The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-17
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
The Farmers of That Section I'm Re-
markedly Satisfactory Condition.
Fine Mountain Apples-Circus Taxes
Must Be Paid National Park I'm
Western Carolina.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., November IL

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., November II.
The attorney general has been very
busy b week preparing for several
murder and forgery cases which are to
be argued in the supreme court from
the Eighth district next week.
The corporation commission has re-
ceived reports from all the banks. AS
rapidly as the reports by bank exam
liners come in comparisons are made.
The commission expects to make a
fine showing as to the increase in rail-
way mileage in the state this year.
During October thirty-nine ~convicts
were sent to the penitentiary here, and
thirteen direct to farms. making a total
Of ffty-two. Thecost of TRANSPORTATION
was $6SS.2o. an average of $3.50 each.
Secretary T. K. Brewer, of the agri-
cultural department, returned TO-DAY
from the extreme west, where he went
to procure apples for the United States
for display at h Paris exposition.
He secured quantities ranging from
one peck to a barrel. These have been
sent to Washington, to be put in cold
storage. Mr.. Bruner went to Hay
wood, Mitchell, Yancey and Caldwell
counties. He secured twenty varie-
ties of apples. By far the fnest were
found in Yancey. The finest of all is
n "Fal1iewater," of which he had
never before heard. Most of the fruit
was too ripe for use. Next month in
the state museum here, Mr.. Bruner will
make a special exhibit of Yancey
county apples. He says he was aston
at the great prosperity of the
people in Yancey, so evident in all
WAYS Houses aC ondconoa oC tho-n
in Raleigh or other towns are numer-
Gus. The people are well to do, live
we'll and have admirable farms and or
chards. While on his trip he secured
some specimens of round-cut mica.
The sheriffs in some of the counties
failed to make the circuSes pay the re-
quired tax. The circus people in many
cases try in all possible ways to cheat
and circumvent the sheriffs. The
state auditor will force the payment of
h proper tax by the sheriffs. He has
a list of all the places at which cir
cuses appeared.
The company which tried to play
"Old Farmer Hopkins here, and
which was easily the worst which
ever appeared in this city, has died a
natural death and gone back to New
York.
Major Hiram L.. Grant is appointed
AN1N NHS Ol1lICo oIdlC0 olSIIlCl
court by Judge Purnell, to succeed ].
B. Fortune, removed, and will take
office this month. Matters had come
to such a pass between Fortune and
the judge that something was bound
to give way. There were differences
on various matters, notably as to
bankruptcy discharges, Fortune say
ing the judge directed him to sign
them, the judge saying this was a
mistake E~nrfnno'C frion6S will non,
have something to say. 1t will be in
teresting to notice the attitude of Sen
ator Pritchard in the matter, as he Sc
cured the position for Fortune.
The collections in this revenue dis
trict last month were in excess of
those in the Fifth Or Western district.
1t is the the first time this ever oc-
CURED. The collections in this dis
trlct were 1924, 900, an increase of $780,
900 over September on tobacco AND CT
CARS.
The republicans appear to be trying
to black list ex-Congressman Settle, by
reason of his opposition to their atti-
tude regarding the franchise amend
ment.
Edward Cox. the largest manufac-
turer of shuttle blocks in this country,
will put up ~afactory here or a few
miles south of here, to utilize the dog
wood and persimmon here. There was
fifteen years 6 a large. factory here,
but it was burned and never rebuilt.
There is an active movement at AShe-
vile in the interest of a national park
in the Blue Ridge section of this state.
George Vanderbilt has 100, 900 acres on
his 'Pisgah forest" and 49, 900 in the
Biltmore estate; the ,Toxaway Com
pany has 20, 900 acres at the west Of
Pennsylvania county; Col. Murchison
has a great tract near the Grandfath-
er mountain. There is an enormous
tract available ear Black mountain.
A colony of Hollanders is to be locat-
ed on 1,600 acres Of land in Swain
county.
On the 18th instant the directors and
stockholders Of the various divisions of
the Seaboard Air Line meet here to ac-
cept the charter granted by the legis-
ture. There is in this a provision that
if any stakeholder is dissatisfied with
the price proposed by the company for
stock, application can be made to the
clerk of the court in Wake county, he
to appoint three arbitrators to fix the
value.
Miss Lizzie Battle, of Tarboro, for
several years lady principal of st.
Mary's school here, is dead.
MI. Silas M. Whitman, of Fayetteville,
who mas been here this week attending
the supreme court, has invented and is
having made at the agricultural and
mechanical college an attachment for
drawing frames in cotton mills by
which the stoppages are reduced five
sixths, stopping only the defective
bead upon breakage Of a Silver" or
strand, whereas in the old machine the
entire frame stopping. The largest
frames carry thirty-six strands.
News Notes.