The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-10

raj free library law, 50 as TO allow
six new n six supplementary libra
ries. the supplementary cnes TO be
based upon those provided for and es-
sablisaed two years ago. Ave hundred
or each being allowed. There are now
SIS libraries which the state has aided
and lie supplementary ones. the latter
being based upon the acts Of 1901. over
100 libraries were privately established
20 that the number Is W l.oc0 In all
The on the legislature ID
that the House was rather mediocre IN
point OF ability. with a Few bright men.
and that che Senate was much the
stronger body. though some members
CT the House say the Senate leaned
pretty strongly towards railways and
other corporations.
The supreme court will this week take
up cases in the Fifth district. There
are two capital ones. One OF these Is
that against Exurn, from Lencir, for
murder, he having killed his step-sou
Guy Waiston, with a pistol. There
was bad blood between the two men.
on account Of Exum's marrying wall
ston's mother. The second Is that 90
h state against Teachey. from Dup
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also a murder ase Another state case
involves the question Of working the
public roads by persons convicted OF
simple assault. and whether such per-
sons can be sentenced TO such a class
of Imprisonment and made to wear
convict garb. This case comes from
New Hanover. The same question was
presented In a case from Wake. but
nat raDasta ~f+ aNH fha 80 =an ~ ~,
another point. The present case is
along the line OF one before the Federal
court in Georgia, in which Judge
Speer decided that the punishment was
excessive md improper. Another state
case is from Duplin. and involves tho
statute of 1901 for that county. prohib-
iting the sale az wine.
One of h members OF the legisla-
ture was speaking a few days z
about the ~Anti-Bucket shop bill and
said that a year or so g n lot OF
the members were hit. in common with
thousands OF the general public by the
drop in all sorts OF stock with which
they had been playing. He remarked
that this to a very great degree set
them against bucket shops and any
sort of deals, and hence they were SO
strong for the bin.
Grand Secretary Drewry OF the Grand
Lodge of Masons says old lodges at
Wake Forest and AZ Linville have re-
vived within the past few days and that
two new lodges have been formed. the
order continues to grow.
1t is said that the proprietors OF the
various distillery towns spent between
two thousand and three thousand dol
lars for lawyers fees and other sorts
OF in their effort to defeat he
Ward bill. 1t is said the owners OF
these distillery towns will all go to vir-
ginia n engage in business.
There are yet a few bonds of hat
are Know as the South Dakota class
to be heard from. 4 bank official said
today that something like ten OF them
were yet outstanding, and that today
he had heard OF the ~hereabo of
four. A man from Michigan wrote 10
him about one bond which the man
holds and on which there are fifty
eight pon 1t Is said that the
mans father bought il in New York.
The bond issue provided for in the bill
covering the South Dakota ease. ar
ranges for taking up all the n OF
that class.
The pension appropriations will this
year and mex year be S275,000. the in
crease of $4,000 going entirely to fourth
las pensioners, of whom there are
something over =, 900, including Wild
ows. Each of these will get SOFA year..
There are something over 1890 PEN
sioners at present on the rolls. There
may be a little increase his year.,
though the deaths are beginning 10 ex-
coed the new ones on the rolls.
The North Carolina State Sunday
school convention in which the various
denominations are represented Is to
meet at Raleigh April 4-6. State Treas
urer Lacy is President, s. w. Smith,
Secretary. and N. b. ~Broughton chair
man of the executive committee. Gov
ernor Glenn will max the opening adj
dredd.
From what is heard here from the
east, it seems that all hope of ever find
ing the little son, Kenneth. OF Senator
s. VI. Beasley. of Cu~rrituck, has been
abandoned. The fact that the body has
been found in the waters Of Curri-
tuck Sound, begins to increase the be-
lief tina the child was kidnapped. one
strange theory was advanced TO the ef-
feet tina some wild animal had killed
the boy, but this is absurd.