The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-29
PURNELL Oh PRTTCHATDs
The Question low II Which shall Con.
troll Patronage Of n Federal Court.
New Buildings at state University.
Cruelty TO state Conyfcts
Messenger Bureau.

Cruelty 10 Sl0te COuvlcts
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., August Is.
George Green, of New Bern, now
deputy clerk of the United States dis
trict court at that place, and who is
talked OF as Judge PurnelPs choice for
the principal clerk, at Raleigh, is here.
1t is not settled yet whether ]. b. For
tune, the present clerk, is to be dis
placed. Senator Pritchard is sure to
antagonize any such movement.
The corporation commission is advis-
ID that the Piedmont Savings bank, at
Winston-Salem, will begin business
| next week. T. ]. Brown is president:
l.. w. Pegram, cashier.
Revenue Collector Duncan says there
|, are now 200 licensed whiskey distille-
ries in this district, but declines to
make an estimate of the number or H.
| licit distilleries. An estimate is made,
! however. that there are at least three
| times as many of the latter as of Ii
| censed diStillerieS.
! The commissioner of agriculture, who
| has been to Washington, to secure a
{; lower rate of postage on the August
bulletin of the agricultural department,
has so far failed.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will
| be invited to attend the state fair here
| in October, and there are good grounds
| for expecting that he will come.
North Carolina will make a very COM
plete and handsome exhibit Of both
leaf and MANUFACTURED tobacco at the
Paris exposition-particularly Of leaf.
/ The August bulletin Of the a~gricultu-
raj department contains a list, care
fully prepared, of 600 manufactures in
this state, outside of cotton and wooden
! mills.
1t is found that the San Jose scale
! infection of the peach orchards near
! Southern Pines was Introduced by trees
bought in 1892 in New Jersey and that
about 200, 200 trees were infected. or
those about half, or perhaps more, have
been cut down and burned. The infec-
ton of nurseries is now in progress.
Raleigh has received the cash, $685.
$50, for it's 500, Quo OF 4 per cent. street
Improvement ponds, sold thirty days
ago to a Cleveland, Ohio, firm.
All signs yer the sidewalks here
have been removed. There was little
or no trouble in enforcing the ordi-
nance.
A new contract with the Raleigh
Water Company will be made by this
city. 1t is quite probable that in a
year or two the city will purchase the
water works.
The Greensboro people are interested
in the plan of the SeabOard Air Line
to build a branch line there from Pitts
boro, Chatham county
A report of splenic fever in a herd
of cattle in Richmond county reached
the agricultural department today. The
veterinarian DIS at Murphy.
The demand for labor here is greater
than was ever before known. Railway
officials are receiving inquiries from
several states as to whether laborerS
can be had in North Carolina for the
building trades or for work on railway
construction.
Today a company, was chartered by
=; the state to operate a copper mine in
this county, eleven miles south Of Raj
eigh, on the Raleigh and Cape Fear
railway.
DR.. Richard H. Lewis, secretary of
the state board of health, says there are
now but very few cases of smallpox
in the state. The disease has been
| stamped out at Winston, and has prac-
tically ended elsewhere.
The Alumni building I'M The Julian
! S. Carr building at the university Of
North Carolina are now in progress Of
construction. Both will be handsome.
It was decided today that the material
shall be first quality gray pressed
brick, with slate roofs and red thing
ridges. Colonel Julian S. Carr makes
an additional gift of $4,000 to complete
his building, making it's total cost $1S,-
900. It is but another example of his
great public spirit and intense pride in
the university.
George Green, who, it is currently re-
ported, is to be the new clerk of the
United States district court here, has
been to Lincolnton Lithia Springs to
see Judge Purnell. 1t is stated that
Senator Pritchard has written a letter
saying it is not his desire that j. B.
Fortune be displaced as clerk.
State Treasurer Worth today received
a telegram saying that Daniel Worth,
his brother, is dying at Guilford col
lege. Mr.. Worth is 20 years of age.
The treasurer left for GuilfOrd college
this afternoon.
The horrible revelations Of cruelty to
convicts at the Northampton peniten-
tiary farm, e Weldon, Of which
Lewis Summerill is supervisor, caused
a great sensation here. is a
populist. Before he was appointed
there was talk of his cruelty and the
man who procured the place for him
| talked to him about the matter. Sum-
merell said the stories were all his,
| and but a few days ago Superintendent
| Day also said they were lies. Now the
| question is what will be done with Sum-
merell. Governor Russell is said to be
| very angry at the news of Summerell's
| conduct.
Claims by the state, aggregating s12,-
| 1927 for expenses incurred in the mobi-
lization Of volunteers last year here
are allowed, but those amounting to
| SO, 166 are held UP.
David Lassiter, colored, is the last
arrival at the penitentiary. He is from
l Granville county and was under SEN
tence to be hanged yesterday, but the
| governor committed it to life imprison-
! ment.
The commissioner Of agriculture says
there is more complaint than ever be-
| fore of damage of crops by insects;
| particularly by the army worm.