The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-10
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suit-Iramps sent to the Rock Pie.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,
Raleigh, n. c., September s.
The revenue collections in his dis
trict during August were $s1, $50. 20. of
which sl0,13S was on whiskey, s17.232
on cigars and cigarettes and s51. SCI on
tobacco.
The commissioner of agriculture said
today: Il want to modify greatly my
statement made August 18th to the
New Orleans Times-Democrat regard
ing the cotton crop. In many places
the crop is fully as good as it was last
year. A month ago it promised to be
a great crop; but it has failed greatly
n is still failing. 1t is no better crop
than last years. There has been a won
derful change for the worse. in thirty
days. Rust is the result of the drought
and rust certainly hurts cotton. Our
reports as to corn were never so good
as those as to cotton. The bugs and
worms damaged the corn much early in
the season, when it was SO cold and
wet, and it was hard to get a good
stand"
! No state crop report for September
will be made, as 10 inquiry blanks
were sent out. The agricultural de-
partment people say hat there will be
mention of the crops in the bulletin,
but it will be merely conjectural. The
bulletin will contain a list of all the
manufacturing enterprises in the state.
Mr.. Hyams, the new bOtanist Of the
| Agricultural and Mechanical college,
arrived today from Statesville.
1t will require two weeks time to
| get the exhibits rearranged in the old
| portion Of the state museum and the
furniture and exhibits in the new
rooms will not be ready before Octo-
Der LIST.
An analysis of Goldsboro's water sup
| ply is said to show that it is pure.
The sheriff of Watauga county is
summoned to appear before the state
board of tax equalization for his care
lessness in failing to make eturns.
InspectOr-General B. S. Register this
morning inspected the Governors
Guard. Under the new regulations
inspections take place in marching or
der and with full campaign equipment.
There is much excitement at Sails
bury by reason of the presence Of mad
dogs. Two persons ia been bitten.
One will be sen to the Pasteur hospi-
tai at Baltimore.
There is now talk of a railway from
Shelby to Elizabethtown, Tennessee,
via Caldwell, Burke and Watauga
counties, passing by Blowing Rock.
Twelve miles of the line, near Shelby,
are graded.
Two prisoners broke out Of Warren
county's Jail by tearing a steel bed
stead to pieces and using one Of the
long parts of the frame as a lever. Ex-
actly the same plan was pursued here
when Orange Page, the murderer, and
ten other prisoners escaped three years
ago.
Miss Katie Waite, secretary of the
Cumnock Goa Mining Company, who
was charged by S. p. Langdon with
being a married woman, has officially
filed her denial and says he only made
the charge to wound and annoy her.
She has placed Langdon in a very awk-
ward position.
Clay Mccarthy, a 15-year-old white
boy, Of Asheville, an incorrigible, who
is in the p~enitentiary here, escaped
night before last, but was quickly re-
captured in this city. Governor Russell
wanted him held here until he could get
him in a reformatory. He had on citi-
zens' clothing and slept in a guard
room. He stole $50 from a guard,
slipped out and scaled a wall. Now
he has been put at hard work, after a
| SCOQ IHTdSnlnS WITH d SWltCn, ADMIN
istered by the warden, the governors
brother. Striped clothing is now on
him. Mccarthy, with a knife, cut in a
horrible another boy at Ashe-
vile.
One of the negro convicts in the cap
ital III this morning refused to roll
a whellbarriw. Warden Russell was
sent for and the fellow at once went to
work. Tonight he was whipped with a
strap, which is used on the older crimi-
nails, a switch being used on the young
er ones in the good old fashion. The
rebelliOus convict is a life prisoner and
a desperate man.
The fence around the capitol square
is not to be removed this year, at least.
Tramps arrested in this city are
being sent to the roads for thirty days.
FOrty-two convicts at work at Seven
Springs and sixty-five at Goldsboro
will be sent to Wilmington next Sat
urday or Monday.
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