The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-06

Clayton Is o to have a cotton mill.
and now there Is ak OF building one
on the river near Smithfeld-
Mrs Lucinda Warren. wife of ex-
Sheriff Allen Warren. died In Green
vile Monday.
The only mill OF its kind in the
south for the manufacture of cotton
flannel. now being built near North
Buffalo Creek. and known as the Rev
olution Mills. Is nearing completion
Charlotte News: Prince Wood. a
we'll known negro about town. was
arraigned in the mayors court his
morning charged with an assault on
Marie Irwin. a little colored girl.
scarcely over 10 years old
Louisburg Times: Another OF Frank
lin county's most honorable and high
ly esteemed citizens has passed away
Mr.. Edmund Sykes. He was a man OF
whom there was never any doubt as
TO hat stand he would AXE upon any
question OF right.
Raleigh Post: DIR. r II. Lewis. the
secretary OF the state board OF health.
said yesterday that the disease had
as strong a foothold as ever. During
the month new cases have been re-
ported in Orange and one or two 9TH
er counties.
Goldsboro Argus: Mr.. Stephen w.
Isler and his nephew. Mr.. Sim Isler.
have returned from their trip TO Cuba.
Mr.. Isler says he found conditions so
unsettled over there hat be curtailed
his trip considerably as there was no
pleasure in travelling among such sur
~roundings.
G%reenville Weekly: We have Just
learned the particulars Of the burning
OF a barn of w. NJ. Kings in Falkland
township Monday night of last week.
About three stacks of fodder in the
barn loft were burned. There were
about thirty barrels of corn in the
barn. No insurance.
Greensboro Record: Yesterday af-
ternoon a Job lot" was put up and
disposed OF. three cases being tried and
a divorce granted inside of half an
hour, while a fourth was heard and
given to the jury to answer one issue
about which there was a dispute. And
still another was on tap, but went over
until this morning.
Winston Republican: The Salem
commissioners grant a 40-year fran
chise to the Winston-Salem Railway
and Electric Company and made a ON
tract with the company for lighting
Salem at the rate of SIS a light of 1.2O0
candle W per annum. The same
company were granted a 40-year fran
chise to put in a gas plant.
Maxton Herald: A recently appoint
ed magistrate, not 1000 miles from
Durham, says The Recorder has issu-
ed the following matrimonial notice:
o and after this date / will present
as elegant chrome, a parlor lamp, or
q glass water set, to all bridal couples
married by me. All marrying done
in the most artistic way, either in pri-
vate or public"
Winston Journal: The fall of Mr..
Lee, the Irish evangelist, appears to
be complete. The apparent duplicity
of this mans life is almost impossible
of comprehension. His voluntary con-
fessiOn of his sin and withdrawal from
the church must be very humiliating to
those who have so strenuously con-
tended that he was a prosecuted man.
Stanley Enterprise: A religious GEN.
suS has been taken of our town by
ministers Of the various churches. a
report of which will be found in an
other column. A total population of
2,175 whites is shown There are some
600 or 700 colored people in the same
bounds, which will give a grand total
of at least 2,700. Three years ago 900
would have been a strong estimate.
Warrenton Record: Mr.. w. G.. Eyer
ton lost his large store and stock of
goods in Macon last Wednesday morn
ing by fire. The fire was discovered
about ) o'clock in the morning and
had gained such Roadway that it was
impossible to save anything. The en-
tire stock of goods was burned with
the building. The loss was some $1,000
in stock and building, with some 81, 400
insurance.
Clyde Sellers, a negro confined in
Jail at Greensboro, made his escape
about 4 O'Clock Monday morning I'M
der peculiar circumstances. He dom
ned a woman's dress, and represent
ing himself to be a female "trusty"
going for a bucket of water, passed the
guard without suspicion. His absence
was not detected for sometime, when
he was probably miles from Green's
boro.
Charlotte News: C. Z. Brooks, the
manager of the New England Textile
School, who although an Englishman,
was residing at Charlotte, N. c., at the
time he received the New England ap-
pointment, and who was about to Sc
cure the establishment of a textile
school at Charlotte, is drawing quite
a number of Carolina and other south
ern boys as students to his institution
at New Bedford.
Washington Gazette-Messenger: We
were shown Tuesday by Mr.. James
l.. Mayo what was to us quite a curl
osity-an alligator egg. Mr.. Mayo
took this egg from a nest on South
creek, in which there were SO others.
and it is about the size of an ordinary
hen egg, only much longer and alike
at both ends. Mr.. Mayo says that
during the warmer months alligators
frequent this creek, and only last
summer he succeeded in killing one 13
feet long.
Fayetteville Observer: d. j. Cashwell,
j. p, ex-mayor Of Hope Mills, was
yesterday afternoon bound over to the
criminal court on a charge Of false pre-
tense.-The need of a state reforma-
| tory is again illustrated. This morning
a white boy named Willie Jones, about
II years old, was committed to Jail on
a warrant issued by a Hope Mills mag
istrate, charging him with larceny 1t
is said that he is one of the band of
youthful robbers h nav been COM
hitting the numerous store roberies in
Hope Mills lately.
Fayetteville Observer: The names
of the two men concerned in the TRACE