The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-24

Raising-Witnesses Summoned as to Il
Fraud Issue in the Railroad Lease.
: Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel
Raleigh, N. c., August q.
"A very valuable book has bee a Dis
covered by the secretary of state .whi
he will have bound and present to L..
state library. 1t contains a c complete
record of all meetings Of the Quakers
or Friends in Pasquotank county,
from May, 1899, to October, 17s5. 1t is
written closely and there are 1000
pages. 1t is a record Of ( he meeting
house at Symon's Creek. The quaint
Quaker customs are sho' Sn in many
ways. People gave motto e that they
wished to marry. A &C snmittee was
appointed to see thu 1t they were
"clear.' Then if the 3 were in 1.-The
light of truth they were allowed to
marry. Another con lmittee attended
the wedding and mad e report as to how
the guests behaved themselves.
The populists are. greatly pleased
with Governor Ru sseITs speach here
yesterday. They mite in terming it
"a good populist" talk, and they also
say he is far mo re of a populist than
a republican. T ne mass of the people
decline to take the governors admin
istration seriO' Isly. There is daily so
much of the Comic as to excite laugh
ter,
Raleigh, the. newspaper graveyard, is
to have a new afternoon paper, which
a syndicate of printers Will issue.
Three Rflleigh experts were the ref
erees at Durham yesterday in the
matter OF the test of the waterwOrks,
preparatory to the purchase by the
town. The chief of the Raleigh fire
department was one, and he says the
test, which continued for three-quarters
of an hour, was satisfactory to both
sides.
Raleigh's waterworks have cost $685.
900, and are owned by a Ompan
mainly of Dayton, Ohio. There are
800, 900 in bonds. There are 40 pub
lie and private fire hydrants and about
1000 consumers.
M~ecklenburg's new court house is by
far the finest in this state. 1t looks
more like a state building, in fact, than
a county one. 1t will be dedicated Oc-
tober 4th by Judge Hoke.
Good news as to the tobacco crop
comes in. The business IN leaf is NOV
ing eastward. In ten years wonders
have been accomplished in the extern
sion eastward and Wilson has become
the second market in the state. With
a proper use of capital Raleigh would
have been a great market.
The machinery of the silk mill at
Greensboro was tested yesterday.
The experiments in hop culture near
Hamlet are said by experts to be sat-
isfactory. No one seems to know why
the culture of hops in this state has
not been extensive.
The chief of the fire department says
the losses by fire in this city this year
do not exceed $500. This is a remark
ably fine showing.
Governor Russell left for his cottage
at Wrightsville, to return Tuesday.
The governor has caused the issue
OF subpoenas for R.. G. Hoffman,, pres
Hdonf IF tho nnh0or1 Ar i~o. n
Tompkins, of Charlotte; F. s. Spruill
and Herbert E.. Norris, as witnesses in
the hearing before Special Master Kerr
Craig at Salisbury September 7th, in
the effort to prove fraud in the lease
of the North Carolina railway to the
Southern. Twice the governor has
asked for a p~ostponement of the hear
ing.
A private letter from Morganton says
the deepest interest is felt here in the
proposed electric railway to Blowing
Rock. Next Monday a number of Nor
canton men will go to Blowing Rock to
attend a meeting of the citizens of
Watauga and of part of Caldwell. The
preliminary survey for the line begins
next week. T. p. Tate and w. E. WAL
ton, of Morganton, will make it.
There is quite a lot of talk because
Senator Pritchard has "held up the
appointment of a receiver for an Ashe-
NAAS Dohh, oiNu thol lOO, dltCI liz dp.
pointment had been u Poll
tics in receiverships is something new.
Mr.. Cone and some others of Green's
boro, are raising a row about freight
rates, claiming they are higher in this
state than in any other. He has en-
ployed an expert railway man to in
Vestigate.
Luke Richardson. a negro who at
tempted rape on a lady in Guilford
: and who was sent to Winston for safe
keeping, will be taken to Greensboro
next Monday and put on trial.
A gentleman from GOldsboro informs
me of a queer phenomenon there. The
river water has become a beautiful
green, as green as any sea water. It
is observable even when the water is
IN small quantities.
To Pension Confederate Deserters
Washington, August 21.-It is not
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