The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-04-30
NORTH CAROLINA
CONVICT FARMS.
Legislature Appropriated S95,OOO
for Their Purchase.
CRUELTY CHARGED AT WELDON
Prisoners Said TO Have Worked Dur
ing the BIizzerd with No Fire-ka'-
cirb TO Vote on Street Bonds
Well-Known Physician DcaN.

rrcu y C., April 29-Special-
,.,,ts 1.'tv viii vote next Tuesday on the
ts,uo of NOo 600 of street improvement
honds Hardly any votes will be cast
agairst il The city officers Will also DC
ciected The Democrats have no oPposi-
tom except that in one ward the negro
ponuhiicans met last night ana hoiili-
nafed candidates for Aldermen \ mo"'h
hence the people here will vote on inc
issue of 10000 Of public school bonus
There was presentation in the gu
preue Court this morning of oil portIdi's
Of lanes IredeH and Alfred Moore, gwen
nv the Sons of the Revolution. JuhluS
paws. of the Wilmington Bar, made the
address of presentation. and the Chlel
Justice that Of acceptance.
DIR. LONG DEAD.
A telegram announces the death OF III.
John f. Long of Statesville. one OF the
leading physicians In this state.
There are now thrty-one patients in
the smallpox hospital here and about 10
suspects are in houses and tents mile
from this city. under guard day and
night.
The Penitentiary Board buys two
farms. on which convicts are to continue
10 work. one is near Weldon, the other
near Wadesboro. Convicts from the
western part of the State will be sent
10 the Wadesboro farm to avoid malaria.
An the negro convicts will have the
farm near Weldon. The late Legislature
appropriated $4,000 for the purchase OF
farms. The two purchased cost about
sS5.eeo On the farm near Weldon. the
state has spent during the past ten years
some sl25.cc0 in improvements ana II Is
said this farm alone Il now worth Sl"''oo0.
CRUELTY CHARGED.
The penitentiary authorities will inves-
tieate charges Of cruelty against per-
sons in charge Of northampton convict
farm. Three convicts were made TO work
outdoors during the cold snap in Feb
ruary. and ii is asserted were allowed
no fire. As a result all were badly frost
bitten.
There was a little fight between Captain
Day. penitentiary superintendent, and
a newspaper man here yesterday. Just
before the Penitentiary Board met. The
lie was passed. Nobody was hurt.
As a precaution. the negro deaf. mute
and blind al the institution here. Will
he sent away next Monday TO avoid
smallpox, though all have been vacci-
mated.
FLAG FOR THE RALEIGH.
Raleigh will send a fine silk flag 70 the
cruiser RdlelBn. A large utHlh'l VI
people from here will go to Charleston 70
see the cruiser.
Six hundred mules passed here Thurs
day On the way TO work on the Rich
mond. Petersburg and Carolina railway.
at the Ridgeway end Of the road. A
thousand men will be employed and the
work will be rushed. Much of the grad
ing. some IS or 20 miles. was done twelve
or fifteen years ago.
Arrangements are in progress for the
reception of the gun which the officers
and crew Of the cruiser Raleigh will give
tr's city II is said it is 5-inch gun,
taken from one Of the Spanish cruisers.
The escort Of the gun will be brought
here from Wilmington and be guests Of
the city.
The Democratic and Republican boards
Of penitentiary directors have harmon
lied. The Democratic members have re-
considered their plan to resign The at
titude Of W. II. Day, the superintendent.
and the prison directors, have caused this
change of attitude.