The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-27
NORTH

1 T.. W. GOIdS dairy at t.4lSOn was
burned down Monday. The net loss is
$500.
Red Springs Record: We have been
urged to advocate a new county with
this town as county seat This town
is growing-fiye building permits
granted at last meeting OF the town
council. Nice residences are going up.
new stores to be opened. propert
| greatly increased in value-nearly
doubled in two years. The seminary
has 116 pupils Buildings are in great
demand
Washington Progress: John W.
Stillman, lumber grader at Mr.. Fowle's
| mill, was drowned from the lower Old
| Dominion docA on Friday night last.
He was comparatively a young man.
Abo t IL o'clock he took a drink at a
| bar on Water street and started away
with his wheel. He was under the in
fiuence Of liquor. 1t seems he left the
street and ran into the river with his
v:t.eel. Some colored men heard a
noise and some one call for help. They
went and all was quiet. Next morning
his hat was found on the wharf and the
wheel and body were recovered
Some unknown person or persons took
the Atlantic Coast Line engine on Sat
uTday night and left here about IL
O'Clock. 1t was stopped just this side
of PactoluS and the engine reversed
and abandoned. 1t ran back for about
two miles n stopped, the steam Civ
ing out for want of water in the boiler
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. E. F.
Young was sitting in the Hotel La
Fayette last night about Z o'clock when
he received a telegram from his home,
Dunn, stating that his furniture fac
tory, the South Dunn Manufacturing
Company's plant, had been destroyed
by fire. 1t meant a loss of $1,000 TO Mr..
Young, but he took the news calmly.
The plant, Mr.. Young said, was insured
for two-thirds it's value, and his loss
was as stated above. He says he will
probably rebuild.-The funeral ser
vice over the remains of the late Mr..
Harry Mcdonald took place at the
family residence on Gillespie street at
IL o'clock this morning, Rev. H. T. Ora
ham officiating; a large number or
friends being present.-There was a
farmer in town with a wagon load of
turkeys, a number of which he had
| bought of a neighbor. When the first
, lot which he sold were weighed the old
5 mans countenance was a study In
= amaZement and grief. He had taken
his neighbours weights, which were at
tached to each turkeys leg by a slip
of paper as correct, whereas the real
t weight showed a falling off in each tur-
key of two pounds.
t Charlotte Observer: Mr.. ]. P. Town
send and Mr.. charles Murdoch, of Phil
i adelphia, are out at Mr.. Charles Cross,
near Burdette, hunting. "Wednesday
+ afternoon they found a covey Of birds
S and killed one a piece. MI. Murdoch
t whirled and shot a second time, with
e his face to the sun. The load took eff
r feet in Mr.. Townsend's face. HI
u fell when shot. Physicians were sum
moned to attend him. Yesterday h
= was in very good shape.-Captair
o Thomas Sumner, who has been run
S ing between Spencer and Danville, wa.
paralyzed last night, while near High
Point. The paralytic stroke EXTENDED
from the waist down and Captain
Summers condition is very serious. HI
e will be removed to Thomasville as soOr
n as his condition permits.-John W
Starnes, a we'll known educator of Bun
: combe, died at his home at Ashevillt
. Of acute catarrah of the head. Mr.
Starnes was a native of this county, A
' years old, was formerly superintendent
of the Buncombe public schools TO
: seven years and his administration wa
marked by ability and progressiveness
= : Oll years dSO III represented LII
county in the lower house of the gen
IL eral assembly, his colleague being Gen
eral Robert B.. misunderstanding
December 22.-Last night a westboun'
;, freight train struck a white man by tn
q name of Deweese, cutting his hea'
. badly, Deweese and a friend by tn
name of Shinn had been to a part.
- and were on their way to their homes
u near Cleveland. They were walkin
q the railroad track. Deweese wa
e brought into Statesville where hi
l. wounds were dressed. Shinn was no
le injured.-Nearly a year ago Denni
$ Leinster, colored, was killed by tn
train at Mt. Mourne. Yesterday his ad
ministrator, M. w. White, who ha
If sued the railroad, was paid $500 and tn
- suit compromised.
l. Raleigh News and Observer: TIL
g Maxton Blade, a paper which has bee
published by r. B. Russell, colored, a
"a Maxton, will hereafter be published i
this city. The plant has already bee
;, moved here and is being installed i
- it's future office, corner Wilmington an
III Davis streets. 1t will be known here
after as the Raleigh Blade, and, it
stated, will be Independent in polite:
:. General Hoke said: Il will appl
q to the legislature for a charter for
railroad from%he Cranberry mines i
E. LincOlnton or to some other point o
re the Carolina Central railroad, near Lin
N colnton. 1t will be an extension of tn
D East Tennessee and Western Mort
q Carolina railroad, which now connect
n Cranberry with Johnson City, Tenn
to 1t will be an important link and paI
n ticularly S o to Charlotte and Whining
es ton. 1t gives Charlotte a direct lin
OF to the nearest great Goa deposit, ths
81 at Big Stone Gap. 1t will make Wi
H. mington a coaling station, much neare
70 u new possessions, and that whic
or ships can coal without passing Halter
m as.-We are, truly" was the n
n spouse. I'VE are daughters of ex-Go'