The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31
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"a 16AAAS-h4AEo AkdA was DNARAG NaC &
supreme o last week.
Tobacco sells low indeed when news
papers brag over 6. $ and 10 cents per !
hundred pounds.
Durham Herald.-Fab Sears, who
shot Henry Hicks last Saturday night. !
is still in jail awaiting the results OF
Hicks injuries.
Raleigh News and observer.-The
North Carolina folks do not wrlte
much. The per capita amount spent
for postage in North Carolina is IL
cents. Massachusetts spends $3.50.
Statesville Landmark.-Rev. d. c.
Covington. colored, who figured in the
campaign of 1895 as the writer OF an
infamous anonymous letter to Rev. j.
Fl. Page. own a house and lot in
Statesville.
Raleigh News and Observer.-Twen-
ty-fve negroes who nave enlisted for
service in the Forty-ninth volunteer
regiment arrived here from Newbern
yesterday afternoon in charge of Lieu
tenant Gilmore.-At the Episcopal
Congress in st. Louis. Bishop Cheshire
spoke on Commission on Work
Among the Negroes"
The Blade says the canning business
is becoming quite an industry in and
around Carthage. Mr.. s. Il. Mcintosh
A11S 1AAASA@ ScAAS ~ @>A
a little over one acre of land, and said
he could a V canned three times as
many if ne had had the cans OF hand
at the proper time.
Sanford Express.-The large new
hotel at Pinehurst will be open for the
reception of guests by November 1st.
The hotel will be elegantly furnished,
the carpets alone costing So. 000. This
makes the seventh hotel for Pinehurst,
all owned by Mr.. Tufts, all of which,
with his &c cottages. will be crowded
with guests h coming winter.
Clinton Democrat.-While a murder
trial was in progress in Clinton. a
der was committed in Dismal township
last Friday evening. Two negroes,
lobe Maxwell and George Maxwell,
kinsmen, became involved in a diff
Guilty. lobe George, and it is
said shot ait him, when George return
ed the fire, killing his assailant in
stantly.
The Presbyterian Standard OF this
week contains the following item: Mr..
A. e. Rankin, of Fayetteville, y. c.,
proposes TO the hardware men in North
Carolina to contribute $500 each to-
wards the purchase of the much needed
range for the O~rphanage. Mr.. Rankin
heads the list with $500 and wants to
know if there are not twenty-nine
others who will give the same amoung
SO as to mak up $3.50.
Charlotte Observation-Disclosures, Oct.
25.-Mr. j. l.. Hedrick, one of the land
marks of Rowan, died today at his
home on the Yadkin river, at the ad-
vanced age of 95 years. He celebrated
his birthday in June Deceased was a
remarkable man in many respects.
There were few idle days on his calen-
dar. BY industry, thrift and care he
had acquired one of the largest estates
in this section.
Lumberton Robesonian.-Mr. Heath,
n Of the employees of Contractor
Petit, who is driving the piling at the
river, was seriously injured Monday
morning.-George Fisher, son of Troy
Fisher, of st. Paul township, was killed
n Georgia last week. He was at work
at a saw mill when one of the gov
ernop balls flew off, striking him on the
head n bursting out his brains. Mr..
Fisher was about % years old and had
been in Georgia some fou or five years
Newton Enterprise.-Mr. @. w. Coch-
ran returned home last week from the
gold field in Caldwell county. The GOLD
mine in which he was interested has
been sold ito a Mr.. Orr, Of Newport
News, Va. The papers We're signed in
Morganton just before he left. The
prices realized for the 100 acres of LAND
on which the gold was found was IS, 1000
Marion special to Raleigh Post: Sat.
urday night, at the house of ill-fame, 4
few miles east of Marion, Ed. Turner
alias Anderson, shot and Instantly kill.
ed Thomas Pyatt.
Clarkton Express.-Sheriff Wooter
made his grand round last week anc
brought in about 81, 500 of the people,
taxes. He says collections are mucl
better than last year., the people. as
general thing, coming up promptly
The Rev. Mr.. Ballard resigned his pas
torate of Mt. Zion Church on Saturda,
last. The Rev. Mr.. R~amsbottom ha.
also discontinued his ministraJtions a
Clarkton Baptist Church. We chronicl
this with much regret, as both churche
We're highly favored in having thes
good men in charge Of them.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth
There is much Improvement beini
made at the Scotland Neck knittinI
mills. Improved machinery has bee
purchased with which TO replace tn
old.-By the first of December tn
new shirt factory here will be in opera
ton That is what one of the pro
, meters of the enterprise said Monday
Mt. Airy News.-The second bank 10
: Mt. Airy will begin to transact a gen
eral banking business in a few week.
We learn that a strong company is be
hind the enterprise and tina not les
H~AoAA ~opscyN bdpIldA viii nc pci1 III :
start with.
Clay County Courier.-A crowd {
boys got into a row nea Poteet's mil
: on Tusquiutee. about five miles fror
= town, last Monday. resulting in n
shooting OF Pink Johnson. IL seems thu
the row was mainly between Gudge
. Cothren and Barney Corn. Corn ha
an X and Cothren a gun, and whe
{ they came together, before a bio
was struck, Johnson took up for Cor
{ who Is considerably smaller thai Cotf
s rem Cothren turned Corn loose and I
[ and ohnson began striking each 9th,
v with their guns, which were yer
small shot guns and did not seem to I
any damage. Johnson held his gu
with the muZzle toward himself, ar
Coth-en grabbed hold of the breech.
l. a III gun was fired and II
load Of shot entered Johnson's hip. IN,
q putting an end to the light
Mr.. James F. Cain, OF Durham.
dead He was a son of DR.. James
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