The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-09-24
RAIN AND WIND STORM
Crops Damaged and Railway Tracks
Washed Up-Ral1way Tax 9
ment Suit Question OF Additional
Grades In Public Schools.
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh, n. c., September Is.
The capitol and other public build
ings were closed today, and the banks
and business houses were closed dur
ing the time of the funeral ceremonies
at Canton There were also memorial
meetings and all the bells in the city
tolled.
The rain and wind Of yesterday and
last night damaged crops considerably.
Streams are high, the larger n G are
rising and there are foo warnings for
several streams. Since April there
have been four notable freshets.
A washou on the Seaboard Air Line
yesterday, near Osgood, delayed trains
many hours. Today there was another
near Monroe, and il vas necessary to
make up a train here. In some parts
of the state nearly six inches OF rain
fell yesterday.
The state veterinarian will visit 10Th
Camden and Currituck counties to in
vestigate the disease affecting cattle
and horses
The commissioner OF agriculture and
the state chemist returned today from
Tarboro, where they held a farmers
institute. The rain made the attend
ance rather small. The great problem
A. " ~ a 60 49,
tons. Relatively very few farmers at
tend institutes or would attend them
in any event. but the mass simply go
ahead with old methods, taking things
as they come. They are not saving
this hard year, and as h commission
er Of agriculture said today, 1T is dis
tressing to see the waste going on"
There are three telephone companies
here. One Of these, the Raleigh, is
entirely local. and there is a hot fight
on between it and the Inter State. 1t
tried to buy the latter's local business,
but not it's outside or long distance bus
mess, but the Interstate asked a fancy
figure.
The attorney general, for the cor
poration commission, today completed
the answer to the application for man.
damus made by the sheriff of Washing
ton county and State Senator Ward, to
compel the commission to assess rail-
way property this year. 1t is the cur
rent belief that the answer will knock
out the whole proceeding, though, to tell
the truth. the proceeding is hardly
AXE seriously anywhere in the state.
The governors message to the legisla-
ture heartily approving the compro-
mise and agreement by which the rail-
ways withdrew their cases from the
federal courts and paid some 5000, 600,
is filled as a part OF the answer re-
ferred to.
The state superintendent of public
instruction will have to pass on the
question whether it is lawful for add
tional grades to be added to graded
schools, in cases where by subscription
or otherwise additions are made to
the school funds. 1t appears that In
such cases the opposition comes from
private schools of high grades n the
contention is that the law prescrlbes
the grades and that such additions can
not be made. The question is what IS
the authority of the state superinten-
dent in regard to these graded schools.
The attorney general will have to de-
eide it.
Thirty female convicts nave been
sent from the penitentiary to the
TiIerv farm to pick cotton, these be-
ing all who could be spared.