The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-24
Russell Losing Political
Ilf1uen ce.
HIS POLITICAL ALLIES
Will Not support His Dismissal Of the
Railway Commissieners-The sGreat
ern Carolina - The State Printing
Question to be Settled Next Tuesday.
Republicans Wish to Form a New
State.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., January q

Raleigh, n. G., January Il.
1t is intimated that some of the re-
publican members Of the legislature
will certainly not support the governor
in the matter of eusting as railway
commissioners ]. w. and S. Ohio Will
son. The special committee of inves-
tigation will begin its work Monday
DR.. w. r. Capehart, woner of the
great shad and herring fishery at
Avoca, is here, and so is Mr.. Wood,
owner of the equally great fishery near
Edenton. There are several bills be-
fore the legislature in regard to nets
these nets do not reach the bottom,
but it is said that they really do.
DR.. Capehart says that for the first
time in years the herring fisheries will
begin the season with a clean market;
] that is with no old stock on hand They
called all in and made fertilizer of it.
DR.. Capehart's annual herring catch is
about 1,25O, 900; that of Mr. Wood about
4 500, 900. Dr. Capehart leads in the
shad catch, as it ranges from $4,000 to
$4,000. These North Carolina shad are
as the distributing point, and thence
go all over New England and the
west.
( The state today granted three char
ters to Elizabeth City corporations;
the North Carolina Iron Works, George
M Scott and others owners; the Eliz-
abeth City Buggy Company, J. @. A.
Wood and others owners, and the Car
sOlina New Light Company, ]. H. White
and other owners.
II The fusion legislature took forcible
srossession of the office of A. L. Swim
him part of his salary. The present
legislature agrees to allow him $12O.
The question of the state printing is
to be settled next Tuesday by the
joint committee. The legislature will no
doubt act promptly on it's report. No
printing is to go out of the state. 1t
| is said there will be bidders from sew
eral points in the state.
In one Of the caucuseS of the republi-
cans in the legislature a negro mem
ber said he knew his race had been
clog and hindrance to the republican
party in the state, and said he felt sure
the elimination Of a great party of the
negro vote would be effected. He add
ed that it was his belief that in a few
years their elimination would strength
en- the republican party.
1t is amusing to hear the comments
of some of the republicans regarding
| Governor Russell. One said last night
| He has no following. He has no pat
| ronage. Without patronage a governor
| does not amount to anything
Republicans get queer ideas in their
heads. One of them says he has heard
| party leaders say that they wanted to
| see western North Carolina (west of
| Greensboro and East Tennessee formed
| into a separate state, and that they
| knew it would be republican. When
| asked why they wanted to thus cut
| adrift from eastern North Carolina he
| said it was to get rid of the negro
The revival of the project to raise
| sugar peets and make sugar on the
| great penitentiary farms is of peculiar
interest just now, when one of the
| great problems is what to do with the
convicts. Members of the penitentia-
/ ry committee will visit the Virginia
and Tennessee penitentiary and see how
| convict labor is utilized.