The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-20
SPREAD OF SMALLPOX.
Report of Secretary OF state Board OF
Health Prospects of Early Truck
Season-Street-Car Lines of the state.
Congressman Atwater's Attack on
Butler.
Messenger Bureau.

ha4elSn, " t. February 10
The STATE today chartered the For
syth Chair Company. of Winston
Salem. capital SO, Oo0. H. f. Fries,
Charles Siewers and others owners.
ais the Cleaver Club and Manusactur-
ing Company. Of Concord capital ss2.-
900, Paul p. J. Fyfe. d. H. Burris and
others stockholders. The club is to ac-
quire patent rights and the company to
manufacture articles and devices IN
der these patents and TO utilize inven-
tons, improvements and processes.
Or. Richard H Lewis, secretary Of
the state board of health, has completed
his repout for January. which shows
that during ;nat month there was
smallpox in t~wenty-four counties.
Since then it has made its appearance
IN two others, Buncombe and Hay
wood. II is now very widely spread.
DR.. Lewis is hearty in his ridicule of
physicians who disagnose smallpox as
elephant itch" OF curse there is no
such disease as the latter. but some
physicians, who ought to be ashamed
or themselves, deliberately make such
an absurd diagnosis.
The commissioner OF agriculture re-
turne today from Duplin county where
he held a farmers institute. which he.
says was we'll attended and in which
marked interest was shown. The next
institute will be held in Guilford
county.
+ Professor Ira Remsen. chemist of.
Johns Hopkins university, will deliv-
er the annual address e June be-
fore the Students of the Agricultural
and Mechanical college here. He is one
Of the ablest chemists in the country
and a o entertaining speaker.
Among toGay's. arrivals was Speaker
II. G. Conner, Of Wilson.
Captain Z. B. Vance. the recruiting
officer here. is now in the western part
of the state, after recruits for the reg
ular army. He says Greensboro is now
the best recruiting point. A great many
have gOn from the Piedmont section.
The weather bureau in a bulletin to-
day says that hanks to the very pleas
ant weather in January work in prepa-l
ration for an early truck season is well
advanced in the east. The monthly
mean temperature for the state was
40.5 degrees, or 2 degrees above nor-
NAL. The highest was IS, at Cherry
vile: the lowest 5 below zero at Lin
vile and Marshall. The greatest dairy
range was 40, at Henrietta. The aver
age rainfall was 1888 inches, one inch
below the normal The greatest was
ga inches, at Wilmington. The aver
age snow fall was only IA inches.
1t is said by some prominent demo-
Gratis that no matter whether c. B.
Aycock or NJ. H. Justice gets the dem
ocratic nomination for governor, John
c. Cunningham will get the nomina-
ton for lieutenant governor.
The organization and charter of the
Lowell cotton mill, in CASTOR county,
with $500 capital, is the seventh this
year in the state.
DeWolf Hopper is booked TO appear
at ~the Academy of Music here May
1st and end the theatrical season.
The legislature in June will in all
probability give the corporation COM
mission ample power to assess railway
and steamboat property, thus remedy
ing any possible vaguenesS of the act
creating it.
tacks Senator Butler for antagonizine
the constitutional amendment, saying
Butler has made a great mistake and
should have declared for it, as he said
ten months ago he woul do. Atwater
says he is sure the amendment will
carry and declares the populists will
support it at the polls next August.
The Roanoke river IS very high and
is yet rising.
There are only 1914 miles of street
railway in North Carolina. The num-
Der of passengers last year was 2, 763,-
TAP, and the receipts $143, 65S. Charlotte's
road transported 725,S77, Raleigh ST.
935, Winston 331, 166, Pinehurst 1883,
Asheville 126, $50, Charlotte 615, S26.