Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-07-11
Sixty Thousand Dollars in State
Bonds tc Be Issued.
TO PURCHASE FARNas
spIcnic Fovcr Continues 20 spread
Among Cattle ortho Statc-iho A.
d. N. G. u. u. Rolling Stock Noon
shine D.stiiicrics captured The
CrniG Law AEuin-strivin: to ne-
gain Lost Footing.


100000 more of State bonds by adver-
Using the same for the required thirty
days, etc.
This action will be taken in response
to an official request made to the
Treasurer yesterday by the members
of the Executive Board-Messrs. Ira
Wis, Osborn and Newland. OF the State
Prison direc torate--in pursuance of the
act passed by the present Legislat ure
at its last session, providing for the is
suing OF certain bonds in order to eff
feet the purchase of certain farms at
present operated by the State Prison
authorities.
The farms to be purchased with the
proceeds of this bond Issue are Cale>
donla farms. Numbers l and =.
A little over $4,000 will be required
for the business
There is now two per cent interest
due on the bonds. before they are is
sued, rs the act requires that they
shall be dated January /, 1899.
STILL MORE sPLENIC FEVER
Another herd of cattle sick with
eplenic fever was Yesterday reported
to the Agricultural Department.
ON the plantation of MIR. Il. II. Battle.
near Method. Mr.. j. III. Morgan, Il tens
ant, has several sick COWS. ii is cx-
pccted that some of them will die to-
day. DR.. Curtce the State veteri-
marian, VIII go out there this morning
and render what assistance he can to-
ward checking the disease or prevent
ing it's further spread.
This makes the fourth herd that Is
now being destroyed In this country by
this disease. 1t is also reported thai
there is a fifth herd dying from 1t mean
Wakefield, but the report is not con-
flrmed
DR.. Curtice yesterday afternoon re-
turned from SaXapahaw. In Alamanct
county, where he went to examine DR..
Longs herd. He reports eight of his
cows as already dead and eight others
seriously sick. He Will probably lose
his entire herd.
THE 4. AND y. c. RAILROAD.
The report Of the expert machinst
on the condition OF the Atlantic and
North Carolina railways rollng-stock
has been made to the Board of In
ternal improvements and is not fa-
Vorable. or the nine engines, two are
third class and two merely scrap. The
plant Is far from complete. AS soon
as the Democrats come into complete
control of this road September LIST,
they Will begin the construction of two
branch linca-onc to Snow Hill. the
other to Trenton-and will apply them
selves to Improvement Of the plant.
DEATH.
Mrs. Duncan, wife of Revenue Col
lector Carl Duncan, died at Beaufort
at o'clock yesterday morning: aged
IS years.
Deputy Revenue Collector Adams had
lively time Saturday after the moon
sinners in Johnston county. He cap
tured three Illicit distlleries. John
ston is now acquiring quite an official
reputation as moOnshlne county.
Over twenty-five Illicit stills have been
seized there during the past twelve
months
BAR ASSOCIATION.
The many lawyers who attended the
first meeting of the State Bar Associa-
ton. at Morehead CITY, are delighted
with its success. They say it was the
most notable gathering of the profess
sion ever seen in this State.
The Sons of the Revolution have adj
mtted to membership Alfred Moring.
of Raleigh, who was born in 1914, and
whose father was a soldier in the war
of the Revolution. The latter was in
the Virginia troops, and lived until 1910
The last years Of his life were spent in
Chatham county, n. c.
Raleigh and all the other progressive
places will send delegates to the Good
Roads Convention at Charlotte next
week. Many counties and townships
Will be represented.
THE CRAIG LAW AGAIN.
It is positively asserted by lawyers
here that the odds are 80 to 1 that the
United States courts will decide the
Craig law, which requires "domestica-
ton" of foreign corporations. uncon-
stitutional, as 1t is for the avowed pur-
pose of preventing transfers of cases
to Federal courts. Ii is said that in
some eighteen cases the United States
Supreme Court has decided that this
right cannot be abridged by any State.
The Corporation Commission have
called OH the railways for the annual
reports.
TO REGAIN ITS FOOTING.
The case in which the Seaboard Air
Line seeks TO regain its footing in the
$4,000 damage suit for the burning of
an ice factory here is postponed until
July 2Sth. when Judge Brown will hear
ii liz chambers at oxford This ie; the
cas- in which the ice company claims
that the railway has forfeited 3 right
OF appeal because the latter's lawyers
failed to file the appeal in time.
y negro lawyer in the Mayors Court
yesterday slapped n negro woman, a
witness, in the face. and created
great sensation. He was fined $40 for