The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., November %.

ISdiSiSu, ~ -, November z.
Rev. DR.. J.. W. Carter, pastor of the
First Baptist church here, who retires
January LIST, has gone to Richmond to
deliver an address before the Virginia
Baptist convention on missions" 1t
is limited that he may be called to take
charge of this work in that state in the
way it is conducted by Rev. John E.
White here.
Bad plumbing appears to have caus-
ed the epidemic OF fever at the Green's
boro Normal and Industrial college.
The water supply is said TO be all
right A broken sewer had polluted
the earth under the dining room and
the foul air made it's way into a pam
try.
The supreme court is certainly the
boss in North Carolina. The legisla-
ture plays second fiddle. The attorney
general said to me months ago that
the time was surely coming when the
supreme court would override the de-
cision in Hoke VS.. Henderson. deliver
ed in 1881, that office is property. The
legislature will have, it appears, if
matters go on, to refer all the bills
IL proposes TO pass to the supreme
! cour and see whether the latter ap-
I proves them.
Today j. c. L. Harris, attorney for
Dr. D.. H. Abbott, who goes in as cor
poratlon commissioner vice E.. c.. Bed
! dlngfield, applied to the supreme court
Tor a writ giving DR.. Abbott posses
sion today; that is, immediate possess
sion OF the office, records, etc. The
commission is not in session this week.
The decision in Abbott's favor was
expected. In fact, it vas a certainty
after the decision in the Day peniten-
ii " case.
5. Ohio Wilson is here. He was rail-
way commissioner and placed his res
1gnation in the hands of the heads of
the two branches of the legislature. to
become effective as soon as the legis-
!ature disposed of his case; hat is.
decided whether Governor Russell act
ed properly in ~suspending him. Ohio
won before the legislature and his
resignation was accepted. Yet for a
month or two afterward he filed each
month a voucher for salary with the
state auditor. When he found these
were ignored he stopped filing them.
Now he is here n it seems will insti-
tute suit for office as corporation COM
missioner. He said today the whole
matter was in the hands of his at
tOrney. The latter, j. c.. L. Harris,
said: Wilson has as strong a case as
Abbott. 1 think the decision in the lat
ter case decides Wilson's But what
the public will want to know is wheth-
er Wilson after voluntarily resigning
an office will have the cheek to sue
for it.
h supreme court decides that the
old or fusion county boards Of educa-
ton are entitled to office and that the
new or democratic boards have no
footing. The question arises whether
this applies to all boards; hat is, to
oEx
pears that it applies only to those coun-
ties in which the old boards refused
to withdraw or made a contest. In the
counties where they retired, and these
were by far the majority, the old
boards lost their footing by with
drawal. The state superintendent of
public instruction said this morning:
II don't know where I am about this
board matter. I have always said /
would obey the decision of the court.
l don't know yet what hat means:
that is. whether it applies to all coun-
ties or not" But from very high au-
thOrity it is learned that the supreme
courts decision in the Summers case
applies to this: that is, that a retire
ment from the office means a surren-
der of all title to it. 1t would appear
that this Summers decision, which
was rendered owe fifty years 6 and
which has been frequently sustained,
would also knock out Ohio Wilson.
The state charters the Gibson cotton
mill, at Concord, capital 500, 900; J. w
Cannon, R. E. Gibson and others own
ers. 1t also charters the Charlotte
Roof n Paving Company.
At the state treasury today it was
said that the penitentiary people had
drawn all the $55, 900 of special appro-
priation for this ear and that they
are trying to draw every cent Of the
$122, 900 to pay debts up to December
81, 1898. 1t is, in fact, asserted that
the p~enitentiary people are making
warrants on the treasury to pay their
checks. The executive board has this
year drawn 81. 799 in per diem and mile
age.
Chief Shellfish Commissioner White
populist, in whose favor the supreme
court decides, has possession of the
oyster patrol steamer Lily. He has
in fact, had control of it severa,
months.
Mr.. r. B. Raney will completely
equip with books the fine memoria
library he is building here.
A boy from Rutherford county, aged
II years, is the last arrival at the peni.
tertiary. He gets fou years, for re
moving bolts from a railway track, il
order to wreck a train.