The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-27

y ar1cuItura department.. asking
what North Carolina was doing in the
way Of forest preservation. He re-
piled nothing at all. and said no step
In this direction had ever been taken
The people generally have taken no
interest in the Appalachian forest re-
serves.
IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FINDS.
Professor E. 2. Moses of the Raleigh
public schools has returned from a
second visit to Hayes near Edenton.
where he looked over carefully the
original papers, also newspapers. etc,
OF the Johnson family. the nome being
now owned by the Wood family. He
found Cape Fear Mercury of June
18th, IT'S, containing the Macklenburg
Resolve of May 31st, IT'S, also a let
Ter about these, in fact two letters, 50
that il there We're any doubt as to
those resolves. which OF course there Is
not. this find would settle it. Profess
SCR Moses is enthusiastic and able in
Lis historical research and is a valuable
ally of the State Historical Commits
sion, which is showing such zeal and
care in bringing out the early history
OF the state.
The climate and crop bulletin orr
september for North Carolina appear
I'd today. showing that the mean tenn
perature for the state was It's degrees
which is IA above the normal. The
highest was at Southport 30, the low
est at Linville. 60. The highest abso-
lutte temperature was 81 at Lumber
ton; the lowest 81 at Linville; the
monthly rains for the state was 60 de-
grees. The average rainfall was PSI
inches, which is LIS below the normal.
In the eastern district the average was
a mere trif1e above normal, in the cen
trail district two inches below normal
and for the western three and a half
inches below. Not a drop of rain fell
at Linville, while almost ten inches fell
at Currituck inlet. and in "a hours 3.15
inches fell at Fayetteville, On the night
of the 18th. The monthly per cent of
possible sunshine was s. at Asheville,
a at Raleigh, go at Wilmington.
RESOLUTIONS ON GEN. GLENN'S
DEATH.
The following resolutions regarding
the death OF General James ID. Glenn
was adopted by the council of state:
st is exceedingly difficult to proper
~ express in words the worth of One so
favorably known as General James D..
Glenn, private secretary of the govern
or of North Carolina, who died at his
home in the city of Raleigh October
18th, 1905. The Council of State hon
OrS his memory for his gentleneSS, his
integrity and his uprightness in life,
which endeared him to all II people,
and cast a halo around his name that
will grow brighter and brighter in the
years to come. We thank God for
General Glenn aud for his valuable SER
vices to our state I'm all the high posi-
tons he was called to occupy. We
thank God for the heroic fight he made
tor his life, and that he WAS manly and
unafraid till the burden and heat Of
the day had passed, and had walked
down through the valley of he shadow,
and into that darkness which comes
to purple and dawn of a better morn
ing.
We tender t O the family, to his aged
mother, and to the governor our tend
crest sympathy in their bereavement
and pray that the consultations of grace
may abound in them, and that our
heavenly Father may take them into
His inner chamber and comfort them,
as n who is comforted by his mother.
That a blank page of the minutes or
our council be dedicated to the mem
cry of General Glenn, and a copy of
this tribute be sent to his family.
J. BRYAN CRIMES,
Secretary of State.
=. F. DIXON,
Auditor
3. r. LACY,
State Treasurer.
J. Y. JOINER,
Superintendent of Pub Inst
The Capitol,
RIaeirh. \ G.. Oct. t9. 1905.