The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

OWL ana lUGlt1kt IN iUCItdSt OK
the length OF school terms in the state
as a whole from two 10 three weeks.
our correspondent has several
times called attention TO the fact that
the Second regiment hospital service
is by no lean what Il ought TO be.
Matters have now reached a climax
and an investigation wll have 20 be
made There is plenty OF evidence Of
inattention. and II Is alleged % ireff-
cheney also.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c. July g.
DR.. r. Il. Lewis. secretary OF the
state board OF health. ~ There IS
smallpox in Iredell. Catawba, Rowan,
Durham and Rockingham counties.
The chief trouble is among the ne
groes. These wander around at night
and an inland quarantine is OF but
little use against them. vaccination
is the only preventive. 50 far there
have been but few cases among white
people. but those were among the very
best class. People In this state are
~singularly reckless in doing without
vaccination. There is a vast amount
Of fuel for smallpox in North Caro-
lima The fact that il took in 600 OF
the members OF the Second regiment
here is a powerful proof Of this state
nent."
Professor W. F. Massey. Of the Ag-
rlCuItUTAl ana MeCnailthl CpltFEe, At-
cepts an invitation To deliver the an
nual address before the Georgia hortt-
cultural society.
Ii is learned that IL Is the purpose
Of the governor TO make John era
ham. OF Ridgeway. director Of the
state experiment station. For a year
w. a. Withers has been acting dlrcc-
tor.
Governor Russell re-appoints the old
state directors Of the North Carolina
Railway and also reappoints J. II.
Chadbourn state proxy.
Judge II. G.. Ewarts resignation has
not yet been received by the governor
The before the railway
commission in the matter OF the reduc-
ton OF passenger rates on the Raleigh
and CASTOR railway was ended today
by ]. w. Hinsdale and Leigh II. Watts.
The railway claims that il does not
| make money, but that its dishurse-
ments exceed its receipts 5000. this
being by reason OF its investment in
the Georgia, Carolina and Northern
railway.
Chairman Caldwell. of the railway
| commission. yesterday made a test OF
the matter Of tax stamps on express
receipts. He rendered boxes for ship
ment and asked the express charges
| thereon. He was called on for a stamp.
declined to pay for one and ther"upOn
| an employee III IllSl'h u stamp, al
| ceiling it with the express company's
| name and the date. The employee said
he furnished the stamp himself. He did
not answer the Chairman's inquiry As
to why the company tries to force pa
irons to pay for stamps. in the face
of the decision of. the commissions Of
event He said that such furnishing
Of stamps was being required all over
the United States.
A telegram to the adjutant general
from Fort Macon says that all the
companies Of the negro regiment and
the officers will be mustered in. Up
to Monday night not a company OF the
seven new ones had been mustered In.
| The two majors will be Andrew j.
Haywood. Of Raleigh. and Andrew J.
Walker, of Wilmington.
Republicans tell me Congressman
Linney will be knitted" at the polls.
He thought he would have u walk
over.
Colonel Burgwyn and the other Off
GERS Of the Second regiment say it
will leave here by Sunday next. Pay
master Knapp is expected tonight.
Mail for him is here.
There are now sixty-seven men in
the regimental hospital, forty-one with
measles, a few with malariaI fever.
two with typhoid fever. some with sore
arms due to vaccination. The sick
| Will De lett mere, Wfen the regiment
moves, in charge Of a surgeon and the
proper number Of attendants. etc.
Some Of the farmers say they do
not want the war to end too quickly.
| giving a reason that 1t makes money
more plentiful.
The Second regiment yesterday re-
| Ceived thirty recruits all Of whom
were declined. as it is full. 1872 off,
GERS and men.
| Mrs. Anne Ward died here yester-
ally One IF her sons commands one
of the finest vessels OF the Pacific Mail
kSteamship Company's fleet.
Major General J. NJ. Lee. United
States army. who was TO be in com
mand OF the North Carolina regiment
of immunes, declines the cofonelcy. on
the ground that he does not care 10 be
in a regiment with both white and ne
gro officers. Under the act creating
the regiment IL seems that the cap
tains are to be white and the Iieuten-
ants negroes. Captain Thad w.
Jones. Tenth cavalry, United States
army, Is now named as colonel. and
Augusta, Ca, designated as the poin .
Of rendezvous.