The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-02-28
MesseDger Bureau.

OF the death of the StenOgrdpher, 14iS
Stella Jordan, who died OF pneumo ii.
after very brief illness
At the soldiers home three veteran
died yesterday, these being Elijat
Bean Of Iredell. John Smith OF Chat
ham and Sam Davis Of Wilson.
charter is granted to the Lynn
boro Mining company Of Mon o. t
mine gold, tic, capital stock SIS 900
Inquiry Of well posted cotton de /
oers here as TO the outlook for the cot
ton planting this season tr.nes out 4 c
information that the acreage viii b
about the same as last year u. tn t
less fertilizer Will De puIch .sed p r
hapS the labor question Will Mt b 0
much OF q problem. as 80 IN ny 0
the saw MILLS have shut down and so
much Of the railway work stopped
At the fertilizer factories ice b. ill
1nG OF orders began toCay, tn bel.
the beginning Of DUS ness and it
about three weeks later thin ua.
The president Of one of the IN / )
says the farmers arc not Paying thei.
debts, though they have the on \
and are being paid better pics f..
their products.
Governor Glenn left this m-rnilg
Tor wentworth TO speak tOm-rrJT a d
open the prohibition campaign.
Captain X. Z. Hackney Of Ddrl am
resigns as captain of Company NJ,
Third regiment.
The oldest inmate Of the sOdi rs
home is Comrade Pool of this comfy.
who is almost 81 years Of age ana
who was one of the escort which was
I'm charge of the Cherokee Indians
in the great removal in 1888 from tn
North Carolina mountains to The an
cient territory.
There has certainly been very
marked interest in the debate between
Craig and Ktchin at Wadesboro Sat
urday. All sorts of rumors are cur
rent. The Craig men say they are
tremendously in the lead and will
have no trouble whatever to win. The
Kitchin men are quieter but talk as
If they were confident and it is assert
eI that Ashley Horne will be able to
show a much larger vote than his Cp
ponents expect and that he will hol
the balance of power. One man said
today that in case OF a deadlock Ee-
tween Craig and Kitchin Re tho ghl
the friends of either of them woul
the other .a"n. One man intimateI
ahat il there was Il deadlock some
dark horse might be brought III, sucl
as Charles B. AycoCk for example.
The white republicans in this state
are not giving themselves any cOn-
Germ about the negroes. They say the
negroes do not poll two hundred vo es
in Wake county and they are not
anywhere in the state. Some Ct the
negroes seem to be rather sullen to
wards the white republican,
The North Carolina Society of Gin
dnnati has reelected its former Off
GETS. Wilson G. Lamb being presi~ent
and Marshall de Lancy Haywood OF
Raleigh, secretary There are lOl
members, Of whom five are new ones,
these being Walter w. Watt, Of Char
lotte; George Washington POll2 OF
San Antonia, Texas; James Boyd of
Harrisburg, Pa; Lewis A. Fa giant
of the U. S. naval academy at Anap>-
lis and Robert J. Brevard o. Char
Iotte.
In April the general society in the
United States will meet at Charleston.
Et holds such meetings every three
years.
The Seaboard Air Line asks leave CT
the corporation commission to- take
of it's shoo-iy train, against which
act the Raleigh merchants protest.
The road claims that the train is no.
O. money maker.
r. Jones, a piano dealer here. was
put in jail late Saturday night, Icing
charged by Parker Gardner & Co, o
Charlotte, of embezzling 5000, though
there are intimations that there are
other cases against him.
The republican state executive c-m-
mfttee will again have its headquai ters
at Greensboro. These viii SoCn be
opened and Chairman Spencer b. Ad-
ans say that q vigorous campaign Will
be conducted.
For some time North Carolina has
been shipping large quantities Of cern-
field peas to the middleWest, incl
pally Illinois, for Use in bringing u
run down lands there and it is this
which has largely contributed II
doubling the price Of this tile in
the past few years. Now Cal -ornla
proposes to ship hlack-eyed paas to
North Carolina.
The first inStallment of the new
Springfield magazine rifles to the Ma
tional Guard came today. 1t is the
purpose of the war department to
make the change Of rifles as IA )iGly
as possible. AS soon as the ins e.
tions are over the adjutant gene al
and the quartermaster general will
know what supplies OF cloth ng, etc a e
necessary for the equipment Of the
troops.
In the south with the exception of
Fexas. very little attention his bcen
given until lately to immigration, and
even now South Carolina, which was
leading in what may be termed the
new movement to get settlers from
abroad seems to have retired from that
position and given over the busi-
ness, Your correspondent received
letter today from three bricklayers
who say their ages are 80, S2 and "a,