The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-06
Messenger Bureau.

Among the attorneys VINO are present.
is Ex-Governor Russell.
Captain E. E. Winslow Of the corps
| Of engineers, United States navy, ar
rived here today from Wilmington to
| confer with the governor regarding the
monuments to Generals Nash and
| Davidson.
An unfavorable report was today
made by the appropriation m
on the state training school bill. This
is the bill known as the ref~rmatory
bill, which is being SO earnestly press
ed by the Kings Daughters. 1t has
never passed the house or senate, but
was referred to this committee. 1t car
ried a small state app. opr. alton. LIS
introducer will now endeavor to strike
out the appropriations and get a simple
charter.
The express people are e~ndeavoring
to get a reduction of their tax rate III
the revenue bill. They were will g to
| pay a cent a mile but the bill names &c
as the rate.
State Superintendent Joyner, is in
high spirits at the prospect of the pas
sage of the excellent bill to allow the
$500, 900 now in the state literary fund
to be lent to counties for building
school houses
Up to this date 90 sheriffs have set
tied i'll full their state taxes.
A full Set of the North Carolina SUI
preme court reports, which was owned
by the late ex-Judge John Gray Rynun,
of GOldsboro, has been placed in the
supreme court library as a memor al
of him..
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as the joint one or appropriations.
There has been pulling and hauling at
every meeting. When some member
would say that an appropriate must
be had for some western institution,
some eastern member would inmedi-
ately get up and say, well that's all
! right, but if you get it we must have
one for some of our eastern institutions.
And so it came about that for session
after session very little was done.
Revenue officers made a raid at Mar
garettsville on some blind tigers"
which had for some time bee1 dong
business both IN North Caro- ina and
Virginia. They captured the entire out
fit, two white men and two negroes,
and have them in jail.
Very few convicts have arrived at
the penitentiary this year. Three ar
rived today from Columbus county.
AS soon as spring opens, convicts will be
put on all the railway work possible,
as this is the most renlu1Ie, ative
There was never q greater demand TO
convicts than at present. One county
will get about so of them for road build
ing.
Among today's arrivals were Frank
P. Tate, r. T. Claywell, Mcrgantou;
Soo~~o ID MOI odd I,rohartnn. NJ q
Mckenzie, Maxton; H. H. McLendon,
Wadesboro; o. J. Peterson, Lumbert0n:
Congressman John D. Bellamy, Will
mington; T. c. Wooten, Kinston; J. P.
Futrell. Scotland Neck; J. NJ. Coving-
ton, Wadesboro; George Rountree,
Thomas B. Carroll, NJ. F. H. Gouvern-
eur. Wilmington; Thomas C. James.
Wilmington; John D. Kerr, Clinton: J.
B. Coffield. Everetts; S. Bryan. Randle-
man.: R. w. Hicks. Wilmington: A. 9.
Zollicoffer. Henderson,; T. B. Wiser.
w. NJ. Person. Louisburg; J. N. Ster-
lings, Salisbury.
There is quite a lot of talk about the
bills to incorporate distilleries as
towns. It is claimed on the one hand
by the owners of the disti,leries that
they are old established places, and
not like the ordinary stills which are
moved here and there. On the other
hand. people ridicule the idea, and
say it is a funny sight, after the pas
sage of the Watts bill which did not
give the size of incorporated towns
to see the legislature charterlng distil-
leries. A great many psop,e thi1k this
failure to name the minimum populd-
ton of a place which may be incoI por-
ated is a defect in the Watts bill. A
-~.oS Iao1 af 1ohhyiru ic r,oinp dana in
the interest of these distillery towns.
Chairman J. W. Bailey, of the anti
saloon league campaign commit e slys
that if the towns, which under the
Watts bill have the owe to GO SO will
vote liquor out, it will be all right and
that 1t is now up to the people Of the
towns to do this; that the Legislature
has cloathed them with ampe power.
There are now 104 inmates of the sd
diers home here, and 120 on the roll
This is the limit which can be cared
for under the present annual appropr.a-
ton.
Revenue officers say the number of
seizures Of illicit distilleries has fallen
nf considerably. They do not know
whether illicit distilling is on the d.
crease or not. They know that moon
sinners continue to move eastward.
IT seems to be certain that the bill to
enlarge Raleigh's boundary will pass,
and that it will win out in the electi- n
to he held on that question.
News reached here today OF a sensa-
tional- occurrence at Sanford. A few
lays ago a man arrived there and let
it be known that he was going to build
a railway and also locate several cotton
mills. He got acquainted with the peo-
pie, and when on Saturday a very
handsomely dressed and snowy man
appeared the people We're greatly i'm
pressed. The last arrival stated that
he was a banker from Philadelphia, and
that he would if the people Of the town
subscribed 81, 900, bui.d a big m II there.
He went around, accompanied by the
first arrival who introduced him, and
secured the $4,000 in subscription. In
each case taking a regular note from
the subscribers. Late in the afternoon
one of the subscribers, a bank man, be-
came suspicious and sent for the al