The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04
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ing the regiment continued In service.
and that an effort will be made to
have the order OF muster out provoked.
Lieutenant Colonel Cowles will have
no part In such an undertaking.
Morehead Pilot: The numerous
friends of Professor ]. F. Brinsor.
principal Of the Morehead City school.
will be rejoiced to learn that that gen.
tleman has authorized the editor OF
The Pilot to publicly announce that in
the coming election he will for
the nominees of the democratic party.
The Southern railway has recently
purchased new engines. zach Of which
weighs $50. 600 pounds. Eight OF them
have already been put in service.
When il is known that the average en-
CINE ranges in weight from SO, 900 to
l00. 600 pounds some idea OF the m
mensity OF these new iron horses of
the Southern can be gained.
Winston Sentinel: A telegram from
Wilkesboro says the democratic con-
gressional and judicial conventions
completed their work this morning by
nominating Hon. f. Frank Lovall. OF
Boone. Watauga county. for congress.
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solicitor. The first was named on the
fifty-irst ballot and the latter on the
first
Durham Sun: The information
reached Durham, Wednesday evening.
OF the death of Private Rufus Stem, OF
Company /, First Regiment, which oc-
Cured at Jacksonville, Fla, on We'd
nesday. This was indeed sad news to
the widowed mother, brother and Sis
tiers. The cause Of the young mans
death was typhoid fever. Deceased
was about % years Of age.
Washington Messenger: And now
it is the head of Meekins, the republic
can candidate for solicitor. that must
! pass under the TX. A dispatch from
Raleigh says: AT a meeting of the
pOpulist and republican executive
committees it was determined to take
Meekins off of the ticket, and the name
of W. ]. Leary, now the populist can
didate for judge, will be substituted
in his place.
Washington Leader: The Rev. XII
Gudger met with poor encouragement
her yesterday. His crowd numbered
AZ at the close of the TRADE against
intelligence, composed of seven demo-
Gratis, 20 negroes, five small boys,
three republican candidates, one or
two populists and the remaining II
were "uv de rank and file" Evident
ly Pennsylvania republicans want men
Of principle to give them Instructions
Raleigh News and Observer: IF
the republicans don't endorse Fowler
| at Fayetteville said DR.. Cyrus Thomp
son yesterday, lit will brake up fus-
| ion in that state" Then let it
! break" have replied a dozen republic
cans and half as many minority pop
ulists. IF Fowler is to be our only
candidate, then the election Of Thomas,
his democratic opponent is assured"
Clinton Democrat: Mt Olive was
again visited by fire Saturday night.
1t began where the other fire left off
and swept out all the row of wooden
buildings down to DR.. Steele's Office
next to the hotel. The postoffice and
all it's contents were burned, Souther-
lands stables. Lambert's and Jackson's
! stores, and a number of other wooden
buildings. There was very lite insur-
ance.
Raleigh Post: Bob Hancock and
| Abe Middleton were largely and ex-
| pensively in evidence at the Fayette-
vile republican convention for the
Third congressional district. 1t took
cash to bring the republican leaders"
to support Fowler.-Mr. Travis
says nearly every populist in Halifax
county has gone back to the democratic
party. Four years ago there were
over 700 populist in Halifax. Now Mr..
Travis says there are not more than
25 populists in the county and that
they are returning every day.
Chapel Hill correspondence Char
| lotte Observer: The manager of the
university football team has arranged
the seasons schedule as follows: Gull
ford college, at Chapel Hill, on October
!; Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, at Chapel Hill, October g.; Meb-
ane high school, at Chapel Hill, Oc-
tOber II: Greensboro Athletic club, at
Chapel Hill, October Is; University Of
Georgia, at Atlanta, October %; Ala
bama Polytechnic institute, at Win
ston, November 4; University of Vir-
ginia, at Richmond, November 25.
A northern. trip for the purpose OF
playing some of the great universities
of that section is in contemplation,
but has not definitely been decided on.
Oxford Ledger: One Henry Clay, a
| so-called colored preacher, is just now
+, figuring considerably in politics in
) Granville. He was one of the dele
|! gates to the judicial convention at
! Graham some time ago, and has quite
an unsavory reputation, so we are in
formed, as he had to leave Virginia
for being crooked.-Mr. Charles ].
Roberts is going to run on the repub-
lican ticket for sheriff. Not saying
anything against Mr.. Roberts, but
once he was a democrat, and hen a
populist and o turned over to the
republicans for Office, must think that
he will be elected and help put his
country into the hands Of negroes and
| caring not for the protection Of white
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