The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

To Attend the Dewey Celebration.
Crops on the State F~arn->tate Far.
mers. .iiane Leaves the National
Organization Republicans. invided
N to Nominating state tfeket
Raleigh. y. C. September 10.
Messenger Bureau.

Quarters have beer engaged for the
governor and twenty members Of his
staff on the Old Dominion steamer or
the asth, and also al New York for the
Dewey parade 1t is the opinion OF
many persons nat the governor makes
a mistake in not going on the cruiser
| Hornet. as suggested by Captain Nor
ton. OF the naval brigade.
The marked change in the weather
conditions for the week ending last
night indicates the rapid approach OF
/ autumn and the close Of the crop sea-
/ son. The entire week was agrseably
+, cool. with moderate midday and low
night temperatures, the mean FOR the
week averaging over 1 degrees per day
below the normal. Although scattered
showers occurred on the 18th and 1+th.
the amount OF precipitation was very
small. n in many sections drought
| continues practically unabated- Tho
| amount OF sunshine was abundant. and
the conditions generally We're very IA
vorabie for farm work. Rain is still
| greatly needed for late gardens. pota-
| toes and t%urnips, and to soften the soil.
Progress in picking cotton was very
| rapid during the week and ginning Is
we'll advanced. Many reports on cot
ton indicate good quality OF lint, though
! very short yield. The number of un-
| opened DOllS is now small,
Governor Russell respires for thirty
| days Avery kale, who is under sentence
of death at Newton. but refuses 10 COM
| mute.
r. J. Tillery, chief supervisor Of the
p~enitentiary farms, is here and says the
damage TO cotton on them is about
Is 2-3 per cent. On those lowlands cot
ton is late in opening, and picking did
not begin until yesterday. Cotton IS
l I1nnroinpr wall ha cnNE The nAQnffr
crop is very fine. There is less sickness
than he has ever known on the farms.
The North Carolina Farmers AL
lance has severed it's connection with
the national alliance, for the present
at least, and is working by itself. Ii
makes III earnest appeal to farmers to
again join it, saying il is done with poll
ties. The fact is pointed out that the
farmers must combine.
j. c. L. Harris, Governor RusselIs
right-hand man, is back from Asheville
and says the republican leaders there
agree with him that she republicans
ought mex year 10 nominate no re-
publican state ticket, but put up only
populists, with Marion Butler as the
nominee for governor. Among republic
cans here and at Greensboro this sug-
gestion made by Harris has met with
great ridicule and they are saying that
they ought to nominate a ticket OF their
own, with spencer IL. ADAMS as tne
candidate for governor.
DR.. Frank S. Duffy, of the state board
Of public charities, was here today ON
his way to Morganton to inspect the
western hospital and the school for
deaf-mutes.
Lieutenant j. Bradley Wooten. late
a battalion adjutant of the Second
North Carolina regiment, is appointed
to the same position in the Thirty-sev-
enth regiment, now at Camp Meade
and soon to leave for Manila. His
horse was shipped to him yesterday.
Lieutenant Stewart, the new military
instructor at the Agricultural and Me-
chanioal college here, is expected to-
morrow. Then the battalion will be
formed, with four companies, of about
! seventy each.
Recently the corporation commission
issued an order, Circular No. 16, to the
"~SeabOard Air Line system" fixing a
rate of freight on cotton seed and hulls.
To this the SeabOard Air Line filed eX-
ceptions, giving as reason that sit is
not n company but is made up OF
separate, distinct companies under diff
erent charters and simply associated
together for certain purposes, each pre-
serving it's own organization" The
commission will hear it's exceptions
about October 1st. The commission re-
CARDS it as one Zach Of the
| ~ IN Rd1h C1Ollo Ii1N AAAS AL~ S1AIA@ 4
ficers. The order directs that for a
system the continuous mileage rate
shall apply and it is this which the Sea-
board Air Line is thus seeking to avoid.
The agricultural department has a let
ter from John w. Thompson, commits
sioner of immigration, who is at the
Pittsburg (Pa-) exposition. He says he
is much encouraged at the prospect and
that he is arranging for a colony to
settle here, each member of Which has
at least 81. 1000.
The agricultural department is pre-
pairing a bulletin with full-page color
ed illustrations of the cattle tick which
causes the much-dreaded Texas or
spfenic fever.
The state charters the Redding Lum-
Der Company, of Seagrove, Randolph
county.
The cotton crop in this section is de-
cidedly short. Your correspondent look
ed at several cid and found the
plants, while large, badly fruited. One
grower said he last year made eighty
five bales, and on precisely the same
acreage expects only fifty this year. He
says an the farmters who are able 10
do so propose to hold their cotton for a
rise. They forget that they do not
regulate the price; that the cotton ex-
change harks do hat
A Mr.. Jones and Mr.. Hillebrandt, OF
New York city, are here to see the pen
itentiary authorities, with a proposition
to take all the cOnvicts, old and young,
white and black. male and female. and
employ them in the prison making
shirts. The New Workers at one time
employed nearly a hundred convicts in
a shirt factory here. The state had the
short end OF the contract and had to
pay about $1,000 to get the machinery
and thus terminate the contract. The
fact is that active outdoor work, farm
ing o. railway building or road build
ing, is the only thing for which the
greater number OF the male ~convicts,
particularly the negroes, are fitted. II
is healthier and in all respects better
for them. But the New York man say
they VIII take aE-1,O00 or more.
Ex-Sheriff Jones, OF this county, Is
yet 81, 700 behind in his settlement The
matter comes UP in our next month.
A 6-inch artssian we'll is being driv-
en- at Halifax by a Richmond firm, and
over 300 feet is reached. A flowing well
Is wanted.
The state treasurer is eipoined from