The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-22

A4ANa 5Cl tAdh II tc6I4Cl0 dSSIOA-
bly,, the latter being voluntary, while
the summer school is an official and
state affair. Attendance upon it be-
ing to a considerable extent required.
It has many departments. Its musical
department will give a number of mn
sicaies during the three weeks OF the
term. The weather was u~nfavorable
for the teachers assembly, rain having
fallen every day, but the outlook is
now for better things. Three years
ago the first session of the summer
school was held here with 338 students
attending, representing ffty-seyen
counties and W years ago there were
S34 students, representing 70 counties,
and several other states. Very CON-
plete arrangements have been made
for accommodating the teachers. Wa
tauga Hall, the largest building at the
Agricultural and Mechanical college.
where the meeting will be held, is
given up entirely for ladies.
Mrs. Walker Kennedy, wife of the
editor of the Memphis Tenn. CONNER
cial Appeal, who was born Sadie Can
non, and who has many relatives in
Raleigh, and other points in this state,
has written for and delivered before
tHS SoiOHldt bdIIES VI leIucSSCC DIT
Nashville an address on North Caro-
lima and the Revolution. This has
been received with such appreciation
and several invitations to repeat it
have been received by her as well as
requests to print. She writes your
correspondent to inquire whether North
Carolina had any troops present when
the British surrendered at Yorktown.
She feels sure that some must have
been there though the flower of
the division were in prison at Char
lesion, S.. G. where the British captured
SO large a body of the Americans. She
also desires to know all the battles
in which the North Carolina troops
bore a part in the war OF the reyolu-
ton, as she desires that her paper
Will be of the highest historic value.
Your correspondent will be glad to be
given this information by some patrio-
tic North Carolinians. Interest in
the history of the state was never SO
keen as at present, and it is very graf
flying to know that North Carolina is
receiving more attention abroad than
ever before. 1t is a god sign in every
way. "
P~enitentiary convicts are certainly in
demand. A few days ago the authori-
ties received an offer of 81 Sc a day for
the labor of any number above so.
There are a few over q hundred employ
ed on the Raleigh & Pamlico Sound
Railway. A new contract for con-
struction has been made, under which
large numbers of Italians are being
brought to the state and employed.
1t is said by officials that the labor of
these is preferable to that of convicts,
well-trained as is the latter. The road
is to be pushed to completion much
earlier than had generally been ex-
pected. There appears to be a sort Of
running idea that by means of the Raj
eigh & Southport road it will get Fay
~etteville, and then over the road which
John Shelton Williams is building from
Fayetteville into South Carolina thence
into Georgia and SO ON int othe Gulf
of Mexico, and so it begins to looks as
if by and by Raleigh will be on ano-
Their big through line nerth and south,
for there are untold millions of money
behind the great project, and extensive
developments may be at any time ex-
pected, for this is the day of surprise
in ~railroading. It means a great deal
to eastern North Carolina and for the
section between here and the coast and
for that from Raleigh southwark into
South Carolina.
The brick making at the peniteH-
tiary has been checked very considera-
bly, by the giving out of good clay On
the lands five miles south of here from
whence it has for some years been TAX
en-. Branch tracks have been laid TO
some new lands but this has been for
about a week under water.
Persons who came here today on
trains from the west reported that
much rain had fallen and that streams
were very high, notably so, Haw River.
Some low grounds ave been flooded
along the smaller streams, which since
the very earlier spring have been so
lowd owing to the long drought.
Secretary T. K. Bruner of the North
Cadolina Horticultural Society says the
meeting at Aberdeen On the 10Th inst,
will be a very interesting one indeed.
There will be visits to orchards at Lind
les, Niagara and other places in that
vincity where peach, pear, grape and
berry-growing have proved 50 success
full, and where the very appearance OF
much of the country has been trans
formed. The people of Aberdeen write
that they will make the meeting very
successful, and that there will be a
good show Of fruit by them. The mem
bers of the Association from other
points will also send considerable fruit
to be placed on exhibition. There ap-
pears to be a general desire for the
holding of two fruit fairs each year.
Among the callers at the executive
ofies today was Thomas H. Wander
ford, Esq, of Salisbury.
The council of state had a session
at which several matters were consid-
cred, among them that for the time Of
appointment the sub-commission on
text books for the public schools. 1t
was decided to meet again July I'd and
then make an appointment.
Benjamin F. Dixon, Jr., a talented
son of State Auditor Dixon is here from