The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-27
NORTH CAROLINA.

people at Clinton Tuesday, May /.
Tarboro Southerner: There was a
forlorn set of republicans here today
TO hold a county convention In all
there were about twenty-five There
was no life In any Of them.
Col. Julian s. Carr. the millionaire
tobacco manufacture, Of Durham. VIII
take a large delegation to the Confed-
crate reunion in Louisville. The men
will be attractively uniformed
1t is learned that many of the to-
bacco growers east of Raleigh have
abandoned that crop and are planting
cotton. The depression in prices of
tobacco for " seasons past is the
cause Of this change.
Greenville Reflector: A Winston
correspondent in speaking OF him says:
Mr.. Grimes is an attractive looking
man. He is young and handsome His
speech was sensible. forceful and full
Of feeling. 1t vas received with hearty
applause"
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. A. (.
Mclean, of Wander, who is III town
E. Mclean, Of Wander, who is in own
today, tells US Of the death, last night.
of his neighbor, Mr.. r. NJ. Averitt, who
was a Confederate soldier, a faithful
democrat and on Of our best citizens.
Henderson Herald: Raleigh, April
20.-Prof. Ivey, of the A. and NJ. Col
lege. went to Statesville this week and
entered the plea Of nolle contendre and
was let off on paying the cost. 1t is
thought his usefulness at the college
is at IN end and that he will be asked
to resign.
Washington special to Charlotte
News: The failure to effect fusion in
North Carolina is not relished much by
Senato Butler evidently. He is quot
ed as saying hat the result makes the
election of the democratic state ticket
inevitable. In a three-cornered fight
he thinks that the democrats will win
by a large plurality.
Up to this date the Agricultural De-
partment has receivedsfrom the tax on
commercial fertilizer $685. 76. The sales
therefore, are 193, $50 tons and indicate
a total during the year of approximate
ly 250,0 900 tons, or $1,000 tons more than
last year. The average sales during
the past seven years have been S2,615
tons.
Raleigh News-Observer: The Nash
Vile Graphic says that in Nash county,
there were present thirteen populists
and thirteen republicans, n the meet
ing was held on Friday, the thirteenth
day of the month. Not one half of
the townships in the county were rep
resented, there was no enthusiasm n
it was the tamest affair held in this
place for years."
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. A. C.
Mcdonald died very suddenly at his
home in Seventy-first township last
night, age 81 years. Mr.. Mcdonald
went to bed last night in his usual
good health, having been working on
his farm all day. This morning he was
found dead in bed. The deceased leaves
two children, Mr.. William Mcdonald
and Mrs. Houston Holmes. He served
-four years in the civil var being a
member of Company I, ~Fifty-first
North Carolina.
A special from Weldon to the New
and Observer April 14th said: "Mr.
A. B. Rowell, a we'll known citizen of
Garysburg, was run over and killed
by a passenger train on the Atlantic
| Coast Line yesterday about three miles
from Weldon. He was walking near
the track when the engineer first saw
him, and when the train was within
a few feet of him he either Intentional
ly or accidentally stepped right in front
Of the engine and was horribly
mangled. His brother was here today
and stated a the deceased left home
yesterday morning and that he had
been drinking.
Chairman ndrew JOyner of the
Forsyth democrats writes TO Chairman
Simmons of the meeting at Winston:
Our meeting here vas a great sue
cess. We gave them 1000 in the court
house last night, composed principally
of town people, embracing all classes
of our citizenship of all vocations. To-
day we gave them a street parade over
the lines of the city, and from there
went into the court house, and 1000
people were squeezed in and were high
ly edited and warmed up. Our LUG
ence today was composed almost en-
tirely of people from the country, many
of them coming from Wilkes, Yadkin,
Davidson, Guilford, Stokes, Surry, Da-
vie and other cOuntieS.p
Raleigh Post: Robert L. Lydle. Of
Haywood county, was murdered and
robbed last Thursday night on "Soco,"
neal the Indian Training school, at
Cherokee, N. c., by some Cherokee In
dams. 1t appears that Lydle had stop
ped at Ffdely Reeds a Cherokee In
dian, ITO spend the night. About II
o'clock in the night, young Reed went
to one of his neighbors to borrow a
dirt shovel. This, together with other
suspicious indications that something
wrong had been done, caused appre-
hension n arrest of Sewer Grove,
Fidely Reed and an Indian sQuaw.
They We're given a preliminary trial
before G.. w. Moody, who had them
committed to the county Jail at Web
ster, N. c. Lydle's body was found
wrapped in a bed quilt and buried in
a HOle, ABOUT Two 1eeL deep, close 10
the house where he had stopped.
Charlotte Observer: Visitors from 19
states were registered at the Charlotte
hotels last night. Most of these were
commercial travelling people.-The
populists made their best possible nom
ination for Governor at their state o n
vention Wednesday. DR.. Thompson is
thier most attractive stump speaker.
their most attractive stump speaker.
in their joint debates in the campaign
of 1898, but it would be a mistake to
suppose that he is an easy man to
handle.-Mr. Billy eagle, an hon
est, hardworking white man, shot and
killed a negro at Steeds, a station on
the A and A railroad, on h 18th in
slant. The negro was using " sassy"
ak to Mr.. eagle and shot at him,
singing his eyebrows and attempted to
shoot again, when Mr.. eagle shot him
week, a lifelong republican went TO
Troy yesterday to give himself up to
h officers, and as Montgomery court
is in session the trial will take place
at nee if the grand jury returns a true