The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-28
KORra CAROLINA

VIII lives UUiy lew m1ieS IfUn LIZ
Gust Level. In Stanly county, spent
Wednesday night here on his way to
Charlotte. He had In q large sack IL
dozen birds, which were engaged at
that place. He says that he and his
brot : had killed them since Monday
morning. He gets 90 cents per dozen
Tor them.
It is learned from the Sanford Ex-
press that twenty-five hundred pounds
OF rabbit meat passed here yesterday
from Siler City and other stations on
| the Atlantic and Yadkin consigned TO
Richmond, Washington and other
northern markets.-Rev. Edwin A.
| Osborne, late chaplain of the Second
Regiment OF North Carolina Volunteers
has been appointed secretary or the
Executive Missionary committee Of the
Protestant Episcopal church
Forest and Stream: I notice in your
issue of January 14th that Curator
Brimely, of the State museum at Raj
| eigh, advertises for bears for speci-
mems, therefore | write to say that IL
he will send into Hyde, Beaufort or
Tyrrell counties, which occupy the Pc
ninsular lying between Pamlico and
| Albemarle sounds, in North Carolina,
he can get all the bears he cares to give
room to. If any one has lost N bears
that is the location to find them.
Durham Herald: Cora Hicks, color
ed, was before Justice of the Peace ID.
c. Gunter yesterday, charged with sit
ing a little colored child in the fire.
The evidence went to show that the
C lored girl became incensed at some
action of the little child and took it up
by the heels and nap Of the neck and
deliberately sat it in the fire. The child
was severely burned and the justice
ordered DR.. Moore to examine the child
and report the extent Of its injuries.
Atlanta Constitution: We read in
a North Carolina paper that "a turpen-
tine hand" a negro was run over by
the short accommodation train, COM
/ pletely derailing it, and causing the
engineer to break his left leg while
jumping to save himself" Our on
temporary adds: The accident was
caused by the negro going to sleep on
the track. He was afterwards arrest
ed, and will be punished for having
been an obstruction in the way of a
railroad train"
Charlotte News: During the snow
storm Saturday night some one knock
ed at the door of Emma Wallis home
on South Mint street and placed in the
arms Of the old colored woman what
she supposed to be a bundle of shawls
and clothing. The mysterious stranger
departed without disclosing his name,
lsaying as he left that he had been ask
ed to deliver the package to the Wall
woman. The bundle was unwrapped
and beneath the wooden wraps a male
infant was found sleeping peacefully.
Yesterday morning the old colored wo-
man made the facts known to some of
the neighbors.
Salisbury Sun: The vestibule from
! the north was late yesterday and was
run in several sections, each passing
here in the evening. The one which
passed at $40 o'clock came near kill
ing II. H. Ham, a white man, near G.
A. Rice's lumber yard. Mr.. Ham Is
from Durham and has been here a
week with his brother Yesterday
evening he was walking along the main
line and looking at a passing train
when the vestibule came along and the
engine struck him. His left side, from
the top of his head to his feet, was
bruised, and several cuts were made.
He was knocked about fifty feet.
Asheville Gazette: Mr.. John Glass,
Of Black Mountain, was in the city
yesterday and reported a very serious
and perhaps fatal cutting, which oc-
Cured at a church on North Fork of
Swannanoa a few days ago. Two
/ xynrno man hv tho nam of Homhv ond
Burnett went to the church in a state
of intoxication and while there became
involved in a fight in which stones and
knives were freely used. Handy re-
ceived several ukly wounds on tn arm
and breast, one of which is thought
will prove fatal. This wound extends
from the shoulder blade to the abdo-
men. He also has several severe
wounds in the shoulder and his right
hand is badly %lacerated. No arrest has
yet been made.
Raleigh News and Observer Mr..
R. L.. Holt, of Burlington, is here to
look after a charter for a new railroad.
The Alamance mills want freight com
petition, n ask for a charter to
build to PittsbOro to Onnect with the
Seaboard or to some point on the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad
The first official act of Scotland county
was to present Speaker Conner with
a handsome pen and holder. On it is
inscribed the following: Conner,
1899, Scotland" He used it for the
first time yesterday in signing the
Scotland county bill.-The Pineola
Lumber and Trading Company was
yesterday incorporated by the secre-
tary of state. The place of business is
Pineola, Mitchell county, and the pur-
pose Of the company is TO do a general
lumber business. The capital stock is
800, 900. The in~corporators are: F.
". Mckenzie, D.. C. Catlin, Everett B.
Camp and Mark T. Leonard.
Fayetteville Observer: There was
43 feet Of water in the Cape Fear at s
o'clock this morning with the water
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