The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., November %.

RdlelBn, ~. -, November -
An application for q respite for John
Evans, under sentence to be hanged at
Rockingham mex Friday, was filed to-
day at the executive office.
Governor E~llerbee, of South Carolina,
requests Governor Russell to appoint
delegates from this state to the cotton
growers convention, to be held at At
lanta, Ga, December 14th-one from
each district and two at large.
All sorts of plans are proposed for
controlling the crop and the price Of
cotton-one being to destroy all the
crop which is decided to be surplus.
Much regret is expressed here at the
death at Wilmington last night of
David G. Worth. During the greater
part of the civil war he had control of
the states salt works near Whining
tOn Several members OF the family
left here for Wilmington this morning.
A. c.. Mitchell is appointed a general
storekeeper and gauger in this interna!
revenue district.
Sells Bros, extensive manufacturers
of soaps st Philadelphia, seeing the ref
erences to the fine tale in this state,
came here yesterday to see the speci-
mems. They say only the Italian talo
approaches the North Carolina produc-
ton in fineness. They go now to tho
mines to arrange for securing large
quantities of the best. They consume
60, 900 pounds of it monthly.
A charter is granted by the secretary
of state to the Heater Manufacturing
Company, of Middle Fork, Forsyth
county, to make machinery and do
casting. Winston men are the corpora
tors.
There is a great clamor against Sem
ator Butler about his statement at
Rocky Mount. Some papers say he
ought to resign. The Asheville Citizen
declares there is no room in North
Carolina public life for the man who
would make so deliberate a charge or
for the party or faction which would
defend him. 1t declares he ought to
resign at once.
The railway map of North Carolina,
corrected up to October 1st Of this year
by Henry Clay Brown, secretary of the
railway commission, was issued today.
1t is shown that there are railways in
all the counties save eight.
The charity ball to be given here
next Friday night will be on an extern
sive scale. Part of the proceeds will
be given Mrs. Watson, the young wo-
man who was shot by her husband and
whose condition is so deplorable.
Victor Boyden, of Raleigh, today
qualified as administrator of the estate
of the late DR.. George w. Blacknall.
United States Marshal Carroll has
paid the judgment for S25 obtained
against him by John 3. Hussey, OF
Washington, D. G. He "a he found
that Hussey had. during his sickness
written him two letters asking for that
amount, but that his son had not sent
him he letters. AS soon as he discov-
cred this fact, which was since the sui
was brought by Hussey, he paid the
judgment.
1t is said that the fusiOnist who was
put in as agent of the tlantic and
North Carolina railway under the e
administration is short 5000 in his ac-
counts and has been dismissed.
This week at ST. Mary's monastry
and college, at Belmont, CASTOR cOun.
ty, there will be a celebration of the
silver jubilee of Vicar Apostolic Lee
Had, Cardinal Gibbons will attend.
There is a still further ~pOstponement
Of the hearing of Governor Russell in
the matter of the North Carolina rail
road ease. Very little is now heard
about his matter. The newspapers
have practically dropped it.
A special train Thanksgiving day will
bring the students of Trinity college
here to hear the joint debate.