The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-29
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. y. c. October -.


Raleigh, y. c. October -.
Mr.. Mebane. state superintendent, OF
public instruction. to-day decided to
change the date OF the meeting OF the
state board of medical examiners from
October 18th to November 9Th.
r. p. Williams Of Craven county was
here today to confer with the state
superintendent OF public instruction re-
lative to the building OF a public road
from Riverdale in Craven TO Stella in
Carteret county. through loo, 900 acres
of state swamp lands. State Engineer
John r. Ramsay is TO lay of this road
and the state is to furnish thirty con-
victs to grade it.
In the superior court here this morn
ing the interesting case of John II.
Pearson against S. Ohio Wilson was
argued before Judge Robinson. This
is the case in which Pearson who is
governor Russell's appointee as rail-
way commissioner, seeks to Dust Will
son. They were both present, and so
was L. c. Caldwell, who is another of
the governors a~ppointees. TO succeed
James w. Wilson as commissioner.
The populists want TO know whether
Secretary of State Thompson and Aud
itor Aver are Butler or anti-Butler pop
ulists. Neither of them attended the
conferences OF the Butler men or the
anti-Butler men last week. Thompson
has for some weeks been put down
on the lists as ar uncertain quantity.
Farmers say that over seven-eighths
of the cotton is picked; that the top
crop in a few specially cultivated and
fertile spots is practically all remain
ing in the fields: that all the good cot
ton is picked. They say they think the
cropis one quarter off as compared with
it's condition August LIST, but that the
crop is better han was thought Octo-
Der 1st it would be. The increase in
acreage brings it VI to the normal
crop.
There has been very little cholera
among hogs in the state this year
and there will be about enough pork
to supply the people. The shortage of
the late crop of corn makes the supply
Of that food not sc large as was
expected.
A Guilford man has succeeded well in
making cigars entirely from tobacco
grown in GuilfOrd county.
Twenty North Carolina gold mines
are now making deposits of gold at the
assay office in Charlotte. Every week
a new mine is being opened, while at
the beginning of the year all were idle.
The commissioner of agriculture dis
covers that a cotton mill was omitted
from the list as published in the Sep
TENDER bulletin. 1t is the MCKINLEY
cotton mill at Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus
county. The bag mill of +. p. Willard
at Wilmington was also omitted. Mr..
Willard writes hat it makes 10000 600
bags annually, AND that it is the only
mill in the state which imports burlaps.
The hop culture near Hamle proves
to be a decided success. Next year it
will be conducted on a larger scale.
A. L. SwinsOn of Goldsboro, who was
enrolling clerk of the last legislature,
is here, his suit against Auditor Aver,
Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and
Speaker Hileman having been argued
in the superior court today. He sues
for $197, balance of salary Of himself
and his son, who were both summary
ousted by Reynolds and Hileman dur
ing the session.
Swinson is a populist, but says the
people in the Goldsboro section are dis
contented with the present administra-
ton, and that the political situation is
very unsatisfactory.