The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-22

Three gold mines are now being work.
ed in Granville coanty.
| Increased demand for the product OF
| the Salisbury hosiery mills necessitates
the employment OF a night force.
Representative Skinner Is to Introduce
n bill to erect n life saving station at
Ocracoke Inlet. Superintendent kimbal
fayors IL.
Washington Messenger: Robert Gibbs.
OF Far Greek. Hyde count while under
the influence OF liquor. walked OF the
dock near n. n. Willis store this morn
ing about ; o'clock and was drowned.
Gibbs was engaged In the fish business.
Charlotte News: The tablet to be erect
ed by the young people of Tyron Street
BAPTIST church in memory OF the late DIR.
Il. II. Pritchard Will probably be put in
Place by the frst OF April. II Is to be-
placed TO the left OF the pulpl "a one
enters the church.
Greensboro Telegram: The growth Of
.he Five Cents Savings bank in his city
must necessarily be most gratifying to
the management. At the close OF bust
ness yesterday the net deposits amounted
20 $S9. 15S. The business has been more
than doubled in the past two years.
A special 10 The Raleigh News AMI
Observer saws that in Halifax county
last Saturday Charles II. Mills took tho
horse from the pillow. pat his s-year-old
son upon his back. and started for din
ner. The horse ran away. throwing tire
child. The little boys clothes caught in
the hook OF the traces and he was drag
ged TO death. The horse ran 10 the house
with the bleeding remains.
Morganton Farmers Friend; That dead
Indian doctor and the poor little Red
Riding Hood hat accompanied him In his
wanderings under Table Rock have
reached the yellow journals. and there
Is no telling the mischief Zone this couu-
~ in the minds OF ignorant people. who
devour the garbage dished out daily by
those miscailed newspapers. There was
just enough truth In the.tale to hang
a lie that would stick.
Tuckaseige Democrat: We are sor-
~ TO chronicle a very painful and serious
accident to Mrs. G. r.. Alden. which oc-
CURED at Mr.. Aden's house a mile from
this place. She went to move a Kettle
of boiling water when 4 board In the
floor upon which she VAS standing broke
and she was p~recipttated 10 the cellar
below and toe whole OF the boiling con-
tents OF the kettle emptied over her body.
DR.. J. II. Woin regards her burns as
quite serious.
Murphy Scout: The first tare seed
that the eyes OF the reporter ever be-
held was shown Us last week by Mr..
jas. NJ. Barnett. OF our town. who sent
all the way to oregon for then. He
spent several years in that section, and
tells us the farmers out There use the
tares for feed: that stock and cadie Will
quiet eating shelled oats for IL. ;ney are
l so fond OF It. Mr.. Barnett has turned
| over the tare seed 10 Mr. Abe Harshaw,
who will give IL a thorough test. Tarn
is easily cultivated and The yield is phe-
nomcnal.
| Greensboro Record: The final chapter
OF one OF life's dtSa ppointing romanccs
| was brought to a close at the depot to-
| day when j. w. Collins came In on 81
| with Mrs. Mamie b. Myers and delivered
| her to her husband. who had come down
| from Reidsville TO meet them. Mr.. Collins
traced Mrs. Myers TO Greenville and per
suaded her to return to her home, and
when last mentioned m tho
lady's paramount had landed In a Char
| lotte Jail, while Collins and Mrs. Myers
had got as far as Charlotte, where they
became stranded with only SIP between
them. Mr.. Myers had been notified to
come to Greensboro from Reidsville this
morning, and joining her on the noon
train they returned home together.
M. John T. Britt. editor OF The oxford
Public Ledger. is in Washington as pri-
vate secretary OF Congressman kitchin.
Writing TO his paper this week, Mr.. Britt
says: We have learned, from a source
which Is entitled TO more credence than
ordinary rumors, that Senator Butler
intends TO play what he thinks a very
shrewd game on the democrats in the
nomination of officers this summer
Briefly outlined his plan Is this: He will
call his convention at the same time and
place as the democratic convention. Then
ne will make certain overtures for fusion.
and along certain lines only. he Will
probably offer fusion on congressional
lines, the terms Of which VIII be that tho
populists retain three congressman (Fow-
Ter. Strowd and Shuford) and allow the
democrats the other six. He may or may
not offer fusion for members OF the legiE-
lature or county officers.