The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-02

CRIMINALS nave Deen apprehended. there
has been a hanging in the coun-
ty, and it would Be too bad to make an
example OF a woman
Newton Enterprise: The best news
We have this week, is the announce
rnent that Newton is TO have another
cotton factory. Yount and Shrum will
build il this summer. They already
have a good portion OF the brick made
and are saving the lumber for the
wood work. Last Friday the contract
Tor the machinery was signed.
Newton Enterprises: There seems 10
be a considerable stir among the stock
holders and officers of the Narrow
Guage Railroad. This new company
seeking a line from Cranberry TO Will
lngto would like to have the road
from Lenoir TO Lincolnton and change
IT into a broad guage. But the narrow
guage people will likely insist on sell
ing the whole line from Chester up,
or not selling any OF il.
Taylorsville Letter in Statesville Mas
cot: A meeting OF the citizens and tax
payers with n mayor and town COM
mlssloners Monday night voted TO en-
ploy a mayor and pay him $50 per year
and apoliceman $3.50 a year, and COM
Dine with the duties of policeman that
OF street and sanitary work. making
II his duty TO carry with him, besides
liz plLly, d nlIcc DdIIoN.
shovel and pick, Sc that when he was
not after violators of the ordinance that
he could be working on the streets.
Durham Sun; Our population now
will push 5000 pretty close-and Dur
ham is only about t~hirty-ive years of
age. A hearty, healthy, growing young
ster in the galaxy of North Carolina
towns.
Asheville Citizen: Rev. j. NJ. Holla-
day, for some time pastor of Southside
Presbyterian church, has resigned his
charge here and will leave tomorrow
for his new field of work in Virginia.
His departure is regretted by all who
have come to know him durinb his res
idence in Asheville.
Watauga Democrat: A Mr.. Osborne
of Ashe county came to town under the
influence of "tanglefoot" last week,
ordered his horse fed at Blackburn
stables, which was done. When the
aforesaid Osborne got ready to leave he
through a mistake took another mans
horse. He was followed by an officer,
brought back, and his mistake caused
WIDELY by bad whiskey, cost him near
SIS.
Mitchell Mirror: DR.. J. I. Bradshaw,
who was in town today, informs us
that yesterday Nose Peterson, who lives
just in the edge of Yancey county, &C
cidently shot his % year old son with
a SO calibre pistol. The ball entered
| the left hip, ranged downward and
backward about four inches, and came
out, inficting only a flesh wound. DR..
! Bradshaw says the wound is not likely
to prove troublesome.
Sanford Express: The Fire Bap-
! tized Holiness Association" moved their
tent from Jonesboro to Sanford Monday
and have since been holding services
three times a day. We understand
| that they have made a few converts
doing the preaching boasts of the fact
that he was once a thief and murderer.
Lenoir Topic: There is a gentleman
here negotiating with a view of buying
out all the lumber companies doing
| business here. We understand that
some of the companies here offer to
sell, but whether there is a probability
of the whole business going into the
hands of n party, we are not able to
say. One thing we do know, that it
would be a calamity to the people of
the county, and we trust that the deal
will not be consummated.
Durham Sun: Colonel J. S. Carr is
to deliver the address at the commence
ment exercises of Peace Institute in
Raleigh, on Friday morning, May 26th,
at 10 o'clock. The G. A r., of Char
lotte, have also invited Colonel Carr
to deliver the memorial address on fed
eral decoration day, May Goth. Colonel
Carr is to respond on behalf of the
North Carolina Bankers Association,
at their meeting in Raleigh, on June
7th. They will be in session three days
June Tth, Sth and 9th.
Superintendent Day Of the NORTH
Carolina penitentiary has gone to
Washington to see the department Of
justice in regard to federal convicts.
He says he will tell the department
that the convicts are not wanted unless
they are amenable to precisely the
same discipline as the state convicts;
that there will be trouble in manag'
ing them while there is such equality,
but there would be trouble if any at
tempts was made to make the federal
| convicts free from the lash.
Rev. Kenneth Mcdonald was born at
Rockfsh, Cumberland county, n. c.,
| May "a, 1910 and died at mis- home near
| Black River church, in the Presbytery
of Wilmington, May 10, 1899, in the
59th year of his age. Here ended a life
of great un~selfshness and Of many
! good deeds of which little public notice
could be made. He served honorably
and faithfully in the cavalry and in
! fantry forces Of the Confederate army.
| After the war between the states he
studied at the Bingham school, at Dav-
idson collge and at Union Theological
Seminary in Virginia. He was licensed
to preach at Asheboro church in April
1875. In October 1876 he was ordained
in Horeb church.-Charlotte Presby-
terian-Standard.
| Charlotte Observer: Mr.. Lindsay
| Sarrat is one of the linemen of the Pos
tai Telegraph Company. Yesterday
morning he climbed up a pole near
Blacks stable to fasten some wires.
By a mistake he got hold of TWO Cd