The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-02-14

creates a commission which VIII pace
at each of three poEnts n memorial,
these being where General w. r. CoNs
brigade Of Grimes division fred the
last vo!ley: where General koo<r,s
cavalry brigade captured four can
o from the battery Of he
First Artillery, Il. 5. A ana
where Captain Wilson T. Jenkins.
commanding the sharp shooters OF
Grimes Division mad the last stand.
Most prominent of The Is
that which viii stand at the potns
where the last volley was fired. IL IS
of granite and on the east side bears
the following inscription:
The Last at Appomattox. AT his
spot the North Carolina brigade OF
Brigadier General w. r Cox. OF
Grimes Division, fired the last voley,
9Th OF April. 1865. Major General Bry-
an Crime of North Carolina planned
the last battle fought by the armies OF
Northern Virginia and commanded The
infantry engaged therein. the greater
part of whom were North Caroliniars.
This stone is erected by the authority
of the General Assembly OF North Car
Dim in grateful and perpetual memoir
OF the valor, endurance and patriotism
CT her sons, who followe with unshak-
en- fidelity the fortunes Of the Confed-
eracy to his closing scene. Faithful to
III NIId HINSINu SAAt As ~
Carolina Appomattox Commission: II.
A. London, Chairman: r. j. Holt. w.
T. jenkins. Cyrus b. Watson, A. u.
McGin."
On the wesr side is the following in
scription:
North Carolina troops paroled at
Appomattox, Coxe's Brigade 5I2,
Grimes $50, JohnstCn's 463, Lewis Az,
Cookies $50, MacHae's 442. Lanes $50.
Scales 719. Ransom's 4S5. Barringer's
90, Roberts SO: Major III Grimes
and staff Sth: Cummings, Miller's, WI
liams', Tanners n Ramsay's bat
teries, $50: total North Carolinians pa
rolled, 5,012."
On the south end is the following
inscription:
"Esse guam videri. First at Bethel.
Farthest to the front at Gettysburg,
and Chicamauga, asst at Appomattox."
The following is on the north end:
North Carolina white population in
1861. 629. 943. military population, lie. S6a.
Troops furnished 1861, 1866, 127, 900: kill
ed in battle 1882, died from wounds
5,151, died from disease 2 ,602."
DEPOSITS OF TIN.
The geological survey will issue to-
morrow a booklet covering the deposits
of tin in North Carolina and South
Carolina, the result of very careful
observation and it will be G any
where On receipt of four cents. 1t was
impossible TO divide the deposits in
the two states. The South Carolina
geological survey is issuing a similar
publication covering the deposits in
both states.
This afternoon the committee ON agri-
culture heard argument against the
bill to abolish the geological survey
and decided to report it u~nfavorabiy.
The i~ntroducer of the bin aid he had
been to introduce it and did not
appear to know anything about the
effect it would have.
Meetings of the Cotton Growers As
ISOLATION in each county are called to
be held next Thursday and will call
delegates to the state meeting to BE-
held here on the 21st.
The superintendent of public instruc-
ton finds that 58 counties apply for
aid from the fund known as the sec
ond hundred thousand dollars to keep
their public schools open four months
in the year. This is h same number
as last year. Wilkes county, as then
asks for the most money.