The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-12
OHIO WILSON'S CLEVER DODGE.
How He Played on the Democratic
Legislature With q Pretended Res
ignaticn Penftcntiary Matters Tho
Insane Asylum and the Criminal
Insane.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. N. c.. December 4.

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Today S. L. Rogers. corporation COM
missioner. met s. Ohio Wilson and
asked the latter the direct question
whether he intended { % bring suit to
obtain his (Roger'sl position on the
commission Wilson said he could not
as yet say what he would do: that
whatever he did must be done before
the February term of Wake superior
court. Wilson says he has not as yet
retained counsel in this matter. but Ia
comforting about IL. The general pub
lie is amazed that Wilson should even
consider the matter after he had ten
dered his resignation, in supposed good
faith. and after IL had in like manner
been accepted by the Legislature in
joint session.
j. T. Spier. s~torekcepcr and gauger
at Grifton. Pitt county. fell dead last
night. We was a native OF Pitt
Ex-senator Travis. chairman of the
penitentiary executive board. says he
now feels sur the p~enitentiary's re-
cetpt this year Will very nearly equal
Its expenses; that IL Is not probable
the deficin will exceed 5000. This foes
not incluJe the $500 which the iegis-
lature appropriated ( " this years ex-
penses. That rs all one. Meme OF IL
viii be refunded. Mr.. Travis SAYS the
-. - va - Aks
T1llery TO agree TO allow the lease OF
the "Tillery" farm TO be
There is C~onsiderab bic demand for on
victs for railway work-on the Raleigh
n Eastern. n short railway out OF
Tarboro; the Ashpole branch OF the
Atlantic Coast Line, and John Blues
railway In Moore county. About 500
convicts will he valuable for this class
OF work. There are now seventy-seven
at work on the AshpoIe branch. Mr.,
Travis says the cotton crop viii be
as large as expected.
The directors OF the hospital for the
insane here are not pleased with the
provisions for the keeping of the GRIM
inai insane in one wing OF the peni-
tertiary. They do not think there Is
proper protection against fire. or that
there is room for exercise. The opin-
ion Is that the place In unsafe. as the
kitchen is on the lower floor, the fur
niture being of wood. There are TWEEN
ty-two white and fourteen negro GRIM
inal insane. The whites are in the
west wing. The negroes are i'm the
east or hospital wing. The one white
woman OF this class is not In the peni-
tertiary, but in the hospital for in
sane.
The number OF patients I'm the hos
pital for the insane here is now great
er than ever before. This is particu-
larry the case as to males. The ex-
penses exceed the appropriation So, 900.
This sum was asked for. but the egis-
lature cut If of. IL Is found that on
an average IL costs about Sc. 900 10,
maintain a patient during life i'm the
hospital; that being of course an av-
erage. An annex gives sixteen addi-
tionai rooms There is much pressure.
for admission. In the percentage OF
cures TO admission a notably fine show
ing is made.
The North Carolina Association of
superintendent OF City Schools meets
here in annual session December 27th
to 18th. There will be special address,
ed by George T. Winston and NJ. c.. $.
Noble.
TWO cattle quarantine inspectors are
aiding the state veterinarian I'm the
western part Of the state In prevent
ing violations OF the law.
A series of farmers Institutes will
be held next year between January 1t
and March LIST.
A western man will be here this week
to purchase 20. 900 acres of swamp land
which he proposes to drain and Guilt
Vate. He has a patent itching ma
chine which he will use.
The agricultural department will in
future test all grass seeds offered for
sale in this state.