The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-26
A DEAL FOR THE BLUFF MILLS
Good Tobacco Break Efforts to Es-
tabifsh the Arsenal The Albemarle
Railroad 1ond--A Marriage of Uu-
usual Interest


usual Interest
Correspondence of The Messenger)
Fayetteville, N. c., Sptmbr %.
Mr.. Houston, of Philadelphia, one of
the principal owners of the two large
cotton factories on Rockfish, known aus
Hope Mills Nos. and 2, has been here
within the past few days, and negotia-
tions have been in train for his pur-
chase of Bluff mills on Beaver creek,
shut down for some months past, of
which DR.. H. w. Lilly is president If
the saleis consummated the best OF new
machinery will be put in, the capacity
of the plant enlarged, and additional
operatives homes built.
Except the opening sale on the 10th
of August, yesterdays tobacco break
was the largest days business OF the
new warehouse up to date, more than
$4,000 pounds being contained in the
rows of neat piles on the floor, with
prices ranging from 4 ito AZ cents. A
new buyer, Mr.. Ellington, of Green's
boro claimed the attention of the volu-
BILE auctioneer.
Major e. J. Hale and John B. Broad
foot and MesSrs. A. H. Slocomb, H. r.
Horne and f. r. Rose, the committee
appointed by the chamber of commerce
for the purpose, are making strenuous
efforts, with fair hopes of success, to
induce the government at Washington
to re-establish the arsenal at this place.
Fayetteville's position as the head or
river navigation, and as great rail-
way freight competing point, gives it
preeminent advantages which the gov
ernment will of course appreciate in
the consideration of this matter.
A curcular has just been issued from
hn A,ooo Drnnontin0
Company, 23 Doane street, Boston,
Mass, to advance the sale of the $780,
600 1st mortgage ten-year per cent.
gold bonds of the Fayetteville & Albe-
marie r. r. Co., so miles in length, in
Guiding it's branches, at the rate of
$4,000 per mile of completed road. The
company presents the following esti-
mate of the receipts for the fiscal year
to July 1, 1900: Fayetteville freight,
$50, 900; lumber freight, $4,000; naval
stores, $4,000; cotton and cotton seed,
$4,000; fertilizers, $4,000; passenger and
mail service, $1,000; total $4,000. AS
the operating expenses for the year will
not exceed $4,000, there will be $4,000
to apply to bonds issued and those out
standing. Allowing Is per cent. TO sell
the bonds and procure rights of way,
S425, 900 will be left for railway con-
struction. These bonds are offered at
So cents and accrued interest.
The incorporators of the new Ice
Manufacturing Company, corner DON
aldson and Mumford streets, who are
mainly citizens of Fayetteville and At
lanta, will straightway have their
plant in complete order for an e2ten-
sive business. In addition to the man
ufacture of ice, the company will deal
in wood, coal and builders supplies.
The recent marriage OF Lieutenant
Cameron MacRae Winslow to Miss
Dora Havemeyer, daughter of Theo-
dore Havemeyer, is of no ordinary in
terest to Fayetteville people and to
Wilmington people as well, for the
communities at the two ends OF the
Cape Fear are "unco sib'' in II social
matters. Lieutenant Winslow is q
grandson of Mrs. Frank Brown. and
a cousin of Mrs. T. ID. Haigh, OF this
city. His mother, Miss Nelson before
marriage, issue of Mrs. Browns first
marriage, was adopted and raised by
the late E. w. Vikings, a prominent
Fayetteville merchant, and she was
closely akin to the Iamepted Colonel
John MacRae, Major Duncan G. Mac
Rae, DR.. j. A. MacRae and Rev. Cam
eron MacRae, after whom her son is
named. Lieutenant Winslow is COM
mander of Admiral Sampson's flagship,