The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-21

complete reports. made by the v%arious
officers assigned to that duty. These
reports Will make a pamphlet OF AZ
pages, and will contain six maps of
battle fields, showing the positions at
tanned by North Carolina troops, nearer
the enemy's lines than o reached
by other states IN ne Confederacy. |
These publications are now in the
printers hands and will be ready In al
few days; and persons desiring a copy
cam secure it from Judge Walter Clark
at Raleigh, upon notice to him.
A charter is granted the Sibley Man
~ufacturing company at Albemarle, tol
deal in timber, building materials,
boxes, chairs. and furniture, the cap
itaI stock being $25, 900, and r.. L. Sib-
ley and others being the stockholders.
Visitors to the fair will find in a case
in the hall of history in the state mu-
| scum very interesting relics Of the
| state of Franklin which had sucn a
| short and stormy existence, including
| the original draft of the constitution,
a typical letter of John Sewer, the
! only governor of Franklin and also
| portraits, ect. of him. Sewer has de-
scendants in Dot this state and Ten
nessee.
The authorities of the state fair have
| IIldue d UIS lSHl Will tIlc uuSl dIlu
have won. Street sprinklers work on
two miles of street and road for 1s
hours a day. The fair grounds are
also sprinkled. The chief marshal Of
the fair this year is Mr.. Joseph F. Tay-.
loe, of Washington, N. c., and he
has a very fine corps of assistants.
What used to be known as the Mid
way" is low known as the pike" in
honor Of the st. Louis exposition. The.
shows on the Pike" are clean. Among
the visitors to the fair is Major John
N. Crenshaw Of Wake Forest, who has
attended every fair since the war. He
wa srecently at the st. Louis expos:-
ton, which he greatly enjoyed. BY
the way he was the first student TO
fenter Wake Forest college.
Judge Purnell, of the fedarl court, has
re-appointed James r. Gaskill, If New
Bern, S. H. MacRae of Fayetteville
and Victor H. Boyden referees in
bankruptcy for the Second. Fourth
and Fifth districts respectively.
This evening at the Marlborough
House cafe, the North Carolina Home
Fire Insurance Company gave the an.
nuaI banquet to it's agents from all
parts Of the state.
A visit was made by your c]orrespon>
dent to the Raleigh city farm and the
crops there were found to be remarka>
BILE. The farm is in charge of the city
health officer, Mr.. Peter Sales. He
has go acres in corn, which is cut and
shucked, which will yield 600 barrels
and also so tons of slower. He sold
slower last year at $12 a ton. He fnds
that an acre would make about a ton
and a half of slower, worth SIS, while
the fodder pulled from an acre is worth
only 81. Yet nine-tenths of North Cars
| 01ina farroprS adhere IN fho ol1 ex,c
tenn of fodder pulling at heavy loss.
He says the entire crop will bring hin,
in $500, and that the cost will not
exceed $500. Last year he supplied the
Is horses use6<by the street d-partment
as we'll is the fire department. horses
and those at the park. Last year he
sold p tons Of slower and has ten IONS
yet to sell, besides enough for feed
during the coming year without touch
ing the present crop. He %cultivates
corn on the level, not on the ridge or
hill system, which he finds to be par
ticularly bad in time of dry weather
and in bottom land during hoods
Officer Sale was asked about the
city's healthfulness this year and saio
ii was very good. He say that the
number Of typhoid cases is usually con.
sidered a test or index and that there
have been under twelve this year, with
only three or four deaths. Some cases
have been brought to the hospital and
died there.
\ letter has been received here from.
a great cotton planter in Mississippi,
asking for 1G0 cotton pickers. He of
fers to pay the fare 10 Mississippi ano
return and also to pay a doila- a day
for the labor. This shows that ;heie
must be scarcity of farm labor All
through the cotton belt. There is Ger.
tainly great lack of 1t in North Caroli-
ma. Improved machinery will Settle
many of the labor problems, but doe
not settle the cotton picking question
because no machine has yet been in.
vented that will pick cotton, nor is ii
probable that one will ever be devised
to do this difficult and peculiar WORK
The political fight this year Is as
desperate in Chatham county as in
any in state, it is said. That county Of.
ter a number of years has been a hard
proposition. The Democrats say they
will carry it, but that it requires ne
end of work and hat the latter mus
be ceaseless.
The war department issued an order
last June regarding the physical exam
ination of recruits OF the Nationa
Guard. This state has adopted tn,
war departments instructions, and tn,
form for physical examination Ia.
been printed upon the enlistment blank!
and must in future be complied with
In such case the militia are being b.
the law fit for military service. Anoth
er order has been published directing
that where medical officers are no
available the physical examination o
the troops will be made by and ~certiie.
to by the recruiting officer. No person
will be enlisted under is years of ag
and all between is and q must have tn
written consent of parents or guardians
nnsf az we snSNaofad tho Russian