Democratic messenger., 1894-11-10

his home M Snow Hill.
Smith, Moore IL Co.'S box factor,
is doing an immense business. \ larger
number of hands is now employed a
this mill than ever before Its capacity
has been enlarged until now it is fiv,
times more than il was several year.
ago, and bids fair To keep on increasing
All Hallows Regular
service. Holy Communion 1.30 a. m
Morning prayer and sermon at 1896
a. IN. Sunday School 3 p. m. Stock
ton, service and sermon ut 3 y. M
Evening prayer and sermon ut $50 p
m.. Snow Hill. Robert Scott. Rector
-Messrs. Wilson q Collins have
rented one of the offices in the new
Court House which they will occupy a.
soon rs completed. II is the corner
office ON the side hall and being at
the foot of the stairway leading up
into the court room is very desirable
location.
A co-partnership has been entered
into by DIR. A. W. Smith of this town
and DIR. Lathnp. OF New Jersey, a
graduate of veterinary surgery and
they will open a veterinary hospital in
this town and in Salisbury for the prac-
tice of their profession, the treatment Of
horses cattle and other animals.
Mr.. Ogden Gelet, Of New York,
has been elected member Of the I'm
perial and Royal Yacht squadron OF
Austria Hungary. Mr.. Gelet was pro-
posed by His Imperial and Royal
Highness the Aichduke Charles Ste
phen of Pola, and seconded by Mr.. +.
p. T. Hammond. United States Consul
at Budapest.
\ young colored man named Henry
who lived with Joel Coffin, about =
miles this side of Ocean City, disap-
peared last May and nothing was
heard of him until Thursday, when
his bones were found dangling from a
tree in the woods within hundred
and-fifty yards of Mr.. Cofin's gate.
1t is supposed to he ease of suicide.
The household and kitchen furni-
ture, large lot of farming utensils, l
pair mules, ; horses, one being a very
valuable 3-year-old mare, 30 head of
cattle, including number of valuable
milch cows and a fine yoke of oxen, ID
sheep, hogs of all sizes, 80 stacks of
fodder. several hundred bushels of corn
&c. will be sold on Wednesday. No
vember 14th, at the home of the late
John Bromley, near Box Iron. VIM.
L. Bromley, Administrator.
Our wide-awake clothier, B. I.
Truiit, offers to pay the car fare from
Berlin, Franklin City and way stations
to Snow Hill from now till January
lst, of every customer who buys $1,000
worth of goods from him. and for a
$500 purchase he will pay your
return fare. This is great offer,
especially when you take into considera-
ton his superb stock of clothes. shoes
and furnishings and the low prices at
which he is selling them. This offer
applies to all customers coming to Snow
Hill by rail from within 90 miles.
The proposed ship canal uniting
the Chesapeake and Delaware bays is
getting itself agitated from official
sourses. An Engineer Board has been
appointed by authority of Congress to
report on a pratical route for q foot
canal between the two estuaries, and
seven different routes are already under
consideration, besides the present Della
ware and Chesapeake canal. which
would need much enlarging. The
routes were the Sassafras river, 129,2
miles the Southeast creek, 1873
miles the Centreville, 106,3S miles
the Queenstown, 1929 miles the
Secretary and the Ferry creek, 1881
miles.
On Thursday morning Taylor
Dennis, constable at Newark, swore
out writ for the arrest of Charles
Hargis, colored, which set forth that
Hargis had threatened to kill Dennis
with shot gun Mr.. Sidney W. Ad.
kins was deputized to serve the writ
and arrest Hargis. He took with him
four other men. They say they visited
Hargis' home and were told that their
man was not there. They made a
search. however, and found him in a
closet, from which he emerged with
drawn pistol and resisted arrest. Sew
eral shots were fired and the man finally
gave up. When the men started of
with him, he broke away and ran for
dear life. Shots we've fired after him
and he was finely captured, and carried
to Newark. He claimed that he had
been shot but it was not believed until
the man had been brought to Snow
Hill and put in Jail, where Drs.
Straughn and Aydelotte examined him
and found that ball had entered his
back. Ii was probed for but could mol
he found, and the man is in a critical
condition. 1t is very serious piece oi
business.
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