The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
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Fayetteville Observer: Charles, the
17-year-old son of Alderman G.: {.
Taylor, of Durham. a native of Fay
etteville, died yesterday morning at his
home of a stroke of paralysis.
Durham Sun: K. P. Harrington, who
for several years was professor OF Latin
in b University. left Thursday for
Maine, where he goes to accept a pro-
fessorship in the University of that
state. DIR. H. f. Linscott is Profess
sor Harrington's successor here.
Joe Daniels, writing from Morehead
to The News and Observer, says: To
day within two hours w. L. Kennedy.
of Lenoir county, and T. H. Martin, OF
Durham, caught twenty-six drum that
weighed $40 pounds. Five of them
weighed between 45 and 90 pounds.
Claude Barbee caught 100 pig fish"
Winston Sentinel: A letter received
here from Wilmington avs that Rev.
DR.. Greasy has been carried to Balti-
more, by his son for medical treat
| ment. The writer does not say when he
left or who is to treat him. but 1t Is
| presumed that he is at Johns Hopkins
| hospital.-Mrs. Fannie was
| killed by lightning near Neatman.
Stokes county, last Friday. She was
| sitting near a window when she was
| struck. Her five children were in the
| room, but not one was injured. The
| husband was in the field.
Goldsboro Argus: A telegram today
| to Mrs. j. w. BizzeQl, annnounced n
| death of her cousin, Mr.. z. T. Suggs,
who died at the home of his mother.
near Kinston. Mr.. Suggs was for a
| long time agent between Goldsboro n
| Greensboro, and was we'll known here.
The father of Mr.. Suggs died last week.
About 81, 900 has already been sub
| scribed by the leading business men o
| Co1Ichorp for Ithn building of a ste M
boat to plough the waters OF Neuse
! river between this city and New Bern.
Shelby Star: Monday on n OF the
back alleys a man was lying in his wa
} gon dead drunk and sitting by his side
was his little boy. The child sat there
nearly all day as If guarding the un-
I conscious form of his father, and when
the father was aroused from his beSot-
ted browse he looked around and in
Quired of the child il it had gotten
lonesome during his supposed absence.
The strength of character OF the moth
er was evidenced in h child by his
~unwearying watchfulnesS over a faith
err who was unworthy of such care.
This full grown man is a dwarf In
moral courage to resist temptation n
weaker than his little son.
Greensboro Record: Passengers COM
ing in from ~Thomasville vicinity last
night report one of the SevereSt rain
and hail storms that has visited that
section in a number Of years. One man
at h depot here was exhibiting a
bucket full of hail, picked up directly
after the storm at T~homasville, and as
to quality" was above the average.
Much damage is reported to growing
cropS.-Allen Atwater, a studiouS COL
lored man who ran a street carriage
! here, died some time ago. There was
a mortgage on the old fellows house
and lot and on some Of his personal ef-
fects. and since his death this mortgage
h been foreclosed and another color
ed man has been living at the Atwater
homestead, but he is there no more.
He has vacated. The eason reported
is that he got tired of the presence of
Allen, VINO, he says, persisted in COM
ing back to see him entirely too often.
Greensboro Telegram: Presiding Ell
der p. j. Carraway, Of the Wilson dis
trict, returned this morning from Win
ston, where ne held quarterly confer
enc in Centenary Methodist church
last night. He informs Us that Rev.
DR.. Greasy, the pastor, is seriously i'll,
and that the board of stewards. at its
meeting last night, made arrangements
to have the pulpit supplied during his
I sickness.-Columbus Davenport, a
white boy, was arrested by
! Constable Dave Scott yesterday even
ing on the charge Of forging h name
Of J. II. Taylor on Hodgin & Rankin
for a pair of shoes. The forged note
called for $3.50 worth of goods.-A
telephone message from Kernersviile
says that Sanders made a criminal as
sault on a little colored girl named Will
son near Kernersville yesterday after
noon The officers have been looking
for him since, but he was still at large
at noon today.-Mr. Frank Swain,
engineer at the electric light station,
met with a painful accident early this
morning. 1t appears lat he was re-
moving a belt while the machinery was
running faster than he thought II was.
The belt flew off and struck Mr..
Swain, cutting two large and ugly
gashes-one above the left y and the
other on the back of the head. The ar
terry was curt above the eye.
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