The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-29

Give Cr~editable Parade I'm Raleigh.
tn HeaSeu-Hard Examination.
Messenger Bureau.


Raleigh. ~. c., August q.
The annual parade OF the Colored
State Ffremen's Association vas held
here this morning at 10 O'Clock and was
IN all respects creditable, more than -
companies participating. The tourna-
ment began at IL o'clock. at a point on
the east side OF the capitol square The
]. s. Plummer. OF warrenton being
president.
The Daughters OF the Confederacy
have expended during his year and last
$500 in fitting up the soldiers home.
The insane man named Ryan who
yesterday ~"worshipped" an oak tree in
the capitol square and who last even-
ing tore on all his clothing there n
was arrested. was kept in the station
house last night, but was released this
morning. He met your correspondent
in the capitol square and said can you
tell me the way TO Heaven" He was
given a direction and departed. The
man ought TO be locked up.
1t is asserted that the questions given
the applicants for attorneys license TO
answer last Monday, by the supreme
court were the hardest yet asked Jus
tice Clark, who prepared the questions
said he was surprised at this, as the
court thought the questions easy
enough.
Ex-Governor Russell left here early
this morning for New York, saying he
would not attend the republican state
convention at Greensboro tomorrow.
The republican office holders OF promi-
hence here left for Greensboro today. 10
aid in managing the convention.
The republicans held their judicial
convention 81 .A;- li-trinf harA TO-DAY
If the office of ex-CongTessman Iohn
Nichols. Each county was represented
by a delegate. Judge w. S. OBJ. Rob-
inson, of Goldsboro, was renominated
n James d. Parker, of ~Srnithield.
was nominated for solicitor.
The state superintendent of pubic
instruction gives notice that first-graCe
public school teachers certificates gran
ed prior to July !, 1901, ought not 10 BE-
and will not be considered. particular
ly II granted at private examinations"
The state superintendent finds that
the treasurer of Ashe county reported
2 ,462 as on hand July /, 1901. This
year he did not report it, but said he
now had possession of it: that the
sheriff had not paid it over and that
he was sueing the sheriff to get t..
From the villages of Garner and Nu-
burn, in two miles of each other, in This
county, $50 car loads Of canteloupss
and watermelons, averaging 1,25O eacl
have been shipped this season. The
farmers find his so profitable that next
year they will double their acreage.
Many melons go to the Virginia n
North Carolina mountain and piedmont
regions.
A new school for negroes is being
finished by the township school board
here. 1t is the eighth public school in
Raleigh and will accommodate 400
pupils.
Ernest Green, a son of eX-State Sena-
tor A. G. Green, was nearly killed yes
terday by an angry Jersey bull at his
home lear here. Luckily the bull was
dehorned. He rushed at Green, knock
ed him down and butted and trampled
him until aid came.
. The argument in the Wilcox case m
the supreme court, began yesterday,
was concluded today by E. F. Aydlett
for the defence.
1t is decided that where money was
asked for a school district TO make its
tSrm four months, and that a district
has been consolidated, the money fol-
lows the district and goes to it's credit
Otherwise, if not used, it be re-
turned to the state treasurer.