The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-07
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c.. January 5.


The suits TO secure the repudiation
OF county bond. issued in aid OF rail-
ways are having a distinctly bad effect.
Statesville wants waterworks and sold
So, 900 of bonds, but the takers will not
pay for them until the supreme court
passes upon the Charlotte waterworks
bonds. having granted a rehearing in
the latter case. The state papers are
full of angry comment on the success
full repudiation of bonds in Stanly and
that attempted in Buncomba ana
Rutherford. It is declared that by
what has been done already confidence
in all North Carolina securities is shak-
en-. V. S. Lusk. an influential Bun
ccmbe republican, says he will use all
possible pressure to induce the Bun
combe county commissioners to with
draw their S1it 10 invalidate the Spar
tanburg ana Asheville bonds.
1t is proposed at the penitentinary
to put fifty cOnvicts at work about
February 1st, making shirts. using the
chapel for the purpose. The big work
shop in the west wing is not prepared
and will cost considerable to put it in
convicts in the big prison.
The size of the bills for legal services
in the matter of Governor Russells
suit TO annul the lease Of the North Ca al =
olfna railway is SO large that il is said
to have made the directors gasp for
breath. One bill by P w. Aver;tt. is
for $4,000 and it is said others are as
large or nearly as large. None of them
are yet paid.
licans here that Senator Pritchard has
the least idea Of retiring and succeeding
Judge Dick, or that the latter proposes
to resign. Republican State Chairman
Holton expresses the belief that Judge
Dick may resign in the spring; but does
not want TO resign at all unless he can
secure the place for Judge Douglass.
In fact he plainly says now he has no
idea CT resigning.
Alex. Gilmore, negro desperadO
was put in the penitentiary yesterday,
to serve a ten years sentence, and
Isham Wright to serve one year
his term here he will be turned over to
the South Carolina authorities to serve
sixteen years of an uneXpred term.
This city now has six public schools,
one having quite recently been occu-
pied, and in. the spring will begin work
on the seventh.
AT an amateur theatrical pei finance
last night at Asheville a 14-year-o.d boy
named Hampton was shot in the head
and killed by another youth named
Scott. 1t was thought the pistol was
unloaded.
There are 100 cases of moaSels of a
very bad type, at the Baptist orphan
age al ThomaSVille All school work
| is suspended and the place is converted
into a hospital So far no deaths have
resulted.
The Seaboard Air Line notifies the
| railway commission that it will not
| issue any more passes in future save
| to persons who are excepted by the
| railway commission act.
| The populist county commissioners
| here today ousted one of the best pub
| lie road supervisors in the state, solely
| for the purpose of putting in populist
| without a particle of experience rhey
| elected Charles B. Ray, over the pro
| test of ]. B. Hill, chairman of the
| board.
| People from all the eastern trucking
| sections report the outlook as good.
J. A. Brown, the promoter of the
Sunny South" colony at Chadbourn, i:
here and says it now numbers 400
| practically all it's members from the
! northwest.
| The two Wilson's. railway commits
| sioners, have not the slightest idea OF
making any physical contest to regain
| possession of their office, which tbs
| governor had forcibly opened. They
are taking matters quietly and both say
| they leave the entire business in the
| hands of their attorneys, who are Ger.
! tainly very capable men.