The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-07
ELECTRIC

A Hitch In the Bond Iasue-S0msh0dy -
Drinking stiil-Purvis to be Tried Next
Week-Keep up the Old Cumberland
Fair.
Correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Fayetteville. n. c., September f.
Mayor Cook is a man OF no little
equanimity OF temper, but his wrath
was nightly stirred yesterday after
noon-and with good reason. On the
back Of a telegram notifying him that
would AXE at par the whole SIS, 900 OF
electric light bonds. he received intel
iigence that the said firm a been
cautioned by an attorney Of this city
that suit would be brought to test the
legality of the bonds. Though no in
formation has been definitely given
out as to the parties instituting this
suit, there is little u that it will
be brought in the interest of the Fay
etteviile Gas and Electric Light Com
pany, who claim an encroachment on
their franchise. The best informed ex-
press confidence that the legality Of
the bond will be sustained, but a fight
against them will entail a vexatiOus
delay, i'll to be borne by a town so bad
ly lighted as this now is.
There are evidently a good many
people who take to dispensary liquor,
if the report be true that Mr.. Ingolds.
the superintendent of the establish
ment, offered the managers $4,000 a
year for the net profits. By the way,
the ~dispensary managers complain that
the law is violated by blind tigers"
and call upon the city authorities for
it's rigorous enforcement. Naturally one
would suppose that those making the
charges would point out the viOlatOrs;
the mayor and board Of aldermen can
not establish a system Of espionage
over the community.
Purvis, the alleged murderer of the
| railroad f1agman, will be tried at Har-
nett court next week, if he be physical
ly able to be present at his trial. 1.-The
wages Of sin is DEATH" and PurviS is
| very near his nc
A meeting was held last Thursday
| evening for consultation among the cit
liens as to holding a county fair this
fall. It adjourned to Monday evening,
when the matter will be decided.
| Messrs. Watson, A. A. McKethan,
| Lawrence, Burns and others have Ia
bored zealously for years in behalf of
the Cumberland fair. It is sincerely
to be hoped that it will not be suffered
to fall into 'innocuous desuetude."
The application to Gust Mr.. Hunter
as receiver Of the manufacturing Com
pany of DR.. job Clark and others was
denied; Judge McIver will render his
decree in the sewerage matter in a few
days.
Captain Thos. Pemberton, so pain
fully injured in the runaway a few ev
enings since, is rapidly recovering.
Death has sought it's shining marks
in Wilmington lately, as we'll as in
Fayetteville. The grave claims few
crowned with a nobler manhood and a
purer wOmanhOOd than the late Alfred
Martin and Mrs. Graham Dawes. No
amiss was your ribute to Captain
John Maffitt in the obituary notice OF
MI. Alfred Martin. Will you permit
one of his warmest friends to add tC
that ribute a word for his gallant sor
Eugene Maffitt, who, both by his faith.
er's side and welding his patriot SWORD
alone, wrought man a deed of heroisn
under the confederate ava flag.
Mr.. Andrew Broadfoot, cotton dealer
trucker, fruit raiser, proves all things
and holds fast that which is good" bu1
he finds much that is good among the
new things. He now has a beautiful
little plantation of Japan chestnuts, il
full bearing, as big as hickory nuts
and also growing the Chinese sour or
ange, as delightful as the lime for bev'
erageS.
The bottom line" is that this sec.
TONS crops are splendid; that Of forage
will be enormous.