The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-08
r CAROLINA.

North Carolina will this year be the
Mecca of the Partridge hunters. Never
were the birds more abundant.
Shelby Aurora: There is now no doub;
road from Shelby TO Bristol. Tenn.
There is a fund of 5000 to the credi;
OF the Winston Normal institute TO be
used IN din teacher to prepare them
selves for their profession.
Smithfield Herald: DR.. Nicholas Jordan
died Sunday night He had been sick
with fever. but a congestive chill was
the immediate cause OF his death.
Charlotte News: James Douglas. VIII
Johnston and Jim Wallace. all TRUSTEES
at the camp on the Sugar Creek road.
made good their escape this morning.
Greenville Reflector: The Greenvilie
Driving Association will hold their fall
races November End. 3rd and 4th. There
are many entries and the purses aggre-
gate 1900.
Watauga Democrat: We never saw a
The crop OF both is immense and much
Of it is being dried and very little dis
titled into brandy.
The Reflector says that Limon Shoot
a colored man living near G~reenville, has
sold this year from IL acres. $50 worth
of sweet potatoes. in addition to using
all that were needed for the family.
Washington Messenger: A bear weigh
ing BIS pounds was killed about six miles
from town Saturday afternoon last. The
hunters from that section say. the ami
NAL was the largest they have ever seen.
Raleigh Times: A through freight on
wrecked between Wilson's mills and
Clayton Saturday nigh about IL o'clock.
After leaving Wilson's Mills. the train
broke into two sections and the rear sec
ton overlook and ran into the front
one, smashing five cars.
Peace Institute has opened better than
last year, and considers itself fortunate
in view of the fierce competition or all
sides. President Dinwiddle refitted and
reparier the building throughout during
the summer, and believes now. he says
that Peace has as complete and handsome
building and as able a faculty as can be
found anywhere.
Charlotte Observer: Those who attend
ed the exercises incident to the dedication
of the new court house of Mecklenburg
county Yesterday morning, were fortunate.
These exercises were appropriate and in
teresting.-R. F. Long, Esq, of States
Long has been employed by Engineer
Kinney. who was hurt in the collision
between Nos. SO and II at Harrisburg last
spring. and who will bring suit against
the railroad for $50, 900 damage
Raleigh News and Observer: At 8
o'clock Sunday mornin the people of OK
ford were startled by an alarm of fire,
to find a fierce fire raging on Commercial
avenue in the grocery store of ]. d.
Brooks. The flames had progressed rap
idly before the fire was discovered. Two
young men sleeping over the store were
awakened, but not in time to saw valua-
bles in their room. Brooks had just re-
ceived a large stock of about $1,000, of
which only about $500 was saved. Insur-
ance on this stock taken by j. D. Brooks,
amounted to 81, 800. The building was
owned by Mrs. McRary, of Wilmington,
on which there was no insurance.
Fayetteville Observer: The committee
on ~refunding the county debt reported
that $4,000 of the old bonds had been
taken up, leaving $1,000 outstanding and
u~naccOunted for.-A fire his afternoon
at 4 o'clock, destroyed the outbuildings
CT Mr.. George Thomson's residence on
HaymOunt.-J. F. and Sam Williams,
colored, are erecting a sash and blind fac
tory on Person street, below the half
way bridge.-Deputy United States Col
lector Troy and Deputy United States
Marshal Atkinson n posse returned yes.
terday from a successful still hunt enc
pun intended in Beaver Dam township.
The scene of their foray is twenty-one
miles from town, and the spells thereof
consist of a complete moonshiner's still
ing outfit, viz: cap, worm and fifty gal
lon still. The still had been hastily aban-
doned, but the officers found about 400
gallons of beer and a lot of ubs and
fermenters.