The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-04-09

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doned of Justice Inimical
to Judge eDicK-Adjutant Genera Cowles
to be Minister to Greece.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,
Raleigh, y. c., April l.
Associate Justice Walter Clark has
made the interesting discovery that
nearly sixty years before the exped-
tion Of Sir Walter Raleigh landed at
Roanoke island and eighty-one years
before John Smith landed at James
town, the Spaniards made settlement
on the identical spot afterwards occu-
pied by the English as jamestown.
This Spanish colony consisted of 600
persons, men, women and children,
with priests and physicians, horses
and cattle. DAllon, the leader, died
Of malaria, civil war broke out and af-
ter a year the colony, named San Mi
guel, was abandoned. It's very existence
was unknown even to Bancroft, but
recent researches in the royal library
in Spain unearths the records of this
earliest and unfortunate colony, which
antedated st. Augustine forty years
The state superintendent of public
instruction says he knew all the while
there would be opposition to the new
law to encourage local taxation for
public schools. He decides that the
word district in the act means
township, since the township is the
smallest territory authorized to levy
tax. There will be in a few cases
some hardship, where a school district
now comprises parts of several town.
ships, and this will necessitate some
removals of buildings.
Work is being pushed on the large
annex to the hospital for the insane
here so it can be occupied by June
1st. On each of the four floors are
wards for twenty-five male patients,
and there are bath rooms and a ward
dining room on each floor. In the new
annex to the female wing there is a
cOngregate dining room.
The governor pardOns Henry Har-
ris, Granville county, who was con-
victed of an assault growing out of
some political quarrel. He also par
dOns John w. Benson, eX-treasurer Of
Bladen county, who was convicted of
embezzling $4,000 of county funds. Ben
son was absent quite while, but
returned and gave himself up.
A new era institute of the color
ed BaptiStS is in progress here. The
white Baptists are cooperating in
this work, in accordance with t1Ie uI-
rections OF their state convention.
Cladius DOckery is TO deliver the ad-
dress May 3Oth, decoration day, at
the great national cemetery at Sails
bury.
The weather report for March says
that here the highest temperature was
80, the lowest 81. There were five
frOSts, two of them killing. The rain
fall was 4S2 inches.
The statement ies made that the de-
partment of justice is inimical to Judge
Robert P. Dick, of the Western dis
trict. This is strange, in view Of his
long and valuable service on the bench.
Interest in the approaching session
of the State Teachers Assembly at
Morehead City is greater than in a
number of years past. Its sessions will
be held in the building it formerly
owned, but which is now the town hall
and high school of Morehead City.
The Moravians held a love feast
here last evening-the first ever held
by that denomination anywhere in this
section of the state.
Roses have begun to bloom here. 1t
is regarded as extraordinarily early.
In a few days State Mine Inspector
Hamrick will g9 to the coal mine at
CumnOck. This is really the only mine
covered by the new mining inspection
law, which was drawn only to cover
coal mines.
The new directors of the North Car
olina railway are to take charge this
month, it is said.
Charles A. Cook, Of the state board
| OF internal improvements. has been
| here three days. in conference with
| Governor Russell and Attorney Cen
| eral Walser.
The injunction case of Tucker against
| the governor, president and directors
| Of the Atlantic and North Carolina
| railway, is continued by Judge Simon
| ton until June 9th, at Asheville. Then
| it will come up the day after the one
| set for the hearing of the North Caro-
| lima railway lease case.
| Adjutant General Andrew D. COwles
! Of this state is to be minister tC
! Greece. This is said to be definitely
| agreed on.
! One Of the queer acts passed by the
| late lamented legislature ITO Prevent
| Stock from Running at Large in the
i Town of Sparta, Allegheny County
! and to Promote the Health of thai
) place" 1t provides. among other things
| that no chicken house shall be within
| 100 feet of any dwelling! 1t is suggest
ed by wags that this is For the Pro
! motion of Chicken Stealing and the
| Encourag cement of Camp Meetings.
An effort was made to pass a cigar.
| cite law. 1t failed for the state. Blu
| law did pass as to the town Of Co
! lumbus, Polk county. prohibiting the
! sale therein of cigarettes to any per
! son whatever.
! The ''Sheriffs institute" is the new
! est thing in the way of conventions
/ Three weeks ago it was first talked of
| in the office of the state treasurer
Your correspondent thought the Who'll,
business was a joke and so suggested
that Treasurer Worth lecture in th'
. morning on the revenue act and Chic
Clerk Denmark in the afternoon OF
the "Tnachinery act and that betweel
these entertaining feasts there be il
Illustrations to sheriffs of the best meth
! DDS of hanging, of chasing criminal
| with bloodhounds and of pistol shoot
| ing at criminals trying to escape.
Governor Russell gives the fOllowin.
| reasons for pardoning James NJ. Ben
son, convicted of EN- mbeZzlement at tn
fall term, 1895, of Bladen superiO
court. and sentenced to three years il
the state prison:
This pardon is vigorously urged b,
Hon. James d. Mcdowell, and is rec
commended by the county attorney VIII
prosecuted in the case. and there i