The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-12

After Revenue Omcefs VINO Fry Auto Dis.
tillers' Business
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel,
Raleigh. n. c., October s.
Chairman Dockery, of the penitentia-
ry board, says the investigation Of the
charges against DR.. KirDy Smith. to
be made in ten days, will cover w
nothing. Smith is in New York and it is
not thought he will ever return.
Marshall Mott says H. L. rants
statement that ne is on Governor Rus
sells side in the great republican quar-
rel and contest now beginning is false;
that he does not indorse Russell, n
that the latter has given him nothing
but a $40 appointment; that the man
who deals with Clark and Avery can't
deal with him. Mott adds that he will
whip Grant. His statements raise a
laugh here as far as the $40 office" is
concerned, for his brother-in- law,
Cowles, is adjutant general, at $500;
his brother, Tom, steward of the peni-
tertiary, at $3.50; his cousin, Jim, first
assistant physician at the insane asy-
lum here. at 1900; his uncle, Henry
director and Of the Western
hospital for the insane. Besides these
some of his friends are guards at the
odNh 4 ihS at as
given by Governor Russel's friends
Then, too, Mott is a colonel on Gov
ernor Russells staff.
1t is stated today that there was 10
actual meeting here OF those members
of the republican state committee ia
vOrable to Governor Russell. Several
of them were here at the same time.
The directors of the state library de-
eide to allow the teachers of the Ra-
leigh public school to tax out books,
just as state officers do.
c. T. Bailey, chairman of the direc-
tors of the blind institution. shares
heartily in the attacks on the gov
ernor. Bailey is a Pritchard republic
can, and said today: Governor Russell
has not friends enough to bury him.
outside Of %convicts he has pardoned
and lawyers he is feeding. 1t is hint
ed that the next spat will be between
the governor and Senator Pritchard.
Judge Purnell is after the revenue Of
ficers who pry into distillers' business
and hang around their distilleries. He
is also after revenue officers who make
returns of captured stills when such
had no existence, n thus get the SO
fee for informers. Republicans are, of
course, doing all they can to throw out
democratic officials.
President Mckinley will be specially
invited to visit the state fair. No
president has visited Raleigh since 1866,
when Andrew Johnson came to attend
the unwilling Of the monument to his
father, Jacob ohnson
From all parts Of the state comes
news Of ar increase in the attendance
at all colleges and schools. There are
very few exceptions to his general
good showing.
Governor Russell calls H. L. Grant a
"Hessian" and ~denOunces him in I'M
measured terms.
Big gold finds are reDOrted in the
now dry or almost dry beds Of streams
in Stanly county.
Last year the Southern railway
hauled 4,057, 1927 passengers without loss
OF life or serious injury.
John T.. Duncan, of Columbia, S. c.,
asks Governor Russell to lie him in
finding the next-Of-kin to Joseph
Cooley, who died in Columbia Septem-
Der 9th. He vas a North Carolinian.
The state grants a charter to the
Sanford Clothing Company to make
shirts and overalls.
A large number of railway employees
here have made a new departure by
establishing a cooperative grocery
store.
AS We Senator Vance's grave in the
Asheville cemetery is unmarked. Once
his remains were secretly removed
from the grave, but there were legal,
proceedings to recover them and they
were returned. 1t is said hat they
have not since been molested.
The Presbyterians in this state now
propose to raise ST. 900 which Davidson
college specially needs for repairs and
improvements.
George Vanderbilt is nov at Bilt-
more, his home near Asheville. He
manifests must interest in the state
fair and will make a large exhibit.
That made last year was excellent.