The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-05
Messenger Bureau,

VI Il SaEoiIho ANdhdl 1AE-
serves
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., April 2.
It is evident at military headquar-
ters here THAT a call for troops Is ex-
pected at any moment, Which Of course
will be followed by IN order mobiliz-
ing the state guard and putting it in
camp at Raleigh. 1t is calculated that
in two weeks time the inks Wild
dbe full and the drill up " the mix,
owing to the fact that so many men
who have served at least one term of
enlistment would join the active guard.
The quaTtermaster general today look
ed around for a site for a camp.
Two Spaniards, one a most %truculent
looking fellow, have been here two or
three days. They are we'll dressed, one
wearing a silk hat.
The board of aldermen calls an cleo
ton April 18th on the issue of $50, 900
public school bonds.
Mrs. williamson Foster. wife of
Mr.. Omega H.. Foster, of Raleigh, and
daughter Of Mr.. James n. Williamson.
vi III NLNolH, ulC ldSI might III d JUS
pital at Baltimore. She was a most
charming woman. Several years ago
she had an attack of peritOnitiS, from
which she never fully recovered. Her
funeral viii be held here from Christ
church tomorrow afternoon.
The state today chartered the Al
mira Telephone Company, of Selma,
capital $4,000.
C. M. Busbce, chairman of the citi-
ZGnS' conn mittpp ON army most hprp TO
day calls for proposals for the sale of
200 acres of land from UWO to six
miles from this city. The land, if
purchased, will have to he paid for by
popular subscription, as it appears the
city charter does not permit a bond is
sue in such cases.
1t is learned hat George Blue, the
negro Onvict who escaped, but who
was racaptured on an engine here, is
an Old locomotive firemen.
Extras of were in great
demand here yesterday and today. They
appeared every hour or two and thou
sands were issued. To hear people
talk it appears that their confidence
in the presidents frmness and desire
to act is all gone, and that they regar
him as a prOcrastinatOr. He certainly
at the outset of the trouble had a great
hold on the people here, but he has
lost 1T all, never to return, it seems.
Such are the statements of old and
conservative citizens here. 1t is the
tone of the state press.
The attention which is being called
to the defenceless condition of Beau
fort harbOr may result in bringing that
now deserted port into notice. It's va
tiers are seldom vexed by a sail, and
yet it was the intention to make it
North CarOlina'S great port. That was
the purpose of the building of the North
Carolina, the Atlantic and North Caro-
lima and the Western North Carolina
railways.
1t is now given out that the peni-
tentiary report for 1897 will he issued
next week.
Three important arrests have been
made in Mcdowell county, of mer
who, it seems, are passing counterfeit
silver dollars made in Virginia, per
haps in GraysOn county. For enghteer
months the circulation has been gOing
ON in the extreme northwestern coum-
ties in this state.
"A suit for $5O,O 900 is brought against
the Southern railway, as damages fol
the death of C. M. Andrews, who was
injured while on a train near Crape
Hin. 1t is asserted that this caused
his death.
Today the adjutant generals office
received a copy of "a letter sent 10y
Commander George L. Morton, of the
naval reserves, to Assistant Secretar,
of the Navy Roosevelt. The report il
on the condition of the monitor Nan,
tucket, at Wilmington. Commando
Morton, who is by the way an extreme
ly capable officer, who studies closely
and applies himself to mis- duties, say.
the Nantucket was "stripped' whe1
turned over to the naval reserves b,
the government; that her boilers ar
fair. Hhpt thu hatt0liOp ic fI11l,y ooroIl
of manning her in every particular
having taken her on four cruises, anC
is also capable of rendering efficien
service and has enough men to man
all of the signal stations on this coas
and an auxiliary fleet of a dozen o.
more small steamers. Work on TIL
Nantucket can be lone by the Whining
ton Iron Works and at SINNERS shil
yard, where the vessel can be hauled
up, scraped and painted and a new
deck put on and the machinery re
paired in a week or perhaps in thre,
days, working day and night. He ask
the secretary of the navy to authoriz
this work to be lone at once.
The jury never left the box yester
day after hearing the evidence agains
Burglar George F. Merritt, in the su
perior court here. All efforts to TAX,
his photograph failed, it is thought
though several were made. \,
dOubt he committed burglaries at othe
places han Petersburg and Raleigh.
According to orders all steamers o.
the North Carolina coast available 70
use in a mosquito fleet are being eX
min and will be reported ON.
There was another frost this morn
ing, rel heavier than tha of yester
day.
Ten convicts were sent to the Castl
Haynes farm today, to work on the rio
farm.
Notional Guard Given Preference Owe