The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
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Standing Master Eugene Martin, j.
O. Carr, counsel for bondholders, and
ex-Judge-E. K. Bryan, counsel for COM
missioners of OnsIoW county are here
examining records in the Onslow coun-
ty bond ease in which the county seeks
&c repudiate $4,000 bonds issued I'M
der an act Of 1885. According 10 a rul-
ing of the Supreme court o t the aye
and the no vote must be recorded in
the Legislature when voting by roll
call for bond issue bills. In this case
the aye vote is recorded and there
is a mark after the no vote which
the county commissioners contend is
only a comma and the bondholders in
sist is an 'I' signifying one vote cast.
II they are right the bonds are valid
under the ruling. If it is only a comma
then the bonds are no good.
The secretary of state charters ths
Asheville Furniture Company Of Ashe-
vile, capital So 900, J. w. Ramsey prin-
cipal incorporation and the Lexington
Mercantile Company capital So, 900 sub
scribed by S. J. Coly and others.
The state superintendent of ublic in
%struction is informed that Edgecombe
county has out of the proceeds of a dog
tax provided rural libraries for all the
colored public schools in h county.
Libraries had previously been provided
for all white schools.
National Councillor w. E. Faison of
the Junior Order United American Me
chanics says the order in this state has
grown in ten years rom the tail Of the
procession to the second largest mem
bership of any secret order in the state,
there being 1850 members. Applica-
lions were received yesterday for new
lodges IN Forsythe and Guilford coun-
ties. The National Councillor has just
returned from Florida where he insti-
tuted a state council and viii go soon
to Louisiana to institute a state coun-
Gil.
Internal revenue officials here today
.sold to the Raleigh dispensary $40 gall
IONS of whiskey that a been seized
from John Blue at Hoffman, Richmond
county, being found hid out in the
woods. The dispensary paid $1.1o a
gallon.
Governor Glenn is anxious TO find
H. A. Sledge or some near relative Of
his ITO whom can be delivered a blood
stained Testament picked up on the
battlefield at Fort Fisher in 1854 by
]. f. Read of Massachusetts, a Federal
soldier. The Testament bears a valua-
BILE inscription.
The state board of education has
n tust approved loans to the amount
.of S21.742 from the state loan fund
to thirty one counties for use in build
ing new school houses. The largest
amount is to Pamlico county. Other
notable loans are Sampson $3.50,
Robson $500, Cleveland $3.50,
Duplin $3.50. These loans are to
be repaid in annual installments with
interest WITHIN ten years.
The Legislature re-enacted the
rural school library law allowing each
county ten dollars each for six libra
ries and six supplementary libraries
over and above any libraries that may
have been under the previous opera
ton of the law. Already applications
are coming in under the new law.
Vance is first asking for five, Durham
county for six and Guilford for five.
ID a iuIhS sN1C 81 I'm N"S -
Cunningham & Hinshaw VS.. Seaboard
Air Line suing for 5000 for the
burning of cotton at the Hamlet COM
press two years ago. The case has
consumed more than a week of the
time of the court and there is no prob
ability of a verdict being agreed upon.
Colonel. Jno. S. Cunningham, presi-
lent of the North Carolina Cotton
Growers Association. and the North
Carolina Tobacco Growers Associa-
ton, after attending the Legislature
as the representative from Person
s%cOunty, gave to the press an address
70 the members OF the two asSosia-
tons urging them to reduce materi-
ally both crops and to make a speci-
atty of growing all their supplies. If
this is carried out he Is confident OF
the success of the efforts of the farm
eTs to keep the prices of cotton and
tobacco on a profitable basis.
Proceedings in involuntary bank
ruptcy have been instituted in the
federal court here against Renfrow x
Carrie of Lewiston. Liabilities about
$4,000 n the assets about $1,000.
Governor Glenn has not yet decided
to accept the invitation to deliver the
Grafton before the northern settlers
convention at Galveston, Texas, April
23rd, but thinks it very probable that
he will find it possible to do so.
Mention has been made of the fact
that Governor Glenn had been espe-
cially invited to go to Galveston, Tex
as, and attend the convention of north
ern settlers there, April 21-23. The
governor says he very greatly desires
to go, and will spare no rains to do
so, but that of course there are contin-
gencies which may arise and prevent
his going. He has a great desire to
see Texas and particularly Galveston.
State Treasurer Lacy who has also ac-
cepted an invitation to go is very ia
miiiar with Texas, having lived there
several years.
Representative Augustus w. Graham
of Granville is seriously sick, but a rel
alive said today hat he was not con-
sidered dangerously so. He has been