The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-19

.ernor Russell signed the commission
! yesterday at Don that made Jim
Young a colonel in the United States
army. The commission Is unique in
that it Is the first commission OF q
~colonelcy ever issued to a negro by
an English speaking race.
The soldier boys at Raleigh do not
love Governor Russell and do not
want to play in his back yard any
longer. Their camp out Of compliment
to the governor was named Camp
Dan Russell" but the aforesaid SOL
der boys now call IL Camp Damn
Russell.
Asheville Gazette: Augusta and
Salli kincaid and Callie Watkins,
who engaged in an ARRAY in Cripple
creek, a week or ten days ~ and
were so bruised up that they
were unable To be brought TO police
headquarters, were given a hearing
yesterday and bound to court
S~tatesville Landmark: A cat old
enough TO be on the retired list e.
still getting o lively enough At
Mr.. John w. Candles. He was n
kitten when Seymour and Blair were
the democratic presidential candidates
Grant and Colfax, and was given the
name OF Seymour. That was away
back yonder in '6S, which makes the
cat 80 years old.
MIR. L. T. Moore. OF Pitt county. was
nominated for solicitor in the Third
District There were sixty ballots.
Wilson Advance: We were sorry to
hear Of the loss by fire last week Of a
fms barn OF tobacco belong in TO Mr..
Wiley Barnes. II was a barn % his
best tobacco. and was valued at $3.50.
The first loa OF new tobacco was
received Tuesday morning by Cooper
Watson & Gibbons.
Polk County News: II Is a fact not
generally known that asbestos Ia
found in Polk county. Recent devel-
opments have proven that this mineral
is not only found here. but has been
discovered in m~easureless Quantities
and of the very best and most mar
ketable value. The lands OF Messrs.
French n Stearns on Tryon noun
tain, three miles and a half from CO.
lumbus, have located on them the fin
est deposits of this valuable mineral
ever discovered in the south.
Asheboro Courier: The negro Lon
Thorp, who was shot IN the heel by n
guard on the convict force about n
year & had to have his leg amputat-
ed n day last week. Drs. Ferree and
Hubbard performed the operation.-
Several weeks ago one j. A. Starkie.
claiming to hail from Kentucky pitch
ed his tent in Asheboro and advertis-
ed himself as a representative OF the
Hammond View Co, of Louisville,
ky. He remained here for some three
weeks when he went away pretend
ing to go TO High Point. At the train
before leaving he was met by a num-
Der of his creditors, or rather those
he had collected money from for work
which he never delivered. who made
matters hot for him. He collected
considerable money from people here
q at other points in the county for
photographs and for enlarged pictures
under a solemn promise that he would
deliver the work long before he left
Many Of them are now whistl-
ing at their folly. Starkie is a low.
vulgar fellow, not fit to associate with
decent people.
kinston Free Press: The Kinston
Cotton Mill Company has engaged a
competent superintendent, a man who
has had experience in one Of the most
successful yarn mills in the south. The
mill will be ready to commence work
about the latter part OF October
Scottish Master j. o. Hawkins was
nearly killed Thursday evening by
the negro troops going to Fort Macon.
Mr.. Hawkins was IN the other side
Of the railroad bridge when the 6:I2
train passed. The colored recruits.
seeing him, threw large chunks of
charcoal at him. One chunk hit him
on the arm, one broke his watch and
another hit him on his lower lip and
cut a hole in It. DR.. Parrot attended
him, and had to sew several stitches.
One Of the colored workmen was also
injured. The men who threw these
chunks should be punished but there
is no way of finding them out-For
the first time in it's history the tax
valuation of real and personal prop
erty in kinston township has passed
the million dollar mark. 1t Is now
just a little over a million dollars,
showing an increase Of o $50. 0OO
over last years valuation-Kinston
will TAX its place this season as the
best and largest tobacco. market east
of the Wilmington and Weldo rail-
road, and is destined to be as big a
tobacco market as any in the state
The additions and improvements II
our facilities for handling tobacco this
season are unprecedented for ont
years growth in North Carolina.