The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-25
SEVENTEEN SMALLPOX CASES
In the Pest House i'm RaIefgh-Rafl.
road Building for this Year-Dfscuss-
ing the Proposed Constitutional

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., April D.

Messenger bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., April %.
Judge Purnell sustains the report OF
Il. P. Devereux, referee, in the bank
ruptcy case in re Stevenson & King,
merchants, Of Clayton. The petitioning
creditors contended that the individual
partners were not entitled to personal
property exemptions out of the firms
assets. The judge holds that they are
entitIe6.
The .3aptists are much gratiied at
the SCI ect of DR.. Blasingame as the
president of their female university
here. He is regarded as a very strong
a
II IS learned that the shirt factory
at the ~penitentiary, which has been
operated by a New York firm and
which shut down last month, is to be
reopened by the penitentiary authori-
ties, who will buy the plant. The own
ers arrived here today 10 make the
sale.
There are now seventeen smallpox
patients in the pest house and sixty in
the house of detention. This city and
county bear the expense jointly. The
| houses in the city in which the sus-
fumigated. Some of the suspects,
/ about twenty, in fact, came from a
farm near here. There is a little small
! pox, three casses, seventeen miles north
| of here. The physicians there refused
to attend the cases and a physician was
SEM from here. There is quite a lot
of harsh comment on any doctors who
thus finch from a public as Well as a
| private duty.
One life insurance company, which
| has for more than forty years done
business in this state, informs the state
insurance commissions hat il will de-
/ cline to r~e-enter the state, on account
of the Craig BILL" which requires all
corporations doing business in North
Carolina to surrender all power TO
transfer cases from state 10 federal
courts.
The negroes are beginning to talk a
good deal about the constitutional
amendment limiting the franchise of
the negroes. Some a that in future
the negroes propose to let the white
people fight their own political battles.
A. D. Ward, Of New Bern. is here
and say 1.-The amendment will go with
a whoop in that section of the state;"
that it is hard to find any white re-
publicans on state issues.
The fact is that the old-line republi-
cans are making, or trying to make, a
fight against the amendment because
they see if it is carried their occupa-
ton is gone; that if, after the negro
is eliminated, a white republican par
ty gains strength in the state they will
not cut any figure in it.
j. G. L. Harris, "One of Governor Rus
sells main supporters, said today that
unless the white people can be made to
believe that Section 5 of the franchise
amendment (the grandfather clause)
is unconstitutional and that it will inn
pose an educational qualification upon
everybody, of course the people will
ratify it."
An effort is to be made to put a num-
Der of conviets on railway construction
work. Convicts are said to be wanted
on the road running south from Lum-
berton and on that running northeast
from Selma. The prospect is excellent
for more railway building in North
Carolina this year than during any
year since 1889 or 1890.
Reports from Blowing Rock say that
snow fell there from Friday of last
week to las Tuesday.