The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-23

State Pays Costs or Defending tho Reg
fstrars-Crops In the Eastern Conn
ties Methodist Orphanage Negro
immigration Activity In Copper
MfninR-Professor f. L. Stevens.
Messenger Bureau.


Raleigh, n. c., July is.
BY a special act OF the legislature the
state took upon itself the payment Of
the expenses, lawyers fees, etc, in the
cases OF the registrars Of election in
dicted in the federal courts for refusing
registration to negroes for the election
In August 1900. on the franchise amend
ment to the constitution. Today the
state issued warrants in payment Of
these expenses, s135.20 to John ".
Thompson and s1OS. so to II. l. Waugh,
both of Winston-Salem; $S.05 to H. o.
Foy, and $40 to attorney general Gill
mer.
Secretary of State Grimes, who re
turned today from northeastern North
Carolina, say the crops between here
and Wilson are the poorest he ever saw,
but that in Wilson, Edgecombe. Beau
fort and Pitt they are fairly good, save
corn, which is very poor.
Secretary Grimes says the new sur
veys of the states swamp lands, which
are now being made by State Engineer
McRee eve the fact that there is and
has been a great deal of trespassing
and timber cutting and he is of the
opinion that the state will now make
something out Of these lands.
The state superintendent of public in
struction directs Professor E. P. Man
gum to hold a institute at
Whittier, beginning next Monday and
continuing all the week, for Swain and
counties.
1t is expected that next Tuesday the
trustees of the Methodist o~rphanage
here will meet and award the contracts
for the $25, 900 main building. 1t is the
L I1rnnc - ~00F Ir &A>
end of this year.
1t is sal by negroes here who are in
terested in the immigration of their race
that 1t has been quite constant all this
year. They say negroes are all the
while coming into the towns from the
country and then going north and that
next season the farmers will feel the
shortage of negro labor even more than
they do now.
The resignation of w. 3. Howard as
first lieutenant of Company A, Second
regiment, Tarboro, has been received.
The new military company here has
been armed, uniformed n equipped
and is doing very well at drill. The
First and Second regiments have been
furnished with uniforms and all other
quartermasterS' stores. The company
at Fayetteville is among those thus sup
Piled.
The new weekly paper here wake
Wide-awake," is to appear in a fort
night.
The copper mining industry is very
active in Person and Granville and
these are large new investments, main
ly by New Workers..
The First national bank, Of oxford,
opened Monday. Business in that town
is good. There is more building than
at any time in ten years past, and
more real estate deals.
The state charters the A @. Cox
Manufacturing Company of Winterville
Pitt county. The capital is $40, 600. A
charter is also granted the Williamson
Academy Company, capital $4,000.
/ E: L. Daughtridge, of Pitt this yeal
raised 300 bushels wheat on ten acres.
DR.. F. L. Stevens, recently elected
professor of bioglogy in the Agricultural
and Mechanical college has studied al
the leading universities in America anC
Europe. including Syracuse university
Horbart and Rutgers colleges, the Ohio
state university, the University of Chi
cago and the universities af Bonn
Halle and Naples. His record for schol
arship was so fine at the University OF
Chicago that he was made after grad
uation, a travelling fellow. He has haG
seven years experience as a teacher
two years experience in the New Jer
sey experiment station as labOrator!
assistant and collector under DR.. B. D
IldlSlSu. nc 10 q pOpuiol iCSlaiCh oAi
writer as we'll as a most accomplished
scientist.
Professor Coulter, the distinguished
botanist. in the University of Chicago
speaking of DR.. Stevens "He i
? the best available man in the countr.
for such a position. He is far bette
trained than the majority of botanist
at agricultural colleges, and his train
:, ing has been especially in the direction
of plant diseases, etc. He is an expert
. enced teacher and a good lecturer. I
, is altogether a rare opportunity TO
. President Winston; the only reason VIII.
> he has a chance at him is that sever
years in Europe has cut him loose from
all ties here, and he must hitch OF
again somewhere"
Professor H. E. Slaught speaking 70
the Chicago board of recommendation
says: "Dr. Stevens is a rare man 70
this p~osition-one whose candidacy W
can present with the utmost conf
dence."