The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
MESSENGER Bureau.

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fore-Otber Items Of Interest.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., January 8.
DIR. TAFT Butler. state veterinarian,
left this morning for an absence OF
several DAYS to direct a number Of
farmers institutes. to be held from the
4th to the cath of January The in
stitutes will be under the direction OF
two parties, Professor II. H. Hume,
assisting DR.. Butler. Professor Hume's
programme follows: Warrenton. Janu-
airy 9Th: Jackson, January Sth; Hall
fax. January 9th: Tarboro. January
10Th; Washington, January 18th:
Swan Quarter. January 18th: Roper,
January 18th; Williamson, January
10th; Columbia, January 18th: Curri-
tuck, goth; Camden. 22nd; Elizabeth
City January 23rd;o HEREFORD. January
24th; Edenton. January 25th; Gates
Vile, January 26th: Winton, January
9th. Windsor, Jauary 2Sth.
A charter was granted today 10 the
Storage Supply Company at Asheville.
ncorpOrator are NJ. F. Hoffman, A
w. Faulkner, and Fred Kent, all OF
Asheville. Capital stock being $4,000.
The will a general
storage business.
The penitentiary directors met today
and prepared the annual report for
the governor. None of the cotton crop
OF the. present season has been sofa,
amounting to 1000 bales. 1t was
decided to join forces with the state
Cotton Growers Association and to pay
3 cents per bale for the general fund,
this being the amount paid by m
in general. No new contracts were
made as to conVicts.
Attorney General Gilmer was pres
ent at the preliminary hearing in the
case of deputy revenue collectors
Downing and Stancil before Judge Pur-
nell at which they were admitted to
bail for appearance next June in the
Federal court. The attorney general
aid he appeared for the solicitor OF
the district who was absent and his
only desire was to see that roper
bail was required. No evidence was
taken beyond the simple statement.
under oath. Of the two deputles: that
of depu V lowing who killed Wat
| son Jernigan. the Duplin m~oonsh;nar
having been aEeady given by your
| correspondent in full, in a special inter-
view with Mr.. Downing. The latter
! does not appear to believe that any
| evidence will ever be presented on the
other side.
u hNAN DN
| Speight of ~Edgecombe. Captain S. B.
| Alexander of Mecklenburg and Ashley
| Horne of Johnson, regarding the gen
eral situation. DR.. Speight says labor,
that is negro labor is very scarce IN
| his section and that m buy it;
that is, if a negro is in debt to some
| farmer, under a labor contract. anoth-
er farmer will come I'll and u MS
| debt, and then take the negro to work
| it out. Some people call this peonage
| and some do not. DR.. Speight does not
| consider it such.
Captain Alexander said that the
| farmers in his county are getting on as
well as any people in the universe.
| are holding their cotton n diversity
ing their crops. He says his idea has
/ always been not so much to cut down
acreage as to raise food crops hrst
n then cotton. Mr.. Horn said Cap
| tain Alexander was right and that this
| was the keynote to the whole situation
| in his opinion.
Captain Alexander remarked that
the white population had increased SO
much that there was not negro labor
! enough to begin to supply it's demands
In his section Charlotte has absorbed
| the negro laborers from the farms and
yet, Charlotte is very poorly
| certainly with cooks, if n may Judge
from the cry which he says goes up
from the ladies of that place who
have house keeping to do. This is the
cry in two-thirds Of North Carolina.
Raleigh certainly knows what it is.
Captain Alexander says that not only
is negro labor getting scarcer. but its
quality is deteriorating sadly. Mr..
Horn agreed with him upon this sub
ject.
In the course of a talk with Presi-
dent Poteat Of Wake Forest college
he a i that the college affairs were
in finer shape than ever before. The
enrolment at the last term was 32S
and he expects an increased atten-
dance, probably reaching $50. The col
lege term begins tomorrow. A con
tract has been let for an infirmary to
cost $500 to be completed by Au-
| gust LIST. The Alumni building is al
most completed and Professor Carlyle
who raised the funds for it says only
about $4,000 is now needed.
1t is decided that J. Rowan Rogers
and j. I. Sorrell, who lave been in
Jail here since last Summer upon con-
viction on ,embracery. in tampering
with jurors in the case of Gattis
against Kilgo. will be released Janu-
airy 9Th, as by that time they will
have served their term of six months.
1t is said that recently they have stood
| their confinement better. Sorrell made
one attempt to try to get out by having
more freedom allowed him, While Rog-
ers, by an appeal to the governor a
an effort along the same line, out the
| governor declined to act.
Next week in the Superior court
there will be a most interesting trial,
that of the young degenerate, Frank
Moore, and a negro who tands charg-
ed with a triple crime. in numbering
the night Waterman at the plant of
the standard Oil Company here. the
robbery of the safe and the burning
of the plant. Moore has confessed,
duplicating the negro and also an
other white youth named Earl Jones.
who is in Jail at Norfolk. Moore has
lawyers employed by his brother who
will seek to show that his confession
was untrue and was extorted. Insur-
ance Commissioner Young says that
such was not the case. and he remark
ed today to your correspondent that
such was not the case and added: we
will convict these men,"