The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-10
EVIDENCES OF IMPROVEMENT
CAUSE SURPRISE TO A FORMER
Resident OF OUR STATE

A LrxinSton Man Iaserits %, 600. OO0-The
Gain in Tax vsius,Ion OF Property Great.
or In CASTOR Than ia Any Other County.
II L. Grant to Socceed Az. Holton -
Iieeiion supervi.or - Designs for the
va.-s Monumenta Mt Ashevilie submitted
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh, n. c.. August 5.
A gentleman now living in st. Louis.
who left this state in 1894, is now COM
pleting a tour of North Carolina n
says that, as viewed from the railways.
he sees more evidences of improvement
than in Georgia. Tennessee. Alabama
or South Carolina. He is making a
is astonished at the facts. There were
in 1894 only 1s7 cotton and wooden
mills, with 49,. 600 spindles and 1850
looms, While now there are 211, with
LOO, 900 spindles and 2O.5 500 looms.
The special term Of Vance superior
court meets on the 18th inst, to try
George Brodie for rape. II h SUI
preme court is specially convened di-
rectly upon a decision by h lower
court the execution could quickly fol-
low. There is a popular impression
that thirty days must necessarily
elapse between a sentence Of death and
an execution, but this is not true. The
thirty days usually given is only as
grace" to the condemned.
CASTOR county in this years return
Of the assessed valuation of property
shows a greater gain thar any other
county,, SO far as hear FROM. The in
crease over 1896 is 1915, 81, and over
1895 is $465, 941.
The Goldsboro Rifles, Captain T.. H.
Balm, go into camp at Morehead City
tomorrow, for ten days.
By the acceptance of the office Of
United States district aattorney, A. E.
Holton, chairman Of the republican
state executive committee, AGATE his
state office as supervisor Of elections.
1t is whispered that Hiram L.. Grant, of
GOldSbOro, will succeed him as super
visor. This will be gratifying to the
Pritchard republicans. Will it be
equally so to the Russell republicans?
In other words is the reconciliation OF
The ice is broker it seems, but not
removed and there are hints that Rus
sell will have to remove it. Grant has
been here a day or two.
Asheville is to soon have a worthy
monument to the m OF q. b.
! Vance. Funds are in hand and de-
signs are being submitted. The plan
to have a state monument in the capt.
toll square here appears to have COM
pletely failed. Not $4,000 a been
raised.
B. F. Mccarthy was drowned in Aus
tralia while yachting. His estate, a
| ued at 81, 900, 900, goes to his brother H.
F. Mccarthy, of Lexington, N. c., and
E. P. Mccarthy, Of Kansas City.
J. H. Milan, of the Seaboard Air Line
| at Charlotte, has mysteriously disap-
peared.
The funeral Of Rev. DR.. William S.
Black was held here this afternoon
from Edenton street M. E.. church,
| Rev. DR.. w. c. Norman and several
other ministers officiating. DR.. Black
was greatly beloved here.
It turns out that the fifteen cloud
bursts or water-spouts in Cherokee
county two weeks g have damaged
property amounting to 5000, DOC.
Ohio Wilson, populist leader and agi-
tator, declares that he and his follow
| ers will have nothing to do with the mi
nority populists (the Pritchard popu-
lists) Or with the republicans who acted
with the latter.
The populist state executive commit
tee meets here August 18th. AS to the
object of the meeting there is secrecy
r. A. w. Leak, colored, declares the
white republicans can no longer mass"
the North Carolina negro vote, no mat
ter what anybody may say.
Last night the stables at the Wake
county home were burned, also four
| mules and two horses, and all the farm
implements. The loss is $4,000.