The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-26

Free Festivities of the Fair.
Farmers Holding Their Cotton Not
Pressed for Payment by Their Creditors.
A Faithless wife and Her Paramou
Hunted Down and n reconciliation the
ResuIt-Gold Mining Excitement
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., October 90.
The festivities of the state fair end
ed last night or rather at A o'clock
this morning with the "marshals' ball."
given at the Marlboro house, under the
auspices Of the Capital club. Governor
and Mrs. Russell and nearly all the
state officers were present. 1t was an
exceptionally handsome affair. At /
o'clock this morning Private Secretary
Alexander presented Chief Marshal p.
II. Lybrook with a gold chain and gold
headed cane on behalf of the m~arshals.
Of whom there were more present than
at any fair ever held here.
The local cotton receipts in this mar
ket by Wagon are SO far this season
only 7,444 bales, against 1923 bales to
the corresponding date last year.
Merchants who supply farmers with
provisions, ETC., were asked II the farm
ers are holding cotton, and say yes,
much more than usual. The secretary
of the cotton exchange says hat so
per cent. of the farmers are in debt
now, that a great many are holding
cotton for a rise and that is largely due
to the fact that the merchants are not
pressing them for what they owe.
1t is said the pe%nitentiary board once
before adopted a resolution that no
vouchers should be paid unless aQ-
proved by the chairman of the board
and by two of the executive commit
tee, but found it could not take away
any of the superintendent powers.
Of course, if he acquiesces all these
things can be done, but under the law,
if he stands on his rights, he is absO-
lutte.
w. O.. Roberts, Of Asheville, is en-
ployed as superintendent Of the Farm
ers' Alliance shoe factory at HillsbOrO.
There has been a great lea Of trOu-
bic about getting the factory started
and over fourteen months lost.
Colonel LeOnidas Stephenson, one Of
the best known and most esteemed cit
liens of Wake, died at his home near
here last night. For a year his health
had been feeble. His fine estate had
been in the family for three genera
tons. He owned one of the largest
tracts of oak timber in middle North
Carolina, some 5000 acres.
Machinery for crushing stone for
street macadamiZation will be set up
at the quarry east of the city from
which the granite for the capitol was
taken.
DR.. D. Reid Parker, who has charge
Of the farmers institutes, says more
are to be held this year. There is a
desire for dairy Institutes, but none are
as yet ordered.
r. j. Diegle, who had for ten days
hnan T10kino his ,yifa Minnip who
eloped with Ed. Campbell, a "fakir,"
found her and her paramOur yesterday
afternoon, Campbell at the fair and
Mrs. Diegle and two little children in
the city. Diegle was disguised and
spotted" Campbell, and at first want
eu to kill him. But late at night all
seemed reconciled. The oma agreed
to go back to Marion, Ohio, with her
husband, provided the latter did not
prosecute Campbell, with whom she is
infatuated. Campbell pays $50 costs.
At 8 o'clock this morning Mr.. n Mrs.
in Jail long enough to give them a good
start. He say the woman is madly
in love with him. Diegle. is by pro-
fession a ''fakir' too.
There is no end of laughter at Gov
ernor RusselPs statements as to hav-
ing a pocket full of railway passes,
and at his reasons for taking them. He
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SitiOn.
Governor Russell is said to regard
the depOsing from power Of the super
intendent of the penitentiary as quite
a victory.
Revenue Agent J. c.. Wheeler is here
making a very careful inspection Of
the office of Revenue Collector Sim
mons, which always ranks A 1.
The question is being considered
whether the Episcopal missionary jur-
isdiction of Asheville shall be erected
into q diocese.
The excitement over gold mining in
the piedmont section of the state is in
creasing daily. Valuable discoveries
are being made
The populists are losing ground in
two directions-the one part going to-
toward the republicans. Thus both
Butler and Harry Skinner are losing
ground.
The free pass" question comes to a
head in the arrest of the sheriff Of
Buncombe and the ticke agent of the
Southern railway at Asheville, because
the sheriff has a free pass.
1t is the comment here that the three
bank failures at Asheville are u en-
tirely to Asheville's burst "land BOOM"
Most of the exhibits were removed
from the state fair grounds today. w.
p. Bachelor, manager of the races at
the fair. says the liberality Of the
agement in ~refunding all entrance
money and paying freight On horses to
the next racing place has made a great
hit with the racing men, and that next
year, as a result. there will be an un-
~precedented number of entries.
Hints for Housewives
Gl,Do. should oluo1rS no uinnI off a md