The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-11
Meeting to be Held in Washing
ton, D. C.. Today.
in Importance to Congress
Ancient Relic Presented to Hall of
History-OFder for Special Term Of
Court Rcyoked-Complaint Of Short
age OF Lumber Car-Exhibit at
Boston Food Fair Best State Ever
Made.

Raleigh, N. C.. Dece,nher

AN0iS'SA, Az u, DccE10DSr b.
Inc STAGE board OF agriculture me.
this morning and received reports
from the various sub-departments.
The commissioner of agriculture. Sam
uei L. Patterson, asked for several
months further leave of absence on 40
count Of the condition of his health.
The board Immediately granted this
request and adopted resolutions ex-
pfesslVe OF its appreciation of the
earnest and Jealous work he has done
along every line. The board xof -,visi-
tors TO the agricultural depar intent is
making a very scarefnf aemi.inspeeiRn
u that lr3t4.E:lJa IN every way.
Clerk WilEdTe WHO. mas charge If
corporation 5fu1t$3ps' in the office of
the secretary :ctJsfi-4, IS preparing he
annual list of these This shows the
states Developments in the very plain
est KIND OF a way and also shows a
very great increase over lie previous
YEAR.
The painters have flashed re work
OF renovating the senate ~cl:uni.er,
which now looks more attractive than
at any time since the capitol was fin
ished.
Mr.. Mark Majatte of Columbia. Tyr
rell county, has sen to the Hall of
History, through Secretary of State
Bryan Grimes a hand-mill used 1or
grinding corn. The stone is Of shell
rock and the wooden part of the mill is
OF gum. The mill was in use more than
a century and a half ago.
A complaint is filed before the corp
grafton p0rn m 1ccinn NJ rhor@n-o -
lumber cars, the claim being that not
enough were furnished by the Sea
board Air Line.
Recently United States District At
torney Skinner told your c%orrespnn-
dent that he intended to go to Wash
ington in regard to the two men unde'
sentence of death for mutiny on
death sentence be committed to life
gone and Judge Purnell joins with
him in the recommendation that the
death sentence be commutted to life
Imprisonment.
Shep Digger, the famous N7rth Car
DINA writer, is going to reprint his
thrilling novel, THE Balsam Groves
Of the Grandfather" He has written
to Secretary Thomas K. Bruner of the
S1t HSi uSp0A Ih1ShI ooh1hS
for pictures to illustrate the book.
A report was made to the board &c
agriculture today on the exhibit Whicn
this state made at the Boston Food
fair in which it set out that it was
the best and most resultful one which
North Carolina has ever made. Tie
cost was remarkably small, only $1,000
having been set apart for the purpose.
Governor Glenn has REVOKED the
order for a special term Of Gates su-
perior court, the commissioners stat
ing that they did not now think 1t
necessary. 1t had been called to o.
held December 81, for n wee.
T. TIL governor honors a requisiIion
made by the governor of West Wiz
ginia for Matt Evars, wanted for
grand larceny, in Mercer county, and
who is in Jail at Winston-Sale q.
Sheriff Hawley, Of Mercer, will take
him back to West Virginia
The legislature is soon to meet ah3
the capitol is being renovated and cer-
tain1y ought hereafter to- be lent clear
Of all sorts of odds and ends which
are now daily to be seen in the CORR
doris and behind the doors, poles,
brooms, etc. A state officer comment
ed today on these things as he stood
in the center of the rotunda and look
ed about him. He remarred that thf
state ought to set an example Of tide
ness by making the capitol IS *t'rac
tive as possible in every wa" ard
keeping such things as these in stor-
age rooms or elsewhere.
On Thursday the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress viii he held al
Washincton at the ARLINGTON Note'. II
IS declared to be second in Importance
! onlv to the Of the United
States. Major Edward j Hale # Fav-
! etteville. is a member Of the executive
| committee from North c"roii~a. TIL"
| United States. Major Fale eavs. hos
43, 9oe of navigable waterways, whl'e
holland. France and Belgium have
only 1850 miles. The to'a' ~N"enf0 {
in river and harbor aDDronriau"Ds IT
| this country is s. A7A. 001. 600 while in
| Holland. France, and Belgium tie to
tai expenditures aggregate y"
, 900. Few people have an idea no"
/, cheap water transportation Is The
cost ON railroads per ten mile Is "
Texas eight and one fa'f Tile az
the average on all the railroads in TIE
country is eight and four-fNh" ~tns
while on the Ohio river tie "nS' '
/ less than a third of a mill on tnt
great lakes nine-tenths % . MI
the lower Mississippi r MIL 'n'
on the Erie canal a little ove- hair
7 min. These figures, as Nafo- "a''
says, are simply astori~hsn" TIT
river and harbor bill. he DOL 70" 90
no longer be called a "ror" "~e"
il is about the only great 7"nro"r'a
ton which is not Of To !"
saws that subject has hnen accent
with North Carolina reor1e in b 70
cent past. the scientific treatment O
the upper Cape Fear river and Q
other great enterprises th~o"eh"ut -
country based or the do q.
traffic by waterway Improvement
which are commercially eonrd ~~~
great impetus to a move mt 80
be saws the unsatismaco~ "'wa