The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-03
STATE PRESS.

| one OF the men sentenced to Jail for
contempt by Judge PEBBLES Is a lawyer
Of thirty years active practice. He will
escape the penalty. It seems to be the
unwritten Law of North Carolina that
no lawyer shall be convicted in the
courts and that no judge shall be inn
peached. is that long standing record
to be broken?-News and Observer.
Mr.. Seawell is considering whether
he will accept the nomination for con-
gress," is the news sent put from Car
thage. It doesn't make the slightest
difference whether he runs or does not
run, except that his candidacy would
make him known as the man who got
rich as the result Of being rotten egged,
n would add gaiety to the cam
paign-@Charlotte Chronicle.
The long looked for report on the
Atlantic and North Carolina railroad
is at last in hand. 1t is a long docu-
ment and shows the expenditure of
much time n patient research in the
facts therein developed. The report
recites many shortcomings in the man
agement. many instances of misdirect-
ed policy, which perhaps were the re-
suit Of a failure on the part of those
in charge to fully comprehend the
needs of the road and how to meet
them. 1t is gratifying however, that
the investigation attributed such fail
IRE to ignorance rather than graft
The Robesonian.
From reading the report OF the in
vestigating committee of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad, as pub
lished in the morning papers of Tues
day, one would naturally infer that
the members Of h committee exerted
themselves in their effort to use lam
or,ona 90 tha nrnnar doOraa NJ ssuhifo-
wash nature. Their summary Is in
deed nice reading. One ignorant Of the
situation would infer that the COM
mittee itself had been active In the
management, or acknowledgement, OF
the road in the past, and would con-
cIude hat their report was entirely
too explanatory to be satisfying
Smithfield Herald.
A heat and attractive prospectus
gotten out by Johnson-Wynne Co.,
Washington, D. c., announces that I'M
der the editorship of Captain Saml
A. Ashe, of Raleigh, there will be pub
lished a series of biographical sketches,
in attractive and permanent form. of
|. men in North Carolina who have
achieved eminence In the various vo-
cations of life. It is stated that this
work will form a connective link with
the great series of biographies publish
ed In ten volumes and known as Men
OF Mark in America" There is an adj
visory board of ten prominent and able
citizens Of this state which will pass
upon all sketches which Captain Ashe
and a corps of assistants prepare
for the connective link" This is d
%laudable enterprise which will be es-
pecially appreciated by those of liter
airy taste and profession. Also a valu-
able addition to North Carolina his
tory which should interest he read
ing public OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Rec
ord.
Pure tin and pigs and blocks from
North Carolina, will be exhibited at the
st. Louis exposition. This is a product
of Captain Ross mine near Carney
about which something has been said
in The Chronicle. 1t will be remem-
bered thai Captain Ross sent a car
load of ore to England last fall to be
worked. there being no tin smelter in
this country and the result was an ex-
cellent report from the English smell
tiers. The Gastonia Gazette says that
the smelterS made Captain Ross a pres
ent Of several specimens which were
placed in a show case preparatory for
exhibition in st. Louis. There were in
the lot six pigs about two feet long
and a little larger than a lead pencil,
two bars about II inches long, n a
big block weighing about Is pounds.
The metal was very bright. as bright
as new silver. For the car load of ore
shipped last fall Captain Ross received
S. 800. 1t is rather remarkable that
discovery of tin ore in this section
should have created so little interest,"
but it will come later on. The Gazette
SAYS that the tin fever has caught the
folks good at Gaffney n another car
load is ready to ship now. 1t under
stands that Captain Ross, who was
once a country editor, has refused a
million dollars for his tin mine hold
ings.-Charlotte Chronicle.