The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-22
One Of the Hospital Attendants Released
Yesterday.
Justice Hoke-AtIantic Coast Line
to Build Twenty Parallel Tracks at
Rocky Mount - improvements on
the Southern-Work of the Farmers
National Congres-Other News
Notes.
Messenger Bureau,

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, \. c., September 16.
This morning W. f. Durham, one of
the four attendants at the Central hos
pital for the insane here, charged with
the murder of patient ThOs. Nall, Sc
cured a writ of habeas corpus before
Associate Justice Hoke, and was given
a hearing at once and admitted to bail
in the sum of $1,000. He gave bail i'm
mediately and was released from jail
until the superior court meets next
week. He was from this county and
his father is a farmer.
The board of directors OF. the hos
pital meets again on the 21st. Its
chairman says all the known witnesses
have been examined in regard to the
treatment of patients.
The corporation commission is in
formed that the Atlantic Coast Line
railway will build twenty parallel
tracks at Rocky Mount. total length
81 miles, t hold three thousand cars.
Insurance Commissioners Young,
whose business it is to place the inSur-
ance upon state property, has made a
valuation of the Soldiers Home, and
finds its insurable value to be S35,OO0.
Leaf tobacco buyers say that tie
crop this season., except in the west is
light and thin, and the further east
ward one goes the lighter and thinner
the leaf is. West Of here it is much
better than elsewhere.
The Southern Railway is laying new
and heavy rails from Greensboro to
GoldsbOrO and an official of the COM
pany says this work will be completed
by the end of the year, it is thought.
The rail has been laid already between
Hillsboro and Gibsonville.
Secretary Of State Grimes is collect
ing maps of the state prior to 1850, to
be used in the reprints of the books
on North Carolina by Brickell, Old
nixon, Chalmers and Atchdale. He is
preparing this matter at the instance
of the North Carolina Historical COM
mission.
Secretary Grimes is very much
pleased at the work lone by the Ma
tional Farmers Convention at Rich
mond this week. He offered a resolu-
ton there to give the United States the
benefit of the parcels-post, according to
the system used in England and other
foreign countries, by which parcels up
to say twenty-five pounds in weight
will be handled for a very small sum.
The resolution offered, asking congress
to provide this valuable increase in the
mail service was adopted with very
slight amendments, one Or two of the
delegates having objected to some
words. When John Wanamaker was
postmaster general he said that the
four things which stood in the way Of
the parcel-pOSt was the express COM
panieS.
The Methodist Orphanage has re-
opened and the children are rapidly ar
irving, sixty-siX being present today.
The finest cotton ever shown here
was exhibited today by a young farm
er, being kIownlas the Cooke and the
FlorOdOra. For the seed of the Cooke
elton he paid $3.50 a bushel.
Before the mayor and aldermen this
afternoon there was a continuation Of
q hearing OF the charges by the eX-
saloon men against the ~dispenSary
manager. The saloon men stated that
they presented affidavit by % boys
from fifteen to twenty years old that
they had bough liquor, had some of
the boys present, and also a collection
of drunkards, who say that they have
also purchased booze. The liquor men
are certainly fighting hard to get the
barrooms back. and they are hiring
good lawyers and spending money
pretty freely. There is but a small
band of them now, but of urse they
have their w
At the office Of the state superinten-
dent of public instruction it is learned
hat an election at Andrews, Cherokee
county, for a graded school was favor
able, and that a district in FOrsythe
resulted in a unanimous vote for local
tax. this being the first district outside
of WinstOn-Salem to so vote.
Professor Coon, who is in charge of
the negro normal school, Of which
there are noN three, one at Fayette-
vile, another at Elizabeth City and the
third at Winston, viii reopen OF the
18th to the Goth.