The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06
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Two million acres Of land In this state
pay no tax. according to the por Of the
state auditor.
II Onslow county 1886. 500 is derived an
nualiy from fisheries. In New hanover
the annual revenue Is SIS, $50,
Concord Standard: ]. Wallace Cook Of
this city. from Ave acres of land raised
lis bushels Of wheat and three bushels of
rye.
Goldsboro Headlight: Chief Justice W. T.
Faircloth and wife have gone to Sara
toga Springs. N. Y, to spend the heated
term.
statesville Mascot: There is a gain of
$60.005, in the taxable property OF the
city of Statesville this year over last
year.
Rev. Samuel H. Hilliard, Methodist
pastor at High Point. who was recently
operated on for appendicitis. has made a
perfect recovery.
The Salisbury World severely criticises
] the governor for pardoning Robert P.
Willis, who obtained 500 at a pistols point
/, from three elderly ladies. 1t says. The
was prepared to shed blood should the
necessity have arisen in order to prevent
his own exposure"
A couple bent on marriage, ran away
from their homes i'm Franklin county a
few days ago, and though they had no
worldly goods they scraped up enough
to buy a marriage license; the groom
wore neither coat nor shoes and the bride
was barefoot. The neishbors gave them
some furniture or which to begin house
keeping.
farms on the Sheriff Fortenberry land, is
a good citizen and neighbor, in No. 9
township, as well as a good farmer. In
1896, he harvested 335 bushels of wheat,
! 500 bushels of corn, a good crop of oats
and % bales of cotton. This year he
thrashed SIC bushels of wheat from 81
acres of land. This is a good record and
we will be pleased to nave more OF the
same kind.
Winston Journal: Mr.. John Brewer.
who is fireman at Fogle Bros. mill, met
with a painful accident at his home in
West Salem yesterday afternoon. He was
cutting some feed when his right hand
was caught in the cutter and badly lacer-
ated.-Mr. Lee Hendrix, in Salem, sowed
JOG pounds of wheat and raised 36K bush
els and from n pounds of oats he got
Sc bushels. This a great increase. Can
! any one beat it?
Gudger, Gudger,
TirelesS trudger-
Full of 'get-up,"
Never let up
Till they sent him
To content him
'Crost the water,
Like they orter!-
Now they cry:
Heres to you, XII
Name yer pisOn-corn or rye"
Frank l.. stanton in the Constitution.
The Murphy Scout says hat by the food
of last Sunday nearly all the mills and
bridges on Beaverdam were swept away
Everything near Hangin Dog creek, in
Guiding Gentry's and Patton's mills and
Bill McDonald's dwelling and store were
swept away. AS the hood reached Far
mer's mill it broke the dam and swept
away the bridge below. The bridge near
Andrews was swept away. The fill, three
miles from Murphy, 20 feet long and 10
feet deep, was washed out. The damage
in Cherokee county will reach in the hum
dreWS of thousands Of dollars.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. Wesley w.
Livengood, a farmer who resides near
Maple Springs, four miles west of Win
ston, was given a genuine surprise by
ninety-siX of his %neighbors and friends
yesterday.The occasion was his forty
second birthday. The 'surprisers'' went
in wagons and buggies. A table, about
fifty feet long, in the grove near the
eat. Mr.. Livengood is constable for that
township.-There was Il lively sensa-
ton at Oak Ridge church, Stokes county,
about 1 o'clock yesterday. Mr.. George
Freddy, the new deputy Marshal for
Stokes, attempted to arrest Jim Taylor, a
celebrated blockader. Taylor rolled out Of
his buggy in an instant and drew a pistol,
which was we'll loaded. Before he had
time to use it, however, Marshal Freddy
fired upon Taylor, the ball going through
the hand in which the blockader held his
Taylor to drop his pistol. In an instant
the officer and his assistants were on top
of Taylor and a lively tussle followed for
about ten minutes. In the language of
the negro, there were many pistols flying
in the r-women and children were
screaming, and the situation was any
The officers finally tied Taylor. but not
until they had torn his coat and vest off.
His shirt was also badly d%isfigured. He
was placed in a buggy and carried to Jail
at Danbury.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. John Parr, the
young man who was struck by the train
near Captain J. C. Dowd's Saturday night,
an account of which appeared in Sundays
Observer, died Sunday night at 9 o'clock.
He never regained consciousness. The
skull was completely shattered and the
brain exposed.-Mr. o. F. Asbury, of the
D. A. Tompkins Company. has returned
electric plant in the new cotton mill there.
Mr.. T.. B.. Seigle and Mr.. Duncan Os-
borne left town Thursday night, it is re-
R R,r t for @S Ssattle' car and afd from there to
| Shelby's oldest citizen, died Sunday morn
ing at 10 o'clock at his nome in that place.
He was "a years of age.-DeacOn Silas
Washington, of the First National Bank,
was aroused from his slumberS before
daylight yesterday by a series Of piercing
screams. He hurried out and found that
five or six of his neighbors were also out
looking for the source of the screams,
which was soon located in a neighboring
house occupied by a colOred woman.
They thought may be she was being MUIR
dered, or that her husband was dead, and
mustered up courage enough to invade
her house and investigate. Then they
found that the woman was screaming
because she had dreamed that her brother
had been hanged. 1t was some time be-
fore quiet again brooded over the neigh
borhood,
Savannah, Ca, April rs, 1896.
Having used three bottles Of p. p. P.
for impure blood and general weakness
and having derived great benef1. from
the same, having gained II pounds in