The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-06

Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.
Raleigh. y. c. July /
The railway commission orders a new
day took up the question OF providing
more accommodations for the negroes
in the Union passenger station here.
The negroes Ia made a great many
complaints. J. c. MacRae appeared for
h Seaboard Air Lin and T. II. Bus
satisfactorily settled.
There were only eleven deaths in this
city during June. The hot weather j.
now very trying. Yesterday the tenn
perature ranged from 90 70 100.
one ~ the questions being asked
here by politicians is what sort Of an
office Will ex-Unitei States Marshal
Joshua 3. Hill get.
:. Ohio Wilson today received news
that his mother-in-law. Mrs, Mary \.
Robbins. Of Forestville. was dying.
MI MeWborn commissioned Of agri-
culture, and j. c. l.. Harris, attorney
of the board If agriculture. will go to
Washington in a day or two 10 see the
secretary of agriculture in regard TO
the settlement Of the cattle quaran-
tine line; hat is. the line Of
against splenetic fever.
The council of state is now the public
printer. So said the secretary Of state
today. He added that orders would be
issued today that the various depart
ments would send the jobs of printing
TO Barnes Bros, and the latter will re-
port then TO the secretary OF state, who
VIII lSSlla tho order for tho N-nrk .-
rather approve the requisition. He
will be aided by the auditor in this
matter.
The state apditor says the late leg
iSlature imposed what he terms a stu
pendOus amount Of work on his office,
and Yet allows him no extra help. Be
sides this an annual appropriation OF
s., 500 which had heretofore been made
for contingencies in the office of the
state treasurer was stricken out and
he can't employ any extra help. The
result of the matter. as far as the aud
itOrf is concerned, is that he will have
10 work himself.
Ben. r. Smith. of Reidsville, is COM
missioned adjutant of the second bat
talon of the Third regiment.
The horticultural experiment grounds
near Southern Pines are under the
control Of the state experiment farm
and not of the Agricultural depart
ment. There are eighty acres. of which
sixty are leased from 3. NOnHerff at 81
a year, and twenty from J. NanLind-
ley, for the same amount. these rents
being nominal. on the twenty acre
tract are the cottages and other build
ings.
Another Judgment against the de-
funct Tribune has been obtained. Not
another copper al he squeezed out
of that corporation. 1t was rumOre
that the plant had been resold. but this
is denied.
The late public printers, Stewart
Bros, are deep in trouble again. and
an attempted overcharge is again the
cause. Mr.. Rivers. one of the examin-
ers of public printing, gives me the de-
tails. He says: They put in a bill for
about 1,500. 600 fertilizer "a tags. which
are in blocks of S and are so printed
and they counted each tag singly as an
impression This increased prices
seven times, making the total 50, 900.
while the proper bill was 1925. I allowed
the bill on their statement that they
could furnish these tags singly if they
We're so disposed. I did not know the
law required each impression TO be of
a block Of eight tickets. Ex-Secretary
Bruner explained the matter to me as
to this and I have now made a state
ment that only 1925 should be paid. The
further the matter Of Stewart Bros.
overcharge is looked into the worse it
gets"
President Alderman. Of the UNIVERSE
ty, has gone to Columbia to deliver the
annual address before the University
of South Carolina.
The peach crop is found to be quite
a fin" one so far as late varieties are
concerned.
The machinery in the white institu-
ton here is removed to the colOred
institution for deaf mutes.
David Clark, son Of Judge Walter
Clark, left today for Cornell to take a
special course.