The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-06-21
NORTH CAROLINA
Recruiting drags slowly.

Recruiting drags slowly.
The Bagley fund amounts "a
$1.5l2Is-
"A Jacksonville correspondent Of The
Concord Standard says: Even General
Lee, when passing our camp does Tot re-
ceiFe CHEERS with the same vim and spirit
as are given to Colonel Julian 5. Carr"
Two prize houses and other buildings
were burned in Greenvflle on Sunday.
Fire caught in a stable In the rear OF the
factory or the American Tobacco Com
pany. The loss by fire was Ss on n sIo
90.
The negro h assaulted Mrs. Malcolm
Hanna at Gastonia. by choking her in
her own house several weeks ago. was
captured in Yorkville, 5. c.. and was
committed TO jail at Dallas FRIDAY. HIS
name is Thomas Simpson. He has been
fully identified by Mrs. Hanna.
Lincolnton Journal: We are Informed
that Judge l.. B. Wetmore. of this place.
mas been rendered and will accept the
colonelcy Of the Third regiment, Tennes-
see volunteers, now in camp at Chicka-
manga, Tenn. II has been suggested that
this is a mean trick CT the democrats 10
get Judge Wetmore out OF the judicial
race.
Greenville Reflector: Evangelist r G.
Pearson left this morning for his home
in ASheville. Now he has come and gone
We but voice the sentiment OF the en-
tire town and community when we say
that a greater one has never been here
and the only regret is that he could not
remain longer. The results of the meet
last through time, and be known in eter-
nifty. r. G. Pearson will long live in the
hearts of the people of Greenville.
Goldsboro Argus: A distressing acct
dent befell Captain Sam j. Coley. the
yard master of the Southern railway in
this city, this morning. in consequence
of which his right arm had to be ampu-
tated near the shoulder. He vas a.
tending to some shifting in the yard Of
the Enterprise Lumber Company when
his foot slipped and he fell on the side
Of the track close enough TO the rail for
the wheel of the moving locomotive to
crush his elbow so badly that amputa-
ton was necessary.
Durham Sun: There was a cutting
scrape Saturday evening about 7:3o
o'clock in the alley in the rear Of the
No. 8 saloon on Mangum street. Wiley
Whitfield and Hal Crabtree were the par
Elephants, and for some time they cut at
each other right lively. Crabtree was
cut in the right side of his neck, on the
right shoulder. hand split open and a
stab in the left shoulder. Whitfield was
lower part Of the left side about two
inches below the heart, into the lung.
Marion Messenger: Percy Martin on
Saturday morning was in J. w. Street
mans drug store, and while Mr.. Street
man was waiting on a customer, walked
lowed, he afterwards said, a ~teaspoonful
of oxide of mercury. or "red precipitate,"
which has about the same effect as
strychnine. Mr.. Streetman washed some
Of the poison out of his mouth and off
his hands. He said that he wanted to
kill himself. Drs. Morphew and Kirby.
with a stomach pump, hindered him from
hurrying himself into another world. By
Saturday night he was out of danger
and is now doing very we'll.
Charlotte News: The expected split in
the republican party in this congress
sional district has come. When Colonel
Oliver H. Dockery was nominated for
congress by the republican congressional
convention it was predicted that he would
have opposition. That convention fail
ed to endorse the administration of Gov
course, felt the slight. So DR.. R. NJ.
Norment, of Lumberton. Robson coun-
ty. has announced himself an independ-
ent republican candidate for congress. He
says he is going to shoot three big guns,
one at the democrats, one at the popu-
lists, and another at the Dockery repub
licans.-A gentleman who came down
from Statesville last night tells The News
that the churches were all closed in that
place yesterday on account of the small
pox scare. It was feared that the as
sembling of the people in the churches
would give an opportunity for infection.
Winston Sentinel: A telephone message
received here last night from Fuip stat
ed that Mrs. Sarah Henley, Of this city,
who is visiting the family Of DR.. E. Fulp,
fell yesterday afternoon and it was
thought that she had fractured her hip.