The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-22
Half of the Second Reg
iment Break Camp.
RUSSELL And BUTLER
To Hold a Conference Over Republic
can POliues-Trinity College Trustees
to Give Justice Clark a Hearing
Democratic Campaign To Open August
SurgeOn-Wake Republican COnyen-
ton Does Not Endorse Kussell's Adj
ministration.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., July IS.

( Raleigh, n. e., july Is.
It was learned today tina Senator
Butler will be here tonight or tonor-
row TO have a conference with Gov
ernOr Russell. It is conjectured that
the conference has some connection
with the republican state convention,
which meets here Wednesday.
The six companies of the Second
regiment of volunteers left here at Z
o'clock yesterday morning on two spe-
cial trains, each OF thirteen cars, on
the Southern and Seaboard Air Line.
Colonel Burgwyn gave personal atten-
ton to the embarkation. The band Of
! the regiment played on a hill between
the two trains, both of which were
near the camp. Two of the companies,
from Tarboro and Greensboro, were
! completely uniformed and equipped. In
the others there were a few ununi-
formed recruits. The six
took GIG officers and men, leaving forty
in the hospital, most of them with
measles. Major Wilder was in COM
mand on one train and Major Gotten
on the other. Ten recruits for the regi-
ment arrived Saturday night to take
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sound men.
, It is learned that the board of trus-
tees of Trinity college is to meet this
week and that it has called On Judge
Walter Clark to go before it and prove
his charges against President John c.
Kilgo, of the college.
The rains which have fallen here
daily for over a week have made cot
ton were grassy.
1t is expected that the Second regi-
ment will this week abandon its camp
at the fair grounds and occupy the
camp known as Camp Grimes, where
there is better drainage and where the
tents "a be regularly placed.
The regiment will make a practice
march Wednesday to MillbroOk, or the
Seaboard Air Line, six miles from
here, and will encamp there two days
using for the first time it's shelter
tents. Five of the companies which
left yesterday took wall tents with
them. All carried the shelter tents.
The democrats are pleased at the
outlook here in Wake county. The pop
ulists are becoming disguised at what
is known as the court house ring.
The programme for the opening OF
the democratic campaign in Nortf
Carolina is being prepared by Chair.
man Simmons. August Bird is the date
IACu u ChO opV1I1iS' iio liS
speakers so far assigned are T. J. Jar
Wis, Lee S. Overman, Locke Craig, J
H. Currie, r. T. Bennett and G.. B
Aycock.
John S. Cunningham, of Person
county, president of the state fair, is
here. He says the tobacco crop il
his section is injured 20 per cent by
the heavy rains which fell early in tn
season. He has this year $500, 900 hill!
IN Gn0 n A~ - oI;,1 h. -~-
things are getting into good shape.
The state board of agriculture meet!
in special session next Wednesday.
Captain G. B. benson, of Raleigh
will at the state fair here in Octobe-
deliver an address on the life and ser
vices of Ex-Governor Thomas M. Holt
who was for many years president o
the fair.
DR.. Paul c. Hatton, Of Goldsboro
who has been a member of the recruit
ing party for the First regiment, ha
been at Washington, and is %appointe'
a contract surgeon, U. S. A, at $3.50
a ear He is assured he will be give
a position as regular urgeon He en-
listed as a private. He will be as
signed to duty at Tampa, where it i
expected yellow fever will appear.
A prominent nan who came here to
day from Washington says that yellow
fever is worse at Santiago than tn
censorized reports state.
The last company and all the officer
of the negro regiment at Fort MacoI
were mustered in yesterday.
The adjutant general says it is nov
certain that there will be no furthe
call for volunteers.
Judge Purnell last Saturday after
noon administered the oath to H. G
Ewart As judge of the Western Unite
States district.
The Raleigh and CASTOR railway to
day began to use it's e cutoff a
CASTOR, which shortens the line three
quarters of a mile and leaves Casio
one and one-fourth miles to the west
ward. The new route does away alto
gether with the great curve at Castor
The republican county conventio
here refused to have anything to d
with endorsing the present state ad
ministration.
The Chief Burgess OF Mile ourg, Pa