The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-04-20
THE ASYLUM CASES
CONTINUED AT INSTANCE OF THE
NEW BOARD.

on the Local School Tax LaW-John
Daney Knocked Out in the District of
lumbi Recordership-Eye Witness to
killing Of william Manly by q Train.
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel
Raleigh, n. c., April II.
Before the supreme court this morn
volving the three hospitals for the in
sane would be argued. the court a
arranged to hear the argument, OF the
supposition that both sides were ready.
But w. II. Day OF the counsel for the
new boards stated that they were not
ready and asked that the matter be de-
ferred until next Monday. The court
SO ordered. DR.. Miller, superintend-
ent of the hospital at Goldsboro, was
here with his counsel. c. B. Aycock and
w. C. Monroe.
State Treasurer Worth today receiv-
ed the full text of the opinion of the
United States supreme court in the
Ohio express cases. He will lay the
whole matter before the railway com
mission. 1t is the plan. according to
IN pIAicA W 90
as a unit and each state get it's pro
rata. This is the statement which
Treasurer Worth makes of the case.
The state auditor today sen a VAR
rant for $50 to a new agricultural So
ciety just established in Forsyth oun
ty. The law requires this amount paid
to county societies.
Work begins next week on a chapel
at the soldiers home. 1t will replace
the present very small one, which will
then be used as a cottage.
One newspaper has already begun a
fight against the proposed special tax
for public schools, under the new acts,
or which the people are to vote the
coming summer. The voting will only
be in such townships as desire to tax,
SO far as one of the acts is concerned.
AT the Church Of the Good Shepherd
here tomorrow it is expected to raise
s., 900 more Of the building fund, $1,000
being already on hand.
Persons who are here from Charlotte
say the municipal contest there is the
warmest in a great many years. There
are two candidates for mayor, 10Th
wealthy and they are making matters
lively.
1t is now reported that John G.. a
cey, colored, is entirely knocked out
so far as the recOrderShip of the Dis
trict of Columbia is concerned and that
ex-Congressman Cheatham gets it.
Dancy at one time thought he had the
place certain. The fact is the position
was promised a North Carolina negro.
No names We're then mentioned. The
negro members of the legislature
threatened to vote against Pritchard
unless something was done for the
North Carolina negroes. P~ritchard'S
friends authorized the making of the
pledge of the recorderShip to some
North Carolina negro" AS Dancy a
been telegraphed to come here and get
the threatening boilers in line he quite
naturally thought the prize would fall
to him. He said he vas sure Of it.
Polk Miller. so widely known as a
capital shot at birds, says the best shot
in the United States, at DartridgeS. is
J. F. Jordan, Of Greensboro. He makes
no exceptions and declares that were
he a betting man he would stake his
last dollar on Jordan.
Applications are in hand for four new
d Fellow lodges in the state. Grand
Secretary Woodell says that 1896 was
the most trying year the order ever
had in North Carolina. Now the pros
poets are better.
years dSO the Stdte OiIlcldlS dC~
cepted plans for a "hall Of records"
1t was built. There is a great
need of it. Valuable records are stored
in buildings not fire proof, some of
them rented. The state has a desirable
site for a suitable building.
1t is said that the names of 2S5 pupils
to enter the Baptist female university
as soon as it is ready for occupancy are
already secured. It ought to be COM
plete by next winter.
The new state directors of the North
Carolina railway are called to meet
at Greensboro again May 18th.
Avery Morris, a white man, who has
been the engineer at the deaf-mute
school at Morganton has created a sem
sation by running away with a 17-year-
old girl, a laundress in the same insti-
tuition. He deserted a wife and three
children. He and the girl, whom he had
ruined, were captured at Charlotte.
If the supreme court decides as Judge
Adams did in regard to the cases in
Volving the management of the hos
pitfalls for the insane, Drs. Miller, Kirby
and Murphy will serve out their full
terms. The political complexion of the
boards will change any way. as the
terms of three of the members soon ex-
pire, the three being democrats, and of
course the governor will fill these va
cancieS.
1t is asserted in a letter just received
that Mayor S. j. Meakin, of BERTHE
county, a democrat, has received repub-
lican Endorsement for the place of post
office inspector and has gone to Wash
ington and secured the influence of
Senator Pritchard and Congressman
White, n that the local republicans
are raising a big row because of these
things.
1t is conceded that fire insurance
rates on farm property in this state are
too high and they have prevented many
m from insuring. 1t must be ad-
mltted that country risks have not
proved a profitable class to most of the
companies. The rates are now sure to
be reduced and this will please the
farmers
1t now turns out hat an engineer on
the Seaboard Air Line saw William