The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-18
Messenger Bureau.

decided to advertise for bids for the
construction OF an auditorium. to cost
not over $50. 600, and also for equip
ment for the same to cost not over
$1,000. 1t was ordered that new pianos
be purchased.
State Labor Commissioners Hamrick
is having a special examination made
OF the water-powers in Cleveland
county. He finds that one stream af-
fords power to operate 100, 600 spindles.
The state superintendent OF public
instruction said the other day that the
cost OF holding the special school tax
election in Craven county was $500. He
was in error. He meant Carteret. No
election was held in Craven.
There continues to be a heavy fall
ing off in the arrivals of convicts at
the penitentiary.
Another great fox hunt is in progress
in Cumberland county. in the Manches-
ter section. General Gill, of Baltimore,
and q party of prominent Georgians
are participating. In the pack are
forty fine hounds.
1t is learned thai Congressman
White (colored) has held up the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Hunter as post
master at Kinston.
Among today's arrivals is Marshall
Mott, who says he is sure he will be
elected solicitor of the Winston dis
trict. Private Secretary Alexander de-
clines to say whether he will be a can
didate for this place.
The Swine Herders' Association OF
the state is called to meet at New
Bern March 3rd.
The model working dairy and the
dairy school, in charge of representa-
tives of the experiment station and
the agricultural college is to be a
feature of the New Bern fair Febru-
airy 2Sth to March 5th.
A Sunday school at Greensboro is
indicted for cutting it's Christmas tree
on the lands Of a countryman. The
cutting is a misdemeanor. The man
wants $40.
1t is probable that there will be pro-
ceedings to force the state auditor to
issue a warrant for the amount of
what are known as the Pamlico and
Carteret oyster claims, a~ggregating
| nearly $4,000. 1t is the contention of
the auditor and treasurer that these
claims are largely fraudulent.
Deputy Revenue LoIlector Gibson
and posse were fred upon by half a
dozen moonshiners in Columbus coun-
ty a day or two ago. One was slightly
wounded.
Judge Purnell, Of the federal court,
dissolves the injunction in the case of
the Camp Manufacturing Company
against Parker, and dismisses the bill.
This is a a case regarding the cutting
of timber on a great tract of land.
The new school law makes the town.
ship the school district. In Haywood
county the school committee refused to
make the change but used the old
district. AS a result they are fined by
the judge, who directs the law en-
forced.
During the New Bern fair there will
he a forestry meeting, at which the
condition Of the lumber industry Of the
easter part of North Carolina and east
ern Virginia and the the condition of
the pine lands of the coast region
will form the chief subjects Of consid-
Grafton. While a definite programme
has not vet been completed, some Of
| the topics on which short papers will
be read are, q preliminary report ON
tha rate of regrowth of the North Car
Dina 'nine on numbered lands, and
methods used for preventing n
extinguishing forest fires In other
states. Other talks will pS given by
prominent lumbermen and timer land
owners upon various problems connect
ed with the eastern pine forests. The
meeting will be at New Bern on the
night of March LIST, and will consider
only practical problems of interest to
saW-mill men and Ian owners.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., Feb. 16.
Little else was talked about here to-
| day save the disaster to the Maine. The
anti-Spanish sentiment is so powerful
that nearly everybody believed III ex-
plosion due to Spanish treachery and
hoped for war.
Ohio Wilson (railway commissioner
or ex-commissioner) as the United
States supreme court may determine,
was asked today whether it had been
the custom for one commissioner to
issue subpoenas for witnesses. Wilson
replied: ANY one of the commission
| ers has the right to issue papers at
n time and any where. 1t is not
necessary that a majority OF the COM
mission should concur as to such q
step. Many times a single commits
! sioner has issued s~ubpoenas."
Great forest fires ragged yesterday
and last night south and southwest of
here. AT Rockingham last night there
was five miles Of fire. A great deal Of
fine pine timber has been ruined. The
wind blew a gale.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
college here is making arrangements
for an exhibit at the exposition at
| Omaha.
| Inquiries were made today at the
railway commission office as to whether
there would be a large attendance of
railway people at tomorrow's hearing,
and it was said there would be. The
passenger rate question, the fertilizer
freight rate matter and the hearing of
| witnesses as to special rates TO hotels
!. will all come VI.
| Superintendent Goodwin, OF the
school for deaf-mutes at Morganton,
Is here and says that in the summer
work will be begun on a S1o, 900 school
building.
The secretary of the agricultural de-
| partment says that there is much in
quiry as to lands in North Carolina by
| people who say they are home-seekers.
| and that a few are coming on, mainly
to Asheville and Southern Pines. Not