The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-26
NORTH

Last Tuesday tobacco sold as high 81.
$40 a hundred pounds at Oxford
A handsome portrait of the late DIR
! Durham adorns a niche in tbs
/ First Baptist church. says the Durham
Sun.
Lafayette Powell, near town. was de-
stroyed by fire Friday evening. The fire
is supposed to have originated from a
spark from the engine. The sheds were
burned down and the engine and boiler
ruined The loss is about $50
! Sam Lee. n Chinaman who recently
established a laundry In Concord. has
skipped. A new steam laundry drove
him out. In conversation with n patron
concerning the effect a steam laundry
would have upon his business. the China
man said: Dance steamee yaundry
washee. no good"
Greensboro Telegraph: Joe Morgan. n
carpenter. went tot he circus SATURDAY..
pulled out his wallet containing Sig1 and
paid FOR his ticket. Placing the wallet
back in his pocket he started for the en-
trance OF the show and before getting
inside the tent was touched" by some
one of the light fingered gentry and re-
lieved of his money.
Gastonia Gazette: After suffering for
a number of years with consumption.
KEY. j.. Frank Hoke died last Monday
Afternoon at C~herryviile. aged 10 years, II
months and - days.-Sam Byrd. n no.
torious negro outlaw from South Caro-
lima. was captured in town last Friday
night by Policemen Carroll and Williams.
Ihey did a neat piece OF work and did
1t quickly. within an hour perhaps after
they learned he was in town. Byrd had
shot about six men.
Raleigh News and Observer: ALLEGHENY
county was the scene of another murder.
Wednesday afternoon at / o'clock. in AL
iegnany county. a man named Johnson
shot and instantly killed a man named
murphy and dangerously wounded the
iaftRrS brother Johnson u-nx v,la,4l -,
Jail at Sparta last night. A disagree
ment in regard to sale of rent corn was
the cause Of the murder. This makes
three murder cases for the next term OF
Allegheny court. which does not convene
until next March.
Lumberton Robesonian: The plant of
the Maxton Manufacturing Company was
DESTROYED by fire last Thursday after
noon. The loss is estimated at s 5000.
with no insurance. J. c. McCaskill is
the principal owner of the and
announces, we understand, that he will
not rebuild-While the hail of the 10th
did no damage in and around Lumberton,
other sections Of the county were not
so fortunate. The Ashpole section suf-
fered considerably. We learn that cot
ton was beaten out and damaged and
that considerable injury was done to the
pea crop.
Oxford Ledger: A large number Of our
people last Thursday had the pleasure Of
meeting for the first time in Oxford. Mr..
D. 4. Evans, OF braSSneld township. He
was quite a nice looking old gentleman
OF TO summers. with bright eyes. open
countenance and quite laxative. He
said it was his first visit to his county
town, although he was raised within
nfteen miles OF Oxford and was 60 years
ola. tie fought through the war.-Mon-
day night about 9 o'clock some one
went to the house of Mollie Henderson.
colored. near Miner Warehouse, and ask
ed for another woman: was told that she
did not live there, and then without
provocation. it is said, deliberately shot
a ball through the door. A woman named
Lewis and her small son, Charley. lived
tnefe, and the boy was sitting on a line
with the door with his legs crossed and
the bali entered the bottom of his raised
loot going not quite through.
Winston Sentinel: Rev. Thomas Parish
a Baptlst divine and a member of the
Masonic lodge at Elkin. died last even
ing on the south Side. He moved here
some time ago from Elkin. He was i'm
destitute circumstances and will be
buried by the Lodge here. at Union
Ridge at 10 o'clock tomorrov-I is
learned that MIR. VIII X. Coley, who has
sold the Davie Times, will move to Rail
elgh and accept the position OF night
editor on the new morning paper to be
started there about the first of Novem. !
Der. The new paper will be owned by q
STOCK company, and it is said that MIR.
creek .. Andrews, of the Press Visitor
VIII De business manager.-Mr. Hugh
n. heid' brother of the late Governor
REID, IS very i'll at his home i'm Reids. |
vile with an affection OF the heart. His
IrlehdS are very uneasy about him as
he Is IS years old. The town of Reidsville !
gets its name from him as he Vac I'D |
first settler. :"