Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-27
Assistant i!Il. .AEIt|torn8y-Ge Boyd
Watching for q Jludgsship.
CHARGED WITH HlcAMY
Boy Boy! q lilko Ewart. Not Likely DO
Find Pialn sniiins- Chnries u.
nlddoH liza. ono wife TOO many 4
EdMca.ors 10 Meet In RnleiGh-
Historic iG,nvei for Daughters o,
tile Confed ornoy. i. i

Raleigh, N. c., Dec. 26-Repubiican
politicians are perhaps more interested
Just now in the outcom9of the fight on
Ewart's confirmation than anything
& else. i. -.
Few Of them except him to be con-
frmed and all Of them realize that II is
his last chance. And when he falls
there will be rich, rare plum for
somebody.
Who? That's the question they are
now discussing.
AS it is, understood that Pritchard is
waiting for Stmonton's shoes. he Is no
longer reckoned in the calculation. But
Jim Boyd is in 1T decidedly In fact
there are those VINO are ready to wager
that IL Ewart fails the railroad inGu-
ence will. force Boyd's nomination.
But Boyd, like Ewart, Will not find
all plain sailing. Even in his own
party he will find opposition Of the
strongest sort; and when he comes to
the Senate for confirmation he will find
the anti-railroad forces there to fight
him. and his ISu-Klux record aired In
the most public manner by his own
party associates. n.
CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.
Saturday Charles B. Biddox, white
man who lived In West Durham for
several months. was arrested on a
warrent from Greenville, S. c., charg-
Ing him with bigamy. Deputy Sheriff
E Giles. OF Greenville, arrived here last
evening with extraditIon papers and
this morning BlddoX was arrested and
carried off.
Officer Giles who orrocfod Ttddoy
says that he knows he has the right
; man, and that he has been wanted in
Greenville for some time. The three
officer. prisoner and wife No. p left
on the 9:55 o'clock train this morning.
Z EDUCATORS COMING.
8 The annual meeting Of the North
Z Carolina Association Of Academies will
be held in the Senate chamber, next
Thursday and Friday. December % and
%.
The secretary, Professor Whtsett,
writes that reduced rates have been
secured on railroads and at Carrollton
Hotel. which place is to be head
quarters
The association now numbers over
one hundred members and represents
about fifty of the leading schools Of the
State. The approaching meeting prom
ises to be n very fine one, and a
very attractive program has been COM
pleted.
HISTORICAL GAVEL.
Mre. Armlstead Burwell yesterday
received from Mrs. William Overman,
of Salisbury, q gavel made from the
funeral car in which President Davis
body was taken from BeauvOir, Miss
to Ricbrlond. The gavel will be pre-
scented to the Stonewall Chapter
Daughters of Confederacy.-Cha
+ News.
FORT, CASWu0LL
Major Joseph e. Kuhn, Of the engl-
neer corps, assistant chief engineer of
harbors and Notifications, visited Fort
s Cnswell, at the mouth of the Cape Fear
river last week on n tour Of inspection,
and to arrange for the erection of n sea
wall to protect the post from being
submerged in case of high water during
severe. storms. The sea wall will be
built Of stone at the approximate cost
3 OF 100000, including grading and fill
ing. 1t IL expected that the appropria-
tion will be made, and work commence
early this spring! The erection Of the
permanent buildings (for which $780,
600 has been appropriately will not be-
gin until arrangements for building the
sea wall are perfected. - Southport
Standard.