The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
AT CAMP GRIMES.
Officers Worried ut Delay in Receiving
Equipage for Second Restment-Mus-
tering I'm of First Regiment Compan-
les Drills Begins Today-Ours n
Earliest Mustered Into
Service.
Messenger Bureau.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c., May 4.
The United States and the state mill
tary officials here are greatly annoyed
at the siowness of the government in
sending supplies for the use OF the vol
unteers in camp here. and those who
are to come. kilograms were sent the
secretary OF war last night. urging him
to have tents. blandets, etc, rushed by
express.
The movement of the companies COM
posing the Second regiment of volun-
teers, which had to be suspended yes
terday, owing TO lack of accommodation
at camp, will, IL is hoped. be resumed
by the end of the week.
The mastering in of companies con-
tinued today. Three were mustered in
yesterday and five more today. Some OF
the companies were short of men, owing
to reflections. but there are plenty of
spare men-'Stop-overS." as they are
termed-to fill any and all vacancies.
There are from AsheviEe alone. for ex-
ample, Us men. The company from that
place has the necessary 81. and the extra
men have filled companies from States
VILE, Shelby and Reidsville.
AT 2 O'Clock this morning the Washing
ton company of the Second regiment ar
AHCN' III captain iNSs Al
mma
Temporarily the First regiment is d.
vided into two battalions, as follows:
First, companies Of Captains Robinson,
Chadwick. Bessent, Crawford. Flanni-
gan and Hannah; second, those of Cap
tains Balm, Hill, Ellington, Niche, Book
hart and Gardiner. The adjutant gen.
eral says there is no doubt that the reg
iments will each have three battalions.
Drills begin tomorrow. They could
not begin earlier, as the companies were
not mustered in. The policing" or
cleaning of camp began this morning.
1t appears that the North Carolina vol
unteers are among the earliest mustered
into the government service. The men
make a good appearance. This is COM
mented on by the army officers. Rela-
lively there are few reflections.
chaplain Pruden, of the First regi-
ment, had for several years been the
rector of st Philips Episcopal church,
Durham.
Last evening Colonel Armfeld and 9TH
er field and staff officers of the First
were mustered into the United States
service. Today commissions were issued
to them and to the company officers.
The volunteers are much in evidence
in the city. Their behavior here and in
camp is excellent.
Senator Pritchard is extremely anx-
iouS to secure a position in the volun-
teers for Lieutenant Douglas Settle, L.
s.. A. brother of ex-Congressman Set
tie. 1t is said that the senator is desir-
Gus to make a friend of the e-x-congress-
man in this way. Lieutenant Settle is a
capable officer. Of course. there is more
or less ''log-rolling'' as to such appoint
ments. There are plenty Of aspirants for
places, This pplies also to the position
of colonel Of the Second regiment. Ex-
confederate veterans express special de-
sire that the governor shall recognize
them by appointing one of them to the
position. The local camp of confederate
veterans has endorsed a gentlemen for
the appointment.
The colonies of all Of the four regi-
ments of the State\ Guard volunteered,
the adjutant general now says.
Governor Russell is manifesting the
deepest interest in the progress of dem
ocratic-populist fusion. If indeed there
can be said 90 be any such progress. His
attitude is so peculiar as to amaze the
republicans.
c. T. Bailey gets the postoffice here.
He will be in office in A few days. Up to
the last moment Governor Russell antag-
onized his confirmation. With him il
was anybody TO beat Bailey" He thus
again showed his intense personal and
political ~antipathy to Senator Pritchard.
Good news comes here as to the large
acreage and also the fine condition of
the wheat crop in the state. Cotton in
this section is coming up well and the
plants look vigorous. East of here the
planting was too early and the cool snap
hurt il. This the planters in that sec
ton admit.
The state today chartered the Camden
Telephone Company. capital 800. with
the IISlFJ " Dullu III diltIIc- III an the
northeastern counties. E. Mitchell and
others are the stockholders.
Revenue officers made a raid in john
Ston county and captured an S0-gallan
still. Up to quite recently but little at
tention has been paid TO moonshiners
east of here. and for this reason those
from west of here have gone east in
some numbers
Senator Butler. IL appears. does not
abandon his fight for populist-demoeratic
fusion and will press il in his party's
state convention. II is the current be-
lief that he viii then and there meet mis-
most crushing defeat.
4 public spirited negro here makes a
gif1 of 8. 800 TO the fund for the purchase
of SO acres Of Gand two miles from the
city for a permanent military post.
General Robert +. HOke. - well known
as a fighter expresses unbuandad adj
miration of the gallantry AMIR admirable
no time ought TO be lost in closing in on
Havana and bonrbarding Il.
III the afternoon great numbers Of
ladies' visit Camp Bryan Grimes to see
the volunteers Everything interests
Them. They range from the gray-halred
civil war to the young girl TO whom
brass buttons are a source Of Height.
All have a xtnd word Tor the sor31e<s.
Charlotte Observer: There was a big
mass meeting OF negfoes at Monroe Sat
urday from al over the county for the
purpos of appointing delegates to the
various conventions, and at the same
time to choke off the regular ~organfza-
ton, which has been in control of the
whites. They passed resolutions telling
what they will DO If their d~elegates are
Dig whoop Of endorsement of Russell.
Mckinley ard rhe war. II is due them 70