The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-31
NORTH CAROLINA.

NORTH OA1SOSAN
Rev. D. II. rut.ie denies mphatica,s
tn. story about that immersion and the
swim.
A grain of corn lodged In the WIND pips
Of the ~2-year-old son OF MT. Vernon IruiI.
OF Union county. says The Monroe jour
nal. causing the death OF the cniio.
Tho Mr.. Holly News saws that Rev:
James Needham will be 100 years oid
pext May. He Is perhaps the oldest min
lister in the United States and mas never
quit preaching.
Mr.. Charles Scott. OF Goose Creek toWn-
ship. Union count was on MS Way
home from Charlotte. he was KNOCKS"
down and robbed OF $L0-
was suddenly ~strickened with paraIysis
Friday evening. She was apparently IN
the best OF health at the time. II proved
to be only a mild attack. however.
Henry Jackson. who was found last
Friday morning lying senseless on the
side of the Southern railway with MS
skull crushed and his forehead badly cut,
died Saturday morning at CLOCK a
the Grifs..l house where he was carried
when found
| Watauga Democrat: The inIant cniiu
| of Ebert Green died on Meat Camp with
measles. Sixty people have had measles
Horton & Mcbride. of Cove Creek. IN
forms The Democrat that they have
spent 81, 900 in Watauga this season Tor
cattle. and still the cry Is hard times.
+ Elk Park Mail: On Wednesday lobe
Strickland. the sawyer at Ars. II. L.
Brinkley's lumber mill. while Tightening
a guide pin. the wrench slipped. letting
his hand come in contact with a CIRCULAR
saw. nearly severing the bone. The at
tending physician thinks there Is but
little hope for saving the hand.
Reidsvilie Weekly: Rev. p. j. Cara
way, presiding elder of the Greensboro
,.-,-s --s az. n laa<nn col last at
urday. lie seems to be getting younger
instead of older. though he has been
preaching about fifty years. The West.
ern North Carolina Conference did itself
credit as well as Mr.. Carraway honor by
electing him as a delegate 10 the general
conference.
Raleigh Times: In John r. Pullen Ra-
leigh has a genuine Christian philanthro-
pist, a benefactor, an alms-giver. a
preacher whose sermons go straight to
the heart-a benevolent citizen whose
charity knows no class or individual and
is circumscribed only by the limits or
his primary ability. A man whose hap
piest moment is when he is making some
body else happy. 1--WE know him well.
He is entitled to all that is saba pious,
consecrated, generous Christian.-Mes-
Senger.)
Raleigh News and Observer: Colonel
w. H. S. Burgwyn will deliver the me-
mortal day address here, May 10th, on
General Thomas l.. Clingman.-For ff-
~ SaA ~ " l. iiSApS a. @N
of Wake county, has been living on a lit
tie farm near Raleigh. Up to fifteen
years ago his mother lived with him and
since then he has lived the life Of a re-
cluse. Naturally he became a miser and
in his hut, a two room house. he has
collected almost a museum He was in
dustrious and thrifty, and was possess
ed. it has always been thought, of con-
siderable money, but if this be so. no liv-
ing human being knows where it is. He
was robust and healthy, especially so
for nnn- n htC 600 nd fhn n ~ arn III N ~
in which he lived was surprised on Sat
urday last when the news was spread
about that Miser Phelps was dead. 1t is
thought he froze TO death.
The failure of the Piedmont bank at
this place was directly attributable to
the refusal Of the Park bank of New
York TO rediscount local paper. The
favor had been extended for years, con-
ditions had in no particular altered, the
last securities offered were as good as
any that had before been taken: but
when Wall street takes snuff the rest
of the country must sneeze, and there
must be no sneezing done unless that
nest of gamblers and not shavers give
the word. 1t was the withdrawal of the
nursing teat by the old sheep from the
lamb, which left the lamb to starve. We
wish to provide a free silver pasture for
that and all other like conditioned lambs
and render them Independent of the old
ewes and their milk. So long as the
money of the country is subject as now
to be cornered wholly or partially. SO
iolS WIZ IN pIOuuclIS CLASSES nave
prices fixed for them, not by supply and
! demand, but by the holders of the money
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Farmers Friend.
Charlotte News: Colonel Robert Mar
Gus Oates died at 1 o'clock this afternoon
at his residence On North T'ryon street
IN this city. Thus passes away one of
the most prominent figures In the bust
ness life of Charlotte, and one of its
| most important CGElL1cfcial factors. Colo
mel Oates had been confined to his he'd
| IOI SIX weeks Will ga - -rh ~ tho cto-,
ach, complicated with other diseases. He
was a native of Cleveland county. and on
the 18th of next month would nave been
t9 years of age. AT the breaking out of
the war Colonel Oates left his business
and volunteered in the confederate ser
wee. He was elected first lieutenant of
Company j, of the Thirty-seventh regi-
ment, North Carolina state troops. After
serving In this capacity for some time
MS abilities were recognized and he was
appointed quartermaster for the regi-
ment OF A. +. Hills division, which was
afterwards Wilcox's division. He served
I IN the army until the close of the war,
When he returned to Charlotte. Colonel
Oates had been for ten years a member
OF the Second Presbyterian church and
d!ed IN the communion of that church.
lie leaves a large estate.-The scenes
enacted on Charlotte's owd thor
orughfares from Friday night at 9 O'Clock
10 me very last minutes of the time pre-
scrlbed by the law, was nothing short of
me storming OF forts or the Smelling of
ON~ tiS u VI THIS nTOTnlGcI-
Gus bursting Of fireworks a number of
chlidren and grown people are today suf-
terIng from the effects Of severe burns
anu otner injuries the direct result of the
suspension Of the law that reeuIate tbo
hring of such things on the streets. Re
low we give a list of the injured ones
d conpiete as was possible for the re-
porters to learn: Thomas yVehh ,at,
Sneek badly burned and an ugly scar will
De the result; David Yates. burned about
the race and one eye in a bad condition.
Il son nf
burned on the face and arms; Armistead
3urweii, Jr., right hand badly lacerated
Joe mclaughlin, hand badly lacerated
ana ankl badly burned: Mr.. DeArmond
nand badly hurt and suit of clothes and
oeercoat ruined by the bursting OF a can
non cracker in his hand: Johnnie ALI
SON hand and face badly burned: George
Emery, myers of one hand badly his
Isreo, william Spanolia. two fingers torn
OH ana hand badly lacerated.