The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-11
Raleigh. y. c., February S

Raleigh, ". c., February s.
Ex-Congressman Thomas Settle Is
here. He Is now out of politics but
it is quite we'll known he will be in
again when the next campaign opens.
The state charters the Greensboro
Novelty Company, to make furniture.
bed springs. wire oop etc. capital
and others; also the Guilford Roller
FIGURING Mill Company, capital $4,000;
stockholders ]. A Hodgin and others.
E. c. Potter has gone to Tampa,
Florida, as a delegate from this state
to the South and West Congress"
Next week there will be a large ex-
cursion here of northern visitors who
are spending the winter at Pinehurst
n Southern Pines, and who will visit
this city to see the public buildings,
etc.
The supreme cou this morning be-
gan the regular call of the docket for
the spring term. There are no cases
of general Importance so far filed.
Judge Purnell has written the opin-
ion for the United States circuit court
of appeals in the case of the Schloss
Iron and Steel Company VS.. the South
Carolina and Georgia Railway, invol-
wing $4,000. The action was to re-
cover that sum for refusal to take Goa
unde a contract made by Receiver
Chamberlain, Of the road. The decis-
ion is in favor of the defendants n
affirms the Judgment of the United
States circuit court of South Carolina.
There is hearty condemnation of the
Raleigh board of aldermen for charg-
ing rental for one of the public schoo
buildings. 1t is said it was a ucu
measure, and that there is need for
money as expenditures have exceeded
appropriations in some of the depart
mentS.
The state has paid a son of DR.. Mott,
who is, by the way, a penitentiary
steward, S25 for guarding the railway
commission against assailants who
exist only in Governor Russell's vivid
imagination.
All the fruit nurseries in this state
are now pronounced free of the San
Jose scale and have been given GER
tificates.
1t is the general belief hat next Fri
day will see the end of the farcical
proceedings about the lease Of the
North Carolina railway to the South
ern. Governor Russell has tried pitt
fully hard to make the matter Of poll
,tical use to Senator Butler and himself,
but the current opinion is that his
failure is complete.
AT Concord today the cornerstone of
the Coleman cotton mill was laid. This
is the only mill in the world owned and
to he operated by negroes. The white
people of Concord joined in the cele-
bration of the day. The exercises were
held in the court house and there were
white and speakers. Among
the latter were Congressman White
and Booker T. Washington of Atlanta.
The mill is about two-thirds completed
and is a very fine structure.
b. w. Weston, who graduated last
Nav at the state university, was killed
Yesterday by falling into an old mine
near Morganton. He was a chemist
by profession.
The adjourned term OF the federal
court began here this morning, Judge
Purnell on the bench, c. B. Aycock
as solicitor.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., February 9.
v. s. Lusk and j. A. Smith arrived here
today as a committee of the directors OF
the North Carolina railway to audit the
expense account in connection with the
suit to annu the lease of that road to the
Southern. They say they find the ex'
penses of attorneys fees to be about
s., 500; other expenses $SS3.A
Tramps are quite numerous now and
| by their statements are moving IN al Oh
rections. They keep along the railways,
and 90 not like the people in the county.
1t is said the estate of the late NJ.
William H. Willard, of Raleigh, approx
mates $125, 900, and that it Will be divided
among his nine grand children.
The state auditor says large number
of applications for pensions are now com
ing in from soldiers who were in the
North Carolina confederate service dur
ing the war, but who now live in other