The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-29

Fourth Regiment and One Com.
Pany Of the Firss voluneeer-Simon.
tons Decree In the Railway Lease
Case-OppOsition Among Democrats
Tn Fusion.

11AN@As
Raleigh. ". &. April -.
The adiutant generals office was Il
busy place today. Great numbers of tel
egrams Were received.
General John w. Gotten, of Tarboro.
who for several years commanded the
state guard. came here today. He said
he wanted TO find out what would be
done and said he heard on all sides the
statement that only North Carclinians
were wanted TO command the troops from
this state.
The Governors Guard. Company g.
First regiment, volunteered solidly for
| service in the United States or out of IL.
The Fourth regiment volunteered in the
same way.
James II. Young, colored. has written
to twelve points in the state. desiring
that at each an infantry company be
raised for service abroad and that a full
thus formed, be quickly ten
dered the governor.
The supreme court devotes this week to
the appeals from the Twelfth district.
This is the last of the regular docket.
Captain Thomas B. Yancey died here
this morning, after a weeks illness. He
was Tor years a carriage manufactures
mere during the war he was in the
confederate service.
Inc rains are particularly S~eaSOnabie
and the farmers all remark that they
never saw finer growing weather. the
appearances of the crops is all that could
be desired.
Surgeon General John Hay Williams.
of the state guard. at the request of the
adjutant. has prepared for publication
Instructions as to care of the health of
/ troops in service. The Instructions are
brief and simple.
rived at the penitentiary here from
| Statesville.
There is some talk here as to the neces-
sity of defending Ocracoke inlet, the pas
sage of which by an enemy would expose
a great stretch of territory within the
sounds.
Judge Simonton in his decree as to the
matter of the governors fight to annul
the lease of the North Carolina railway
to the Southern. says that the lease was
bona fide. without fraud, misrepresen-
tation or malpractice of any sort on the
part of either the Southern railway or
the North Carolina railway" and that
it is a valid and existing agreement.
Judge Simonton perpetually restraints
the governor and attorney general from
attempting to break or threatening to
break the lease in any form.
The two illicit distilleries which were
captured by revenue officers Saturday
1 night in Franklin county were both own
ed by negroes. One of the stills was in
the garnet of a house.
The attention of your correspondent
was today called to the fact that Only
five counties in this state have passed
through the past six years with their
democratic majorities not seriously jeop-
ardiZed. These counties are Haywood
Rowan, Johnston, OnslOw and Currituck.
1t is a significant fact that in these coun-
ties no bids for populist support have
ever been made. but they have always
been and now are for a straight ticket.
The leaders in the fight against fusion
are said to be silver democrats" men
like Simmons, Aycock, Waddell, KlutZ,
D. H. Mclean and others and, strange to
say, some of the strongest advocates of
fusion are men who last year were gold
democrats"
In the fight against fusion the financial
issue 'cuts no ice" Democrats of all
shades of opinion seem to demand a
straight fight.