The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-08
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, n. c., March 2.
The state auditor a made a valu-
able find. There were prepared during
the civn war books containing lists of
deserters, one for each of the ten con-
gressi0nal districts. One of these
books was found yesterday and it
shows that twenty deserters have for
years been receiving pensions. Search
was made sixteen years ago for these
books. It will now be renewed. They
are state property. This one was found
in private hands.
S.nator Marion Butler and family
viii arrive here Tuesday, and will &C.
cuoy the residence in which Judge
Montgomery has until recently lived.
Tie latter now lives in h country.
The good roads here are increasing the
dssire to live in the country.
There is to be a bill to- consolidate
the department of agriculture and the
agricultural and Mechanical college.
Persons who know say the sole motive
s to give the college money; that it is
n straits for funds, and so is the state
treasury. OF cours the income of the
department is derived entirely from
the sale of tax tags on fertilizers.
For some years a large part of its rev.
enues were diverted to the college and
it was very much on this account that
there was q suit in the federal court,
and an injunction by Judge Seymour.
The fusioniSt board of agriculture used
to lend the college money, and also
arranged matters SO as to pay the col
lege for making the analyses of fertili-
zers. While really the college never
made them at all, as they were made
in tho Hanartrantf laboratory Ir
was merely a scheme to give the agri-
cultural departments money to the
college.
There are all sorts of expressions of
opinion, some of them too harsh for
publication, about the proposed con-
gressional and judicial redistricting Of
the state. The views range all the
way from Josephus Daniels positive
declaration that all ten congressional
districts will be democratic, to Repre-
sentative John S. Henderson's equally
positive one that four will go republic
can. Senator Justice said today:
9TH Tent as arranged, we stand a
good chance to carry. If we can carry
that it really looks like in the other
districts we ought to hold our own,
which means We ought to carry them
when the constitutional amendment
goeS into operation"
1t is further asserted that if the cor
SllIollolOI IOldo oiN IL
it DISTINGUISHES as many negroes as it
is expected it will, the democrats ought
to have no trouble.
It is said that Speaker, Moore of the
house is to be the democratic congress
siOnal candidate in the Tenth and that
he is sanguine as to carrying it. 1t is
also said that Representative Allen,
of Wayne, will be a candidate for con-
gress OF a judgeship in his district.
The final accounts of Th%eophilus
White, the retired chief shell fish COM
missioner, came in today were held
up until the governor passes upon
them. as all this matter is in the
hands of the governor
1t is declared that there will be a
strenuous effort to get a bill passed
giving prohibition in Cumberland
county. If this is lone there will be
a large prohibition area in that part
of the state. The ant~i-dispensary
faction in Cumberland is intensely
angered by the crushing defeat in the
house yesterday of the anti-dispensary
bill, which so easily passed the senate
while the ~dispensary advocates are
to the last degree jubilant.
The legislators appear to be at sea
as to any date of adjournment. OF
the regular sixty days of session there
now remains but seven. 1t is asserted
by not a few that the Senate can hard
ly dispose of the Impeachment of the
judges before March 21st and that the
house must needs sit as long as the
senate, as one branch cannot sit alone
In certain quarters pressure is being
brought to bear in favor of the bill te
give Wilson a normal college for wo-
men like that at Greensboro. 1t is
said, however, that the odds are great
ly against it's passage.
A bill is favorably reported to Civ
Arson county the dispensary system
There is a movement for a bill tc
make the commissioner of agriculture
game warden and have him ooh after
not only the protection but the propa-
cation of anne. He is placed in charge
of fish culture, and the hatchery tC
be established near Avoca is to be
under his control and direction.
Messenger Bureau.