The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-03
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Inc NOfln SdIOtlua state bdDIlSl con-
vention meets at Oxford on Decem-
Der 9th.
Greenville Kings Weekly: Mr.. Remus
Burruss. aged . years and Miss Sarah
Smith. aged ID years and very small for
her age, were married last Sunday. 1t
was a runaway marriage.
Greenville Weekly: In Falkland town.
ship. at a corn shocking last week. a
white man named Edwards filled up on
liquor, and laid down in the shucks.
was lying face downwards and Ii is not
known of which he died, cold. suffocation
or liquor.
Marion Democrat: The mines in Nc
Dowell are taking ON new energy. Mr..
Knox, on South Muddy, has ten or twelve
men at his mine and is also working q
night force. Colonel Horton has had his
large double hydraulic machinery at
work during the past week on the Vein
Mountain property.
Salisbury World: The solicitor had at
least twenty little boys to spear before
him this morning and tell where and
from whom they had gotten their cigar
cites. The boys never hesitated, and
each one seemed delighted at the idea of
exposing either the person who gave him
the cigarette, or the person from whom
he purchased his supply.
Webster's Reidsville Weekly: A pie
made exclusively Of chicken brains is
what a citizen OF this county is said to
have taken a fancy TO many years age
dhd octCi lIhCo " 6Idtily uIS dppSlltC.
1t required $40 chickens and cost A5. The
chickens were given to the poor, the
heads being all the epicure cared for.
Fair Bluff Times: The people Of this
section are investing freely in all kinds
of fruit trees. and if they will give them
the proper attention and cultivation they
will find out in a few years they have
made a good investment. We are positive
here to the red hill will be worth hum
dreds and thousands of dollars.
Monroe Enquirer: w. L. Belk. Jr., Of
Buford township, was brought in b.
Deputy Sheriff M; d; Myers yesterday
comatabus" for some time and the Off
GERS are congratulatirg themselves be-
cause of capture. Belk was wanted for
retailing liquor without license.
Asheville Citizen: A letter from a Sa-
vannah attorney to an Asheville firm in
dicates that with the proper amount of
encouragement a large New England cot
ton mill would remove to Asheville. The
writer states hat the New England con-
Germ has made a fair proposition to re-
move it's mill south, and for reasons
which he sets forth the Asheville section
is preferable. The company proposes to
issue $50, 900 of stock and $3.50. 900 Of first
mortgage 20-year 6 per cent. bonds, and
erect a mill of $1,000 spindles and 800
looms. The company agrees to take the
stock and $50, 600 of the bonds if the peO-
pie will take $1Oe, Gh of the bonds.
Charlotte Observer: While the Jack
were lined up at the Carolina Central
depot last night, waiting for the Raleigh
train, John Brown. porter for the Airing
ton hotel, got into a dispute with Chas.
Smith, a little negro who has served
terms on the chain gang. Smith drew a
pistol, and as he was pulling down on
Brown, some one knocked it from his
hand. He made his escape.-Attached
to the Southern vestibule train from
Washington yesterday morning was a
special car containing a party of capital
lists from New York. They were ON the
way to Spartanburg to investigate the
advantages offered by that section for
cotton milling investments. They expect
to put their money in Southern mills
High Point, November 27.-Today while
a party Of a dozen men were out hunting
rabbits a gun was accidentally dis
charged, wounding three Of the party,
but none seriOusly.-ScOtland Neck, No
veInber was a row and free
fight amongst some negroes at Hobgood,
a town a few miles down the road, Sat-
urday night. The result was that Law
renee Howell is dead and Reuben Smith
is in the town prison here. They had i'm
bibed freely, and in some way got into a
difficulty of words, when a desperate
fight ensued. Knive were used freely.
lowell and Smith were the chief combat
ants, and while rolling in the struggle
Lawrence's jugular vein was cut and he
soon died. Smith was charged with the
killing and Messrs. G.. K. Moore and S.
w. Everett brought him to town yester-
day. He was bloody all over, nearly, and
himself gashed badly about the face.
Raleigh News and Observer: Rev.
Henry Crosby, colored,. a well known
school teacher, died in Raleigh about 7
o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was
principal of the Plymouth Normal school
for ten years. but gave it up some time
(Special.)-Our little town was stirred up
today about 2 o'clock by a negro falling
in a well in the rear of Mr.. L. w. Dodd's
stables. MI. Dodd said he told the negro
in the stable, when next thing he heard
was a big scramble and a loud call for
help. Il am in de WELL" Ropes were
brought and he was brought out with a
bad cut head and very wet clothes
Hickory, N. c., November 27.-On Thurs
day night a mysterious crime was com
mitted at Earney's chapel, in Burke
county. about three miles from this place.
Several days ago a small child died of
diptheria in that neighborhood and was
buried in the graveyard adjoining the
chapel. This morning parties passing by
the spot saw that the grave had been
opened. Upon Investigation the coffin
was found standing upright in the grave.
The coffin had been burst open and con.
tanned a few leaves. The body was in it
undisturbed except that the clothing was
Observation-Disclosures, N. c., Novembe,
"a very destructive fire took place
here today. The large ginning establish
hSAC' UoiiSI AdStoiy anu SIlSl mlll, Uo'
longing to J. B.. Whithurt. was burned
this morning about 8 o'clock. F. F
Cherry had stored in a warehouse ad
joining some one hundred and twenty
bales of cotton, part of which was saved
in a damaged condition.. His loss was
about seventy-five bales. Several Other
parties lost from one to ten bales. Some
fifty tons Of cotton seed was also de
stroyed. The warehouse of the Old Do
minion Steamship Company was saved b,
great exertions. The total loss will foo
up some six or seven thousand dollars
Mr.. Whithurt has been truly unfortun
ate by fire, his saw mill and planning
works having been burned about thre,
weeks ago.
Having used three bottles of P. P. p
for impure blood and general weakness.