The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24
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Fayetteville, n. c., September u.
Mr.. Duncan Rose has recently pub
lished, under the authority of the
county and city government, a PAM
phlet setting forth the advantages of
soil, climate, etc, of the county of
Cumberland, together with the bust
ness and industrial standing. progress
and possibilities of Fayetteville. Mr..
Rose is a vigorous and we'll equipped
writer, ~painstaking and conservative.
whose pages are never rose" colored
Chowever strange this may seem to the
reader;) hence his pamphlet is especial
ly valuable, gratifying us with the
conviction that ours is a goodly land,
wherein we shall prosper if we but put
our shoulders to the wheel.
His Honor T. H. Sutton is holding
court here this week for the trial of
criminal cases. The zeal with which
he pushed certain moral reforms in
the last general assembly has not de-
serted him on the bench. Yesterday he
expressed his conviction that both the
~dispensary and anti-cigarette laws
were constantly suffering violation. No
case of special importance has yet come
up for trial. A summary of the docket
as tried will be sent down by your cor
respondent at the end of the week.
If all the stories be true, Alex. Gill
more, with a price on his head in two
states, against whom the law says
every mans and may be raised. is
daily tempting his fate and Drawing
his perils in the heart of the commune
ty which he has outraged. He has
been frequently seen lately, it is alleg-
ed, and there is a tale current that
night wayfarers On Haymount are now
and then startled by the suddenly ap-
pearing figure OF a short black man at
their elbow, moving noiselessly in list
slippers or India rubber shoes, and dis
appearing in the darkness-for all the
world like the murderer on London
streets in Dickens "Barnaby Ridge
The first services were held last Sun
day evening in the new Presbyterian
church on Massey's Hill, the pleasant
+, factory village surrounding the Holt
Morgan mills, Rev. H. T. Graham con-
Quoting the exercises. If the world is
growing worse, it is despite Of very
strong efforts to make it better. The
Presbyterians nave missions on Hay
mount, in C~ampbellton, at the fail
! grounds and on Massey's Hill; the
Methodists at the fair grounds and in
| C~ampbelltOn, and the ~Episcopalians in
C~ampbellton.
Mr.. Compton has recently issued the
Fayetteville Business Review from the
job Office of the Baptist Publishing
Company-a neat, attractive paper
| gratifyinay promotive of the material
interests Of the community. The Fay
etteville Military Academy will here
after regularly publish a quarterly
journal during the year.
The entertainment committee Of the
Cumberland Monument Association
hope to give the people of this commu-
nifty an exceptional pleasure during
this fall-an address by Bishop Capers,
of South Carolina, a very gifted son OF
a very gifted father, and one of the
most distinguished orators of the south.
Fayetteville shares Wilmington's
] grief over the death Of Mr.. Edward
Daniel, and the announcement of his
passing away was received with ex-
preSsiOnS of deep sorrow from the
many friends which he had made dur
ing his residence at "Cottondale."
Miss Elam, daughter of Mr.. w. c.
ELAN, the brilliant editor of The Nor
folk Pilot, is visiting her aunt, Mrs.
Walter Watson. Mrs. Shepherd, relict
Of the late Judge Shepherd, has return
ed home to her residence on Haymount
after a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Pell
Miss Lille Slocomb, one of the bright
est In most charming Of Fayetteville
| girls, will enter the we'll known Lucy
Cobb female college in Georgia this
winter.
Wilmington's quarantine officer, Mr.
Murphy, is keeping a close eye on al
trains, to prevent any yellow fever
from slipping into your city.