The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-10
Messenger Bureaus.

Raleigh. ~. C.. November Z.
The supreme court today begam the
call OF appeals from the Seventh dis
trict Among the attorneys present are
II. McD. Robinson. II. l. Cook. N. A
Sinclair. OF Fayetteville; ]. ID. shaw.
Jr. of Rockingham. J. II. Cock. OF
Laurinburg: w. A. Murchison. j. ~.
Johnson. Of Jonesboro: George NJ.
Rose. OF Fayetteville.
The most important case 81 the
docket is from Fayetteville. IL involves
the question OF shat GOWNS ownership
OF warerworks and electric lights. The
legislature provided for a SIS, 900 bond
issue; the people ratified *. now k Is
contended that the act did not provide
for n special tax 20 meet the interest
and create n sinking fund. tAe city
c~ontending that this was not necessary
because IL was set forth THAI the regu-
lar tax was ample TO meet these re
oui-ements. Messrs. Robinson and
Cook appear for the city. They speak
with great price OF Fayetteville'x enter
prise. Il having five cotton and silk
mills. while there are Ave others In the
county, and say II is more prosperous
than at any time since the civil war.
The state charters the Toms 4 Nc
Mulhan Carriage Manufacturing Com
pany. Of Hartford. Perquimans county.
Hardly any cotton from interior
North Carolina has been or "a being
shipped foreign this year. The com
presses have little or nothing 60 do
save al Wilmington. as the home mills
are taking practically all The crop.
The keen local demand keeps up
prices.
Charles +. Warren. OF Washington.
n. c., is here. He say that a great
Development Of THE oyster industry ~
in progress in Beaufort county. and
thai Bellhaven will be the centre or
tina trade i'm this state. There are
now six canneries there. owned by
M~arylanders.
The sons of the Revolution hold
their state convention here November
18th.
DR.. Richard II. Lewis, secretary OF
the state board Of health. says there
Is now smallpox in Halifax, Rowan
and Person counties. He expects an
outbreak this autumn much severer
tina that in the spring, as he Ia in
formed that fhere are n thousand IN
fected points i'm southeastern and
southside Virginia and northeastern
North Carolina There are now four
cases at Scotland Neck. In this state
es a whole the disease has been re-
markably well managed.
DR.. Lewis says that the water csm-
panies in some Of the cities and towns
are very slow in showing a DISPOSE
ton to test and maintain the purity
of the water. He says that when PEG
pie discover this municipal ownership
of water works quickly follows:
Rev. DIR. George w. Sanderlin. who
was for four years state auditor. died
at Washington, ID. c., yesterday. lie
was a native OF P~asquotank county and
was 5 years of age. He was during
the past few years third assistant aud
ltor of the United States treasury CO
partment. For some time he had been
in poor health and in an insane ssy-
lum at Washington
The heaviest frost OF the season was
given n welcome today.
The attorneys in the railway tax as
sessment case Thought that the weak
point was in the failure OF the lcgis-
lature to clothe the corporation com
mission with ample power TO assess
axe on railways. They made n strong
point Of it for the railway side.
Miss Uzzell, daughter Of Mr.. ~. ".
UZZell. one Of the public printers, was
run over by n runaway horse late yee-
terday and pF fully hurt.
The demOC-a.4c state committee
very probably meet before the y,,.,
ends.
]. p. Paschall, OF Wilson, has fled
a voluntary petition in bankruptcy.
T.. G.. Harrell, eX-quarterrnasj,er gen
eral Of the state, is convalescinS from
yellow fever at Havan