The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-26

crease Oh ne Pension Roll-A
Dull CaE,paign-Agricnltural CG-
lege Matters.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, -. c., August 3.
The heated term must be doing a
great deal OF damaged TO the crops. A
farmer in this county Lie he felt sure
that it vas doing cotton damage TO the
amount OF 5000 o a day in this section.
The ground has dried very rapidly and
this is certainly fine after the long Pc
Rod of moisture.
As the time comes On for the Atlantic
and North Carolina railway to be leas-
ed. interest in the lease matter deep
ems. The fight for the lease has now
been carried on for almost a years and
strange TO say has benefited the prop
erty and increased its value, stock be-
ing now worth twice as much as il was
at the time the agitation for a lease be-
gan last year
The term Of the Supreme court which
begins next week will be a dull one.
no cases of any particular Importance
having thus far been ~docketed.
= The corporation commission is in
formed of the completion of the Aber-
deem and Rockfish railway, from Aber-
deem to Hope Mills, where it connects
with the Atlantic Coast Line. The road
is ~forty-six and a half miles in length.
State Auditor Dixon recently stated
that he expected there would be a fall
ing off in the number of pensioners.
but to his great surprise he fnds that
there are hundreds of new applications.
He made a guess today that there were
tons. He said: Il am very much sur
prised at this and regret it too. / was
xceedlngly anxious to increase the
pension allowances this year and we
may squeeze through with the same
amounts as were provided last year.
me boards of pensions in the counties
evidently put on a number of men who
ought not to be on the lists, but the
old soldiers hang around and entreat
he boards to grant their claim. and
the tender hearted old soldiers who
compose the board give way to this sort
of appeal. / am sure that a lot of the
pensioners, ought not to be on the rolls,
The secretary Of state has made an
other very valuable find among the
SldtG dICulSeS. ne mas D00n lOOklnS
for months for the charter and other
papers of the state of Franklin which
was erected by John Sewer in East
Tennessee. He has found the charter
>6nd all the papers,, some 20 in number,
pigeon-holed in the office of the insur-
ance commissioner, among a lot of old
records. Among the papers is SEWERS
petition to the legislature for pardon
after his self-created government had
heQn nyI1Ia1 down. also tho rapnmmpn-
dation for pardon made by the commit
tee and the pardon granted by the leg
iSlature. There are also treaties which
Sewer made with the Indians notably
one signed by King of the CherOkeeS
and another signed by the chief man OF
Chota town. which was a town of ret-
uge.
Colonel w. T. Robertson, of the First
Regiment. North Carolina National
Guard was here today looking after
stores in the arsenal to complete the
equipment of his command which goes
on to Manassas to the
General earle A. Woodruff. United
States Army, will also attend the ma
1--WE Some officers of the Second
and Third Regiments Will attend.
Today the funeral of Mr.. William
Hill Bragg was held here. He was d
son of the late DR.. John Bragg. of Pc
t%ersburg, Va. His mother was a sister
of the date DR.. William G.. Hill. of Ra-
leigh. and a daughter of the Hon. Will
liam Hill who was for forty-six years
secretary of state of North Carolina.
The medical department of the Uni
yersity of North Carolina Will reopen
here September 5th.
Some remark was made to the gov
ernor about the dullness of the political
campaign so far. He says: Il am ce>-
Jain there is less talk of politics than
- ls- IiN@A ~ n y, n Oy
year There is remarkably little taik
about state matters n even less about
national ones. You would hardly
know that a campaign was in progress
except when a speaker goes to a COM
munity it is talked about for the time
being. 1 regard it all as a good sign
showing that the people have other in
terests which absorb their attention
Work has begun on the very hand-
some agricultural building which is 10
face the state fair grounds n which
will be finished by the first of next
May. 1t will be one of the best build
ings of the kind in he country and
excel anything in the south. The gov
ernor feels a great deal Of pride in the
building and so does the board OF as"
riculture which viii a for it. When
this administration began there were
only II agricultural students at the
Agricultural and Mechanical coEege
while now there are 10 and there Will
be many more. In 1901 the work was
lone in a 5000 building and now it is 10
be lone in a $4,000
State Chairman Simmons makes an
appointment for r. d. Glenn to speak
at winston on the 9th instant.
Democratic leaders recognize that the
great fight of their party in he state
this year is to be in he Eighth and
Tenth districts. There is a very strong
whiskey element in the Eighth, while
in the Tenth great many of the old
line Republicans. 1t is positively SAID
by the Democrats that they are going
to elect Newland in the Eighth but they
know we'll a fight is on IN that district
and the Tenth also.
Colonel Thomas S. Kenan has a letter
from a well known gentleman, who Is
one of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
in regard to the matter of erecting a
-,a-oor;ol 70 tba women of the COnfed-