The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-10
CEREMONIES 1T CHICAMAUGA
Dedication Of Markers on the Famous
Battlefield
Prominent State Officials to Take Part
i'm the Exercises-New Building To-
be Erected at the Catholic Orphan
age-Diplomas From the St. Louis
Exposition-Other Raleigh New,
Notes.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c.. November 6.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. C. November 6.
The police justice here today began
the hearing in the case OF Harry Clark.
alias Morris, the man known to fakirs
as The Jew who is on trial on the
charge OF having killed Charles G.
Smith. of Petersburg. in the depot
here. Bob Llleston. the other man
charged with this crime was tried last
week. A man who SAYS he is a law
yer from New York is here in this
case. appearing for the Smith family.
1t is found upon examination that
the walls of the main building al the
Catholic orphanage are SO badly dam
aged by fire that they are to be torn
down. The new building to replace the
burned one will be on an entirely diff
ferent plan
1t has been stated that Governor
Glenn will attend the great football
game between the University of North
Carolina and the University of Nir-
ginia a. Norfolk on Thanksgiving
day, but he will not be present and
has declined the invitation of the
North Carolina Society there to be its
guest.
Recently the governor offered a re-
ward of $50 for John A. Hugghman
on the charge of numbering his wife.
1t is represented that he could not be
found. but news now comes that he has
been arrested at the home of his
daughter in Wilkes county, the cap
ture seeming TO have been easily and
quickly made. An inquiry is to be
made into the circumstances attending
the arrest.
y charter is granted the ~Agricultur-
al line Company of Washington. with
very extensive privileges. including
power TO manufacture any kind Of fer
tilizer, have general warehouses ard
store houses, etc, capital stock being
$4,000 and A. NJ. DuMay and others
being the stockholders.
Commissioner of Agriculture Pat
terson has gone to his home in Cald-
we'll county for a few days.
The corporation commissioners and
Clerk Brown left today for Morehead
City to investigate the matter of a
passenger station there for which pc
titiOn has been made.
The Supreme court is this week
hearing appeals from the Eleventh
district, the docket being quite light.
Much interest is expressed in the
forthcoming decision in the notable
libel and damage suit of Gattis VS..
Kilgo, which was recently argued for
the fourth time.
Chairman A. c.. Avery, of the North
Carolina Chickamauga Monument
commission writes me that he vester-
day wrote Governor Glenn asking the
latter to so rrang the programme
at the conference at Chattanooga as
to have no appointment 10
a. m. and 4 d. m. November 10th. 1t
Will be necessary for those who Will
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ting the markers on the battle field at
Chickamauga including the speakers.
to leave Chattanooga about 10 a. m.
and to reach the point where the
marker is to be erected to the Sixtieth
North Carolina regiment on the La
rayette road about II a. m. The Sc
lection of a speaker or speakers at
that point has been left to General ].
| NJ. Ray, with the suggestion that he
| invite Senator Overman as one Of
them. Colonel Theodore F. Davidson,
Of Asheville, will make a talk near the
! blockhouse where the Thirty-ninth
| North Carolina regiment was the only
one to cross the Lafayette road on
September 10Th. having attached to it
an Arkansas battalion. The Thirty
ninth went farthest on the 18th, be-
J yond all question. Attorney General
| r. D. Gilmer has been invited t. make
a ak at the point where the Thirty
| ninth North Carolina regiment attack
| ed the first Federal line on the 10th.
| charging across the Dyer field and cap
turing ten guns. Governor Glenn has
| been invited by Colonel Avery to speak
at a point near the Vidite House.
where McNair's brigade. including the
| Ihirty-ninth, pierced and broke Rose
Grams centre late in the afternoon of
| the goth. separating the right wing
Of the Federal army from Thomas n
Granger who strong posi-
| tons on the left. Senator Simmons
is invited to max a talk at the *
IRENE point attained by the Fifty
| eighth North Carolina regiment. and
substantially maintained bv Il on the
| Federal stronghold at Snodgrae< Hf'i.
| where the marker erected X within
Twenty-Five or thirty feet If General
Hoynton's fortified.
Rev. Dr.. Robert B. Drane. of Eden
ton, makes an interesting gift TO the
North Carolina Literary and Historical!
| Association, this being a letter from
| Hugh Williamson. dated at New York.
August 18th, 1888. addressed To
Josiah Collins. ESQ. Of Edenton. This
letter was given to DR.. Drane by Mrs.
E. Alethea Collins Warren. DIR. Will
| hanson, so notable as a IN IF
this state. says in the letter that ne
has examined into a claim wni.:n was
made against an Edenton man and
found that the claim had been paid. u
growing out of the high feeling be-
tween the Tories and the parrots.
DR.. Williamson says some hard things
about the creditors who we're pushing
these claims. He says; These Tories.
for such the creditors are every hoof
of them. seem to think that all play
is fair to recover by Civil process
against those who worsted them by
military / need not put you
in mind hat there is a statute of limi-
t%ations. This may occasionally save
a nan who would otherwise be de-
frauded by dormant claims. / enclose
in a something which gives
you a sample OF the remarks on the
unfortunate state OF North Carolina.
We shall often have the comfort OF
seeing ourselves classed with the hon
est n honorable state of Rhode Is
land, but having chosen its company.