The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-20
GREAT MEETING OF TEACHERS
Fine Programme Arranged for The
Assembly in June
Commissions Issued to Of6ferS of IN.
burlington Company-Conduct OF !.
ana VI. Students TO be INVESTIGATED
FINE Arrangement of Co~nfexier.,.
Ffag-Other Raleigh News Notes
Messenger Bureau
Ralelgh- Y. c Anril -

Raieign- \. C.. April IL.
Inc manager of the summer schoo
: Tor teachers announce that Miss re-
: iesua Parrish. who is professor o,
E pedagogy and director of the practic.
: scnool at the Georgia State Norma
) college 1t Athens, will attend h.
great meeting of the assemble !,
June. mis- nra""i~@.a Ia the larg-
* n o resultful MEETING ,he
~'eacners have ever had in all The
."ehtS years and more during which
Ce assemblies have been held. For
several years they were held at More.
h1ou lily. Great interest is express
GU al regard 10 tic meeting, and the
t.'SIalnme' which has been
W rloiesSor X. ID. w. Common is ey-
cement ana very attractive indeed.
IL mas been stated that the Third
band OF Raleigh would he
amcng the hanus at the MecklenInr~
n~eclasaslon ceIebratioE 1T Charlotte
May 2"eh' but as yet no contract 49,
eeen maoe'NA Raleigh firm. Sherun,5
Hises and COMPANY. has hoe,
cd th@ eontrac\ for the civ of c.
lotte, The THU Regimlns ~ INA
poets TO give a\t>-.cSH - oa4d e&-
on the 9th. Hea1erS Il !
The demand " nnno, I
tilizer continues o. 0nlniai cial lHH-
does that upon tf>e nea'y n so
partment for tax agricultural de-
AS Yet the groun /.
new ayr cultural tu:idLIion OF me
ricultural and Mechanicaat the Ag-
not Deer graded and are Hllege have
unattrac:ive. II is undefequentiy
the grading is soon to bed that
location is one of the most c. The
iug around Raleigh. 2an1-
Much cotton continues TO b. /
in his section and the farmefld
not seem to snow much dispose
to turn loose though the figures l
high. a
\ powerful steam shovel is cutting
away entertainments % as to give {
large increase of. trackage in the
yards of Seaboard Air Line railway
here. One of the sections removed
was marked by a battery of toul
: guns, which was part of the circle O
:. entertainments built in 1868 TO protec
Raleigh from attack by federal troops
who it was expected would make {
dash upon tie capital from New Bern
where General Foster was in com
mand. Large numbers of slaves were
requisitioned to do this work. Their
were eleven batteries along the en-
trenched lines. Of these only three
now remain, the others having beer
removed either in railway or agricul
Q tural work. The two magazines hav
also been destroyed. One of the re
naming batteries is near the Soldier
Home, and certainly ought to be re
tanned as ali object of interest in fl
ture years. 1t may lot be know.
O genei ally, but it is said to be a rae
o that at one time it was a plan 0
General Joseph E. Johnson in his re
treat before General Sherman, I
a make a stand here at Raleigh; though
v the line of entertainments and %
n batteries along it were 50 near tn
# city as to be really but little defense
it now seems.
Special Agent KAlib.ew. who is Q
4 The United States oriicultural depart
ment aud whose speciality is tobacco
10 is visiting towns along the norther'
q border IF this state. The tobacco GRO
to be put in the grund this year !
n expected tC be quite a fair n a
J. to area.
State Treasurer Lacy was locke
Al for last Saturday, but will not reac
here before the end of this week. il
left Arizona yesterday. A letter fr1r
! Mr.. Stephen B. Weeks, who is now ]
charge of an Indian school in Aria
ma says he met Treasurer Lacy thes
recently. Mr.. Weeks has until III
n last year or so been at Santa F.
New Mexico.
Commissions are issued to officer
y, Of company I. Third regiment, Bur
= lias.on; j. c. Freeman, captain; lieu
tenants, John B. Appe and w. n
Asheworth.
AS yet interest in politics is Gel
tainly very languid at least in TIL
Fort of North Carolina, and there
very little talk about anything of n
kind.
~ The following lawyers are presan
attending the supreme court, which
nearing appeals from the Eleveni
l. district: Cyrus B. Watson, ClemeI
II Manly, Lindsay Patterson and j.
:, G-ogan, Winston-Salem; w. F. Cal
!! ter, Mount Airy; j. NJ. Bodenhame
Dobson.
III From the number of charters b.
,r ing Issued for corporations il seen
;. that all previous records Is TO tn
- number of these will be broken.
D. nulnbe~ of the corporations have Lars
n capital stock. and the variety ws
T. never greater.
4 number of requests for the loa
% of the Confederate flags, which weI
l. returned by the war department
IS year ago to North Carolina, hay
70 been received from lime TO time, con
q, ing from various sources, but all {
1T these have been turned down becaus
Of the flags have been permanently al
N ranged in - with a view to Ii
general effect. and have been arrans
he ed in such a way hat they will
d ~preserved Indefinitely, as no mot
d can get at them by eaSon OF the Il
secticide and germacide used. Som
of the states made the mistake {
letting their flags be scattered an
now the authorities are greatly trout
l. led because they cannot get them G
le lo11- ,rofp The vcrv dow tho dos