The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-17
CARROLL TO RESIGN
a.. C.. DOCKERY WILL SUCCEED
HIM JANUARY lsT

More Specimens for the State M~seura.
Coal MisinE Company Chartered-Grsas
Increase In Illicit Distillfng-Ths Sea-
board'si Control Of the c. r. Y. n. n.
The Apple Trade In the west-Souehpors
Division Of Naval Reservss-Coston Plant
ers and Spectators
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. N. c., Dec. Is.
Today the state museum received
from the state geologist efghty-three
boxes Of specimens. These are sent
from Chapel Hill and will be placed In
rhe new ases
The state grants a charter to the St.
Helena Gold Mining Company. OF RAN
dolph county. for sixty years. capital
$4,000. NJ. o.. Beatty and others
tors.
The six days term OF the federal
court here ended this afternoon and
Judge Purnell left for Charlotte to
hold a special term.
United States Marshal Carol. will on
Wednesday tender his resignation, TO
take effect December a1st. The ap-
pointment of H. c. Dockery as his
successor will be made SO as TO be eff
fective January 1st.
AT no term of the federal court has
the crowd of moonshiners in attend
ance been SO tough. This is a subject
of general remark. Inquiries made
show a decided increase in moonshin-
ing. The high tax is the great induce
ment TO these people TO violate the
law. Most of them actually hin
they are good men and that illicit dis
tilling ought not to be unlawful.
The under-officials of the Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley Railway are declar-
ing that the Sea5oard All Line has not
acquired that a A gentleman in
position to know says hat the Sea-
board Air Line has long had its eye
on this road, and that General Gill,
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley re-
ceiver, has been DESTROYS that the
Seaboard Air Line should get 1T.
John D.. Shaw, of counse for the
Seaboard Air Line, gives notice to the
railway commission that he will this
week file an appeal to the supreme
court from it's order reducing the
freight rate on cotton.
Reference was lately made to the
size of the trade in apples in western
North Carolina. From Asheville alone
SO far this season $1,000 bushels have
been shipped to the southwark. The
demand for the holiday trade is great.
1t is learned that the action of the
Baptist state convention in deciding to
take no stand in the controversy with
DR.. Whitsett was mainly due TO the
efforts of Rev. DR.. ]. w. Carter, of
Raleigh.
The official report of the newspapers
in this state will show that there are
299.
"A fhypnotist is appearing here this
week and in a store window one of his
subjects" is to be put to sleep on a cot
for the a of forty-eight hours.
The state will soon have in service
another (the 5th) division of naval
reserves. at Southport, bringing the
force up to something like $50 officers
and men.
1t is a late season here and roses are
yet in bloom. Yesterday was quite
spring-like. In this section January
n February and half Of March have
become the winter season.
While in some sections in this part
of the state there is far more planting
of wheat than in a long while, yet in
TIC loIIC a. dI - pIdIllcu. pOLiS vi
the farmers seem half dazed by the
low price Of cotton, and others say
they don't care what they do: that
they expect, however, to plant cotton
just as they have always DONE. Quite
a lot Of cotton is yet u%npicked. There
will he picking in January. Persons
who have never before bought cotton
are now buying and storing it. They
have the belief hat it cannot fail to
advance in price. They do not believe
that the crop is as great as reported.
AL Of them, like the farmers, are
bulls" of most pronounced type.