The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-08
TOBACCO GROWERS, coSvEsr1oS
To be Well Attendcd-rhe Corporation
Commission The Federal Court.
Smallpox In Two Countfes-Thewest-
ern Judgeshfp.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. N. c.. December 4.

Raleigh, N. c., December 4.
The funeral of Dr.. T. F. Nixon, who
was killed by a train near Castle
ternoon
The tobacco growers convention,
which meets here Wednesday, viii b
web attended. 1t is said thai fifty
counties VIII have delegates. Owing
TO h death OF his wife (who was a
Miss Laughlinghouse, of Pitt county,
Mr.. j. Bryan Grimes, who called the
convention, viii not be present. One
OF the prime objects is TO fight the
American tobacco trust, but a few
growers fear it is new too late.
The corporation commission meets
"Wednesday. 1t is thought probable
that within sixty days Judge Simonton
a rehearing OF the railway tax e
ment case, which involves $40. OOO, 600
increase in taxation and 500, 900 state
taxes annually. The decision Of the
state supreme court in the Abbott case
puts the commission on a far stronger
footing than before. DR.. Abbott is full
ly aware of this fact.
Nominally the federal court met to-
day, but really the term does not begin
until tomorrow. There are 455 cases
docketeI. Two cases are against Pitt
man, the negro postmaster at Tillery,
and one against postmaster ]. o. Cava-
Miss, Of Chatham, for embezZlement.
her are counterfeiting cases against
T. c.. Parish and Pearl Norris, Of Har-
nett. Three hundred cases against
moonshiners are docketed. The libel
case against the Cypress Distilling
Company, of Wilmington has been set
tied and, hence, Will not come up. The
bill in the counterfeiting case against
a. j. Marshall, of Wilmington. will be
sem here and the trial wifi be held
here if possible.
nesday. 1t will consider matters rela-
tive to the museum annex. Work on
the latter is now amazingly slow.
DIR. Richard H. Lewis, secretary OF
the state board of health, says that
reports show the existence of smallpox
now i'm Halifax and Guilford
ties. It appears that there are from
sixteen to twenty cases at Pomona, in
Guiaford county, and about sixty near
Scotland Neck, in Halifax. The out
break in Halifax is said to be due to
the failure or refusal of the county
commissioners to do anything.
Mr.. Forbes, of Richmond, is expected
here tomorrow. He will build an ice
making and refrigerating plant.
On the 18th instant the joint legisla-
tive committee will meet here to inspect
the books and vouchers in the office Of
the state treasurer and auditor.
tors w. G. Fields and NJ. H. Justice
and Representatives Moore, Wrenn and
Stubbs compose the committee.
The state charters n Robersonville
MARTIN county, tobacco Warehouse
Company, capital $1,000
The secretary Of the corporation
commission will early next year issue
an up-to-date railway map of the state;
the first since 1897.
The supreme court devotes this week
to the appeals from h Eleventh dis
trict.
preparing the first chapter of his an
nual report, that chapter being on
farmers and farming. He says the cot
ton mill men have reported better
than ever before.
Practically all the lawyers in the
Western federal district have signed a
petition to Senators Pritchard and
Butler to secure the confirmation of H.
G.. Ewart as judge. The petition says
the appointment is acceptable to the
bar of the district. This appears to be
a very complete answer to Senator
Buffers charge that Ewart was unit
for the place. There is curiosity to
know what position Butler VIII occupy
in the senate as to confirmation after
the receipt of such a petition. The
statement is untrue hat a deal has
been made between Pritchard and But
Ter by which Ewart was to be dropped
upon condition that Butqer and the
populists shall fight the constitutional
amendment and Marshall Mott shall
Judge.