The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-18
Raleigh. y. c. January Is.

This morning ,. OHIO wilson was
summoned TO appear befare the railway
commission to give evidence en- the
subject Of free passes. He procured a
pocket full OF the passes and called out
the roads and their pass numbers OF
course it has always been the custom
for commissioners to have free passes.
The last touches are being given the
new male annex ait the insane asylum.
are all of steel. Many improvements
CT the grounds are in progress. Most
Of the grounds have been regraSsed.
The patients are building some excel
lent roads DR.. Kirby is
showing much interest in the varied
improvements in progress.
The Southern Express peo-
PIE are called on to tell the railway
commission why they ship goods free
for Governor Russell.
Rev. DIR. BaGbb, chaplain at the state
farms, is here, discharged for the third
| and last time. Inc two former dis
charges were mere bluffs. BaHbb says
| affairs are in bad state at the farms.
Peter Hughes, republican, of Alamance
| county, is bounced as supervisor of the
| Halifax farm.
| The pctpulist ~ofice-lloIders are say
ing with much e~xultation that the
| many and varied scandals which are
marking Governor RuSseI's admins
tration are all due to THE republicans;
that none are chargeable to populists.
Republican leaders are saying their
| 1to,,n f1ic woo ic 6o Iaroaaay-o fin k1fccap-
| sions. They add that they will have the
negro vote solid by crushing amy ne
groes who show an independent
| spirit and that the will tell the popu-
| lists if they do not get i'm lime, and the
democrats carry the state the latter will
d~isfranChiSe them.
There lis no end of talk about the
| AbbCtt-Hancock scandal at Newfbern.
The popular comment is that it will
surely get before the courts, though the
suit for damages be dropped. Gover-
nor Russell denies a rugnOr that he has
k Hancock to resign as president
of the Atlantic and North Carolina
railway.
| our more cows of the fine herd at
the Agricultural college, making twelve
in all, that have been killed on account
| of tuberculosis.
There is a good deal of quiet laugh
ter at the railway commission for what
is regarded as a backdown in the mat
ter of the contempt" cases. 1t is no
Secret that tine paper were prepared
| yesterday too and THAT in the afternoon
it was decided not to put them in the
sheriff's hands. and NOT to commit for
the so-cal1ed contempt,
In the superior court here today John
ID. Groves, a young white man, was put
on trial the second time for killing
Henry Wall, colored, near Wake For
est.
Labor Commissioner Hamrick has
gone east to get statistics as to fish and
truck. He say that next year he Will
donate nor space in the report to
these Industries, as he will have but
little trouble in securing facts as to
mill n mining interests.
b. NJ. Duke, of Durham, makes the
Oxford Orphanage another Gift of
$500, contingent upon the raising by
the grand lodge of Masons of a like
sum. His gifts aggregate ST., 500. Yes
terday the grand lodge raised 81 900 of
the desired amount.
Waiter E. Moore ofWilson is re-elect-
ed grand master of Masons.
Chairman Caldwell of the railway
commission makes the remarkable as
ser4tion that Commissioner Abbott goes
down town and talks one way to news
| paper men and then comes back and
votes with Pearson and myself"
In the great Van Lindley peach or
chard near Southern Pines there are
$1,000 trees. There are 400 acres
in fruit.
The Spar ger Bros. Tobacco Company
of Mt. Airy is chartered, capital $780,
900, two thirds herd 10y w. S. Forbes
& Potter of Richmond.
Wheat in this section OF the state is
small, but the stand is very good.
Wheat grCwers say there is more than
| since 1868.
The news that there is a case of
smallpox at Wilmington, the first i'm
the state, was received today with much
surprise. There has been considerable
vaccination here in a great way recent
ly.
| The Park hotel here is to be conduct
ed as a boarding house.
Judge Robert p Dick left last night
for Johns Hopkins hospital. His wife
n Judge Doughlas are with him.
New Postmasters
| Washington. January 13.-Tha president