The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-19

Burned Gunbort Neuse Oh Dry LanA
LeaEar Proves Auditor Ayers Stasemso
to be eUntrue-Grvensbaro's Big Shoe Pa
tory-Jhe southern to Push werk - sAs
Mooresv!ile Link
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., October le.
Senator Butler will be here next
week. He IS beginning his campaign
early. as he SO we'll knows how to do
He is certainly a shrewd worker. He
now calculates on crushing the
Pr:tchard pOpulists" or bolters, and
they as certainly calculate on crushing
him. The populist state committee "a
tolerably evenly divided so far AZ But
Ter is concerned.
Robert Graveley, a delicate white
youth Of Is years, was placed in the
penftentiary yesterday afternoon. to
serve fifteen years for the murder of
young Law. in Surry county. In q
drunken quarrel the murder was done.
Graveley fled to Virginia, but two
months ago was captured.
The tobacco in the burned prixe
y
OF 1t, below the glaring mass. is said
to be as yet intact. The outline Of the
burned hogsheads is visible
There was fight at Durham yester-
day between Editor Robinson. OF The
sun, and Mr.. Niche, the water works
superintendent, in which the latter was
the aggressor. 1t grew out OF com
ments on the short water supply.
"A
the gunboat Neuse, which was partially
burned there during the war, is now
nigh and dry and many yards from the
water, So low is the Neuse river. TMe
boat is being stripped Of iron work.
boilers, etc. 1t is the first time N has
ever been visible since it was burned.
superintendent Smith says that a big
report OF the penitentiary will be made
TO the directors next week by him. He
said: Il have nothing to say except
that l am satisfied" A merchant here
says Smith got good prices for his COT
ton which was recently sold; $50 more
than the merchant had offered.
Ex-Superintendent Leazar, OF the
pententiary. absolutely disproves the
accuracy OF Auditor Ayers statement
that the penitentiary cannot be made
by saying that laet
year he made 1t self-sustaining end
pa1o-eNery cent of expenses out of the
money It earned"
In one section Of the state there have
been great rains this week. In Surrv
county the damage to farms and mill
properly is put at $4,000. Many farm
erS were nearly ruined. Trees were
!eVeled. There must have been a cloud
burst
Ihere was rumor last night that
James II. Young, colored, was sure Ia
get the Raleigh postoffice. Young
said today that just as soon as Post
master Z. M. Busbee's time expired he
would enter upon the duties of post
master But no one save Young can
De round who believes any such thing.
Whlte republicans laugh at the idea
Greensboro is to get 100000 shoe
FACTORY plant, which is to come from
the north.
The finest cotton yarns ever spun In
the south are now being made af the
refitted Lincoln mills near Lincolnton.
and will be on view at the meeting OF
the Cotton Spinners' Association at
Philadelphia.
South Carolina mill men appear to be
inducing a great many North Caroline
mill operatives to go to their state. A
1ew years ago they took hundreds of
people from the southeastern part of
the state to Pelzer. Now they have
taken the night force of the great OdeII
mills at Concord.
The Southern railway, Just as vus
predicted. has completed all the ar
rangemen'ts for building it's line be-
tween Mocksville and Mooresville. The
stakes are being set for the gradins
rorce Work begins in ten days. There
Will be very large force, and WORK
Will go on in three sections
Inc attendance at Shaw university.
colored, here during the coming term.
will be very large. There will be On
dents.
The railway commission today save
II. W. B. Glover, traffic manager of
the Seaboard Air Line, a hearing. ti,nS
hne having excepted to the commfs-
sion's order lowering rates on COTTON
shipments.
There Is great satisfaction here NJ
the high rate 009 1-D bid for Raleigh'a
$4,000 per cent. street Improvement
bonds. This city has a small debt
taxes are very low, and the finances
are admirably managed.
The railway commission files its an
swer to the Western Union Telegraph,
company in the case which comes up aS
Wilmington November 1st 1t says
rates are too high: that profits are
charged on watered stock; that over 6
per cent. Of profit has been made on
fictitious capital, and that an enor-
nous surplus has been accumulated.
An address to the colored voters of
North Carolina and a call for a con-
vention November 3, 1897, was issued
today. The address opens with: We,
the undersigned, feeling the necessity
OF more united action among the col
ored republicans Of the state in order
that the original and great principles
OF the Grand Old Party" may not be
lost sight Of in these days Of shifting
party platforms and empty promises.
do hereby call upon all good republf-
cans to meet us in a convention I'm the
city Of Raleigh. N. c.. on the 3rd day
of November, 1897, for the following
purposes and on account Of the fol-
lowing grievances:
We cast about 120. 900 votes for the
republican party. We stir up the eDl-
ored voters all over the state and vote
them in solid array. in some fnStancea
for men who have nothing in commos
with US. and take every opportunity
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