The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-13
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Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh n. c., July s.
The secretary of Sta: grants a char
ter to the Meherrin Steamboat Com
pany of HEREFORD county, the incorpo-
rators being NJ. E.. WorTel1, T. II. Mich
olson, n. Vaughan, c. r. Vaughan, T.
J. Vaughan.
The state commissioner Of labor sta
tistics finds that no less than eighteen
new cotton mills are in course Of con-
struction in the state. This is a sur
prisingly large number.
Pension applications are pouring in
at the state auditors office. He says
the number is greater than ever before.
Joseph f. Alexander, Governor Rus
sells private secretary, is appointed
major.
The %adjutant general of the District
of Columbia requests permission for the
passage through this state on the way
to San Antonio, Texas, of the Morton
cadets.
The trustees Of the insane asylum have
elected John r. Smith, John @. Will
1iams and Jesse G. Ball executive COM
mittee. William r.. Crawford, Jr.,
holds over as steward, until next
March. The republican and populist
members Of the board did not nominate
anyone for steward, as they had no
power to elect. The nomination Of the
superintendent is equivalent to an
election. The salary of the first as
sistant physician CDR. MOTIF was fixed
at 81, 200 and that of the second assist
ant CDR. Davis) at 81, 900. The unani-
nous reelection Of Mrs. Whitaker as
matron is well deserved. There are
now 415 patients in the asylum. Next
Monday the six criminal insane will
be transferred to the p~enitentiary.
1t is decided that in fifteen days the
p~enitentiary will send a large squad of
convicts to the Moore county railway.
The president of that road says he in
tends to wait until he sees what the
railway commission will do July 18th
in the matter of assessment of rail-
ways
Among arrivals today are Augustus
M. Moore, of Greenville, and President
Hancock of the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway.
The sportsmen all say this is an ex-
ceptional season for cartridges. BY the
10th of May many young birds were
seen. That is very early.
The of the Third regiment
at Durham will go into camp on the
18th at Ocean View, Va.
The semi-official announcement is
made that Governor Russell intends to
form an anti-lease party in tnis state.
Ed. Chambers Smith, an eX-State chair
man of the democratic committee was
asked his view of this matter and re-
Piled: Il think the financial question
will overthrow all others in 1898. The
essential tenet of our party is bimetal-
lism. L don't think the lease question
will he an issue in politics. Russell
will attempt to form al anti-lease par
ty, but will fail. 1t is a purely pOliti-
cal movement of his. He wants to
build up q following. The more the
lease matter is explained to the peO-
pie the better they are satisfied with
it,"
Good news as to local rains came in
yesterday and today. Crops are great
ly benefited.
The governor appoints j. a. Smith
a director of the North Carolina rail
way vice Charles A. Cook, who becomes
the attorney of the road.
The affairs of the Falls of Neuse pa
per mills are now in course of settle
ment here. In 1880 this mill was built
by the Forest manufacturing Com
pany. George w. SWepsOn and w. f.
Askew were later owners and after
them came John b. PreWer and J. N.
Holding. The latter bought the It'd
dy paper mill neal L;ncolnton. and
moved it's plant to the Falls of Neuse.
The capital of the mill was $50, 900. The
debts are as much. The property is
said by Holding to be worth at least
$50, 600. 1t is the only paper mill in this
state.