The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-10
NEGRO POLITICAL CONVENTION.
White Republicans RidicuIe the
ncendiaries - state Board of
Health Bulletin-Dates for Demo-
cratic Speakings.
MeSSen"e- Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c. October g..

Raleigh, N. -. Ok tOber 3.
White republicans here are ~ridiculing
the call for a negro state convention n
say the callers of it Welt into a trade
two years ago. They AID that they do
O believed the convention viii amount
to anything.
Very few negroes are registering here
and it appears that only Il few hundred
will vote in this county. One estimate
made is that not over 20,00G VIII vote
in the entire state.
State Chairman Simmons says that
people are comparing tire audiences at
political speakings this year with these
which attended two years g and
hence term these Small, hut they are
ar average. He says there may never
again be such audiences as tharA were
two years 6
A letter from George VanderbiltS
farm manager says the i3iltmore '3rEl
will make the greatest show of agrlcul-
tural products at the state fa'~ ever
made by one exhibitor. Special prerar-
atoms are being made for it.
Insurance Commissioner Young is
greatly pleased at the success Of his
work in tracking and capturing incen-
diaries. The last arrest made IS in Polk
county. The practice Of burning prop
erty to get the insurance is greatly
checked by the good detective work and
the prompt and severe punishment.
The bulletin of the state board of
health issued today says there is small
pox in Is counties. with two deaths in
Craven, and one in Cartsret; 20 cases in
Forsyth, 25 in CASTOR. il IN Northamp-
ton and Is in Rockingham. Typhoid
fever is reported in IS counties-in all,
is free from it n there are many cases
in the east.
At one time there was talk Of having
n republican newspaper here but the
plan is abandoned.
Tobacco growers appear t: be now
less afraid Of a drop IT price. When
the Imperial and the American compa-
MES consolidated they felt sure there
would be a sharp declina. The increase
in acreage next season vii be great in
this section.
Manager r. c. Rivers cf the Academy
Of Music here. was married at Norfolk
yesterday to Miss Sellars, who was a
member of the late Lonely Widow
company, of which Mr.. Rivers was the
not NOW here until TO-DAY.
There are now about sixty democratic
speakers in the field.
The cadet battalion at the Agricultur,
al and Mechanical college here is now
fully uniformed. Each Monday there ::
dress parade. his udH - CioSci NC
cause Monday is the holiday for the fe'
male colleges. For the male college:
Saturday is the holiday.
Two Calling guns have aiived for thu
battery of artillery at Charlotte, giving
it three Of these guns. A rapid-fr'
canon will be added mex year
Chas. L.. Abernethy will speak a
Magnolia. October 18Th: james r
Young at Stem. Octob-r 14th and a
Culbreth October 14th a: night: :. II
White at Richards. Cctoi 8" 22nd
: Catherine Lake October 2Srd
Appeals from the Eighth district vii
be allied Tuesday. October 14'h in tn
fol- wing order: State VS.. mcknight
ST , VS.. Ellsworth. Ratlif W.. Ratlif
{ Ta cton VS.. Griggs. Burns VS. Womblt
Mclean VS.. Billiard, Shdnkle VS.. Whit
ley. Fowler VS.. Fowler. a VS.. Hal
Sinclair VS.. Huntley. Fowler VS.. Nc
Laughlin. Shute Vs. Heath.