The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-09
THE NLG0-eATTIs eAs[
Made Before Judge Moore For
!. Continuance.
THE A. AND NJ. COLLEGE
Glenn VIII Attend the Tn
yelling Of a Monument to the Ninth
/ New Jersey Volunteers ut New
Rcrn-Penitentiary Directors Conn
plain of SO Many puny Conyicts
being Sent to that Institution.

Raleigh, N. c., May 4.-The Raleigh
Light Infantry have decided that they
Twill serve as escort to Governor Gem
May 18th, in the trip TO New Bern,
where his e~xcellepcy and the persona.
lstaff will attend the ceremonies n
Injected with the unwilling of the mon
lument to the Ninth New Jersey Vol
lunteers. The governor of New Jersey
land other officials of that state will
attend.
Directors of the state penitentiary
announce that the cotton crop on the
state farm cultivated by convict labor
mas been cut 400 acres and this acre
Iage will be added to the peanut crop.
There are now TO conyicts under the
Icontro, of the penitentlary authorities
l119 of them being in the penitent:a-y
land the others on the farm and aired
lout to railroads and other pubic
works.
Director Hackett of the p~enitent.ary
board says that unless there IS a
change in the policy prevailing in
Imany counties OF retaining the able
bodied eonvicts for work on the public
roads and sending the puny one TO the
lpenitentiary it will be only a short time
before the institution will be a burden
Ito the tax payers instead at pres
lent being conducted at a profit to the
state. OF the 119s convicts now contin-
led in the p~enitentiary proper here IS
tare lot able to work and the percen-
ltage Of the dependent convicts is in
Icreasing all the time.
Members of the board Of visitors OF
ItheAgricultura | and Mechanical Col
Ilege who are here inspecting the insti-
tuition with a view to preparing their
report for the meeting of the.
trustees May goth and they find the
of the college in admirable cojl-
|dition and the college is now in the
midst of by odds the most prosperous
Year in it's history.
Miss Aliza Simmons, daughter of
limited States Senator Simmons, enter
|tained deliberately at cards yesterday
afternoon in honor of her guests, Miss
Elizabeth Nicholson, of Rhode Island,
and Miss Mabel Vann, of Franklinron.
Quite a number of ladies from Ra-
leigh left yesterday for Louisbulg to
the state convention of the
|Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
the state that convened there today
The case of State VS.. Bluvine from
Mitchell county was argued on appeal
lin the Supreme court today, it being
Ia case in which the prisoner was SEN
to the penitentiary on the
Of manslaughter in that he shot
u. J. Buchanan in 1904.
Counsel for plaintiff in the famous
suit of T. J. Gattis VS.. President Kilgo
land B. N. Duke of Trinity College
Board of Trustees for damages have
logged a motion before Judge Moore
lin the Wake superior court for the
lease to be continued for the reason
THAT it will be impossible for B. ".
Duke to attend the trial. being de-
|tained at the bedside of his father,
washington Duke, dangerously III OF
pneumonia. The judge is hearing ar
on the question today and it
lis believed that the case will go Owe
The array of counsel in the
famous case now are Argo & Shaffer,
Raleigh; Watson and Manly, of Wins
ton, A. w. Graham and A. A. Hicks,
Iof Oxford. S. NJ. Gattis, Hillsboro,
Bryan and Biggs of Durham; T..
IT. Hicks, Henderson; Register aud
IHobgood, Oxford; Armistead Jones and
lSon, Douglass and Simms. and Pom
land Fuller, of Raleigh. Counse tor
jGattis are making a desperate fight to
force the case to trial at this term
10 fthe court.