The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-17
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A T. Mail, an excellent citizen Of Wake
county. died recently.
Laurinburg has a negro postmaster
and the people OF the town are grieved
and for cause.
A scrap is reported as having occurred
In Bryson City las, week. in which job
Everett. a merchant, and one Summers
were involved. was badly cut.
Wilson Advance: The police census.
which has just been completed. shows
that we have a population of 5.0A- This.
ing population which has no fixed place
OF abode. If these could be gotten at the
total wou doubtless reach 1000 souls.
Washington Messenger: A gentleman
Informed US Saturday that two Mormon
preachers had made their appearance in
the lower part OF the county with the
intention of preaching their pernicious
doctrine While we believe this IS a free
country and everyone has the right TO
worship God as his conscience dictates.
We still believe Mormonism ought not to
be tolerated for a moment.
Weldon News: Some people at work
in a field near Castor last week made a
horrible discovery. They saw a dog with
something in his mouth. and on exami-
nation it proved to be the leg of a white
infant. Investigation led to the discov-
cry of the mutilated remain of the in
FAINT. 1t had undoubtedly been murdered.
as it's little skull was badly crushed and
there were other evidences of the hor-
rible crime.
G~reenville Reflector: One night last
week Mr.. j. r. Perkins, of Carolina
burned his house. He moved all the fur
niture out of the building before it was
burned. Mr.. Perkins is the same man
who last spring tore a page out OF one
deeds office. We hear that an effort is
being made to get him in the asylum.
Asheville Gazette: At Bryson City,
Swain county, last Friday night. John
Everett. a prominent merchant. and a
carpenter by the name of Summers. be-
came involved in a fight in the store of
Everett in which N received nine
different cuts with a knife in the hands
of Everett. One cut, which is thought
TO be fatal, is in the right side. The 9TH
err wounds are on the face and different
aprts of the body. chances
for recovery are very slim.
Marion Messenger: A perpendicular
see-saw occurred between two boys at
the Mccall Touring mill building a few
days g G. A colored boy who had been
raising heavy weights to the top of the
building by means Of a pulley, had put
the loop Of the rope around one of his
of the building, and the heaviest of the
two, not thinking of the result, swung
his weight by h rope on the other side
of the pulley, when at once the colored
"a SAON w SAAS " ~ An AAo &AiAA
Edgar went to the ground.
Danville Register, sunday: Rev. Joseph
B. Martin, one of the oldest ministers Of
the North Carolina Methodist Episcopal
conference, died at 6 o'clock yesterday
morning at the home of his brother, a
few miles from this city, aged 70 years.
The deceased was introduced to the re-
cent Virginia conference here as a Wis
itOr, was taken ill in Danville while con-
ference was in session, and since Their
had been confined to bed at his brothers
home. About a week ago he suffered a
stroke Of paralysis, WHICH eventually re-
suited in his death. The deceased broth
er would have celebrated his 74th ami
versary had he lived until the LIST of next
March. In 1S45 he Joined the North Cara
DINA conference, and for forty-seven
responsible and solemn obligations of the
high office of a minister of the Christian
religion. A wife and seven children mourn
his death.
Charlotte Observer: The suburban
home of Mr.. A. r. Logic was burned to
the ground at 6 o'clock last night and
along with it a servants house, a two
story building. The property was located
on the Lawyers road, two miles east of
the city, and before its purchase by Mr..
logic, several years ago, was known as
the Green Steele place. Mr.. Logic re-
modelled the residence and other build
ings at a cost of $4,000. 1t was one of the
prettiest suburban homes about Chara-
lotte-The Seaboard Air Line system,
which put a regulation into effect on De-
cember 9Th, allowing 300 pounds of bag
gage free, has issued another order kill
ing the free baggage order. The new
order goes into effect on December 22nd,
from which time the baggage regulations
on the Seaboard will be as they were
prior to December 5th, 40 pounds to each
first-class ticket.-Rev. j. S. Plummer,
pastor of the Episcopal church in OK
ford, has resigned and accepted a call to
West River. Maine. At the suggestion of
the bishop of North Carolina, the vestry
Immediately called the Rev. r. B. Owens,
OF Salisbury, to fill the vacancy.-Mr.
Bumpass, a former citizen of Person
| county, a cripple, on ~crutches, arrived
; IN Oxford Saturday afternoon from Okla
i-oma after being three months on the
tourney, having made the entire trip in
a buggy. driving the same horse the
whole distance.