The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-12
10 LIT UP ON BUTLER
w. j. BRYAN MAKES AN APPkAh
TO THE DEMOCRATS
His Anxiety for Harmony Among sn th~
Free silver Eisments-brysn aud Sssssm
Proposed ~ the Democratic fresidsn snssss
r,eket-Exp~etiug Order. for Mohihsa"E
q ate Troop.-Better News Frs~ The
Peach Gro Chairman Caldwell N~e -
be Suspended
lMeSsen nGsr Bureau.
Raleigh. y. G. April a.

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A prominent democrat here has rc-
cxiye-i a letter from W. J. Bryan w.
gariinC the coming campaign In North
Carolina The letter is not yet made
public. one version Is that IL suggested
that democratic attacks ON SENATOR
Butler ought TO be stopped. Today N
distinguished demrcrat said THAI the
letter sad democrats and popuhsts
ought to get together in North Caro-
lima: that this - being done in tire
west; that Senator Butler is instruncn-
tai in effecting Il: that failure To effect
il here would embarrasss the situathrn
when an effort Is being made To perfect
the arrangement, and that 1t Es import
ant to national success-of the free sal
Yer issue-that II be done 1t is aSssrt-
ed that the letter goes On ~ say ttsat
Butler is being severely attacked Ivy
THE "middle-of- the-rnad" populists for
his strenuous efforts TO align the silver
men OF all parties.
The Seaboard Air Line today flied
exceptions to the railway comurisSsfon's
order regarding mileage book rates
1t is asserted today on high autbori-
ty that there Is no doubht l.. e. Cald-
well will continue To be chairman oE
the railway commission. Cove rTov
Russell has no grounds whatever for
suspending him nor for accepting the
tender OF his resignation
1t is said in letters from men OF rsa-
tional prominence that General Lee
is to be made military governor ar
Cuba.
The fight between the revenue uffi-
GERS and moonshiners i'm Johnston coUTn-
ty night before hast was a warm one
As many as thirty shots were exclIanG-
ed. One OF the officers says he ncikvs-s
the buchshot of the posse found N
mark. 1t has been many years sSfrcs
the Johnston county moonshincrs have
resisted officers. Their lawyers always
advise them not to resist 50 they can
the easier secure their acquttal.
Tt is now reasonably certain that Ra-
leigh will be made an army post.
Better news comes az to the safety
of peaches from frost, as far west AZ
Statesville.
There are now sixty-nine Veterans
in the confederate soldiers home. Half
are lin favor OF immediate war with
Spain and nine want 10 participate in
1t. There Is now not a single inmate
of the hospital
Sahsbury's aldermen have done am
unusual thing, in requesting a railway
ment that the leaving time Is too carly
in the morning
Yesterday an italian mother. who
was on her way from Missizsssippi to-
Italy, gave her 12-year-oId son to j. G.
l.. Bird, a lawyer OF Marion. who saw
the boy on the train and took a fancy
to him.
Julian S. Carr has made "a sale OF
eighty head of grown cattle and calves.
the average price being $50 each
Auditor Aver has severed all edftcx-iaI
connections with The Caucaesion Sen
ator Buffers paper.
The very queer statement was nnfde
today that some democrats t. hsfve sut.-
gested the placing of Governor Rr,s-
sell as the candidat for vice president
on the ticket with Bryan for president
This was publicly stated last night, hut
must BE- inaccurate.
The officials at military headquarters
mere were this morning on the alert Tor
orders from the war department and
also Tor the request for the muster of
the state guard, which il was annotruc-
ed were mailed yesterday