The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-12
NORTH CAROLINA

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Kinston Daily Free Press: Policeman
Eagle. OF Salisbury. shot and probably
fatally wounded VIII Leazar. a young
negro. In that town Sunday morning.
The officer says he shot the negro in the
discharge Of his duty. There were 10
witnesses.
Carthage Blade: Bryan Tyson, OF Long
Leaf, has recently struck a rich deposit
OF gold near the above named place in
the northern part OF this county on what
the quantity OF ore appears to be suf-
icient 10 indicate a valuable mine.
Greenville Reflector: Captain Lyman
A. Gotten, Of this county graduated sew
ton at the Annapolis naval academy. He
has been assigned to the cruiser Column
bia, the fastest ship in the flying squad
ron. Mr.. Gotten was the senior captain
Of the cadets at the academy.
Hickory Mercury: There came near
Ferry last Friday. Mr.. Herman Smiths
team was coming TO Hickory with a load
Of shingles. The boat was not confined
to the bank. When the team got in the
boat moved off into the river. Tn wagon
fell back pulling the team after il. The
driver swan out and the horses were cut
loose from the wagon and saved. but the
shingles were lost. l. could have been
worse.
Charlotte Observer: DR.. William H.
loii 4cI d. Il-S loAAIt al DiA al
ham, Ala, Sunday evening, OF apoplexy.
The deceased was a native of Lincoln
county. having been born there March 2S,
1893. He was a brother OF Governor
Joseph E.. Johnston, Captain James F.
Johnston, General Robert Z. Johnston.
Mrs. Anne G~alloway-all formerly of this
section-now of Birmingham, and OF
Mrs. Huntley. of Talladega. Ala, and
Mr.. Bertram Johnston. OF Baltimore. DR..
Johnston was educated at Davidson col
lege and at the University of North Car
DINA, graduating in 1S0.-Dr. f. Q. FL
lott, of the Sparkling Catawba Springs,
wrote the Observer yesterday that the
Thermometer was down to IS degrees
yesterday morning at his place; that
there was ice half an inch thick: that
the peaches were all killed and his pear
trees-over 70O-which were in full bloom
several days 60, making the most
beautiful natural sight" he ever saw,
are ruined.
Raleigh News and Observer: The new
populist paper organized here Wednes-
day by Ohio Wilson and the anti-demo-
cratic-fuslon crowd will begin publica-
ton next week. Captain A. S. Peace, of
Oxford, is to be editor-in-chief; Ohio
Wilson business manager, in each con-
gressional associate editor. For instance
in the First district Joshua Skinner will
be the editor; in the Second. Ed. Clark:
in the Fourth, r. A. Cobb; Fifth, A. S.
Peace; Ninth, Geo. E. Boggs. Those for
the other districts have not yet been
C!pStH."J. L. IIdUlSdy, SullOT vi the
Progressive Farmer, was yesterday
morning arrested on a warrant sworn out
by ex-Judge w. R. Allen, of Goldsboro,
charging Ramsay with crimina libel.
Judge Allen sets forth that Ramsay is
editor of the Progressive Farmer and
that this paper on April 9Th, in an edi-
torial. stated that the so-called oyster
claims were a fraud and that the attor-
neys who represented the claimants were
parties to the crime. Judge Allen,-an at
torney in these oyster cases, is called by
name in the editorial.-A petition is
being circulated in this county for the
pardon of Tom Robertson, the seducer.
James A. Temple is the man who has the
petition and is asking signatures to it..
He will hardly succeed. however, in get
ting Robertson pardoned.