The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30
WEATHER REPORT FOR LAsrYEAR
Remarkable in Many Eespects To
County school Observation-Disclosures
nfture Factories OF the state.
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh, y. c., January %.
h contract was awarded today for
the first building of III Methodist or
phanage here. The o~rphanage, being
an educational institution, IS allowed
to participate in the Twentieth Centu-
ry movement of the Methodist church
and to receive contributions.
Two hundred new rifles for the First
North Carolina regiment arrived at the
state arsenal today from h national
armory at Springfield, Mass. Next week
the regiment will be equipped.
The state charters the Statesville fur
niture factory, capital SIC, 900; j.. G..
Shelton and others owners. There are
now OVe sixty furniture factories in
the state. These ship their products all
over the union. Oak is mainly used,
but much walnut, poplar, cherry and
maple.
The cause of the delay of the state
labor commissions in making his re-
port on cotton mills is that some mills
have not sen in returns.
The textile mill at Clayton is TO be
a spinning and weaving and not a
knitting mill.
A press telegram today referred to
cOunterfeiting OF nickeis in the peni-
N0-N 90 SNSAI 4
feiting has been done occasionally in
the p~enitentiary here for many years.
The purpose is to pass the money upon
other cOnVicts. 1t does not appear tina
any of it ever got outside the prison.
n $4,000 lot of Raleigh 4 per cent.
bonds were today offered by a Mime
apolis firm at 1919. North Carolina 4
per GEMS. are IoOL.
Weather Observer Won Herman to-
day issued his report of North Caro-
lima weather for 1899 and it is extremely
interesting. MeteOTOlOgically it was a
phenomenal year in many respects. The
barometer was the highest in twenty
eight years, being 1895 inches at Raj
eigh. The snow storm, February 18th
to 18th, surpassed in severity any SINH
lar occurrence of which there is any
record, ranging from IS to "a inches at
seven stations. The lowest
ture of the year was 10 degrees below
zero, at Highlands, Macon county, Feb
ruary 18th; the highest 100 degrees, at
TarbOrO, September 9Th. The annual
mean temperature for the state was
$50 degrees, which was below the av-
erage for twenty-eight years The high
est yearly mean was at Southport; the
owest at Linville. The average snow
fall in the state for the year was 10
inches, the highest ever recorded. The
highest wind velocity was 105 miles an
hOur at Hatteras, August 18th.
The state superintendent of public in
structiOn issues the following to the
county superintendent:
Il refer you to the following lords
of Section 80 of the school law. last
part: The county superintendent of
schools shall hold his examinations
publicly, and may invite competent
persons to assist him in such examina-
tons. He shall keep a copy of all ex-
a animation nIIaSfinnC both nnh1io and
private, and shall forward copies of
the same to the state superintendent
upon request In accordance with this
law [ hereby request o to send me
the set Of questions used last October
and a set of questions you have used
for a private examination. You will
please mark each set distinctly, SO L
can see at once which was the private
examination and which was the public
examination"