The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-16

Sent to Jail for Refusing TO be vaeef-
mated and vaecinated for Going 10
Jaii-The Corporation commission.
Funds for the Methodist orphanaye
Site-Ex.SheriR OF Wake Behind An
His Accommodates of the Confeder>
ate Veterans Reunfon-Colonel w
deles Speech-The Vance Monument.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., May Is.
Notices were yesterday sent by the
mayor to fourteen persons to be vacci-
mated Or leave Raleigh in twenty-four
hours. All save one complied. This
one is Isaiah Blake. a greengorcer. He
swore he would never be vaccinated
and said he belonged to the Holiness
Band" and could not be hurt by small
pox. He was at once sent TO jail for
thirty days. There was no one in the city
whom it would have given the mayor
more pleasure to thus make an exam
pie of. Blake asked to be allowed to
take his own commitment paper to the
sheriff and did so, a jeering crowd fol-
lowing. He went into the sheriff's Of
fee with a bold air and handed the
commitment so you want to go to
jail?" asked the sheriff. Yes, sir" re-
piled Blake. We'll, We'll accommodate
you." said the sheriff. So in the pris-
oner went. Then the sheriff nearly
paralyzed him by saying You know
all jail prisoners have to be vaccinat-
ed" "You will have to tie me-" sal
the prisoner, He will therefore be vac
cinatad after all. Some Of the "holi-
ness people" expect the Jail doors to
~miraculously open Or the walls to crack
so that the martyr" can step out.
This afternoon Mayor Powell alter
ed Blake's sentence to thirty days at
hard labor on public roads, and he
was Immediately sent out to the work
house. There he will be vaccinated as
regulations require it,
The corporation commission will
meet again in about two weeks, chair
man Mcneil says. By that time the
reports of the railways, ETC., of date
June LIST, will begin to come in, and
there will be tn e basis for this years
assessment of taxes.
ID. w. Patrick, president of the At
4 l0hl1t o4o tokA -
here. Me says he knows his term Of
office expires September LIST next. but
declines to say whether he expects the
governor to reappoint him. The odds
are that the governor will not make
such an attempt. There was an init
nation by J. C. l.. Harris that Patrick
would be reappointed, Harris saying
he was the best president the road has
ever had.
Active work is now being done in
collecting funds for the purchase of the
site for the Methodist orphanage here.
The special committee to Investigate
the books of the fusion sheriff, H. T.
Jones, of this county, who went out Of
Office in December, says he is several
thousand dollars short. His friends
say he will make full settlement. His
bond is in a surety company.
Much rain has fallen this week: in
fact rather too much.
MI. Nat Parkinson, a prominent
farmer and merchant of Warren Plains.
committed suicide yesterday, by drown
ing himself in a mill pond.
The agricultural department is ad-
vised that the insect which IS so great
ly injuring the pea crop in the New
Bern section is the rose louise"
General William P. Roberts came
back from Charleston today. He says
that General Wade Hampton, who is
now S3 years old, is the finest horse
man of his age in this country.
Mr.. S. D. Wait, for many years the
state agent of the Connecticut Mutual
L fe Insurance Company, is to be mar
ried here May goth to Miss Minnie
May Curtis, whose father is a Congre-
gait nalist preacher. She is a poet OF
ability.
General Roberts tells me that the
speech of the Confederate reunion at
Charleston was made by Colonel A. NJ.
Waddell, in presenting the flags. Col
onel Waddell took occasion to state
plainly what North Carolina had done
in the civil war-furnishing one-ffth Of
all the troopss, had surrendered half
the muskets surrendered at Appomat-
tox and Durham, had lost more men
than any other state of the south, and
that a ship whose captain was a North
C%arolinian had displayed the Confeder-
ate flag in all the waters of the world.
The United States district court
meets here May 22nd- 1t is asserted
that the term will be>a short one,
though the docket is a large one.
Lieutenant Oliver H. Dockery, q. S.
A., is here on his way to Columbus.
Ohio, going thence to San Francisco
and to the Philippines.
Bishop Leo Haid will administer con-
frmation at the Roman Catholic church
| here tomorrow.
Bids for the Vance monument, to be
placed in the capitol square will be
received until July 1st and will be
opened that day
Veterans who came back from Char
lesion say North Carolina had more
there than any other state.
By noon Monday the trophy Il from
Manila will be installed in its perma-
nent quarters in the museum.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., May II.
An officer of the United States de-
partment Of justice left here last night
| having investigated the charges which
some of the federal convicts in the pen
itentiary had sent to The Washington
Star. alleging that they were starved