The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-20
MORE ROOM FOR THE INSANE.
LEGISLATURE WILL BE URGED
TO ENLARGE HOSPITAL.
First Snow Storm OF the Season.
Farmers Greatly Interested in the
Cotton Growers Mass Meetings.
Two Wilmington Companies Char
tered-Pension Warrants Sent Out.
Messenger Bureau,

and continued until $3.50 O'Clock this
morning, by which time the snow had
reached a depth Of about five inches.
The storm came from the northwest,
and the temperature was pretty low.
The poor are being very well looked
after and warning of the impending
storm caused a lot of preparation
yesterday, but in spite of this some
were caught.
The directors of the Hospital for
the insane here have adopted the re-
ports of a special committee as to
improvements. this committee being
a joint one, representing both the hos
pital here and that It Morganton.
Superintendent Mckee of the hospit-
al here urges treatment of h insane
on is known as the Colony plan,
that is the division of the patients
into little colonies or groups, these
groups to occupy cottages, the latter
to-be scattered here and there on the
land Of the hospital.
The directors will urge the Iegisla-
ture to make a liberal appropriation
for provision for more inmates the
demands for admission being very
pressing. There are 400 patients now
in the hospital
Charles c. Jones of Goldsboro. who
for a long time has been we'll known
as an operator of gambling places at
several points in the state, notably
at Morehead City, and who was con-
victed of receiving and selling post
age stamps knowing them to have
been stolen from p~ostoffices and who
was fined $500, instead of being sent
to the p~enitentiary, has asked the
Federal court here to give him further
time in which to pay the $6S5 costs
in the case, but Judge Purnell has
made an imperative order that no
further time will be granted. Jones
was here not long ago. He paid the
fine at the last term of court. but
claimed he could not meet all the
costs. Jones had a close cali for the
p~enitentiary.
Attorney Genera Gilmer left this
morning for Charlotte to appear in
the Federal court for Registrar of
Election Simpson of Rutherford coun-
ty, who was prosecuted on the charge
of refusing to allow a negro to regis
ter there two years ago. The leg1sIa-
IL provided for the defence of
Simpson and other registrars by the
attorney general and by other counsel
If necessary.
Isaac A. Meekins, who was the re-
publican nominee for lieutenant gov
ernor, is here. 1t is said by some we'll
Informed republicans that he desires
to get an appointment abroad. in the
consular service. He is a man of con-
siderable means. and lives in very
handsome style at Elizabeth City.
The joint committee of the legisia-
ture which is making the annual ex-
animation of the books and vouchers
of the state treasurer almost COM
pleted it's work in his office today,
and part of the committee began the
examination of the auditors office.
The committee a had only three
members here, because of the death
of DR.. Alexander and of the absence
Of Senate Hoey at court in Cleveland
county.
The corporation commission has
cleared it's docket of all important
cases.
The Catholic Orphanage at Naza-
reth, a mile from Raleigh, makes an
appeal for aid. There are about 40
boys in the orphanage, these having
gathered from>a Dol a score of coun-
ties and the strain of maintenance is
just now falling pretty heavily.
Today all over the state the county
clerks delivered the pension warrants
to the Confederate pensioners, n In
a day or two these warrants will be-
gin pouring into the treasury.
The efforts continue to get out
every cotton grower in the state to the
meeting to be held next Saturday.
The farmers are doing a great deal
of talking and they seem to be of the
opinion that they can control the sit
uation and furthermore that they will
all be in line, this being of course a
necessity.
In conversation with some of the
best informed negroes in North Car
DINA your correspondent has diScov-
cred that they are very strongly OPP
posed to any reduction of southern
representation in congress. They are
very well pleased with political con-
ditions in North Carolina.
The Supreme court gives the At
lantic Coast Line until February 10th
to make the ordered connection at
Selma with the Southern railway, this
time being to enable the A. c. l.. tn
prepa and put on the special train
required.
Charters are granted the Murphy
Light and Power Company, and the
Eagle Manufacturing Company, of
Wilmington, the latter to manufacture
materials of WOOD for use in house
building.
A meeting of the North Carolina
Car Service Association was held here
today.
Nice Winter Argument.