The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-02
SURE POLITICAL SIGNS
RUSSELL RATS DESERVING THE
FOUNDERING SHIP
DIR. Kirby Smith to Return to the State.
Sore Over Publication of Letter Disch ar z
Ing Chaplain --Durham's New Treat.
ment for Tramps-Rapid Development in
Gold M1Ding-Butler's Small FoIlowing z
on POpulist Executive CommiItee-The
Lynchites to Settle at Southport.
MtSSenRer bureau,
Raleigh ~. G. October 20


Raleigh, n. c., October 80.
AS yet there has been no frost here.
This is phenomenal. The result has
been the opening of all the cotton. The
crop is certainly larger than the farm
ers will admit.
The auditor says there were about
] 200 new applications for pensions this
year, OF which some thing like 300
passed; but quite a number were
dropped from the roll, owing mainly to
deaths. This is particularly the case as
to widows
superintendent John R. Smith, of
the penitentiary, says his son, Dr.
Kirby Smith, will return from New
York in about six weeks. He says
there is nothing in the statement that
Governor Russell will make requisition
for Kirby Smith, as he could not do so
until the latter had been indicted.
Clerk Wimbish, of the penitentiary,
did not relish the publication of his
queer letter to Rev. DR.. r. w. Babb in
which the latter was gently dismissed
as penitentiary chaplain. But the letter,
the treasury officials plainly told him,
was attached to and filed with Babb's
voucher and hence was public dOcu-
ment. The fact is the treasurer did not
relish paying out the $50 to Babb for
preaching any more than he did the
S132 for whiskey, which was covered by
the preceding voucher
The officers of the cOlOred state fair,
which begins here next Tuesday, say
that the exhibits will be very credita-
ble. The only dolored military COM
pany in the state, that Of Captain c. S.
l.. A. Taylor of Charlotte, will be in
camp at the grounds, with it's full
Strength-43.
Durham people have a new treat
ment for tramps who refuse to work
out costs. Yesterday one was chained
TO a wagon by an ankle; his hands were
tied behind him and he thus made the
tour Of the town on foot.
State Chemist w. A. Withers return
ed today from Washington, where he
attended the national convention of
chemists. He says the chief question
discussed was that Of pure food and
food adulteration and that the question
of good laws on this most important
question will be more widely discussed
the coming winter than ever before, all
over the country.
The fact that reports are in hand
from no less than 204 gold mines in this
state shows a very remarkable and
rapid development along that line, when
the status of gold mining ten months
ago is taken into account.
The railway commission certainly
gives Governor RusselPs attorneys the
cold shoulder. In fact it does not rec
OgniZe them at all. The attorney gen
eral, whom it does recognize, is the
quietest of all the state officers.
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the Raleigh and Castor railway at Gas
ton brings up again before the railway
commission that matter. The cOndi-
tions were made such that last winter
the road dropped the project.
1t is not good news which comes from
Southport to the effect that the Lynch
ties or sanctified band propose to abide
there and erect a + fGbernacle. 1t is
said these people are really afraidto go
any further south, particularly into
South Carolina. North Carolina people
certainly desire them to pass on.
The increase in the number Of as
SaultS upon women in the state this
year is so great as to attract general
attention. The papers have recorded
over thirty such assaults, and one legal
execution and one lynching are the net
results so far. Three persons are to be
hanged in November
A veteran republican remarked today:
1.-The Russell rats are deserting the
ship" By this he referred to the men
who a year ago posed as friends Of
Russell and who now repudiate him.
The old people are declaring that the
seasons have changed, that there is no
longer spring nor autumn; that the
seasons have in fact lost their identity.
The weather-wise predict a cold and
wet winter
No time should be lost in macada-
1niZing the streets here. 1t is strange
but true that some of the worst are
those around the capital square, one
being equal to any in a country town
for mud and irregularity.
AS yet work has not begun on the
handsome quarters for the Capital club.
The building which occupied the site
has been removed.
In nearly all the counties in the state
the partridge shooting season begins
next Monday. Birds are very abund-
ant and we'll grown and there Will be
more sportsmen from other states than
ever before.
The returns on the wool industry
in this state, as made to the labor
bureau, show $3.50 spindles in opera
tion.
The work of arranging the documents
in the auditors office shows their con-
fusion, due to the fire which destroyed
lie Olu Capital anu W lIt IclIONdl III
April 1865 The need of a special fire
proof building for the storage of docu-
ments and records is most apparent
The capitol building is small and too
cramped for such uses.
Solicitor Pou, of Johnston. was here
yesterday. He says that if an election
were to be held now the democrats
would carry that county by the largest
majority in it's history. The tact is
that many of the republicans recognize
that the democrats will swOop the state
at the election next fall.
Solicitor Pou was attacked in the last
issue of Senator Buffers paper for not
sending to the grand jury Of Wake
county bills against the railroads and
against DR.. Kirby Smith. He says the
writer of the article is either an igno-
ramus or does him an intentional in