The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-11
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only q cents a day each, this Including
food. clothing, medical attention ant
guarding. 1t is cheaper to work prls-
oners on the roads than 1t is to keer
them in JAIL f9 =
What was formerly q large platform
here for use in shipping cotton for.
eign. is being covered and converted
INTO brick warehouse, to contain 6,o0t
bales. 1t Will be one of the largest
warehouses In the State.
Mrs. Rosa Hill Ashe died here hast
night at the home OF her kInsman,
Capt. s. a. Ashe. She was born in
this city March 9. 1916, and was the
daughter OF William H. Hill and Bllza
Is. Marshall (the latter being the first
white Child born in Rnleigh). She was
kinsman of Chief Justice Marshall.
William II. Hill was the son OF Hon.
Wtliiam II. Fiji and Eli7a Ashe, daugh
ter Of Gen. John Ashe. whose home
was ut Hilton, near Wilmington. No
vember 81. 1887. Miss Hill married her
cousin, Thomas IL. Ashe. They had
one child. DR.. Alexander S. Ashe, who
died in 1866 Her husband died in 1859.
About 1869 Mrs. Ashe became matron
of the Home at Wilmington and re-
mained there until 1875, when she
came here. She leaves two sisters
Miss Lossie Hill and Mrs. Fannie D.
Waddil.
eiHSe lHt hc" year DSBun twenty
seven new students have entered the
State Uniyerslty-an unusually large
number.
Grand Secretary John c. Drewry,
who left for Oxford to-day to attend
the session Of the Grand Lodge Of Ma
sons, gives me the following figures:
Number of lodges, POS; members. IL
400: gain of lodges, s; of members, 400
During the year . new lodges were
cnArtnrnn
The Railway Commission Saturday
mad before 1t Jno. p. NIunson, division
freight agent of the Southern railway
and r. l.. Potts, local agent, and asked
MunSon whether last year the South
ern gave S. Ohio Wilson or his mother
special freight rates between Raleigh
and Round Knob. Munson declined to
answer, saying that he did so upon the
ground that n witness was not com
PEELED to give evidence which might be
used in n criminal indictment Chair
man Caldwell ruled that Munson must
answer or be attached for contempt
and committed until the matter was
settled. DR.. Abbott, of the Commits
sion, dissented from the view of Cald-
well and Pearson in this matter. 1t
was Caldwell who asked questions
There was set smile on his face ell
the while. l.. II. Bushbee was present
as counsel for AIunson and asked If
the Commission would put the latter
IN his custody, as unsual. until there
was a conference. 1t was observable
mat the chairman always spoke of the
Commission as 'ithe court"
Before the Railway Commission At
torney Il. II. Busbee made q
sharp hit at that august tribunal and
at the State Supreme Court. He said
the United States Supreme Court was
yet, he thanked God, "the guardian
and protector of the liberties of the
citizens of North Carolina"
1t Is the comment of a director Of
the Month Carolina railway that Gov
ernor Russelrs attempt to invalldate
the lease and prove fraud has, to use
mining phrase. about "petered out"
The Railway Commission has issued
n summons to Col. a. b. Andrews. of
the Southern railway, and III. w MIL
Ter, his clerk, TO produce the stub of
ahe free pass books, in order to see the
passes issued last year. The papers
were served on Miller, but Colonel An
crews was out of town.