The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-20
RALEIGH NEWS LETTER.
SHERIFFS HAVE DONE WE'LL IN
SETTLING STATE TAXES.
Cotton Injured by Cool Weather-
or OF Distinguished Clergymen and
Laymen-Other Raleigh News
Notes
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., May II. 1904.

Governor Aycock was asked to-day
his views about the vice-presidency,
and said: IF the nominee is going to
be a southern. man, 1 want John
Sharp Williams. We wish to renew
the old southern ideal OF statesman
ship.
The term OF the Federal court,
which was to have begun next Mon
day, is postponed a week, because
Judge Purnell is sitting on the Circuit
Court OF Appeals at Richmond. The
has been expected two
three weeks.
The trustees of the Baptist Female
University here have changed its
name to the Baptist University for
Women.
Inspector S. H. Buck. of the post
office department, takes the place of
f. n. Davis, transferred from the
eastern district of North Carolina to
the New York division. Inspector
Bucks domicile will be at Raleigh.
Among the arrivals here are Charles
d. McIver n w. b. Streeter, Green's
boro; a. Nj. Fry, Bryson City; Frank
D.; Benbow. franklin; 1. NJ. Meekins,
Elizabeth City; w. b. Rodman and
A. T. Grant. Jr., Washington; Fred ].
Coke and w. w. Ashcroft, Wades-
boro: Q. T. Williams, Lumberton; T.
]. Covington, Wadesboro: F. H.
Whitaker, Halifax; c. w. Mitchell, A.
w. Early and George S. Cowper, Ber-
tie county; w. D.. Pruden, Edenton.
Colonel w. B. Rodman, the state
agent for the sale of swamp lands,
says that the deprivations on these
lands are not SO great as formerly. He
says that no one knows the extent
of these landS, as every now and then
some new piece turns up.
Bishop Satterlee, of Washington, D.
c., who is here, is the guest of Bishop
Cheshire. This evening Bishop Che
shire gave a reception at his home, in
School, in honor of the distinguished
ciergymen and laymen who
are here inspecting st. Augustine's
School, colored.
A number of new street cars have
been. ordered by the Raleigh Street
Railway and will De here in time for
by the people attending the sum-
mer school for teachers at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College.
State Treasurer Lacy says the sher-
ifs have done very we'll indeed this
in settling taxes due the state
and that very few have any balances
at all, these balances being small. He
sayS the settlement has been better
than at any time since the civil war
and that this is Tue to a new rule,
a very wise one, requiring counties
to settle states taxes before the war
for the state school ~appropria-
ton is issued to them. This course
each chool committeeman
and ~teacher<a committee to see that
the axes are promptly paid. The
consequence is that during February,
four times as many Sheriffs settled as
in any month before.
Governor Aycock to-day pardoned
a woman from western North Caro-
lima, who was convicted of keeping
a disorderly house, this having been
lone upon her turning over to Mr..
w. B. Streeter her children, who will
be placed in an o~rphanage at once.
Mr.. Streeter said he has to this date
received thirty-two children and has
placed all of them except six.
Despite the unreasonable weather
the farm at the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College here presents a
appearance. There are 200
acres sown in peas, 65 in corn and so
in oats in the main farm. while the
garden and melon fields v Is
acres and will furnish a great supply
for the summer school, in July, at
which 1000 teachers are expected to
De present. A SeCUOn Ol-l1e ldTli IL
devoted to experimental work, this
covering forage crops, grass, cotton.
corn, tobacco, etc. The experiment
owe varieties, fertilization and ro-
tatiOnS of cotton, corn, etc. A little
tobacco was experimental on last
year. This season the different varie-
ties are being tested and a study of
the diseases, such as wilt. etc, is
being made. There are also special
av~n ~ ant- mill x-haof rnanC cSni0
beans. alfalfa. The students have
two and one-half miles Of road
through the extensive farm,
which covers 400 acres. In the barns,
stables and lots there are 100 head OF
cows and IS other animals, horses,
hogs. etc. 1t is said that the cattle
at the college were found to be bet
than any seen at various colleges
which were visited last month by the
special committee of the board of
The. agricultural building at the A.
and NJ. College here will be designed
by the special committee above men
toned, which will submit the design
tect will then prepare the plans and
invitations for bids will be published.
The plan of the building will be en-
tirely that of the committee.
The Supreme court will this week
hear appeals from the sixteenth dis
trict, the docket being q light one.
and when these are disposed of, will
take IN cases ct the end of the dock
ct. Among the attorneys here are E.
B. Norvell, Murphy: J.. j. Hooker.
Dillsboro: j. Frank Ray. Franklin; F.
A. Sondley and Julius C. Martin,
Asheville; Junius Davis, Wilmington.
Ex-Congressman John d. Bellamy
was in the office of the state superin-
tendent of public instruction looking
at the map of the state or the wall.
showing the districts in the various
counties which had levied a local tax
for public schools. He observed that
the counties of Mecklenburg, Gull
ford and Dare were full OF the white
numbers, which shows the districts
which have so voted money. and re-
marked that those counties made a
grand showing, as indeed they do.
being very conspicuous on the big
map.