The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-11
MESSENGER Bureau.
Raleigh. y. C., Angus; 6.

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. y. C., Angus; 6.
The corporation commission has in
yited the attorney general % appear in
all the cases before Judge Simonton.
He has conferred with ex-Iudge Shep-
herd and other attorneys il ali these
cases. He was here yesterday ard this
morning. principally in regard to this
matter.
The attorney general grants leave TO
c. B. Aycock TO institute quo warranto
proceedings to ascertain by what war
rant the fusionists are holding office
as county officials and commissioners in
Greene. There are now two complete
sets of officials there. Auditor Aver
was so puzzled by the situation that he
sent blanks to all hands.
The attorney general when asked by
the state superintendent OF public in
struction 10 give mis- opinion as TO
whether the county board OF education
elected by the legislature should be re-
cogniZed, said in the p~lainest terms that
it was the superintendent duty TO en-
force the school law of 1899 and TO rec
ogniZe the new boards all over the
state; hat he is merely an executive
officer and must obey the law as the
legislature makes il. The supreme
court must of course, pass upon the
law.
1t has come to be rather a grave Jest
in North Carolina that 1t is not the
legislature but the supreme court which
makes he laws.
The state charters the Hoge-Irvine
tobacco warehouse, at Kinston.
The state auditor has gone to Blow
ing Rock for a ten days vacation.
Samuel 7. Pearson of Morganton is
appointed clerk and bookkeeper at the
penitentiary, vice F. B. Winbish, fu-
sionist, whose term expires August 31st.
There are now fifty-eight men at
work at the blind institution here and
next Monday twenty more will be put
on. The work of adding another story
is half completed.
Mr.. Seldom, of the United States bu-
reau Of animal industry is here to
make a special study of the late out
break Of splenic fever in this and sew
eral other counties. He will cooperate
with Mr.. Sanderson, another govern
ment expert, now on duty here.
The cotton mills in the state will, it
appears, equip the textile school at the
Agricultural and Mechanical college
with machinery. The Raleigh hosiery
mill makes he first gift-$100.
The Fayetteville Observer yesterday
referred to your correspondent as the
Raleigh correspondent Of the Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot. This is an error. That
paper has no Raleigh correspondent,
nor has it ever had one. It's Raleigh
news is clipped from other papers.
Contractors today secured large
numbers of negro laborers here to work
On the Ridgeway and. Richmond short
cut of the Seaboard Air Line, or as it
seems it is now to be known-the Sea-
board Air Railway"
New Workers are here, making an
endeavor to lease the shirt factory at
the penitentiary which has since last
winter been idle.
increased S460, 900 over that Of 1898.
Of this s335,00O is on real estate.
All public school buildings here are
to be steam heated.
Notwithstanding a few unsatisfactory
reports, it is impossible not to be i'm
pressed with the present favorable out
look for crops as indicated by the re-
marks of crop correspondents for the
week ending last night. Rains occurred
early in the week, followed by a period
Of dry, sultry, very warm weather, with
daily mean temperatures much above
the normal and maximum readings be-
tween 80 degrees and 100 degrees every
nqV from the ID IN the 9Th INCLUSIVE
In portions of Guilford, Iredell, Ruth
erford, Mcdowell, and Mecklenburg
counties, where the amount Of rainfall
last week was not sufficient, crops suf-
fered from the exceeding hot, dry
weather of the past few days and need
more rain: crops generally in the wes-
tern section will be short. Elsewhere
the conditions have been favorable, and
resulted in further Improvement in
crops, which are being brought rapidly
nearer maturity. Cotton continues
generally in excellent condition, and
where injured by drought has improved
considerably, but the damage must be
confined to limited areas, as only IL
per cent. Of the total reports received
mention shedding.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., August 9.
The commissioner of insurance re-
ports today that thus far t~hirty-one life,
s~eventy-eight fire. eleven surety ana ac-
cident companies and our fraternal or
ders have domesticated themselves I'M
der the Craig law. -Four life, four fire
and ten fraternal have not domesti-
Gated.
Superintendent Day, OF the peniten-
tiary, Tow has the idea that it is best
not TO buy the Caledonia" farm, but
20 employ the state convicts on rail-
way and other work Of like character
Twenty years of experience showed the
democrats that OF farms was the only
permanent way to employ conyicts.
Railway construction and other work
along hat line is too uncertain and too
brief. The state has made an order
for a bond issue for the purchase OF
the finest farm in the state. Mr.. Os-
borne, OF the executive board, takes
| Captain Days view. Messrs. Travis
n Newland. Of the executive board.
, are for the purchase of the farm. Moth