The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-03
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Forty new looms have been ordered
for the Proximity mills, at Greensboro.
The machinery for the new silk mill
has arrived.
The North Carolina Colored Volun-
teer Fire Association will in
their eighth annual session at Winston
on August 10th, for a three days ses-
sion.
Alonzo Gaskins n his wife, o. New
han, came near being burned to death
before day yesterday morning by a
slow burning, smothered fire, supposed
to have been set by an incendiary.
New Bern Journal: The accident to
AlOnZo Bryan, who was injured Mon
day by being run over by the hose reel,
seems to have been more serious than
first stated, Mr.. Bryan having his ell
bow fractured and a small bone in his
leg was splintered.
Sylvia Sentinel: Judson Allen thresh-
ed twenty-five bushels of wheat from
the product of one bushel sown. This
is at the rate Of thirty-thre bushels to
the acre, one and one-half bushel of
seed being the quantity generally sown
to an acre.
Lincoln Journal: Esquire j. D. Bal
lard, of Ironton, is one of the county's
best gardeners. He brought us a tur-
nip which weighed 3 pounds, II ounces,
and measured IL inches in diameter.
The seed from which it was grown
were sowed April goth.
Salisbury World: Tom Shedrick, the
man who was sent up from this
county for seven years for highway
robbery, and who afterwards escaped
from the states phosphate mines, near
Wilmington, was captured Thursday
afternoon near the Yadkin liver.
Monroe Enquirer: A gentleman in
forms us hat the ants are eating
chinch bugs, and that in some fields
the destructive bugs have been de-
strOyed by the mats. That is indeed
good news. If Solomon lived now he
would probably a still higher regard
for the busy little ant.
Webster Stockton, of Advance, Davie
county, lost his hand by it's being cut
off by a ircular saw at A. G. Woods
saw mill last week. The Davi Times
says that the first Mr.. Stockton knew
Of the accident was when he saw his
hand lying on the floor, as he did not
feel the slightest pain at the time of
the mishap.
Raleigh Press-Visitor: A visit to Mr..
w. B. .Wilder's farm, two miles south
Of the city of Raleigh, will convince
you hat farming on the right line does
pay. Mr.. Wilder a in cultivation
eighty acres Of cotton, which will pro-
duce 100 bales, twenty acres in corn
tina will produce 200 barrels, thirty
five head of fat hogs which will make
more bacon than will supply his fam
lily and farm hands. He makes all his
supplies on the farm. He says he paid
out only $3.50 for help and c~ultivates
his crop with three plows.
Asheville Citizen: The Alaskan gold
fever has reached Asheville, and it is
probable that the KlOndyke fields will
have two Asheville representatives in
it's population. Those who are pre-
pairing to make the across-continent
trip in search of riches are Ed. H.
Hunt and w. A. Buchanan.-A Sc
rious accident befell A. c. Bartlett,
of this city, who, with a party Of
friends, has been spending a few days
at Sapphire. Saturday last. While he
and his friends were out riding he was
kicked by one Of the horses, with the
result that his leg was broken above
the ankle. Both bones of the leg were
broken.
The Durham Herald says 200 people
will b. thrown out of work in that
town by the paragraph published in
The Messenger from the new tariff rel
ative to gifts, prizes, etc. The Herald
says this new law breaks up. all the
coupon and tag business, relative to
giving away prizes, ETC., and all the
hands who a v been employed in
handling this work will be out of a job.
Charlotte Observer: A very Distress
ing accident occurred in Sharon Mon
day. Herbert, the 2-year-Old son of Mr..
Chalmers Kirkpatrick, while playing in
the field, was run over by a wagon and
probably fatally injured."Mr. James
Bost, an aged citizen of Clear Creek,
tainted while sitting IN his chair Mon
day and fell, breaking two ribs. Mr..
Bost is about so years of Age.
Concord Standard: Mr.. Jesse Snoth-
erly, of Montgomery county, in a battle
in the late war, found a federal SOL
dier between the lines, wounded in one
knee, and unable to get away, while
the dry leaves, etc, were conducting a
fire that would have burned him to
death. The unfortunate mans cries
for water especially drew the attention
of Mr.. Snotherly and elected his pity.
He fastened to clear away the litter
from around the man, and also brought
him a canteen of water and left him to
follow the line of duty and personal
safety. Not, however, until he had
given the grateful man his name and
address. Here all seemed to end-but
not so. The wounded federal recover
ed and we are told, recently opened
a correspondence with his benefactor
and enclosed to him his check for $500.
Salisbury World: Perhaps one of the
largest cOnsignments of soda that ever
passed through Salisbury went through
Thursday. There were 10 solid car loads
of keg soda, 125 kegs to the car. The
soda was being shipped from New York
to Nashville.