The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-10
AT CAMP GRIMES
Hundr red and III uy soldier
P~resent-The Wilmington Company
I'm Camp-Consolidatiou Of Afttrnoon
Papcrs-The Recent Storm. An I'M
portant to Masons.
Messenger Bureau.


Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. C. a4ay =. :
There are now about 1850 men ir
Camp Grimes. OF these about $50 are
OF the Second regiment. The Whining
ton company OF this regiment went to
camp at 9 clio this morning. II Is
believed that the other eight companies
will reach camp by Monday or Tues
day.
1t has been she belief OF your oorre-
~spondent for a week or more that Col
onel II. ). Burgwyn. of Henderson.
would he colonel of the Second regi-
ment. AT midnight last night this be
lief became a certainty. Colonel Bur
gwyn Is a brother Of gallant Colonel
Harry Burgwyn of the Twenty-siNth
Mort Carolina infantry (Zeb Fance's
old regiment) which lost more men at
Gettysburg than any other
during the civil war. w. II. =. Bur
gwyn during the war was colonel OF
the Junior reserves and not long after
wards was colonel of the Fifth Mary
land regimen. He is in vigorous
health. an excellent officer and very
popular.
The four adjutants Of the First regi-
ment are l.. b. Alexander. regimental
adjutants; Thomas w. Patton. John
NJ. Allison and Eugene qIarrell. battai-
ion adjutants.
Today the government issued orders
for transportation home to all the vol
unteers who failed to pass the physi-
cal examination. The government has
fed them all the time they were in
camp. Ninc left for Statesville today,
seven Cor AsheviNe. and others for va
rious points.
Major Butler. of the Third Battalion
Of thu First regiment, reported at
camp today for physical examination
and nluster-in.
Bishop Cheshire. of this Episcopal
diocese, has prepared a special prayer
for use in all the churches during the
war.
The engagement Is announced Of
Miss Kate Prescott, of Weldon. and
Mr.. J. 7. Garter, of Lynchburg. h
wedding has been set for Wednesday.
June 8th, at Grace church, Weldon.
Miss Prescott is a great social ravor-
ite and is justly regarded as one Of the
North Carolina beauties.
The wind storm here yesterday did
no damage. AT Durham 1t wrecked the
partially completed Presbyterian
church. There was much hail west OF
here and severe electric storms. I'm
q~uestionabay the wind has done dam
age at some points. One bolt of light
Illls btIt pIty Gu Win Nv SdIbt
and one room of the residence Of MIR. Q.
W. Newcombe. He says the furniture
was broke to pieces as IL by blows
with n axe. The rain was needed.
Some crops were beginning to suffer.
Willis Briggs today purchased the
afternoon Presentation OF this city.
and becomes is president and treas
urer. He also purchased the after
noon Times. Henry Bagley becomes
city editor Of the consolidated PAPER
the title Of which is the Press-ViSitor.
1t is to be strictly a Raleigh paper
and ron-political-
There is great and general approval
Of the adjutant generals rebuk,. Of
FOUGHT, the Salem man who cast re
Election, or. attempted to cast them. on
eX-confederate -Cldiers. There Is no
recruiting office at Salem and Foucht's
action was hence all his own. simply
to show his petty
Ashevnie holds the honor OF being
the town Of North Caro-
lima. Over 200. men have Volunteered
there and nearly $50 of them are in va
rious companies OF the First regiment.
The directors of the North Carolina
railway met here today to accept the
bonds Of the new secretary, Hiram II.
Worth, and the new treasurer, w. J.
Sutton. 1t was fodnd that these bonds
must be given to July and then be re
newed. They had been made for twelve
months.
The state today chartered the Mt.
Carmel Hlour Milling Company. of Ca
tawba county.
Gran6 Secretary rewTy OF the
grand lodge of Masons. was delighted
today 10 receive from Past Grand Mas
ter Sfanuel ID. Irwin, of Geargia, the
proceedings Of the Grand Lodge of
NORTH Carolina in 1898. IL. was the
first meeting. The act incorporating
che grand lodge is published In it
n charter vas granted - November
1875, on application of General wlharn
r DAVE, grand master. The pamp-
let is a precious document. II AXE
the records Of the GraRl Lodge COM
3lete.
| The state treasurer has been pre-
| scented with q massive office table Of
quarteT~Sawed Burke county Oak,
made and inlaid by the pupil, Of the
state deaf-mute school at Mocganton.
1t is a superb piece Of work.
1t Is really laughi6le to see hOg en-
| thusiasttc the "ana-war" people here
are about Dewey's victory. They boast
Of IL with the loudest.
I is learned here that sSsne egroe
| having made boasts of what they
would do IN lincoln county during the
war, the good class OF negroes met and
organized a vigilance committee and
served notice hat IL the bad element
carried out its threats they would take
the law into their own hands. This
has stopped all such ak.