The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
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The State Bar Association is in ses-
sion at Asheville.
Glenn spoke to 500 men at Laurin-
burg and greatly stirred them.
Salisbury Sun: Salisbury is to buy
the present system of waterworkS-
this is the recommendation of the ad-
visory board to the board of aldermen.
Durham Sun: Congressman Atwater
has been compelled 20 cancel all his
engagements to speak for the next
week or ten days, owing to he fact
that he is to unwell to fill them He
was taken sick at the hotel here yes
terday and left today for. his home
Webster's Weekly: The peach crop
in this section will probably be the
largest in many years. Even the chron-
ic growler a no room for complaint
unless it be that there is danger of the
trees breaking down under their pre-
cious burden.
Mount Airy News: The apple crop
in this section of the state will not
come up to expectations this year. Why
the crop is so light We are unable to
say, but that it will not average up is
no doubt. 1t is quite likely late frostS
u the crop short.
Durham Sun: DR.. Cyrus Thomson,
populist nominee for governor, spoke
in the court house this afternoon to
half if not more of which were negroes
He said that he proposed to speak on
the constitutional amendment, the
election law, and possibly the world,
the flesh and the devil.
Fayetteville Observer: We are griev
ed to death Of venerable and
venerated exiSheriff Mcneil, which &C.
Cured at 2 o'clock this afternoon at
his home, Ardlussan, seven miles
south of town. He was born on the
31st of May, 1908, and was therefore
just passed his 92nd birthday.
Lumberton Robesonian: Hon. John
D. Bellamy delivered the literary ad-
dress at the closing exercises of the
Croatan Normal School, at Pates, June
q, 1900. Mr.. Bellamy had a large and
appreciative audience who enjoyed his
timely address. AS usual, he made a
deep impression on his hearers, the
good influence of which will be of last
ing benefit to all present.
Salisbury Truth: There was con-
siderable excitement on the yara OF
the Southern last night when Bill
Harp, a negro fireman, knocked his
wife from an engine and inflicted very
painful injuries. The woman was i'm
mediately brought up the street and
given medical attention.-Dr. w. L.
Foushee, a PHI. D. graduate from Johns
Hopkins university this year, has re-
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in Mercer University, Macon, Ga.
Tarboro Southerner: Tarboro has not
been one of those towns claiming a
population far in excess Of the reality.
The census will not cause any shrink
age here. In the corporate limits only
$500 are claimed, and 1900 more in the
suburbs. On streets regularly laid off
4,5O0 people live in and around this
town. The census may run up these
figures to 5000, but for the present only
4,500 are claimed.
Charlotte News: This morning al
about 1856 a terrible explosion took
place at the Mecklenburg Iron Works,
whereby three white men were serious
ly injured and a fourth, a negro. pain
fully so. The injured are: w. w. Sev-
ers, blacksmith, left leg broken be-
tween knee and ankle, and right leg
cut; Arthur Frazier, assistant black
smith, right leg broken. compound
fracture, between nee and ankle, in
juries in head and wrist; e. Mortimer
Bell, machinist, right leg badly shat
tered; Peter Crawford, colored, yard
han burned about arms and ace.