The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-24
"A CONTRACT I
FOR new ROAD.
for Lease Increase
Value Of the Atlantic and
North Carolina.
THE PENSIONERS INCREASE
Tile Aberdeen and RI Fish Road
Completed Troops g Getting
X. Ready&fo for Manassas.
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Special 10 Tho Times Dispatch ss .5
RALEIGH. ~ NJ O.. August 81. FRANK
d. Jones, chairman, Of the Republican y
executive commit tee this district =:
came here to-day to have q meeting and
put up a nominee FOR Cong but wa
greatly annoyed that no B Quorum " was II
present. He was In con ference with ex-;s
Cong ress,nnn John Nichols. Some Re -FlS
plbllcans want Nichols % DO tho candi
date, while others object vigorousiy. bi. #
1T is not probable he will be named.
Chairman Jones says anot her effort vii KS
be made TO have the committee mex
week and select man. Jones and other
committeeman say they have 3. not The
faintest idea whom thayg WI select. III
s The contract for bull ding the New
"a by William Monrnre and others. OF II
the directors, " to the 1irm Of Ferrel &:
Noe. OF Pittsbnro. NIX II ;ss8
INCREASE THE yALUE
sSl AS the limo comes on for the Atlantic
and North Carolina Ra lwny to be leased q
interest In the lease matter deepens. he
t]g hit for the Lease has nov been carried
on for almost a year, and as strange 70 Il
say, has Benefited tha property and In
creased Its value. stock beng n wv WORTH
twice al much as hit was a u the time
the for q Sc began Ia g yea IS.
4s T he cor poratl commission Is inform (
I'd OF the completion 20 ( 8 the "A berde cen
and Rocktish Railway. from herd eel,s
Ito Hope Mills, where Il y connects A Wit
The "A tlanLic Coast line. "a he " road 4 ~ \
forty-six and a half miles In length
State Auditor Dixon recently stated
that he ex pected that there would be az
falling of In tho number OF penslo ners.
but 10 his great surprise he finds hat
there are hundreds OF X n w a ppli cat ions
He made a, guess to-day hat there Awel'a
5perhaps as many as u I, 900 a ne " apple
lions. He said Il II am very much sur
srrlsed at this, and regret It, too u was
exceedingly anxious to increase the pen
sion allowances this year. and we may
squeeze through with tile sam 9 L mounts IN!
as were provided last year The boa lt g
| OF Il EensIons in the counties eyiden1y;t
{put'on a number Of men who Dug hit not
I'd be on tho lists, but the old soldiers r.
hang around and fntrent tile 'board'l
Ia grant 5;their claims, nd n the tender
| 3hea rted old soldiers who "a co impose " inc
|fboards, give way to this sort OF appeal
i am sure that a 10. OF the penssllof 3
fought not TO be OH the rol 5 W
5sTs ss5 IS VALUABLE FIND.
The Secretary OF state has made ans
;other very valuable n lind 5 anon tho
state archives. He has been ooking I for
months for tho charter ar d OF her papers
81 the Il State Of Franklin. which was
erected by j Ohm SEWER; An I2ast Iennes,
see. He hns found I he charte and Ill
4 tho papers some twenty II, number,
4 ng eonholed IN the ONCE of the ins,ll'-
4 ance commissioner. among a LOT Of OLD
4 records Among the papers IS Sewers
1 retition to the Legislature for PARDON
4 after his sci -created government y f nag
1 bedn pulled down: also the rec &c y
4 dation for pardon made by tho commit
4 tee and the pardon granted by the Legls 8
1 lature There me also treaties which
SEWER made withIth Indians. notably
one signed by the King Of The SRs o. !
I6kees, and another signed II by the c chi
nan OF chotatoWn which was vas e: q tow 70 WI
COL. 81. 7. Robertson. Of the First
4 Regiment. North Carolina Ma ton tional
4 Guard. was here yesterday looking after Y,
4 stores ii the arsenal to compile etc ne
lcuuipment OF his command, which goes
4 Ito Manassas to the imanoeuYres Ger.
j earle IA, Woodruff y Ne 81 VIII also y !,
ATTEND the ma uoe,,yres. Some officers 2 2, :
1.-The Second and Third z Regiments Wal 'l
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