The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-05
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., November 2

Raleigh, n. c., November, 2.
A c came in from the peniten-
tiary for $50 in settlement of a bill for
a special description of the prison and
its officials which appeared in a special
edition of a newspaper. In this were
portraits of Chairman Claud Dockary
and Superintendent Smith and also a
picture of the building. The treasury
officials wan to know why the officials
did not pay for the article out of their
own pockets, in other words what is
the benefit to the p~enitentiary and to
the state?
The hearing of the North Carolina
lease matter is to be continued in the
federal Jul at Richmond tomorrow.
Last spring a new steam heating
plant was put in the agricultural build
ing. There appear to be defects in it,
as the "thumping'' of the pipes is 50
loud and in~cessant that the officials can
hardly work. So heavy is the jar Of
the floor that the entire building ap-
pears to culver.
State Superintendent of Public In
struction Mebane has a letter from
mdOISOu Ccullly GAL COlIlpadlIIC
about the teacher who are turned
out" from the Asheville normal school.
The writer is the county supervisor and
he says that he has seen none of these
teachers who could get a second grade
certificate under the rigid examination
for the public schools. Under an act
of the last legislature, pressed through
by V. S.. Lusk, representative from
Buncombe, graduates Of this school are
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public school teachers. State Superin-
tendent Mebane says such a law ought
never to we been enacted.
The pension lists for this year have
been received by the state auditor
from all the counties ave Robson.
Two conferences CT the populists were
held here Saturday and Sunday nights.
Plans were discussed. State Auditor
Aver was one of those present, but de-
clined to say what was lone. He was
asked what was, in his opinion, the
composition of the populist state COM
mittee and as to O. many were
against Senator Butler, and replied:
This factional business in our party
is a created affair. I do not recognize
it. I regard all members Of the COM
mittee as straight ~populists."
A. P. c. Bryan, the veteran agent of
the Southern Express Company here
AO~ Will al VSAy ANSOAS ~ ~
year or more and for two months past
has been in Connecticut. He returned
last night improved in health.
President Spencer Of the Southern
railway, is hunting cartridges in Gull
ford county. He has a hunting lodge
there.
The state agricultural departments
bulletin for October, issued today, says
the North Carolina farmers are ra 'sing
rro ofioo 111y oil fhoir nUn nooof and mO.
lasses, and that they must set them
selves to work to raise their WI -four.
He declares hat wheat can be raised
in eastern North Carolina, and with
more profit than 6 cent cotton, and that
fair wheat can be grown on a majority
of the farms.
Among the arrivals today are: Her
bert M~cClammy. Frank Mcneil and E.
K. Bryan Of Wilmington; F.. R.. Cooper
Of Clinton.
In the supreme court appeals from
the Seventh district will be called Tues
day November 9th, in h following
order: State VS.. Bramble, Sorrell VS..
Stinson, Gingery VS.. Smith, Haughton
VS.. Insurance Company, McCaskill We.
Railroad, Lucas VS.. Railroad, McCaSk!ll
McKinnon, Hamer vs.. Mccall, Phifer Vs
VS.. McKennon (second case). Malloy VS.
Fayetteville, Broadfoot VS.. Fayette-
willie, Marlborough VS.. Mills, Mcneil VS..
Fuller, McGaSkill vs.. Graham, Cromar-
tie VS.. Parker.
The nineteenth colored fair was open
ed here today, at the state fair grounds.
The speech was made by COMMISSIONS
of Agriculture James F. Mewboorne,
in the absence of Governor Russell.
The president of the fair association is
Rev. r. H. w. Leak, and the chief mar
shal is Captain G. S.. Taylor. In the
parade was the Greensboro band and
the Charlotte Light Infantry, the only
colOred military organization in the
state. There was perfect weather
The exhibits are fully up to the
average.
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