The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-22
THE SMALLPOX QUESTION.
Probability Of More Cases Thar Usual
This Wfnter-Much Cotton to be Left
on the States Leased Farms-Appa-
lachfan Park Association.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c.. December 10.

haIeigh, N. c., December 10.
Alex. NJ Long. of Rockingham, Rich
mond county. has filed a pretition in
bankruptcy. There are 113 creditors.
President Bryan, of the Atlantic and
North Carolina railway. has bought
two new engines and several passen-
ger cars. Il Is his urpos TO put the
road in good shape.
The federal court here will tomorrow
take a recess until January 4th-
Eugene s. Martin. special maste-,
who is here, will hear the Carolina
Central fertilizer freight rate case at
the corporation commission rooms, the
use of which is rendered him by Chair
man McNeill.
Monroe has q~uarantined against
Portsmouth on account of smallpox at
the latter place. DIR. Lewis. secretary
TO the state board of health. says in
land quarantine is useless; hat the
only thing to do is to require complete
vaccination One trouble is that the
law does not provide for compulsory
vaccination until smallpox has abso-
lutely made its appearance. DR.. Lewis
says he is confident there will be more
smallpox in the state than aver before.
The subterfuges to which some intelli-
gent people will resort to escape vac
CliIdliuH "uulu De amusing IL lneS were
not SO dangerous to the public health.
Among the arrivals today are: Will
liam r. Allen. Goldsboro: H. L.
Stevens, Warsaw; John f. Woodari,
Wilson; J.. VanB. Metts, Iredell Meares.
Wilmington
1t is learned that despite the hard
work all the cotton is not picked by the
convicts on the leased farms, the leases
of which expire December 31st. Thus
AD +hn a~%I f-- n
now unpicked. This the state loses, as
all remaining after December 31st re-
verts to the owners of the land. The
fact is that the state, like some farm
ers, planted more cotton than it could
pick.
The penitentiary has agreed to buy
the Arson farm, near Wadesboro.
There are persons who say his will be
a mistake; that it would be better to
buy the Northampton farm, as the
state can sell the latter to ex-senator
Ransom for $1,000 more han the con-
tract price under the lease expiring De-
cember 31st this year.
The state today chartered the Appa-
lachian National Park Association,
with headquarters a. Asheville. It's
object is to secure the establishm.n Mt
Of a national park near Ashevi e,
among the Southern Appalachian
mountains. Among the incorpor-to tors
are Moses H. Cone, Hugh MacRae, A.
B.. Andrews, John w. Daniel, Hoge Ty-
Ter, N. G.. Gonzales, J. G. S.. Blackburn,
Clark Howell, j. A. Holmes, A. NJ.
Waddell, E. P. McKissick, Harry Wal
ters, j. P. Caldwell, Benton Mcmillan,
Charles w. Dabney and ]. Shelton Viii
liams.
The charity BALI will be given here
the night after Christmas and will be
a large affair.
During the year 369 ~convicts arrived
at the state prison here. 1t cost, on
an average $12.4S each to bring them.
1t is thought that the populist state
committee will meet next month, and
that the republican state committee
will meet in February.
Tobacco growers assert that there
will be a large attendance at their
state convention here January 18th!
The fact is that it is extremely diff
cult to get any large portion of them
or the cotton W to act in concert.
Rev. w. G. Clements, superintendent
of education for this county, tells me
that the farmers here are better off
than in ten years past, thanks to their
raising their own food supply. H
says more wheat has been sown this
fall than at In time in the past ff-
teen years.