The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
NORTH cAROLINA.s RECORD.
A Tablet to be Placed I'm the Confed-
crate aforementioned College Trus-
tees TO Meet superintendent Days
So-Called Financial Report.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c., November 3.

Raleigh. y. c., November 3.
The following tablet has been pre-
pared here to be placed In the North
scum at Richmond:
North Cardinals record. is6l-1SS5.
First at Bethel. Farthest at Gettys-
burg. Last at Appomattox. With a
voting population o. lis. 200 North Car
DINA sent LIS. 600 volunteers to the con-
federate service. or one-fifth OF the en-
tire confederate army. At Big Bethel.
Inc 10. 1861. Henry Lawson Wyatt
fell. the first confederate soldier killed
in pitched battle: Company H. First
North Carolina regiment At Baia-
klava in the charge of the Light Bril-
gade .England's loss vas STA per cent.
| of her men. The Twenty-sixth North
Carolina regiment at Gettysburg. July
1-3, 1868, lost SO per cent. OF its men.
North Carolina troops made the last
charge at Appomattox. One-half the
muskets laid down IT Appomattox
were in the hands OF North Carolina
soldiers"
The trustees of h State Normal and
Industrial college at Greensboro are
called to meet there next Monday, to
take action in regard to the fever out
oiEahs A1 EAA@AhS va AN AORNANg as
proper sanitary condition, etc.
The sheriff of Hyde today brought
a bigamist to the p~enitentiary. to serve
two years. He says the crops in his
county are very poor. owing TO he
two great storms, although prior to
the August storm they had never been
more promising.
I The new heating and sewer pipes of
the capitol have been laid. The new
arrangement is admirable. The heat
comes from a boiler in the supreme
court building. The new pipe in saw
ing fuel, will pay for itself in five years.
The old arrangement was miserable.
Rain is needed by the small grain
crops. A great cal of farm work is
in progress.
There are now $50 federal prisoners
in the penitentiary here. There are
only 120 state convicts in the prison.
| All the available ones have been sent
to the Roanoke farms to rush the pick
ing of the cotton crop. All the con-
victs from the Arson farm. save
enough to SOW wheat, have gone to
the Roanoke farms. and so have all
from the Castle Haynes farm, save
enough to thrash the rice crop. Only
abou 500 bales of cotton now remain.
u%ppicked. There are about 500 CON
victs picking the crop.
Mention has been made of the fact
of the comforting by Rev. DR.. Bar
rett's collegiate institute of degrees on
English Baptist preachers, the college
being a negro institution. 1t is assert
ed that it has been chartered since
1895 by the Legislature. Rev. DR.. Car
ter, of his city, has received inquiries
from England as to this institution.
DR.. d. H. Abbott, the new corpora
ton commission, gets 81, 166 pay for the
seven months since he was ouSted as
railway commissioner.
Directors of the Richmond and Ridge
way railway, who inspected the work
on the big bridge across the Roanoke
river, say they felt confident it will be
completed by January LIST.
Four convlcts were brought to the
penitentiary yesterday, three to serve
sentences for murder in the second de-
gree.
me supreme court toby heard fur
Their argument in the ice factory case
again-t the Seaboard Air Line.
The socalled financial statement OF
the p~enitentiary shows that Superin.
tendent Day has received this year
SIS, $40, and has paid out $109, 900. He
speaks in the report of only SIS, 900 as
received from The state in a%ppropria-
tions, while as a matter of fact S55, Al
has been Drawn on such appropriations
1t seems that another investigation OF
the penitentiary will have to be made
next June, when the legislature meets