The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-10
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The Southern railway has given nstice
at points along h Western North Caro-
lima railroad. The advance Il about an
average Of 5 cents per bale.
The Aurora says the citizens Of Shelby
ing VIXEN IL was announced h . the doors
or the Fulenwtder Company were closed
and ths business In the hands Of a re-
| ceiver.
Columbus News: The many friends Of
Judge AcIver were pleasea to see him 50
much improved since his paralytic
troubles Of some months ago. He con-
ducts the business OF the court with his
usual dispatch and painstaking fairness.
Extract from Charlotte letter In New
ton Enterprise: Some Of our ladies and
gentlemen have just returned from differ
emit summer resorts. and some have been
to the well known FL. Springs at the city
han. but are not recuperated physically or
financially.
Elizabeth City News: While on his way
to his city from Currituck or the sloop
Pearl with fish a young man named
Walter Hampton. accidentally fell over
board Tuesday night and was drowned.
The body has not yet been found. He
was about IL years old.
Wadesboro Messenger says that farmers
from all sections Of Arson county except
A~nsouville, Burnsville and Lanesboro
townships, report the cotton crop OF at
least 8 perc emit. since the first day of
August. In the townships named the de-
terioatson is not SO great as elsewhere.
Morganton Herald: On last Monday.
while Mrs. DR.. Ross and her sister-in-
the ~latter's little daughter were out driv-
ing, their horse became frightened and
ran away near MIR. c. F. Mekesson's.
All three were thrown from the buggy
and the little girls arm was broken. Tn
two ladies were slightly bruised.
Wadesboro Chronicle: Proceedings have
been begun against Judge L. L. Greene,
for damages. The case arises out Of ar
in the case of the state against Harris
down IN Hunting Creek. Harris was
placed in jail. His attorney applied to
Judge Greene for a writ of habeas corpus.
He refused to grant. Application was
made to Associate Justice Furches who
granted the writ. The case will be tried
before next spring. The case will excite
considerable interest.
Charlotte News: Mr.. Harold Tyler re-
turned this morning from Asheville,
where he has been all this week as a
witness in the case of Lylerly against
he Western Union Telegraph Company.
ON account Of the non-delivery of a tele-
gram announcing that a member of his
family was dying. The jury gave the
plaintiff $500 damages, but the judge said
the amount awarded was too large, and
set aside the verdict.
Greenville Reflector: Ben WillitmS and
Stanley Hardee. both colored, had a big
fus Thursday night. 1t seems that Ben
rented an upper room in Stanley's house,
and he and his wife occupied 1t. The
room was situated just over the one occu-
floor. When Ben went home Thursday
night he was informed by Stanley that
he must move to another room. Ben re-
piled that he was too tired to move then
a notion to follow Ben up to his room and
make him move any way, when Ben took
a big stick and helped Stanley back down
stairs with it. In the umpus Stanley
was badly beaten about the head and cut
through the jaw, but Ben says he fell on
his own knife in tumbling down stairs.
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. Andrew
Broadfoot has been conducting some ex-
periments with foreign fruits and nuts
at his farm, ''Ochil,' in list, which has
produced results that are likely to prove
of much value. He has not only demon
strated that the raising of pecans can
a tree about twenty-five feet heigh of the
Japanese chestnut which is now bearing
nuts of a delicious flavor and of large
size-about ~ to 2 times as large as our
ordinary mountain chestnuts. These also
have the advantage of a smoother and
more beautiful hull than the native
bearing English Walnuts. And still, again
he has orange trees loaded with the sour
orange, which tree grows "out of DOORS
and PRODUCES a fruit whose juice is
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Charlotte Observer: The many friends
Of Miss Claud Grier in this city and sec
ton, will be interested to learn that she
was married August 23rd, in Japan, to
Rev. Mr.. Blaine, a missionary in China.
The news came in a letter from one of
the missionaries at Miss Grier's station.
Miss Grier went out as a missionary
from the Second Presbyterian church, of
this city, and was stationed in Japan
Mrs. StOnewall Jackson's many friends
will rejoice to know that she is better,
and will return home in the course of
several weeks. She had expected her stay
to be indefinite.-A confederate general,
a member of congress-, a brother of the
great senator, an old and poor man, a par
tial paralytic, yet able to discharge his
duties, it would have been a graceful
thing in Collector Harkins to nave retain
ed General Vance in his small office, pay
ing only $1,000 a year, and while his re-
tention would have been graceful, his dis
missal is indecent. We say this only be-
cause the case is an exceptional ONE
At 4 p. M, Friday, the waste house of
the Dover Yarn mill, at Pineville, was
found to be on fire. The fire had made
considerable Roadway before seen, but by
| the excellent work of Mr.. Boyd, the
| superintendent and his help, was under
control in ten minutes. There was about
| twenty-five bales of waste in the house
| and the loss will be about $500.
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