The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-08
REPUBLICANS PLEASED
With the Outcome OF their St-ste Con-
vention-Negroes D:--atisfi"d I'M
portant survey to be Made b! special
G~eologfsts-
Messenger Bureau

Messenger Bureau
Raleigh. ~. c.. May }
The State Republican League met
here today. II elected Charles ]. Har-
ris. OF Dillsboro. president.
The republicans are inexpressibly
proud OF their state convention. They
put their best foot foremost They
kept the negro in the background
| One of them, a leading o~rnceholder,
said were not the negroes lamolike
and nice?" A negro delegate who
| yesterday said that his race would de-
mand and have Henry b. Cheatham
as a negro delegate TO the national
| conyantion, was asked today how they
\ pacifed Cheatham and the other ne
| groes. He replied: we are not quiet
yet. They will hear from Us. They
gave Cheatham a place on the state
| committee, a very poor slice Of bread.
/ am going up to the Filth district and
let them peat me there" By them
he meant the white republicans.
There were fifty-fve federal and
state oficeholders in the republican
convention. Today the federal e
were at Revenue Collector Duncan's
office and il looked like a convention
was being held there. He was giving
them their campaign orders. They are
expected to devote themselves very
largely to "bushwhacking'' votes.
One of the odd things of the con-
vention was the slate which was
largely made up in Senator Pritchard's
room Tuesday night. n. c. English.
populist was TO be endorsed for state
Superintendent of public instruction.
but a delegate nominated J. j. Britt,
and he went through Then there
was some hustling TO get word to
Britt to withdraw in favor of English.
This he did in a few minutes.
James E. Boyd, who is in very poor
health, says he will go to Hot Springs,
N. c., for a month II is said he has
Bright's disease. He says he is very
feeble.
The city authorities here have
handled outside cases of smallpox ad-
mirably this year In the city there
has not been a case. Some were found
in the county, several miles from here
and some were tramps found on the
railways. All were put in the pest
house and carefully guarded. In all
there were only four or five cases. All
are now discharged.
The Atlantic CoaS Line railway
today officially notified the corpora
ton commission of its complete con-
solidation.
The Southern railway and Western
Union telegraph officials inform the
corporation commission that the vari-
Gus freight and railway offices on the
Asheville division are being rapidly
manned and that there will be no fur
Their trouble growing out of the re'cen
strike situation.
Today the die of the Vance statu,
: was put in place.. Standing in tn,
centre of the rotunda of the capitol
: the statue will be seen through tn,
eastern doorway, with a vista beyond
, of New Bern avenue, n~inety-nine fee
: in width and a mile in length with tn
great trees nearly meeting
Today twenty-five convicts were sen
5 from the penitentiary to the farms
There are ninety-nine in the shirt fac
: tory and e~ighty-five making brick. i
is the purpose to make 5,OO0,O G0 bricl
: this season. There are now onl!
[ eighty-five federal prisoners. 1t is no
: yet known whether any others will b
/ sent here.
t State Geologist J. :. Homes is her
e and has all of the afternoon been i
. conference with State Chemist Kill
i gore, of the agricultural department
: regarding a survey that is to be mad
at once by special biologists sen her
from Washington to do some impor
tant work for the state. between Raj
eigh and New Bern. c. w. Dorse.
t and w. G.. Smith, of the division o
agricultural soils of the agriculture
department at Washington, specialist
- - wa - IN hSAS tIlbd bANs WI
;. have charge of that part of the worl
s while Mr.. r. G. Davis, of the Unite,
States geological survey, will do tn
i topographic map work. The survey is t
begin at once near this city, and vii
take in every county between WAX
S and Craven, five miles on each sid
Of the North Carolina and the Atlanti
and North Carolina railroads, bein
k the area that it is now intended I
S cover by the survey. This work is i
e connection with the experiment farm
Y at Tarboro and Red Springs that hav
O just been established for the purpos
of ~ascertaining what crops are bes
a adapted to the different sections Of tn
state. The soil survey, which is to b
e conducted by Mr.. Dorsey and Nj
e Smith will determine just what is eS
S pected to be determined by the expel
d iment farms and their work will b
a basis for the application Of practice
field work. Two gentlement who hav
come here from Washington for thi
4 work are specialists in their line an
; Mr.. Davis is specially fitted for mai
y ing the typographical maps for III
a state in his work. 1t will probabl
require a year to complete the worl
" The cost on the state of North Carol
, M will be only the expense of the spt
cialists employed, the government ha,
n ing agreed to pay the salaries an
n give this time for the information tn;
b Will De Obtained Tor the United Stat'
department of agriculture. Raleig
will be headquarters for the me
g though they will have little time her
d as they will be required in the fel
/ when the weather will permit. Aft,
this survey is complete, it is probab
that a topographic map and soil su
vey OF Edgecombe county will be mad
< the farm there and the one at Re
n Springs, both to be compared with II
l. findings that result from this scie,
X tific investigation.