The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30
NO NEWS FROM BERNARD
Some Improvement i'm DOckery's Con-
dition-Work on the Raleigh, and
Southport Railyay-Increase in
Tobacco Acreagc-Ffght on Resorts
in the TenderlOin District.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., Juen %.

Raleigh, n. c., Juen 20.
A!r. j. N. Bentley, who for a couple |
Of years has been assistant to State
Entomologist Franklin Sherman, goes
TO the experiment station of Tennessee |
as assistant entomologist. Professor
Sehrman left for the north today 10
find q new man.
1t is said that State Treasurer Lacy
will not return from his camping trip
in the North Carolina mountains until
July 18th.
From the general manager of the RAJ
leigh and Southport railway it is learn
ed that work is in progress on me
third pier Of the bridge across the Cape
Fear River at Ellington. The steel
structure will be 200 feet in length, and
there will be 1,250 feet of trestle. The
bridge Will be 80 feet above the va
ter at the normal stage and by the last
of August will be completed. 1t is ex-
pected that trains will be running into
Fayetteville from Raleigh by Christ
mas.
AS yet there ara no tidings of Claude
M. Bernard. Everything here is wait
ing on the Official reports from doctors
as to the condition of John DocKcry
on which can be based the hearing of
Policeman Rogers who shot him. To-
day the condition of Dockery was i'm
proved, and his iother, Marshal Dock
cry appeared to be much encouraged.
1t is not known when an operation can
be performed. Marshal Dockery has
received hundreds of kilograms and let
tiers from all oveT the state expressive
of sympathy and he is much impressed
and affected by these evidences of re-
gard and interest. AS yet there are no
developments as to this sensational
case beyond those troubles, it is said
by lawyers that the fight will now be
On the character of the two young
M in this deplorable case.
Among today's arrivals were Presi-
dent H. B. Chatham of the North Car
DINA Railway, A. H. Eller of Winston
Salem and Walter G. Gwyn of Asne-
vile.
One Of the leading cotton dealers re-
marked that he had never known the
crops so spotted as they are this sea-
son, this being due to the fact that
the rains are SO scattered. In a town
ship ten miles north of here, for ex-
ample, there has been no rain since
the middle of May.
1t is claimed that there in an in,
rease of 90 per cent in the acreage
in tobacco in the state this season. L..
was expected quite early in the year
that there would be a considerable IN
crease, consequent upon the decrease
in the acreage of cotton.
Efforts are beng made to make
Johnson county the dryest in the state.
Two Of it's towns have gone for pre-
hibition by a large majority.
Quite a party of young men from Ra-
leigh are now in Scotland, having gone
over in a cattleship. They are Profess
sor Perkins and Max Gardner of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
Carl Dunn, and John A. Parks, the lat
ter being a brother of Professor Parks
of the University.
There seems to be a disposition hare
on the part Of some OF the people
to clean out the resorts in the tender
DIN district of Raleigh, and the mat
ter may assume larger proportions.
Curator Brimley has returned to the
state museum from the eastern part of
the state with a lot of reptiles which
are to be placed in the collection.
Your correspondent made a trip
through the now very extensive farm
at the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, where the development is remark
able. A great deal of new land is be-
ing brought into cultivation.
Mention was recently made in his
correspondence for the first time OF a
compromise by which d%istilleries ut
Hoffman and at Hamlet paid a large
sum Of money, something like ,en
thousand dollars to the commissioner
of revenue, in settlement of claims and
thus escaped prosecution for fraud. 1t
is now stated that ex-District Attorney
Claude Bernard is a partner in the dis
tillery at Hamlet which was thus in
trouble.