The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-10
STRICKEN IN TIE PULPIT.
REV. MIR. DAVIS PARALYZED AZ
CLOSE OF SERVICES.

~vlfndrfc Cotton Presses for this State.
Labor Day ut the Capital-Raiefgh to
Vote Today ON Question of Bond Issue.
Cotton Coming In Rapidly.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh, N. c., September 6.
AT Franklinton yesterday morning,
Rev. Mr.. Davis, Pastor OF the NJ. E.
was stricken with paralysis q
after ne had pronounced the
Denediction. He said when he began
the sermon that he felt strangely. He
can move a foot and arm but cannot
speak. He is one armed and a war
veteran.
Excellent progress is being made in
the changes OF the exhibits in the state
museum. The natural history room,
with the casts in paper Of sea anifnais,
will prove a great feature. With these
Curator Brimley has had marked sue
cess and they are lifelike. He Ess also
placed in special jars specimens of all
the fruits, grapes and Vegetables grown
in the state. A new p~reservatipe fluid
Dis used and this exhibit will be admir-
able. It is complete.
Only one county, Watauga, is as yet
unheard from in the matter or report
to the state board of tax equalization.
The register OF deeds today turned
over to the county commissioners the
tax books; earlier it is said than in
sixteen a pest.
The report of August weather at Ra-
leigh shows tina the highest ,empera-
ture was IS, the lowest 81, the mean u,
or one degree above the average for
eleven years past. Only IDA inches or
rain fell. while the August average Is
6.21 inches. The deficiency in rainfall
during the year is 1874 n
It is said that at two places, one OF
them General Matt Ransom's farm, the
Bessonette or cylindrical bale cotton
ginning machine will be put in. Cen
eral Ransom gins his own cotton and
raises over 1000 bales. A gin owner
says it will not pay to gin cotton on
toll with the machine, because the
charge by the owners of the patent Is
20 cents a bale. What the farmers
want is the sale Of the Bessonette gins
just as other gins are sold.
Ex-Judge Womack, one of the COM
missioners for the sale Of the Cumnock
coal mine property, says it will be ST
October Sth.
Cotton is beginning to come in quite
rapidly. A little old cotton is being
sold, which has been boarded.
Labor day was observed here at the
postofice and revenue Office and at the
capitol, by the closing of doors, though
there were clerks in the offices. The
banks did not close. There was no
parade or other observance. The state
and national flags were displayed from
the capitol. At Asheville there was a
parade. It seems to have been the on,y
place in the state where there was
such observance.
The Engineering journal gives DR..
T.. D.. Hogg, Of this city, credit for hav-
ing been the first to suggest the use of
fiat iron rails on roads and streets
as a means of permitting wagons to
carry heavy loads.
There is much interest in the vote
here tomorrow on he issue Of n
There is much talk pro and Gun and yet
the chances are favorable.
William M. Kelly, of Rockingham, is
appointed a United States commits
sioner by Judge Purnell..
Seven saw mills, in six Of h north
eastern counties report that they cut
40, 0OO, 900 feet of lumber in a year.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh, September Z.
Democrats Of high position in the
party are saying very freely that they
will have none Of fusion with popu-
lists; that what is wanted is a straight
democratic fight, for white supremacy,
and that Senator Butler ridicnles this
by speaking of 1t as the "nigger rack
et." Senator Butler fears this demo-
cratic keynote. So does Governor Rus
sell.
More MDrmons: are arriving in the
state. They are attempting to do
much work in 1t.
Leaving gut Watauga county, the re-
port for which has not yet been re-
ceived, the. total valuation Of property
in the state, exclusive. of telegraph,
railway and steamboat property, is re-
ported by the board OF equalization to
be 1922, 9Se, 243, against $3.50, 1861, 531 last
year.
The state commissioner of aEricul-
ture returned today from the western
part Of the state. He was last in Polk
farmers institutes. He found sthe
grapes there, particularly the Niagara,
in full bearing, and he largest and
finest he had ever seen. The last Insti-
tute will be held at MocRsville toMor-
row. and next day and will be h
largest of all
Governor Russell has been at Will
mington several days n will return
tomorrow.
IA oI1tlS VIM u SOA ~SO
escaped from the ~penitentiary, was
captured Sunday at S~partanbucg n
was brought back today. He was from
Vance.
The barn at the farm of DIR. George |
w. Blacknall near here was burned last |
night. He says the loss is $4,000, with
10 insurance.
Inspector General B. S. Royster and
Major E. M. Hayes, U. s. A., go to Kin
ston as special guests Of the Kinston
naval reserves at a reception and ball. |
The band of the First Virginia, regi-
will furnish the music.
There is a requisition for %cOnvicts for
the Halifax farm, where 1,400 acres of
,orn are ready for fodder pulling"
Claude Dockery says that the
drought is literally burning up the
in Arson and Richmond coun-
les. The crops, particularly peas cot
on Int late corn. are cut off greatly in
parts of the state. Mr.. Decker
Jays cotton is being forced open 50
.opid1v that II cap all ha picked ont in