The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-24


To be Based On Fiat Contained In The
, Code with Some New Feasures-Arxu.
menss on the Textile eho 8lIl-G.
HI. Whites Had Advice 90 she Negroes
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c.. January 10.
Today, as the birthday OF r. E. Lee,
was a state holiday. As usual the leg
islative session was brief and the ad-
journment in honor Of the day.
Superintendent Day, of the peniten-
tiary, is very angry kecause Supervisor
T. E. McCaskey. populist, came here
from n of the state farms to endeav-
or TO induce the board Of directors to
annul the order of Day that McCaskey
should Immediately retire. Day told
McCaskey today that he was out and
would stay out and that a demand for
back salary came with poor grace from
him, as he owed board for his family
for a year or more. Day says other SUI
p~ervisors, like McCaskey, also owe
board to the state for their families.
The legislative joint committee on
the election law is receiving many
suggestions from leading democrats.
Senator Glenn and Representatives
Stubs and Winston, of the commit
tee, are making a draft of a law, in
conjunction with Democratic State
Chairman Simmons. The law will be
taken as it is in The Code and to it
will. be added the feature of electoral
boards in the various counties, and also
only n registrar of election at each
precinct. 1t is said there will be no
feature in it which will disfranchise
any voter, and the ignorant voter will
be given every opportunity to vote.
Outside of the county electoral boards
there is said to be no special feature.
It is not yet decided as to the state
electoral board and how it will be con-
stituted. This information comes from
a m of the committee. The bill
will put in effect the law as it was in
1893 before the days of fusion, with the
changes above alluded to.
The delegates which came here from
Fayetteville, for and against the dis
pensary, returned today. Representa-
tive Robinson, of Cumberland county,
will introduce an amended bill, which,
your correspondent is Informed, merely
strengthens the present ~dispensary
law.
Booker, the negro murderer, who was
hanged here yesterday, mad a new
departure in his speech on the gal
lows, by saying he was going to eaven
who heard this said he hoped Booker
had a through ticket and would not be
put off at a way station.
This afternoon the legislative COM
mittee on manufactures heard argu-
ments in support of the bill a%ppropri-
ating s15,O 600 yearly to the Vance tex
tile school. ]. p. Caldwell, D.. A. Tomp-
kins and r. J. Brevard, of Charlotte,
appeared in favor of it. So did a dele
cation from Raleigh. Both Charlotte
and Raleigh want the school. Repre-
sentative Clarkson, the %introducer of
the bill, a the manufacturers of the
state desire the school to be a district
institution. There are others who say
, it ought to be in connection with the
Agricultural and Mechanical college
at Raleigh.
A leading negro here, who attended
the negro state council yesterday, over
which the congressman, George
H. White, presided, said that Whites
advice was never good to the negroes;
that before the recent election he had
told them to go to the polls with re-
vOlvers n guns ant if they did not
have these to put stones in their pock-
cts. White wanted to get a resolution
through advising the negroes to leave
the state, but was foiled. He also de-
sired to make a thrust at the demo-
Gratis. Here again he was foiled. The
negro who told me this says that John
G. Dancy, the secretary of the
Gil, made while north since the election
some speeches rejecting on the status
of affairs in North Carolina.
Tho nnu Methodist onnfaronop manor
is to appear here February 1st. Rev.
DR.. Ivey will be editor, and Rev. Mr..
Watts, of G%reenville, business mana
ger.
The architects of North Carolina
met here today and formed a state in
stitute, with T. S. Ashe chairman and
H. E. Bonitz secretary.
The negroes do not like the uggeS-
ton of the state superintendent of
public instruction to consolidate their
present seven normal schools, eac of
which gets $4,000 a year, into three
schools. 1t is claimed that several of
their schools are not doing the work
they should do.
In the Fourteenth senatorial district
| Jones, democrat, contests the seat of
White, populist. The latter on the face
of the returns had twenty-five major
| ity. Harnett, Bladen and Sampson
compose the district. A recount is in
progress. Jones shows that over 200
of the votes cast are Illegal, and also
that at Ellington negroes held a meet
ing and agreed to lynch any negro who
voted the democratic ticket. In a
and Harnett the recount is half done.
In Harnett twenty-five votes cast for
| Jones were counted for white. One box
in Bladen is found to have been stolen.
Four convicts-Uriah Bill, serving
thirty years, for murder, from Beau
fort county, N. c.; his brother, Sher-
rill Bill, under the same sentence; Joe
Reed, federal prisoner, safe cracker
| and postoffice robber, from Louisiana,
serving a five years term, and Joe
| Jones, of South Carolina, escaped from
the penitentiary here. Sheriff. Bill is
| recaptured.