The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-05

Funds From the Penitent tiary -Govern0r's
Counsel In the Telegraph Csse-Accl-
dent to Pleasure Party-"N0rth Caro-.
lima ON wheels"-Sdormon Preachers In
This State September Weather Sum-
mary
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh, N. C., October 2.
The railway commission did not to-
day decide as to the telephone rate. It
announced that it would take the volu-
minous evidence under consideration at
its next meeting. Senator Daniel, who
made a powerful argument in favor Of
the Bell Company, against the low rate
and ridiculing the Interstate Com
pany, left for home today.
The state charters the Railway and
Street Car Indicator Company, of
Edenton, for thirty years, H. A. DON
nan, w. S. Summerell and B. E. Byrd
incorporators, to make the indicators
and sell patent rights.
The superintendent o. the peniten-
tiary today turned over to the treas
ury $9,074 Of penitentiary earnings. He
says that next Monday there will be a
regular exodus from the penitentiary
to the cotton farms, leaving there only
those persons who are sick Even the
females go. 1t is as he says, 'the first
cleaning out the penitentiary has ever
had"
Governor Russell appoints w. c..
Douglas and John w. Hinsdale his
counsel in the injunction case Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company to
prevent the state from enforcing the Is
W:
which is to come up before Judge ST.
mOntOn at W nmingtOn.
The september revenue collections In
this district were the largest, with one
exception, during Collector Simmons
term of office. They were: Whiskey
$13,85S, cigars and cigarettes SIS, 1868, to-
bacco $8O,859; total $l22,002.
Last night party Of ladies and gen.
tlemen from this city went to the in
sane asylum to attend one Of the semi
weekly dances given the patients. On
the return the driver drove over an en-
bankment and as result the carriage
was wrecked and all hurt, two Of the
ladies badly.
The Rolling Exposition" or North
Carolina on Wheels" the $4,000 car
which contains North Carolina's re-
sources in miniature, will be here on
view during the state fair. Then-it will
begin its long tour through twenty-five
states.
Counterfeiters are giving the public
and the officials much trouble in the
Charlotte and Salisbury sections.
Two Mormon preachers or elders ar
rived here today and will preach to-
morrow in the city hall. They were
specially interviewed and said: "Our
number now at work in this state has
been increased to forty. Ezra c. Rob-
inson is our president or presiding ell
der. He has no headquarters but
spends his time visiting the elders. He
is president Of what we know as the
North Carolina conference. We have
about 400 members in this state. During
the past two years none have been
going to Utah. OF late most Of our
special work has been done in Moore
and Montgomery counties. We have q
church building and quite a congrega-
tion at Cameron. We are doing a good
deal Of work in Wayne county. In
Wake we have two congregations, one
at Varina with twenty-three members
and one at Eagle Rock with twenty.
AS rule we elders stay in a state from
two years to thirty months
The George Manufacturing Company,
OF Greensboro, sells it's hosiery mills to
w. e. Stone & Co.
North Carolina will this year be the
| Mecca Of the partridge hunters Never
were the birds more abundant
1t seems that the movement to put a
monument at Raleigh to the memory of
q. b. Vance has died a natural death.
Not dollar has been subscribed in
months.
1t seems to be pretty clearly the pur-
pose Of the administration" not to
pay j. w. Wilson and Otho Wilson
their salaries pending the law suit
Governor Russell and the treasurer
and auditor read together yesterday
| the opinion of the attorney general. OF
| course the governors views dominated
| them.
| There is no sign Of rain. The woods
! are simply whitening and the leaves
| are as dry as dust.
| The statement was made that the
| Southern railway was not selling tick.
cts to Atlanta. It is an error. They
are being regularly sold here.
| The Raleigh saloons have to close al
IL o'clock p. M, but the aldermen al
low them to be kept open all night
during fair week.
| The September weather summary
says the mean temperature that month
was 73 degrees, which is degrees
above the average. The highest wa.
SO, the lowest 48. The rainfall was only
20 Of an inch, while the September av.
erage for the past eleven years is 81
| inches. The deficiency in rainfall thil
! year is 1875 inches. There were M
frOSts. Thunderstorms occurred on th<
1st and End, and 21 days were clear.
The burglars George and William
Cody, whose recapture in Montana Il
announced, broke out Of Jail at Mar
! shall the night before the day OF theil
| execution. Friends aided them.
Mrs. Anderson Young, of Davidson
leads SO far as North Carolina grand
mother, having 100 grandchildren lv
ing.
The September bulletin of the agri
| Raleigh, N. c., October 1.
The September bulletin of the agri
cultural department was not issued un
til last evening. AS usual it contains
the annual list Of all the manufactur
;re atay rs-yoy in, 1an ufo fc rbnv, np