The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-02
Pretended Opposition to
Fusion.
EDITOR REMSEY'S BET
That Senator Butler Is s'Mistxke en-, as
Asking for Political Advfce-RafIway
Commission Still In Sesston-SecOnd
other Equipments Lacking.
Messenger Bureau,

messenger bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., July 20.
Secretary G. p. benson, of the state
board of public charities, yesterday
completed an inspection of the negro
insane asylum at Goldsboro. He says
it has $50 inmates and is SO full that
thirty applicants for admission cannot
be received. The asylum is admirably
managed. The experiment of having
a female physician for the female
wards is found to be very satisfactory.
Director Charles E. Johnson, Of the
Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina
railway, has returned here from a trip
over the line of that road. Work is
in progress on twenty miles of
it n on ten miles trains are
running. The road is we'll built. Much
remains to be done, but the work is
being pushed. The completion Of the
road will shorten the time of ravel
between Richmond and Raleigh an
hour.
Manager HensZey, of the Cumnock
coal mine, was here last evening. He
says active operations will begin Au-
gust 1st and shipments will begin at
the rate of 800 tons a day, and by the
end Of the year the output will be 500
tons daily. All will be sold in his
state. The Caraleigh cotton mills here,
the Raleigh Gas Company and the Sea-
board Air Line will use it exclusively.
The Seaboard Air Line is waiting for
it.
Mention was not long ago made of
the fact that Samuel Langdon was the
real purchaser of the Taylor place"
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mock mine. Langdon and Henszey,
nee partners, are now at feud and
the purchase, it is claimed, is to annoy
HenSzey. Day before yesterday Lang
don cut through the grade Of the Raj
eigh and Western railway, with the
avCwed purpose of building a railway
himself. The Raleigh and Western is
HensZey's road. The latter has secur-
ed from Judge Timberlake a restrain
ing order against Landgon, returnable
at Roxboro August 18th.
Commissions are issued to the fol-
lowing officers of the Oxford company
of the Third regiment of the state
guard: Captain w. H. Britt, Lieuten-
ant O. G. Blackley and Robert G.. Eli
oft.
A committee appointed by the agri-
cultural department has gone to the
experiment farm near Southern Pines
to ascertain the status of affairs. The
experiments there have been under the
direction of the state horticultural So
ciety and the fertilizer used is the gift
of the German Kali Company, the
lands being the property of the agent
of that company and leased by the So
cicty. The lease has only a year to
run. The lands ave been greatly i'm
proved and it is the question OF the
lease which is being looked after.
The nOGitinn of Senator R11f1ar ic
just now of peculiar interest. A pOpu-
list tells me the senator is either bent
on having his followers vote for a
'middle-of-the-road' ticket so as to
keep them together as an organization
and thus be prepared to deal with eth
er the republican or democratic parties
in 1900 and again secure the senator
ship, or else that he is bent on soaring
the republicans and causing the latter
to make him aluable concessions his
year. The pOpulist who says this adds
that no matter what the republicans
may say they are scared and hat they
want all the pOpulist votes they can
get. In fact, he says that but for
the populists the republicans would be
scared to death in two days"
The populist congressional commit
tee of this Tistrict meets here tomor-
row.. 1t will show whether Congress
man Stroud is to be renominated or
not. 1t will also show whether Sena-
tor Butler is now in the deal with the
republicans, of which the latter speak,
or whether the republicans, as at the
time of the reelection of Senator
Pritchard, are dealing with certain
populists irrespective of Senator But
Ter.
J.. G. l.. Harris, who has returned
from Washington, where he went to
see whether Charles A. Cook would get
the much-coveted place as b~rigadier
general, says he will do so when some
new brigadeS are created.
The baths-keeper at the public park
here, where the soldiers battle, says
hat only three men in the two regi-
ments are unable to swim.
1t is now thought that Captain
Dowdy, United States army, who was
in the Santiago fight and was shot,
will be instructor of tactics at the Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical college here.
The death of Private J. Pearce, Of
the Wilmington company of the Sec
ond regiment, at camp here yesterday
evening, was the seventh. There are
but few men in the hospital.
Pearce's dearh was a sequel to
measles. Though over 500 men of the
regiment had measles it caused only
two deaths.
There is a'large attendance at the
meeting of the railway commission,
which began today. Among those
present are James Kyle, of Whining
ton: J. W. Fry, w. E. Kyle and George
M. Rose, of the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley railway: Warren G. Elliott. T.
M. Emerson. Junius Davis and Robert
O. Burton, of the Atlantic Coast Line;
j. B. Tree, of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company; J. w. Hates, of the
Postal; W. J. Crosswell, of the South
ern Express Company.
AS yet all the Second regiment men
have not received blanket bags.
Starkey Hare will on August 1st be
appointed by Revenue Collector Dun
can a member Of the special force at
Greensboro, vice G. w. Mebane. Hare
is a. republican from the First district.
Pa;ymaster r. H. Cowan, United
navy, passed here yesterday on
his way to Key West.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, N. c., July 80.
It is not today thought probable
that the Second regiment will leave
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