The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-19
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. c.. January Il

Raleigh, n. e.. Janu8Iy ID
There is interest in the meeting OF
the populist state committee here next
Thursday. II is aid by a leading pop
uIist that enc OF the principal matters
discussed viii be the constitutional
amendment. He does not believe that
any action will be taken. in declaring
for or against IL. but that the matter
will be left entirely in the hands of the
convention. One Of the committeeman.
George f. Boggs. OF the Ninth district.
has declared in favor OF the amend
ment-
Governor Russell. on account Of the
smallpox situation at Mt. Airy. con-
SCENTS to a postponement of the special
term of court for Surry county. which
was TO have been begun today. There
are thirty-two cases at Mt. Airy.
V. 8 Lusk, OF Asheville. and John
s, Armstrong. of Wilmington. directors
OF the North Carolina railway. met
here today. to consider the matter OF
answer TO the complaint of the at
torney for Philip w. Avirett. who sues
the railway for $4,000 salary and ex-
penses.
E. f. Lamb. Of Elizabeth City, one
OF the state board OF internal improve
ments. which inspected the Atlantic
and North Carolina railway Saturday.
is here and said today: The whole
road is rotten. There are no bitches
on the sides of the line: no attempt 20
preserve tho ties and rails from water,
and the rad has suffered I'm conse-
quence Buildings are dilapidated.
There are piles of old iron. grass-cov-
cred. The long bridge across the
Neuse is so damaged that IL really
seemed dangerous TO me. The wharf
at New Bern is wretched and unsafe.
You can run your finger under the
spikes on the road. where they are
loose. This causes the rattle and jar.
The expenses of the road have bee
much larger than they ought TO have
been. and yet there has been an at
tempt to pay the miserable little divi-
dend. The new president has secured
a credit of $780, 900. 1t is the purpose
of the new management to press the
work of Improvement n at the same
time pay the usual l per cent. dividend.
l know this to be So"
Chief Clerk m of the state
treasury, avs the rents OF the farms
leased by the state were paid for last
yea out of the issue OF debt bonds,
n not out of penitentiary earnings.
The corporation commission reports
that there are thirty-four buildings and
loan associations in this state. The
DldlhS Oh WHICH tneSG are 10 make
their annual reports were sent out to
day.
The corporation commission issued
an order today adding to Rule No. G.,
governing freight rates, that in future
when any special rate is made by the
railways the commission must be mott
fled at once and that such rate cannot
be hdr without thirty days no
tice to the commission.
The state superintendent of public
instruction. chairman OF the board of
trustees of the State Normal and In
dustrial college at Greensboro. says
that go students have over their own
signatures informed President McIver
that they will return January Goth,
when the college pen Mr.. Mebane'
says the trustees hope to open With
$50. There were 200 when the collega
closed on account of the typhoid cpl
demic. He say there was at one timd(
much harsh feeling against the man.
agement. This has passed away and
now the feeling is kindly.