The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-18

that "NAC af%IdNo ytSt~bt ~
the State Supreme Court was that of
State VS.. Barrett, from Union county.
in which the constitutionality OF the
legislative act making il prima faciave
evidence of guilt OF retailing for a cit
iZen of Union county To have more
rsan one quart of liquor in his posses.
sion. The Supreme court sustains He
act which is chapter 434, Public Laws
of 1908. Justice Common writes the
opinion in which he declares that the
act is unconstitutional and asserts that
he will not assent to laying the judicial
axe to the most valuable and sacred OF
all fundamental rights OF civil liberty
the right of being adjudged by the
court innocent unless the State offers
evidence to prove the commission of
crime.
Ten pupils of the institution for the
deaf, dumb and blind here were car
ried to the pest house this morning
with mild cases of vareloid, the school
has been closed and a strict smallpox
quarantine established. The presence OF
liz ilSStsS HI tNt =" t"
covered yesterday. Ii is thought To-
have been carried to the institution
from Shaw University which has been
%quarantined up to the past week.
There are about two hundred negro
children in the school.
President II. b. Warner, Of the North
Carolina Press Association is just now
completing the program for b session
of the association to i'll Ashe-
vile July 9Th. 1t will be issued by See
rotary Sheriff., of Concord very soon.
The State Council has decided to de-
fer action as to the awarding of the
contract of the State printing the
next two years until next Tuesday. The
bids have been opened. but Secretary
Warner of the printing commission
says they are so complicated that ii
will take time for the council to figure
out just which of the two bids in hand
is the most advantageous to the State.
The Revolution Company vas char
tered this morning with $4,000 capital
for the purpose of conducting a mer-
camille business neal Greensboro. The
incorporators are Jno. J. Phoenix, Rob-
ert G.. Campbell, Geo. P. Stone. Anoth-
er charter is to the Skies Company, OF
Monroe, $4,000 to conduct a general
live stock business. V. d. Skies is the
principe. incorporation.
Mrs. B. F. Dixon, wife of State Au-
ditor Dixon, went to Clayton this morn
ing for the purpose of organizing Il
Missionary Society in the Methodist
church there.
While at Appomattox Monday an
old negro, Sam Patterson. presented
Governor Glenn an old cavalry carblne
that the negro picked up on the battle
field 500 after the battle. 1t has been
given a place in the hall OF history OF
the State museum.
A fifty gallon blockade distillery was
captured last night by revenue officers
on the liAe between Wake and Harnett
counties. They report moonshining in
Harnett and Johnston worse To- than
it has been i'm years.
Governor Glenn and party have re-
turned from AppOmattoX. and are par
ticularly pleased with their visit and
with the reception there. The ladies
Of the party were much impressed by
the kindness of the Virginia Daughters
of the ~Confederacy me other ladies
who attended the unwilling of the me-
mortal.
The next memorial to be dedicated
by North Carolina will be at the battle
ground of Big Bethel, Virginia. and
the date will be June 10th. The oc-
casion will be marked by a reunion Of
the First North Carolina Regiment Of
Volunteers, which after its gallantry
there was named officially the Bethel
regiment. and retained that name al
yyarS Tho y1npnnrinf will no rInraj NJ
the spot where Wyatt, the first Con-
federate killed in battle fell. He was
a member of Company A. of the regi
e from E~dgecombe county and ey.
cry survivor of that company will be
present. The chairman of the Me-
mortal Commission is Major +. J. Hale
OF Fayetteville. other members being
r. H Kicks. W. b. Kyle, and John Fl.
Thorpe. This memorial is being now
prepared under the act of the Iegisla
ture. On the Goth of September. on
the battle ground of Ch;ckamauga.
there will be another memorial unveil-
ed this being to mark what was done
by the North Carolina troops in that
great Western engagement in going
farther than those from n other
State in the Confederacy. This work is
Delng lone Dy a committee created by
the legislature, OF which ex-Judge 4. {.
Avery is chairman. other members be-
ing General John NJ. Ray. and NJ. c.
Toms. The Goth regiment. which was
that in which General Ray was then
serving, will also erect a monument of
its own. This will be of zinc and will
stand Is feet in height. The State now
has in its flag collection two of the
flags carried at Chicakamauga, one OF
the 5Sth and the other OF the 39th regi-
ments.
The state will not erect memorials
ct Gettysburg or Sharpsburg because
they are already in position there, tab
lets having been erected by the United
States war department at the point
marking all North Carolina positions
and showing at Gettysburg very clear
ly the point of farthest advance. Major
w AZ Rahhius ouo of fho Cosfvcbo~1