The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-09
RALEIGH news NOTES
If Election is Held Bar!rooms will
he Returned.
THIS b Prediction OF Raleigh City At
torney-Inspection of Orchards and
Fruit Nurse1ie-Dispensary Sales
for October-Other Happenings at
the Capital.


The very interesting case In which
Rev. S. J. Belts and others Of Ra-
leigh asked for a mandamus before |
the aldermen of Raleigh 10 call an
election on the question Of prohibi- |
ton or dispensay before the supreme
court this week, the judge below hav-
ing ordered the election neld and the
city having appealed. The city at
torney says such an election cannot
be legally held under the Watts Jaw.
He goes further and says that If the
election is held there Will be open sa-
looms again and that this is the secret
purpose of the whole matter, Rev. Mr..
Belts himself being in good faith and
also the prohihitionists who signed
the petition, but that the saloon e e.
ment is the handspring of the who.a
matter; in other words thai It is con-
ceived in fraud.
The state entomOlOgist is in from a
trip in the piedmont section where he
has been inspecting orchards and fruit
tree nurseries. He says the San Jose
scale is rapidly getting all over the
state, and is particularly infesting the
east. It is mainly around the central
part of Moore county AND a S Of ASH
vile, at the foot hills of the noun
tains. Up in the high mountain region
it has only begun its work, there be-
ing very little of it in that section but
it having been found at W OF three
points. He says that the scale can
be held down if the people who have
orchards will do as they are told but
most of them will not, for the reason
they do not like to go to the exponse
of spraying the trees with the solu-
ton Of lime sulphur and salt which
disease.
In the superior court George Cross,
the negro charged with causing tn
death of his father by showing him out
Of the Mutual Life writes to Mr.. Young
been acquitted, it being shown that
the father was endeavoring to enter
the house and that his daughter closed
the door in his face, thus knocking him
down the steps, his neck striking the
fence.
Insurance Commissioner Young has
written a letter to all OIL the commit
tees representing the North Carolina
policy holders of the Mutual Life and
New York Life Insurance companies,
urging upon them the Importance of
being at New York Friday, to make
the examination into the affairs Of
those companies. President Peabody
o fthe Mutual Life writes to Mr.. Young
that he will be ready to receive the
committee at noon Friday and that he
is very glad that the committee is to
come.
Deputy clerk of the supreme court
Joseph l.. Seawell is very i'll at his
home, six miles from Raleigh and it
is said has brain fever. His sickness
began last Thursday with a chill.
Marshall Robert H. Bradley Of the
supreme court who has been i'll since
late last winter expects to pay a little
visit to the supreme court building in
a few days. His attack has been a
very dangerous one.
The ~dispensary sales here for Octo-
Der was about the same as last year.
When the circus was here the sales
amounted to $4,000, but that is not the
record, as the day before last Christ
mas the receipts were $4,000 and on
Thursday Of the last state fair they
were $4,000 in FIVE hours, the dispen-
sary closing them at moor The sales
increase and the orders for whiskev
o be sent from other points decrease.
Just after the dispensaries were closed
out in Johnson county there was a
great jug trade Their. but now they
come here to get their liquor.
Cotton growers say that the wealth
er this week has been quite rough on
them, it having been cold and with
a drizZle of rain most of the time.
Sunshine and fine weather are needed.
No storm damage to cotton on this
state has been reported.
Some interest was expressed here In
the arrest Of Revenue Collector Duncan
in refusing to answer questions before
} the superior court at New Bern. It is
said by officers that they are forbidden
to answer any questions about govern
ment business. Under the new Law
the holding Of a government license TO
sell whiskey is prima-facie evidence
that the holder is a seller and so VIC
1atng the state law.
Labor Commissioner Warner came
here today. He says he has been out
In the woods looking after cotton
mills and other manufacturing enter.
p-ises. The returns from a lot of
these seem to be very hard to get. OF
course 1t is desired to have them %
show what the state is doing and one
would naturally think that there would
be sufficient pride in development OF
ones state, county, and town to cause
anybody to give such information as
this but 1t seems there is not in many
cases and so it has to be gone after.
Mr.. Warner says there are a number
OF new mills and additions to many
others. He declares however that his
/ own town Of Lexington has grown
more during the past twelve months
! than any other town on the main line
of the Southern Railway. He says it
has just landed a $500. 900 plant
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