The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-14
THE sEARo~RDA AIR LINE
Soon To Have Connection 60 Green's
boro-Pushfng its ntdgeway ssShort
Cur,,-A Mormon Church Established
The Railway Tax Case
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, ". c., September IL.

Messenger bureau, /
Raleigh, ~. c., September IL. |
When W. c. Petty extends his Car
railway 10 Greensboro, as he now
expects 10 do. it VIII give Greensboro |
q connection with the Seaboard Air
which is much desired. The Car
road taps the Seaboard Air Linz
al Manly.
Governor Russell expects TO ATTEND
the Dewey day celebration at New
York. and has invited several state Of
fciaas 10 accompany him.
Good rains have at last fallen here,
and the long period Of no weather, the
hottest in twelve years, has ended.
The local cotton receipts are quite
heavy. The crop is opening rapidly.
The Mormons have now established a
regular church here.
President J. 5. Williams, of the Sea-
board Air Line, is I'd be here on the
9th instant. II his stay is sufficiently
long he is TO be given a reception at
the Capitol Club, SO as to gTve him an.
opportunity to meet Raleighs business.
men
The attorneys representing n state
and the corporation commission in the
$40, eO0, 900 railway tax assessment in
junction matter had a final c~or1e-o~ce
today before leaving for Asheville.
F NJ Simmons, n Of the counsel,
said the affidavits his side had
secured showed that railway proper
ty in North Carolina is not assessed
as high as individual property. On the
other hand, the attorneys for the rail-
ways hin they have a notably strong
case. 1t Will, in fact, be a battle royal.
j. H. Pou, of counse for the commits
sion, says lit will be a great fight"
James Lanier, the Raleigh dwarf,
thirty-seven inches high, who two
weeks & by a. fall in a fire engine
house suffered conclusion of the brain,
was today pronounced out Of danger.
State Treasurer Worth goes to Ashe-
Vile ITO be present at the injunction
case. The auditor finds that he may
not I'VE to go.
Thu adjutant general says that so
far as he knows, forth Carolina will
not De represented at New York by
any TROOPS on Dewey day" He said
he was also unable to say whether any
salute would be fired here that day.
The state charters the Tuscarora cot
ton mills, at Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus
county; paid UP capital $4,000; stock
holders James Cook, l.. J. Vail, j. w.
Cannon, Paul Barringer and A. NJ.
James.
j. r. Young, commissioner of insur-
ance, il; sick at his home in Henderson.
Saturday the ten miles Of the Rich
mond and RidgeWay short cut" of the
Seaboard Air Line between RidgeWay
n the Roanoke river was completed.
The engine, construction train and for
ty men came to Ridgeway and thence
went to Petersburg (from Weldon over
the Coast Line) in order to work IN the
| Petersburg nv The track between
Ridgeway and the i've is laid with
S0-pound rail. The material for the
steel bridge lis at h riverside, and
SO is the material for the great trestle.
! Bridge and trestle will be a. little over
a mile in length. The stone piers for
| the bridge are in place. They were
built fifteen years ago or more. The
| piling for the treStle remains to be
Driven.
COMMISSIONS of Agriculture Patter-
| son wifi conduct a farmers institute
ait Tarboro. Thursday and Friday of
this week, for Edgecombe county. Pro-
fessors Massey and Johnson, of the
! Agricultural and Mechanical college,
will aid him and w. c. McMackin, SUI
pervisor of public roads in Wake, will
deliver a lecture IN good roads.
Mr.. Patterson calls a meeting of the
Nor tn Carolina truckers here on We'd
nesday Of the state fair.