The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-12
The Cause of Democracy
Strengthening
MANY ACCESSIONS
From Disguised Members OF the Other
Parttes-NOrment I'm the Congress
s;onal Race to Stay-White Govern.
ment Unions BEING Rapidly Formed.
A Raleighite With the Astor Battery.
Capitol square Selected for the Worth
Bagley Monument.
Messenger Bureau


Bagley Monument.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n. c., August g.
This morning 5sS officers and men
of the Ninth United States cavalry,
colored, passed here, in two sections
of a Seaboard Air Line train. Other
sections began passing yesterday af-
ternoon. One Of these were the 1900
horses of the regiment. Your CORE
spondent had a. pleasant chat with
Captain Wright, of the Ninth who was
in command Of the first train load OF
the troops. He says that these troops
have been at Tampa for three months,
and that so far as he is concerned he
would rather have been in Cuba. The
greater part of the time the camp was
under water. Many men were sick
with malaria. They were really brok-
en- down. Captain Wright added 1T
is glorious to be in this part of the
country. 1t is truly Gods country.
We go to Mantauk, Long Island.
have been twenty-siX years in the reg
iment. My post is Fort Dushane,
Utah. | have not seen my wife and
child in six years. They are in New
York. The Seaboard Air Line is Civ
ing us a fine service. l permitted a
few of my men to leave the depot
and go up town. One of them, a re-
cruit, was given whiskey and vas ar
rested. He fought Police Officer AL
derman and broke the latter's fingers.
l will let the authorities here punish
him as he deserves. The second sec
ton of the train with troops is in
command of Captain Girard. l have
watched our men closely and have not
let them leave the trains"
Many people mainly negroes went to
the station to see the soldirs. Many Of
the latter are superb physical speci-
mems. The horses are cry fine. The
part of the regiment which was at
Santiago goes to Montauk by trans
port. All the horses passed here, as
none were taken to Santiago. At Mon
tauk the regiment will be drilled and
recruited and in the autumn will re-
urn to Cuba to do garrison duty.
Congressman Harry Skinner arriv-
ed today. He smiled when asked
what he thought Of Senator Buffers
attack on him and said he cared moth
ing for it. When asked what would
be done in the First district he re-
piled: Our pOpulist convention meets
August 25th. There is no doubt Of my
nomination. There is also no doubt
that the republican convention will en-
dorSe me-"
G.. E. Flow, a member Of the state
board of agriculture was stated to be
director of the state poultry expert
ment farm here. But to his great sur
prise the trustees of the Agricultural
college at their meeting now in prog
ress decided to abolish the position of
director. This is a great disappoint-
ment to Flow, who is a republican and
was sure of the place. F. E. Hege
lately resigned as director.
Hal Aver, member of the pOpulist
state committee and ex-chairman
when asked today what his party was
doing said: I'VE populists are not
thinking now. We will nOt think until
September LIST, when we will get down
to work to beat you by a majority OF
0 1000. This is not a guess but a
fact" Of course Aver is an enthus-
iastic advocate and promoter Of fus-
ion with the republicans. Probably
he is one of the populists who ever
since they made the proposition to the
democrats for fusion have been ex-
planning to the republicans that they
did not really mean anything by it.
The railway commission this year
makes the following assessment of
railway property in some counties and
cities: Buncombe county $581,336,
Mecklenburg $986,49S, New Hanover
$433, $40; Wilmington $62, $50, Char
lotte SIS, 291; Asheville $4,000.
Today a biologist and entomologist
was elected by the board Of trustees
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
college here.
1t is quite probable that Adjutant
General Cowles will leave here this
week to join his regiment, the Second,
at st. Simon's Island.
Lieutenant Christian, of the recruit
ing Office of the third battalion of the
First regiment, has a telegram from
Colonel Armfield at Camp Cuba Libre
telling Christian the regiment needs
sixty more men, as the surgeons have
dropped a large number, and Christian
cannot leave here until the recruits
are all secured. This may cause him
to fail to go with the regiment to
Porto Rico.
Judge Purnell tells me he is desig-
mated to hold Lynchburg federal court
September 18th, at the request of
Judge Paul.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., August 10.
The trustees of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college have elected DR..
Cooper Curtice, now in Virginia, biolo-
gist and veterinarian. Professor John
son will on and after September list
be acting director of the poultry exper
iment station, the position of director