Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-12
THE OLD NORTH STATE
PROPOSED RECEPTION TO JOHN
SHELTON WILLIAMS IN RALEIGH.
RICHMOND AND RIDGEVAY RAIL WAY.
Progress OF Work on Tint Line
Conference To-day on the Cues
North Carolina Troops-Personnls.

RALEIGH. N. c., September n.-(Spe-
cial)-When w. c. Petty extends his
Carthage railway to Greensboro as he
now expects to do It Will give Green's
boro' connection with the seaboard Air
Line. which is much desired The car
thage road taps the Seaboard Airline
at Manly.
Governor Russell expects TO attend the
"Dewey-Day" celebration at New York.
and has invited several State officials to
accompany him.
Good rains have at last fallen here, and
the long period OF hot weather-the hot
test in twelve years-nas ended.
The local cotton receipts are quite
heavy. The crop Is opening rapidly.
The Mormons have now established
regular church here.
Arrivals to-day: Adjutant-General B.
s. Royster, oxford; John NJ. sherrod'
Rocky Mount; 5. b. Rorson, Wilson.
JOHN SHELTON WILLIAMS.
President Williams. Of the Seaboard
Airline, Is TO be here on the ZIth IN
slant If his stay is sufficiently long ne
| Is 10 De given IeCelllOH 1T TIC N"flND'
| Club so as TO give him an opportunity
! to meet Raleigh's businessmen.
The attorneys representing the state
! and the Corporation Commission In the
SO. 10000 railway tax assessment injunc-
| ton matter had a final conference to-day
before leaving for Asheyille. F. NJ. SIM
mons, one of counsel, said the afildaVlts
/ his side had secured showed that railway
property I'm North Carolina Is not assess
/ ed as hign as individual property. On the
| other hand, the attorneys for the rail-
WAYS think they have a notably strong
case. 1t will, In fact, be battle royal.
J. II. Porr, Of counsel for the commits
sion, says lit will be a great fight
THE DWARF.
James I.anier. the Raleigh dwarf, 81
inches high, who two weeks ago, by
fall in a fire-ergine house, suffered con-
cussion OF the brain, was to-day pro-
nounced out of danger.
State-Trcasurer Worth goes to Ashe-
Vile to be present at the injunction case.
The Auditor finds that he may not nave
to go. -.
The Acknowledgement says that so tar
as he knows North Carolina VIII not De
represented at New York by any troops
on ''Dewey-Day." He said he was also
|
be fred here that day.
The state charters the Tuscarora cot
ton-mills, at Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus
county. Paid up capital, $4,000; stock
holders--James Cook, L. ]. Vail, j. W.
Cannon, Paul Barringer, and a. NJ.
James.
J. r.. Young. Commissioner Of Insur-
ance is sick at his home. Henderson.
RICHMOND AND RIDGEWAY.
Saturday the ten miles of tho Richmond
and Ridgeway shortcut" OF the sea
board Airline. between Ridgeway anu
the Roanoke river, was completed. Inc
engine construction train, and forty men
came TO Ridgeway, and thence went 10
Petersburg from Weldon over the coast
Iine). in order to work on the petersburg
end The track between Rldgeway ana
the river is laid with eighty-pound ran
Tho material for the steel bridge Is al
the riverside and so Is the materlal Iol
the great trestle. Bridge and trestle VII
be "A little over mile in length. me
stone piers for the bridge are In place.
They were built fifteen years ago OF
more. The piling for the trestle remains
10 be driven. ,..
Commissioner-of-A Patterson
will conduct farmers institute at Tar
boro' Thursday and Friday OF this weeH
for Fdgecombe county. Professors Mas
sew and Johnson of the Agricultural ano
Mechanical College, will aid him, and W
Q McNackin. supervisor OF Public Roads
I'm Wake. will deliver a lecture on gooc
roads.
Mr.. Patterson called a meeting or th'
North Carolina truckers here on Wedhes
day Of the state Fair
The North Carolina crop report Tor sep
tember was compiled to-day by the Asrl
cultural Department from returns IRON
20o correspondents. 1t shows another
heavy decline in the condition OF cotton
This crop fell of fifteen points In August
as compared with July, and now 1t De
clines twenty-five points from its August
condition It's present condition Is Only
rs per cent. Of an average crop.
Tobacco is 81; corn. IS; peanuts, So.