The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-11
Messenge Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., January 8.

DAY were the capltOi, the YdfDOrougn
house and the Masonic hall, where tho
Grand Lodge met in annual cOmnluri-
cation this evening. BY 5 O'Clock this
afternoon almost all the members of
the legislature were here and the as
pirants for the Speakership and for
other offices in both branches were as
busy us bees in the spring time. Every
thing was full of talk about the eau
Gus tonight, which would, of course,
Settle things, for practically all the
places, Governor GIenn's message is
ready and has come from the printers.
1t will be read, perhaps by him,
very probably at noon on Thursday
One Of the aSpirants for an Office inI
the Legislature makes his chief claim
for the position on the ground tha: he
was a leading Ku Klux.
The High Point Veneering Company
is authorized to increase it's capital
stock from $4,000 to $135, 600. J.. AL
Clindrd is its president. A charter isl
granted the EdgecOmbe Publishin1I
Company, of TarbOrO. capital stock
$40, 900.
One of the amusing things which,
happened here in connection with thel
Buster Brown show, which was at theI
Academy last night, was the suddenl
appearance of Buster himself at thel
dispensary yesterday afternoon. ThG
little fellow, who is less than 3 feetI
high, although he is 20 years old, CALI
ed fOra half pint of sherry. One oil
the statesmen said, "HoW old are you.''I
To this Buster replied: "Are you try-I
ing to get off a joke on me?' TheaI
h salesman looked over and saw that
it was a grown man and both had 4 bigl
laugh.
Representative Ehringhause, of Pas
quOtank county. had a close call WhileI
on his way here. He was coming on|
the Seaboard Air Line fast train Sun
day night and as the train stopped a
few minutes at Henderson got off tOl
get Il cup of coffee at the station res
taurant. Suddenly his train had pulled
out and he made a dash for it. Find
ing that a train on another track was
backing up on him he had t. make al
leap for life to catch his train, which,
was vestibuled. He found that the
vestibule door which was closed and sol
had to hang on to the rods outside,
with his feet bent far inward to reach
the step, and in this plight he rode
8 miles, where, luckily for him, the
train stopped, as otherwise he would
have had to gone all the way to Frank
linton. His hands We're sore from the
tightness of his grip. He was truly
holding on for great life and he showed
great presence of mind.
The State Anti-SalOOn league will
be in session here on the Oath and 25th
inst, and a large attendance is eX-
pected.
The corporation commission is look
ing into the new schedules on the
Southern railway which went into eff
feet on the main line on Sunday.
People interested in education are
talking a good deal about the earnes;
recommendation made by State Super
dntendent Joyner for a compulsory law
for which tax payers in any section
can avail themselves, either upon Pc
tition of majority Or upon a regular
election as the county commissioner
may deem best.
The first suggestion of the compul-
sorry law was made some years ago
by Superintendent Mebane.
Everybody talks about the weather,
which for a week has been almOs;
precisely that during the winter in
Florida. Some persons express fear
that such unreasonable warmth will
produce sickness.
The revenue officers are doing some
pretty plain talking about what they
claim to be the failure of sheriffs IN
general as we'll as oonstables and dep
uty sheriffs to aid in any way in
anp%,,rf,- %Lo 140~rIS,1r t. fhn
revenue Office today one of the depu-
ties who had just come in from a raid
remarked that he had just captured
four d~istineries recently and hat he
and the other deputies could not get
any aid from the sheriffs. who, wherI
approached for cooperation. said thatI
this was United States business, that
the deputy collectors had always beenI
attending to it and to keep on.
A deputy collector remarked that
some sheriffs very frankly said they1
were looking out for reelection. It'll
seems that in some sections moOnshin-l
ers have votes. Another deputy rel
marked that he knew two cOunties.J
Moore and Durham, in which the sher-I
ifs had cO-Operated with the reVenuel
officers. It was further stated that theI
moonshiners were moving a andl
that a lot of them from the ~up-cOuntryi
were doing business in counties soulful
east of Raleigh, notably Johnston. 1T
was added that if the county authori
ties would pitch in and carry out theI
requirements of the Watts and WardI
laws, they and the deputy collectors
could o o enforce those law and
weed out the m~oonshiners h arei
such d~isorganizers of communicates and
who in many ways do so much DAM
age. The revenue officers make mol
bones of giving their opinions as to the|
failure of county officers to do their
part Of this work.
The Confederate veteran drum cOrpSI