The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-19
TO GO To
Army Oficers on Detail at State Schools
Expecting Orders A Great Variety Of
Weather I'm one Day-Ihe Question of
Raleigh, y. G., April Is.

Weather I'm one Day-Ihe Question Of
Fusion
Raleigh. y. G., April Is.
Messenger Bureau
Major z. 81. Hayes, Oh duty a. mill
tary headquarters here. and Captain J.
c. Gresham. military instructor u the
here, expect orders tomorrow TO at once
acknowledgements, the Seventh cavalry,
which is ordered to one of the ports on
n Gulf Of Mexico for an advance on
Cuba Both officers say they receive
this news with joy.
Adjutant General A. D. Cowfes Is a
candidate for the position of secretary
treasurer of the North Carolina rail-
way, which is made vacant by the
death Of E. s. Walton, Of Morganton.
The place pays 5000 a year. Cowles
has written Governor Russell, with
whom he is a great favorite, asking the
appointment. His duties as adjutant
general are purely nominal, as all the
work is done by officers here at head
| quarters.
The Asheville company CD Of the
Fourth regiment has recruited to 115
men.
There is reported to the state board
| of health one case of small pox at
Asheville. The infected person is a
tramp, who is Q~uarantined out Of the
town.
The Odd Fellow are making much
/ preparation for their annual meeting
of the grand lodge here May 10th. The
local MaSOns are also preparing for the
meeting OF the grand encampment,
grand coTnmandery and mystic shrine
here late in May.
The supreme court will at the pres
emf term ear the free pass cases
against the Seaboard Air Line and
Southern railways. These are the cases
which came UP on appeal from Wake
superior court, which fined each road
81, 900 for issuing free passes. Next
week there Will be a trial in the super
ior court at Goldsboro of a similar case
against the Atlantic Coas Line.
One of the q%ueerest damage suits IN
record begun at Salisbury yesterday
against the Southern railway. A mar
jumped from a moving train, fell and
broke his shoulder-blade. There was
no reason for his jumping from the
train.
Judge Purne1 expects to hold the
term of federal court at Statesville next
week, owing to Judge SimOntOn's sick
| ness
Thursday was a singular day in this
state. In the east Strawberries and
early truck were being gathered and
shipped. In the middle part of the
state there was hail. In the mountain
section there was quite a lively snow
fall. April II, 1881, nearly fourteen
inches of snow fell here. April Is, 1S49,
owe a foot fell, there was a hard freeze
and all the fruit and vegetation was
killed.
If what the press of the state says
be true. Senator Butler has not a DEM
ocTat friend in the state. There is an
cutlery against fusion with the opu
lists. A populist commissioners says
that there will be an '~erUption in favor
OF populist-de1nOcratic fusion" before
the end OF May. "A member of the dem
ocratic state committee said today that
he had made careful inquiries in a
typical eastern agricultural county and
! was told that if the democrats and pop
ulists fused probably twenty demo-
cratic votes would be lost, but that not
more than half of the populists would
vote that fusion ticket. He says he
discovered, further, that the belief was
tina if the democrats make a straight
fight they will get nearly as many pop
ulists as they would by the other
course, provided that the republicans
and populists fuse again. In other
words, there are a lot OF pOpulIStS VINO
will not submit to republican fusion
and there are also many who want just
that sort of things.
Chairman Caldwell, of the railway
commission, will be here next Wednes-
day to see what Governor Russell will
do as to appointing a successor to him.
Armfield and Turner of Statesville are
his attorneys. Caldwell expects to taxi
his seat as chairman. He has d ways
of doing things. For instance, he yes
terday told all the reporters here save
one that he had not a word to say.
While to that one he unbosomed him
self freely, and then there was quite
an interview in a paper which has de-
1Ounced Caldwell as a traitor, turncoat
and renegade. A republican comment
ing on this said: 1T seems that some
of the populist brethren enjoy being
kicked"
Most of the inquiry today was as tc
war matters. The delay has been great
and there has been so much talk that
perhaps three-fifths of the people one
meets do not in the least believe there
will he war. Some of these dOubters,
say Spain will back down, while some
say this government is afraid to fight
and will itself let everything drop as ii
did after the Virginius butchery in 1873
The owners of the largest fruit farm
in eastern North Carolina say the frosts
and freezes of last week did not do a
particle of damage.