The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-16
GAN | STAND THE RACKET
Russell Wants No Negro
Troops Parade.
new RAILWAY CHARTER
Granted the Ohio River and Charles.
ton Railroad Company-Populists TO
Keep Lloyd and Fowler In the Con.
gressiOnal Race-All Of the Second
Regiment In Raleigh-Death OF Ex.
Judge R. r. Dick-Ryan Loses His
Case.
Messenger Bureau.
"tSStilSNi pd4 tads
Raleigh, n. c.. September Is.

A telegram from Colonel w. II. s.
Burgwyn this morning says that he
and the six companies OF the Second
regiment did not get away from St.
Simon's, Ga, until 10 o'clock last night
Officers at headquarters here said this
would bring the regiment here late to-
night.
Three sections of a train left here
last night on the Southern railway for
Morehead City to take the negro regi-
ment, the Third, 1,116 strong, from
Fort Macon to Knoxville and the rail-
way officials said it would pass here
tomorrow afternoon, going via Green's
boro and Asheville.
The superior court judge before
whom the case of Judge Norwood
against Judge Carter, involving title
to the office of superior court judge of
the Twelfth district was heard, decides
in favor of Norwood, the old Judge
Carter, it will be remembered, was
Governor Russell's appointee. Nor
woods contention was that he had
never resigned. The court holds So
Carter will appeal to the supreme
court.
The state university opened yester-
day with 400 students present. The
graduating class has sixty members.
1t is found extremely difficult to Sc
cure the detail of army officer as
instructor in tactics at the Agricultural
and Mechanical college here. 1t is pos
Sble that w. T. Wilder now a major
in the Second North Carolina volun-
teers, may get the assignment.
The volunteers here are given much
liberty. They answer roll calls at a.
m, noon, 6 p. m. and 10 p. m. 1t is
thought they will get furloughs by
next Sunday and probably be muster
ed out during the state fair week.
Field rations are being issued, with
fresh beef and bread. Six thousand
field rations arrived today.
The state superintendent of public
instruction declares that politics are
now a menace to the public schools, as
under the new system court house
rings" elect the supervisors. He urges
that these be elected by teachers and
other educators in the respective coun-
ties.
AS yet the law officers have failed to
find Jim Sears, the penitentiary guard
who beat Joseph Lowe to death at the
l
of the surgeon has been received. This
says Lowe was beaten three times in
one day, and in the most horrible man.
ner. The fusionists in their Hand
book which is to appear tomorrow,
have a chapter charging democrats
with cruelty to convicts, entirely on
convict testimony, but the occurrence
at the NORTHAMPTON county farm has
taken all the wind out of the fusion
lists sails. The Handbook" though
prepared by Hal. Aver, is for both the
populists and republicans.
Thus far s125 has been collected here
| for the Shipp monument fund.
Roman Catholics here tell me that
very Rev. Felix Hintmeyer, who is
prior of the abbey Of st. Mary Help
| at Belmont, n. c., and also vicar gen.
| eral of the Benedictine order in North
| Carolina, is a cousin of the murdered
| empress of Austria.
1t is ascertained from thoroughly re-
| liable sources that the populists, who
| are now publishing a lot of trash
| about "disfranchisement of the negro
| by the democrats, last May made prop
| ositions to the democrats that they
/ would like to unite with the latter &c
| adopt by popular vote an amendment
| to the constitution bringing about such
| disfranchisement. 1t is stated posi-
lively that the king Pin" of populism
| made this very proposition.
| There appears to be no doubt Of the
| continued stay in service of the First
| North Carolina regiment. 1t seems that
| Congressman Pearson attempted to get
| it mustered out and failed. 1t is puz-
| Zling some people to know why the
| volunteers are not delighted at an op-
! portunity to spend the winter in Cuba
| 1t is an opportunity of life time, IL
| the comment, with no campaigning
| but life under the most pleasant con-
| ditions.
Next week track laying on the Cape
| Fear and Northern railway begins
| There is quite a pretty night between
| this road and the Raleigh and Cape
| Fear, twelve and one-half miles OF
| hich are completed, the former road
J tying to prevent the latter from
| crossing its track.
A man named Bumgarner. a private
| in the Raleigh company Of the First
North Carolina regiment, died yester-
! day at Camp Cuba Libre. He was from
High Point, ". c.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., September II.
| The state today granted a charter &c
! the South Carolina and Georgia Ex-
/ tension Railway Company. of North
I Carolina" Its capital is $500. 900, al
! of which is subscribed, and IL owns the
/ franchise and property Of the Ohis
. River and Charleston railway. THIS
/ charter gives il power to operate q
| railway from the South Carolina and
/ North Carolina line via Marion to the
| Tennessee line, a distance of 140 miles
The owners are Samuel Hunt, of Gin