The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-11
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,

Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,
Raleigh, y. c., June I.
Judge Purnell Will go to Asheville
June 14th to hold a term Of the United
States circuit court for Judge Simon
ton, and try civil cases, as the latter
judge requests.
The penitentiary authorities say they
are in great need Of funds; that the
boilers are worn out and must be re-
placed; also tina the horses at tn.
farms, or some of them, are nearly
dead and other must he bought. The
state treasurer says there is no act
giving the penitentiary s25, 900 contin-
gent fund. The superintendent says
a bill passed, and j.. G. L. Harris,
attorney for the penitentiary board,
makes the same positive declaration.
1t is said that a convict engineer at
tempted TO blow up the boilers at the
penitentiary, in order to Kill one Of
fetal, but that another convict saw the
weighted safety-vaIve, took off the
Weights and prevented destruction and
death just in time.
There is now undan of rain for
q 49, ~ N'iI Jays Idol vi ( = bIil
have been heavy during the past few
days. Crops as a rule are very clean
and growing well. Cotton is unques-
ItiOnably late.
At the Presbyterian church here yes
terday Rev. DR.. Peyton HOge, of Will
mington, preached, and last evening
in the chapel Of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college he preached the
sermon before the graduating class.
The latter has eighteen members.
United States Marshal Carroll is at
Washington. Some Of his deputies have
made charges against him, it is said.
Mr.. Easily Smith, of the department
Of justice, some months ago made o
full investigation Of affairs in the dis
trict and visited many Of the twenty
deputy marshaIs.
L is rumored that Henry c. Dockery
Is on the inside in the race for the
United States marshalship for this dis
trict.
Commandments at Davidson and
Trinity colleges. st. Mary's school here
and the Agricultural and Mechanical
college here are all in ogre this
week.
Bailey. Of North Carolina, a devoted
friend of senator Pritchard, thinks he
has the drop on the Raleigh pOstOffice.
No person not Pritchard's friend can
get it. SO much seems very certain.
Peaches are being shipped from the
great NanLindley orchards of SO, 900
trees near Southern Pines. There is
about One-fifth of a crop. The first
We're shipped June LIST. Prices are high.
The EIheTta is again found to be the
best peach.
Adjutant General a. D. Cowles has
again gone to Washington to look after
the place of minister to Greece, for
which he has such a desire.
President Hancock, of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railway, left here
this afternoon for Asheville, where on
Wednesday the injunction case brought
by w. r. Tucker against him comes
up before Judge SimOntOn. This is the
case in which Tucker desires to test
the COnStitutiOnality of the act of the
state legislature to restore the control
he road to the state, annulling thu
change in the bylaws; also the act
striking out in the charter the
scale of voting. With President Han
cock are his attorneys, Simmons 81
Ward, Seymour w. Hancock, G. B.. Ay-
cock and p. VI. Pearsall.
The State Medical Association and
the State Press Association meet at
MOrehead City tomorrow.
The secretary of state, in esponse
to a request for a ruling, decides that
special agents of insurance companies
must pay the same license tax as reg
ular agents.
The plant of TIL Tribune here will
be sold e Monday. TT is said to bo
worth only $2.0 900. Raleigh men will
buy it unless it is sold for more than
its value.