The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-11-21
[ e NEWS LETTER.
on Tree Fruffs-CottGn Seed
Declines in P~rice-Sfiss Proctor
Dend at Iumberton-AnnaaI Re-
port OF superintendent Joyner.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh. n. c., November IL.
The price OF cotton seed has declined
to q cents a bushel and as . result the
farmers are holding. The highest price
reached this season was 2S1s cents.
The brickwork of the Methodist or
phanage here has been pushed so rapid
ly that by the end Of this month 1t will
be completed. This is on the main
building, which is already an imposing
structure.
The Pullen memorial all at the As-
ricultural and Mechanical college will
be finished by about the M OF January.
The style Of architecture is very differ
ent from that of the other buildings
There is a great portico. with massive
columns two stories in height.
A special bulletin on tree fruit is now
in preparation by the State Agricultural
department. 1t is the work OF T. X.
Bruner, w. F. Massey and Franklin
Sherman. twill be largely devoted -
that important fruit. the apple. Secre-
tary Bruner says the apple show ct the
state fair has attracted great attention
to this state. Inquiries as to apples and
apple growing lands are coming from
all directions; as far as Minnesota. for
example. He says there is a great flu
ture for this business in Western North
Carolina
News came from Lumberton of the
death of another daughter of the late
E. K. Proctor, Jr. He died, then twin
daughters and now another daughter.
His widow is critically sick and so is
her sister, Mrs. George Mcleod.
The state vote will not be canVaSSed
until Thanksgiving day. The returns
are in, however, and show that j.. Y.
Joyner, democratic candidate for state
superintendent of public instruction. re-
ceived 135, 724 votes, and Rev. D.. A.
Long his republican opponent, 6S, 121,
making Joyner's majority 67,603. You
correspondent gave the estimate CT e.
900 a week before the election. Total vote
was 203, S45. In 300 The vote was 1885,
$50 democratic, and 126, 296 republican, a
total of 312, 800. or 109, lis more than was
cast this year. 1t is estimated that SO,-
600 fewer negroes voted this year than
voted in 1900.
Cadet c. c. Harrell, son of the mayor
of Kelford. BERTHE county, is very sick
at the Agricultural n Mechanical col
lege here, of peritonitis.
Mitchell Hamilton is appointed oyster
inspector for Carteret county.
The state board of examiners of pub
lie institutions is not pleased with the
condition of the convfcts who are cut
ting timber for the Goldsboro Lumber
Company near Dover, and also building
a railway extension. The quarters are
bad, the food not it ought to be
and the lesses are allowed to sublet the
convictS.
State SUPERINTENDENT Joyner in his
annual report will urge that the 5000, 600
direct appropriation for public schools
be continued, also the $1,000 a%ppropria-
ton for rural school libraries, of which
1893 are now in use.
His report contains the report of the
text book commission and that of its
sub-commission. The latter is given
for the first time. 1t shows that the
text book commission did not, in several
cases, follow the recommendations of
the sub-commission. This was the case
as to readers. writing books, arithme-
tics, language lessons, physiology and
pedagogy.