The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-24

Senator Butler to Mind His own Bu&i.
ness-Progress at the Butter~' Lumber
Plant-B. r. Boyktn Made n Railway Dt-
neutrality-suspicious. Doas,inS of Ability
to Stand Alone.
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.
Raleigh, N. C, August 20.
The board Of directors Of the peni-
Tertiary had this week the liveliest ses-
sion on record and a bad state OF af-
fairs was made plain. +. T. Clark. Of
Halifax. protested against Governor
Russell's brother being paid $40 and
then $50 a month while learning how TO
be deputy warden, while the regular
deputy was getting only 80, the Gala
ry of Russell having been paid without
consultations with the board. There
was also filed a protest against paying
the son of the superintendent $50 a
month as clerk, when there was a reg
ula clerk at s15, and when Smith was
protested against paying John r. I'm
derwood SIS TO visit the farms, when
he himself admitted thai he did not
Noih a NoaAaA tliIN WIN 10 VII lAAt
bond of the superintendent. 1t was
also found that T. w. Babb, an ex-
preacher. a been sem to two Of the
farms as chaplain. the appointment
being made by Superintendent Smith.
Governor Russell told the board
Babb's appointment was disgraceful.
Then Superintendent. Smith said he
would tell part of the board" his rea-
sons for the appointment. Governor
IQy1ccn1l cold. ssVn,y @,srht e. ~s,- ..A,x-
reason to all. All are entitled to hear
it," Babb was an ardent worker for
Senator Pritchard among the populists
last January. There was a protest
some time ago against Babh's getting
this place. Smith was directed by the
board to remove Babb, and said he
would do so if no record was made of
the matter. No record was made. The
finance committee is now abolished. A
member says that there is now no one
to protest against the superintendent
extravaganza. At a cost of several
hundred dollars a building has been
fitted up, the state paying the bills. for
three families of officials. An order is
at las made that the board must be
paid for these.
Senator Butler and Ohio Wilson,
his right hand man, are at odds. Butler
is ~displeased with Wilson and the rail-
way commission for not reducing rates.
He is also displeased with Wilson's
having a railway eating house
and has said so. Now Wilson tells
Butler to mind his own business. There
are plenty of signs Of a populist break
up. Signs of disintegration are plen-
tiful.
A negro named Watson sawed his
way out Of the Ashe county Jail and
released all the other prisoners. He
attacked a deputy sheriff who pursued
him and was shot n killed by the
deputy.
The following is the new force in the
department of fertilizer control: State
Chemist w. A.. Withers: assistants, c.
b. Williams. H.. K. Miller, c. D. Har-
ris, A. w. Blair, J. D. Huffman and ].
A. Bizzell; E. H. King is chief clerk.
The North Carolina posts Of the
Grand Army Of the Republic desire
that this state be made a separate de-
partment. The main reason for this
appears to be dislike of Stebbins, thu
commander Of the department of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina. He is out
in a circular begging North Carolina
not to push this matter.
H. q. Buffers, the great lumber man
of Columbus county, vas here yester-
day. He owne 100, 900 acres of swamp
land, mainly in cypress; has thirty
miles of canal, eight feet deep and
thirty wide, navigable by tugs; has
built this summer a twelve mile rail-
way from Hub to Asheville and is now
extending it two miles beyond Fair
Bluff. He ships cypress timber planned.
to Pennsylvania.
Governor Russell appoints B. F. Boy
kin, Of New Hanover county date of
Sampson), a director of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railway on the part
of the state.
At the Agricultural and Mechanical
college today there was a farmers pic
mic. Governor Russell spoke half an
hour. Other speakers were Secretary
of State Thompson. S. Ohio Wilson
and Treasurer Worth. It was a basket
picnic.
At the meeting of the Raleigh Acad-
envy of Medicine last night a member
declared that he could abort typhoid
fever in ten days. Other members
the statement. The physi-
l who says he car abort the dis
ease in ten days declares that it can
be done by the Woodbridge tablets
alone.
The republican organ declares that a
negro is to be the postmaster at Ra-
leigh and that all the white clerks
will resign.
Clidl DuticI cIuoTStS "A. II. ElleT 8
on colleges which get aid from
trusts. The republican organ makes
thrusts at both Eller and Butler for
this.
Republicans who are in office are now
saying w are about strong enough
to go it alone. We have three congress-
men the populists can't touch. They
have five but all of them depend on
our votes for reelection"
1t turns out that George Brodie,
the negro under death sentence for
rape in Vance, attempted to outrage
a young lady in Warren a year or more
ago, and was sent to the roads. but es-
capped.