The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-10
THE NEW ROAD LAW
Sustained by the supreme Court-h
Heavy Federal Court Docket The
Wilmington Counterfeiting Case.
~Penitentiary Matters.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. G.. November

Raleigh, N. G., November &.
Associate Justice Robert NJ. Douglas
left for Greensboro last nigtt TO be
present ait the marriage at noon today
Of his daughter. Madeline. TO IL. w.
Myers, Of the estate geological survey.
The supreme court sustains the new
road law, allowing taxation for roads.
This is itha law. an excelleTBt one by
the way, the enactment OF which by
the legislature was due to the zeal
and effort of State Geologist Holmes.
The federal court meets here Decem-
Der 18th. The judge has stated that the
two weeks term is not long enough
20 permit Of the disposal of the great
mass of business, and that 1here will
be a session In January. There are
now on the docket twenty more casee
than ever before and all the commits
sioners have not made r1turps -AsSy3.
An effort was made to a1certain wheth-
er A. j. Marshall, the Wilmington law
yer, would be tried next month, but
the district attorney said he did not
know whether that case could be
reached or not. He said a man who
had been I'm jail OF the charge OF the
same crime ait Wilmington had beer
released on bond, as IL was not desired
TO keep him In jail until the May term.
A magnetic healer" IL causing q
great sensation at Goldsboro. by al
legged miraculous cures. He Is TO come
here. 1t is claimed that ne cured q
case Of locomotor ataxia.
Ex-Congressman Thomas Settle was
here last night. He says he Is await
Ing a reply from the republicans TO his
open letter Ito Congressman Lfnney In
which he takes ground against the
opposition by the republican state COM
mfUtee to the new election law.
= The state charters the High Point
shirt factory. This adds another 40
the already remarkable variety OF m
dustrfes there.
Chairman Mcneil, OF the corporation
commission. says h a an examination
OF the reports on banks as made by
the state bank examiners. shows q fine
condition OF affairs.
The state auditor left today for Tar
boro to attend the wedding OF Miss
Matte Dancy to Henry f. Litchforj.
cashier OF the Citizens National bank.
Of Raleigh
w. II. Osborne, one OF the three
members Of the peni.entiary executive
board. said to your correspondent that
he will take h p~enitentiary and Its
farms and ~convicts of the states
hands, giving a $50, 900 M thaf he
VIII take It for ten years that Il shall
not cost the state a penny; that ne
VIII return all the buildings. etc, In
good repair; that the stock and imple-
ments shall be in as good condition as
at present; and that the state shall ex-
anime henever IL desires. into the
human treatment, clothing. feeding.
etc, Of the convicts. Osborne says the
penftentiary rs now buying 1000 cattf,
at 2h cents gross. will fauten them md
sell under contract to Richmond bul.h-
ers as = cents gross. He says that
LOCO hogs are to be sold; these tobring
5 cents gross, and thar later bully meat
ear be bought at 5 TO 81 cents. He
says this IL economy. So far 100 mules
have been sold at prices close around
$40 for a number carried on the farm
statements as worth only 81 or IS. He
contracts with the Watt Pillow Compa-
ny, or Richmond. TO take the old iron
AT the farms, now thrown away and
cast into bitches at s13 a ton. and says
there are from 100 TO 200 TOPS OF II.