The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-04
SUPREME COURT BUSY
LARGE NUMBER OF ANTS
o LAW LICENSE.
Charter to n Wilmington Company.
Proposition to Lease the
and North Carolina RaiIway-Work
on the Cape Fear and Northern.
Messenger Buearu,


Raleigh, y. c., August 81.
The copious rains of the past y hours
have done the parched crops a world Of
good. There are now expectations
which cheer the cotton and corr grow
erS.
The supreme court devoted today to
he examination of applicants for at
torneys licenses, these numbering so
and being by far the largest number on
record. OF them 50 are from the State
University and p from Wake Forest
College. The applicants We're so num-
erous that the supreme court room
could not contain them nor could the
senate chamber, so for the first time the
hall of the house of representatives had
to be used. The largest number prev
iously examined was 60.
Auditor B. +. Dixon has received all
the pension applications say those
from Guilford. Buncombe and Greene
counties and these will be here tomor-
row, when all the letters will be OPEN
ed.
James Fauntelroy Taylor died here
today, at the home of his nephew,
Charles NJ. Busbee. His age was 80
years. He graduated in the class of
1871. at the State University with the
degree of A. NJ. He was a class-mate
of Hon. Samuel F. Phillips. For sev.
eral years he was state librarian. His
sister, Miss Louisa Taylor. survives
him.
a charter is granted the Monarch
Paint Company. of Wilmington. capi-
tai stock $50, 900; E. v. Baltzer. P.
Heinsberger, Jr., and Iredell Meares
being the stockholders. The
will manufacture paints oils. varniShes.
lacquers, shellac, acids, etc.
A gained currency today that
there was a proposition for the sale Of
the states interest in the Atlantic n
North Carolina railway. Upon in
quiry it is discovered that the PROPOSE
ton is for a fifty year lease and not
a sale. 1t is made by personal guaran-
tee or fixed rate of interest on the stock.
ascending as the term of years in
creases.
State Chemist Kilgore is delighted
with the success of the farmers insti-
tute. which have been held in twenty
counties. Interest and attendance
broke all the records. More Institutes
will probably be held in September.
The Increase in the assessed value of
property in Raleigh township is 81. 40O,-
wv. IL 10 hol W III NiC oSi1@A
eighteen townships. but 100000 is the
estimate. Yet in n township, st.
Mary's, it is $156, 600. The row here
about the alleged high assessment APP
pears to nave about ended. The coun-
ty tax rate is % 1-3. 1t was the hope
to reduce it to 20 cents, but perhaps
this can't be done. The road tax this
year will be perhaps 0,010. last year
it was $32, 900.
Twenty-Five convictS are now at
work grading the Cape Fear and North
ern railroad from Duke, in Harnett
county. to Dunn. This extension will
be completed in 10 lays and then the
convicts may 90 to the Apex end Of
the road and build towards Durham.
The Dukes of Durham own this road
| At Dukes are the great cotton mills
named the Erwin, Nc. 2" now nearly
finished.
DR.. w. A. Graham, Of Durham. is
sick with typhoid fever here at the
home of DR.. Joseph Graham. his broth
err. He was brought here from Dur
ham last Friday.
The police are trying to find a u
white mar who at the union railway
station here insulted a Mrs. Belts. wife
of a cotton mill superintendent. She
instantly looked him down with an
umbrella. 1t is said he is a student.