The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-03
Raleigh, n. c., November 80.
Messenger Bureau,

today ten boxes containing the collec-
ton of North Carolina gems made by
the late j. A. D. Stevenson of States
willie, a cousin of ex-vice President
Stevenson. It is mex to the largest COL
lection of North Carolina gems, Colonel
H. c.. Deming of Pittsburg, Pa, own
ing n largest. The agricultural de-
partment secured the Stevenson col
lection for $450-a great bargain. It
contains the first specimen of hiddenite
Cor green diamond) ever discovered.
This rare gem is found in Alexander
county n With this collection Of
native gems is included a superb one Of
indian relics.
W. S. Barnes, ex-secretary Of the
farmers alliance. has gone to work here
to make Raleigh the greatest egg mar
ket in the south. Few people realize
the magnitude of this states trade in
eggs and chickens.
Mayor w. N. Everitt, w. G. Leak,
and H. S. Ledbetter. Of Rockingham
arrived here yesterday on business con-
nected with the notable case of John
Evans. They wish to ascertain the
sentiment of leading people in regard
to the matter. Mayor Everitt says that
he has no doubt Of Evans guilt Of the
crime OF outraging Miss Cole. The
young lady, by the way, was engaged
to be married. There was an impress
sion in some quarters that there might
be some politics in this case, as affect
ing the granting OF the sixty days re-
prieve, but it is said this is an entire
error. The Rockingham people do not
object to the respite. They want all
the people to be sure hat Evans is the
guilty man before he is punished.
Mayor Everitt says that throughout the
entire affair the Rockingham people
have been eminently conservative and
laW-abiding.
The secretary Of state grants a char
ter to the North Carolina Presbyterian
Publishing Company Of Charlotte; cap
ital not to exceed $50, 600, term thirty
years, incOrporatOrS j.. r. HOWertOn,
John w. Stage and A. J. McKelway.
The Charlotte bonded warehouse
company, lately chartered by the state,
will Ill the largest warehouses in the
state. They will be twenty in number
and each will hold 900 bales.
John Barnes, the white man, ex-mag-
istrate and populist, who is in Jail here,
from Nash county, for safe keeping
under sentence to serve seven years in
the penitentiary for attempting to out
rage Miss Cora Marlborough, wants to
be what the Jail people term a star
boarder," and asks for a mattress,
table, chairs, etc. He gets none of
these but is in an ordinary cell with
a couple Of m~oOnshiners, a counterfeit
er and a con yicted murderer. Barnes
told a deputy sheriff that he chose to
come to this Jail, but the facts seem
to be that he was sent here to keep him
from a possible l%ynching. 1t seems
that there was some sort Of an attempt
to get at him in the Jail from which
he was brought here.
The anti-liquOr crusade is attaining
large dimensions in Raleigh. Rev. J.
w. Lee, the evangelist is it's promoter.
Tonight there was a mass meeting in
its interest.
Senator Butler will in his paper to-
morrow repeat his denial of the senti-
ments which it Is sworn he expressed
in his speech at Rocky Mount.
Hammond. the man who killed young
/ Averftt at Salisbury, gets off with a
light sentence. two years in the peni-
tertiary.
| 1t is asserted that in Rowan county
the solicitor offered boys attending the
public schools 81 eaoh to testify before
the grand jury as to merchants from
whom they had bought cigarettes.
The average yield Of cotton in this
state this season is nineteen pounds per
acre greater than that in Texas.
Rev. Caesar johnson qualified today
az executor Of Professor H. C.. Crosby.
colored, who died here yesterday of
consumption. For twelve years up TO
last May Crosby had been the super
intendent OF the state cOlOred normal
school at Plymouth. He died Of con-
sumption. He was a graduate OF Shaw
university here, and left 1t nearly all
/ A. >-A<o n1,,o NJ 81 Enn %4 h1;rh
a scholarship for young men.
At the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion conference at New Bern 81, 600 was
raised in an hour in subscriptions to
h Coleman cotton mill at Concord.
which Is to employ negro labor.
The state fiscal year ended today. The
treasury accounts will not be completed
until December 14th. when the inspect
Ding committee meets.
At the request Of Governor Ellerbee
Of South Carolina Governor Russell APP
points the following delegates from the
state at large to the cotton growers
convention at Atlanta, CO., December
14th: ]. P. Sossaman, Of Mecklenburg;
w. P. Bachelor and H.. T. Jones OF
Wake.
The per centage of tillable land in
the state this year Is 50. The average
acreage OF farms is lis. The average
value of improved lane is S13.48 and OF
unimproved $3.50. About Al per cent OF
the land is still in timber Hired labor
ers on farms are on an average en-
ployed seven months in the year, re-
ceiving in summer 1871 per month and
in winter $7.O5. Forty two counties re-
port that the fertility of the land is be-
ing maintained. while eighteen say il
is not. Thirty three counties say that
something is being done towards re-
claiming and by ditching, terracing
ETC.. fourteen say nothing. Thirty three
counties report b as abundant
fourteen that it is scarce; thirty sever
that iaborers can usually find employ
ment all the year: twenty four that
they cannot; forty four that the educa
tional condition Of working men is i'm
proving; fifteen that it is not; forty
two that their moral condition Is i'm
proving: eighteen that 1t is not.
The Post. the new democratic morn: