The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-14
THE n. C. NATIONAL GUARD
Inspection This Year Will be &
Most Thorough One
for Erection OF Monument
to North Carolina WOmen-After
the Hazers-Tobacco Growers Urg-
ed to Organize-Fund Raised Tor
Baseball Team-O her News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,

The governor was notified today that
CAPTAIN A. H. Huguet of the 18th in
fantry, u d. A, has been detailed "
take mart in the inspection of the North
tCarolina National Guard. Two years
ago at he great 10Th Of May celebration
at Charlotte, he was in command or
one of the companies Of provisional
battalion which was sent there by the
war department. The inspection be-
gins March 10th 4 will be n OF
the most thorough ever made
In a few days a meeting is TO be
held her in the interest of a movement
for the erection of a monument to
North Carolina women in the civil war.
! Some leading men here and in the state
propose t inaugurate this,
1t is said that detectives are here
looking into the matter of the nazicg
of freshmen at the agricultural N
mechanical college. The college au-
thorities find that the freshmen who
were hazed have apparently taken an
oath or made some sort of an agree
ment not to tell who hazed them. 1t
is not known how this matter will
stand when the matter gets before the
grand jury here next month, to Wh1ch
it now seems t be rapidly leading.
There is a universal expression of In
dignation at the treatment of the
freshmen and this is heard on every
side and there is also a general hope
that punishment will be prompt and
severe.
| Charters are granted the Crescent
Hardware Company at Greensboro, cap
ital stock $50, 1000 and the r. w. Liver
more General merchandise Company of
Pates, Robson county, capital $25.-
900.
Letters are coming in o the cap
tains of the National Guard regarding
Fort Caswell in the spring. 1t is the
desire of the adjutant generals de-
partment to have troops volunteer for
this service rather than to order them.
Capt John Duckett left today for
Elizabeth City to make the final ar
iduScllSLlLS lOI l1C uC" UulluIlS 1OI
the negro state normal school for
which the legislature made provision.
Representative B.. B.. Winborne, who
is here attending the supreme court,
; says that he people in the northwestern
section of the state are greatly pleased
with the settlement of the railway
! matter which the legislature made, and
that they are generally pleased with
the legislative work. There were some
kickers about the prohibition matter,
but the feeling on the part of these
are by no means deep-seated he says,
and will SOC vanish II he a no
doubt that there will be a very hand
some majority for the anti-prohibi-
tionists.
Congress claude Kitchin came in to-
day to argue a case tcfore the supreme
court He said rgal ding the political
conditions as seen from Washington,
that he republicans are more scattered
and respondent than ever before in
his recollection, and that it is very
plain that they realize that they are in
very bad shape He a y hat this is
the talk on every side. He regards
the opening for the democrats as a
good one.
The docket in the supreme court
next week, when the Third district ap-
peals will be taken up, is one of the
heaviest ever known, there being over
thirty cases.
The tobacco growers in this state are
being urged to form a close ~organiza-
ton and to contribute a dollar for
each one hundred pounds grown, this
to be used as a competition fund, in
order to fight the tobacco trusts. 1t
is claimed by Mr.. J. o. w. Grazely,
of Rocky Mount, that the growers are
tobacco and that the trusts are put
ting the Independent leaf dealers and
manufacturers out OF business at the
expense of the farmers, and have ami
hilated honest competition, so thai
there are but two things to be done
either to abandon tobacco culture en-
tirely or to create competition by com
bination. 1t looks like there will be a
fight here along this line.
1t had been expected that the five
safe crackers or yeggmen, as they are
known in the parlance of thieves
would arrive here from Lancaster last
night but they did not arrive until this
afternoon. They We're heavily guarded
and were mmediateIv mt in iaiI anC
will be tried in all probability at tn,
May term of United States court.
Deputy revenue collectors came In to.
day from Johnson county, havins
made a very successful raid in which
they got two illicit stills. Deputy Col
- lector Adams, who is a very clevel
man, says that during the past twe1v.
months at least 80 moonshine outfit
: have been captured in that county