The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-05

rEpreSsible conflict between the evil
dence and the plea for mercy. Il has
very well been said that it would be
much better If the trial judge, at the
time he passed the sentence would say
whether he thought it ought TO be
committed These matters are very
wearing on the governor, and have
been for years. They grow more so,
for as he state grows, crime keeps up
i'm proportion and so there is ever an
increase in the strain upon the execu-
tives in this particular matter.
THE ATLANTIC AND NORTH CAR
OLINA r. r.
Director ]. w. Granger of the At
iantic II North Carolina Railway was
mere TO notify the governor Of a meet
ing OF the stockholders on the 18th of
september when new directors will be
appointed, the governor, of curse,
naming those for the state Mr..
Granger desired to ascertain the num-
Der of members the governor desires
on the finance committee. The gov
cruor says ne understands from reports
from the roads that it is doing very
well, and that much improvement of
ro&dbeds and rolling stock has been
made. He says he will get an eppor-
tunity TO see what has been done when
he gets down on the 18th to attend the
annual meeting.
Ex-Private Secretary P. NJ. Pearsall
spent the day here on his way to New
Bern from New FORK and Chase City.
He spent three weeks out at Ardaley-
on-the-Hudson, where is the summer
home of principal Attorney VIM. w.
1 80 H. HA
Mr.. Fuller has an extremely hand
some place there and is having plans
prepared for the remOdeling Of the fine
old DevereuX mansion in GlennwoOd,
Raleigh's new residence suburb, which
Mr. Fuller recently purchased, paying
$4,000 for the house and IS acres Of
grove. The plans are for a very at
tractive winter home and Mr.. Fuller's
family and friends will be valued ad
Gitions to Raleigh's social life.
INLAND WATER WAY ROUTE.
Congressman Small, who is her,.
looking after some cases in the Su-
preme court, says the conditions SEEM
to him more favorable than ever for
construction by the general govern
ment for the inland waterway through
the North Carolina sounds from Vir-
ginia to Beaufort, n. c. The last
congress authorized a new survey on
the basis of a depth of ten to twelve
feet Of water all the way, while the
former survey was for IS feet. The
smaller depth is, Mr.. Small says, am
pie for North Carolina purposes. He
hopes to get Il favorable conclusion
upon it, and that congress may make
the appropriation. Of course he is
aware of the fact that there is a great
pressure to procure such an approOri-
alton. The old reports, on the 16 foot
basis, called for $1O,OOO,OOO, while
his estimate is that 10 to II feet of
water can be had for a sum approx
mating $6,0OO,OOO.
In the supreme court there was ar
gument in the case of the state VS..
Archbell from Beaufort county. Arch
bell has had five wives, three dead,
n divorced, one living, and it is
charged that he beat the last named
with a trace of leather which the SUI
perior court held to be a deadly weap-
on. For the assault he was sentenced
to half Il year on public roads, and the
case came up on a number of eXcep-
tons, one being that there was error
in finding the trace to be a deadly
weapon, and another being because
the solicitor declared he would rather
be one of Archbell's dead wives han
his living one, and further because he
said the wife had been coerced into
going into court and swearing that her
husband had not maltreated her in the
face of the evidence that he had SO
seaten her. Attorney General Gilmer
appeared for the state in this case and
E. S. Simmons filed Il brief for Arch
bell.
Congressman Small spoke with
great pleasure, about the development
of interest in public roads in the first
district, and said he regarded this as
very promising. 1t is due to the great
favor in which rural free delivery
mail routes are held, and the know
ledge that to have such routes there
must be good roads for all the year.
TO OBSERVE LABOR DAY.
Labor Day, September 4th, will be
observed here, and certainly a most
amusing incident will be the conven-
ton of Old-Time Fiddlers in the after
noon at Pullen Park. The fiddlers
who win will get not only money, but
a certificate of the championship in
North Carolina, while the second prize
winner will get money and a certifi-
cate. Only old tunes will be played in
this contest and each fiddler is to be
allowed ten minutes. There are over
a dozen entries already, and these will
be closed next Saturday. Mr.. An
drews says that if the convention
proves to be the success he feels GER
tain it will be he will have n Of ne
gro banjo players during the colored
state fair.
October 10Th is North Carolina day
in the public schools. The pamphlet
which will contain the exercises for the
day the recitation, readings, etc, is be-
ing prepared by~R. c. w. ConOnr of
the Office Of the state superintendent of
public instruction.
The last legislature arranged for the
paving of the walkway in the capitol