The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-03
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.

miastOu-The Blue Laws Enforced-Buts
Ter and Ohio Wilson at Odds
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.
Raleigh. y. c.. August 80.
The action OF the supreme court in
regard TO building and loan associa-
itons. etc, is keeping money out Of the
state. A letter say that money Is not
being invested for this reason: that the
holders would be glad TO lend il. but
that the supreme court is so bitterly
hostile to all foreign corporations that
companies are withdrawing from the
state as rapidly as they can call in
loans. They say they regret this. be-
cause they look upon North Carolina as
as state in which they could make
very favorable loans, provided the
courts would view contracts as binding
upon borrowers.
The streets around the capitol square
are to be macadamized with shell rock
from the state phosphate mine. at
Castle haynes. Some Of this is in use
here and is admirable.
h blue laws" are in force in Ra-
leigh. Only one ice house was open
yesterday, and there were many COM
plants. The drug stores We're only
open a short time during the day. No
iced drinks were sold, and no cigars.
The Sunday closing matter is sure to
be an issue in the city election next
May.
The crops north Of here. say from
the Wake line to the Virginia line, are
said to be among the poorest in the
state. this being due to the drought.
Cotton has certainly been cut Of 10
per CEN by drought, upon a compari-
son of it's present condition n that Of
August 1st.
From talks with a number of per-
sons it is gathered that the present
sentiment in this state in favor OF COM
pulsory education Is very weak indeed.
Public interest is now great in the
outcome of the governors attempt to
Dust two of the railway commission
ers. The replies Of the two commits
sioners will be filed Wednesday morn
ing. That Of Chairman Wilson is pre-
pared. Ohio Wilson went to Round
Knob yesterday to obtain some affi-
davits in his case.
The farmers appear to think That
there will be- a late autumn, which they
specially desire, so all the cotton will
mature. The crop is almost TWO weeks
late, it seems.
1t is now quite clear that Ohio Will
son is at odds with Senator Butler. He
remarked yesterday that he had been
making governors and senator's, but
was now going out Of that line Of bust
ness and proposed to do something for
himself.
The news that at the trial of the
suit of the Plate Ice Company against
the Seaboard Air Line for the loss of
it's factory here, there will be some
startling testimony, is interesting. The
got some SIG, 900 from the in
surance companies for the burned
property, which, it claims, was set on
fire by a spark from a Seaboard Air
Line engine.
The weather is intensely warm and
very trying. Rain is again needed by
all crops.
The state labor commissioner leaves
Wednesday on a tour among the mines
of the extreme western counties. He
will make the trip on horseback.
Farmers Institutes are being held in
the southwestern counties. At none
has the attendance been large. 1t is
the plan to hold a series in the east
later in the year
The news which comes from various
sections of the state is that the DEM
ocrats are beginning to fall in line.
Interest in the party and in the work
ahead is %reviving.
The Times, Raleigh's new afternoon
newspaper, appeared this afternoon.
Wake county's corporations number
twenty-four, with 81, 1000 capital
stock.
Work begins in October on the Cap
itol Clubs SOS, 900 building here. The
architect is Frank P. Milburn, of Char
lotte.
There is quite a strong movement for
the removal of the capitol square fence.