The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
OLD STATE DOCUMENTS
COLLECTED AND ARRANGED By
THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

The Building of q New Railway Mad Pos
sible by Defeat of the Antf.Lsase Bill in
Tho Recommendations Whitaker's
Residence Burned-Heavy cotton Re-
ceipts-A New Sanctifcation Preacher
In the Fie1d-To Begin on RaleighoStreot
Improvements.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,
Raleigh, N. c., September 9.
The secretary of state is collecting
and arranging all the old state docu-
ments. He yesterday found the min
utes Of the board which selected the
site for Raleigh and the capitol.
Rev. w. G. Clements tells of a case
at Garner, this county, in which a
woman has given birth to fou children
in eight months.
Dispositions are now being taken in
the case of Samuel p. Langdon, Of
Philadelphia, against Miss Kate Waite,
secretary of the Cumnock Goa Com
pany.
The bill in the last Legislature to an
null the lease of the North Carolina
railway prevented any railway west of
DuTIdIl 10 DRllu duy CoIlIIcClIoiI "llIlllI
fifteen miles of the South Carolina line.
The people of Burke county are now
to vote on the issue of bonds to build
a railway from Shelby to Morganton.
In an air line Shelby is about nine
miles from the South Carolina line.
Had the bill passed the building of
this road would have been impossible,
or else the southern terminus would
have had to be in the woods six miles
north of Shelby.
The handsome residence Of ex-Judge
Spier Whitaker, two and one-half miles
south of Raleigh, was burned at 2
o'clock this morning. He had moved
into the city only a few days ago, and
the house, which cost yer S., 200, was
in charge Of a caretaker.
Cotton receipts locally, are very lib
eral. Yesterday over 200 bales came in
by wagon.
At Scotland Neck Monday evening
Rev. James Battle Avirett delivered an
address on the life and character of
the late Bishop Atkinson and his in
fiuence on the Episcopal diocese of
North Carolina.
This morning an alarm of fire was
sent in from the central hospital for
the insane near here, calling for the
Raleigh fire department. The latter
responded promptly, but it was found
that the fire amounted to nothing.
One hundred Of the penitentiary on
victs will be sent from there Monday to
the Caledonia farm, to pick cotton, and
the others save about thirty to the
Halifax and Northampton farms. There
are 1877 at work On the Carthage rail-
way. All of these, save the strongest,
will be sent to the WadeSbOrO farm,
and the strength of the force on the
Carthage railway will be kept at 100 by
new conVicts as rapidly as SOUND ones
arrive.
Major L. c. Caldwell, of Statesville,
is here to ask Governor Russell to oar
don w. F. Miller, who killed a man in
Iredell six years ago n got a 1O-year
sentence. February Goth last year
Governor Carr refused to pardon him.
Negroes in the western cOuntie are
making objections, holding meetings
and adopting resolutions because they
say only white jurors are drawn.
There is a fresh development in the
Lynchite or sanctified band free love
matter. A preacher from New Jersey
has made his appearance in the Pas
quotank Methodist circuit and is
preaching the Lynch doctrine.
Stone for use in matchmaking the
streets here is to be taken out of the
quarry east of the city, and in front
of the national cemetery from which
the stone used in building the capitol
was taken. The aldermen thise evening
made arrangements for issuing the
$4,000 of street improvement bonds
which the people voted last Tuesday.
Miss Elizabeth Haywood, daughter
of the late Hon. William II. H. Hay
wood, of this city, died here yesterday
afternoon.