The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
THE PENTTEN1IRY DEBTS
The Payment Begun-Enough Money
for Tbem-BiOekade Stills Seized-Ins
sane Asylum Notes.-The Public Prtnts
ing-No News Of Lynehing I'm Carteret
Messenger Bureau.
Raeigh, n. G., June Is.

Haelgn, N. T., June 10.
The sum total of the penitentiary
debts under the fusion regime has been
ascertained and is Sis, O06, so there will
be sufficient funds TO a all. These
debts are up t. March 9Th last-
There are now in all 1,1e0 convicts,
Of whom $40 are on the farms and 260
in the central prison here. OF the EGO
about rs are unfit for hard labor. There
are rs at work in the brick yards, near
ly all of them being federal prisoners.
Farmer Reavis, a white convict from
Pennsylvania county. who escaped four
years ago, was captured yesterday at
S~partanburg, s. c..
F. H. Holmes was today commission
ed captain of Company H, Second regi-
ment, at Clinton. vice d. T. Herring,
resigned.
The executive committee of the CEN
trail asylum for the insane met here to-
day. superintendent Kirby says there
are now 425 patients. Some ago
a number of paralyticS and other per-
sons of that class were sent here, IN
curables. Now these are out or the way
and the asylum is accommodating al
the insane Of the durable class in this
district. There r many applications
from the Western district for adnis-
sion, the asylum at Morganton being
Overcrowded.
Revenue officers last Friday night
made a raid in Johnston county n
captured three illicit distilleries. Tues
day night they made another raid In
this country and captured two.
w. A. Graham, OF Lincoln county,, OF
the board of agriculture, is here as a
membe of the executive committee to
supervise the turning over of the ag-
ricultural department by the f~usionists
to the democrats, which official cere-
mony occurred ait noon today, Judge
Clark administering h oaths to Com
missioner Patterson, Clerk Bruner n
the other officials. Major Graham says
as to the crops in his section. cotton
is normal, but corn is thirty days late.
Commissioner Patterson SayS as to the
Caldwell section that the hot weather
of last week and the fine rains which
followed have made the crops look very
well. Elder P. D. Gold, Of Wilson.
brings news from that section of good
crops
All the physicians at the penitentiary
farms are by Superintendent Days or
der placed under DIR James Mckee.
who is chief physician.
Secretary of State Cyrus Thompson
went to Morehead City today.
1t is said that about 300 OF
the North Carolina Teachers Assem-
bly, are at Morehead City.
The interior of the supreme court Ii
brary is being remodeled. The consul
tation rooms of the five justices are
being moved from the first TO- to the
second.
The state today chartered the "BeIo
Home" at Salem. 1t is for aged n in
firm, for persons of good repute left
| entirely without means, for destitute
| orphans and for neglected children.
Il Tho r nd hQrf0rdtnn T~a1anhnna Com
| pany was also granted a charter.
1t appears that there is a movement
! by the labor commissioner to enforce
the $50 a day penalty against h pub
| lie printers, for each day after June 9th
7 when they failed ito deliver all the laws,
journals n documents Of 1899. The
/ public printers ON their part are making
! extracts from the records of past years
I to show that in similar cases penalties
| were not imposed. The public printers
have a strong case, as it was very late
before they were given h printing.
Lieutenant Douglas Settle, United
States recruiting officer here, has open
ed a branch Office at Greensboro. There
are many applicants for enlistments,
most Of them desiring service in the
Philippines.
No news was given out yesterday
from the executive Office as ITO the TAX
ing of a negro prisoner charged with
murder from h Jail of Carteret coun-
ty. Private Secretary Cade said this
morning no news had been received
about it. He expressed the view tina:
it was not lynchers, but the prisoners
friends who took him from jail, and said
such a thing had been done in that
county before.
An excursion from High DIN am
here today. There are twenty-five fac.
tories in that progressive town an6
they shut down for the occasion.
The claims by the various companies
of the First regiment OF volunteers are
coming in. These are for expenses in.
CURED in mobilizing last April before
coming to camp here. The claims OF
the Second and Third regiments have
been paid.