The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

Nnesnire an England.
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.
! Raleigh. N. c.. August ..
/ II Is stated that the new directors OF
the North Carolina railway have or
dered quite handsome fees paid TO their
a~ttorneys-s50o ZACH to A. c. Avery,
W. II. Day and c. A. Cook and $500 to
Philip W. Avirett.
The railway commission today heard
officials of the Southern railway and
of The Pullman Car Company against
the recent order increasing the assess
ment of property for taxation.
Governor Russell is expected to re-
turn from Wilmington Wednesday.
The railway commission will again
take up in September the question as
to telephone rates. Meantime it re-
quires that the rate named by ii shall
stand until that time-S24 for residences
and S34 for business telephones.
General William r. Cox was here to-
day. He has a fine farm east of here.
He said: The crops are the best since
1880. That is what the people say, and
1850 was a notable crop year. We are
going TO nave prosperity despite Nc
kinley. 1t simply can't be kept back"
There were only fourteen eaths in
this city during July. This is the best
record ever made.
There We're no electric street lights
Saturday night or Sunday night, and
this caused some talk in connection
with the fact hat there were some
fhpnntc ,f 1xr,ahip~ Canr,1 pr4l,n ,-lN
is in Jail here for outraging Miss Cat
lett. of Kittrell. There vas a tolerably
strong movement for lynching Satur-
day night. 1t seems that only a leader
was needed to have caused an attack
TO be made on the jail. The people here
who wanted to lynch Brodie expected a
leader to come from Henderson or
Kittrell, but 40 once came.
Your correspondent talked with Sher-
if Jones this morning. He said: Il
was at Norfolk and was telegraphed
for Saturday to come here. 1 arrived
| early Sunday morning. l was told
that o forty persons, mainly young
men, had gathered in capitol square
and were talking of l%ynching. l saw
some on the streets. They had no
leader. The local military were called
out at 2 o'clock and guarded the jail
l until daylight to prevent any attack
The sentiment among the better class
of people is against n such attempt
1 have extra deputies. The local mil
itary were again at their armory last
/ night. The element which favors
l%ynching is mainly of boys"
One of the young men who ia.
Ored lynching said he wanted it be.
cause Of a warning; that he thought il
a reflection on the people of Raleigh
to allow the negro to go unhung q
single day, much less until Angus,
10th, the date for his trial. He added
that there were plenty of men ready
that only a leader was lacking; thai
there were mechanics who had APP
planes for getting through the graf
ing into the Jail. Saturday nigh
about thirty negroes gathered near the
Jail, it is said, to prevent lynchine
The sheriff says there were about
thirty.
North Carolina is we'll represented
at the meeting of the Southern Dental
Association at Old Point this week.
Travel on all the roads continues
heavy. The cheap rate tickets prove a
| great success.
Many company e~ncampments are be-
ing held. In fact. it seems that al
the companies which did not encamI
last year are doing so this year.
Mrs. George c. Heck, who is a sister
of Mr.. Percy Gray, of Gr~eensboro, has
been critically sick here, but is now
| better.
DR.. T. w. Babb insists that the pOpu-
| lists and republicans are now further
| apart than ever before. He goes furth-
er and says neither party is united,
| Now comes the question:: Are they as
far apart as he says they are? Will not
pie" unit them?
Captain Gresham, of the Agrlcultu-
raj and : ~hanical college, returned to-
day f. : a tour in the southeastern
and Southern ountie in it's interest
He says: Il visited 16e leads of fami.
lies at home or their place of business
and explained to each the advantages
offered by the college. and gave each
a catalogue. 1 sent catalogues to more
than seventy others whom / could not
see. I visited twelve towns, from Raleigh
to Monroe, and country arOu them
1 travelled over 260 miles in a buggy
I found the college highly esteemed
but not well known. Several definite
and many conditional promises o.
students were made. The condition:
related to pecuniary matters, parent!
promising to send if possible. Thu
canvass is likely to do much good il
the section visited, by making the in
stitution better known. Politics wa!
mentioned only twice during the trip
Up to this date there has not been
lynching in North Carolina in two am
a half years.
A populist said today hat If Nortl
Carolina were to vote tomorrow tn
democrats would sweep the state. H
says it is more difficult now to unit
the p~opulists and republicans thai
ever before.
Interest in gold mines in Granviil
county is now greater than in a lonj
while. In fact interest in mining prop
critics all over the state is very marked
In a private letter TO a friend her
Bishop J. b. Cheshire says he was mos
Hospitality entertained in England. II
was the guest of the archbishop o
Canterbury at Lambeth palace, and o
the lord bishop of London at Fulhan
palace. Trinity Sunday he preached Ii
Gloucester cathedral. July 18th he wa
the guest of the vicar Of the parisl
church of Stratford-on-Avon, and ii
the evening preached there. July ST.
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