The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-24

Dinsgim Seriously Sick b Cotton
Freight Rate Questionable Flag of tho
Fourth North Carolina Regiment
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., December II.
The decision Of the board of agricul-
ture not to relax in any way the regu-
1ations regarding the registration of
that if there was any relaxation in
favor of the truckers it would lead to
frauds by manufacturers.
The board today visited the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college to see
the herd of cattle there, and the sys-
tenn and results of incubation for
tuberculosis. Twelve COWS have SO far
been killed.
The board meets twice a year This
year it met during the state fair, at a
cost of $500, in order that it might see
the fair. Now it is proposed that there
shall be a meeting every sixty days.
Some of the members are engineering
this scheme, while others say that they
will defeat it even if they have to
leave and break a quorum. Some
members desire to make every dollar
they can while members. One MEM
Der says their MOTTO is After Me the
Deluge." Some of the members are
very much offended at the plain talk
of the newspapers about the short ses-
sions each day. Two days would have
amply sufficed for the disposal Of all the
business. The prolongation is merely
for the pay.
Ohio Wilson says that Senator But
Ter is trying to bully the supreme court
into deciding in favor of Governor Rus
sell and Senator Buffers men for rail
way commissioners.
A very remarkable charge is openly
made 10y a penitentiry guard. Tt is
that one of the penitentiary officials per
mItted two cOnvictS to escape upon cOn
ditiOn that they went to a county in
which he has a house and painted it.
The systematic freezing out" Of the
registered whiskey distilleries in the
western district is greatly increasing
the amount of mOonshinfng. While
there is nc such oppression in this dis
trict Yet any deputy will confess that
the mOOnsahinerS are growing more
numerous.
There is nothing in the current state
ment that Spier Whitaker may get the
United States district ~attorneyship.
known membe of the North Carolina
Rev. DR.. j. A. Cunninggim, a we'll
known member of the North Carolina
Methodist Episcopal conference, is
dangerously sick at Greensboro.
Chairman Wilson, Of the railway
commission, has written a letter to the
attorneys for the Seaboard Air Line
saying the commission had never in
t7mated n prospect of a change as
to the freight rate on cotton on the
Carolina Central railway. The hard
ship is caused by the large debt of the
latter road but Chairman Wilson asks
if this fact Mould force the people
along the line to pay a higher rate.
rate iXed by the commission is
exactly that which is i'm effect ON the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railway,
which the Seaboard Air Line is endeav-
ing to buy and operate for the profit in
three-fouTths Of its gross earnings,
taking it with the reduced freight
rate.
Hatton Perry, the negro who was
granted a new trial in Beaufort county
for o~utraging Mrs. Annie Smith, and
again convicted, is to be hanged De-
cem9oer 9th.
Mr.. Bailey, editor of The Biblical Re-
corder and a member of the board of
agriculture, is making a crusade
against the liquor dealers advertise
ments on the North Carolina rolling
car which is now being
loaded here.
Mrs. Persis F. Chase, of New Hamp-
shire, who desires to return the colors
Of the Fourth North Carolina regiment,
captured by her brother, the late Col
rel Cross, is to be asked to return the
flag herself at Charlotte May goth, and
the invitation to do so Will be sent
through Colonel William L. DeRosset,
the confederate veterans
in North Carolina. General George
Burgwin Anderson whose remains are
buried here, was the first colonel of the
and Rev. Edward A. Osborne,
OF Charlotte, was its last.
AT the meeting of the state ~asSocia-
ton of academies here December 2Sth
addresses are to be made by J. M.
Horner. D.. NJ. Prince, NJ. II. Holt, Hol-
land Thompson, Hugh Morson. A. B.
Justice, John E. Kelley, p. L.. Gray, J.
A. Holt and others .
AT h meeting of county SUPERVISORS
Of education here on the 3Oth instant
addresses will be made by President
Alderman, OF h university; President
G. d. McIver, OF the Normal and In
college. and a number of other
well known educators.
Revenue officers from here yesterday
and night captured four Illicit dis
tilleries in Moore and Randolph.
Prosperity comes quickest to the man
whose liver is in good condition De.