The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-22
Wake County Growers Will Agree on
II Cents.
Fourth District Appeals Before SUI
preme Court-Four Hundred Stu
dents at the 4 and characterization
of Charges Against the DispeEscry.
The Hospital Attendants Admitted
TO Bail.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c.. September IS.

Inc supreme court Will tOfnOrrOW
take I'D the appeals from the Fourth
district. There are only two state
cases. one of these being out of the
ordinary. a man who was hunting
turkeys in the woods saw the bushes
move and thinking this was caused by
a turkey fired and killed a man. The
man who shot is really being prose-
cuted under an old English law. as a
Doacher. I'M the attorney general has
been looking the English laws on that
subject. He was hunting on forbidden
ground and also at a time when tur-
keys were out of season.
The Wake county farmers. who
grow cotton. will meet tomorrow and
will definitely fix the price at II cents.
They know the crop is a short one,
and they have assurities from the
business men that cotton can be stor-
ed in warehouses. They n the busi-
ness men have cO-ODerated all during
the present yea regarding cotton.
The number of students at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college a
reached 400. and that number took
dinner today in the large mess nall.
IL "Oolu NC easy " nave 1.UUO STU
dents at h college if room were pro
vided for them. 1t would cost about
100000 to provide the additional dor
mitOrY room. lecture rooms. etc.
The Raleigh public schools opened
today. with a larger attendance than
ever before. Education in this town
ship. which is a school district. is now
compulsory. There is one new school
house. in Brooklyn. a suburb.
To m nrroyu fhn coJonp man ,i1l c+o ~
another form Of their attack on the
dispensary. this being that there was
preference in selling certain brands
of Whfskev. The dispensary manage
ment say that there is no truth in
this. and further that there has been
no substitution" that is the brand
Of whiskey asked for was given. and
if it was not in stock nc other sort
was offered in place of it,
his afternoon the drum corps Of
the local camp of Confederate veterans
here went out to the Soldiers Home
and gave a serenade to the inmates. to
their great delight. This. as has been
stated. is the only Confederate drum
corps in existence.
To-Day the public printer began a
delivery of the private laws of the
last legislature. to the secretary Of
state.
State Auditor Dixon will make edu-
c%ational speeches in Yancey county,
October At, and in Jackson. October
Gil: P. w. Blount will speak at Eliz-
abeth September rs; w. r. Ragsdale.
30: r. B. White and R. D. W. Conner
at Stem. 80: r. D. w. Conner in Gran
vile 20.
Very active work is now in
on the street railway in order to con
meet it with the union passenger sta
ton by the end of h present week.
Early in AUGUST a man who was
thing the root of the Agricultural
building at the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college slipped from the roof
and fell 45 feet to the ground. break
ing both arms. n leg n injuring
his back. Yesterday he left here for
his home in Virginia. AS he passed
the college he showed your correspon-
dent the place from which he fell and
said. as showing his presence of mind,
hat he fell head foremost but bent
his body so that he struck on his hands
and feet and thus saved himself.
The Corporation Commission is in
formed that the Southern Railway has
Just placed an order for 80 lOcOmO-
tives. $50 steel cars and $50 steel
gondolas.
Work has begun on the improve
ment of the Devereux property. recent
~ DOugnt Dy w. W. ruler OF NE"
York city. His holding there nov
amounts to so acres and a great deal
of money is to be spent in beautifying
the house and the grounds.
The Investigation of the LIQUOR mems
charges against the . dispensary. is
thought by the general public to be
rather a boomerang. AS was stated
Yesterday. there was a notable array
of young drinking men. idle in many
cases. and of chronic drunkards. black
and white. to testify. their testimony
involving quite a lot of the habitual
loafers and hangers-on. some of whom
at least. under a construction at AL
strict Of a vagrant law v'Ould be put
at work. The airing of this matter
will no doubt impress some parents
of such people in a way that other
wise would not have occurred.
After the hearing in the case OF
Durham. attendant at the Central hos
the other three attendants in Nall case
came forward and asked that their
cases be heard at once by Judge Brown
instead of waiting until next Monday.
Solicitor Jones said he had no OBJ
iectiOns to this course and to the
giving of bail in the sum of a thou
sand dollars each. and Judge Brown
made an order to this effect. Bal
| vas given and the men were diScharg-
| ed from CUSTODY.
COMMANDER YOUNG ON TRIAL
| Before Court Martial i'm Connection