The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-30

story as TO Simonton is really out of
the whole cloth; he never had any con-
nection with the Dichmond and Dan
Vile or the Southern or any other road
since he resumed the practice of law
after the war"
A circular letter Will be sent out in
day or two to all the companies OF
the state guard, urging their attend
ance at the Tennessee centennial cele-
bration.
Steps will be taken to raise addition
al funds for memorial chapel at the
soldiers home A bequest Of $500 has
been paid.
Judge Hoke, of the superior court, is
quite sick at his home.
There is much interest in the base
ball game at Chapel Hill tomorrow
University Of North Carolina vs. the
University Of Virginia Mangum and
Williams will pitch for the University
OF North Carolina
The people here do not understand
the indefinite postpOnement Of the ap-
pointment OF the judge Of the federal
court for this district. Purnell seems
sanguine.
During the past two years farmers
institutes have been held in forty-five
counties DR.. D. Reid Parker will for
the next two years conduct them. He
VIII also be in sense connected with
the agricultural and mechanical COL
lege.
It is learned that Colonel Julian S.
Carr's well known farm "Occoneechee,"
near HillsbOro, has been sold to
wealthy northern men.
The San Jose scale so much dread
ed as a fruit pest. is found to be quite
widely scattered in the eastern part of
the state.
The state board Of education has
depOsed General William CASTOR
Lewis is surveyor to the state board OF
agriculture. 1t is said Senator John
Ramsay, Of Salisbury, will succeed
him. The salary is 81 900. General Lewis
has surveyed several hundred thou
sand acres of the Swamp lands held
by the board.
Major w. H. Martin. candidate for
revenue collector Of this district re-
turned today from WASHINGTON and
says Senator Pritchard told him he
had endorsed no one for this place.
Senator Pritchard went with him to see
the president and secretary of the
treasury. It has been asserted that
Carl Duncan was certain to get this
place.
The agricultural board has ordered
the quarantining of Osborn's livery
stables al Greensboro, where horses
have infectious gangrenous pneumO-
MIA. One horse had died. The quaran-
liit SdlIlSl SpIeIlC lever III Cdllle ~
raised by the board as far east Of the
Blue Ridge Is Wilkesboro.
The trustees Of the agricultural and
mechanical college met today and ar
ranged for work to begin at once on
the hospital. The students Of the COL
lege all united in the request that Dr.
j. r. Rogers be continued as the ply
sician. He is also physician Of the PEN
itentiary.
The Columbus Drainage Company is
given until 1900 to complete its work
Of drainage Of swamp lands in Column
bus and Brunswick counties: that is it's
option is extended to that time. 1t pro-
posoc to dradee by otoona Towor throo
canals. each twenty-five miles long,
from Rladen county to the Wacamaw
river. The plant is ordered. and work
is to begin next September The Kemp
Mill Company, Of Franklin county. is
back Of this great scheme Of timber
cutting and land reclamation.
The republican organ at Winston to-
day protests that an effort is being
made to drag that party bodily into
pOpGlism, under the guse Of the North
Carolina railroad lease fight.