The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-02

Rale.sh, ". G. August -.

Raleigh, y. c, August 80.
TIE roins continue. wi.h n remark
ale amount Of ~cloudin,ss ialy Cot
ton IS a ror nF most on sandy lands.
IL l. said.
The raoI biicans are TRIM L. rial
Guile the attendance at the Democrats
Acakings. BY claiming ihat &. is large
j. maGe u OF women AMI children.
Tie iict is the r~pubi!el1s aul the
of'~e fCiH'ng populists ere greatly
concerned and alarmed at the extent
and the character ~ the eork the
democrats are doing and at tn. ropu-
lar VI rising against the fusion rarity.
There has been no business dullness
here this year. IL was a mark abiS
sunrrer !,r this reason.
s. brickmaker with some capital can
fini as coed an opening aarc as in
any place in the country Jacob y.
Allen, Well known as a builder. SD tells
me. No brick are IL be had. This was
also the case last IN No place
is developing more rapidly than Raj
eigh, in this party OF the country.
Though IT was announced Saturday
night that the body OF ex-Judge Ed
ward 7. Boykin. who died suddenly
at Dunn Saturday afternoon. would be
buried here Sunday morning, this was
not the case. The body was taken to
Concord, the home OF Judge Boykin's
wife. yesterday afternoon and MAS
buried there today.
Adjutant General Cowles writes Ma
Jor Davis. l.. :. A., assistant adjutant
general here, that the Second North
Carolina regiment will not be mustered
out now, but viii remain iii service.
that some OF the officers will resign and
that many of the men viii be ~d,scharg-
ed. A question was asked today Hheth-
er the regiment would be recruited to
fill the gaps thus made and the reply
was that 1t was not thought probate
that it would be. but that IL would b.
allowed to slowly dwindle away.
A telegram from Lexington says
Mrs. walser. the wife Of the attorney
general. is very i'll with fever.
1t appears that the "sauctifcation"
matter has become an issue with the
Baptists. AZ it has for some time been
with the Methodists. Most OF the lat
ter discountenauce it. Rev. J.. c..
Broughton, widely known as n Baptist
preacher. who sometimes borders close
~ upon the sensational. favored san
c~tification, or to put 1t mildly. leaned
toward it. in a speech before the Rap
fist chatauqua at. Shelby Saturday.
Editor Bailey. OF The Biblical Record
er. took up the cudgels against Rev.
Mr.. ~Broughton's views and makes the
plain assertion that the doctrine Is
heresy.
There appear 70 lee quite an uncer-
tainty as to Dr. l.. NJ. Nprmfnt,s re
mining in the field a. a republican in
dependent congressional candidate i'm
the Sixth district He appears ~ ad-
init that he Will retire IL he Ia given
some position His Language is rather
Ambiguous, The republicans NJ head
quarters are working To induce, him
to retire. They profess ~ hYpeve that
h. viii certainly do 80. =, .r.
Captain, Grpper, of the rNurpby, com
| pany Of the Second regiment who re-
signed after charge against HIM, had
been made. was here, to-day an his Way
hore. .q9-l-Ggst ,..n
Captain Brookhart and L.,eptepant
Cunningham, Of the Asheville company
Of the First regiment haFe, rfsigped.
DIR. J.. o. wilcox. one of. the two
republican nominees for congress. from
;be. Eighth district, is. dangerously. sick
with typhoid fever.
!. The republicans at headquarters
here now appear to be concentrating
their efforts upon retaining their hold
upon the legislature. They are max
ing every imaginable deal With the
populists. .I.E
The Wake county democrats are
more aroused and enthusiastic than i'm
twenty years past. They have put a
strong ticket in the field.
A republican says NE thinks 5000 ne
prOes may this year fail to vote for bis
party's. nominees, The republicans
will work on the negro vote. as HERE
tofore, more largely through the
preachers Of that. race. than in any
other way.
The epO on crops for August a.
made by the state agricultural de
partment is said TO be based on re-
ports from 1000 correspondents, 1t
gives the following percentages OF con
dition: Cotton ssk, tobacco s9h, corn
1914. sweet potatoes s4h. Irish potato~s
S3A. peaches IS. grapes S0A. apples ..
| The state charters the Southern
I Electric Company OF Charlotte, CAPT
tai $4,000. s. Il. Alexander. Jr. and
others stockholders.
The Methodist local preachers and
lay-workers' conference. held this year
at Frankhnton. has ended. Next year
1T convenes at Clayton. It has 200
members.
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