The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-26
SESSION OF COUNCIL OF STATE
Held I'm street Car on Way 10 Base Ball
GroundslTextfle building at Agrf-
cultural College Co be Buiit-san Jose
scale at Many Points.



Raleigh. n. C. April "a.
The most novel meeting OF the coun-
Gil of state ever held was held yester-
day afternoon. in n street car on the
way to the Portsmonth-Raleig base
ball game. President George 7. Win
ston. OF the Agricultural and Aechani-
cal college. was present and urged the
council TO give him authority to 80 on
with the work OF building a textile de-
partment. For this the legislature
made a special appropriation. but as
no special appropriations can be paid
this year, owing to scarcity OF funds
in the state treasury. it IS necessary
for the council OF state to
the institution to go ahead with work
aad incur debts. as the law forbfds
these TO be incurred save upon such
authority by the ouncil An
was made yesterday that DR.. Winston
can go ahead with the work OF course
| there is no srouble in getting the money
upon the states credit The appropri-
alton is 81. 600.
State Entermologist Sherman says
the San Jose fruit scale is found at the
following places in the state at pres
emit: Southern Pines. Aberdeen. VIII
mington. Raleigh. Durham. Burlington.
Gastonia. Mount Holly. Waynesville
and State Road (Surry county, The
| scale is increasins> Mr.. Sherman says
the people in the Infected localities are
aiding in the fight against IL.
The government crop and weather
report for North Carolina for the week
ended last night. was issued to-day.
1t is important. II says: Much i'm
provement in crops and considerable
progress in farm work occurred during
the early portion OF the week. as n re
suit OF the dry. somewhat warmer and
--1~ ,~a~nIl 1-nANAA~ AarA4EknrsG
which prevailed from the 18th to 18th.
During these few days the sky was
generally clear to partly cloudy. the
temperature slightly above normal n
the soil dried out nicely, at least over
the eastern part of the state where the
| rainfall had not been excessive. But
the unnecessary rainfall on Friday.
Saturday and Sunday and the subse-
| quent very cold weather has almost
obliterated the favorable effect OF the
preceding few days, stopped farm work
for some time, n prevented much
growth of young vegetation. Condi-
tons were better in the eastern hall
of the state where the cloudy wealth
| er on Saturday. Sunday and Monday
prevented the threatening frost. In
the mountain region the rain turned
to snow Friday night and on Saturday
a fall of from 2 TO 6 inches OF snow oc-
CURED over ten or twelve western
| counties, with temperatures consider
ably below freezing. The lowest tenn
perature reported was 20 degrees ~
| Asheville. The heaviest snowfall oc-
Cured in Madison county and extend
ed across the Blue Ridge into Stokes
county on the north and Rutherford
on the south. Sunday morning peach
trees in full bloom in this section were
| covered with ice, and great damage 10
the entire fruit crop in the west is an
ticipated. The week on the whole was
about 4 degrees below the daily normal
in temperature. and was further rem
dered unfavorable by the heavy rain
fall in the west. which has kept water
courses FULL, and placed lowlands in
very bad condition.
The police here make q formal report
on oath. that there was no gambling
in Raleigh last week. They say all
regular Gambling places are broken UP.