The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07
No Nominees Want to
Come Down.
ANXIOUS TO GO TO CUBA.
Many Men Of the Second Regiment 60
Join the FirSt--Dealh OF Miss Jane
Hawkins-.A Stir Over the Law Di,.
. posing of Bodies OF Patients who Die
at the Insane Asylum-.South Carroll.
M Negroes Planning TO Noveito This
State.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, ". c.. October 5.

EaIeigh, n. -, OCTOBER ..
The supreme court will tomorrow
take up the docket OF appeals from
the Second district. There are no cases
Of general interest during h present
term of the court.
Many men of the Second regiment
are making arrangements 10 join the
First. 1t may be said, once for all,
that any attempt TO have the Second
kept in service is definitely abandoned.
Colonel Burgwyn says he did not even
refer TO the matter when in Washing
ton last week. but simply paid his re-
spects to the a%djutant general.
There are only five men sick in the
Second regiment hospital-all slight
cases. One man who was home on fur
Tough died Saturday night in the
western part of the state. This is the
fifteenth death in the regiment. The
First regiment has lost fourteen since
April.
The chairman of the populist and re-
publican parties and the populist and
republican nominees for judges and
solicitors are in consultation arrang-
ing which nominees shall be the ones
voted for on the fusion ticket. There
| are quite a number of bitches. 1t will
be some days before the ticket is an
nounced.
Miss Jane Hawkins, aunt OF Vice
President A. b. Andrews, of the South
| ern railway, and sister of DR.. A. Il.
Hawkins. Of this city, died here yes
| terday after a long illness.
Information comes from South Caro-
| ill., .La+ 10 ,r, r,,rabnrC Of naUvnnG
there are making plans to move to
| North Carolina if the fuSioniSts carry
this state this year. The South Caro-
lima negroes are saying that North
| Carolina will be the paradise of ne
groes.
1t seems that the last legislature en-
acted a law that bodies of persons whs
died at the insane asylum shall be
turned over to medical colleges for
dissection in case there are no funds
for their burial expenses. 1t is said
that this law is causing a considerable
stir in western North Carolina.
Very seasonable rains have fallen
since Saturday afternoon. A fine late
crop of hay is being harvested.
The business at the postoffice here is
so large that today on order came to
install at once a stamp canceling ma
chine, to be operated by electricity.
First Lieutenant Beavers is promoted
to the captaincy of the Governors
Guard, Company K, First regiment, a
Camp Cuba Libre.
Major B. F. Dixon, Of the Second
regiment, was called to Shelby by tele,
graphic news of the serious illness OF
one of his sons with typhoid fever
Both his sons are enlisted men in the
First regiment. He has two step-sons
in the Second regiment, both officers.
The Capital Club 6efinitely decides t
have it's house-warning reception anC
ball October 14th. An effort was mad,
to have it postponed until fair week.
It is gratifying to see the general in
terest in the state fair. There will b
very few fairs in the state this year
Ohio holds eighty, and Indiana, Kansa
and Nebraska between sixty and sew
enty each.