The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-08
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n. c., July 5.

celebration OF the FOurtn. Inc entlre
afternoon and the evening were given
up to it. There were no accidents and
no fires.
Adjutant General Cowles was at his
office today, for the first time since
his leg was broken. He says the
status of the First regiment so far as
its pay is concerned is a little better
than that of the Second regiment.
The reason is that Colonel Armfield
and the entire field and staff of the
Fourth regiment Of the State Guard
volunteered in the First regiment and
SO will get pay from April 9th in the
same way as all the company officers
and the original enlisted men get pay
The adjutant general has accordingly
sent certificates to this effect.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, SO we'll known
as one of New York's most sensational
preachers, arrived here today and lee
tured this evening on Cuba"
A rumor gained wide currency yes
terday that the Second regiment was
to leave here in fOrty-eight hours.
There was no basis for it.
The adjutant general, having dis
covered that it is impossible to have
the volunteers for the negro regiment
examined by surgeons of the Second
regiment before leaving their homes,
has decided to send the 500 required
to Fort Macon tomorrow and they will
there be examined by Surgeon Brooks
of the Second. David P. Lane, of
Raleigh, is appointed q~uartermaster
and Q. M. Hester, of FranklintOn,
hospital steward of the negro regi-
ment. Forty men of this regiment
are ordered to go to it from Chapel
Hill. They take the place of part of
the seventy-five whom Gray ToOle, of
Charlotte, attempted to bring into the
state from Rock Hill, S. G.
The negroes are exceedingly proud
Of the conspicuous %gallantry, GOODNESS
and fine Workmanship of the Tenth
cavalry at Santiago. 1t is the COM
ment of both ex-cOnfederate and fed
eral veterans here that, led by white
officers, the negroes are excellent
troops.
1t is not yet known whether the
revenue clerks who are to be Ousted
by the republican collector will make
any fight before the civil service COM
mission to hold their places. They
may place the matter before it. Civil
service seems to be a mockery, so far
as the revenue service is concerned.
The Progressive Farmer, the far
mers' alliance organ, makes an attack
on President Kilgo, of Trinity college,
and defends Judge Clark. 1t says:
me people of North Carolina, of
whatever denomination or of none,
will thank Judge Clark for his meri-
toriOus and ~caustic revelation of the
purpose of plutocracy under the catch
ing cry of christian 'education.'"
The state commissioner of agricul-
ture held a farmers institute at Seven
Springs on Saturday. The meeting
was attended by many of the best far
mers in that section. After some in
trOductory remarks by Commissioner
Smith, DR.. Parker explained what the
different states were doing in the way
of these institutions for the farmer.
He was followed by Professor Emery,
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
college, on fertilizers. Professor D..
H. Hill next spoke on the Importance
of agricultural education. Honorable
B. f. AycOck came next in a careful
ly prepared address. He closed with
an eloquent plea for the farmers to
keep their sons on the farm. At the
afternoon session, Mr.. Johnson and
Professor Emery made addresses on
the dairy industry n explained its
renumerative possibilities. DR.. Par
ker discussed the insect pest of the
orchard. The institute was closed by
Mr.. Aycock in a talk in which he urg-
ed every farmer present to raise his
own supplies.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., July 6.
In reply to a question asked by the
state treasurer the attorney general
gives it as his opinion that the legis-
lature has no power to tax the sala-
ries of state officers whose salaries are
protected from reduction during their
term of office, saying the taxation OF
their salaries as income would be do
ing indirectly what is prohibited from
being done directly. He cites an opin-
ion of Attorney General Bachelor in
the 4Sth N. G. reports, which so held.
The paymaster general writes that
the matter of the expense of volun-
teers prior to arrival in camp is now
being considered and will be satisfac-
torily adjusted. Sue expense was in
this state entirely borne by captains
of companies, as the state has not eX-
pended a penny. The paymaster gen.
eral says he canno pay the field and
staff officers of the Second regiment
from April 9th, but that the officers
of the First regiment are to be paid
from that date, as they volunteered in
a body.
Congressman Judge E. Foyler. OF
the Third district. has been here q
couple of days looking after his in
t~erests. His prospects are poor, so fan
as reelection is concerned. The mi
nority or anti-Butler populists have
no sort of use for him and the repub-
leans have hin on their black list
Populists here who oppose Fowler say
he cannot get that party's united sup
port.
Fin rains fell yesterday afternoon