There is general
pleasure at the injunction checking the
Stanly county rcpudfa ton.
1t Is understood that the peni.entiary
report is now In hand. The public GER
tainly wish to see 1t. The directors
meet to-day.