The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-20
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.

| ership Of Railroads. Raleigh =, AID .cars
bidders for Castle Haynes.
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.
Raleigh. ~. g.. July IL.
The funeral Of Private George N.
Banks Of the Governors Guard who
was instantly Killed at the sham battle
Tuesday night. was held this afternoon
at the Baptist tabernacle. Governor
Russell and stan in uniform. attended.
and the Governors Guard was also
present 1t vas one of the most solemn
occasions ever known here. The widow
of the dead man is in a very critical
condition and his mother and sister,
who arrived from Norfolk at 2:I5
O'Clock this morning. are nearly crazed
with grief.
Governor Russell appointed j. w.
Wyatt, of Polenta. a delegate to the
cotton growers convention at Calves
ton.
DIR. D.. Reid Parker. holder OF farm
ers' Institutes. writes that the interest
shown in these is intense. Professors
Massey and Hege are aiding him
The state superintendent of public
instruction today received a letter from
the chairman of a county board of
education, asking whether the board
could pay the expenses of the county
public school examiner while the latter
was preparing himself TO examine!
The superintendent was very angry
and replied sharply. The examiner is
advised to go to school,.
Deputy Revenue Collector Jack Shell
burn has done excellent work during
the past seven days, having captured
five Illicit distilleries.
Berry Cook, the negro who in this
country strangled his mistress TO death,
will be tried here for murder next
Monday.
The capitol board decides that the
officers of the state treasurer cannot be
fitted with new and modern furniture
and filing cases and vaults.
The state press association will go to
the Nashville centennial exposition Sep
TENDER 9th.
John B. Lennig. of Philadelphia, is
thus far paying for the construction
of the Durham and Charlotte, formerly
the Glendon and Gulf railway.
A lodge of Red Men was organized
here today. 1t is the first in this part
of the state.
The next work of the railway COM
1891 va nc co tA@ x oh
equalization, TO eQualiZe the valuation
of property. Valuations now differ
widely and there is no system or uni
fOrmity.
The PROJECT for the 30-mile electric
railway between M~organton and Blow
ing Rock is excellent.
The state superintendent of public
schools says in reply to an inquiry as
to what should constitute a school dis
trict, thai each public school should
I'VE at least siXty-five pupils, and that
the territory over which the five school
committeeman have jurisdiction must
be bounded by the old township line.
w. A. Guthrie, populist nominee for
governor last year, after hearing the
argument in favor of increasing the
lowering the rates of fare and freight,
says he favorS government ownership
of railways. but that he is in favor of
purchasing them at an equitable price
and not Of stealing railway property
under the disguise of increasing taxes
n at the same time cutting down the
only sources of income in operating a
railway. He declares further tina cap
ital invested in a railway should be
treated as capital invested in any other
enterprise.
The fact that a Raleigh syndicate has
Overbid the p~enitentiary authorities for
the purchase of the phosphate mines
at Castle Haynes is rather a surprise
to the penitentiary people who thought
they had the property sure.