The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-30
"HOT AIR" TALK.
MEEKINs SAYS DEMOCRATS WILL
LOSE JOHNSTON.
An Educational Address by Supcrin-
tendent Joyner-Big Water Spout ut
Beaufort-Drum Corps to Take In
the Asheville Reunion.
Messenger Bureau.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. C. August 25.
State superintendent Joyner return
ed today from Wise, in Warren coun-
", where yesterday he and Professor
j. B- Carlyle, OF Wake Forest college.
spoke to 800 people. the meeting being
for the purpose OF ascertaining the SEN
timent in regard to a local tax district
for public schools. The public school
there mas three teachers. A hand pri-
mary was had. and three fourths OF
those present voted in favor OF a special
tax V hundred dollars was raised
on the spot to keep the school open
eight months in the year, and next June
the special tax will be voted. Superin-
tendent JOyner next goes TO WriahLs-
vile TO make an address on Labor Day.
Adjutant General Register arrived
here today and had a conference VITA
the governor on various military mai
tiers. including the matter Of investiga-
ton into the killing of the two intoxi-
Gated enlisted men OF the Third Resi-
ment, near Goldsboro last week. Gen.
eral Royster said everything was in
readiness for the movement OF the First
Regiment of Infantry TO Manassas and
that 1t will take there a little over Six
hundred officers n men. Captain ].
@. Hollingsworth. of Fayetteville, is
commissioned Major and Quartermaster
OF the First Brigade staff, this being
an original appointment.
State Auditor Dixon has gone to Flu
quay Springs, for a few days quiet,
and Will. while there examine the new
pension applications, some 1000 in
number. which he took with him.. so
that he will be able to submit his re-
port to the state pension board which
meets next week.
The sheriff Of his county says he
has examined crops in various sections
Of it and finds that they are deteriora-
ting very fast indeed. He said they
did the same thing last year, the dam
age then, as now. being done in about
ten days. He is surprised at the extent
to which they have gone backward.
h sheriff says there has not been
much crime in Wake this year and that
very few people have been in jail.
| Wake is a very large county and one
OF the most populous in the state. It
has a very large negro population.
There has never been a iynching in
the county.
Among today's arrivals were w. Fl.
Shearan, Castle Hayne; N. A. Sinclair,
| Q. K. Nimocks. Fayetteville; C. d. Os-
borne, r. p. Taylor, Oxford; NJ. NJ
| Marks, New Bern; R.~H. Patterson,
hiASohp y. ID SA
The water spout at Beaufort last
| week must have been a very remarka-
| Die one, to judge by the accounts of
some Raleigh people who were there
| and say it. The water spout came IN
| from the ocean, through the inlet and
| across the harbor being somewhat
| abated by the shoals n finally struck
| the town, moving at pretty high speed
and burst upon the town wharf, the
water falling in torrents for a distance
| Of eight blocks. Boats n people got
| out of the way in a hurry or there
| would have been probably loss of life
| Today Isaac NJ. Meekins, the RepuD-
| lican nominee for Lieutenant Governor
| was seen in the office of Revenue Col
| lector Duncan, the latter being the
manager of Republican politics 70"
| Eastern North Carolina. Keekins said
| he had not begun a regular campaign
| yet but was speaking here and there
Ion his own hook," and that he had
| spoken at Hillsboro. Tarboro and at
| Smithfield. He spoke at the latter place
/ yesterday and says he a over 400
auditors. He added that Republicans
| assured him that they would carry
! Johnston county. Your correspondent
F.! smiled at this and said that if it were
1 true the day of miracles was certainly
| not past. Collector Dunca hen said
he understood there had been a great
| reaction in politics in Johnston. Meek
| ms said two prominent Democrats stat
| ed there that four hundred men who had
| voted the Democratic ticket had turned
over to the Republicans, and that many
| others were turning. Duncan said that
the news which came to him from other
! counties was Of a similar nature. 1t
was all what nay be considered a not
air. talk.
Bishop Cheshire left here last night
l FOR Cb rlotta 70 ha nrnSant ar tho fun
eral of Colonel Hamilton c. Jones.
The clay pigeon shoot here was the
best ever held in the state, this bein3
| the comment of the sportsmen who at
tended it in such large numbers.
Among today's arrivals were r.. NJ.
Hackett, of Wilkersboro; Paul B.
Means, Of Concord, and saa Meekins.
Of Elizabeth City.
Everybody is laughing at the Repub-
licans in this district for worrying so
much about the enthusiastically small
matter of nominating a Congressman
from this district. There never was a
greater waste of effort than this and no
! doubt members of the q. .. p. must
smile themselves in secret, If not opeu-
~.
Farmers say the drought is doing
great deal of damage to the corn crop
and one grower says he considers his
crop as already cut off a third, as COM
pared with it's condition three weeks
| ago..
Arrangements are complete for the
going to Asheville of the only Confed-
crate drum corps. w. ID. Smith, one of
| its members was quite sick here, but
has recovered and looks forward TO
the trip with delight. The mountain
| people never heard more stirring music
than this quartette will make.
Next Saturday the students will be-
gin to arrive at the Agricultural and
Mechanical college here As has be-
fore been stated, not over 500 are to De
/ taken next term. and no crowding Will
be permitted. This is felt 10 be a very
excellent course to pursue.