The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-19
PARTY PLANS DlSARRANGBD
JUDGE DICK SAYS HE HAS NO
IDEA OF REsIGNlNG

Bids for City BoDds 20 be O~pened-The
Trsasurer Discovers . New Duty Attach
cd tn His Omce-Al Watson's Attempt 1t
Suicide Last Summer-Nine States Repre-.
sentsd 1T the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of Prim.
itive Bsptists Joining the Missionary
Baptists
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh. N. c., October II.
Judge Robert P. Dick says regarding
the rumor hat he proposes to resign
his United States district court judg-
ship: Il will not resign. My mental
vigor is unimpaired. 1 have served
four years beyond the age for retiring,
but / have the example OF eminent
judges in remaining on the bench. /
have been on the bench twenty-nine
would resign"
Tomorrow the bids for the Raleigh
street improvement bonds will be OPEN
ed. They are in from New York. Bal
timore, Hartford, Cincinnati, Boston,
Cleveland and Raleigh.
Governor Russell left yesterday for
Wilmington and expects to return next
Monday afternoon.
1t is probable that Grimes battery,
Of Portsmouth, will be here mex week
as the guest of this city during the
fair.
1t is now discovered that The Code
makes the state treasurer the custo-
dian of and responsible for the state
paper for printing purposes. He did not
know this until yesterday.
tt ic 1oornod thai ir,cr hofnra bic ~ -
riage last July AL. Watson. the sui
eide, who SO nearly killed his wife
here, attempted suicide by getting on
the railway rack. Saturday night he
choked his wife. He spoke Of his to a
friend Sunday and said he intended to
kill himself.
1t is claimed tina the depositors in
the defunct Western Carolina bank at
Asheville will not lose any of their
money.
Nine states are now represented by
the 463 students at the state university.
1t is said that this is the largest attend
ance at any state university between
Maryland and Texas. There are 215
new students.
The organ of the Primitive Baptists
denies that many or any churches Of its
denomination have gone over to the
Missionary BaptiSts. Rev. JOhn E
White has already received the
churches. He has so written Elder Gold
editor of Zion's Landmark.
Rowan county now falls into line III
the matter of public road improve
ment. INSTRUMENTATION has commenced
The board of directors of the peniten'
tiary meets next week to tax up tht
terrible charges against DR.. Ki1b!
Smith of improper relations with {
criminal insane woman from Bun
l combe. She is in for infanticide. She i
I said to have had two children. on,
white and one colored and to have kill
! ed the latter.
, A lodge of Knights of Pythias wa
organized at Salisbury last night.
4 The case involving the legality CT tn
= tonnage tax on fertilizers will not b
argued before the United States su
4 preme court until next January.
So heavy are the purchases of fer
tilizers by wheat growers in the Wilke
section that it will take half the mex
f crop to pay for them.
r Since July LIST last, no less than 4,Z6
e acres of land have been entered" i
: the office of the secretary of state a
= vacant. The law is very defective.
The reports Of what is known a
"unenumerated' taxable property, a
made to the tax equalization board
show it to aggregate $58, 755, 100, mad
4 up as follows: Farming implement
;, So. O76, 713, mechanics tools $685., 900, nous
and kitchen furniture S., 739, 977, provis
ions 81, 81, 125, cotton 1885,, S51, Tobacco
81, 269, O47, brandy and whiskey $93,41
~ musical instruments $676,16 plated 81
&c yer ware $1O6. 341, watches $516, 346, oths
!. property SIS, 951, 406, credits 17,734,9S
q shares in incorporated companies e.
'e cept banks and building and loan a
'e sociations $5,426 ,053; money on har
81 496. 021.