The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-21
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L DAoS. SiAiBPNN io0< S1A ONN~
of cattle to Richmond, Va, Wednesday.
says the Cherokee Scout.
Mr.. A. Chatham, of Elkin. gathered
this year $50 bushels of ccrn from twelve
acres CT bottom land, an average OF fifty
four bushels per acre.
The H~endersonville Hustler under
stands that Judge NoI ood has been
tanking up some more. 1t was at Cher
okee or Graham court.
The mountain fires did considerable
damage to the new Walhallaa road at
Highlands, Macon county, by the burn
ing of breastworks and bridges, says The
Press.
Shelby Aurora: The prospects are now
good for the extension Of the Ganney
branch of the o. r. & c. railroad TO
S~partanburg by the way of Clifton and
Glendale.
Chattanooga News: North Carolina's
negro congressman is opposed to annexa-
ticn of Hawaii upon the theory that we
! have negroes enough and that all coonS
lock alike
The Morgantcn Herald is Informed
that the new railroad from Shelby to
Mc1gantcn is assured, and that the work
of construction will begin shortly after
the holidays.
| since he lost his pocket book and it was
found with railroad passes in it, has
taken to paying his fare on the Southern.
| When caught he quit riding on passes.
l line ASnoV1llo C1tlZen learn Indr d III
| tie son of Chas McAfee, of Gamblers
Buncombe county, fell on a pocket knife
| while playing and stabbed himself in the
breast. Death resulted from internal
bleeding.
Charlotte Observer: About 8 p. m. Mon
day MC1ganton was the scene of a shoot
ing effray which may terminate fatally
for one of the PAL Elephants, and came
/ near seriously injuring Mr.. Frank r.
| Tate, who, being attracted TIC the win
| dow of his home nv the firing. was
struck by a spent ball. The participants
in the affray were Felix FIemmng,
Henry Moore and George avery: all col.
through the lower jaw and neck, the
ball lodging in the back of the neck,
George Avery had. one bullet in his leg
| Moore was not injured.
Danbury Reporter-Post: Mr.. Joel. F.
! Hill, a prominent citizen of the county,
| has fallen a victim to a most distressing
| disease. A few lays since he had Occa-
that he had not the remotest remem-
brance of the art of reading. This is a
rare disease and probably the only in
Estance of it's occurrence in this part OF
the state. The disease is by
DR.. w. v. McCanless to be aphasia, OF
the entire obliteration of that faculty OF
the mind pertaining to letters. Mr.. Hill
is enc of the best known and most re.
| spected citizens of the county.
Raleigh News and Observer: Two me-
groes, George Brown and Isaiah Harri.
son, got into a row in the market house
yesterday evening, between 6 and
o'clock, and Brown used a butcher knife
on his antagonist with what was at first
considered deadly effect. He cut Harri-
son three very ugly gashes on the back
of the head. The wounds were SO serious
that the man was at once taken to Rex
hospital, where he was resting quietly
last night at 8 o'clock. The physicians
say he will recover. He is about rs years
Cld.-Mr. John Armstrong, formerly OF
Raleigh, but for several years a resident
of Columbia, S. c., died suddenly in thai
city yesterday morning of heart failure
Mr.. Armstrong was for years a deacon
CT the First Baptist church of this city
and faithfully served that church unit
he left for the south. Gle was an excel
lent man, Irish born, aged 6S years.)-
The people of Halifax county are won
dering why the penitentiary authorize.
turned off Underwood at the state farm.
and then rut Mr.. Dockery in a nameles
office at $40 per month. Was it becaus,
he is a brother of the chairman? AM
why dc they retain Hughes, who, it IL
said, has made an overseer of a convic
and who has degraded a Halifax count.
man, MIR. Moseley, a gentleman of excel
lent family, by making him carry waite
to the convicts, and actually help picl
cotton? 1t is also said that Hughes ha,
fitted up a room in the supervisors res
idence for his cook, and there are som
other things connected with this matte
that the executive committee should in
Quire into.