Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-09
NEGROES IN OFFICE.
NEARLY 1000 BLACK OFFICIALS IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
SOME THREE HUNDRED MAGISTRATES
The Race Question Must He Settled
Want to buy Rifes-Butier Comes
Out for Fusion-Miiitary Mention
of Interest.

RALEIGH. N. c., October s.-(Special.)-
Senator Butler, in his two and a half
hours speech here yesterday, came out
squarely for fusion. He had been rather
vague before. His attitude is now plain.
1t delights the Republicans. He went
bow-shot beyond them.
Funds for the Soldiers Home are not
coming in as rapidly as wished. 1t is the
hope that the next Legislature will make
much better provision for the home.
There ought to be at least 200 inmates.
Applications for admission are very nu-
merous. Julian S. Carr makes gift TO
the home of ten barrels Of -four and ten
barrels Of corn.
The social event of the coming week
will be the Capital Clubs "house-warm-
ing" Thursday evening. 1t will be the
most brilliant affair of the year, not even
State Fair, which will be given at the
clubs assembly-room.
a Confederate Tea was given here
last evening in aid of the Soldiers Home.
The attendance at the Episcopal General
Convention at Washington from Raleigh,
and. in fact, from all parts of North
Carolina, is large.
The fact that negroes at Wilmington,
and no doubt at other points in Eastern
North Carolina, are making attempts to
purchase repeating rifles, Is attracting
deserved attention. The agent of the
Winchester Company refused to make
sales. Calibres 80 and 80 are the rifles
sought. 1t is, perhaps. significant that
purchases were made here of ammunition
of those calibres when there was trouble
between, the Second Regiment soldiers and
negroes last month. Negroes in Halifax
county stated publicly that they were
well supplied with rifles.
1t is learned that in five counties In this
State there are 143 negro magistrates. IN
one county seven out of eleven persons
on the ticket are negroes. In one county
three negroes are nominated for the
LEGISLATURE in another county two, and in
a large number one. In the whole State
there are nearly three hundred negro
magistrates. There are twenty-five or
thirty negro postmasters. 1t Is said that
in the entire State there are nearly one
thousand negroes in office. All these are
hepuDIcdnS. 1. a COph' a
white Republican was nominated for
Judge by convention entirely OF negroes.
Even conservative people say the race
question in this State has got TO be set
tied. by the ballot or otherwise. and that
present conditions cannot continue to
exist
The Willardville Knitting-Mills Will be
moved here. A building has been pur-
| chased and in two months the plant.
which will be doubled in capacity, will be
| in operation
! When Colonel Armfield. Of the First
| Regiment was here last month, an invi-
| tation was rendered by him and other
officers Of the regiment to visit 1t at Camp
! Cuba Libre He will probably go there in
! the next ten days. or may go to Savan-
nah, where its new camp will be located,
! and from which point it will embark for
| Cuba. Several staff officers will accom-
pany the Governor on this visit. The
| First is short something like 100 men, and
this shortage may be made up by trans
fers from the Second Regiment of men
who are extremely anxious to get in the
| First