The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-12
A CAPTURE RE-cAPTURED.
Revenue Officer~ sutton Takes and
Loses a Stil1-Cape Fear River Nav
igation Current News Notes.
Correspondent of the Messenger.)

Correspondent of the Messenger.)
Fayetteville, n. c., December z.
An act, as bold as the old-time stage
hold-ups in the wild and lawless west,
was perpetrated here last night. Ex-
sheriff w. j.. Sutton, a officer
and one of his deputies came into the
city laden with h spoils of one OF their
expeditions-a '~moonshine' still, worm
and other appliances, which they de-
posted for safe keeping at h livery
stables of Mr.. Ransom Burns, in the
custody Of a negro named Thompson,
While they repaired TO h city cafe on
Hay street to reward duty we'll done
with oysters, hot coffee and other APP
petizing edibles.
Shortly thereafter two plainly dress
ed countrymen appeared upon the scene
at the stables, making afectlonate in
quirles IF the negro Thompson about
their friend Sutton, what he brought
with him. etc. In reply the colored
man showed hen the StlA n worm,
Of which the strangers procsded forth
with TO possess themselves, covering
Thompson with a Winchester rifle and
a revolver, accompanied by h assur-
ance that If he stirred a step or made
an cutlery down would go his build
ing When the officers returned they
found the negro. but nothing else OF
any interest to them.
Fayetteville confidently expects Will
mington's right hand of encouragement
and cooperation in h effort now
making by the chamber Of m
to secure government aid in the i'm
proyement of h upper Cape Fea riv-
er. Wilmington is as much interested
as are our people in a regularly nayl-
gable river, with one or more lines of
good steamers, for its wholesale mer-
chants woul reap the great benefits
which accrued to their predecessors
fifty years ago. This improvement of
the Cap Fear navigation is coming; il
is a necessity, becoming more urgent
with railroad developments which look
to Fayetteville as a terminal. From
causes, which is needles to specify here,
the river business is already steadily
on the i~ncreae, both in passengers and
freight, the mills, especially the Holt
Morgans, being great factors therein
Mr.. Morgan, president OF electrl-
cal transmission power company at
Burkham, gives us great encourage
'ment as to the progress of the work
for supplying Fayetteville mills with
power and the city with electric lights.
These much desired improvements viii
come in the near future.
Through Professor Hollock, who
spent last winter with Major and Mrs.
J.. B. Broadfoot, Mr.. Herbert LutteGlo
has received a lot of fine bass n trout
for his Beaver Lake, which he shared
with Mr.. Walter Holt in stocking
Bonnie Doom" These two are among
the best fish preserves in all this Sec
ton, affording excellent sport to the
skilled angler. Tt is an important fact
that our waters abound with the fresh
water shrimps, considered by the gov
eminent commission as the pest fish
food obtainable, and which greatly
diminishes the destruction of reaches
and other smaller fry by the larger
fish.
MIR. E. Williamson, of the Holt-Wil-
Hams Cotton Manufacturing Company,
was carried yesterday to the SANTA
RUM of Drs. Marsh and Highsmith on
Green street. He has beer Frustrated
with fever for some time, and his many
warm friends hope that in this excel
lent institution, equipped with every
convenience and appliance, he will
soon recover his health.
This correspondent regrets to state
that Miss Mamie Morrow, accomplished
and much esteemed here, is critically
in at her mothers residence on Hay
mount.