The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-04
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., March 1

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c., March 1
1t is stated today. by people who de-
clare there is no doubt OF the accuracy
OF the statement, that Senator Butler
has ordered the peoples party TO fuse
with the democrats on congressional
tickets.
The republicans do not like the ap-
pointment of Rev. Baylus Cade as
Governor RusselPs private secretary.
They say it is another evidence of the
governors pOpulistic drift. One re-
publican said it was an ideal appoint
ment, as no man would suit the gov
ernOr so wen.
A member of the council of state who
was talking today about the proposed
lease Of h Atlantic and North Caro-
lima railway to h Southern said the
governor put that matter before the
council with his ablest arguments and
pressed it, saying 1t mean 2h per cent.
on the 1,S0O. 900 Of capital stock, and
that while if the lease were made it
would be Immediately effective, yet it
would be binding only after ratification
~ the legislature The state treas
urer says in regard to this lease that
iiC 1IOpSS IL lIldy YET ne IIIduS, Dul Sees
no reason to change his expressed be-
lief that the action of the railway COM
mission has the matter.
The state auditor, who now has
charge of the public printing, as super
visor, says Nash Bros, of Goldsboro,
are given h printing of the supreme
court reports and the state records;
Edwards, Broughton & TO-, the rail-
way commission report and that of the
auditor, and Barnes Bros. the report
of the bureau of labor statistics, the
bulletin of the agricultural depart
ment and the general job work. He
asserts hat all the work is being done
at less cost than ever bafore.
James NJ. Moody, of Haywood coun-
ty, is here and says the only politics
he knows now is that the Ninth dis
trict will go republican.
Some republicans say they can carry
nearly all the congressional districts
without aid, and that they calculate
on electing seven congressman them
selves and may get eight.
A. j. MOye, one of the populist lead
erS, writing an open letter to his party,
says: Il am a fusionist pure and
simple because i'm no either way can
the true reformers hope to accomplish
anything. We cannot succeed unless
we vote solidly together and be ready to
fuse with amy party that will advo-
cate u principles"
During February there We're only
three deaths of white persons in this
city.
Editor Thomas Fortune, of The New
York Age, the best known negro organ
in the country, will deliver an address
ON Thomas Jefferson IN March Sth at
the negro Agricultural and Mechanical
college at Greensboro.
The evidence is that the fire at the
coal mine which destroyed all
the plant above ground, was fncen-
diary. Rebuilding has begun and new
machinery is ordered, but
15O persons are idle. This mine is in
bad luck. It's forty-five yea of his
tory has been a series of disasters.
The supreme court today began the
hearing Of arguments on appeals from
the our district.
AT the university next Friday there
will be the second annual debate be
tween two members off the senior class
and two from that Of the university of
Georgia, the question being Ought the
United States to annex Hawaii?" E.
K. Graham and w. j. Brogden are the
North Carolina speakers and take the
negative.
The general sentiment as expressed
here is that the administration is ex-
Temel slow in regard to the matter
of the Maine disaster and that there
is a disposition to avoid war no matter
what happens.
Judge PurneIl, of the United States
district court, says he is informed that
the fedora prisoners sentenced to con-
flnement in LenOir county Jail are ac-
tually permitted by the sheriff to go
into the town or country at pleasure.
He will investigate his matter and
fine the sheriff if there is proof. Some
years ago Judge Seymour discovered
that a prisoner sentenced to Jail at
Beaufort, Carteret county,, actually
had a key to the jail given him by his
brother, the sheriff, and came and
went as he liked. The sheriff of Pas
Quotank county refused to receive fed
eral prisoners and Judge Purnell says
he has given notice that if such refusal
is persisted in he will hold court no
longer at Elizabeth City but at Eden
ton or Plymouth. 1t is now required
that he shall open court at Elizabeth
City. but he says he a Immediately
adjourn it and complete the term at
any place in the district.
Langdon and Young, the two young
men who have been such extensive
.swirdlers and burglars here and else
where, are IN great dAmand They are
in Jail here. 1t is claimed that they
knew a other, out this does not ap-
pear to he a fact. They were in differ
ent lines OF roguery.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. C., March 2.
Reports which come in here show
a there will be a very decided in
crease in the tobacco acreage in middle
North Carolina Fertilizer inspectors
who came in today from the eastern
counties say they never saw 50 much
fertilizer and tina the sales will be
double those last season, and that the
acreage in tobacco will be doubled.
They say that in the middle section the
fertilizer sales will be less than 5hey.
were last year.
The state has increased it's SUPPLY
of bail cartridges to 100, 900. News
comes in from all sides of rapid re-
cruiting of companies.
Today Revenue Collector Duncan re-
turned from Washington, where he
went to see the commissioner of in
ternal revenue. He at once issued tenn
porary commissions to all the field