The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-09
NORTH CAROLINA.

the ghost-hard times the cause
Salisbury Sun: Chinch bugs are
damaging corn badly in various parts
| of the county. Th,. bugs go from the
wheat fields 10 the corn. the wheat be-
ing cut n no longer furnishing them
nourishment.
Salisbury World: William Austin
was at the depot Thursday night. He
was from Albemarle, and stood exactly
6 feet ga inches in his stocking feet.
He was just q years old last April and
weigh 232 pounds.
Washington Messenger: We heard
an old darkey say the other night,
they will not kill my dogs. I have
three and 1 have moved them in the
country and when the time passes to
pay the tax l will bring them back"
Elizabeth City News: Our farmers
report crops in an excellent condition.
and from the present outlook we are
to be blessed with another good crop.
I've think the blackberry crop the
largest this year we have ever seen in
this section.
Durham Sun: w. 3. Irwin, one of
the wOrkmen on the new Watts resi-
dence, had the misfortune to cut his left
/ leg very severely about s O'Clock this
morning. He was using an adze when
it slipped in some way and made the
'DAiAN JoCt oCIoN tHC hiiVC.
1t is not known whether it will prove
serious or not, at this writing.
Asheville Gazette: The auditor is
getting UP quite a library Of books
which tell what is dom in various
states to people who don't pay taxes;
punishments ranging all the way from
boiling in oil and remOval of eye-balls
to splitting of the nose. Two or three
Russian officers ought to be imported to
! chow how tn pa rryr ont tho noyK North
Carolina blu laws"
G~reenville Re1ector: On Thursday
an operation was performed on Miss An
ME Sledge, of Tarboro, who is here On
a visit to her uncle, l.. H.. Fender. y
gland on the side of her neck had be-
come very much enlarged and was in
%creasing in size so rapidly that it was
decided best to have it removed. The
operation was a successful one and
she is getting on well.
Brevard News: J. H. Kitchin has
struck it rich" in the leasing of a
mine in the Chenille section of Jack
son county. He was on our streets on
Monday exhibiting a thin scale of the
in~destructable glass which he said
came from a block weighing 300 pounds.
The output of the mine is from 200 to
500 pounds daily, and Jason believes
that he has struck a bonanza.
Marion Courier: n. b. Broughton,
president of the North Carolina Bap-
fist Chautauqua was in Marion last
Monday with a view to securing a per-
manent home for the Chautauqua, and
after looking at the three C's hotel
property decided that it was the most
suitable location he had found in the
state. In connection with the Chautau-
qua Mr.. BrOughtOn rOposes the estab-
lishment. by the Baptists, Of a school
which will be run eight or nine months
each year.
Hendersonville Times: On Thursday
morning while Miner Revis, who lives
about eight miles east of Henderson,
Vile, near the Polk county line, was
grading rye. his son Burton, aged 10
was following him, binding. The faith
er cut over where a large rattlesnake
was lying, and when the son came to
bind the grain the snake sank it's fangs
into him. WhiSkey was given the boy
but only a pint was at hand, and a
messenger sent for DR.. Egerton, who
arrived about 3 o'clock. When the doc
tor got there the boy was unconscious
and died about 5 o'clock.
Kinston Free Press: Rev. E. D.
Brown, pastor of the Kinston Presby-
terrain church-the Atkinson
ial'-received a letter Thur day night
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whom the church was named. Mrs. At
kinson made known her desire to do
nate DR.. AtkinsOn's library to the
church here for the use of the resident
minister. 1t is a fine and valuable IL
brary, the result of many years &C
emulation. 1t is a handsome dona-
ton, and is appreciated. The library
will be shipped as soon as a suitable
place is provided for it's Keeping
During the past few days creditors of
the KinstOn Lumber Company, closed
down on the company. A few of he
creditors by forcing matters compelled
the larger creditors to also try to pro-
tect themselves. In all there are mort
cages and judgments against the COM
pany amounting to about $4,000.
Fayetteville Observer: Rankins'
splendidly equipped furniture factory,
recently completed at a cost of more
than 5000, was totally destroyed by
fire about $50 o'clock this morning.
The loss was covered by SO, 900 insur-
ance, $1,000 in the Piedmont, repre-
senterd by Colonel Pemberton; 81, 200
in the Orient, represented by Nimocks
& Cook; 81, 900 in the Scottish Union
and National, represented by MIN
ocks & Cook Besides the heavy per-
! SOnal lost to the owners, MeSSrS.
, Charles and Lacy Rankin, the d~estruc-
" VI Ills ShASip " ioS, 10 " SiOot iOSS
to Fayetteville.-The mercury was
almost touching 100 yesterday after
Don when both ice houses announced
that their supply of ice was exhausted.
1t was not until IL o'clock this morn
ing, with the thermometer up in the
nineties, that ice could be obtained for
love or money.-David Williams,
drayman for Mr.. o. H. MCLAUGHLIN,
was Frustrated by the heat at 9 o'clock
this morning, and fell from his dray in
front of the Bank of Fayetteville.
Savannah, Ga, April 26, 1896.
Having used three bottles of P. P. P.