The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-31

ENGLAND Mill insurance NODDp AuIcS TIL
ing Overhead" New York
er's Off-r to Deposit Money in Raiei.h
B~ank-Loge Harris Fusion IN
Next Campaign
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. C., Dec. q.
When Governor Russell yesterday
heard some persons intimate that DR..
Abbott would not perhaps recognize
Caldwell and Pearson, the governors
appointees as railway commissioners,
he waxed wroth and said: If Abbott
bothers me / will jump him, too" This
is a threat of suspense n. The bars"
have been let down by the supreme
court and there is no telling now to
what length matters may go.
AT the office of United States Mar
shall Carroll it is said that they do not
expect the newly appointed marshal,
III. C. Dockery, to take charge before
the end of January. The present
clerks expect to remain in office, under
civil service rules.
Tt is learned from populists that OthO
Wilson confidently expects the populist
nomination for congress in this dis
trict. 1t is interesting to know h
will be the attitude of the republicans
toward him. He now affiliates with
the republican wing of the populists.
The secretary of state is receiving
strong complaints of the name in
which the New England mill insurance
companies are writing overhead IN
~surance" in this state. Agents in North
Carolina say thousands upon thou
sands of dollars are thus taken out as
premiums, while the state cannot get
a penny in taxes. AT the next fire in
which there is such insurance some
body will be caught.
A New York man wrote to a bank
here today asking if it would receive
$4,000 on depositt, not subject to check,
and give him Az per cent. interest on
it.. The bank people replied no.
The farmers are holding the bulk of
their cotton throughout this section.
Relatively little has been marketed.
j.. CT. Harris, who is regarded as
one of the nearest men to the governor,
says that fusion of pOpulistS next year
with the republicans on the 1896 basis,
may be regarded as a certainty. The
way he puts it is that the democrats
have driven the pOpulists to the repub-
licans.
Attorney R.. O. Burton, Of counsel for
the Wilson's, railway commissioners,
says he is we'll pleased with the status
of their case. He and the other coun-
sci evidently expect the United States
supreme court to take a different view
of the matter from that taken by the
state courts.
Cadet William Horne, son of Mr..
Ashley Horne, died ait the Rex hospital
here Saturday night, of exhaustion fol-
lowing a long attack of typhoid fever.
He was brought here ten days g
from oxford, where he was at school.
His funeral was held yesterday after
noon at Clayton.
There was another sleet yesterday
morning, and in some parts Of the
state it was very heavy.
The railway officials say the holiday
travel was so heavy as to break the
records.
The gathering of public school super
visors here e Thursday will be a
large one The programme is we'll ar
ranged.
Tt is said that the oldest preacher in
active service in the United States is
REV. James Needham, of CASTOR coun-
ty, who will be 100 years old next May.
Judge Purnell says he hopes at the
adjourned term Of the United States
court here to ahve Judges Simonton
and Golf both present.
Little or nothing is doing at the state
departments. The executive office is
closed, the governor and the clerks be-
ing away. Nothing is going on at the
railway commission office. Pearson is
here, but Caldwell went home Satur-
day. Abbott will be here "Wednesday.
The selection of Vice President A. E.
Stevenson, a North Carolinian by de-
scent, to make the Goth of May ad-
dress at Charlotte, when the corner
stone of the monument to the signers
of the Mecklenburg declaration of indie
pendence will be laid, is we'll received
by the people of the state.
The North Carolina cotton mills are
doing well, and good dividends, it
seems, will be the rule Int not the eX-
ception next month.
John r. Smith came back from his
nome ait Goldsboro today. He left this
afternoon for the Roanoke farm to
make an inventory. Cotton picking
will go on until we'll along into Febru-
airy. More is picked now than was
ever raised on the farm before. per-
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