The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-20

Gets the Carr Prize-Russen's "WAter
Haul"
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel
Raleigh, y. c., August Is.
The penitentiary board of directors
met here today. Office seekers were
as thick as flies and there were also
on hand people who wanted places for
their kinsmen or friends. The board
has gone slow in the matter Of changes,
as it knew radical changes would lit
orally ruin the farms.
The. minority ropulists are greatly
incensed against Senator Butler they
are saying, because he did not say any
thing against them here before the
state committee, yet in speeches i'm
mediately afterward scored them heav-
lily.
Some physicians have made the
statement that the law giving bodies
of criminals for dissection was value
less because it has no enacting clause.
1t will be found that supplemental
act provided the missing clause and
that the act is all right.
z. \. Moye, whom it appears to he
the purpose to press as the straight
populst nominee for congress in the
First district is clerk of the superior
court of Pitt, and his friends say he
was really entitled to the nomination
four years ago.
Guilford college opened today. The
outlook for an increased attendance at
all the colleges. etc, is gratifying.
DR.. Richard b. Ellis, one Of Raleighs
oldest physicians, was paralyzed this
morning.
1t is the purpose of the Southern rail-
way to complete the Mocksville-
Mooresville link by January 1st, and
to have it in operation for freight SER
vice by that date. The length is forty
miles.
The railway commission rescinds the
order requiring the train on the South
ern leaving here at o'clock a. m. to
wait thirty minutes for the cOnven-
ience of westbound passengers on the
vestibuled trains of the Seaboard Air
Line. Colonel Andrews appeared be-
fore the commission and quickly show
ed the change could not be made. He
said the time of the train, a freight,
was already too fast.
The state board of tax equalization
| today completed it's work so far as the
returns from the seventy-six counties
fn hand are concerned. Twenty counties
are yet to he heard from. The act gives
sheriffs thus delinquent as to returns
| only five days after August 10th to get
| them in. If they fail the commission
| will enforce the law and issue sub
| poenas for them. The board today sent
| to the registers of deeds of the seventy
| six counties reporting the returns as
| corrected by them. The board has
| equalized values of horses, cattle, etc.
| These registers must make their cOun-
| ty tax valuations conform. The result
J is going to be very considerable in
| crease in the total valuations.
| The Crawford Gold Mining Company,
| of Stanly county, was today given per-
| mission by the state to change it's
name to the United Gold Fields Cor
| pOratiOn.
tees of the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal college here this afternoon opened
| bids for furnishing the heating plant
and advertised for bids for the hos
pital
The sale of the Cumnock coal mines,
| which was set for September 9Th, is
postponed until early in October.
| The state superintendent Of public
instruction says that reports to him
show that Surry county is the only one
in which more than one township voted
last week for the special tax for public
schools. That county is, therefore, en-
titled to the prize of $500 offered by
Julian s. Carr.
The hearing before Kerr Craig, spe-
cial master, Sf the charges brought, OF
! which may be brought, by Governor
| Russell against the ex-president and
ex-directors of the North Carolina rail
road, alleging fraud, is again postpon-
ed until September. The governor has
| so far made what is common parlance
is termed water haul"
| There is general satisfaction at the
quickness of the conviction at Hender
son of George Brodie, the Kittrell rap
ist. Sheriff Jones, of this county, say.
if Brodie had been taken to Hender
| son at the time expected he would
never have reached there alive.
| 1t is said that an example will bt
made of John Milan, the Charlotte de
faulter, by his bondsmen, Baltimore
surety company, which has spent $30'
in catching him, and that he will gei
at least three years imprisonment.
The state board Of equalization viii
make an inquiry to ascertain whether
the state farms. which are leased, are
listed for taxation
| Good local rains fell yesterday and
last night at many points in the state
| particularly in the piedmont section
But in many the drought is becoming
a menace to most crops.
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