The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-13
OUR AsYLUM's GOOD SHOWING.
In Percentage OF Cures Efrected-The
institutions for Deaf-Nute and Blind.
Rev. w. $. Lacey not Improving.
State Convention OF Daughters OF the
Confederacy.
Messenger Rureau.

Raleigh, N. c., October 10.
The supreme court today began to
hear the arguments in appeals from
the Third district.
Rev. William s. Lacy, who was
brought here from a New York hospi-
tai, and who at first improved, is now
making no progress owardS recovery,
his brother, Labor Commissioner Lacy,
says.
The Seaboard Air Line has filed here
its appeal from the order OF the cor
poration commission reducing and fix
ing the rate on fertilizers. The South
ern Bell Telephone Company appeals
from the order which fixes rentals,
which is really a continuance of the
defunct railway commissions order OF
the same character.
News reaches here of the serious ILL
ness Of Ex-Governor Elias Carr at his
home, "Bracebridgs hail." near Tar
boro.
Messrs. Henry A. Page and Frank
Page, of Moore county, arrived here to-
day to see their father, Mr.. A. T. Page,
who is very sick.
At the Baptist female university here
last evening the first music recital was
given, and was largely attended, the
faculty of st. Mary's school and Peace
institute being present.
1t appears that there are now nine
counties in his state in which there
is no MISUNDERSTANDING, Ashe, Clay,
Dare, Pamlico, Tyrrell, Watauga, Hyde
| and Yancey.
George F. Lucas, Arthur E.. Rankin and
w. Z. Shaw, will examine state, saw
ings n private banks, Of which there
are seventy-two.
Superintendent Kirby, of the hospital
for the insane here, has returned from
| New York. While there he visited va
rious insane asylums, among them that
| on Wards island, with 5000 patients.
! He was told that the percentage of
cures to admissions there was 25, and
| when asked the percentage here replied
G5 to 20. When asked 10Y so high a
| percentage was obtained he replied
| that it was by the general treatment.
Here the male patients get outdoor
| work. 1t is extremely beneficial. AS
a result Of employment the percentage
Of cures among them is larger than
among the females. DR.. Kirby will,
when the board of directors meets,
| submit a plan for giving the female
| patients light employment, such as
rug and carpet and brush making. The
| plan is an admirable one. The patients
desire to be employed. Work interests
| them.
| The annual state convention of the
I'll liz SOlllCoCI ~ OCS1llS
at Henderson day after tomorrow. Mrs.
Walter Scott Parker will tender the
delegates a reception at her home
Thursday afternoon.
In a collision yesterday at university
station between the train On the State
University railroad and that on the
North Carolina railroad, Conductor
Walton, Of the former, was hurt and
a car wrecked.
The cost of stamping out the small
pox here last spring was 1922, and the
city claims that the county must pay
half. The county declines to pay more
han a third and a suit is likely to re-
suit.
Tobacco growers, particularly in the
east, are much depressed by the low
prices. The crop is also short. They
figure that they will, even with the
short crop Of cotton, get as much fol
it as for last years large one.
The Institutes for the white blind
and that for negro deaf-mutes and
blind open tomorrow. applications fol
the admission of 1872 are accepted anC
over 20 refused. The appropriation pro
vides properly for only 275. Superin.
tendent Ray says there are of blind
in the state 300 white and 200 colored.