The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-07
Raleigh, N. c., December 2.
Messenger Bureau,

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., December 2.
The supreme court decides, in the
case of the state against Jones, from
Rockingham, thai under sections 81
and SO Of the new revenue act it IS not
the duty Of the sheriff to make report
of tax delinquents to the court, as pro-
vided for by this law. until after the
day Of levying and selling has passed.
This fully sustains the attorney gen
erals opinion.
The auditor is now making out the
pension warrants, 5,738 in number.
Some Of the floors in the capitol are
so much decayed that steam cannot be
turned on them, SO offensive is the Odor
of the heated timbers.
Bishop Cheshire's address to the
North Carolina Methodist conference
yesterday was extremely we'll received.
He says me looks for unity of the
Methodists and ~Episcopalians.
A republican state o~fIice-holder said
today: What fools our people have
been-before we have been in office a
year., to raise all this row about passes.
We have killed the goose that laid the
golden egg. Just at a time when
passes could do us the most good we
have cut them off"
This week the penitentiary convicts,
seventy-six in number, grading the eX-
tension of the Carthage railway, will
finish it. 1T is not known what will
then be lone with them. A Mr.. Wade
at Hub, Columbus county, wants a
number of them.
The notwithstanding populists are
trying to stem the current which is
sweeping so many Of their party back
to the democrats.
Judge Starbuck is making things
lively for delinquent tax payers in For
syth county. He makes them all pay
the tax and, in addition, the costs,
never less than $40.
A republican says there are now six
parties" in this state-gold democrats,
silver democrats, republicans, Russell
ner pOpulists.
1t is said that the Lynchites, or sane
titled band, have acquired a strange
dominion over the people of Southport.
A preacher, when asked why the
churches did not attack these peOple,
said they would raise the cry of per-
secutiOn. In one house in the village,
of only two small rooms, seventeen
persons live, sleeping together promis-
c%uOusly, nine of them being children.
1T seems to be the duty OF the churches
to drive these people out Of the state.
The state authorities have been asked
10 do ca Int haun 1nno nntI,ipO
There is not nearly 50 much enthu-
siasm here in the anti-saloon move
ment or league as was at first shown,
and it's promoters are disappointed.
Two of the numerous fakirs who at
the various fairs in the state have so
bodily swindled the people, are sent to
the p~enitentiary from Forsyth.
1t is the remark Of members of the
democratic state committee that there
is to be next year a clean, Open dem
Ocratic fight from beginning to end,
without compromise or fusion with any
party.
Weeks ago your correspondent pub
liShed the statement by a republican
that it seemed to him that Senators
Butler and Pritchard had agreed or
about agreed to bury the hatchet. 1t
was denied. Now the whole matter is
up again. Some of the pOpuliSts nave
for six mouths believed that Butler
was trying to get in with the demo-
Gratis. Now they see hat the demo-
Gratis will not touch him. Butler is
greatly worried. The speech at Rocky
Mount causes much Of the worry. He
has a -four column editorial denial,
with a score of affidavits.
Mrs. Fanny Hayes, vino has been in
charge of the old woman's home here,
goes to Norfolk. and Mrs. Fletcher, of
Wilmington, succeeds her.
Engineer Thad Peasants, Of the Sea-
board Air Line, gets the $4,1 100 damages
for injury which the railway agreed to
pay in compromise.
Congressman Linney called on Gov
ernor Russell yesterday. He is a crank
on the anti-civil service question.
Congressman Strowd declares that
congress ought to take immediate
steps to recognize Cuban independence.
Great progress is being made in
wheat sowing.
The penitentiary not only has the
Boylan farm nea here. but also the
Grimes farm.
There are seven conferences of the
Christian church in this state. The
kast enc is now in session.
Mrs. Mary Bird. Harrisburg, Pa,
says: My child is worth millions to
me-: yet / would have lost her by Group