The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18
PRESIDENTS VISIT To RALEIGH
His Coming During the State Fair Will
be a Notable Event.
Greatest Crowds That Have Ever
Gathered i'm the Capital Cts Expect
ed-RaiIway Movements i'm the
Sfate-LccatioIt of Test Farm to BE
Decided This Wcek-Crop Condi-
lions Generally Favorable.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., July II

Raleigh, y. G., July II.
There is a good deal Of interest felt
just now in railway movements i'll this
state. 1t is said that when the Dukes
complete the link of their road be-
tween Durham and Apex, work on
which has been rapidly pushed, that
the name viii be changed to the Dur
Tam and Southern. This line will ex-
tend to Dunn on the Atlantic Coast
Line, and it is very easily conjectured
that it will 90 on further to the coast.
Another company is building q line
from Durham to Merry Oaks on the
Seaboard Air Line, and it is the opin-
ion thai the Seaboard Air Line is back
OF this construction, as General Man
2eer Barr is Il director in this 30 mile
road, h name of which has now be-
come the Durham and South Carolina.
1t was formerly the New Hope VALLEY
road. 1t seems that til Seaboard Air
Line will i'll this way get coal direct
from Norfolk and Western at Durham
Tor all its southern division, while now
coal has to be hauled from Durham to
Henderson and then southwark. An
other point is hat the extension will
give a direct line to Southport and the
SeabOard Air Line may make the lat
ter a coaling station, as it is under
stood to have purchased considerable
water front at Southport.
Prof. Stevens, of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College has two spe-
cal experiments in progress, one at
Auburn Il few miles south of Raleigh.
where there are twenty acres in wat
Gt melons. The tests there are as to
wilt, which is causing so much loss of
melons. Last year 213 varieties of
WatermelonS were planted on this land
and none Of these stood the wilt, but
some of the crosses did and so these,
81 i'll number, are being tested. An
other test for tobacco wilt is in o
rcSS ut CreedmOre, Granville county,
where last year on two acres "a varie-
ties OF tobacco were planted, and the
20 which stood the wilt test are being
tested this year. There are also eXper-
iments at Creedmore on go plats of
chemicals in the soil to see whether
they will kill the wilt BERN, which is
il the soil.
State Auditor Dixon has returned
from the mountain section from
Cleveland Springs and from Bessemer
Cleveland Springs and from Bessemer
poets or found the people more con-
tented. He says Cleveland Springs IS
admirably kept this season and that
the company there is very agreeable.
The liquor dealers here have 4 can.
vassers at work getting of per-
sons who desire a vote to be held on
the question of open saloons or the
high license system, the vote to be
held as soon as the two years Of the
~diSpenSary ends. One of the canvas
sers say he has secured about a hun
dred names. The temperance people
will of meet this movement.
Recently Il Ia was brought to the
penitentiary from Mcdowell county, he
being Il native of Mitchell, for shoot
ing and killing Il negro boy at Il rail-
way station. He told the boy to make
Il fire and the boy said 1t was not his
business. He thereupon seized the boy
who cursed him and be shot him in the
forehead with a revolver. The father
OF the man is here to try to get him
pardOned. 1t is said that the Mitchell
county people do not use the word
murder but always say a killing" One
Of them remarked that this man would
have been acquitted if he had been
tried in Mitchell, but that the McDoH'-
ell county people 10 not like those i'll
Mitchell, so they went against him.
The annual Sunday school cOnven
ton of the Eastern North Carolina
Christian conference will be held at
Liberty church. in Vance county, July
18TH to 14th. This church has quite a
of the state. The president of the con-
vention is Rev. n. W. Butler, the pas
ter of the Raleigh church. The al
dress of welcome will be delivered by
Mr.. G. T. Whitaker, of Lethea, and
the response by Rev. Edward French,
Of Elon College. President Butler will
then deliver bis annual address.
Under the new ordinance of the
board of aldermen recently enacted,
hacks are required to get off the
streets by Q o'clock at night. The Of
fanses of some of the nackmen have
made the many suffer. Some Of the
iackmen have for years been open and
shameless solicitors for houses in the
tenderlOin district and standing on the
sidewalks near the principal hotel,
have carried Oh this business night af-
ter night.
The leaf tobacco season here opens
August !. Last year about 4 million
pounds were sold on this market at
the two warehouses. Raleigh has
never been Il large market. the chief
reason being that very little tobacco is