The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-19

Senator Butler Sick Of the Free Pass Mat
ter-Mor. Penitenaiary Scanda's-To Re
move isemains of Late General CliDgm.n
to oAsheville-S- cond Crop Of Co,ton-TO
Employ COnvfcis on Farms on State
Lands-A Young Couples Difficulties In
Getting tho Nuptial Knot Tied
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., November II.
Mention was made recently of a new
movement to i1ouce the legislature to
establish a textile school, The plan is
that it shall be in connection with the
Agricultural and Mechanical college
here. The first step to be taken is to
ascertain the opinion OF the cotton and
woolen mill owners in the state be-
cause they know more than all else the
ameliorating influences on the manu-
factured product Of efficiently educat-
ing young men at such a school, and
will themselves be the indirect benefi-
ciaries OF such q training. Each mill
owner is, therefore, asked what Is the
advantages Of q technically educated
man over one without this special educa
ton; how ought such school to be es-
tablished, supported and conducted;
will the mill owners cooperate hearth
ly? 1t is desired to present the matter
to the directors Of the college at their
meeting early in December. G. 3. Will
liams, G. D. Franks and Charles Pear
son are the committee Of the college
alumni association who are pushing this
matter.
President HcIver OF the normal and
industrial college is here. He says the
barn about which there are law suits
and claims for damages will be finish
ed in three days.
Nothing has yet happened in a polit-
ical way to 80 lay bare the fusionists
as this matter Of free passes. which
Senator Butler first took up. He ia
now sick enough OF it.
In the supreme court today there was
argument in the case OF Mrs. James
against the Southern railway for $15.-
600 damages for the death of her hus-
band. an engineer. who was killed on
that road. s. ~,
It Is stated that at one cotton mill
in this state sixty operatives had ty-
phoid fever the past summer. Then
the drinking water was boiled and
there were no more cases. e.. .-
Two hundred dollars is appropriated
for the removal Of the remains Of Gen.
eral Clingman from Concord to Ashe-
vile. There is no truth in the story
that General Clingman's relatives could
and would no longer care for him. He
had his choice of several homes and was
only taken to the western hospital for
the insane because it was absolutely
necessary.
Mr. Hebrard, Of Louisiana, who was
sent here from Washington to take an
$500 place in the revenue collectors Of
| flee. has returned to Washington.
| There was no place here for him and
error.
Cotton has put out fresh leaves on
| top and presents a singular appear
ance. Wherever the seed has fallen
| they have sprOuted and there are great
| quantities Of young plants.
| The New York paper which so vto-
lently attacked the supervisor OF public
| instruction in Mecklenburg and also
the state superintendent. for removing
| two public school teachers who are in
| fldels, is paper Of no standing save
| among infidels. It Is their organ, in
fact. The removal Is approved by the
people of the state.
A fine portrait in oil of the late w.
w. Vass, painted here by Randall, the
| artist, for Wake. Forest college, was
sent there today.
The movement to employ penitentlary
convicts on farms on state lands may
develop. Eight years ago Governor
| Fowle was anxious that 1t should be
done. There Is now a movement to in
duce the state to rent more land on the
| Roanoke river for farms. This, It is
| learned, will be -combatted on the
ground that there Is risk of malaria
and freshets. This year there have been
| no freshets. That OF last year cost
| 5000
| The populists are greatly interested
| in what the deocratic state committee
! proposes to do at it's meeting here on
committee desired that the meeting be
held. Some Of the members say they
hope nothing will be done further than
| speech making.
The Western North Carolina Metho-
| dist Episcopal conference met at Ashe-
willie today. Bishop Key presiding. 1t
| is stated that he believes in "sanctifi-
cation" and breaches that doctrine.
Day before yesterday a young man
and 17-year-old girl eloped from near
Roanoke, Va. The girl walked a mile
bare footed to get away from home.
then was driven fourteen miles in q
buggy to a railway station, where she
and her lover caught a freight train
! and went to Winston. There the reg
lister OF deeds refused to grant license.
by reason Of the girls age. They went
to Greensboro and there. more fortu-
nate, got license and were married.
It is now said that during part of
! this year boarders were actually taken
at the penitentiary. The directors
ought to investigate these reports.
| which certainly come very direct. 1t
| Is also more than hinted that there are
| some scandals, as yet unearthed, in
| which female convicts, both here and
| at the farms, are concerned.
| State Labor Commissioner Hamrick
left today for northeastern North Car
olina to get facts as to the lumber.
fish and trucking interests.
| Messenger Bureau.
| Raleigh, N. c.. November 16
| The Seaboard Air Line Is completing
| the putting down Of 6S-pound rails on its
| Raleight and Augusta division and in a