The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-24
NORTH

NORTH CAI,OLINA.
Co,dsboro Argus: acre are now I'm
daily attendance at IT, white graded
school OF che city over 100 children from
che youngest to the school age limit. oc-
| cupying the large four-Story building
from the ground floor to the top.
A Raleigh writer In the Charlotte OBJ
server. speaking OF thc possibility OF
Senator Pr!tchard accepting Judge Dicks
| known here that Russell would appoint
Colonel Lusk to Prischard's place in she
senate In the case OF n vacancy"
Greensboro Telegram: DIR. Robinson.
/ who was bitten on the ear by n rabid
| cat at Guilford College several days ago.
Is I'm Baltimore where he went 10 take
| the Pasteur treatment. The terrible news
that the dread disease had developed In
| the case OF Dr. Robinson. al Baltimore.
reached Greensboro today.
| Hickory Times: A lie Ions republican
| and a cleNe r man and a hard worker
made the remark the other day that
heretofore ne had been voting the
straight radical ticket. but that hereaf-
ter he proposed to vote so his conscience
would let him sleep gooA-the straight
I free silver. democratic ticket. lie meant
what he said. too.
Washington Messenger: We regret to
learn nat Mr.. A. II. Covington has made
an assignment for the benefit OF mis- cred
itors. 90 Mr.. Chas. Il. Aycock. OF Pan
tego. This is unfortunate because 81
means the temporary suspension Of the
operation OF the saw mill plant AT Pun
go creek. We learn that the liabilities
OF Mr.. Covington are not more than
5000.
Charlotte Observer: Since the 9th OF
last November the Atlantic. Tennessee
and Ohio railroad has hauled lo.cS BUSH
els of apples out of Taylorsville. Seven
thousand bushels went direct to Charles
ton. The apples are shipped In car load
lots and the record will be very largely
L 80 h1far fhA lhfvAfnay AaaAn a..
over. and there is still a good store OF ap-
Piles about Taylorsville.
Kings Greenville Weekly: While fool
ing with a gun last Saturday at Bethel.
in the leg by a white boy named Phil
pot. 1t vas an accident.-We have
heard from reliable authority that Judge
Sutton got on a drunk while holding
the last term OF Edgecombe criminal
court. 1t was also stated that his honor
was anything but "A beauty while tack
ling red eye.
Morganton Herald: The Burke county
bank opens for business on Monday
next, temporarily occupying the front OF
the store building Immediately west OF
the Morganton Hardware Co. 1t il un-
derstood that Mr.. A. A. Shuford Will be
president. The other officers and direc-
tors will be announced later. The bust
ness will be started under the personal
direction of Mr.. X. &. Menzies, cashier
of the First National bank, of Hickory.
Manufacturers Record: The secretary
of war has sent n report to the house of
representatives relative to the improve
ment of the harbor at Southport. y. &.
1t is estimated that the cost OF a break
water and the engineering work would
be 50, roo. 600. This harbor is one of the
finest on the Atlantic and gulf coasts
and has a depth OF water sufficient to
accommodate the largest ocean
With the improvements referred to 1t
would become one of the largest and I'm
est harbors in the world.
Durham Sun: Dave Jones. formerly
employed in this office. had a right pain
full accident Sunday night. He accident
ally ran against a fence, making a con-
siderable wound about the face. After
reaching home he tainted away.-Lloyd
Lasater got one Of his hands caught in
a folding machine at the Erwin cotton
mills in West Durham and painfully
mashed. l.. j. Andrews also had one OF
his hands mashed in the same machine.
Clyde Reagan had one OF his arms mash
ed IN the Iapper room or the East Dur
ham cotton mills, by being caught be-
tween two steel rollers.
Greensboro Record: This morning be-
tween 3 and 4 o'clock the Southern Var
nish Company's storage house. which ia
situated down the railroad several hum
dred yards below Hucomuga mills. was
discovered to be ablaze and the entire
building with all OF it's contents was de-
stroyed. The loss Is said to approximate
$500. while $500 insurance Is carried. ..
w. Carr Il Co. are the insurance agents
commemorative. ]. w. Lee announced
In his sermon last night that ne visited
the jail yesterday and among the other
prisoners there. had a talk with Sonly
Ryan. Ryan stated to him that whis-
Key was the one cause of his long his
tory OF crime. He also promised Mr.. Lee
to give him a written statement on We'd
nesday in order to warn other young men
against the certain ruin which Is caused
by drink.
Raleigh News and Observer: The state
ment of the Raleigh Savings bank. pub
Ished elsewhere, makes a most remarka-
BILE showing. 1t was organized about ten
years ago with a capital stock of ST.. 900
1t has all along paid a semi-annual div
idend of 3 or 4 per cent. usually 4 per
cent, and yet 1t has $l2. 800 OF surplus
fund and S,54s.N Of undivided profits.
This bank with a capital Of ST., 900 has
deposits aggregating $197. OBS. 72.-The
statement OF the National Bank of Ra-
leigh, published elsewhere in today's pa
per, shows individual deposits subject "a
check amounting to sA9. 1s7. ~, and total
resources a~Sgregating nearly a million
dolfars.-WaShington. ID. c., December
2o.-A prominent North Carolina repubii-
can, talking to a friend yesterday, said:
There is a perfect understanding be-
tween Senator Pritchard and Butler. and
a reconciliation has been effected. The
republicans are crazy to organize the
senate and get the Offices. They canno;
do 1t without populist help. Butler is
anxious 10 come back to the senate from
> North aCro.ina. These two things caused
the coming together. Butler is to vote
with the republicans to reorgantze the
senate IL his vote is needed: IL not, he is
to be permitted not to show his hand a,
present by declining to vote at all,
|, Pritchard Is to throw the republican
supper TO Butler in 1900, and they are
to secure cooperation in 1898"