The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-04-16
THE new FEDERAL JUDGE
REQUIRED To GIVE PLEDGE TO
APPOINT j. II. FORTUNE CLERK.

Senator Butler Thinks tue Gold Demo.
crafts VIII Return to and Dominate
Their Old Party Woman Burned to
Death in a Grave Miraculous Is
cape of a Child in the Harrisburg Rsll.
way Aeeident-Frsuds Perpetrated on
Public schools.
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.
Raleigh. y. C, April Is.
The republicans of the Fourth ward
Of this city last evening had a meet
ing and carried out the prepared plan
by endorsing an independent democrat
for mayor.
1t is asserted here that Julius b. For
tune, who quite recently came TO his
city from Shelby, came with the prom
Use from Senator Pritchard that he was
to have the position OF clerk OF the
United States district court, which Ma
thaniel j. Riddick mas held for thirty
one years. j. c. l.. Harris was asked
today for the facts in the case and
gave what is said above. adding that
a pledge to appoint Fortune would be
a condition precedent to the endorse
ment Of any person for judge by Pritch-
ard. 4
Captain Z. 3. c. Hambley, well
known as a breeder of fine cattle in
Rowan county, who recently sold his
herd to Vanderbilt, will make oxford
his home. IsftsE
Senator Butler says in his paper to-
day that he thinks there is some dam
ger that the gold democrats will go
back into the democratic party and to
some extent at least get control of that
organization that if this should happen
then the rank and file of the democrat
ic party would come almost i'm a body
to the peoples party and We could de-
feat the republican gold and monopoly
candidate and elect a peoples party
| president with a cO-oDeratiOn of the
silver republicans" He then says the
; republicans are putting agents at
work among the poDulists, to induce
them to do something foolish. He con-
cludes: We appeal to every true OPP
ulist who may a been misled by the
middle of the road cry to be on his
guard and not be caught in this shy
lock trap"
The populists Of Edgecombe county
at a meeting last Friday r~epudiated all
that the boiling populists in the legis-
lature did.
Two cOnvicts from Gates county and
thirteen from Halifax are the latest
arrivals at the penitentiary.
A remarkable accident occurred at
Fayetteville yesterday. A negro wo-
nan was burned to death in a grave
yard. On the other hand there was a
wonderful escape of a child from Death
in the railway accident at Harrisburg
Sunday. The child, aged 4, was at an
open window of a car. In the shock
of the awful collision the child was
thrown out of the window aud against
the side of a deep cut, yet escaped
without any injury.
The failure of the Yadkin Falls Man
! ufacturing Company involved the New
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ter's mill is sold for only $4,000. the
stockholders losing all their invest
ment.
The state superintendent of public
instruction is in receipt of letters which
say that a great fraud is being perpe-
trated on the public schools by certain
persons who sell charts. These charts,
worth. he says, about $3.50, are sold for
$16. In one county he declares, no less
han $4,000 of public school money was
thus expended. The superintendent
says this reckless expenditure, of money
is one thing which sets many persons
against the common schools.
Some of the judges when asked what
would be construed as the legislative
intent where an act simply repealed
another act, without stating whether
the latter was public or private. said
the construction would be that it re-
! pealed a public law.
The efforts to secure a railway to the
: town of Snow Hill is an earnest one.
, The people of Green county will vote
on a bond issue in aid Of it. Northern
men will put up half the cost of the
road.
The survey for a harbOr Of refuge at
Cape OOk is completed.
The supreme court today took up the
Eleventh district appeals. They are So
few hat they can be disposed Of IN a
couple of days.
The weekly weather crop bulletin for
the week ending yesterday says: The
weather conditions for the week ending
s o'clock a. M, Monday, April 18th,
, have been slightly more favorable, at
least in the eastern portion of the
state. though there has been again too
much rain generally. A heavy thun-
derstOrm with excessive rain of about
two inches occurred early Friday morn
ing. The temperature was considera-
+. bly, above the normal. until the 10th
when it turned cooler with light frost
in extreme west portion. Considerable
progress has been made in planting
corn; and some cotton has been put in.
/ Truck crops and strawberries are
! growing we'll in the eastern district.
Fair, warmer weather is needed.
Eastern district-The first part of the
week was warm and favorable for farm
work, but after the heavy rain or Fri
day the weather turned cooler. Farm
work progressed we'll at some points.
Corn planting is now we'll advanced
on uplands and some corn is up and
looking well. Preparations for cotton
are under way and a few farmers have
commenced to plant. Truck crops are
growing rapidly; beans are uD and
May peas in bloom. Irish potatoes are
coming up nicely. Sweet potatoes be-
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Roadway. Many correspondents report
tobacco plants large and nearly ready
to set. Some rice has been planted.
Strawberries show little signs of dam
age by frost, are setting fruit we'll and
at many points ripening rapidly.
Wheat, fall oats and clover are looking
well, and spring oats are green and
have good stand.