The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-19
BUILDING AND LOAN CASE.
The Rights OF the Stakeholder Defined.
The Smallpox Scare on the Seaboard
Train omen's Rights CurtafIed by
Our Supreme Court Decisions.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., December Is.

The most interesting case in the fed
leral court here today was that against
Iex-Postmaster Hargett, colored. of
Rocky Mount, for ernbezzlement Pitt
man, the other negro postmaster who
was on trial, is now in the p~enitentiary.
Major H. L. Grant, who owns large
Iorickyards at Goldsboro, today closed
a contract to furnish the American
Tobacco Company 5000, 900 brick for
use at Durham. 1t is understood the
company will build a large annex TO
the Duke factory and also some more
storage warehouses
The passengers on the Seaboard Air
Line train which reached here yester-
day afternoon had a a fright, due
TO the presence of a newsboy with a
well developed case of smallpox. AS
the train reached Littleton this was
discovered. AT Mi~ddleburg the train
going to Portsmouth was met. All the
passengers We're moved out of a car
and the newsboy was put in it, with
guards at the doors. A telegram from
portsmouth says that on arrival th1re
the health officer found the boy had
smallpox. The house he left is quaran-
timed. The car in which he was sent
back to Portsmouth<w was d~isinfected.
THE train on which he was coming this
way was disinfected at Monroe last
might. 1t is asserted that the authori-
ties Of Portsmouth nave all the year
been very lax as to smallpox. No less
THAN nine times has it come into Hall
fax county from that place. 1t is said
There are scores of cases and hat there
tare deaths daily from it. Sue is the
news brought by passengers on the
trains. There are now several cases
IOf smallpox in Chatham. 1t appears
THAT the disease in this case came from
lGuilford county.
In a day or two lawyers will go to
charleston to take testimony in the
matter of fertilizer freight rates on
the Seaboard Air Line. They are now
taking such evidence at New York,
Baltimore and Norfolk.
In a building and loan case Judge
Edmonton recently decided that a Dor
rowing member is entitled to credit
flor all he has paid on his stock as we'll
las interest and premiums; hat his
is a present credit and his liabilities as
stakeholder cannot be enforced against
him until the winding up of the con-
Icern. John w. Hinsdale, who repre-
Isents the other side in this matter,
tells me he will appeal to the United
Estates circuit court of appeals, on the
ground that the two relations of sock
holder and borrower are distinct and
that the borrower must settle the debt
without reference to the subscription
Ito stock.
Commenting on the decision of the
supreme court this week that a wife
lcannOt sign a check without her nus
bands consent, which quite reverses
other laws in this matter. Attorney
General Walser remarked today that
women have few rights in North Caro-
lima, and that outsiders since the de-
lCisiOn of the supreme court in the
Long case (97th n. c. Reports) term it
THE pagan court" That decision was
in regard to wife beating. The attorni
Iey general went on to say that wo-
mans legal footing in this state is but
little better than it was in England
200 or 300 years ago. The supreme
court is in fact putting an impeachment
in the way of marriage.
There was argument in the supreme
court yesterday, in the Madison county
bond case, involving $26, 600, this be-
ing the case in which it is alleged that
the county seeks to repudiate.
Deputy Revenue Collector Adams
last night captured two illicit distiller-
lies in Johnston county.
Governor Russell pardons Thomas
Roberts, a white man Go years old, who
in the penitentiary for five years
for murder in the second degree. 1t is
|claimed that the man he killed was a
The meetings of the stockholders of
the railways here which it is desired
to consolidate into the Seaboard Air
Line are very frequent. The Raleigh
and CASTOR stockholders have had no
fewer than six meetings, not includ-
ing failures to meet. 1t is the Ryan
interest which gives the trouble. Some
persons have advised tender treatment
of that minority. Others advise the
hand. The former has been
tried; the latter probably will be OF
the 21st instant. The point is, whether
the Ryan interest hopes to get a a n
|cy figure for it's stock or a big bonus
to quiet it's row-making. Only twenty
one shares can it muster in the Raleigh
and CASTOR, which the legislative has
made the parent road" in the CONSOLE
plan. But the Ryan men lain
that the Seaboard and Roanoke on
|trols the Raleigh and CASTOR and nat
they hold $500 shares and claim 5000
more, the title to which they say is in
the our But the question which the
public here asks as to this Ryan
Interest is shall the tail wag the dog?"
The Ryan men say they prefer to keep
on making trouble.