The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-22
fHE LEASE FAVORED
BY THE PRIVATE DIRECTORS OF
THE A. & N. G. RAILROAD.
Mewboorne and Person not A nth orizsd to
Represent Them Developments Ex
pected-A Horse Dealer Jailed for swind- :
Hsg-Railway CommIasioner Pesrson.s
"JudEment"-state Guard Ready to Nov .
1t Short Notice
Messenger Bureau


''Judgment'-State Guard Re ad y to Move
at short Notice
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh. N. c., March 10.
Today civl service examination was
held here for places in the revenue ser
vice. There are only eleven persons
under examination.
The directors of the Atlantic and
North Carolina on the part of the pri-
waite stockholders deny that at any
meeting resolutions protesting against
the lease of that road to the Southern
were adopted or introduced. j. F. New
poorne and DR.. Fox Person, two of the
state directors. came here this week to
see Governor Russell and informed him
they We're sent as a committee by the
directors and that the road is now MAX
ing money; something like or per
cent. during the last six months of 1897
1hey may have been accredited as from
une entire directorate, but certainly
represent no more than the state direc-
tors as the private ones favor the lease
ana say the figures of profit given are
entirely inaccurate. The governor. is.
however, bent on leasing the road.
something about this matter NAV de-:
Vefop quite speedily.
The guards at the penitentiary are
10 be uniformed. This is done at the
request OF the government. For over
twenty years they have not been in
uniform.
Qult a number of the populists who
We're here early in the week argued in
a quiet way how Chairman Caldwell,
OF the railway commission, was going
10 vote on the passenger rate reduc-
tlon matter. 1t was thought up to
Wednesday night that he would vote
to allow the exceptions of the railways,
But ut turns out that Tuesday night he
told another populst he intended to
vote 20 overrule.
Frank Welsh, a horse trader from
roanoke Va, was jailed here last
night, having failed to give bond in
5000 in civil suit brought by DR.. p. L.
McCulfers, who charges that Welsh
swindled him out Of 5000 in regard to
a pair Of horses.
Ihe young burglar, whose real name
| as supposed to be Young and who is in
JAN mere, is so reticent that he has
nOthlng to say to the other prisoners.
He is carefully watched, as he is
known to be desperate.
romorroW afternoon union memorial
| services will be held here under the
auspices of the Womens Christian
Temperance Union, in honor of the late
Miss Frances Willard.
The Benson library building and con-
tents, the gift Of New England lady
to st. Augustine's normal school (col-
ored) here was formerly presented YES
terday afternoon.
1t is ascertained that the two wings
iCt ortx
| harmonious as they desire it to appear
that they are.
Active work began today on the i'm
provement, mainly terracing, of the
| capitol square.
The street improvement force is now
| the largest ever employed here. 1t is
| operating under the $50 900 bond issue
| hallway Commissioner Pearson says
| he we'll knows that by Chairman Cald-
! Wells vote against the proposed "judg-
| ment' in the passenger rate case last
! Thursday that the judgment would not
| be considered part of the record for
| the courts, but that he had TO content
| himself with getting the judgments on
the commissions journal of record.
| -Four more Mormon elders have ar
| rived here. Two have been making a
| long tour on foot in this county.
| The penitentiary directors decline to
| accede to the request Of Superintendent
| Mewboorne that they so change the
rules as not to make the approval of
bills by the executive committee a ne
cessity before payment.
| Donations to public schools under the
new law, which requires the state to
| give an equal amount out of the gen.
eral fund, must be made by townships
| and not for individual schools Notices
| come in Of dona tionS Of the latter char
| acter.
Special int est is felt here in the
| fight for the Raleigh postoffice. John
Nichols let it be known that he was
no opponent of A. w. Shaffer. c. T.
Bailey advised people to bet that he
would get the place.
| All plans are we'll in hand for calling
the state guard into service as soon as
the president makes a call for troops
| No notices of any kind have been sent
to troops to prepare, as it is known tina
bhe force Is in good shape, though ot
course in skeleton formation. In cas-.
OF call it is expected that the guard.
would rendezvous here ranks be filed
the additional battalion added to eacf
regiment, and then when the strength
was complete and the required physi
cal examination passed the force woult
be mustered into the service of th'
United States, in the usual way. Their,
would not be the least trouble in OBJ
| tanning at once twice as many men a.
the president might call for.
Appeals from the 7th District will b.
| called in supreme court Tuesday, a.
follows: Sorrell VS.. Stinson, Horne VS.
commissioners of Cumberland. johnson
vs. Townsend, Sewing Machine Com
! pany VS.. Thomas, Carter VS.. Slocumb
Cooper VS.. Security Company. Luca!
| VS.. Railroad, Mcleod VS.. Nimocks
Mcleod VS.. Williams Cooper vs. Nc
| Kinnon.