The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-29
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, \. c., May 2;

Raleigh, y. T., May 70.
State Treasurer Lacy this afternoon
expressed the $500, 600, in state -four per
1st. 1913, to the purchasing firm in Bal
timore. There are 500 of the bonds. 275
of 81. 600. each n 80 of $500 each. Each
bond was signed by the governor and
state treasurer. The bonds are very
artistic. Besides the seal of North
Carolina an engraving of a woman's
head is on the back of each bond and
on every coupon
The State Board Of Education in
structs Colonel w. B. Rodman- of
Washington, \. c.. TO accept the offer
of Ba.ylus Cade for the state n in
Carteret county, at 60 cents per acre and
instructs him to draw he necessary
papers. The public lands there are
now something less than 100, 900 acres.
Adjutant General B. 5 Royster is
spending the first part of the week in
Raleigh.
Colonel P. VI. Pearsall, the governors
private secretary. has returned from
his trip to Georgia.
Governor Charles 3. Aycock left early
this morning for Y~adkinville where he
will believer q ommencement address.
He will return Wednesday morning.
President G.. T. Winston, who spoke
at the banque of the North Carolina
society in New York city Tuesday night
says that there were over 400 covers
spread and the occasion was a great
success. He speaks in the highest terms
of senator Depew's speech.
Governor Charles 3. Aycock orders a
special criminal term of Wilson supe-
rior court to begin june 10Th. Judge
Shaw will preside. At this term it is
probable that the eleven men charged
with the assassination of the insurance
mar Percy Jones will be tried.
The governor TO life i'm
prisonment the death sentence of Fred
Wick at Goldsboro. a young negro who
was convicted of o~utraging an old col
ored woman. Wick had been respited
until next Saturday.
The Sheriff of Robson county today
placed in the penitentiary to serve a
- ear term q white man, aged p,
convicted of the murder of an old
white man. The two had been dealing
in horses and the younger man wanted
TO be at the head of the business. a
quarrel followed and he killed the old
man by striking him on the back of the
head with a gun. The young mans
defence was that while they were quar-
reling some unknown person slipped
up behind the old man and dealt him
the fatal blow
Your correspondent has just returned
from Beaufort and the latest news
brought there regarding the grounded
Portuguese bark Vera Cruise VII is
that the captain, who it has been re-
peatedly asserted had fled, is one and
the same with the mate who is now on
board the vessel. O~bservant people de-
clare they have no doub as to this.
The collector Of customs of New
Bern has gone TO OcTocOke to examine
the bark which. it is alleged, had guam
titles of rum and whiSkey concealed
undar a false deck.
Rev. Joseph Rennie. pastor Of the
First Presbyterian church of Norfolk.
Va, preached the b~accalaureate sermon
at the Agricultural and Mechanical
college before a great congregation yes
terday from the text that life is as a
vapOr and QUICKLY passes away. He
said life Tesembled a VGpOr first be-
cause i IS eVanescent, second either
useful or harmful, third immortal. To-
night J. s. Gates. Of Alamance, will de-
liver the Agricultural and Mechanical
alumni address. Tomorrow will be the
last parade and the selection OF officers
for next year Tomorrow night Hon.
Walter H. Page delivers the address.
Wednesday morning the graduating ex-
ercises take place and Governor Ay-
cock presents the diplomas.
Bishop Thos. P. Gailor. of Tenn,
preached the b~accalaureate sermon be-