The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-23

gtnoer9 ana the SOuther0 R1tlrOxd-M MT.
Mebane Counts on Carrying Fifty Town.
ships In the School Tax Election-Raleigh
Mills Buying Cotton In New Workman.
shsl Carroll Urged to Deny Rumors of .
Deal With Pritchard.
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.
Raleigh, n. c., July Il.
County Commissioner E. D. Sneed, of
Johnston, asked the attorney general
whether the additional county commits
sioners appointed under section 5, chap
ter 135, acts of 1895, had a right to fill
out their unexpired terms, and wheth-
er they were affected by chapter 500.
acts of 1897. repeating the law under
which they were appointed. The at
torney general replies: 1T is my opin-
ion. and / have SO expressed it to a
number of gentlemen who were ap-
pointed under this law, that they would
been appointed. The general rule of
law may be stated to be that the re-
peal of a statute leaves unimpaired
those acts which either have become
vested or though connected with il
have an independent existence. You
have a vested property right in the
office and the act of 1897 does not di-
vest you Of it,"
The weekly weather crop report says
that in general crops are fiourishing.
Cotton is very good. Corn is about
laid by. 1t has improved, though IL
will be short. Bottom land corn is fine.
Tobacco has greatly improved and cut
ting is pretty general in the eastern
district. All crops are making good
progress. Sweet potatoes are very
fine.
AT the white institution for the blind
north wing is being cut up into four
teen music rooms. No new buildings
will be erected this year.
The eX-state printers, Stewart Bros,
are here closing up that business. They
will not attempt to press their claim
for printing fertilizer tax. tags. This is
the disallowed claim.
Much of the talk among republicans
here is about the reconciliation of
Governor Russell and Major Grant. 1t
was certainly unexpected.
1t is said that some trouble is i'm
minent between the Order of Railway
Conductors and the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, and the South
ern railway, relative to the short no
tice regarding the change of termi-
nails to Spencer, n. c., and Marion, Va.
The Biblical Recorder today comes
to the defence Of President kilgo, of
Trinity college, and makes lively at
tack on the state university.
A car load of cotton all the way from
New York has arrived for one of the
mills here.
The state superintendent of public
instruction said today he was glad to
r.
Lincoln and Buncombe counties for the
special tax for public schools. He was
asked in how many townships he ex-
pected to see the election a success,
and replied: I'm about fifty. Do you
not think that good beginning? Ed
itOr Bailey, Of The Biblical Recorder,
expects to see it succeed in 100 town
ships. There are ninety-six counties,
with an average of say twelve town
ships EACH"
The state commissioner Of labor sta
tistics is preparing new blanks for
farm product returns and also special
blank for truck crops, fertilizers, etc.
He has just returned from the noun
tain country and brings the news of
much activity in mining.
United States Marshal Carroll is at
Washington. Some Of his party friends
are urcing that he deny over his own
SlSAd' 1E TIE TuHlOTS In cor
culat i that he has made a deal with
Senator Pritchard. These rumors have
it that when he was charged with hav-
ing assessed his deputy marshals for a
campaign fund he filed in denial q
statement that this could not be true,
as he was not in sympathy with Bryan
and free silver. Yet the marshal was
understood to have given literally Of
his own means to the campaign fund.
The rains in the state this week have
ranged from three-quarters Of an inch
to two and a quarter inches. 1t is the
best rain in three months in some sec
tions.
Millner and Price. the men charged
with robbing the Taylorsville postoffice,
have been put in Jail at Statesville, as
they cannot give bail.
The summer school, at the univer-
sity is declared by experts to be by far
the best ever held there.
Professor Claxton, of Greensboro,
and Professor Toms, of the university,
will next month begin the publication
Of The North Carolina Journal Of Edu-
cation, at Greensboro.