The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-18
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c. October a.

% MAKE yarns and cloth and knit goods
OF cotton wool or silk. the capital stock
being $ia5.coo and the principal stock
holders 8. :. S.rudwick ana T. NJ. Webb
II Is the second cotton mii chartered
this week.
In a special interview with State Au-
ditor Dixon. who has charge of pen
sion matters, he was asaed about the
number OF pensions on the new list and
replied that there were OF the first class
81. who viii receive $50 a year. OF the
second class 80. who will receive s+S:
of the third c.ass SOL who get SIS: forth
class T.<S. whose annual Is
si4. There are 1850 widows. who receive
si4. The total number OF pensions Is
IS. SIG, an increase Of i.s4s over last
year. The largest increase in any one
year was In 1909. when the new Law
went into effect, and it was over 2.5oo.
Last year the increase was only AS.
Last Monday as your correspondent,
was standing IN the capital square talk
ing TO u prominent Confederate veter-
an the latter said. pointing 10 the broad
walk extending north from the capitol:
"A statue OF Matt Ransom ought TO be
put here. 1t is due him by the people
| OF his state. He was me aSlest North
| Carolinian and during his . years in
the senate did more for the state than
| any other man has ever done for IL In
| Congress-" State Auditor Dixon said
that the monument certainly ought TO
| be built 10 the great Senator and placed
in the square. He declared mat the
| people OF the state desire an opportuni-
4 - ~A-AaEb~ r,nDAx far Ctarh a IA
pose and that they would regard IL as
a labor Of reverence and love
The number Of books in the State
Library is increasing at q very gratify-
ing rate. In october. 1899. when the last
catalogue was made by experts, the
number of volumes was 22,5f1. Up to
May 10th last there had been an In
crease of almost $4,000 volumes, the
number then being 36,454. In neither
case were pamphlets counted. nor the
books in the capitol which are really
portions of the State Library. There
are 1.S47 volumes OF bound.
The number OF additions TO the library
since last May is very large. State Ii
brarian Sheriff. says.
The State Librarian has charge OF all
the old bills and resolutions introduced
in the legislature. To-day there were
found in the office OF the attorney gen.
eral. over 200 such papers. which had
been left there by the Legislative COM
mittee which had that office as its meet
ing place last year. A bushel basket
was full of these papers, which has no
business there. Now the librarian will
nave TO sort and arrange them all
Pullen Park here has had a very
successful season. From the first or
May TO the last OF September the num-
per Of visitors from the city averaged
800 a day. and during that time more
/ than An aVcllrGtnn narfiaS frnn1 other
places went TO the park. The receipts
of the swimming pool were $500. h
showing is very satisfactory indeed. Il
number of improvements have been
made at the park.
This morning the football team OF
the Agricultural m Mechanical Col
lega left for Charlottesville. Va. TO
play the University OF Virginia team.
Rapid work is now being done on the
large First Baptist church. colored. at
the southeast corner OF the capiter
square. II will be one OF The four most
conspicuous churches in Raleigh.
Today was the Both day without a
drop OF rain. The combination of the
drough and the cold weather is rather
odd and not at all pleasing.
In a day or two Mr.. r. d. W. Connor
is expected here from Wilmington TO
take a position in the office OF state Su-
perintendent Joyner. made vacant By
the election of Mr.. +. c. Brooks TO the
superintendency of the public schools
at Goldsboro. Mr.. Brooks Is still here,
schools at G~oldsboro being closed on ac-
count OF diphtheria. This disease has
also closed the oldest and largest public
school here. There is some increase OF
IL, and IL is aimed that the dust which
is blown everywhere is largely respon-
sible for the increase.
For a number OF years a claim has
hnnr ynn1n fkns "a &C., IEse
county was the inventor OF what Is
known as a coat revolver. The latter
revolver was first used by the Amerf-
can troops In the war with Mexico. and
gave the Mexicans a great ~urprIse.
Today Secretary of State Grimes re-
ceived the two patents granted to Mr..
Cox for improvements in b~reech-load-
ing fire arms. dated In 1855 and 1860.
and signed by Jacob Thompson. Secre-
tary OF the interior. who was. by the
way, a graduate Of the University of
North Carolina. You correspondent
looked at these patents and the draw
! ings OF the weapon. the latter do not
show the revolving mechanism.
The banquet OF the alumni CT the
; State University resident here was held
! this evening. One Of the special guests
l was DIR. Charles Baskerville, now &C
, cupying the chair OF chemistry al the
college OF the city Of New York. He
. will go from here TO Chapel Hill to-
! morrow 20 receive a testimonial from
! the faculty and students OF the Uni
: versity.
: Two cases of smallpox are reported
; in the country in this county. There
: are no cases in Raleigh.
: This evening Mr.. Charles J.. Harris
: Republican nominee for Governor and
I Honorable Thomas Settle spoke at the
; court house here. Mr.. Settle ha,
spoken here a number OF times, put fl
Is the first time Mr.. Harris had been
heard.