The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-01
A Hall Hundred Stand Examination Be-
fore Supreme CouIt.
Liquor Mem May Quite With lscIsnbli-
cans { Defeat SimlnGns-A Raiu in
Johnston County-ReDorts Coming
i'm From State Instituth,ns-PrD-
gran.me for tia. Next North Caro-
lima Day i'm the Public Schools.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, y. C., August %
At ten O'Clock this morning the bien-
NAL examination Of applicants for IL
cense as attorneys began by the justi-
ces of the supreme court. Exactly fifty
applied, one of them being colored. Of
them twenty-six were from the Univer-
sity, fifteen from Wake Forest and one
from Trinity. The questions were pre-
pared by Associate Justice Hoke.
Tomorrow the supreme court meats
in regular session and will call the
docket from the first district. Attor-
ney General Gilmer has arrived and
is ready To look after state cases.
1t is said that some of the liquor men
and their supporters are quite ready
TO make a deal with the Republicans
if they can do So, to defeat Senator
| Simmons for reelection. 1t is assert
ed that some of them even hav the
daring hope Of bringing about a bolt
in the Democratic caucus in the legis-
allure. This shows how desperate the
game is.
Revenue officers made a raid In
Johnston county and found that a
magistrate was a m~Oonshiner. They
went to his house at night n oundI
some difficulty in entering. He went
into the kitchen, fumbled at the door
for a moment and hen fed across the
fields to the woods. The still was
found at the edge of the woods and IL
quor was found on his premises.
1t is said that there is very little
brandy distilling being done this sea-
son on account of the scarcity of fruit;
this is particularly the case in the east.
Some officers who made a trip through
the first congressional district Wen.
through an apple orchard near 2ly-
mouth, containing ten acres, IN Wnich
they say there was not an apple. the
r being a total failure The owner
of the orchard used to make 500 gal
Ions annually.
The officers who made this tour Of
inspection say the crops are as n as
thew ever saw anywhere in northeast
ern North Carolina. One of h OIL
I.cers mas a cotton farm and says the
cotton rows are 4 1-2 feet apart and
the plants are as high as his head and
meet. AS yet the cotton in hat Sec
ton is opening very slowly.
Postmaster Bailey has received from
Paramatta, New South Wales. a money
order for. a tested queen bee, which is
to be sent to him from Ronda~ He
enclosed the advertisement OF the
dealer there. 1t will take thirty days
for the bee to make the trip to thas
far-off country. The man says his q
are in the middle of an orange orcnaro
of fifty acres.
A. B. Stronach. the commander OF
, The Confederate veterans here, says
that about the middle Of September he
will call those in the city and county
TO meet to give them an opportunity
to make any desired arrangements TOT
he reception of President Roosevelt
r here in October.
Tn about a fortnight the new rooms
l at the Soldiers Home Will be con
pleted. and before cool Weatner tn7s
: are to be occupied. There are sone'
thing over so applicants now ON TN
waiting list.
At Wake Forest college the alumni
t huildine is ready for the roof, and VII
f no cononleted before the winter set
in. The term begins Wednesday an.
Yesterday 25 new students had arrived
9 The largest new registration Oh cecoE'
- is expected.
The re2orts to the state hoard 0
public charities of which GoVerno
Glenn is ex-oficla-chairman ARE comla
g in quite rapidly, and are being place
e in tho hands of T. G. Beckwith, of tn
v board Of tabulation. The facts WI
e he given out as scon as the tabuiatlo
y is completed. Upon examination Oh tn
a list of executions making sucn repo!t
% it is found that there are twelve. III
It Guiding the University. the two agrlcu
IF tural and mechanical colleges. II
le State Normal and Industrial Colies'
le The school for the Write bllnd ana J..
s. the negro deaf mutes and pima, III
h. school for deaf mutes at Morgan.o,
l. the hospital for the insane al ha,elsl
IS Morganton and Gol6sboro, n u
Soldiers Home, the penitentary: ~
the normal department OF the Cui,
vince High school. 1t may be that IL
OXFORD Orphan Asylum which gets
$4,000 annual appropriation will nav
st to report. The total APPROPRIATION
+o all these institutions. as made by II
last legislature was ST. 1886.
y State Auditor Dixon a return
from a fortnight's trip during "nt'
he made five speeches, at Shelby, 20
n cord Whitsett and Greensboro he
st delighted with the appearance or thin
IT and declares that North Carolina
alright in every particular. He beiev
crops will be very good, too, saying u
Ut although there has been rather Y
IT much rain. vet that with dry weatn
IL for awhile there will be a very go
IL yield. 80
Mt Four rural free school libraries IA
haen established in Swain county, G
as in Graham, warrants have De
issued for these today. The state su
nerintendent Of public instruction ]
n ceiyed notice that school district NO:
in North Clinton township, have vol
a local tax for its schools.
The superintendent OF public instr
q ,;on announces that on the next NOT
Carolina Day in the public scnoo
the special work will be the study
St the upper Cape Fear country, this L
lowing in what may be termed l
regular order Of settlement AT b u
I'D tho day the LOST con