The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-11-30
Information Named Concerning
One Sent to North Carolina.
Interesting Query From Paris-Rea-
sons Which Prompted Joyner to De-
cline the Presidency of the Normal.
Stronger-Othcr Raleigh News
Notes.
Messenger Bureau,


United States District Attorney Skin
ner says the docket ut the term OF the
United States district court which be-
gins here next week Is very heavy. and
cannot nearly be finished in two weeks,
50 there viii have 10 be an adjourn
ment until February or the last Mon
day in January. There are " ccun-
terfeilug cases, and ten post Office
cases, most OF the latter for intercept
ing letters and larceny Of mail. The
chief case IS that of Rhodes. He ran
between Edenton and Norfolk rs route
agent, and the question comes ND in
which district the crime was cOmmiI-
ted. When Investigated in Virginia his
defense was il was committed in North
Carolina. Rhodes is now a doctor. The
case IS quite an interesting one from
several points OF view.
The sheriff Of Surry county brought
three convicts TO the ~penitentiary: one
for highway robbery and two for house
breaking.
b negro Blackwell who has been
in the station house for some days here
was transferred to Jail today anu is
being held until New York officers
come for him. A man answering %
his description is wanted there IOr
murder.
Another n of the insurance agen-
cies was chartered today, this being the
South Greensboro Insurance and Real
Estate Company, capital stock $50 600.
David White and others stockholders.
These agencies are becoming quite
numerous in this state and are tho
- T-o4,~~o
man it is stated.
A charter is granted the Schnapps
Bottling Company, Charlotte, to manu-
f~acture ginger ale, etc, E. H. Gaines
and several others of Gaffney, S. c.,
and several Charlotte men being stock
holders. Another charter is to the
Ravens Cellars Merchantile Company
OF Atkinson Fender county, to make
~turpentine, etc.
The supreme court holds that ap-
plicants for license as attorneys must
file certificates Of good moral charac-
ter, and hat the present law requiring
his is binding on the court, which can
not go behind the certificate and eX-
anime into the moral character, the
court dividing, Justices Brown and
Walker dissenting.
The movement for a refOrmatOry ii
the state is quite rapidly taking place
now. and all the forces are getting to-
gether. The whole matter will be put
before the Legislature in a very prac-
teal shape. It is shown that the
Children's Home Society cannot handle
cases as would a ~refOrmatOTy.
Secretary OF State Grimes a re
ceiyed Il letter from Mr.. +. d. MiIl2t.
Of the American Academy in Rome
asking for information regarding n
plaster bust of John Paul Jones, which
as stated by q letter to Thomas Jeffcr-
son from Jones was sent to the stare
of North Carolina. Jones letter is
dated Paris, March Goth, 1871 and says:
II am much obliged by the trouble
you took in forwarding before yOn left
Europe the bust | had promised Il
different gentlemen in America. HaV-
ing recently received a letter from Mr..
Burton, a former member Of congress
with whom ! had the honor of being
acquainted at New York, requesting my
bust in behalf of the state of NORTH
Carolina, [ have ordered Mr.. HOudOn e
prepare and forward il by the first shil
for Philadelphia. and rs that bust vii
be decorated with the order Of St. Ann
on the American uniform This is one
reason why I wish to be authorized by
the United States to wear that order
I shall take the liberty of addressin-
the bust to you, requesting YOU To de
liver it to the North Carolina delegates
who will be 50 good as to deliver /
to the governor of that state" HOudOI
was the great artist who made a bus
Of Washington, from which the statu'
: in the capital square here was cas-
Four of the busts which Jones 2 =
friends in the United States hava D"
traced by Mr.. Millet. John PierD
Morgan has just purchased n Of =
original terra Gotta busts By Hou'",
What has become OF the ones sent =
North Carolina nobody knows. Mr.. Nj.
let wants to know whether the o
sent to this state was a copy Of the On
bought by Mr.. Morgan OF of the earle
ones which were sen TO General Wash
ington, James Madison, and half 4 dOZ
en- others, and which was also mad
by Houdon. It is hoped that this p1b
! LEGATION may bring something TO lish
regarding this YER interesting matt Il
A Greensboro paper had an editoria
today about the defamation by Stat
| Superintendent Joyner of the pres
1
dency Of the Normal and Industris
J college and intimattng that he had /
one time decided to accept but at Ia
very last moment had r~econsidered an
decided TO retain his present position
: AS a matter of fact there was nothln
to reconsider, for he had decide
to accept. He had been in doubt was
to do, but the united urging Oh all tn
county superintendent, OF the facuit
Of the University. the A. & NJ colle2
and other noted institutions, the urseI
call of his profession in he state ff
him to retain his place in the state a
m~inistration, were things too powc-f1
to be denied and SO when all these TO
him that he was needed 70 continue
his present position and help push !
educational work of his state, he d
> cided to listen &c that call and to 10