The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-14
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh y. c., December II.
The Seaboard Air Line people think
they have scored a point on the Southern
in securing the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley road; putting the case in this
way-the Southern wanted the road sold
in divisions and TO secure rhe one from
Bennettsville to Greensboro, while the
Seaboard Air Line desired the system in
its entirety. a sale in sections would
have knocked out Wilmington and Mt.
Airy and injured Fayetteville.
The mother of Cyrus B. Watson, Esq.
is dangerously sick at her home al Ker-
nersviEe. She is 93 years of age.
The return of the state flag OF the
Fourth North Carolina infantry, captur-
ed at Sharpsburg by the Fifth New
Hampshire regiment. will be quite
pleasing incident. General Bryan Grimes
was first jor and then lieutenant colo
mel of the Fourth.
Chief Clerk Sims, of the auditors Of
flee. says that the return of unlisted tax
ables made by Cabarrus county is by far
the most complete OF all yet received.
Double tax on. all unlisted property was
levied and collected there. while in nearly
all other counties it was RENTED.
The board of agriculture will meet in
regular semi-annual session next Tues
day.
The annual communication of the
grand lodge of Masons will be held ut
the oxford orphan asylum the second
Tuesday in January. 1t is held there in
order to give rhe members of the order
an opportunity to see plainly in how ad-
mirable way that noble charity is con-
Quoted.
Rev DR.. John c. Kilgo is the chairman
CT the delega tion from the North Caro-
lima Methodist conference to the general
conference, because he was given the
largest vote en- the first ballot. Members
o. the conference say they regard this
endorsement of his position on the
educational question. They also say that
it is marked compliment. generally
only Cid members are sent as delegates
and particularly as chairman of a dele
cation.
State Labor Commissioner Hamrick
left today for Dare and Craven counties
to procure information TO enable him to
complete the chapter on fish and fish
cries, the only one in his annual report
which is incomplete.
Superintendent Logan D. Howell. of the
Raleigh public schools, will publish a
paper in their interest.
Among todays arrivals We're Thomas
Evans, Wilmington; Marshall l.. Mott,
Wilkesboro; Geo. S. Ferguson, Waynes-
vile.
The supreme court next week takes up
the Twelfth district. the last one on the
regular call of the docket.
For the large Pennsylvania colony
acres of land have been purchased and
1900 more will be secured.
The Spanish Swindlers, who write let
terS saying that great fortune goes
with an orphan school girl now at Tole-
do, in Spain is being worked on a Salem
man. 1t was tried on Mr.. William H.
Walker, of the revenue department here.
1t is one of the shrewdeSt sWindles of the
day. To Mr.. Walker certified copy"
of the will was sent, with formidable
seals and signatures. The New York
Herald exposed the whole swindle last
spring.
The new collectors force in the West
ern revenue district is watching the reg
iStered dstilleries so closely that nearly
all are closing. There are complaints of
harshneSS.
The term of the federal court here end
| ed today, and an adjourned term begins
| January 3rd. Wynne the young negro
| who robbed the mails at Powellsville.
| gets a years Imprisonment. and a Per-
| son county mail robber gets the same
sentence.
| Three weeks ago white men named
| West. who says he is from Richmond
| was put on the chain gang at Salisbury
| He Swore he would not work and tried
| to escape. He was shot by three guards
| He now makes threats that he will sue
| the town for heavy damages.
| 1t was stated the other day that wfler
| the Piedmont bank at Morganton failed
| the cashier was at Boston No reflection
| upon the cashier was intended, of course
| 1t is now learned that he was in New
| York. trying to secure a loan for the
| bank and that had he been successful
| the bank would never have closed. He ar
| rived at Morganton the evening Of the
| day of the banks suspension. There wa.
| an intimation that the bank officials hat
| lent money to themselves. This has n,
| foundation in fact, LIT. Walton and othel
| Morganton men say.