The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-11
Messenger Bureau,

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. n. c., August ..
Yesterday the three great systems
of railways in this state. namely, the
Southern. Atlantic Coast Line and
Seabiard Air Line. filed exceptions to
the assessment made by the corpora-
ton commission. Today notice was
given tina the exceptions are over
ruled. Now. unless there is a contest
in the courts. or the roads secure an
paid.
News as to the condition Of COM
missioner Of Agriculture Patterson.
who has for a lumber or weeks been
sick at his home in Caldwell county,
is that he is improving very slowly.
Curator Brimley Of the state museum
is now devoting most of his time to
the work of preparation for this
states exhibit at the St. Louis ex-
position.
There is a continuation of the howl
here on the part of property owners
Ut the increase of valuations of real
estate and buildings in Raleigh town
ship. 1t was admitted that values
have IL most cases been too low but
the owners declare that the assessors
have now gone to the other extreme
and fixed values much too high.
The local mpa of the Third regi-
ment left this morning for the en-
campment at Greensboro The gov
ernor will he there for a couple of
days and will inspect and review the
regiment.
A few nights ago the home Of Dr.
T. \. Vey the editor of the Raleigh
Christian Advocate. was entered by a
burglar. Last night the latter was
arrested. He was found to be a. ne
gro by of Is. He confessed and the
stolen property has all been recov-
cred.
The keepers of various disorderly
houses here have been for years SELL
,ngs drinks without any license saw
4 federal. They are now coming to
grief. One was arrested and taken
before the mayor today and was held
to appear at court for retailing with
out license. 1t is the second arrest
made. The last case is a very no
toriCus one.
There continues to be talk mere
about the defalcation of Cashier Dew
ew, of New Bern. and his flight. 1t is
SAID that he lived very e~xtravagantly
and tbs statement is made that he
,aade Il gift to some one of as much
as $1,000. 1t appear to be the belief
here that the amount of the defalca-
| ton may reach S10O, 900.
The p~enitentiary board finds that
| tue Lay ADMINISTRATION DOISll d I'LL
in front of the p~enitentiary and gave
a note for $500 in 1900. The new board
has paid three-fourths of this money
The State Anti-SalOOn League is
| getting at work with great e
ness. Its state organizer. w. Nj. Hin
/ ton. eave to the local papers an ai-
dress to the people of the state. The
liquor men claim that they are ready
4 for the fight.
A. D. Hulin. who was a private in
-1 1919 I-fa.+~- 1A+L -ari-
ment. North Carolina State Troops
died at the Soldiers Home here. after
several years of illness.
There is great pleasure among the
MethodistS here at the news that the
alumae of Greensboro Female Col
lege have so quickly succeeded in
i raising the money necessary for it's
purchase and that this noted school
will be continued without Interrupt
q ton.
II The demands for state c~OnVicts on
private work was never SO great as
at present. If the state had a thous-
and or more available it could find
takers for them all. The Southern
j railway wants 500. no doubt for the
work of double-tracking it's line be-
tween Danville and Charlotte via
Greensboro.
Governor Aycock has honored a re-
QUESTION from the governor of Mary
land for John H. Buckston. charged
with embeZZlement, and who has Tor
some days been in Jail at Oxford.
The MaSons are at work most zeal
ously in the matter of their great
bazaar to be held in October. for q
fortnight. Contributions. including
money and all sorts of articles, are
a coming in from all over the country
and Grand Secretary Drewry says i
will be the greatest affair of the kline
8 ever held in North Carolina The com
o+ mittees have been appointed The OBJ
jects being the raising Of funds TO
Is the Masonic Temple. which is to b.
IS the handsomest buildings in the state
I'd Before Associate Justice MontgOm
cry today there were habius corDu
edl proceedings in the case of EdWar'
stI Terrell. colored. who was brought her
n and jailed last evening on a charge o
ldl criminal assault upon his daughter
enl a married woman 1t is asserted tina
toI she made the charge out Of spite, an
that a. year ago she made a simila
one, but later said her husband Ia
r forced her to make it. There is ba
blood between the woman and he
father.
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