The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22

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Women to be Admitted to Trinity Col.
lege-Kicking Against High Charges of
the Public Printers-A Female Tramp.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,
Raleigh, y. c., June Il.
There is no end to the amount of in
Pritchard and Butler, two who
have been at odds for more h a year,
have made up and are comforting as to
the division Of offices. A republican
declares he was in Pritchard's room
when the latter was sent for, it was
stated, to see Butler, n that while
Pritchard was out persons who were in
the room said he and Butler were
friends again and that Pritchard con-
ferred with Butler as to postoffices, etc.
Not long Colonel Burrage, of
Portland, Maine, wrote to Governor
Russell to find if Captain Summers, of
North Carolina, who in 1864 took his
sword, was alive. A letter say Cap
tain Summers lives at Middlesboro,
Kentucky.
- 'i""i 5C' ~" ~ !" $500
deal of Illicit distining in Johnston
county, and that there are few raids in
that section. The moonshiners are un-
doubtedIy moving eastward; getting
where the revenue officers do not know
their Ways so well.
The superintendent of the peniten-
tiary says he has had the shackles re-
moved from all the convicts. A few
desperate men wore them. The class
of criminals inside the p~enitentiary is,
of course, the cream of the crime of
the state. Eternal vigilance is the price
of safety there.
1t is said the supply Of white labor
in this state for cotton mills is in
many cases greater than the demand.
This is not the case in South Carolina.
A canvass of the state in the inter-
est of the Agricultural and Mechanical
college here is to be made in July and
August. 1t is proposed that it shall
have more students next term h
ever beOfre.
Surveyors are now running the line
for the link of the Southern railway be-
tween Mooresville and Mocksville.
This link will certainly be built. The
statement is maze on the ScSI dulQOT-
ity.
Trinity college will. at it's next term,
noe open to women. This is in accord
ance with the provisions of Washing
ton Dukes last 800, 900 gift.
Since F. NJ. Simmons term as rev.
enue collector of this district nc less
than 81, $50, 900 has passed through his
hands. The collections during the pres
ent fiscal year, ending June Goth, will
be the largest ever made, and will reach
81, O75,0 900. The largest heretofore were
81, 060, 600.
The new board of agriculture is MAX
ing quite a kick against the high
charges for public printing and wants
to nave its own printing done, irrespec-
tive of the public printer. 1t is as
serted that the public printer made an
exhOrbitant charge of 81 900 for a $500
job on the new book of the agricultural
department, THE Resources of North
Carolina" This matter is put in the
hands of the boards attorney.
John Graham, q trustee of the board.
was Governor RuSSell'S candidate for
president of the Agricultural and Me-
hanica college. He wants to be di-
rector of the experiment station and
asserts that he has a claim to the lat
ter place because he was put off, so far
as the college presidency is concerned,
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place in the agricultural department.
The question of payment of the mill
'tary at FranklintOn for it's
tour of riOt duty is to be laid before
the attorney general. Claim was made
on the county commissioners, but they
are kicking.
All the pension lists ave been sent
by the state auditor to the county pen
sion boards for revision.
The an0itOr iS making a, cOmnariSOn
of the revenue acts of the different
states, and adheres to his belle that
the one of this state is the poorest OF
them all. He says he tried hard to get
the legislature to put in the revenue
act a provision that no solvent credit
could be collected unless it showed ev-
idence of having been listed for tax
alton. He says he finds Maryland has
such a law. Georgia has a law offer
ing a reward to persons who discover
evidence of false listing of property.
The sixteenth annual meeting OF the
State ColOred Teachers Association is
in rogres here, at Shaw university,
Rev. A. B. Vincent presiding. Over $50
teachers are present. Among the white
speakers are J.. w. Bailey, c.. D. Nc
liver and Logan d. Howell, and among
the colored S. H. Wick. Mrs. G. NJ. Epps,
E. E. Smith and Rev. c.. billiard.
The only female tramp ever seen here
was sent to work on the roads today by
the mayor; but really goes to the work
house. She is Mary Lucas. of Green
vile, S. c., an abandoned woman of the
worst type. She is white.
The insurance report for 1897 is out.
The late Legislature largely increased
the number of companies exempted
from taxation, because of benevolent
eatures Three attempts at fraud have
been discovered.
Mckinley Invited to virginia
Washington, June IA delegation
of the Southern Patriotic Legion of
the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
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