The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
NRNI STATE BOND ISSUE
For Purchase OF tho Farms-
Officers Elected by Asscm-
b~ly-Johnston County Moonshtners.
Health Reports from the Counties.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, y. C. June 10.
Last week the state treasurer sked
the attorney general for an opinion as
to whether the $4,000 20 pa the pen
i%tentiary debts applied only TO the
period ended December 3lst last. or
whether it applied to March 9Th OF this
year, when the act to pay the debts
was ratified. Today the attorney gen.
eral replied. saying that both the acts
of 1899 regarding the p~enitentiary
Chapters Coz and 619) show that the
$120, 600 is for the settlement OF debts
up to December 3lst, and that the $780,
900 appropriated for this fiscal year
must be used To pay this years debts.
The executive board OF the penitentiary
has audited all debts up to March 9th.
to be paid out Of the $40. 600. The state
treasurer notifies the board that out OF
the $4,000 he will pay only debts In
Cured UP to December 3lst. This will
make a little delay in payments.
Today the contract was signed by
Ittner * Co. for the construction OF the
annex to the state museum, the price
being ST., 235. The annex Will be very
large and will be in the form of an l..
enclosing a court, and coming within
ten feet of the rear of the supreme court
and library building, the entrance to
the court being through the ten DOT
space.
The order Of the board of agriculture
that after the end OF this year only the
amount of phosphoric acid, ammonia
and potash in fertilizers sold in North
Carolina shall be printed on the bags
is pleasing to the manufacturers as
we'll as to the armers 1t is ~onven
ent and simple.
: Democratic State Chairman Sim
mons is a busy man these days, his
special line of effort just now being n
newspaper, to appear about the end or
! June, which will contain a mass of in
A., formation and argumen in support of
, the constitutional amendment limiting
the negro franchise. Chairman Sim
mons is well aware of the fact that the
leader of the opposition to the amend
ment is enator Pritchard and that the
latter is bending all his energies to that
work.
This city's new street bonds will be
5 per cents.
Not until next Thursday will the
contract for building the alumni buiid
ing the university of North Carolina
be awarded.
The lynching of the negro Patrick,
at Bogue, Carteret county. is the only
one in the state so far this year. 1t Is
heartily condemned by the newspapers,
Which declare that all the evidence in
hand was circumstantial.
June 20th the Grand Lodge Of Masons
IA 10y liz CcIIltI SAOIt vi Alt ItN
Presbyterian church here.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., June II.
The government today called on the
district attorney for the abstract Of
title to the site for the $50, 600 post
office at Elizabeth City.
n. Summerfield, merchant, of Dur
ham. today flied a petition in bank
ruptcy.
! s. raid mas made In Inbpc+,n ooupt,,
last night by revenue officers, in search
Of illicit distilleries, which appear 10
be numerous there.
Congressman Theodore +. Kluttz, Of
Salisbury, is at Detroit, attending the
supreme lodge OF knights of Honor.
The Security Mutual Life Insurance
Company today "domesticated" itself
under the Craig law; doing so under
protest, as Utmost all the other life
| companies have done.
There are now superintendent Of
health in e~ighty-four OF the ninety
turns from cities and towns have been
summarized. The aggregate popula-
ton was 142, 500, aggregate deaths $50:
Of which 81 were white and Sc colored;
the death rate being "a for whites and
1863 for negroes per 1000.
! The Raleigh and Cape Fear railway
has reached F~aquay's Springs. in Har-
nett county, and the springs have sud
denly become a resort for Raleigh ex-
cursiCnists.
There will ibe a lively demand for
the next ISSUE Of state bonds. which
will be made to pay for h Caledonia
farms on Roanoke river, in accordance
with the act of 1899. Nearly s65. 900
viii be paid for the farms, which are
known Is Caledonia Nos. | and %
The bonds will bring a high figure.
. The North Carolina Teachers As
CGnhlV EIaHfG 4hA FAf1z-- ~--
President, ID. Matt. Thompson; vice
president, ]. A. Holt, F. +. Hobgood, J.
H Joyner, Miss Mary Arlington. T. r..
Harrison. j.. II. Bridgers. j. c. Horner,
w. ID. Weeks. j. r. Carlyle
t. X Bruner, secretary OF the board
Of agriculture is put in charge OF the
poultry department at the state fair.