The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-15

Winston Sentinel: a teacher In one 81
the colOred graded hoo Of Greensboro.
ping a pupil. a girl II or Il vars OF age
The magistrate deemed II Of sufficient
importance to send the case on to court
Newton Enterprise: DR.. w. e Wilson.
OF Creek. was In town this
week on business. He says the demo-
Gratis in his section are for a straight
fight In the next campaign without any
hindrances at all. They are dead against
fusion, or any thing ii to it.
The Charlotte News tells OF a mare
now owned by the widow OF the late
o W. wadsworth Of that city which
has been I'm the family thirty years ana
was twelve years old when MIR. Wads-
worth bought her. thus making her Il
years old. She was freed from work two
years and now roams as a pet Of the
entire family.
American Wool and Cotton Reporter:
The new mill: which has been rumored
for some time. as among the possibili-
ties at Carthage. n. C.. now appears TO
be a certainty. Messrs. r. H. Tyson and
w. Fl. Mcneil are understood to be par
ticularly in its construction. and the en-
tire business portion of the town Is back
ing the enter prise.
Raleigh News n Observer: Captain
John r. Smith, the superintendent, has
come to grief. He has seen his day and
is now gazing on his last sunset. Either
he must resign out n out and let a new
baAA Aoho NLAo - "a hS ~
all authority, become a figurehead in the
management of the institution. retaining
only the name and salary Of superintend-
ent.
The Salisbury World learns that Mr..
w. H. Lemley, Of China Grove township.
Rowan county. was killed in a runaway
yesterday. About II o'clock Mr.. Lemley
was driving a two horse team and Ii is
was a very u-nmanageable animal, ran
away and threw him out. MI. Lemley
was found by a darkey lying by the
roadside. His neck was broken.
Asheville Citizen: Pascal U. Williams,
a brickmason employed on w. H. West
terrible fall this afternoon at $3.50 while
at work on the rear wall. The scaffold-
ing broke, precipitating Mr.. Williams to
the ground, a distance of IS feet. 1t was
feared he was badly hurt. F. r. Nc
Intire was on the scaffold with Mr.. Will
liams, but saved himself by jumping
through a window.
Raleigh Press: The information comes
very straight that Chas. A. Cook will
get the appointment of district attorney
FOR this district. A close friend of sena-
tor Pritchard's informs us that the sena-
tors support of Mr.. Cook is not luke
warm. but hearty and sincere.-Not
many people stop to think of the wide
same moment the temperature is, say,
20 degrees below zero on the top of
Mount Mitchell, the palmettOS on Smith S
island, at the mouth of Cape Fear, are
growing as if they were in a conserva-
tory. No state save California offers
such a phenomenal contrast in climate
as this.
Charlotte Observer: After the show
left Gastonia Friday night there was a
lively time at the station. There were a
dozen or more shots fired. A negro wo-
man who was arrested and locked up
was taken out of the guard house during
the night by a crowd of negroes. They
broke the locks.-Dr. F. o. Hawley re-
ceived distressing news yesterday. A
message reached him yesterday aftrnoon
saying that his son, David-Dr. d. G.
Hawley-was dying at his home in
Statham, Ga. A few hours later he re-
ceived a second message saying that his
son died at 4 o'clock. The news was a
great shock to DR.. Hawley, as he did not
know that his son was sick until the first
telegram came. DR.. Hawley-the young
er-was married about a year ago and
wen to Georgia to live. He was sue.
ceeding we'll in his practice.