The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-27
THE SECOND REGIMENT
Many Rufnors Afoat as To- What Will
be Done With list. Mary's school.
Only an Annex TO the Republicans.
Mesenge Bureau

g. ndlelSH, ~. u, 0epleDDeT 10,
The penitentiary directors order a
reformatory for convicts under the age
of Is years, at the "Anson" farm, near
Wadesboro. There will be two build
ings, one for white, the other for
negro youths. OF these there are about
eighty. The last arrival is boy horse
thief, only thirteen years old, from
Henderson county.
The directors exonerate Lewis Sum-
merell. supervisor of the 'Northamp-
tom farm of charges of cruelty and
find that Jim Sears, the guard who has
fed to Virginia, beat Lowe, a white
convict, to death.
There are now sixty-eight convicts
making shirts in the penitentiary, for
a New York firm. The monthly pro-
duct is now 2,400 dozen, for which the
state gets $3.50. The convicts employ
ed in the factory are nearly all federal
prisoners.
Revenue officers returned last even
ing from a raid in Randolph county
where they captured an illicit distillery
in $50 yards of a church.
A piece of wood from the Spanish
cruiser Maria Teresa was received
here today to be made into a gavel for
the North Carolina chapter of the
Sons of the Revolution
The stockholders of the Atlantic and
North Carolina railway held their an
nual meeting yesterday and elected
Claude Fey, vice Thomas G. Daniel,
director on the part of the private
stockholders; H. We'll in place of John
l.. MOrehead and Carl Duncan, vice
Rev. N. M. Jurney. The board Of di
rectors reelected D. NJ Patrick presi-
dent and D. w. Stanton, secretary of
the road. The governor appoints Geo.
Green state proxy vice L. ]. Moore.
The governor appoints w. P. EXum a
director vice w. H. Chadbourn, Jr.
The republicans and pOpulists held
senatorial conventions at the same
time at Trenton yesterday and the pop
ulists nominated F. D. Koonce and the
republicans Robert Dunn. Each par
ty then endorsed the others nominee.
KOOnce is Congressman FOWler'S pri-
vate secretary.
State Senator, J. w. Atwater, of
Chatham, is likely to be an indepen-
dent populist candidate for congress
in this district and it may be that the
democrats will in such a case make no
nomination, but endorse him as they
appear to have done Lloyd, populist,
in the Second district.
I'd
congress in the Fifth district, is here.
He will not meet Kitchin, the demo-
cratic nominee on the stump.
Rev. DR.. T. w. Babb, of most un-
savory reputation, is an independent
populist'' candidate for the legislature
A. B. Stronach went to Richmond
today, to represent L. o. B. Branch
camp, G. ", at Miss Whine Davis fun
eral. The camps flag was at half
staff.
A funny story comes from the First
district of opposition by E. A. White
to Harry Skinner. Republicans and
populists of the machine type have
been shouting that Skinner had and
would have no opposition but was a
regular cOnquering hero.
In this presbytery "Woman's Pres
byterian Union was organized yes
terday.
st. Mary's school has opened with
an increased attendance and with a
gratifying prospect of more students
tc come Wilmington certainly has a
fine representation.
There is lot of trouble in settling
quartermaster's and ordnance accounts
as between the Second regiment and
the state, owing to great carelessnesS
as to receipts by the state authorities.
The Home Rule, the organ of the
! fusion populists, declares that when
the committees of the two parties de-
| eide who are the proper candidates fol
| congress in the Second and Third dis
tricts it will masthead them and sup
port them. The purpose of the fus-
] ionists is to, Immediately before the
election, come together in convention
| and decide who they will put On the
| ticket. The men left off. will ther
| have to get out their own tickets, and
| cannot use the device" on the regu
lar ticket of their party. Republican
State Chairman HOlton says he know:
| WHAT VIII D0 uOuc UuI uOSiAACS " oos
| Congressman Pearson puts out
fake statement that it is an indict
able affair to be an Independent can
didate unless one is the representative
of some organized party, and that it Ii
indictable to distribute tickets. Now
this is quite the reverse of fact. Any
body can be a candidate, but it is in
! dictable for such to use the device
of any party's nominee.
| Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., September "a.
Many prominent Raleigh people viii
attend the general Episcopal conven
| ton, which metts at Washington, Oc-
tober 5th.
There are now 200 students at st
| Mary's female school here, the larges
number in years. This school is nov
| under the auspices of all the diocese:
in this state and South Carolina.
There are now only eight patients il