The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-11-09
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh, N. c., November 5.
Charters are granted the Dudley
Lumber Company, at Granite Falls,
$4,000 capital stock, D. w. Russell
and others stockholders; the Dockery
Lumber Company, Rockingham, $685.
900, Henry G. DOckery and others
stockholders; the Dudley Shoals Cot
ton Mills company, $780, 900 at Granite
Falls, d. H. Warlick and others stock
holders; McCabe e. Co., real estate,
$500, 900, Altapass, Mitchell county.
Lawrence B. McCabe of Baltimore the
principal stakeholder.
At democratic state headquarters to-
day everything was very quiet, Secre-
tary Field remarking that everything
had been prepared for the election to-
morrow. Senator Simmons was out
speaking and the two other gentlemen
on duty had gone home to vote. The
republicans are not talking a great
deal about the eelction, but n of their
leaders said today he expected to see
the democratic majority on the general
ticket cut down to something like
10000. He claims that his party will
have very few losses in the west, and
will make gains in the east. The
democratic estimates of the majority
are twice as large as his.
So far six federal prisoners are to 60
to the penitentiary in Atlanta, two of
these coming from Wilmington. A
year ago the father of one of them was
sen to the p~enitentiary at Atlanta for
the same offense, selling whiskey
without license.
Work is in progress on the John w.
Jenkins memorial chapel here, quite
near the Methodist orphanage.
The trial of H. J. Bivins. the detec-
tive who killed the as yet unknown
white man. claiming to be a hobo
here last month will not come off I'M
til nex spring, it seems to be thought.
Bivins has said that he did not know
the man he shot. Bivins' friends
claim that he was not shooting to kill
the man, though the latter was cutting
at him and did cut him in the wrist.
The general opinion appears to be
that Biviuns will get a term in the
pe~nitentiary. He has a family in
Monroe.
Walter G.. Richardson, for the past
twenty-five year in the Western
Union Telegraph Office here is now the
city missionary and financial secre-
tary Of the Raleigh Baptist Tabernacle.
This church has 943 members and has
1,263 pupils in it's Sunday school.
There seems to be different opin-
ions about the cotton crop, for a deal
er here said to your correspondent that
he believed the acreage was Is per
cent greater than last year and that the
crop would be a bigger one in spite Of
the damage. He says the negroes are
demanding $1.00 a hundred for pick
ing and that this he says accounts for
the very large amount of unpicked
cotton but he says this will be finally
gathered.
The number of boys n girls in he
Oxford orphan asylum is 275. During
the 81 years it has Deen opened the
orphanage has cared for 2,400 children.
The Grand Lodge of MasOns establish
ed the O~rphange, in December 1872.
There is a considerable wood famine
here, and there seems TO be no hope Of
an end Of it. The result is a very large
increase in the use of coal. The rail-
ways say they have not the facilities
for hauling the wood.
There continues to be complaint of
delays in freight shipments. A bust
ness man here says hat he finds it re-
quires two weeks to get shipments to
Atlanta, and as much as a week to get
them to Charlotte, in less than car load
lots. The railway men, on the other
hand, say the railways cannot keep
pace with the growth of business, in
other words have not cars enough to
handle it. They say, however, that the
situation is now better than it has
been. Some of the car builders are a
year behind on orders. In fact almost
all the manufacturers, of whatever
kind are behind. A prominent rail-
way official says that take the manu-
facturers of surveyors instruments
and it will be found that it will be a
year before they can fill an order,
while two years 6 they could fill
them instantly.
The ~dispensary receipts here during
October were $500 more than they were
during that month last year, this in
spite of the fact that the dispensary
was closed, on Thurday the great day
of the state fair, this step being taken
because there was a great gathering of
people, the weather was extremely bad
and it was thought that perhaps the
crowd would attempt to drown their
sorrows in drink. 1t has been decid-
ed to close the dispensary on all such
great occasions in order to eliminate
any chance of trouble, that is disorder.
MRS. "BuH, NYE DEAD