The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-10
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Country People Dissatisfied With
Prohibition Movement
Pardon Asked for IL. T.. King of Robe
son-NOrfOik and Southern Occu-
pies New Ofhces-Raleigh Company
Receives New RiAe&-ScnatoriaI
T'r marY.
Messenger Bureau,

the penitentiary today to serve three
years sentence for seduction.
William "a. Guthrie, of Durham, has
applied for an order to restrain the
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany from making an extra assess ment
upon his policy, amounting to 800
Under it's old plan the company did
an assessment business.
Lieutenant Commander Victor Blue
whites that he wants to secure from
Mort Carolina all the Daudsmen for
the cruiser North Carolina and they
certainly ought to be found N this
stale. The pay is very good
1t is learned that thsre will be a
large attendance CT North Carolina
Confederate veterans at the reunion
at Birmingham, Ala, June 9th to
11th. 1t is the hope CT the winston
Salem people to make the reunion
there, August 18th and goth, the larg
est yet held in tie state.
At the state prohibition headquart-
ers the list Of volunteer speakers in
the state workers and campaign now
runs over 1OG. Any one who thinks
that it will not require work to carry
the state as the prOhibitiCnists ought
to carry it, is badly mistaken for a
said to be disaffected towards the
movement, and it is in the country
that much Of the work will neces-
sarily have TO be done. The amount OF
whiskey which is pouring into the
state from Virginia is tremendous, and
the express offices are getting to be
like dispensares. The express people
do not like this business at all and
MI tc
them in touch with a great many
unpleasant customers at the receiving
end of the line for often the lineup
to get the jugs Or the concealed stuff
In packages is pretty rank. All sorts
OF tricks are used in packing the
whiskey, a lot of customers wishing
1t to be a secret that they receive 1t.
The revenue officers cannot hold ii
unless the label is gO5Sly fraudulent.
1t las already been stated that the
label glass" IS not misleading en-
ough to make the stuff liable TO geiz-
ure.
The more open weatnc r IS giving
an opportunity for more farm work 10
be done, and yesterday the ploW
men were seen to be busy. Your cor
respondent too! twelve mile walk,
DIN the course Of which ne visited the
very interesting graphite mines near
Raleigh. This mineral has been work
ed IN very small way for number
OF years. Ihe country in which the
minG5 are located are ve.y wild and
rugged and the farming IL that sec
tiou looks much like that in the
mountain foothills. Farmers who We
talked with say they intended to re-
.duCo as much as possible lhG amount
OF fertilizers this season, as TIMES
were hard. They say they will use al
sorts of homemade fertilizers they
oan obtain.
The panic does not seem to have
checked building here, for in all parts
OF the city it is going on and the
growth of the Glenwooo suburb, which
used to be the Devereux property is
remarkable. Only handsome dwellings
are allowed to be built there and the
place has been completely transform
ed.
The Norfolk and Southern Railway
Is now occupying it's new offices, hav-
ing abandoned the temporarily ones
ia the Elks building, and moving into
the ones in it's new brick structure,
which is located on it's freight yards.
The road mas not yet commenced to
operate it's trains into the Union sta
tion, though an arrangement to that
end was made some time ago.
The raleigh company of the ma
tional guard has been issued the new
se-yice rifle, the Springfield. The
equipments differ much from those
heretofore in use for the Krag
rifles and are designatedd to aid more
In carrying the weight of ammuni-
ton, etc. The new rifle is said to be
the most powerful Of all those in use
in the world.
The various railroads in the state
have made reports to the corporation
commission, showing each months
business, but these are sent in for
each quarter and the SOuthern's report
for the last quarter has been filed,
showing an increase in business and
receipts over the last quarter of 1906
though there is a decrease, and quite
q sharp one, in ole case $50O,OOO a
month over the months Immediately
preceding
Chairman McNeill ofthe corporation
commission said today that the South
ern railway officials had informed him
orally that their January and Febru-
ary business showed a marked fall ng
off as compared with that in the
months Of the previous quarter.
One of the very Interesting questions
this year seems to be whether there
w.l be a senatorial primary or not.
The question having been asked of
some leaders whether they thought
there would be joifft canvass this year
they said that they did not expect
this. The democratic campaign SO far
as between the two men who seem to
be the leaders for the democratic nom
tnation for governor has been rather
acrid and this fact is deplored by not
a. few people.