The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-23
NORTH

Vice President Pritchard did aot meet
his first appointment because OF small
pox.
Mack FISHERMAN, negro. al Charlotte.
murdered his wife. Her brains were
shot u He IS at large.
a North Carolina negro has returned
from Liberia and says II IS an occurs
ed country" that nearly all the Amer
lean negroes long to return.
Dunn Union: Reports oming from
all parts OF the county say that many
Of the republicans and populists win
vote with the and support
the amendment Harnett Is ali right.
Kinston Free PreSs: Word was re-
ceived at KinSton that Joe Porter. a
negro, was burned TO death in the GAIA
bose at Griftou last night He was
put in the calaboose in a drunken state.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. Chatham
also stated that President McIver re-
ported from letters he had received that
96S Of the $50 students would return
at the opening OF the college on Janu-
airy 30th-
Mooresville Enterprise: Tho pro-
moters in the new cotton mill enter
prise are induStriously, though quietly,
working for the advancement Of its in
terests. All the necessary stock to
guarantee a mill has been subscribed.
Lexington Dispatch: Parties from
Silver Hill bring news of a rich dis
covery Of ore at the mines at that place
last week Workmen struck a new
vein about 100 feet from the top of the
earth and over fifty pounds Of pure,
native silver was taken out last week
Besides the silver, quite a quantity OF
gold was found
Manufacturers Record: Mr.. George
A. Mebane. of Greensboro. n. c., reaS-
urer of the Cooleemee cotton mills Of
Cooleemee Fails, near Jerusalem, N. c..
writes that his company has about
completed its developments at the falls
and that the machinery VIII be shipped
in January. This intends to
install an equipment of $4,000 spindles
and 500 looms, its main building TO be
104x422 feet in size.
Raleigh Post: Director Thompson of
the penitentiary called the attention
of Superintendent Day TO the fact yes
terday that there is a thirty-year eS-
capped convict residing in Beaufort
county who openly deies the people
and any effort to recapture him. The
convict in question, w n. Brantley,
is one of the murdererS of the late John
Bonner, the Aurora banker who vas
killed for his money. Brantley was
connected with the three Bel BOYS and
SCIlCIISCu ~ Ill yNdiS IL NhC P~AlSA-
tiary. He made his escape from n
of the eastern farms last May. n has
been residing at the scene OF the crime
in Beaufort county since.
Gastonia News: One day last week
a Castor county man went to York
willie to swap horses. He had a pretty
good horse and snapped it off for a
mule. The man either got sick of the
mule or the mule got sick of the man.
--ru ~ tho 49, -~tEl1 ~ q tho aIrla
to a negro man, but it seems the negro
didn't want to buy. After trying in
vain to sell the mule he asked the negro
if he would have the mule il hewould
give it to him. The negro agreed to
trade that way and took the animal Off
his hands, and bought the bride for
% cents. The man walked back home,
a distance of 26 miles carrying a Dor
rowed saddle on his back.
Charlotte News MI. N. NJ. Law
renee, while in Raleigh last week at
tending the meeting of rs Grand lodge,
met Mr.. D.. W. Woodhouse, Of Poplar
Branch, Currituck county, this state,
representative from Currituck Lodge,
No. 463, who told him of a boy in Cur
rituck who weighs $50 pounds. The
boys name is Lewis Lewark, and his
postofice is Carold, Currituck county,
N. Cit seems that the constitution
al amendment is gaining ground every
day in spite of Pritchardi and Butler.
The writer has heard several republic
cans say they were going to vote for
it. OF course it will be carried, as far
as Cleveland county is concerned. Hur-
rah for Senator Morgani
Greenville, n. c., January 13.-Mr.
Jacob Joyner lives about three miles
from Greenville with his son, Mr.. o.
L.. Joyner. The latter, being proprie-
- 6L~ Nhooao rrzo
here, spends most of his time in town
during the day. This morning the elder
Mr.. Joyner went hunting n not hav-
ing returned when his son reached home
in the afternoon the latter grew uneasy
and went in search of him.. After
searching for sometime the son heard
cries, as from some one in distress,
coming from the low grounds. He fol-
lowed the direction Of the voice some
distance thrugh the woods and at last
found his father lying in a pond with
his thigh broken and keeping his head
above water by holding on to a log. 1t
was then almost dark n it took an
hour or more to get Mt. Joyner back
to his home.
Raleigh News and Observer: We'll
said democrat No. 1, II see P~ritchard's
appointment to speak at Rockingham
brought on the smallpox. What will
ooltCl . oppOA1lN4iA@LLL 6LNS NAO PNOP<S
Of Wilmington" 'The bubonic plague,
1 suppose replied democrat No. a.
At a distance Of only twenty-three
miles southeast of Raleigh marketable
iron ore exists in such vast quantities
and in such easily obtainable position
that the latent wealth Of the land is
almost Observation-Disclosures at
Wilson's Mills has it that away back
in the eighteenth century n Killings
worth used to dig iron ore out Of the
ground. At any rate he had a forge In
about the same locality where h ore
is being mined now. The mine is one
and five-eighth miles from the town Of
Wilson's Mills, on land owned by Mr..
John A. Wilson.-The amendment
will get the full democratic vote in
Greene county," said Mr.. j. E. W.
Sugg, member of h house from
Greene.
Charlotte Observer: At 2 O'Clock
yesterday morning the barn Of a negro
named Bob Ray, on h York road,
about five miles from the CITY Was seen