The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-21

Newton Enterprise: A great many
farmers are selling their wnea tn.s
year from the thresher. They are se.-
ting 20 cents per bushel. MI. Geo. a
warlick the last ten days q oeen
buyinr on an average OF lVVV .ousnsls
a day. He has we believe. q only
grain elevator in the state.
Greensboro Telegram: w. c. Balm, OK
this city, has been awarded the contIscl
for the erection OF the big hotter "a
Pinehurst, N. C. for James, w. TUFTS
of Boston. The building Is to be moo,
ern throughout and when completed
will have cost about $125,OOO. e. II.
Balm, lumber dealer OF this place. Will
furnish the lumber for the structure,
about one and a half million feet or
which will be required.
Kinston Free Press: We learn that
Mr. r. L. Turnage. OF Dongola, Pitt
county. has received a letter from Eli
iah Joyner now in Jail at Raleigh for
the murder o. Mr.. 'Turnage's nephew
and the burning OF his store, saying
that Cephas Langley also In Raleigh,
iafl charged with the same crime, had
nothing 10 do with the murder. JOY
ner SAYS he desires to tell the truth
about the matter, and no n except
himself had any connection with the
crime.
Greensboro Telegram: G. I. Gas
cock & Son, founders, are taxed TO
their utmost capacity to keep up with
orders. For the past three weeks it
has been necessary for them TO cast
every day in order TO turn out the ex-
ira amount of work and during that
time many a ton OF iron has been melt
ed and cast into various shapes
The Greensboro Furniture Company Is
testing it's capacity at present. filling
an order from Maxwell & Maxwell for
twelve car loads OF urniture OF diner
ent grades. The entire order will be
shipped by the same train to Maxwell
& MaxwelI's stores at Charlotte. Knox
vile and Augusta.
Fayetteville Observer: Fayetteville
is aid to be considerably above tide
water, yet this Is not literally true. In
one OF our artesian wells-that OF Cap
tain Ray. on Green street.-the tide Gibbs
and flows regularly with the stages OF
the moon. At high tide the water
overflows with a considerable stream;
at low tide the stream is a mere driD-
BILE, though ii never does entirely cease
its flow. This we'll is something over
200 feet in depth, which is just about
our elevation above the sea, so that
the bottom OF the well is about on q
level with the surface OF the sea. Is
there some s~ubterranean connection
between the sea and the body OF water
which lies under Fayetteville at a
depth Of 200 feet? That is a question
for the scientists.
Goldsboro Argus: What came near
being a shocking and fatal accident
was averted only by the merest chance
at the Chestnut street crossing, when
the trains arrived at noon today. The
Raleigh train and the Wilmington
and Weldon train came up to their
stopping place side by side, the Raleigh
train barely a car length behind the
other. At the above crossing a white
girl, about 16 year old, and her mother
with an infant in her arms, came to
the rear platform Of the rear OF the
Wilmington and Weldon tain, and the
girl deliberately stepped off the NOV
ing train, and towards the moving
Raleigh train, and Of course was thrown
fiat on the ground. and in scrambling
to get her footing she barely escaped
the wheels Of the Raleigh car. Her
mother with the infant was just in the
act OF stepping off also, when a Fc--
tleman grabbed her and held he:.
Oxford Ledger: Judge Brown will
hear at chambers at Oxford July 28th
the interesting case growing out OF
judgment of the superior court in the
suit Of an ice company against the
| Seaboard Air Line for the alleged
burning of its factory. II will be re-
membered that a verdict for $40, 900
damages was given In Wake superior
court and that the railroad appealed
but its attorneys did not file the appeal
papers in time, according to the claim
of the attorneys on the other side.-
A very unfortunate affair occurred in
Fishing Creek township Friday be-
tween two brothers, Charley and Kit
Hester. They are progressive farmers
and farm together, and reports have
1t that they got into a dispute about
some fertilizer and came TO blows when
Mr.. Kit Hester drew his knife and
stabbed his brother in the breast and
back and cut him across the shoulders,
inficting serious wounds.
Charlotte Observer: Col. Il. b. Terry
and Col. 7. A. Observation-Disclosures and
populist magistrates. respectively-fus-
ed yesterday or the sidewalks in front
OF & Shepard's. Col. Terry
was walking along %serenely. when Col
onel Austin, approaching from the rear
struck him a blow hat felled him TO the
ground. He then stamped h feathers
of Col. B. B.. and probably would have
finished him entirely IL Policeman Gro
well mad not appeared on the scene and
taken Col Pop" of TO headquarters.
Salisbury. July 13.-Dr. 1. w.fJones,
or Zeb. reports that last night ON his
way home from town he was held up
ana robbed by three men who boarded
MS buggy, one OF them getting him by
the throat from behind and the other
two presenting pistols in his face. They
got $40. a silver watch bearing she own
er's initials and a pocket-book contain
ing some notes and receipts.-Wades-
poro, July 13.-Last night. between /
n : O'Clock fire broke out in the new
passenger waiting n baggage rooms
Of the Seaboard Air Line and the At
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