The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

Smithfield thirty thousand pounds
were sold.
Raleigh Times: Two of Raleigh's
brightest young women are contem-
plating establishing another afternoon
paper in Raleigh. IL they do We trust
that history will repeat itself and an
| other consolidation will be effected.
Rutherfordton indicator: Misses
Mona Morrow and Myrtle Detwiler are
responsible for an increased banking
| business at the popular bank of d. F.
Morrow as they took charge last week.
| and now there is a constant run of de-
positors.
Raleigh Post: The first petition un-
der the new bankruptcy law was filed
in h United States district court yes
terday afternoon. Colonel A. W. Shaf-
| fer, of this city. was the first man In
this district to ask to be adjudged a
bankrupt
The Clinton Democrat says The s.
year-old son of Mr.. John Seasons. OF
| Sampson county, got a watermelon
seed in his windpipe and died from the
effects Of IL. An attempt was made
TO remove the seed. but il could not
De definitely located. The boy was
| recovering from a spell of fever and
| was quite weak.
Oxford Ledger: Young Burton, a
- AAA& "80 4F@@ g.
Stoval, some days ago fell thirty feet
from a tree and was knocked senseless.
and at last accounts was in a precari-
Gus condition.-Mr. r. Broughton is
ahead on raising plumbs. He placed
one on our desk Monday that weighed
81 ounces.-Mr. L. F. Hammie laid
on our table a few days ago two peach
er ten inches around.
High Point Citizen: Last Sunday
about 9 o'clock there came walking up
the railroad track a man wearing a
soldiers uniform, and upon being ask
eG where he was from and the cause
Of his unfortunate condition. he said:
81 was a member of the Second regi-
ment. and or account of inability I was
discharged and cast out without money
or ticket and have had to walk all the
way from Raleigh"
Morganton Special to The Asheville
Citizen: Bud Powell, son of William
Powell, was killed here by a through
freight Sunday. He was under the
influence of liquor and was asleep on
the track. He leaves a wife and three
children.-Cling Fleming, of Upper
Creek township, was fatally cut by
Tom. his son, Saturday night. The
latter attempted to kill his wife and
SON, when the latter did the cutting.
The son was badly wounded. 1t is a
good family and the affair is deplored.
Greensboro Record: A negro man
with his head and jaws bandaged up,
was at the our house this morning
consulting with a lawyer about a suit
against the Southern railway. His
story was that he and another man
were beating their way on a train COM
ing this way, when one of the hands
made him jump off. The train, he said,
was moving fast, and his partner was
killed, while he thought he was in the
same box for some time, but finally
came around all right, though he
claims to be badly used up.
Jacksonville CFla.) Times-Union:
Two hundred men from the First
North Carolina regiment We're out at
the rifle ranges yesterday n did ex-
cellently. They were highly compli-
mented by Lieutenant Colonel Cowles
on their work The First North Caro-
lima and the Second Illinois were both
supplied yesterday with four-mule
teams and wagons. The First North
Carolina now lacks about fifty re-
cruits to bring the regiment up to the
required number Had it not been
that about theirty men have been dis
charged because of physical disability,
only about twenty recruits would be
needed.
Raleigh News and Observer: Madi-
son, N. c., August 3.-(Special.)-Chas.
| ooUSIii, d sun u I1eITy bduSnn OF
Mayodan was fired upon last night by
Nelson Mosely, a negro, and seriously
if not fatally wounded. The cause of
the trouble is reported to be that Nose
ly found Baughn in his watermelon
patch.-Mr. Walter p. Byrd, of Har-
nett county, who was a membe of
! the Fayetteville was i'll with
typhoid fever at Camp Dan Russell
| when the Fayetteville company was
ordered to Tybee. When he was some
what improved, on last Sunday morn
! ing, he was granted a furlough for ten
days and went to his home at Buie's
! Creek. On Monday afternoon he died.
Mr.. Byrd was a talented young man
( aged about % years.
Charlotte Observer: The Sunday
school of Tyron Street Baptist church
went to the park yesterday afternoon
| about 5 o'clock to enjoy it's 1ong-post-
| poned picnic or outing. Ed. Wray was
the first one out. AS soon as he got in
sight Of the picnic ground he ran
through the wood toward the open
| space. He did not see the fence, and
ran right into it. His upper lip and
| hand were painfully cut. Mr.. Durham
and others attended to the boys
wounds, and the picnic went on. There
were to be other misfortunes. Jim
Coble next made the acquaintance of
the fence. It caught him across the
throat, cutting him badly. He was
brought to town and the wound sewed
UP. The boy was quite veal from the
| loss of blood. He tainted twice. Just
as the crowd was assembling to come
back to town, Tommie Gribble, whose
home is in the country, but who is a
member Of the Sunday school, ran
| against the wire. 1t caught him across
the throat, cutting a cash several in
| ches long.-Yesterday morning near
ly a hundred wagons passed through
the streets. filled with negroes. bound
| for China Grove, a mile from Pineville,
| for a picnic. Charlie Armstrong at
| tempted to drive a certain way. and
some of the Pineville negroes. who had
| given the party. objected. That pre-
| cipitated the war. Pistols and knives
were heard and seen in all directions.
| Twenty or twenty-five shots were fired.
So far as could be learned only one
took effect. A negro woman from
| PinevflIe was shot in the side. No one