The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-16
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., November IL.

Raleigh, N. November IL.
The weather today was the coolest
of the season and the change is well
coined.
Work is actively in progress on the
hospital at the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college here. To build 1t the
college has borrowed 5000 fom he az
ricultural department and given its
note therefor.
Secretary J.. L. Ramsey, OF the agri-
cultural department., editor OF The Pro-
gressive Farmer, is in Texas. He has
been absent three weeks on a long tour.
Dr.. Thomas Eggleston, historian gen.
eral OF the Order OF Founders and Pa
triots, New York city, writes Secretary
OF State Thompson that he specially
desires to get copies OF the earliest
North Carolina colonial seals. There Is
"A dispute as to the seals in this state
and in several others. The secretary
of state thinks, that the early seals
are in the possession Of a number OF
families in the state.
The state charters the Spring Hope
Tobacco Warehouse Company OF
county. B.. w. Upchurch and others in
corporators.
Nineteen convicts were sent from the
penitentiary to the state farms near
, Weldon today. None Of the peniten-
tiary cotton is being sold, but as rapid
ly as it is picked it is shipped to Nor
folk and Goldsboro, to be held for a
rise.
It is decided that the Winston tobacco
fair shall be made a permanent annuai
feature.
There is a lot Of criticism by the state
press Of Governor RusselIs tnanks-
. irving proclamation. The thanks IN
it were very considerably modified
The Durham and Northern railway
owned by the Seaboard Air Line, de-
clares a 2 per cent dividend.
The laber COMMISSIONS says that
from Haywood county alone there Will
be shipped to market this season no
less than 32, 900 barrels Of apples.
Evangelist Lee who is making Things
SO lively at his meetings here, will next
Sunday introduce a new feature by dis
PLAYING pictures on the stage or the
three most prominent saloon keepers,
and will term them THE Big Three
Rev. Mr.. Lee is a member OF the
church militant" for a preacher tells
it that not very Tong ago on the street
at Elizabeth City he thrashed a a
The movement for the establishment
by the state Of a textile school may de-
velop into something very important.
The question Of the possible resigna-
ton Of United States Judge Robert r.
Dick is up again. 1t Is asserted mat
he would take the step If he were sure
his ~son-in-law, Judge Robert M. Doug
las, would succeed him.
r- NYIr-~-S Tho ovCQpdQr
hits al Judge Robinson for the trial
here of the railway commissionership
case, and says his mind was made up
before he heard the arguments.
Ohio Wilson says Senator Butler has
lost his grip and can never again be
elected to any big office. He says Gov
ernor Russell is a "hypocritical watch
dog, who barking about free passes got
a a. tied to his own tall" He declares
that the governor rides on free passes
wherever he goes.
Auditor Aver says the pOpulists first
brought up this free pass matter and
that now the democrats are stealing
their honor. The populists are
thoroughly sick Of the ridicule they
have brought on themselves in this
business.
The geological survey is preparing a
specially illustrated monograph Of the
waite powers Of the state. 1t Will be
well illustrated.
c. B. Pendleton, one of the men who
aided in the rescue of Miss Cisneros at
Havana, was here last night on his
way to Elizabeth City, his home. He
says the rescue cost $50, 900.
Ex-Attorney General Theodore F.
Davidson and wife of Asheville, left
here today on a visit to Washington,
N. c., and Hyde county.
The Baptist WOmen's Union mission
airy meeting here continued today and