The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-10
O-FINTEREsT TO FARMERS.
The Truck Farming and horticultural
Experiments at the Agricultural Col
lege - Largest Peanut Crop Ever
Known-Wedding Cards.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. N. c., October 5.

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., October 5.
The Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege here has made purchases of addi-
tional lands until it now has over 500
acres.
The horticulture station adjoins the
state fair grounds. 1t uses thirteen
acres of the grounds and has bought
ten acres of land adjoining. Professor
Z Massey will have on this all the va
rieties Of fruit grown in the state. The
nurserymen are so much interested in
this that they are giving the trees, Civ
ing specimens of all they grow. There
will also be a market garden, for the
use Of the students of the college and
as an object lesson TO truckers. A care
full study will be made of the trucking
problems in the east and to find RENE
dies for various pests, etc.
w. A. Dunn, of Scotland Neck, who
is here attending the supreme court,
says the peanut crop in that section is
the largest ever grown.
The farmers are now sure that 8
cent cotton is in sight. The holding
of cotton continues to a most remark
able extent.
The 800, 900 Of stock Of the Neuse
cotton mills here is all subscribed and
there is an excess. ii
People from the east who arrived
here today say there is great need of
rain.
Judge PurneIl today decided the
bankruptcy case of Bray VS.. Cobb, from
Elizabeth City. a man named Sawyer
set us a claim for $4,000 for a loan to
Cobb, "a bank presidenD, made seven
days before Cobb assigned, $1,000 of
which Sawyer had on deposit in CObb's
l,-I 80 -yI;1I, he vyarbnI1r nr6nrn1
Cobb to use. Sawyer advanced in cash
81. 100. Judge Purneli decides that
Sawyer only has a priority for the
S $1,000 so lent on collateral deposited
with Sawyer, it being for a present
fair consideration, while the 81, 300 was
for a ~pre-eXisting debt.
The shirt factory at the penitentiary
resumes work October Goth, with fe-
male cOnvicts as operatives. Later,
feeble male ~cOnVicts will be added
hat is, those unable to do outdoor
work.
Judge Purnell today heard argu-
ments in the case Of two federal cor
victs in the penitentiary here from
Rowan county, under eighteen months
sentences; they having served fifteen
and the claim being that under the
state law they have earned three
months by good conduct and ought to
be discharged.
CIlC VI IIIG CIIICl CNCIIlo III oCCICIy
here during October will be the mar
riage at the Church of the Good Shep-
herd on the 25th of Miss Lizzie Taylor,
niece of DIR. A. r. Hawkins, to Mr..
Henry w. Miller, chief clerk to Vice
President Andrews of the Southern
railway. The bride-elect is very pOpu-
lar and Mr.. Miller is one of the best
known young railway men in the south.
Spencer Blackburn, of Wilkes cOun-
ty, one of the best known young re-
publiCanS in the state. takes a very
practical view of the franchise amend
ment, saying he feels sure his party
will not make opposition to it a test
of party fea1ty, but will cave it to in
dividuals. In this he fully shares the
view of Senator Pritchard. He says he
knows quite a number Of white republi-
cans will vote for 1T. The populist par
ty will practically cease to exist. Its
strength is now merely nominal.
A suit is in progress as to the owner
ship of the Northampton farm now
leased by the penitentiary. Frank Fai-
son, of Raleigh, a brother of the late
Colonel Paul F. Faison, brings the suit
against Grandy 81 Sons, from whom the
penitentiary leases.
Two of the leading democratic can
didates for the g~ubernatorial nominal
ton, G. =. AycOck and John S. Cum
ningham, were here yesterday.
Negroes are leaving here for the
north in greater numbers than ever
before. such is the statement made
by railway people. New York is the
objective point of most of them.
AT least $50 laborers will be put at
work next week digging the power ca
nal for the three cotton mills to be
built in Chatham county on Haw river.
While Governor Russell was in New
York he devoted all his spare time to
winding up affairs with his former law
parener, Mr.. Ricaud. 1t is said by
republicans that as soon as his term
of office expires the governor will leave
the state and settle at either New York
or Washington.
The state auditor says that property
in North Carolina is not taxed at near
ly it's full value.
High Point now ships each day a
train of twenty-five car loads of furni-
ture. These cars are large and the
twenty-five equal fifty ordinary ones.
The state superintendent of public
instruction issues a circular in which
he says the text books regarding physi-
ology and hygiene must be taught in
the public schools. He takes the occa-
sion to make a strong attack on the
drinking of alcoholic liquors and the
smoking of cigarettes.