The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-02
NORTH CAROLINA.

Ihe high Point Enterprise says there
is an undercurrent Of feeling in Lexing-
ton that Mrs. Springs murderer lives in
the town.
The consulship at Shanghai. China. held
by I. K. Jernigan, a North Carolinian.
has been given to a Minnesota man. and
the consuiship at Vancouver, held bv
General Roberts, another North Caro-
IIhian, mas been given to a Massachusetts
man. North Carolina radicals expected to
get both these places.
Beaufort Herald: Rev. TIC. winecoff
or Chapel Hill, has been invited to deliver
the address at the dedicatory ceremonies
on July LIST, all who attend will hear a
fne oration.-Rev. Mr.. Horner. of Horn
ers school at Oxford. filled the pulpit Of
the st. PauTs Episcopal church last sun
day. Mr.. Horner is q scholar and those
VINO heard him pronounce him as an ex-
cellent preacher.
Fayetteville Observer: NJ. L. McLaurin
IS IN the county Jail serving a sentence Of
thirty days fer contempt. and though the
clerk of the court and the parties to the
prosecution are willing for him to be re-
leased. 1t seems that there is no help for
II, and he must serve out the sentence
Betsy Young, for thirty years cook on the
cape Fear river steamers, and held in
high esteem by all who knew her. died
at her home in Campbellton last night,
at an advanced age.
Salisbury World: A party of young
folks from Salisbury rode out to South
river yesterday afternoon and were enjoy
ing a quiet evening ON the banks of the
Yadkin when the storm. which was gen.
eral, came up. They became SO frightened
that they adjourned to a house near by
and prayed and sang sacred songs until
the storm had subsidized. 1t was a badly
scared set of people and they prayed and
sang increasingly until the storm was
past.
Charlotte Observer: Rev. J.-B. Hankins
is to leave Charlotte. He has rendered
his resignation as pastor Of Olivet Bap-
list church to accspt a call to Ozark, Ala.
He closes hi5 ministry here the middle
a schoIaf.-The subject of the
evening at Morehead was: AN Edu-
Gated Electorate This had been
the Fayetteville Observer and ex-Consul
to Manchester. The speaker was cheered
when he was introduced. and loudly APP
pIauded at the close Of one of the ablest
addresses of the entire assembly session.
Concord Standard: William DeJarnette,
a brick mason in the employ Of Captain
A. H.. Propst, is in a bad fix. While en-
gagged in laying a pillar at the new houses
at China Grove Thursday afternoon, about
2 o'clock, n small black spider crawled
upon his neck and bit him. He worked on
for several hours, paying no attention to
the bite, but he became sickened and
soon had to leave his work. He was
taken to his boarding house, where q
physician visited him. The man became
delirious and remained so until this (Fri-
day) morning, when he was brought here.
He says the pains are continual and of
the most eHtflcldJlnS k1nQ. he ndd iOSt
all use of his limbs and was unable to
walk.
WadesbOrO Messengers: If it were not
for the local demand here and
in this section, it would be impossible
for our cotton buyers to pay more than Z
cents for cotton. but as it is they are pay
ing 8 cents. This shows conclusively that
the farmers are greatly benefited by the
establishment of factories in the south.
Statewide Mascot: A gentleman, of
StJtpSV1Ip. while reading SUNDAY thnllOht
ofanegrO whom he had not seen or thought
of for fifteen years. He cannot tell why
he thought of the negro, but suddenly
the negro and some of his antics came
into his mind. The strange part of this
story is that the gentleman read in Tues
days Raleigh News and Observer an ac-
count of the Negroes death on Sunday
from a wound inflicted by a white boy
with Il knife on that day.
Raleigh News and Observer: President
Alderman, of the University of North
Carolina, will go to Columbia, S. c.. June
30, to deliver the annual address before
the University of South Carolina gradu-
ating class. The South Carolinians are
to be OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES A. B. An
drews will leave for New York Saturday
to take charge of the office of the presi-
dent of the Southern railway for the next
two months in order that President
Spencer may take a vacation. 1t will be
remembered that last year President
Spencer went to Europe for some three
months and at hat time Colonel Andrews
VINO Is 1lfSt vice president OF the SOUTHERN
railway, had complete charge of the sys-
tem.-Mr. r. X. Burners little boy, T.
X. Bruner, Jr.. was very severely bitten
Friday by a dog. The child's arm was
fearfully torn and lacerated by the brute.
A doctor was called in and it was found
necessary to take six stitches in the
wound.-PrOfcsSor William Hickman
Garter. a member of the class of SO of
Wake Forest college and now one of the
faculty of the school for the Deaf at
Danville. Kentucky. is in the city visiting
~, ,;rt,y. NJr- Inhn Il nv T.
G. Edwards, wife of Colonel L. c. Ed
wards, of oxford, died Friday N
her 6Sth year. Her death was
not unexpected, as she was stricken
with paralysis in January and had
never recovered from that attack. 4
wide circle of relatives and friends mourn
their loss. CThis writer has known we'll
Mrs. Edwards from her young woman
hood. She was a lady of refinement, of
rare purity of character. gentle. kindly.
sympathetic. and a good Christian. She
was very highly asteemed and most richly
deserved it. We sincerely sympathize
with her bereaved husband and her rela-
tives.-Messengerl-Mrs. Payne: wife
of Hon. J. F.. Payne. living a
mile or two south of Maxton, met
with a serious accident today. She went
to ring the farm bell to call the hands
from the field at noon. The bell lost its
fastening and fell upon her head. infiict-
ing. it is feared, fatal injuries.