The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
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Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Fayetteville. n. c., September 8.
Not in a boastful spirit, but simply
as germane to the recent "reminiscences
in journalism Of the Nestor of the
North Carolina press, your esteemed
n venerated DR.. Kingsbury, your
correspondent ventures to recall the
fact that he was editing
t~hirty-two years ago, in 1865. The junior
of the firm, the late Captain Benjamin
R~objnsor-One of the raves of con-
federate sOldiers-carved the head for
the paper from a piece of wood, print
ing material being very scarce with us,
the office plant being supplemented
from the delris of The Fayetteville
Observer. hat splendid paper wrecked
by Sherman. In that year Captain
Robinson was arrested and carried to
Raleigh by order of the late General
Grant, on account of the "rebellious
tone" of the paper. Your correspond
ent was conducting The News in the
Kyle building, corner of Hay n Dom
aldSOn streets, when the wOuld-be ne
gro violator Beebe, was shot down on
Market square, giving rise to the cele-
brated Tolar trial. He a correspond
ent of The Raleigh Sentinel in those
stirring times when DIR. Kingsbury was
on the staff, and the incorrigible and
irrepressible Josiah Turner, Jr., was
fighting Holden, Demonstrations
AND other works of the devil, and ring
ing the changes on "Kildee Lassiter,"
Chicken Thief Stephens" 'Blow-Your
Horn Billy" etc. He has been since
1855 UP to the present time cOntinu-
Ously engaged in newspaper work,
though not always in editorial charge
of a journal.
railroad f1agman. was carried to Lii
lington this week to stand his trial at
Harnett superior court. Comment is
already general that, while never a
man more deserved the rope than Pur-
Wis. the law will hardly hold him
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Fayetteville fully intends to press to
the very front as a cotton market this
year. Captain A. B. Williams, Mr.. A.
H. Slocomb and other buyers, will see
to it hat the cotton grower gets no
better prices anywhere.
The marriage Of Mr.. Whitehead, Of
Scotland Neck, to Miss Ellen Wood
ward, took place last evening at the
residence of Mr.. A. J. Woodward on
Haymount. The bride is a sister of
your esteemed townsman. Mr.. w. j.
Woodward. The groom was a brave
southern soldier, bears a high charac-
ter as an upright citizen, and doubt
less merits his good fortune, which is
enviable-for Fayetteville people we'll
know that to win n Of the wood
ward girls is to win a pearl Of price"
The d~eclination of Major E. L. Penn
bertOn to serve more h one year as
commander Of the Fayetteville indie
pendent Light Infantry is a break in
the conservative record of that splendid
corps. 1t is a sort of unwritten law
that the major commanding remains
for two or three terms. This exception
is in accordance with Major Pember-
tons request when he accepted the po-
sition last year for one term only. The
new cOmmandant, Major B. r. Huske,
is a very fine officer, and comes of a
| family closely identified with the inter-
! ests Of the company for generations.
The Fayetteville Military Academy
| opened it's fall session last week. The
number of boarders will be larger than
ever before, and the attendance of day
j scholars certainly not less than last
year. A new and valuable feature Of
this excellent school will be a course
of lectures during the year.
The Fayetteville Gas and Electric
Light Company are putting up their
| poles on Hay street, and the other cleo
| trio light company, being the town Of
Fayetteville in it's official capacity, ex-
| pect to put up theirs in the future.
"When Greek meets Greek" etc.
Colonel X. NJ. Murchison, of New
York, is visiting relatives and friends
here; Judge Bryan, of New Bern, is
| spending a fed days with his sOn-in-law
! and daughter, Major and Mrs. j. B.
Broadfoot, IN HaymOunt.
John Griffin, Of GAINESVILLE, O., says:
II never lived a day for thirty years