The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-11
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, ". C. May :,

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c. May :.
The democratic state committee
meets next Thursday evening 10 elect
a central committee and also TO take
action regarding the ~judgeship OF the
Twelfth judicial district. A circular
letter is being sent out to leading DEM
that there be personal work in each
township. 1t is this way that the in
sidious work OF the republicans and
populists a best be nulliied.
III subject Of the address OF Henry
A. London, of PittSboro, here next
Thursday, at the Confederate Memo
rial day exercises, will be the Twenty
sixth North Carolina infantry, OF
and Lane We're successfully colonies
and which at Gettysburg under Bur
gwyn (who was the youngest colonel
in the s~ervice) suffered q greater per
centage of loss han any other regi-
ment on either side during the entire
civil war. The brigade of which the
Twenty-sixth was a part fought the
famous Iron Brigade" of Michigan
and Wisconsin troops, and the his
torian Of that brigade is expected 10
be here 10 hear the address.
The trustees of the Baptist temale
university here today elected Rev.
John E. White president. He is a ma
tive of this county, is 80 years of age
and has for the past five years been
the corresponding secretary of the Bap-
fist state mission board. He was sew
eral years pastor of h church at
| Edenton and at the same time super
i%ntendent of public schools of Chowan
| county. He was, also, for two or three
| years principal of Mars Hill academy,
| at Madison.
The annual May music festival will
be held here ON the 18th, under the
| direction of Professor Henry Apply.
| There will De a chorus of 100 voices
| and an orchestra of fifteen instru-
ments, all we'll known amateurs.
Today the state board of dental ex-
| aminerS met at Greensboro, to exam
inc a considerable number OF appli-
| cants for license. The State Dental
| Association meets there tomorrow.
Tomorrow the arguments in the SUI
| preme court for the present term will
end; in fact only n case is to be ar
| gued. Some of the opinions yet TO be
filed are in the most important cases
heard during the term.
AT Shaw university, n of the larg-
est colOred institutions in the country,
Il IS commandments cASIClScS OSSdL
yesterday afternoon, with the bacca-
laureate sermon, preached by Rev. j
"A. Whitfield, general missionary for
Mort Carolina.
Tomorrow, at Winston the siXtieth
annual session of the grand lodge OF
Odd Fellows begins. AT Weldon, Apri.
26th, 1S41, the first lodge of the order
in this state was instituted by Rev.
George NJ. Balm, of Portsmouth, Va.
Il he hoVinr haan onnoinfaI 1ictriot don
uty grand for that purpose. He was
assisted by Rev. James F. McCabe
of Richmond, and other members from
Richmond, Petersburg n Portsmouth
The work was due to Old Dominion
lodge, N. 5, of Portsmouth. The frs
North Carolina Oodd Fellows were w
S. G.. Andrews n John Campbell
and j. r. Reston of Wilmington. The
first noble grand was j. r.. Campbell
Afterwards he was the first grand
master and grand representative. The
second lodge instituted was Cape Feal
at Wilmington; the third Washington
at Murfreesboro. Both these were
also instituted by Rev. Mr.. Bair. Jan.
uary 9Th, 1S43, the grand lodge met fol
the first time, at Wilmington. Now
there are III subordinate lodges, Will
6,400 members.
In North Carolina there are three
revolutionary pensioners all soldiers
WluONS. flWO are 1Ut years OlU. i
the youngest reaches the age of thes,
it will be 1918 before she ceases to draw
her pension.
Work is now in progress on the fol
lowing railways in the state: Durham
and Charlotte, Hendersonville AM
Brevard, Carolina and Northern, Eas
Carolina (now in operation from Tar
boro to Macclesfield, twelve miles.)
One of the % interesting pro
grammes in the history of the Nortl
Carolina Teachers Assembly has beer
carefully arranged by the programme
committee. 1t representes all the ed
vocational interests of the state wit
a special view to a general uplift an,
awakening in the public school work
DIR. j. l.. M.Curry, general agent of tn
Peabody fund, and one of the fore
most educators of the south, will ad
dress the assembly. The state Must
Teachers Association will meet wit
the Teachers Assembly. First-clas
hotel accommodations at 81 per day
l Railway tickets will cost one first-clas
fare plus 81 membership fee. Ticket
to be sold June 9th to 18th inclusive
final limit July 25th. All tickets wi
have a special coupon of membershi
fee. Stop-over privileges are above
at University station, Raleigh an
l Greensboro, on tickets via Souther
railway or Seaboard Air Line, to aC
commodate persons desiring to atten
the summer schools at Wake Fores
and Chapel Hill. Friends of the Stat
Normal and Industrial college wi
have a splendid opportunity Ito atten
the commencement h week follow