The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-31

tesy TO Two OF the Railway Comm sston-
The Combination AErinst These Omcials
The Shooting of sheriff P~ritchard-Im
portant Section Of the School Law Omit
ted in the Printed Acts
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.
Raleigh, n. c., August IS.
Governor Russell is in bad odor with
his party. An eastern republican said
today: He Is a failure. / will admit
il. and ! have the additional mortifca-
tion of knowing hat / helped to elect
him. But he is politically dead. His
war on vested rights has killed him.
His advisers are a small coterie. We
republicans know who they are"
One of the leading lawyers in Thu.
state, a man in high public life for forty
years, said: Il never knew SO gross
a violation of official courtesy as was
shown by the governor in giving to a
newspaper the official letters which
were sent two Of the railway commits
%sioners, SO that the publication was
made two days before they received the
l~etters-letters which were, by all the
rules. of official etiquette, for them
alone"
J.. c. L. Harris is engaged by s. II
Wilson to appear for him in his reply
to the governors charges.
1t was remarked today by a promi-
nent citizen that this whole matter is
the result of a scheme TIVE the
governor, Senator Butler and other Of
fetal and two lawyers. 1t was a re-
publican who said it, and he said that
in his whole life he had never heard
of SO injudicious a proceeding.
The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
railway today paid into the state treas
ury 1910 taxes.
Today was the last Of registration
for the city election for $685. 600 street
Improvement bonds. Registration to-
day was heavy, and the advocates of
the bond issue expressed themselves as
confident of success.
The walks in the capitol square are
being paved with brick made at the
penitentiary. The work is being done
by green" cOnvicts. Some persons ex-
press regret hat she'll rock was not
used for making the walks. A Colds
borO man says hat if shell rock is
brought here and put down in the sum-
mer it will cause sickness and holds it
responsible for sickness at Goldsboro.
City Physician James Mckee saws
this is the most notable summer Ra-
leigh has ever a SO far as health is
concerned.
There is talk that Thomas M. Argo,
or Raleigh, may be agreed on for
United States attorney Of his district.
Claude Bernard, one of the three chief
aspirants, say as much.
SeabOard Air Line surveyors are
making a preliminary survey for a
branch line from Gastonia to Denver.
n perhaps to Newton.
Colonel A. B. Andrews will leave
here next Monday for a trip to Cali
fornia.
1t turns OF that only Z townships out
OF 1,321 in the state voted for the pub
lie school special tax. In over 20 town.
ships a majority Of votes were cast for
the measure, but not a majority Of the
registered vote.
Three barns and a s~torehouse on
Bennehan Cameron's farm, at Farm
tOSh, Durham county, were burned yes
terday, the loss being some 1000.
1t is claimed that the establishment
of a ~dispensary at Fayetteville has
largely decreased drunkenness.
The secretary Of state has a letter
from an Allegheny county nan dated
Air Bellows No such ridiculous post
office a be found, and it is suggested
that Arabella was intended.
The friends of Senator Pritchard
greatly regret to e of the, perhaps,
fatal shooting Of his brother, George,
a very plucky fellow. the sheriff OF
Mitchell, by a desperate.
The superintendent of public instruc-
ton writes the following to the county
supervisors:
II wish to call the attention Of you
and your county board Of education to
| section 1855 of the school law of 1897.
1 find that the printer omitted a very
important part of this section, as fol.
lows: No order given by a school
/ committee of any district township
for maps, charts, globes, or other school
apparatus shall be valid unless the
same be endorsed by the chairman of
the board Of commissioners (Which now
near chairman county board OF edu-
~cation) and approved by the county
board of education / call upon you
in the name Of the children of your
| equity to put a stop to the ~squandering
| of the school fund, if it has been in
your county Beware of vouchers that
| are presented to you for school sup
plies. These words, school supplies,
on some of the vouchers / have seen,
| simply mean $3.50 for a school chart"