The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-10
Of SEIBOIRD ROAD
Will Be of Great Bene-
fit to Raleigh.
HEPRoMpTA ACTION
OF h Legislature r. TO Reducing Kx:
penseso Of It's session and the Public
Printrng-A Sheriff Accused OF DefaIs
cation Captain CapebafDs Serious
Attack Collector Duncan Rodsing
b Civil Service-The SoidierA None
A Bank Goes Out Of Business,
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n. c., January 5.


Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n. c., January 5.
The health of the inmates of the SOL
diers' home is excellent; in fact bet
ter than in many months. The man
ayers are confident that the legislature
will increase the annual appropriation
largely.
The state board of health is extreme
ly pleased at the manner in which small
pox has been confined to the particular
locality in which it has appeared.
There is a denial that the case at
Marion was really smallpox.
Ex-Sheriff Edward Tillett, republic
can, of Currituck, who went out Of Of
flee last month, is to be tried on the
charge of having embeZzled nearly
$4,000 of the public school fund. His
bondsmen will be sued to recover the
amount.
This city is now taking steps to Sc
cure taxes on $4,000, 900 of property
which it is alleged the Raleigh and
CASTOR railway owns, but has
listed for taxation.
Captain Badly Capehart was hunting
yesterday afternoon when paralyzed.
He was with a son of ex-Chief Justice
Shepherd. He gave his servant his u
stopped as if to tie a shoe and then fell
over. He has o spoken since. Cap
tain Capehart a few years ago married
MIS-. Henry, a daughter of the late Hon.
B. f. Moore, and has within the past
| year built a beautiful home here. His
wife is an invalid. He is a brother of
DR.. w. r. Capehart, of Avoca. His only
| son quite recently became a physician
on n of the great ocean steamship
lines.
The bank of Guilford, at Greensboro,
notifies the state treasurer that it goes
into Voluntary liquidation.
The revenue collector here Ousted a
| young white man who stood at the head
in a civil service examination, to make
place for a negro, Shepard. The col
| lector works a trick to GUST democrats
| from clerkships. He appoints them
| deputy collectors and then drops them.
| Of course they are only clerks, never
leave the Office and never do field work.
| He leaves only two ~clerkShips as he
terms them.
The legislature will act promptly as
regards the public printing. The sys-
tenn which the fusionists devised in
1895 was worse than a failure. The
state has two suits On hand against the
then public printer, for over $1,000,
though nowadays nothing is heard of
these suits. The council of state now
lets the printing and against this there
is complaint. The public printer,
Barnes, claims that he makes no profit.
There is complaint because the printing
Of the supreme court reports is done
outside the state. For a rear or more
it has been done in Richmond.
The directors of the Raleigh and Gas
ton railway who live here have gone to
Baltimore. The news of the sale OF
the Seaboard Air Line is at last be-
lieved here. DR.. Thomas D. Hogg, one
of Raleigh's wealthiest citizens, tells
your correspondent that President
Hoffman has always said he would sell
at SAOV q IL II q SOOu plICC.
road is now largely owned by women
and children. Raleigh will gain by the
sale, as it will be on a through line be-
tween New York and New Orleans, and
the time between Raleigh and New
York can be cut to thirteen hours, by
means of the short cut from Ridgeway
to Richmond, the Richmond, Freder
cksburg and Potomac and a short line
into New York via the Chesapeake ant
Ohio. A saving in time will be effect,
ed, as between Weldon and Richmond
under present arrangements the time
via the Atlantic Coast Line, which car.
ries the Seaboard Air Line train, il
slow.
E. B. Norvell is elected enrolling clerk
of the legislature. There will be only
one enrolling clerk. The fusionists haG
two. The democrats have reduced thu
number of employees 40 per cent and
their salaries 20 per ent- Two year:
ago the fusionists created so many Of
fees that the pay roll of the senate wa:
$4,000 greater than that of the house.
The governor is at last officially in,
formed that the Third North Caroline
(the negro regiment) will be mustered
Oot I N1cNOu, anu 81 1t VIII hui COLu'
to North Carolina.
i Sheriff Page says that Jim Booker
the murderer, will be executed here OF
the 18th instant, in the usual place
a small wooden temporary enclosur,
on the west side of the Jail, built uI
against the latter.
The decision Of the democratic eau
Gus of the legislature that no membei
shall be elected to any Office of trust o.
profit is timely. In the legislature O
1897 the fusionists elected tnemselve.
to almost every position to be filled
Those of them who were left out wer,
given federal positions. Such a scan
dal was never before known in Nortl
Carolina
The legislature will make a full in
vestigation OF the p~enitentiary and ais,
| OF the agricultural department. Cap
I / tain Dav ic nnu having ovu,r$r -