The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-28
North CAROLINA.

TO the Baptist church at Clayton
North Carolina. with thirteen students,
comes next TO Virginia in numerical or
der at Roanoke college. virginia
William Day. the negro VINO kliea
Laura Ellis in Winston last Saturday /!
night. was arrested at Stoneville yester-
day. |
Goldsboro Argus: Naval Cadet Pope
Washington. L. s. N. who has been on q |
visit TO his parents. Colonel and MIS- :.
A. Washington. in this city, left today Tor
Old Poin, Comfort. where his steamer Is
now in harbor. |
Staniy Enterprise: A populist leader
and fusion justice OF the peace, " ~
to six months imprisonment In JAN py
Judge Hoke Wednesday on a SeFuic''
guilty of fornication and adultery
Raleigh Times: The two-story dwelling
on Firwood avenue in which MT. w.
L4oftin NOVEL;. an engineer on the sea-
board Air Line resides, took fre TINS
afternoon about 3 O'Clock. and was almost
entirely consumed. The house Is tho
property of Mr.. Richard Taylor.
Charlotte News: The Smith scandal re-
minds US there are other things besides
nepotism in the state
]. L.. Chalmers last night received a tee.
gram from Mr.. f. c. Ray. stating that
his wife. formerly Miss Bessie Dewey.
| and their two children: Lacy Ray and
Katherine Ray. had a mild form or the
| yellow fever.
II SdnIOTu EApISSs- SoAiN " Nb@
denounce Senator Butler in very strong
terms. A populist. who had been an en-
| thusiastic Butler man in years past. was
heard to say the other day that the sena.
| tor was in league with Governor Russell
| and cared nothing for the interests or the
| people. The "reformers' are at last be-
ginning to open their eyes.
Asheville Gazette: The death of Fro
| fessor William F. Grabau occurred last
| evening at $50 o'clock at his residence
on Grady street. Professor Grabau was
seventy-three years OF age. PROFESSOR
| to Asheville a number Of years ago and
| has long been instructor in music at the
| Asheville Female college. and organist at
the Central NJ. Z. church.
Washington Messenger: Rev. Nathaniel
Harding has celebrated his 2ith anniver-
sary as rector of the Episcopal church in
Washington. He has conducted 2S III.
nerals. administered $50 baptisms. per-
formed 101 marriages and 259 persons have
been confirmed. He has had many fiat
terins calls to much larger and weather
parishes, but each time he has decided to
remain in Washington.
Washington Messenger: Wednesday,
18th. Peter Dudley. a negro man residing
near Johnsons' Mills. was taken before
United States Commissioner A. j. Loftin,
charged with fraudulent use of United
States mails. or an attempt to swindle
through the mails: having been arrested
upon a warrant sworn out by Postofice
Inspector II. T. Gregory. Dudley was
committed to Jail in default Of bail to
await trial in the United States court at
i New Bern, n. G.
Raleigh News and Observer: In all the
history of the state there has not been,
except in the Grissom investigation, a
charge so serious as that alleged against
DR.. K. H. Smith, the physician in charge
Of the criminal insane of North Carolina.
IF DR.. Smiths resignation is in this
morning it will he accepted and there will
be no investigation Of the charges made
against him. If it is not in, the charges
will be publicly INVESTIGATED. nave been
assured that it will be before the board
today-Chairman Dockery.-The most
largely attended funeral ever held in
Nash county was that at the burial OF
Mr.. Joseph Calhoun Arlington on Satur-
day. at the old Arlington homestead near
Hill;ardston. Mr.. Arlington was the
OUNCES son of the late Hon. Archibald
Arlington. and had been i'll with fever
only a few days.
Lumberton Robesonian: Duncan Nc
Nair, Esq, one of the oldest and most
prominent citizens of the Tolarsville Sec
ton, died Thursday morning of last week
Mr.. cNa was about so years old
Five hogs and two yearlings belonging tc
Isaiah Wilcox, who lives about three
miles from town. were killed by lightning
Thursday vening.-There are some
swift cotton pickers in Robson county,
but the champion picker is probably Dud
Stevens. colored. Last week on the farm
Of J. c. Atkinson, he picked out 44 pounds
1 LII JIG Ody|SdpldIH w. ,. WdS
attacked with a fainting spell on the
street Monday morning and was taken
home. He soon rallied and was able to be
out yesterday.-Cotton weak and de.
clining at 6 to sh CENTS. H. McRae
a civil engineer of Wilmington, was here
last Week and submitted a proposition to
the town authorities to take charge OF the
putting in of the plant for water works
j. H. Grant, a contractor of the same
city, was also here to submit a bid or
the work: AS yet nothing definite has
ing was held last week at Antioch Baptis,
church. near Attention. The pastor, Rev
A. H. Porter, was assisted by his brother
Rev. S. j. Porter. of New Bern. There
were nine conversions and eight member
added to the church as a result of the
meeting.
Fayetteville Observer: L. J. Best. Esq.
Of Dunn. at the request of Mr.. Clifford,
one of Purvis's attorneys. visited Purvis,
Blackwell, in his cell in the county Jail
yesterday afternoon. and informed him
that he need have no hope of escaping the
death penalty. that his attorneys would
not appeal to the supreme court, nor
ask for executive clemency, and therefore
he had better prepare for the other
world: Purvis listened in silence, seeming
his last hope from him, and when the at
torney concluded said he was preparing
to meet his maker.-That was a most
narrow escape our former townsman,
Rev. Kirkland Huske, had recently at his
home in Great Neck. New York, an ac-
count Of which we find in the northern
papers. 1t seems that Mr.. Huske was
approaching his home in a buggy when
a big storm suddenly came up, and driv-
ing his horse under a shed, he sprang out
or the vehicle and ran to the house. He
had hardly reached the entrance when
a great crash Of thunder shook the earth,
followed by a vivid flash of lightning,
which almost stunned him. He then real
lied that his life had been saved by a
miracle, for the horse, which he had Just
driven. lay dead in the shafts the buggy