The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27
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Raleigh, N. c., July %.
The rain ended today. Too much has
fallen in some sections of the state.
Governor Russell commissions Judge
Bryan TO hold Guilford superior court
vice Judge Hoke, who is in Johns Hop
kins hospital, Baltimore, for treatment.
State Treasurer Worth left today for
Morehead City to join Auditor Aver in
preparing for the county officers con-
vention and will remain until it ends.
Secretary Ramsey, of the state board
Of agriculture, and Secretary Nichols,
of the state agricultural society, visited
the state fair grounds today and in
spected the buildings. The state owns
the west wing Of the main building,
(Which was part of the state exposition
building of 1S84) and this is found to
leak. The state will repair and re-
paint it and this year the agricultural
department will for the first time in
five years make an exhibit in it.
superintendent Smith, of the peni-
tertiary, says positively that no bid
greater than the states bid for the
phosphate mine at CdSLie haynes mas
been made or will be made.
There was a queer fire here in the
yard of the Southern railway about 4
o'clock this morning. A fireman made
up a fire in engine COZ and then left it.
AS a result the cab was burned and
some Of the coal in the tender. The
fire department was called out. The
damage is some $500, it is said.
The Charlotte News takes the Mer-
oantha1ar fUnocattinp machines which
the defunct Tribune used here.
Tomorrow the state bankers meet at
MOrehead City to form a state bank
association.
Ex-Governor Ear spent last night
here on his way home from Washing
ton City.
Claude Bernard, solicitor of the first
district, has for months had his eye
| on the place now held by c.. B. Aycock
as United states district attorney,
which pays 81, 900. When he was last
here he appeared pretty sure he would
get it. It now seems that he is the
winner.
There is a bad outbreak Of fever in
Rutherford county. It is diagnosed as
| typhoid, but is as malignant and fatal
as typhus and extremely contagious.
Last year there was much fever in
the sand-hill country, but this season
| it is said there is very little.
| 1t is the purpose Of the
which holds the patent for making the
cylindrical bales of cotton to put up
presses in this state. It was Only the
| cost which prevented the state from
using these at the OanOk farms. A
fifty hOurse power engine, a sixty
horse power boiler and four gins are
part of the equipment. The state is
the largest cotton grower and eX-Sen-
atOr Ransom the next largest in North
| Carolina.
Summer travel is very heavy, and the
| excursion business is greater than ever.
| The summer resorts in the state seem
to be doing we'll.
The contract for the printing of the
10th volume of the superior court re-
ports is based on 1000 copies of 1900
pages. The reporter says there will
not be quite SO many pages. The bids
were all t~olerably close, ranging from
81, 230 by The Educator Company, Of
Richmond, to 1914 by the Goode Print
ing Company, of the same city.
EX-State Senator w. w. Rollins, Of
Asheville, who is here, was the first
man to employ cOnvicts on the West
ern North Carolina railroad. In 1872
he thus used several hundred in the
work of grading. But for the convicts
this road would never have been built.
There is considerable inquiry for to-
bacco lands east of here. A syndicate
in the west ants to buy 5000 acres.
The fish interests in this state will be
shown by the labor statistics bureau
to be much larger than ever before.
Reports are now coming in.