The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-06

A Good Deal Of Law.HskinC Wanted.
Fire Interrupts the Grades schoo
The DisPensary Quesucn-Rev. DIR.
Strange's -SpIendid m Jews
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Correspondence Of The Mcssenger-)
Fayetteville. y. c., December 3.
With the assembling OF the demo-
cratic legislature. the people in this
section will be present with several
propositions for reforms they desire
made. and abuses they want blotted
out. A bill will be introduced to
amend the charter OF b city Of Fay
etteville, and IL is safe TO say that
n of its provisions will look to the
extension of the corporate limits, TAX
ing in the extensive suburb Of Hay
moun This matter has been a bone
OF contention for many years, and at
n time, under a republican regime.
this beautiful environ formed part OF
the town roper, though IL was subse-
Quently separated from the municipal
ity. The amendment will meet with
bitter opposition from a number of
these suburban citizens, but many who
opposed ii twenty years ago will
it now, desiring to give TO Haymount
city police protection, better streets
and sidewalks, and water facilities in
case of fire. Special taxation for grad
ed school purposes will also be urged
before the legislature; an amendment
to the stock law, and, last but most
important, the abolition Of the dispen-
sary.
Your correspondent has been con-
spicuous as a strong opponent of the
dispensary and an advocate OF high
license; but The Messengers motto is.
first of all. TO Tote Fair" and in the
next letter the writer will give some
interesting figures, covering the opera
lions of the ~dispenSary since July, 1897,
upon which figures its friends rely to
show that ii has accomplished much
lessening liquor drinking. promoting
o~rderliness, and increasing the county
revenue.
| Yesterday morning just about the
time of the assembling of the pupils,
fire was discovered burning under and
within the roof of the main graded
school building IN Haymount; and,
Notwithstanding the prompt and effec-
tive work Of the fire department, the
damage was serious on the upper floor
| from the flames. while the lower rooms
were dismantled. and the plasterine
injured by water. The trustees have
| ordered a months suspension of exer-
| ciSes for repairs, the time lost to be
made up at the close OF the session.
This is an historic spot, the seat Of
high school instruction for more than
fifty years. The old Donaldson Acad-
envy building still stands in the cam
pus, and is now used as an annex to
the graded school.
This month witnesses a series of en-
tertainments for the benefit of the
Confederate Monument Association.
Those given last week al the resi-
dences of Messrs. H. Med. Robinson
and I. A. Murchison were very pleas
ant, and next week the handsome res
idence of Mrs. Mary Hinsdale. on
Green street, will be the scene Of a
"Spelling Bee" recitations, music and
a general variety bill-of-fare which
will combine to make one Of the most
| delightful events of the season.
Your Rev. DR.. Strange is simply
charming. His sermon here last We'd
nesday night was classic. scholarly,
chaste and clean-cut as a work in
cameo or marble. Fayetteville admirers
him as much as do the people of your
own city.