The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-10

Captain Day Gives Bond For Hi As
sault on E Z Britton-St- Mary's
Commencement-A- and d. Mat
pen.
Messenger Bureau.

Messenger Bureau
Raleigh. N. c.. May I,
w. w. Clark. of New Bern arrived
here today. having beer called TO con-
fer with Attorney w. II. Day about I
Atlantic and North Carolina railroad
matters. Mr. Clark expects the report
OF the investigating committee to be
! made at the end Of next week or at the
beginning Of the week following. He
, attended all the sittings OF the commit
| tee. Efforts nave been made to find
; Earle Turner, by both sides, but have
! SO far failed.
/ Commissioner Of Agriculture Patter-
/; con says the first state o bulletin
will appear in a week or two and Will
show the acreage ETC. He says the
sales of fertilizers for the season nave
about ended and a very little fraud in
manufacture was found
The penitentiary. directors nave
bought s5S. 500 of penitentiary bonds,
four per cent, for which they paid ss'
425. Some of these were bonds Issued
to pay the debt of the prison and these
are due in 1909. They are bought as
investment.
Mrs. F.. E. Mofitt, OF Raleigh. is elect
&c a member OF the board OF regents
of the Daughters OF the Revolution al
the National meeting which meets next
year at Asheville.
some rain has fallen in this sec io7
but a great deal more is urgently need
ed. as crops are not comin1 uT
speaking Of.
Judge Purnell has been at Richmond,
sitting on the Circuit court of appeals
, this week and will be there a fortnight
: longer.
Raleigh now has a bank clearing
house business established April Isl,
: and the amount for hat month was
s I'LL, 712.
Among the arrivals here are B. u.
q Kirkpatrick, Waynesville; c. NJ t'oun-
: tain. Tarboro> ~
: addition to the Academy of Music, this
? being a wooden structure, which VIII
, rise to a height of about Al feet above
the present roof, and which Will be over
the stage. 1t is so high as to be Vlsip!e
!, at a distance Of several miles.
Z Attorney w. H Day was before the
{ mayor this morning on he charge OF
: ~assaulting with a cane upon city Ed
tor Britton Of The News and Observer.
! a warrant having been sworn out last
= night. Mr.. Day waived examination,
= and rave bond for $50 for his appear
ance at the Superior court. The bono
is a curiosity because it contains the
{. names of fifty boadsmen, many OF
state repuIdClOH, 'LlG GSSiCSdI0 Va IHN
ii property being over s1,5OO.OOo.
DR.. George II. Winston Of the Agr1cui-
tural and Mechanical college has re-
turned from a trip to eastern Nort,
- Carolina, ito the great hsherIes, trrcN
farms, schools. etc. while at Ne "bsTl
I. he was shown over the truck farms .
Mr.. William Dunn and saw four acrA!
4 in lettuce, among which steam Ilpe:
- had been run covered with cictnes
= From these four acres the sales or lei
in tuce amounted to $1,000. Inc pee !"
~. land is now in c~ucur1berS ana anon
=, these are %spinklers about 10 feet hl>l
=" so as to keep the crop properly molst
rs DR.. Winston says the fishing is yer.
, successful and that many behring's ar
~ caught He visited a fishery Whlch use
al To belong TO his father and which i
IL 1878 he managed. He says that peopl
talk about Eastern North Carolina be
ing a dead country, While IN lact IL
ok "a very live one and he considers 1T on
Of the most promising portions OF .h
ISL , entire Atlantic Seaboard. Inc tcWH
! have wonderfully improved N c-eanl
nd . ness, and sanitation, as well as IN Dus
be mess and growth. The iCafing neSrot
a . have gone and labor IS scarce.
d. schools partake Of the general GeVeiol
We uents. He says the graded school I
in Rocky Mount is enc OF the best in II
Ia, state and prepares students Tor [
lin colleges or even for the university.
Frank Simmons, coloKed, ageu IL, So
fenced from GtTS tOiitS ~ ~ -.
for house-breaking ESCAPED from u
+ nenitentiary camp near Dover, on II
Atlantic and North Carolina railway
.ar few days ago =.
Invitations nave been issued 20 !.
Brown, abe a. runb MinHic
Mary's Female school here, May u
err This is now one of the mcsv fouris
=, ing schools in the state. There q
fifteen ~grauates. these being LILA
Der Brown, Isabel A.. rllmby, Minnie
ors Cornplia Iniam2n. Virgil
of A. Eldrige, Anne K. Clifford. Daisy
will GIeel, Eethar p Means Eljzabe
&C w. MASSEY, carrie H. Moore, Lucy
Redwood, Elizabeth T.. SKINNER a
w ! Margaret G.. StednEan- Miss M1-ored
ooL Tilton is chief marshal.
Mention has been made Of the reas
TO- Why a provisional regiment was ]
70 made up from the North Carolina \
tional Guard to go to the maneuV
uno at Manassas, but the the First Ike
~ ment of infantry was chosen. An
Wy animation of the inspection returns
~ that regiment during March and al
ens shows that it has the strength
twelve companies with ga entlsSleo III
IL The second regiment mas 525 EMS
,fGaS men and the third Az. The equipm
&c of the First regiment Is very hed
and coi,piese az stnres will give an i
.he of how full the equipment is. -
'he are 430 magazine rifles, 81 revoIV'
631 knapsacks, $40 cartridge belts
lutes eoual or greater supply Of the nun
IL Gus other equipments for field serV
The second regiment has only one c.
the - ond +ba third only ten. The r
49, - a1loyyad q strength of 492 at
her aeneners hut will probably I
80 .ortv nan tn a ban,
boy &c eho,r4 40 officers. and a nome
NOR 1900 and medical staff Of al
get ~
!, him 49,