The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-21

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Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,
Raleigh, n. c., September 49,
News reached here today direct from
Senator Pritchard that Charles A.
Cook, of Warrenton, is to be United
States district attorney. This will be
quite q surprise. There has been more
than coolness between the senator and
Governor Russell, and Cook is one of
the governors chief supporters.
The authorities of the Tennessee CEN
tennial are urging Governor Russell to
name December 7th as North Caro-
lima Day"
The state board Of tax equalization
today completed the summary Of the
returns Of property values, as follows:
Number Of acres Of land 27,763,S53,
value $11O, ,463, ,977; town lots S2,998, value
s44, ,S86 ,585; horses 172, 708, value $751;
920 mules 125,052, value $4,7S6,976; cat
tie 594, ,332 value $4,175,556; hogs $780,
14O, value 81 ,582S S76; sheep 334, $50, value
Sol $50, bicycles o,ozZ, value 9I%o,ool,
unenumerated property s5S,755, 100;
bank stock 81, 7398 846; foreign Building
and Loan stock $146,2O1 state Building
and Loan stock $134 sos; dogs $3,1S4
total 1924 ,142, 594. There turns out to be
no increase in the total over last year.
The falling off is in bank stock, $480,000.
Mecklenburg county failed to report
any, while last year it reported $685.
600.
Senator Butler says Governor Rus
sell is the greatest governor since
Vance and that in a few days he will
remove the two Wilson's, railway COM
miSSiOners.
A charter 10 granted by the state to
the Tyrrell County Telephone Com
pany.
1t is ascertained that people at Eliz-
abeth City believe Lieutenant W. j.
Griffin, who was drowned. was alive
and clinging to his capsiZed boat from
Thursday to Sunday.
w. d. MoOre's arm was today torn
off in his cotton gin near here. He
was removing notes from the GIN The
arm was amputated near the shoulder.
Cotton here is of the finest quality
ever known. Practically every bale is
strict good middling. The crop is all
open in this section. The farmers are
agant this year. They planned for a
big crop and but for the drought would
have made the greatest.
AS yet no rain has fallen here. Last
night it fell quite near.
There are only eighty convicts now
in the penitentary. Half Of these will
be sent to the farms next Monday to
pick cotton.
Governor Russell returned yesterday
q n
son and says he found it's condition
much better than he expected.
General Thomas l.. Clingman was
yesterday taken from Mt. Airy to the
Morganton hospital for the insane.
There are now 223 freshmen at the
university. This breaks the record.
Some Of the insurance men are claim
ing that a southern company can't sue
ceed. Twelve years ago Edward At
kinson, of Boston, wrote w. S. Prim-
rose here that southern cotton mills
could not succeed.
The main building at the Presbyte-
rian orphange at Barium Springs is
complete, at a cost of $4,000, and there
is $500 cash on hand. There are eighty
orphans at that place.
Twenty cOnvicts from the farm at
Castle Haynes have been sent to the
Roanoke farms to pick cotton.
Ex-senator Ransom is now at Blow
ing Rock. He says he feels strong
enough to go through another cam
paign or two.
Captain j. II. Fuller, superintendent
able to walk again, owing to the hip
injury he received from a fall.
Secretary j. T. B. Hoover says that
by the middle Of October the shoe fac
tory and tannery of the state Farmers
Alliance, at HillsborO, will be in opera
ton. The employees have been secured
Hoover says the alliance is improving
and reorganizing. He says he does
not know its present membership.
A civil service examination for places
in the revenue service was held here
today, with eighteen applicants. 1t was
a poor class and very few will pass.
Governor Russell pardons Alley
JOurnigan, who was convicted of per-
jury at the October term, 1896, OF
Franklin superior court, and Sentenc-
ed to three years in the state prison.
The portrait of the three colonels OF
the Twenty sixth North Carolina regi-
ment to be presented to the state on
Wednesday of the state fair will be re-
ceived by Governor Russell or some one
designated by him. The portraits are
full length. That Of Lane is from a
war time full length photograph. Tha,
of Vance is from a war photograph OF
the head. The hair falls to his shoul-
ders. The portrait of Burgwyn is from
one in Oil.
Today the state pension board com
pleted the first examination of the
1900 pension applications. 1t will re-
quire a month, Auditor Aver says, tC
finish the re-HXaminations.
Farmers say here today that in the
country there is a general feeling thai
when the next election comes things
will not be as in the past Those who
voted with the republicans and popu-
lists are both disappointed and dissat-
listed.