The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25

Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.
Raleigh. y. c.. June Fl.
Copper mining has for many yvars
been at 4 standstill in North Carolina.
this being due to the Lake Superior
ores. But now it has started VI, at
Ducktown. in Cherokee county, and
LOCO men are at work there. The daily
output is about 600 tons. II is said that
a mountain Of copper OF marked purity
has been discovered.
The resignation Of Colonel Charles
F. Meserve. republican. as a trustee OF
the blind institution here has made the
Russell republicans ~furiously angry.
His open charge that politics and not
merit caused the changes in the fac
ulty and the employees struck home.
The secretary &c state has sent the
acts Of. the late Legislature 10 the jus-
tees Of the peace, save for four conn
Ties, from which no returns Of magis-
trates were received. In all $3.50 comics
We're sent out, all having been shipped
from winston, at a cost of $500, which
is less than usual.
~ " opplItdllOnS DoN
on file for admission to the deaf mute
school at Morganton. Not all OF these
can be granted. The number ON the
roll last term as present, was twice as
great as that on the roll here, when the
deaf mutes and blind were taught in
the same building.
The ground on which the agricultural
department bases its opposition to the
present state printers is that While the
cost of hio1tpr tn = nnn ..UNp
Resources of North Carolina was only
$3.50, yet the public printers charged TO
less than $1,000 merely for inserting
in each volume sixty-fve pages of Il
Illustrations which had been printed at
Chicago.
Secretary benson. Of the state board
of public charities, says the reports are
coming in quite rapidly and show a
further gratifying Improvement in the
condition of a number Of jailS and
county homes and work houses.
The Southern railways great shops
at Spencer. two miles from Salisbury.
are to be largely increased in size and
to the present 400 employees 200 are to
be added.
In all cases where a registered whis-
key distillery is seized for irregulari-
ties. the storekeeper and gauger is i'm
the future to be indicted jointly with
the diStiller. for it is held that there
can be no fraud unless the storekeeper
and gauger is a party to it.
The commissioners appointed by the
federal court to sell the Cumnock coal
mine say they propose to make the
sale the first week in September.
Georgetown college, d. c.. Will on
Wednesday confer the honorary degree
of Ii. D.. on Associate Justice Robert
NJ. Douglas, a graduate of that widely
known institution.
Persons who came down from Green's
bOrO yesterday brought the news of
the burning of the large livery stables
of Mr.. Vanstory.
1t appears to be quite generally con
coded now that Carl Duncan. Of Beau
fort, is to be the next revenue collector
in this district. Congressman Skinner
has been trying earnestly to have G..
w. Cobb, Of Elizabeth City, given this
place, and of course. Skinner has much
influence with Senator Pritchard, as
the latter owes him SO much for polit-
ical influence. But now it is learned
that an arrangement is made by which
Skinner is to get Something equally
| as good"
The sixteenth annual session OF the
Colored State Teachers Association
ended today. 1t vas held in Shaw
university here. The chef feature of
the work was the organization of the
entire state for a campaign in July
prior to the election in August on local
| aid to the public schools. DIR. Smith,
| of G~OldSborO, of the committee on
'locan taxation recommended a CEN
trail campaign committee. This was
created. A summer normal school was
also ordered organized. The negro
teachers [eclare their entire readiness
to co-c ate in everything that is
best + the state. N. F. Roberts, Oh
Raleigh, is reelected president.
Governor Russell returned this nor
ing from his summer home at Wrfghts-
willie. Mrs. Russell will remain there
until his next visit.
The ~penitentiary authorities are now
planting their newly purchased faUU
at Castle Haynes and will have 2O(
acres in corn, besides peas and peanuts
intending to raise all the supplies
needed there. AS many convicts as are
necessary will be employed to fully de.
velop the phosphate mines. The greai
piles of shell rock will be removed and
sold.
Some excellent wagons are nov beinf
made at the penftentiary and sent II
the farms. This will be quite a branc
of business there. SO will the maxine
of shoes. which in future will be made
for all the convicts. Up to a few year,
ago many shoes were made there.
Fine photographs OF Governor Rus
sell and staff were received today from
Nashville.
A good deal las been said about th<
$40. 900 paid the Agricultural and Me.
chanical college for making fertilizer
analyses. In 1855 is was 50, 600: in 189:
and 1894 il was IS, 1000; in fact for sew.
eral years it has increased at One rate
of about 81 900 a a
1t is said that several republicans
have been put on duty as deputy reve.
nue. collectors under the special asen'
at Greensboro, and not under civil ser,
vice. Perhaps these are merely tenn.
porary appointments