The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-15

Democrats and Republicans Preps rM-
tions for State Fair-Mrs. Watson at the
Ho.pital-Par;ies to be Prosecuted for Is
suing scrip-Repubiicans Dodsing the
Penitentiary Situation-Builer Afraid Of
the Color Line
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh. y. c.. October IL.
The news of a big republican deal to
have Judge Dick retire in favor Of
Senator Pritchard causes plenty Of
talk in the state. Governor Russelrs
private secretary said this morning
that he was laughing al some OF the re-
ported sequences of that change. Un-
Questionably, there is something in the
wind. The interesting factor in all OF
ii is what Governor Russell may do.
He has no love for Senator Pritchard.
All the state knows that. He greatly
desires his attorney and earnest sup
porter, Charles A. Cook, to get a posi-
ton. But If Senator Butler believes
that the governor is trying to supplant
him as senator then there will be a
howl and sudden dissolution of a
newly formed friendship.
1t is said by Guy Barnes, the new
public printer, that great deal of the
state paper shipped here from Winston
and which he is storing is useless and
old. 1t has been shipped four times.
Senator Butler is sending his pop
ulist organ to anti-monopoly democrats
and republicans, of whom he has lists.
This city is being gaily decorated for
the state fair. The manager of the BIZ
cycle races says it is assured that a
number of riders will enter. The trot-
1>n1f H.
used. 1t is Of course, an earthen track,
but will be rolled hard. OF course great
speed can't be made.
Judge Purnell, after a hearing under
habeas corpus proceedings, dismisses
the case against J. B. Roberts, a man
who was charged with swindling some
people at Monroe by personating a
United States postofice inspector.
Mrs. Watson, who was shot here
Monday by her husband. is now in the
hospital. Hope for her recovery is in
creasing. One paper made the an
nOuncement that her quick paralysis
was due to the cutting of her spinal
cord by the bullet which her husbands s
revolver fired into her side.
The United States district attorney
finds that west Of here a number of
persons are violating a national law
by issuing scrip in denominations from
3 cents upward. He will prosecute in
Sucn cases.
A 6-year-old child is reported to have
picked 160 pounds Of cotton in a day.
The price paid here for picking is now
80 cents 100 pounds.
Travelling men are now saying that
they find business rather dull in the
state.
Bird shooting has begun in several
OF the counties. There Is great crop
OF partridges.
The republicans and populists are
trying to hide their own bad manage
ment of the penitentiary by shouting
that in 1856 the democratic admins
tration spent $50, 900 from the treasury
on it. The ex-superintendent, Mr.. Lea
Ear, showed that not a cent Of state
money was used in 1896. The fusionists
are declaring that he left it $19, 900 in
debt.
The movement to have February 18th
made Lincoln Day. in the public
schools Of the United States, originated
in San Francisco.
Senator Butler declares that trans
portation reform" will be the issue in
the election Of the next legislature. He
says that while people are screaming
for white supremacy" they are "se
cretly scheming to turn the state over
to fusion Of goldbug democrats and
railroad negroes"
1t is expected that there will be quite
a large attendance here at the state
road congress October Goth.
The annual meeting Of the North
Carolina Confederate Veterans Asso-
citation will be held at the capitol Oc-
tober Goth.