The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-14
DlSGUSlED WITH POPULlSI
TO DEMOCRATIC
PARTY by HUNDREDS

RETURNING TO DEMOCRATIC
PARTY by HUNDREDS
Raleigh % Have . Monday Morning News
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Weekly Orxan-Ex~cution as 0r~~Dsboro
60 be Pr,vass-A Hosiery Yarn Ail as
Ktnseou-Imp"s.,bie to Reduce settoa
Acreage-rh~ New b~rn aud Norfolk Rail-
way-Piedmons Bsnk MIDDLE
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. c.. December ..
Inspector General Royster today in
spected the state arsenal. In this 10
kept eQuipage for a brigade OF 1000
men.
The populists are going back to the
democrats by the hundreds. That IS
VIA they say in the country. Disgust
with 5 cent cotton n the admins
tration are the prime causes. So say
populists themselves. Senator Butler
and Harry Skinner have both lost pow
er With them.
There will be much criminal business
not disposed Of at the present term OF
the United States district court here
and the adjourned term which begins
January 3rd will probably continue two
weeks.
1t is ordered that the execution OF
Sonly Ryan, wife murderer. at Green's
| boro be private. on the 23rd instant
! He is the most hardened criminal ever
known in his state.
Kinston is to have a hosiery yarn
mill. or these there are comparatively
few in this state.
Some OF the cotton growers express
great indignation at the proposition to
regulate cotton planting, by prescribing
the acreage, and say they would v
submit to any such thing.
Nineteen miles of the Wellington and
Powellsville railway is completed. 1t Is
thought this road will finally be oper-
ated by the Atlantic Coast Line as a
part Of a line between New Bern and
Norfolk. 1t Is to go to Ahoskie.
The Piedmont bank muddle at Nor
canton will not be settled until the
18th, as there are three receivers and
two Injunction suits, The supreme
court VIII no doubt be called on TO
strictly define the right Of the state
treasurer to exclusively make motion
for appointments Of receivers OF state
banks. 1t is contended that the court
in the bank of New Hanover case real
ly conceded him this right.
Complaints are filed with the railway
commission that the Seaboard Air Line
is not adhearing to the schedule OF
freight rates on cotton fixed by the
railway commissioners.
Governor Russell's statement tina
i during his term Of office he desires M
applicant for admission into the insane
: asylum to be rejected will attract at
: tention. If that idea be carried out al
$ the asylums will go in debt. In fac
: present appropriations barely suffice u
E maintain them. The one here is in deb
5 this year $1,000.
h The state association of city schoo
e superintendents is called to meet a
= Greensboro December 18th.
e A large Pennsylvania colony Is to set
n tie I'm Rowan county. A P~hlladelphl
n capitalist will build 300 dwellings |
n Salisbury. That town and section ar
e making great progress.
g II is stated that the promoters OF tn
It Concord and Aberdeen railway hav
II raised ST. So 900. Nothing has been Ne
IS Gently heard of the Stone Mountain G
i the South Bound railway.
n DR.. r. B. Ellis, who was recently pal
d alyzed, has resigned as coroner or tn
Is county.
IT The republicans say they have al
IS raigned to have their tri-Weekly orSa
,e here appear January 18th. .
le Gilbert Ward. the white man WI
i murdered Mag Dinkins, a dissolute VIZ
IN man, a few years g in wayne an
ID fed to Texas was brought back la
lie night. He was taken to Goldsboro al
lp thence brought here and jailed for sa
i keeping.
ct Edgar A.. Womble will establish he
w January 1st a newspaper. The Monds
he Morning Mail. 1t is to appear only {
Monday mornings.
~ Next week the farmers alliance sh
&c factory will begin work, making III
lis pairs daily.
The state charters the Asheboro IL
RI ephone Company, capital $4,000.
he The trial of ex-Postmaster Meeo'
ed the Warren county swindler, IN I
ut federal court here this week VIII pr
at sent a mass of testimony against M
az More of his victims arrived here toos
he II is the wish of the insane asyiu
n directors. though no orders were issu'
,,e that the steward buy upon bid TO II
w. nish supplies as much as possible. L
cd directors desire superintendent hlr
Ct TO continue the course OF taking all CT
90 able patients possible. They see tn
He cannot carry out Governor Russo
tn idea Of receiving all the insane.
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