The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-02
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh, y. c.. June 30.

Labor Commissions.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh, n. c., une 80.
a letter from State Geologist Joseph
A. Holmes says he is now in Califor-
MIA. He will make a short stop in Ar
iona on his way TO Denver.
Stewart Bros. the retiring public
printers, have not as yet employed an
attorney II defend them in the two
SUITS brought by the state. The agri-
cultural department wants an account
ing with them. Tina department al
leges that they have made gross over
charges. This whole business is fur
nishing the democrats with much cam
paign material for 1898.
The United States marshaT's office OF
the Western district was today remov-
ed from Statesville to Greensboro.
The state is making requisition on
the war department for supplies for
the 1898 issue. Among these will be
dark blue flame shirts for the entire
state guard. Practically all the sup
plies are for service wear. Of full
dress there is a supply. The inspec-
tons are all to be made in the service
dress and in heavy marching order.
The new keeper Of the capitol is sub
jecting himself and. Of course. the
new administration. to public censure
for the Wholesale mutilatiOn of trees
in the capitol square, which is now in
progress. Such ruthless cutting was
never before seen here. No attention is
paid to the habits Of trees; all are lOp-
ped alike.
Rev. John f. White, of the Baptist
state Sunday schOO board. saws that
at the associations this year the old
question of opposition to higher edu-
cation by the state will come up again.
He ays this will be done, first because
the Baptists think it the wise course
and, secondly, because it is. as they
consider it, in self-defence, to protect
their own schools. He says there are
now s~eventy-eight Baptist schools
which are Feeders to Wake Forest
college.
DR.. NJ. NJ. Orr, who was Charlotte,s
oldest physician, is dead.
The intensely hot and moist weather
is very trying to the grape crop, as it
is apt to produce rot.
1t is now settled that Henry G.
Dockery is to be United States marshal
of this district. Charles Bernard. state
solicitor. wants to be United States
district attorney. The question is who
4 81 Bllc ldLjtl place, lnt DdV OF
which is 81, 900.
Night before last there were Slight
earthquake shocks at many places
west of here.
The secretary of state grants a char
ter to the Salisbury knitting mills, the
inCOrporatOrs being TheO. Buerbaum.
w. L. Kluttz, S. IT. Wilson, TheO. F.
Kluttz. J. l.. McCubbins, Lee S. Over
man and T. c.. Lilly.
The commissioners of 90ricu1tura TO-
day accepted the following list of
farmers institutes to be held by DR..
d. Reid Parker next month: GuilfOrd
College, in Guilford county, July 18th
and Sth: East Salem, Forsyth, 9th and
10th; East Bend, Yadkin, 18th and 18th;
Statesville, IredelI, 18th and 18th; Sal
isbury, 18th and nth; Concord, 10Th
and goth: Charlotte, 21st and 22nd.
The railway commission is in ses-
sion. 1t today tOO up first the matter
of strengthening the track of the Sea-
board Air Lin railway at CASTOR. This
will leave CASTOR almost three-fOurths
of a mile from the road. Two delega-
tiOns of citizens were here, one ia
vOring, the other opposing this change.
Messrs. McBee, Whisnant and Moncure
and attorneys Day and MacRae APP
peared for the railway. Thomas w.
Mason was among those present.
MacRae and Day argued in favor of
IIdlSlleIlllS the line, ana Mason Op-
posed it. The decision was reserved.
The commission heard complaint of Mr..
Griffin. merchant at ManteO, Dare
county. against the Norfolk Southern
railway for giving a man named Banks
a monopoly of all the freight from
Elizabeth City to Roanoke island.
Manager King, of the Norfolk South
ern, was present and his counsel, H. G.
Hudgins, of Norfolk. c.. NJ. Busbee
| represented Griffin.
The commission grants the American
Telephone Company a rehearing next
week on the rate question.
! Austin DunstOn, who since 1879 has
most faithfully served as messenger of
the executive department, was today
displaced.
Few people have any dea of the ex-
tent of the trade in chickens in west
ern North Carolina. Six cars. loaded
| with &C, 900, passed Greensboro yester-
da.
The state auditor says, speaking of
the ruling of the attorney general, that
persons who fail to pay taxes may be
sent to Jail, that a tax is not a debt,
but an obligations; that it is not a
voluntary act; that the state requires
it as a condition of citizenship. He
says other states impriSon for non
payment of taxes.
The auditor is making an effort to
| get d llSl OIL ali the cOIpOTdtlOlS III TIE
| state, so as to ecu reports as to
| every one of their stockholders.
The agricultural department says of
cotton: The acreage as compared
with last years, is 116 per cent. There
is nothing the matter with the crop
this year and if no ~untOward condition
assails it the prospect was never
brighter for a full yield"
The decision of the attorney gem