The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-20
SEAB0ARD'S THROUGH TRAINS
Not to be Put On before Next season
Next Democratic state T1cket-John-
ston County Iron Ore Beds.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., February Il.

Raleigh, n. c., February Il.
The state today chartered the Grand
Associated Order of Pilgrim Travellers"
with headquarters at Edenton. IT is
intended to inculcate the principals of
love, purity and fidelity.
The supreme court will devote next
week to the hearing of appeals from
the Third district. 1t is expected hat
next Tuesday il will file the first opin-
ions Of the term.
n very attractive programme for the
next session of the North Carolina
Teachers Assembly is being prepared.
II Wilmington offers inducements il
appears reasonably certain the session
will be held there.
n Young, aged q years. who
was killed at Durham yesterday by a
Southern railway train while he was
looking at a moving Seaboard Air Line
train, was from Cary, this county. and
was a school teacher. He was visiting
his brother, DIR. Young, at Durham. He
stepped on the tracks of the Southern
directly in 'front.' OF the engine.
1t is learned here hat the Seaboard
Air Lin will not put on its Florida
special trains until next season. ii be-
ing found impossible to get the new
link in the line in South Carolina COM
pleted in time for use this season. 1t
was he hope, at first. that the entire
line would be ready by January 1st.
but, later, March 1St was named as the
date of the commencement of the ser
vice. 1t is quite certain there will be
a lively fight for business next fall.
Much interest is felt here in the rob-
berry of Mr.. Joseph j. Laughinghouse
in Pitt county yesterday by negroes.
He is well known here as a delegate
tn rn1itiool or1-nrti4n- a-3 ,.- $500.
inent in the recent state tobacco grow
erS convention. 1t seems hat ever
since the assassination of General
Bryan Grimes, nearly twenty years
ago, and his jealous prosecution of the
assassin, he has been menaced by dan
gereus enemies. His house was burn
ed, his barns burned several times. he
was shot at and his we'll was poisoned.
For the last named crime a negro wo-
mar is now serving a long term in
the p~enitentiary.
The aldermen viii consider the mat
ter of the sale of the city hall, but will
not act unless the people decide by
vote. An alderman says min out OF
ten people will vote for a sale. If one
is made there will be a new market
and also an auditorium, the latter to
take the place of the present useless
city hall.
The state board of agricultural is no.
titled to meet March eth.
1t is as yet impossible to tell wheth-
er there will be much increase in the
cotton acreage in this state Opinions
conflict regarding it.
a careful examination of the iron ore
bed in Johnston county is being made.
Ore is being mined on part of the prop
erty. 1t is asserted that the bed is of
large extent. h quality of the ore
seems good. 1t is said this weeks list
showed magnetic ore So to so per cent.
iron.
Postmaster Clyde Cheek, of Hills
boTo, has smallpox n is in quarantine
there.
1t is quite probable that the demo-
cratic state ticket will be arranged
with great care so as to include farm
ers as well as professional men. 1t is
TO be a strong ticket and a winner.
While the matter OF candidacy is be-
ing very properly subordinated to the
vital issue. the constitutional amend
ment, yet the most particular care viii
be taken to put out men who will lend
strength to that great measure.