The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-18
Messenger Bureau.


| Raleigh. N. c., February Il
The state today chartered the Iepcky
Mount Ice Company. capital SIS. eoo.
stockholders w. r.. Parrish and others
principal office at Rocky Mount. bx,t
with power to have branches any,
where In the state: the charter siyinr
also n right to have electric Ignt ARA
cold storage plants. A charter Ia ala,
granted the Latta & Martin Purup
Company OF Hickory. capital SeS.oea
stockholders j. A. Martin. j. L. Iatta
and others.
A charter is granted the Raleigh
and Cape Fear railway under section
1882 OF The code. This Is the road OF
which motion was first made In this
correspondence last December. a. n
lumber road from this city to LfFiinE-
ton, the county seat OF Harnett. it's
purpose being to tap the great forests
OF long leaf pine in southeastern
Wake and Harnett. j. A. Mills and
others are c~orporators and the capitaa
stock is 5000. 600.
The supreme court will tomorrow
begin the call Of the docket from the
second district.
All the convicts at the pcniteutIary
have been v~accinated and quite "A
number are disabled.
Superintendent Mewfboorne says he
expects the pen~itentiary proper to he
always used mainly as a hospital: I'm
other words, does not expect to see
convicts employed there on any large
scale.
Railway Commissioners Ahbott's dis
covery that Commissioner Pearson
after conference with Governor Russell
had ordered subpoeras for certain wit
nesses held up after Abbott had dircct-
ed the clerk to issue them, ia causing
quite a stir. There Is no low. lost be-
tween the governor and Abbott; I'm
fact the governor has said that IL All
bolt bothered him he would bounce
him. 1t is whispered that there VIII
be a scene next Thursday, when the
commission meets. The governor. or
course, proposes to dominate the COM
mission.
Last evening Rev. II. r. Graham
was installed as pastor OF the Presley
terian church at Fayetteville.
Very little cotton can now be secured
here owing to the fact that home mnhs
take practically all of IT. The state
now consumes its crop, and has to re
place what is sent away by other cot
ton brought in.
Judge Dwarf says he Is entirely on
fident that he will be confirmed, and
that quickly; and says he has no en-
dorsements save those OF Senator
Pritchard and Representative Pear
son. He appears to think no others
are necessary.
The monument to Vance ~ 40 pe UNI
yelled soon after May LIST, at Asheyille.
and ii is proposed. to make the ccre-
mony a state affair.
rRan1I1,licanS uvhn ba Va a1N-p 10 TIrltE-
waited Congressman Harry Skinner 40
a~sSSiduously, are now making the
statement that SINNERS whole hope
is to fuse with the democrats: but the
latter win certainly have nothing to-
do with him. They say SO, with IN
tire frankness.
In most of the counties the game
season ends March 18th. The slaugh-
ter Of partridges has been great. Yet
Cbservant people say that there Is an
increase in the past few years In the
amount OF game.
"A suit will come UP in court in n few
lays involving title to the entire town
of Pine Level, Johnston county. The
town site was originally the property
Of I. t. Oliver. a rich merchant.
Raleigh has ordered 100 car loads or
sidewalk curbing from the granite
quarries Of Faith, Rowan county.
Stone is now being quarried from th.
place whence that used I'm building the
capitol was AIKEN. The granite Their.
being quarried is of very high quality.
far superior to that used in building
the capitol, and the supply IS great
Steam drills are at work and there Is
a fine plant.
Forty-one counties in this state now
have the stock or nofence law.
Grand Secretary II. II. WOodell says
there are now in the state 115 lodges
OF odd Fellows and twelve Rebckah
degree lodges. During the past twelve
months seven Of the former and two
Of the latter have been organized. n
grand lodge meets here in May and
Will have a special entertainment i'm
honor Of Mr.. Pinkerton. OF Maine. the
deputy grand master Of the sovereign
grand lodge.
Mrs. Annie Kornegay, of GcIdsiyoro-
is to be married this week to Mr.
Charles Dewey, Of that place.
Theodore j. Monroe, Of Chelsea.
Mass. writes the adjutant general.
requesting the address Of Captain
Rena Redfeld, Of the confederate
army.