The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-01
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ing body in that town.
Three we'll developed cases of small
pox were on the streets of
Salisbury among a crowd Who had
gone there to attend court.
Durham Herald: Both ofat Raleigh
morning papers are now defendants in
libel suits, but they may turn the joke
on the fellows by proving their charges
Ito be true.
Kinston Free Press: The shipment of
tobacco and cotton over the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad lately has
been so large hat it has pushed to its
utmost the transportation facilities at
this point.
Monroe Enquirer: Bill Arp is COM
ing to Monroe to lecture. That an
nouncement will be gladly read by
many admirers Of the Georgia philoso-
pher and , constant readers of his
weekly letters. He will be here on the
night of December 18th.
Rocky Mount Motor: We learn hat
two of our popular townsmen, Captain
John D. Bullock and Mr.. Julian P.
Norman, will leave in about two
weeks on an extended voca tour. They
will make their first appearance in
GoldSborO.
Raleigh News and Observer: The sec
rotary of state incorporates the Glib
son MdnuIdCIuTl1S Company, vi vi
cord. The business of the corporation
will be to spin and weave cotton, wool
or silk. The capital stock is 800, 600.
Charlotte News: The University of
North Carolina DOT ball team will pass
through Charlotte next Wednesday
night en- route to Atlanta, where they
play the University Of Georgia Thanks
giving day, and the University of
the South on December lst.
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ton of residences and business houses
here, we are justified in stating that
Salisbury is growing rapidly and that
at no distant day she will be one of the
leading cities in the state. The growth
is substantial and of the kind that
should bring prosperity.
Charlotte Observer: Mrs. Vance and
granddaughter, little Miss Florence
Martin, left last night for Salisbury
to rejoin the family of Congressman
Kluttz. From there they go, this morn
ing, to Raleigh. Mrs. Vance was the
recipient of many courtesies n at
tentions during her visit.
Washington Gazette-Messenger: On
yesterday afternoon DIR. Joshua Tayloe,
coroner, conducted an inquest over the
late Jethro Mobiles, whose death was
surrounded with suspicion. The jury
after hearing all the evidence render
ed the following verdict" THAT the
sail Mobiles came to his death by
causes unknown to the jury"
Siler City Messenger: Mr.. Haywood
Robbins, brother of Mr.. Henry G. Rob
bins, the efficient superintendent of the
Hadley-Peoples Manufacturing Com
pany's mill ait this place, has been pro-
NOTED to q second lieutenant of in
fantry in the United States army. Mr..
Robbins was formerly a student in the
Si1pr civ incltitnta and ic hion1x
spoken Of as an industrious and stu
diOus scholar.
Greensboro Record:-So far as lee
lures are concerned, Governor Bob
Taylor last night broke the record for
attendance. And he came near break
ing 1T for any kind of Entertainments
The house was well filled, chairs being
placed along the aisles in several
places, while the gallery was fairly
well filled. Perfect originality tells in
any man. Add to it the power to place
this originality properly before an au-
dience and you have a combination
that always draws, and, like a rolling
snow ball, it grows as it moves along.
Salisbury Truth: Miss Polly Beard
was a maiden lady of &c years. She
was known to many of our citizens,
having peddled strawberries, greens
and milk, and such like, for many
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she died. Tt was thought by many
that she was in destitute circum-
stances. Since her death her house
hold effects bring ITO light the aston
ishing fact that the supposed paupel
had simply slowed away in a tin cof-
fee pot, rusty with age, $500 in gold.
Raleigh News and Observer. A tenn
porary receiver has been appointed for
the State University railroad, a branch
of the Southern T1nninp from TTni-
VerSity Station to Chapel Hill.-While
laborers were at work on the wall of
Hughes building in court street, at
Louisburg, about ten feet of the wall
fell inward and injured four men Fer
CURSOR, a brickmason of Danville, Va,
had his left arm broken. Toole, a col
oTed man, nae his hip broken and his
shoulder seriously hurt, another color
ed man had one ear almost entirely
torn from his head. One other laborer
was badly bruised.
Charlotte Observer: A horrible acct
dent occurred on the railroad track a.
Twelfth street last night. A young un'
known white man was ground to pieces
under the car wheels. Just how h
came to his death is not and never viii
be known, but investigation made b!
the railroad authorities last night dis
covered that the man was struck by {
shifting engine at Twelfth street, ant
was dragged from there to the Cling
ham NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Nov. "a
Ten thousand acres of magnetic irol
ore land were leased Wednesday IL
Ashe county, by Philadelphia parties
representing the Pennsylvania Stee
Company, the Cambria Steel Company
and others. This embraces the famous
Ballou Home Place bank, which real
ICES 81 per cen Several thousand dol
lars cash was passed and the royalt!
agreed upon was % cents per ton. Elk
perts state that this is the greatest anC
finest deposit of magnetic ore in th'
southern states.
Nashville Graphic: While playin!
neal a pan of boiling water last weel
little Rosa, the 5-year-old daughter o
j. II. Ward, of near Rocky Mount, fel
into the pan and was badly scalded
TIE little one is doing as we'll as coult
be expected.-While playing "pris
oner'' with his elder brother las
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