The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-30

Conviets 10 be Furnished the Atlantic
Coast sLine-Dec;sions By Judge Pure
nell-State University Notes
Messenger Bureau,

The penitentiary has signed a con-
tract 10 furnish the Atlantic Coast Line
with 100 convicts July 10th and 100 more
August 1st, TO grade the Ashepole
branch OF that system. The convicts
will be sent from the state farms and
will be returned TO these about Septem-
Der 18th.
The mattress factory in the peniten-
tiary 8 in operation and Is turning out
forty a day. Only feeble convicts are
employed in il. The federal convicts
have so far this season made / 1,5o0. 900
bricks.
Today the officers and clerks of the
revenue and district court departments
here presented to Mr. Mason and his
bride, of the revenue service, a silver
service. The bride was Miss Eva
O'Hagan, OF Greenville, and at the time
OF her marriage was head nurse at the
Watts hospital, Durham.
r. II. Battle, OF the university trus-
tees. says il is the expectation that
the alumni building at Chapel Hill will
be under roof by January 1st, and that
the Carr memorial building will be
completed and ready for occupancy by
that date.
The weekly crop bulletin today says
there is serious drought in Mecklen-
burg and adjoining counties as far east
as Anson, north 10 Wilkes and west 10
Henderson; quite a large area. All
crops there are suffering and maN
gardens have been ruined. In other
parts of the state crops have thriven.
The dry weather was very favorab BILE TO
harvesting, which is nearly finished
save in the extreme west, while most OF
the small grain has been safely housed.
Corn generally is doing well. Cotton
has grown rapidly and the stand is
good. Tobacco is improving; a good
deal has been plowed the last time and
topping has begun; worms are doing
considerable damage. Rice has i'm
proved.
Ex-Governor Pattison, of Pennsyl-
vania, says his company, the Fidelity
Trust and Life Insurance Company, OF
Philadelphia, will domesticate itself
under the Craig law. He does not be-
lieve that law will stand the test Of
the courts.
Judge Purnell, of the United States
court, today filed opinions in some in
teresting cases.
In the case of the North Carolina
Cooperage Company, bankrupt he holds
that all costs incurred in the state
courts in an attempt by one creditor to
get the advantage of another, must be
paid by the creditor who makes the at
tempt.
In the case of Gresham & Scott,
bankrupts, who owned three stores, he
holds that where counsel come into
court and make a proposition for a
consent order, which is not then ac-
cepted, the proposition will be treated
as Withdrawn; but that the members
of the firm which had made a general
assignment shall be adjudged bank
ruptS and that the matter of the silent
member shall be referred to a special
commissioner, to take testimony as to
the facts.
In the case of the steamer Nellie, in
admiralty, at Elizabeth City, it is de,
cided that where one man bid off prop
erty and another paid the purchase
money, without any assignment of the
bid, the man who thus paid acquired
no rights, that the deed must be to the
bidder; that the man who paid the mon
ey is an interferer, is guilty Of obstruct-
ing process and also of contempt and
can be punished by fine and imprison-
ment.
Steps are to be taken to develop the
tobacco market here. The business men
show an inexcusable lack of interest in
it. The sales during the present sea-
son have actually fallen under 100000
pounds.
j. c. L. Harris, one of Governor Rus
sells main supporters here, says he is
sure the amendment limiting the negro
franchise Will get a great majority. He
was dShCu IL the governor shared Indt
view and replied that the governor had
no hope of defeating the amendment.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., June %.
At $3.50 o'clock this morning the grand
lodge of Masons laid the cornerstone OF
the First Presbyterian church. Grand
Master Richard J. Noble, of Selma, pre-
sided. The corners tone is of brownstone
and bears the inscription First Pres
byterian Church, 1S17-1S99." 1t was in
1917 that the cornerstone of the old
church was laid. The new one is on the
same site.
today and announced that a number of
changes and transfers would be made
July 1st. Only one democrat will then
be left on the entire force.
Messrs. Patrick and Dill came here
to see the adjutant general in regard to
the encampment Of the Second and
Third regiments of the state guard
which is 30 be held at Morehead City
if a low rate on the railways is Sc
cured.
Governor Russell pardons Wyatt
Perry, who, five years ago was con-
victed of numbering a man named
Thomas E. Bailey and sentenced to If
teen years imprisonment. 1t is assert
ed that Bailey had made remarks
against the character Of Perry'S wife.
Perry went to lBailey's house one night
and cut the man in twelve places.
At the second days session of the
State Dairymens Association, at Con-
cord today, there were addresses on
special subjects by j. NJ. Johnson, Of
Raleigh; Professor F. z. Emery, of the
state experiment farm, and others.
There were discussions of several sub
jects, notably the question whether in
| dividual or cooperative dairying is
best.
John Ward, Of Raleigh, is appointed
| trustee of the North Carolina Car Com
pany, Of this city, which last March
| went into bankruptcy. The company
owns fine plant, which is now OF
course idle.
/ Judge Brown, Of the superior court
/ grants an order returnable at More
| head City, July 9Th, requiring the Hy.
gienic Ice Company Oh. Bayer & Son
| OF Charleston) 10 show cause why the
| eaboard Air Line should not be al
| lowed further time TO file its appeal
from the decision OF the superior cour,
| giving the ice company $40, 900 damages
for the alleged burning of an ice fac.
| tory here. J. NJ Turner Of the Sea