Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-30
OLD WORTH STATE.
Cumnock Coal Mines to Resume
OperatiOns-Brfefs.

RALEIGH, N. c., July 2s.-(SpecialC
Manager Henszey, Of the Cumnock Goa
Mine, was here last evening. He says
active operations will begin August LIST.
and shipments will begin at the rate OF
300 tons a day, and by the end of TIL
year the output will be 500 tons daily. AL.
will be sold In this State. The Caraleigt.
Cotton-Mills here, the Raleigh Gas Com
pany, and the Seaboard Airline will use
it exclusively. The Seaboard Airline is
waiting for it.
Mention was not long ago made of the
fact hat Samuel Langdon was the real
purchaser of the Taylor Place coal
mine lands, which adjoins the Cumnock
mine. Langdon and Henszey, once part
ners, are now at feud. n the purchase,
it Is claimed, is to annoy Henszey. Day
before yesterday Langdon cut through
the grade of the Raleigh and Western
railway, with the avowed purpose or
building a railway himself. The Raleigh
and Western is Henszey's road. The lat
ter has secured from Judge Timberlake a
restraining order against Langdon, re-
turnable at Roxboro' August 18th.
Commissions are issued to the following
officers of the oxford company. of the
Third Regiment OF the State Guard: Cap
tain w. II. Britt. Lieutenants o. c. Black
ley and Robert @. Elliott.
A committee appointed by the Agricul-
tural Department has gone to the expert
ment farm, near Southern Pines, TO ascer-
tain the status of affairs. The expert
ments there nave been under the direc-
ton of the State Horticultural Society, and
the fertilizers used are the gift of the
German Kali Company, the lands being
the property Of the agent of that com
pany and leased by the society. The
lease has only a year to run. The lands
have been greatly improved, and II is the
question Of the lease which is being looked
after.
j. C. /. Harris, who has returned from
Washington. where he went TO see whe-
Their Charles A. Cook would get tho much
coveted place as brigadier-generaI, says
he will do so when some new brigades are
created.
The bath-keeper at the public park here,
where the soldiers battle. says that only
three men in the two regiments are I'M
able to swim.
1t Is now thought that Captain Dowdy.
United States army, who was in the San
tiago fight, and was shot. will be in
s%tructor OF tactics at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College here.
The death OF Private j.. Pearce, of the
Wilmington company, Of the Second Regi-
ment, at camp here yesterday evening
was the seventh. There are but few men
now in the hospital. Pearce's death was
a sequel TO measles. Though over 500 men
Of the regiment had measles. 1t caused
only two deaths.
A letter from st. Augustine. Fla, says
Neutrality-suspicious. Bradley j. Wootin, or
the Second Regiment. has typhoid-fever
at Fort st. Francis. His mother has gone
there to nurse him.
There is a large attendance at the meet
ing of the Railway Commission, which
began to-day. Among those present are
James Kyle. Of Wilmington; j. w. Fry,
w. +. Kyle, and George NJ. Rose, of the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railway;
Warren G.. Elliott. #. NJ. Emerson, Junius
Davis, and Robert p. Burton, Of the At
lantic-Coast Line; j. B.. True, Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company; j.
w. Hates, of the Postal; w. j. Crossnell.
OF the Southern Express Company.
AS yet all the Second Regiment mea
have not received blanket bags.