The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15
HOME OF THE CAUCASIAN.
One Lone African in Two Southern
TOwns-DOors Closed on Once busy
LOOms-TaIk of Anothe Bank-NeW
Residences.

. Correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Fayetteville, N c., July II.
The Chronicle at Hope Mills cites
the remarkable fact that in the two
fourishing manufacturing villages on
Rockfish creek, q few miles south Of
this city, known $ Hope Mills Nos. 1
and 2, containing respectively 1000 n
900 population, tire is but one negro
resident.
The same paper also calls attention
muornfulIy to the fact that, but a
short distance from these busy little
towns, W large factories-Cumber-
land and Bluff Mills on Beaver creek
stand in gloomy silence, with closed
doors; the great wheels idle, the ma
chinery resting, the operatives dispers-
ed abroad to gain their bread in other
fields of labor. This surely should not
be. SO far as the Bluff mills are con-
cerned, DR.. H. w. Lilly, president, the
suspension of business was a matter
of choice, the factory being most ad-
mirably managed, and paying its
stockholders handsomely up to the
very day Of closing.
A movement was on loot here last
week for the establishment of another
bank, though too little progress has
pCCIi lihu III IA Il"RN ~ ""A
your correspondent in giving names of
the prospectors of the enterprise, Or in
discussing the probabilities of it's sue
cess. Perhaps, as competition is the
life of trade" another bank would be
all very we'll, but no discredit can be
cast on the Bank of Fayetteville, a
strong institution, very safely and ably
managed.
New buildings are constructing here,
Jaorita Tho urar n nd tho chrnnip fFhar ri
tines Mrs. Grady's pretty cottage
on Green street is nearly completed,
and workmen have got we'll on the
erection of DR.. Lilly's cosy dwelling
on the brow of HaymOunt, on the site
Of the old Snow" homestead. DR.. Lii
ly already has a very handsome resi-
dence in the extreme western suburbs
of the city, but too far from business
to suit his convenience. There are
not a few conjectures as to whether
the new house will be a bachelors
hall" or a temple dedicated to a con-
| version from celibacy to the order of
"~Benedicts." However it nay be,
DR.. Lilly has many warm friends all
| over the state who will wish him un-
clouded happiness in his new home.
Mr.. Irving O~verbough, who has been
out in the far west for the past four
or five months, is pack at his post in
the Hotel Lafayette as clerk. He
comes of a family of first-class hotel
men, from his father down. During
DR.. Overbough's absence his place was
filled efficiently by Mr.. John Gorham,
|! now in the Second regiment, and Mr..
| David Mcclellan, a medical student OF
Davidson college, at home on vacation.
Mrs. and Miss Lippitt, Of Whining
ton, are visiting Captain and Mrs. John
M. Walker at their pleasant home on
| South Dick street. Mr.. Paul Smith
a successful business man of Athens,
Ga, is visiting his mother n sister
here. Mrs. B. r. Huske has returned
from a visit to Raleigh, where Captain
B.. r. Huske is cOmmandant of Com
pany A, of the Second regiment.
Please reprint the Fayetteville base
ball Junior team, which is soon to play
Wilmington. There were some errors
on Sunday. P. W. Haigh, c.; J. II. Nc
Rae, p: w. w. Sutton, 1st b.; Geo.
Mcneil, End b.; Paul Watson, 3rd b.;
Irwin Goddard, s. s.; H. Mcneil, L. f.;
! D. s. Owen, C. f.; H. Benton. +. f,