The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-25
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c.. December l9.

Raleigh, y. C., December 10.
The corporation commission certain
ly does a vast amount of work which
fact is made very clear by q statement
to your correspondent by Clerk Henry
4 Brown who says that this year the
number Of letters mailed, exclusive Of
circulars, etc, is 1929. He keeps lab
on all the letters sent.
AT q negro church here last night
where there was a great crowd Of WoT-
Slippers q long-winded negro offered u
prayer of great length, and when he
finished the regular preacher thought
he could go on with other lines of work
b just as the prayer was ended an
other negro says: Let's continue the
prar" and with that offered another
interminable one, this being for the
negro who is in Jail here to be
hanged on the Goth. The very instant
that this man was finishing another
n shouted out: And now let's pray
for a lot Of other niggers who need
hanging too"
The Raleigh & Pamlico Sound rail
way will by March 1st be into Raleigh.
It viii enter on a viaduct 2,100 feet long
the highest point of which is IS leet
above the ground level, nearly all OF it
being 80 feet. This will be Of wood
because steel could not be delivered
within the time required.
b supreme court will file opinions
several times this week and is expected
10 adjourn Friday for the term.
John y. Shaw and Division Superin-
tendent w. j. jerks Of the SeabOard
Air Line and j. NJ. Turner of the Ra-
leigh & Charleston railway met at the
corporation commission office yesterday
- arrange for the division Of the cost
V the work on the uniOn depot at
LumbertOn, which is now in progress.
Governor Glenn granted two pardons
today, both conditional and says THAI
all his pardOnS are now conditional
ones in order that he may obtain Il
hold upon the men pardoned unless
they carry out their part of the obliga-
ton to the state. Those ~pardOned are
John r. Strange, of Surry, convicted
Of slandering an innocent woman and
sentenced to pay a fe and also to pay
damages to the m The trial
judge reports hat both these things
have been done and recommends a par
don, which is thus granted. The other
I4dA 10 I1c1Uo1 AAdlAoS, VI SOOSooi
county, convicted of secret assault ana
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary, OF which he has served two. The
solicitor who tried the case, now Judge
Lyon, and also the judge on the circuit
recommend a conditional pardon, it
having been discovered after the trial
that Mailoy was not guilty.
The annual exhibition Of the North
Carolina Poultry Association will be
AeH IN Greensboro January 9Th to 18th
and is open to the world, and is closed
January 1st. James P. Kerr of HaW
River is president and ]. S. Jeffrey,
West Raleigh, the secretary. A mum,
Der of birds will go to this show from
the state or rather the United States
aoultry farm here. It is intended to
have an exhibition Of from 1900 to
2,ses birds. The best hall in the state
for the purpose is secured and 1000
fowls will be shown in single deck
oop There is more interest now in
poultry breeding than ever before IN
the state. w. c. Denny, Of Rochester,
n. T., is the judge There will be a
special exhibition of pigeons, and also
one OF turkeys, ducks, geese and orna-
mental fowls such as ~pheasants. Mr..
Kerr is poultryman to h Agricultural
College and Experiment station in Mis-
sissippi. There are all sorts of prizes.
money, fowls, etc.