The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30
Messenger Bureau.

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Messenger Bureau.
Raleifh, N. c.. December "a.
The belief which the officials here
have had for some weeks that the
North Carolina negro regiment would
soon be mustered out. Is nov shown
to be well grounded. The mastering
officer SAYS he has no doubt that mat
ters VIII be so arranged that practi-
caliy all the work will be done before
the regiment leaves Macon, and that
here 1t will turn over its arms and camp
equipage and be discharged within ten
days. The strictest discipline will be
enforced and the men win be kept in
camp. 1t was thought the muster-out
would take place at Fort Macon, where
the regiment was formed, but this is
said to be impracticable. The people
Of Raleigh viii certainly desire to see
as little of the regiment as possible.
So far as heard from. there were few
holiday accidents or murders in this
state and few or no fires.
The legislature viii give special at
LGIllOn 1 Tie prevention VI aPPGdiS Ny
railways from state courts to federal
urts Inquiry was made how this
would be one and it was said by i'm
posing penalties in some way on roads
which violated the law.
The fact is discovered that the
Christmas eve murder of a negro wo-
man by her husband, Alex. Allen, was
due to jealousy by Allen of a negro
preacher.
There are now five murderers in jail
here. Allen is one. The others are
Jim Barber, who is to be hanged jan
uary 18th and for whom the death
watch was set today; a white man, a
state convict, who shot a guard; a ne
gro who poisoned his wife in the south
ern part of this county, and a negro
who assassinated a doctor in CASTOR
county and was brought here to save
him from imminent lynching. The jail
is far too small. White women and
negro women canno be separated, ow-
ing to lack of room.
1t is now the plan to broaden the
state fair and have an exposition next
year. This will certainly meet with
instant public approval. The last expo
sition, in fact the only one ever held
in North Carolina, was a great success,
pecuniarily and in all other respects.
The citizens of New Bern have shown
their spirit by ~denouncing a surety
SOlllpduy "ilSh saw WIN " H W.
CARPENTER as clerk of court of Craven
county. They took this step in mass
meeting and say that Carpenter was a
debarred pension attorney, charg-
ed with s%windling, while as to personal
morality he has had a negro mistress
for twenty years, it being in this re-
spect like the case Of COMMISSIONS
Bunting at Wilmington.
1t is not as yet known here whether
anything will be said or done regarding
the Bunting case at the special term OF
federal court here, February Sth. The
district attorney says he cannot say.
The revenue collector has advices of
the seizure of two illicit distilleries in
in Harnett, near Turlington; also three
in Orange. One Of the latter, strange
to say, was captured at II o'clock
Christmas morning. The moonshiners
who were operating it ran like rab-
bits.
United States District Attorney Ber-
nard says he is arranging a division of
this district into group of SO
that defendants and witnesses in cases
can be called and thus prevent the
trouble and expense of having them
from all the district here at once. He
is also preparing Instructions to COM
missioners, to SEND him a summary of
the features Of all cases, together with
a list of witnesses, so he can see wheth-
err he will approve the expense account
or let the matter drop.
A national democratic committeeman
says, in answer to an inquiry, that at
ter careful consideration of the various
plans for restricting suffrage he re-
CARDS the Louisiana plan as the one
best suited to North Carolina.