The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-05

GENERALLY
COMMENDED.
a5 $500 -.
Action Of President Venablc in
1 Refusing to Invite Mr. N \. Bl3ryfati,
81. to Speak Approved. @!8s
OFFER 70 LEND E 81: STATE Il: MONEY 4
Governor Gets Letter From.
Business Men Offering to Sup
ply4Anya Amount Needed.
OFFER 10 LEND STATE 4 Z. MONEY N n |:,'
tspeclal 10 Tho rimus. Dlsrn tch.J

Especial to Tho Timus- Dlspntch.)
& RALEIGH, N. e., Feb. 4.--The position
OF President venuble, OF tho State Uni
versity, In refusing to extend I'm official
Invitation TO William Jennings Bryan to-
deliver speech there while on his tour
OF tho South, Is very generally commend- 4
cd here. The prevailing opinion Is that
Mr.. venablc's position is that no polltl-g
clan or candidate should be Invited to the
university to speak during m election
year. III
a charter was issued this morning ia
the Raleigh Milling Company, Of this
city, the capital being $4,000 The
purpose Is TO purchase and opcr-
ate tho wcl known Florenn mills
Trent and g. o. Wright, OF Bluefieid, W.
Va, 4 and IT, H.. Harding, Jr.,3and L.
Oliver, 3of this city.
"a tolorcd benevolent organization, the
Sons and Daughters OF Joseph. was char
tered to organize in Fayetteville.
;Another charter wa s. to the Tar Heel
sStonr,bon Company OF Elizabethtown,
tBlAden county, The principal incorporation
Els gA. y. 4 Merlin, and he capital Is 10000
authorized and $1,000 subscribed. The
company proposes to- operate steamboats,
and flats on the Cape Fear gE
Mr.. ]. Bryan Crimes. Secretary 81.
State and his bride, Miss Mary Laugh
inghouse, arrived here last night. and
ere at home at the residence OF Il. p.
Duncan. The marriage was ut tho home
of.the. BRIDES father, Joseph Y 6 Laughing
house in Grcenvllle, NJ. G., yesterday
by Rev ther Thomas +. Price. OF the
Catholic Church OF the Holy Name Of
Jesus, near this city, and tho only ~.
tcndants were Miss Mary Gottelieb. OF.
Baltimore as maid OF honor. and Mr.
Junius Grimes, brother OF the groom, as
Governor Aycock has received a letter
from K a business man OF Dunn, making
the unusual proposition that II he needs
any financial help in the payment OF the
South Dakota bond claims to lot the busi-
ness men OF Dunn know It. and they
arc ready to supply all he may need. The
Governor remarked that the state was In
no need for money. having o plenty for
all purposes and that besides, they were
| in no hurry to settle the South Dakota
| claims.
Director J. p. Kerr OF the peni en-
tiary board, who is here to attend he
FEBRUARY meeting, says the remainder OF
the State farm cotton crop, amounting
] to 23o bales has been shipped to Norfolk
to brokers with instructions to sell at the
most advantageous time It was to hay"
been sold sNlonday, but was 40 delayed III
shipment that 1t did not reach NorfolF
In time for the higher prices.
T. *. Bruner, superintendent OF spccia!
exhibits In the agricultural department 81
tho ST. LOUIS Exposition, is here from
ten days canvass OF the tobacco towns
| Of North Carolina. He visited SVlnstor-
Salem, Reidsville, Durham. Oxford, Hen,
derson, Wilson, Rocky Mount. .Grcenvilie.
I Kinston and Goldsboro, and says that no
met with that SUCCESS that assures the
| representation OF nearly all OF these mar.
kets among the special tobacco exhibits
The idea is to show especially the char
acter OF tobacco and number OF pounds
sold and prices paid.
Commissioner Patterson. OF the aerl'
cultural department. Is sending letters 20
each OF the North Carolina members 9.
/ Congress-, urging them to support the pill
i recently introduced by CONGRESSMAN car Y
! Ter Glass, OF, Lynchburg. extending TIC
postage frank privilege to the puohca.
4 lions of tho agricultural departments %
Il tho several States. He wants THIS postage
!. exemption for the Agricultural Bulot'n
which Mr.. Patterson says now has t rec
a circula ton, of 10000