The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-12

says AldA lAI view D[El
Gotten seed oil mill viii be increased in
capacity and by the first of January n
complete fertilizer plant viii be in
stalled.
R4.~Egn Post: II is understood that
Norfolk AID WILLIAMSON, y. c., parties
are securing options on timber lands
along the proposed line OF the Raleigh
and Eastern Railroad company.
Mr.. I. K. Bruner. the secretary Of
the North Carolina agricultural depart
ment. has made estimates OF The leading
crops or the state for this year and he
thinks that tobacco Will approximate
125,OO0 900 pounds.
Salisbury Sun: Thirty-two metres,
ii is said, are being applied at the
Yadkin Falls, and while no definite or
nne calculations have been made. IL
IS oelieVed there is a force equal 10
$4,000 horsepower even at low water.
Kinston Free Press: Mr.. James Cav
enaugh, OF OnSlow county. was struck
by lightning last Thursday. about
three miles from here. as he was re-
turning home in a cart. His mule was
killed by the lightning. Three other
mules received a shock.
Mitchell Mirror: AT the Roam
urday Claude Bowman, son OF W. G..
Bowman, was accidentally shot in one
of his thighs by his brother. Arthur
Bowman. who was playing with a gun.
The wound is painful but not serious.
Charlotte News: Another horrible
affair occurred near the city Sunday
| morning about s o'clock during the Sc
we're elect-.cal and rain storm. Susan
Young, ar old colored woman, living
on Mr.. Myers place, about ten miles
southeast of the city, was burned to
death in her cabin after lightning had
struck the building and had most like
ly either rendered unconscious or kill
ed the old negro woman.
Winston Sentinel: Parties who cam
in on the Wilkesboro train last evening
reported that Mr.. Dock" Dearborn,
superintendent of the Bailey Manufac-
turing plant at Elkin, who was badly
cut in the abdomen On Wednesday, by
a knife in one of the machines flying
out, died at noon yesterday. The re-
mains will be sent to the former home
of the deceased at Salem Junction, NY.
Charlotte Observer: Asheville, Sept.
L Saturday night Tom Goode,
Jr., went to the house of FrancinaAra-
wood, near Hot Springs, and deman-
ded admittance. The woman refused
and Goode threatened to shoot. She
still refused AMI George fired twice,
the second time through a hole in the
wall. The bullet struck the woman in
the stomach, causing a wound from
which she died yesterday. At last &C
counts Goode had not been found.
Raleigh News and Observer: Hen
derson, N. c., Sept. 4.-Special.-Capt.
William j.. Richards, a prominent cit
izen Of our town, died Saturday night
at IL o'clock.-There will not be many
%circuses in his state this season On ac-
count of the heavy tax on them. The
last legislature, it appears, doubled the
tax. The state will receive 5000 per day,
while the county and city get 500 each.
In addition each side show is taxed $50.
Monroe Enquirer: On last Friday
night about 10:45 o'clock the people of
Monroe were startled by a terrific ex-
ploSiOn and in d few moments an
alarm of fire. The explosion was in
the western portion of town and was
caused by some disturber of peace fir
ing dynamite. The fire was at Shute
Bros barn on Windsor street.-One
Of the negroes accused of burning Mr..
G. c.. McIlwaine's barr has a local rep
utation as a deft fingered thief. He
is accused of ~appropriating to his own
use a breast pin, a watch, a pistol and
a bag of peas. Last Friday when the
officers started to jail with the boy, he
called to his mother, and said, Good
bye, nanny, I'll meet you in glory"
Manufacturers Record: 1t is pro-
posed to build at Gastonia, N. c., a fac
tory in which Will be placed from 25,-
| 900 to 1000 spindles n 1900 to $500
looms for the production of cotton
goods for export trade, a line for which
the local supply of cotton can be util-
lied. This plant is contemplated by
Mr.. George A. Gray in conjunction
with Mr.. John F. Love. Both rOpri
etors are manufacturers Of long exper-
fence, Mr.. Gray having been in cotton
milling for forty-eight years. Mr.. Gray
&c nrocidQnt and MANAGER and Mr.
Love is treasurer, of three mills at Gas
tonia, and several mills have been To-
Gated and equipped under Mr.. Gray's
direction.
Fayetteville Observer: Capt. J. c.
Huske returned yesterday from a
three months trip through Eastern
North Carolina. He says that tobacco
culture has made a number of sleepy
towns of sevleral years age grow out
Of all recollection and as if by magic.
The country, too, he says wears a
experiment of Ashley, Baily & Co., the
great silk manufacturers, in using ne
gro labor at their new silk mill, now
completed, in this city will be watched
with great interest throughout this
country, England and France. Some
three hundred and fifty will be en-
ployed, al negroes, under a negro fore
a
Washington Messenger: A gentle
man who came from Hyde through the
county said, THE people Of Beaufort
county have no conception of the rava-
ges of the storm, and from what / saw
in coming up, your people suffered
comparatively little to what we did in
Hyde. TIE fields Tool as if a fire had
passed owe them, aHd one cannot find
a green blade Of grass a green leaf Of
cotton or a live stalk Of corn. Not a
vegetable, cabbage or collard has es-
capped. All have been killed by he
overflow and the long standing salt
water. Some of the citizens of Fairfield
were compelled to move off their farms,
fearing the stencil arising from the de-
laying vegetable and grasses, would
produce ckness in their families. One
farmer had a large field of cabbage,
ready for shipment, and now they are
all rotten and a total loss. There will
not be a Mattamuskeet apple raised in
the county"