The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-02
Messenger Bureau

k&tIeigh. y. g. January 20.
Today the agricultural department
made its last shipment OF xhibi TO
Paris from the State museum. The
last sent were 400 specimens of medical
plants. which will be placed i'm the
forestry annex There are in al about
1000 specimens, thoroughly Illustrating
h state. The total weight is about
ten tons, All gu, by the Prairie. which
sails from Baltimore February 9Th.
Mention was made the ether Cay OF
the fact that Rev DR.. j. 4. Weston IL
preparing in book form n history OF
the Thirty-third North Carolina regi-
ment Major Spier Whitaker in a note
to DR. Weston referred to the fatal
wounding Of General "~Stonewall" Jack
son. and said the latter and General
A. p. Hill, after having passed through
the lines of the Thirty-third. were
fired on by the Eighteenth Major
Whitaker was informed by his colonel
(of the Thirty-third) that and
Hill thus passed through but a letter
TO him today from Captain Morrison.
Jackson's brother-in-law and staff Of
ficer, says this is an error as to Hill.
Last evening State Senator Stephen
Mcintyre. Sheriff George Il. Mcleod
and A. II. Mcleod, Jr, arrived here
from Robson county Senator McIn-
tyre brought to the governor n petition
signed by citizens of that county. sett-
ing forth their belief of the guilt OF
Reuben Ross, the negro under death
sentence at Lumberton on the charge
of rape. The petition also sets forth
that the character of the white woman
Ross was convicted OF having outraged
is good, The senator urged that he
sentence be carried into effect. He
a va a m inrifN of rhA FanDla ~ Rnha-
son favor this coarse
State immigration agent John W.
Thompson, has been in New York and
PittSburg, Pa, three weeks. for the
purpose of securing desirable immi-
grants. He writes that he 8 we'll
pleased with his success. He went to-
Morganton, y. c., today. 1t appears
that a considerable colony desires to
settle in that section.
The white republicans are prsfuse in
their abuse of George White, the negro
congressman. They charge that he IL
DESTROYS of making any kind q a dead
to get reelected and some OF them
want to go any length to defeat him.
Mr.. T.. B. Bailey. of Mocksvilia. whose
two daughters died Of typhoid fever at
the Normal and Industrial college at
Greensboro. makes a gift to the college
of a fund for the education Of deserv-
ing girls. Today the first beneficiary
uuuei Tic IctLlS Va III SlIl t2IeftuA HE
college.
There has been for some time Or suit
against the Seaboard Air Line for
damages, brought by three gentIefasn
who were carried past their station by
the vestibuled train. The railway has
compromised the case by paying one
of them 1925 and costs.
Sheriff Mcleod, of Robson county,
brought five convicts to the peniten-
tiary last evening, two Of them TO serve
fifteen years each
AT the meeting OF the pspulist STATE
committee here a fortnight ago, only
nine of it's members Were present. yet
these took upon themselves to declare
the party politics in advance of the
committee. In his couTse they we're
inspired by the republicans and by
Senator Butler, who represented the
republican view The Progressive
Farmer makes a sharp slap at this &C
ton on the part of a minority II the
committee, saying: We do not think
a party which originated as a protest
| against ring rule should allow n COM
| mittee of nine or Of 100 to direct its
| policy on questions regarding which
| there has been no official expression Of
| opinion"
III state charters the Arlington cot
ton mill at Gastonia, capital 10000
It will spin and g. W. Ragan
and others are the STOCKHOLDERS.