The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-07
NORTH

T. r.. Covington. merchant. OF Rock
ingham. made an assignment last We'd
nesday.
warrenton Record: Much interest 10
manifested as to what the commission
er< viii do about the granting of liquor
licenses next Monday. They notified ak
the dealers. six months ago. that no
licenses would be granted in January.
ISN~
The Bank OF Brevard. al Brevard. clos
ed its doors saturday. having soid It's
good will and assets TO the state bank
OF Heudersonyiie. The de-
positors and stockholders VIII be paid in
full as fast as the claims are presented
The Brevard bank found business I'M
profitable.
Greensboro Record: Saturday evening
Miss Sarah eButts daughter OF Captain
DeButts was preparing TO attend a re-
ception. After putting on her gloves shc
noticed one OF them Was sosled some
what. She took "A vial of gasolene and
cleansed IL. Then u~nthoughtedly sh~
placed her hand near the stove TO dry
the glove. In "A moment IL took fire and
as a consequence her hans and arm Were
badly burned. She suffered greatly. or
course. but was fortunate In that she did
not fare worse.
ply, one q. the workmen who was help
ing 10 move the market house. was badly
hurt Saturday. He. with other w~orkincn.
had a lever under the edge OF the house
TO raise IL, and the other men turning
loose the weight OF the building on tho
lever threw MIR. Murphy several feet and
he struck some timoers In falling.-On
Sunday morning a Colored man named
John Cox was found dead near the rail-
road in the Clark field. just west OF
town. He was last seen alive In that
vicinity about II o'clock Saturday night.
He had been drinking and II IL supposed
that he lay down and froze to death.
Carthage Blade: The year just closing
has been more productive OF substantial
benefit TO our town than any year In It's
history. Several new dwellings have
been erected. and our population has in
creased accordingly. The Tyson and
Jones Buggy Company have crecte@ ono
OF the most substantial buildings or IT'S
kind in the state. A $1,000 hotel has
been erected. One of the handsomest and
most substantial churches in this section
OF the state Is in course or erection. to
cost 5000. A substantial and mmod
Gus brick store house has been built. con-
tanning two large store rooms. both oc-
cupied. a railroad has been built TO in
tersect with the Durham and Charlotte
seven miles north OF our town. and taken
altogether this has been a red letter year
In the history OF our town.
Raleigh News and Observer: The pass
toters are very much worried over tho
recent action OF the railroad commission.
They are annoyed not so much by tho
fear CT getting into trouble themselves
as by the railroads refusal TO renew
their passes which expired with the Old
| year. IHey are Wiling 10 lake chances
but the railroad people are not--Thero
are new revelations every day about the
baseness OF radical politicians. Every
body knows how Charles A. Cook. OF
Warren. served Pritchard In 1856 and
again in 1897. Everybody knows that
Pritchard promised to make Cook district
attorney. and II the report that comes
from Washington IL true. how basely he
deceived Cook. A prominent republican
from the Second district gives another
side TO the story, showing that the negro
congressman also went back on Cook
just as the white senator.
Charlotte Observer: Sam McCulloch
and Haywood Jones. colored. got into n
row in Traywick's bar yesterday. and
McCullcch cut Jones on the arm. He was
arrested and released on bond.-The dye
house at the McAdensrti." mill was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday morning at $50
o'clock. The fire was discovered by one
of the hands and the alarm quickly
given. The pumps were put 10 work, and
the flames were confined to- the dye
house. The supposition IL that tIe fire
caught from the steam pipe in the boiler
room. The loss is estimated at about
$4,000. Fifty thousand pounds OF yarn
were turned.-The recent communion
ton of Mr.. w. w. Watt. Of this city. to
The Philadelphia Record. setting forth
the relation of northern to southern
money invested in southern cotton mills.
has attracted wide attention, being
copied and discussed by the press. north
and south. The New York World treats
ii editorially in its issue OF last Satur-
day. The figures which Mr.. Watt gave
have excited universal surprise.