The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-15

The average yield per acre was;
Corn II bushels, wheat s, oats IL, cot
ton GA pounds of seed or 2. 4 of lint,
tobacco COS.
The state today granted a charter to
the Swannanoa Hatel Company of
Asheville, F. A. Lewis, Hugh Labarbe
and John Hay Williams stockholders.
Ctho Wilson returned today from a
"populist missionary tour" in the first
district. He says the %populists in W
or three counties there are unanimous
for cooperation with republicans.
The cost of the election on special
taxes for public schools, held last Aug
ust, is now being reported. So far
the highest cost was in Craven, $500.
In one county it was only S14.50.
Claude Bernard was this morning
sworn in as United States district at
torney by clerk Fortune of the dis
trict court. His resignation as state
solicitor, dated yesterday, reached the
governor today. Bernard says he has
no idea who will succeed his as solicit
tor, but it is the general belief that
Wheeler Martin will be the man.
There are To- to be two assistant
district attorneys. One of these, it
has been understood, would be Ed.
Johnson, colored, of Raleigh, but the
Russell republicans are fighting this
furiously, and now it is said Congress
man Harry Skinner claims the place
for one of his friends.
A man came in this morning and
told the sheriff that as to the killing
of Strickland yesterday Browning had
to do it, and that it was a clear case
of self defence. James H. Pou says he
has expected it for years.
DR.. A. ID. Mayo of Boston is to de-
liver the annual address before the
colored Agricultural and Mechanical
college at Greensboro.
Prince Impey, of South Africa, who
came here last August to attend Shaw
University, is dying of %galloping con-
surption.
The state commission for the ex-
tirpation offru it pests met here to-
day. 1t has done good work.
1t is learned that President An
drews, of Brown university, will de-
liver the commencement address at
Wake Forest college May oath.
The Southern Railway rescinds it's
order f%orbidding the giving of passes
to families of employees.
At Wake Forest college last night
in the literary debate Of the societies
the side which championed civil SER
vice" won. The other side
would have won if one of
it's champions had nat charg-
ed that one of the civil service men
had boosted that his speech was not
original.
The penitentiary will put in cultiva-
ton 300 acres of rice land near Will
mington.
Good progress is being made on
the monument at Asheville, in the
court house square, to Senator Vance.
Today the pedestal was completed. 1t
bears the n word Vance"
w. A. Guthrie, populist nominee for
governor in 1896, is now al inventor,
and has patented An automatic cleo
trio fire danger signal.
h assertion is now made that the
railway commissioners purpose on the
l7tn instant to reduce passenger rates
TO ? cents second class, ana 2h first
class ont he principles lines in the
state. Some persons think the reduc-
ton will be even greater. The COM
mission has been spurred by certain
officials to make a sharp reduction.
Walter Fowler, a newspaper press
man here, was before the mayor today
for shooting at W. r. Blake
last night. The shooting occur
ed at or ear Fowler's house.
The attorney general decides that
the state board of education has con-
troll of swamp lands where the tract
is under 2 900 acres, if the same has
been surveyed with a view to drainage
and reclamation, but if under 1000
acres and no steps toward reclalma-
ton has been made then citizens nav
make entry of such lands.