The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-05
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whiteville News: Rev. ]. r. Belts has
taken charge of his new field and Is con-
Quoting a meeting at Porter Swamp Bap-
list church this week He will begin his
pastorate with the Baptist church in
Whiteyille next Sunday.
Hendersonville Times: We earn the
widow Of Bill Nye had S. 500 in the First
National Bank Of Asheville. of which she
Nye should start a subscription and make
up the amount. as it is about all she had
but something in mountain land.
Henderson Gold Leaf: Mr.. d. H. Gill
had the misfortune to sustain a consider
able loss by fire one day last week. A
pack house on his place in the country
was burned, together with a uantity Of
tobacco. a lot Of furniture which was
stored therein, and some lumber, ETC.. the
total loss being about $1,000.
Pittsboro Citizen: Among the horse
swappers on the streets here yesterday
was a woman. This is something new, SO
far as We know, for this place. Women
do almost every kind of work that men
do, they act as BARRIERS, ride bicycles and
play base ball, and now here comes a
woman to court to swap horses
Asheyille Citizen: Homer Ramsey. a
young colored man. yesterday offered to
sell to H. A Lindsey, at his store on
South Main street, a valuabl diamond
ring, the amount asked being SO cents.
The proposition aroused Mr.. Lindsey's
suspicion, and he called in Policeman
BRADLEY; The possessor Of the valuable
claims the ring belonged to his mother.
Greensboro telegram: President Alder
man was at the Merchants and Manufac-
turers' Club last night, and told a Tele-
gram man that the university Yesterday
surpassed her previous record. The larg-
est enrolment in the history of the insti-
tuition was 461 students, while the enroll
ment yesterday, exclusive of the summer
school, reached 462. President Alderman
is greatly n1oa Sad hOfh with tho n1,mhar
and personnel of the students.
New Bern Journal: The store of Mr..
w. s. Wynn, of Piney Green, was broken
INTO last Saturday night week and robbed
O. goods to the amount Of sa5.-Thomas
McGinn, engineer of the Stella steam tug
boat, was seriously hurt last week while
at work on the boat. He became entan-
gled in a rope attached to some of the
broke his ankle, so we are informed.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. Elan Cald-
well, of Harrisburg, was here yesterday.
He says whoever reported his hay crop
slandered him. He has made 400 or 500
bales OF hay in two months, and is still
raking it together.-Mrs. Spaniola, who
lives in the northeast part of the city,
was painfully burned yesterday morning.
She tied a piece Of net over her head and
went out to work with her bees. The net
caught en- fire from a spark and before
Mrs. Spaniola could get it off she was
painfully burned about the face and neck.
Goldsboro Argus: Mr.. Herman Grain
ger, of Kinston, was in the city today.
Mr.. Felix Harvey, also from the capital
of Lenoir county, spent a few hours be-
tween trains. By the way, kinston is a
good town and has mighty clever folks
in it, but We cannot see how Goldsboro
has to buy buggies from Kinston. Kins-
ton has two big factories and ships thou
sands of vehicles, and they are good ones,
too, and if Goldsboro cannot make bug
gies, there is no other place under the
sun that we had sooner patronize than
our Lenoir friends on the banks of the
Neuse.
Winston Journal: A Journal reporter
learns that Mr.. George Freeland, an en-
gineer who runs between Spencer and
Selma, on the Southern railroad, and who
has in the past been on the Winston
Salem run, got leave of absence a few
days ago to so to see his sweetheart, who
was visiting in Texas. He got as far as
Atlanta, and not having a health certi-
ficate was guaranteed there, and before
he could get away the sad news came to
him that the young lady had died Of yell
low fever where she was visiting. She
was a resident of this state, but her name
could not be learned, and was to have
been married to Mr.. Freeland in a few
months had she lived.