The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-27

Importance of This Meeting. Soon to
be Held I'm Ralefah-.rhe Foot Bali
Game Today-The Conduct ola Brute.
Done With state Primaries.
Messenger Bureau.


Raleigh. ~. c.. November ..
The Baptist state convention which
meets here December 5th will be the
seventietfn annual one. II met here
late in 1899. Rev. DR.. r II. Harsh. OF
Oxford will preside. The number OF
church members within this convention
is 1s7 200. an increase Of 1000 over last
year. There are 40. eco negro Baptists
in the state. The contributions for
foreign state and home missions dur
ing the year aggregate s45.eoo. an in
crease OF 5000 over last year This
does not include educational collections
All the Baptist educational Institutions
are most fiourishing and 1.5eo students
are attending them. They include Wake
Forest college for young men. the Bap-
list female university Mt Raleigh. OK
ford female seminary, Chowan BapUst
female institute and forty-nine acade-
mics. some OF the latter having As
many as 500 students
Particular attention attaches to this
convention because OF the century
celebration" on Sunday. December sth.
at which prominent speakers from 9TH
er states will be heard. including e
DR.. r. H. Pitt, editor OF the Religious
Herald. Richmond: Rev. Junius Mil
lard, pastor OF Eutaw Place Baptist
church.. Baltimore: Rev. DR.. r. II.
Kerfort. OF Atlanta. Rev. DR.. r. J.
WiIlingham. Of Richmond. and Rev
DR.. ]. NJ. Frost. OF Nashville. the three
last named being respectively the gen
eral secretaries OF the foreign mission.
home mission and Sunday school
boards. OF the Southern Baptist con-
vention. Another interesting matter
will be the election Of a successor to
Rev. John r. White. secretary of the
home mission board. Those principally
! nnmal y Editor II w IN Hoy nf FThl
Biblical Recorder: Rev. c. w. Blanch-
ard, Rev. J. +. Love and Rev. Charles
j. Thompson, the latter now occupying
a similar position in Virginia, but being
! a native of this county.
The university foot ball team passed
here this morning on n special train.
for Norfolk. DR.. Hurbert a Register. or
Raleigh, accompanied the team as sur
geon.
About fifty persons will go from here
to Norfolk to see the foot ball game
between the teams OF the Universities
of Virginia and North Carolina. IL is
said that feeling is pretty high between
the teams. Not a few North CAROLYN
ians say they were deliberately UNI
pired" out of a game at Richmond.
| Betting will be lively on the game. The
Tar Heel team is a strong one, and VIII
play to the death.
The plumbers are now fitting up the
new hospital at the soldiers home.
The state charters the Chapel Hill
Improvement Company. which will deal
in real estate. etc.
The lumber interest in this section is
demand for flooring.
The machinery for the Melrose KNIT
ing mill here has arrived and is being
installed. The new Raleigh hosiery
mill is two-thirds completed.
Four years 6 a man here got a d.
1 t,nroa ond rams rrioH Wife No lives
here. She is sick and night before
last a neighbor took her in a carriage
to her former husbands home and put
her in the porch. He and his present
wife were in the house He sent for
the police to take her away. but before
their arrival she mustered up enough
strength to walk away.
The state democratic committee at
it's meeting September 5th adopted a
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of a committee Of five to draft a
bill for submission TO the next legisla-
ture, for the purpose of having n legal
lied primary. Chairman Simmons APP
points as this committee Heriot Clark
son, chairman; Thomas j. Jarvis, Cy-
rus 3. Watson, Thomas w. Mason and
James S. Manning. Mr.. GARRISON was
the introducer of the resolution. Since
September 5th a primary has been held
and the democrats appear to be suffi-
GENTLY amused with It; so much 50
that the odds are two to one the legis-
lature will not enact a law legalizing
primaries.
The lo~ng-expected returns OF the prf-
mary for senator came in today from
Madison county. Those from Cherokee
have never arrived. The
wrote again today urging that they be
sent.
There is a 81. 900 tax levied by this
state on fortune tellers. The sheriff.
are falling to enforce the law. One OF
the fortune tellers is here, and actual
ly advertising her business. Last year
the sheriff went after her but she left
hurriedly.