The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-13
MONEY FROM rHEpKABoDY FUND
For the Public Schools-An Attempt ut
suicide Assaulted by His Son-in-
eIaw-Report OF Inspectors Of state
Farms.
Messenger Bureau.

IarOlna Tor 1sss-3%W. as AUiVWs. Il
Greensboro Normal and Industrial col
lege 8. o0o. New Bern $500. waynesvf1e
$50. High Point 500. Elizabeth City !
$500. Frankiinton s1oo; Goldsboro 500. |
Kinston 500. Mt. Airy 500, Washington
| $500. Winston $500. Fayetteville $500. |
! Plymouth 500, teachers institutes 500, /
! scholarships at the Peabody Normal
| school at Nashville s2.250; total s7,lco.
| The state superintendent The
scholarships at this normal school do
| the state less good than IN other bene-
| fit OF the fund which comes TO us, for
the reason that very many OF the grad
yates of that school go to other states
as teachers"
The state grants charters TO the
wesser Creek Gold Mining Company.
; of Bryson City, Swain county, with
| offices also at Detroit. Mich, capital
81. 900. 900, in 81 shares, stockholders DR..
| George Campbell, DR.. Levi j. Lennox
II. L. Humphrey and James F:
| Company, of Greensboro, capital
$50, 900. in 500 shares. of which Branch
H. Merrimon holds $40, f. p. Wharton
259 and A. w. McAlister i.
The funeral of Philip THEM. n of
Raleigh's we'll known citizens. was held
yesterday.
Governor Russell issues a warrant
for the execution of Avery Kale. OF
Newton, October 10Th. In April OF last
year Kale assassinated another young
white man named Travis, and then fed
to Mt. Airy and enlisted in the First
North Carolina regiment OF volunteers.
While the latter was in camp at Jack
~sonviile, Fla. he was identified and
was brought back, tried and condemn
ed. Governor Russell gave him thirty
days respite. 1t was reported that his
sentence would be committed. This
was an error. 1t was frankly said that
if it had been the people would have
lynched Kale.
There are now thirty-two women in
the penitentiary here and twenty-five
on the Halifax farm. The latter will
be brought here and put at work in
the shirt factory.
Judge Purnell today filed an opinion,
which is final, in the admiralty case
Of Alexander McCullom VS.. The British
Steamship Anaces. from Wilmington.
McCullom had libeled the vessel for
personal damages while at work load
ing cotton, on the ground that the
winchman was careless. The judge
found that there was no carelessnesS,
and so McCullom gets no damages.
]. L. Lucas, a son-in-law of Clerk ].
B. Fortune. of the United States dis
attacked Fortune in the latters
house here, with a razor. He was ar
:. rested and Jailed. Today he was re-
leased.
, Lieutenant Claude ~Broughton is
charged with embezzling funds he col.
t lected to pay the expenses of the Raj
eigh company from here to New York
) 1t is alleged that after the warrant was
, served on him he took poison. His con-
> | dition has been precarious. His tria
? has not yet been held.
At a later hour Lieutenant Brough-
t ton was taken to the hospital. The
physicians think he will recover. HI
confesses to having taken laudanun
and some other poison.
The attorney general decides that thu
general chool act of 1899 does not re
peal the special school act of 1888
which applied to the Fayetteville grad
ed school,.
> At the request and direction of Su
!. perintendent Day Of the penitentiary
4 A. B. Young and James T. LeGrand
: of the board of directors, have made e
|, very complete examination of the peni
! tertiary farms. They said they desir
ed the information so they can make g
D full and intelligent report to the full
1 board on the 18th instant, when it meet.
/ llC1Cs Il1C III III " lSpoi DtiN ~
: will Superintendent Day. The latter
: says he will call On hem for their i'm
qressions Of the farms, crops, etc. They
will call on Day for a complete state
ment of all expenses and receipts, ant
= he says it will be given.
Y Young and LeGrand agree on all thu
= crop estimates. save as to cotton
?. Young estimates that crop at 23,OO
r bales, but this is largely because on,
I counts a heavier bale than the Other
AS to cotton seed Young thinks Their
r will kbe IS, 900 bushels; LeGrand $4,000
:. The other estimates are peanuts, $500
blshels; rice, 5000 bushels. AS to thes'
crops they are not personally Informed
! but take the estimates of experts. o
= corn the estimate is so, 900 bushels; iel'
peas, 1000, with fodder, shucks, pea
vine hay and peanut hay in proportion
They estimate the pork yield at 5000
pounds, n this is heavier than eve
before; LeGrand says five times heavie
4 tina it was last year. Day said that
all this held out the ~penitentiary vii
Il b. s~elf-sustaining. Young and LIE
). Grand say all depends upon the promp
! and complete gathering Of the crops
LeGrand said they ave their homes
conviction in making the estimates
IS Cotton is off 80 Is per cent in yield
as compared with h average CROP
and corn Is per cent; that is on tn
y state farms; yet the crops OF thes
A. farms are the best they ave seen; tn
shortage in the state in general the
consider to be so per cent, as to cottGr
Young says a fifth OF the cotton on tn
farms is now picked. He and LeGran
think the cotton and corn crops on tn
Northampton and Caledonia farms yer
NEARLY equal in high condition, but sa
the Arson farm will yield more cotto
to the acre. They consider that In ge,
4 ting rid of all the farms save the Gale
: donia and Arson, which the state ha
> bought , Day will have 200 convict
; available for railway and cor
struction work. In speaking about II
questions as to whether the peniter
q tiary has ever been self-sustaining. Ii
=. Grand declared that he did not belle,
dy it ever had been. He then went on
nd say: Considering the conditions inc
lent to the supreme courts decision
Days cas- and the p~enitentiary act
1893, the p~enitentiary is well manage
te as far as the farms are concerned. A
IN the details ~ the central prfson