The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-23
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., November 20.

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., November 20.
Mr.. Pace, OF Richmond, who desires
the penitentiary TO furnish him with
sugar beets, wished 1000 acres 10 be
put in that crop. but the penitentiary
officials think that too great quanti-
ty. If he finds that 800 acres will an
swer they will put in that quantity.
superintendent Stronach. of the SOL
ders' Home, says that over 100 appli-
cations for admission gre on file. To
each one the answer is given that there
is no room and that the appropriation
of $4,000 is so small that no more can
possibly be admitted While there are
100 on the roll, yet only seventy are
present at any one time, the railways
giving free transportation, 50 that
about thirty are always away on fur
Tough. But for this there would be
great trouble, Mr. Stronach says.
Miss Mamie Robbins, of this city, has
typhoid fever. 1t was at first thought
she had grippe.
An effort is being made to have the
new daily paper here make it's initial
appearance Thanksgiving day.
The amount of swamp lands held by
the state board of education does not
appear to be precisely known. Some say
100000 acres; some say only 900.
Accurate surveys are needed.
Salisbury is to have an electric rail-
way, which it is said, will also be eX-
tended to the new railway shops and
town Of Spencer, two miles away.
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the wife Of a Judge who has recently
had much to say about passes travels
on one.
Senator Pritchard yesterday made a
notable speech al Marshall in defense
of James Payne, who early in the year
shot and killed Sarah Anderson. Payne
was acquitted. 1t is difficult indeed to
convict any one of murder in the first
degree in Madison or Mitchell counties.
1t is asserted by some people who
ought to know, republicans, that Su
perintendent Smith, of the penitentiary,
will not be reelected next March.
| Smith says he will make a great show
ing by Thanksgiving day, paying off
every cent of the penitentiary'S indebt-
| edness. He appears to be in great
| spirits. The general public certainly
| has very little faith in the present
| management Of the pententiary.
The matter of lower railway freight
| rates is being a good deal talked about
| in parts of the piedmont section, and
| very long hauls of cotton by wagon
! are being made, shippers claiming that
| this is cheaper.
| The assertion is made that p. H. Ly-
| brook, who was chief marshal at the
! recent state fair, will be postmaster
| at Winston.
The telephone officials say they in
| tend to make very extension and costly
| improvements all over the state.
Judges are allowed $3.50 a year to
cover railway and other expenses. One
judge says $500 ought to be allowed. He
must include board and every possible
expense to make the figures So high.
Colonel John d. Shaw, Of Rocking
ham, says there is no doubt whatever
of the guilt of John Evans, convicted
of rape The Maxton paper asserts itl
| belief in Evans innocence, and say,
many Richmond county people SO be
lieve. This whole matter will be reg
ularly placed before the governor in
day or two, it seems,
The publication Of affidavits, on
signer being an Episcopal clergyman
that in speech at Rocky Mount Sen
| atOr Butler said the democratic part,
| sought to promote outrages upon wo
men, has aroused a fresh outburst O
anger, privately and in the papers
! which may take a very serious turn
The senator makes denial Of the state
| ment.
| Mr. George T. Leach who is now IL
Raleigh, was arranging to occupy tn,
Park Hotel at High Point, but it wa.
burned night before last. The loss /:
some $500, with 81, 500 insurance
Miss Molander, the Finnish lady whf
IS TO teach the blind pupils here "sloyd'
or fandicraph, has arrived. The mum
Der Of blind in the institution is now
the largest in its forty years existence
"A republican official of prominence
admits that the democrats in NORTH
| Carolina are getting together" RAND
| progress has certainly been made liz
that direction during the past ninety
| days.
EX-State Chemist H. B. Battle will
make his home at Winston. He has
sold his handsome house here His new
enterprise, the phosphate works a
winston, will have an output of 90.
900 tons annually. improvements O,
the acid works at the Caraleigh phos-
phate works here have just been COM
pleted as viii permit double the guam
| tity to be made.
Within seven days two doctors COM
mitted suicide in this state: one at
Shelby and one, DR.. John Strickland.
at Greenville, by taking laudanum AZ
ter the latter had taken the poison he
| laughed and held UP the bottles.
| Congressman Shuford appears to be
| quite out in the cold in the Seventh
| district. His audience the other day.
, after much announcement OF the speak
ing, consisted Of only twelve people. He
| will go to the scrap pile" in next
| years campaign.
| Any effort to get all the cotton grow
! ers In this state to reduce acreage will
IAN, because they simply will not act
| in concert.
John NJ. Walker, Of the state univer-
.sity foot ball team has broken his col.
lar bone and gone home to recover
| tainly give The statements of .hoSa