The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-16
THE Rural L
Another Route to be Established fl
Wake County-Funds for Monument
to Engineer Penitentiary
In a Good Financial Condition
Messenger Bureau.


Raleigh. November L.
! Rev. DIR. r. H. W. Leak. one OF the
leading preachers and officials of the
African NJ E church. and whose sta
ton - at Philadelphia. = here. He Is
well informed as to the views OF the
North Carolina negroes and says those
who are disfranchised do not care a
cent about it. He locke with no disfa-
vof upon the constitutional amendment.
which last August the people ratified 50
Overwhelmingly.
\ p~ostoffce official arrived here to-
day To look into the matter OF establish
Ing u new rural delivey route. 20 be-
gin at Auburn. eight mikes southeast
OF Raleigh. There are already three
such routes which begin here Thy
are a great success.
Among today's arrivals are Rob:. r..
Giehn or winston. L 7. HarsselI. OF
Concord; =. ID. Walker and II u DsT-
Ion. Of. Charlotte: r z. johnson OF
Lincolnton: j.. G. PuIllam. OF Lenoir-
and "A II. Price. OF Salisbury The
last named is the new ASSISTANT dis
trict attorney for the western district.
he Is a cousin OF Lieutenant HobSon.
OF the navy.
~S&ASAA 3GSGENS NJ SHAW unAXgT-
s4ty here. gives $50 toward a fund for
placing a monument over the grave OF
crave Engineer MCGOWAN, who lost his
NE In the Atlantic Coast Line train
wreck near Fayetteville last Saturday.
Inc republican leaders are now say
ing that two years hence their party
VIII De entirely r~eorganIzed in this
state. this organization cooking To the
campaign OF 1904.
n session Of the corporation COM
mission tomorrow is To be devoted to
the hearing OF matters relative uo
freight rates.
Today w c. Newland, OF the peni-
tertiary board. left here for
the state farms on the Roanoke river.
-our correspondent talked with him
about the p~enitentiary- Mr.. Newland
| said:
THE penitentiary will make a good
showing this year. We will have SI25.-
900 TO $3.50, 900 in farm products To turn
over TO our successors, whoever they
may be, We have as yet sold no farm
products. II We see a good opening We
will make sales. We will ask the state
for no appropriation for next year.
Things are in good shape. Our state
ment Will be made to the legislature.
1t will be full About the first OF De-
cember we Will resume our railway
work, under contract You know we
~ SaNAA wa n NAASA
put them on the farms. harvesting
crops There is more net profit in the
use of convicts on railway construction
than any other way We know. We are
pleased with the operations of the fac
tory for making shirts. Last month We
shipped 200 dozen shirts. The mat
tress-making is also successful. We
make forty a day. All are made I'M
der contract The health of the con-
victs has been unusually good during
the year. We are certainly glad the
federal convicts We're taken away. We
would not have them back il the gov
ernmen paid Sl-50 a day for them.
They were mainly journeymen safe
crackers Since they left VIZ have had
no trouble, no hide-outs, sawed barn
or escapes"
Rev. George Stuart, the evangelist.
is drawing great audiences here.
A faith cure" outfit has struck Ra-
leigh 1t is the first visitation OF such
fakirs.