The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-09
WORK ON NEW RAILROAD.
PANsLICO, ORIENTAL & WESTERN
WILL EXTEND SO MILES.
1t VIII be Completed by July list,
Penitentiary Directors Meet-Sellers
and Brown i'm the Pen-A. N NJ.
College Entirely Full.
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh, N. c., September z.
Today James A. Bryan and Walter
w. Mills. who are AT the head of the
| Pamlico, Oriental and Western rail-
way, left for New York on business
| connected with it. Mr.. Bryan will ap-
ply himself to this road. now that he
is out Of active duty so far as the At
Iantic and North Carolina railway is
concerned. Nj. Mills said the length
| of the road will be so miles. and that
it is to be completed by July 1 and
made a first-class road Sixty pound
| rails will be used. Five miles of rail
LAY been delivered. and the remain
der will now be purchased. The total
cost of the road will be 100000. and
all The funds have been provided for
it. The road will extend from New
Bern to Goose Greek Island and ORR
entail, at boil places connecting with
deep water. A steamer will be put on
from Goose Creek Island to connect
with points across h sound.
Private Secretary PearsalI returned
today from his ten days trip to New
York and points in that vicinity, dur-
ing which he called upon Judge Par
htE dl ESopuS. IL 80 ~ was SISdGIy
impressed by the manner and language
of Judge Parker.
Governor Aycock went to Oxford to-
day and spent the day, returning on
the evening train. Commissioner OF
Agriculture Patterson has gone to his
home at Patterson, in Caldwell county,
to remain ten days.
Tomorrow there will be a habeas
corpus case before Associate Justice
MnntDnmary the annliPatiOn h6lnR
made by Charles M~cClennehan,
| Wright Lambeth and NJ. Kennedy,
who are in Jail charged with breaking
| into and robbing freight cars near
Apex in this county.
Among today's arrivals were H. R.
Ferguson, Waynesville; j. n. Blair,
winston; E. c. Williams, Monroe; Is.
| B. Winborne, Murfreesboro; George
| Cowper, Williamston; L. l.. Smith,
| GatesviIle.
The penitentiary directors met to-
day i'm monthly session to look after
| financial and other matters. There
| are no movement of convicts specially
| ordered. The pe%nitentiary continues
to make a good showing, though the
cotton crop will not be as large as was
expected.
Director w. B. Grassland. Of the
penitentiary, VINO is a very fine farmer,
was asked what he thought of the cot
ton crop, and remarked that he did
not think over half a crop would be
made in Richmond county. hat h
never saw a crop on sandy land make
such a show and yet be so poor as
that this year. He says it had been
raining off and on ever since June %.
The state CROP report issued by the
United States Weather Bureau says
the dropping of cotton bolls continues
everywhere, and that the crop will be
very light. The corn crop promises to
be a very good one, though some
crop is generally fair, though below
the average. The general outlook fol
peanuts is more favorable.
The hospital for The insane here is
yet ov~ercrowded, though it has sent
fOrty-one persons to the hospital al
Morganton and hope that the latter
will be able 10 accommodate 40 more.
The great pressure is for the admis-
sion of female patients.
1t was nearly one o'clock this morn
ing before Neil Sellers and David
Brown, the negroes from Clarkton
charged with assault and murder, were
placed in the ~penitentiary here, where,
of course, they are safr. The use OF
the penitentiary as a place of safe
keeping for prisoners began some five
or six years ago, and has been found
to answ admirably.
President George t. Winston, of the
Agricultural n Mechanical College,
says it is entirely full and that he has
sent kilograms declining to take any
J more students. The number presen,
now is 400, which he says means about
500 for the There will be about
80 students who will take the place OF
those who drop out during the year
In the college buildings proper there
is room for $50 students in the dormi-
tories. President Winston says he has
rented all the available and desirable
rooms within three-QuarterS OF a mile
of the college and has placed in thes
about 100 more. Raleigh and this vi
unity furnish about so more students
making up the 500. The battalions
have been formed with Major Cham
hers in command. There are six COM
panies. The band will be better thar
it was last term. Then the cadet corps
never paraded in the city at all. but
DR.. Winston says it will do so this
term. II really needs more instruc-
ton in marching some stan There
is new professor of electrical en-
cheering, and half a dozen instruct.
orS. There is q new athletic teacher
who is already at work training &c
young men for the football team. He
requires very strong pledges from the
members of the football team.
Next -hoHudy Tie DTICkldyIHS VII
begin on the new agricultural building
at the Agricultural n Mechanical
College. The penitentiary has taken {
contract to furnish. the brick. excep'
those 10 be used on h face. which
are to be almost white, with blacl
spots or blotcheS. This will give tn,
building a very fine effect.
i a gentleman who has just returned
here from a trip yer the Wilkesboro
Jefferson turnpike say it is a very fine
i~horoughfare and that it will require
it is said, two more years to complet,
it. 1t will be the longest and bes
macadam road in the state. The mac
adam is not yet all laid.
The Confederate veterans will avail
with much interest a pamphlet in repl.
to Judge Christians statements deny
hing North Cardinals marked promi
hence In the Civil war. 1t is under
stood that this pamphlet will be read,