The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01
LIVELY REVELATIONS
TO BE MADE BY OHIO WILSON'S
PAPER, THE HAYsEEDER

Plans to Start Another Republican News
psper-An Absurd fellow Fever Scare.
Progress on tho Durham and Charlotte
Observation-Disclosures for the Raleigh
Postofhce Laughter ut Governor Russell
Light Cotton Receipts IL. H.. Pearson
Says He IL . Democrat
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,
Raleigh, N. c., September %.
The third hearing Of Governor Rus
sells charges OF fraud against the ex-
directors of the North Carolina railway
began this afternoon here, in the United
states court room, before the special
master, Kerr Craig.
A number of the ffty-fve lawyers
who were licensed by the supreme court
yesterday were sworn in today in the
superior court here.
Two Marylanders were here yester-
day looking into the feasibility of es-
tablishing a republican paper in this
state. One Of them is w. s. McCombs,
editor of The Republican, Of Havre de
Grace.
October 22nd the Young Republican
League" meets here. Some of the negro
republicans are complaining that the
white men are freezing them out.
There was an absurd yellow fever
scare here among the ignorant people
yesterday. 1t had no foundation wor-
thy of mention.
The survey Of the Durham and
Charlotte railway is in progress at the
rate Of a mile a day between Pittsboro
n Haw river. in the direction Of
Durham.
There is quite a lot of surmising as
to who will be Raleigh's next postmas-
ter. j. B. Hill, A. w. Shaffer and c..
T. Bailey are the most prominent as
pirants.
John H. Pearson, whose democracy
was plainly questioned by Major J. W..
Wilson, says he is a democrat.
There is a good deal of laughter at
Governor Russell's declaration that the
republicans in this state can now carry
it without populist aid. It is the pop
ulists who are doing the laughing.
DR.. Kirby Smith, who was attendant
at the criminal insane department Of
the penitentiary, and who was dis
charged by Superintendent Smith with
in an hour after DR.. George L. Kirby
made complaint of his conduct, is now
in New York attending a special course
of lectures. 1t is said he will not re-
turn here.
DR.. George L. Kirby, superintendent
of the central hospital for the insane,
has gone to Baltimore to take his
daughter, Mrs. Robinson. to Johns
Hopkins hospital.
The cotton receipts in this market
are thus far this season light. Some
say this is because farmers are giving
all their attention to picking; others
that the farmers do not care to sell
at the present low prices; others that
the small own near by are getting a
great deal of the cotton.
Governor Russell has selected Judge
Walter A. Montgomery, of The supreme
court, to make the speech accepting on
behalf of the state the portraits of the
three colonies of the Iwenty-sixth
North Carolina regiment, q. B.. Vance,
Henry K. Burgwyn and James H.
Lane. Today the painting containing
the three portraits was placed on the
walls of the state library.
Ohio Wilson's "Hayseeder' appears
October 7th. 1t is to be $1.OO a year
and will be we'll worth the money It's
revelations of the inside" Of fusion
politics in North Carolina will be sim
ply astounding.
". w. Hayward, ex-editor of the de-
funct Raleigh Tribune, says 1.-The re-
publicans of western North Carolina
have nothing to do with Governor Rus
coll