The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-30
NORTH CAROLINA.

Greensboro Record: The
Davidson Lumber Company is the
name of n new corporation. the papers
for which were filed with the clerk
yesterday. The capital stock is 5000.
with power TO increase to 100000 III
desired
Townsville News: Most OF u
business citizens are intensely in earn
est about the proposed railroad. A
majority have already declared them
selves rs favoring the bonds for rail-
road and graded school. Ii begins 70
look like business.
Laurinburg Enterprise: Laurinburg
doesn't need any push along the fac
tory line. We are covering ourselves
with glory in that direction. But we
would like TO see all Of our citizens
take a deeper interest in securing an
ether railroad
4 walnut log was last week shipped
from Burke county to Germany which
was six feet in diameter at the butt.
Ii was 20 feet from the ground to the
first limb on his noble tree. The farm-
er who owned IL got $40 for IL and IL
was worth $500 at least. experts say
Raleigh Post: The Southern Saw
Mills and Lumber Company Of Robson
county was granted incorporation pa
pers yesterday by the secretary OF
state. The incorporators are the At
lantic Seaboard Company. w. E. Web
er. John II. Cronin. Jr.. n ~
Mellin. all OF Philadelphia. The prin-
cipal places of business Will be Kings
dale and Lumberton. The concern Is
capitalized at $5o0.oo0.
Durham Herald: Mr.. Il. Il. Boone
spent yesterday in Raleigh and while
in the city secured Governor RusseiiS
ignature TO a paper pardoning Will
liam Dezern, who il in the penitenti-
airy. Five years ago Dezern was sen
fenced 10 twenty-five years in the pen
itentiary from orange county. The
charge against him was that OF bur-
glary and the jury convicted him OF
the crime of second degree burglary.
Doubt as TO guilt.
Raleigh News and Observer: Com
missioner of Agriculture Patterson.
Drs. Curtis n Kilgore and Profess
sors Irby and Holmes yesterday re-
turned from Louisburg. where they
held a farmers institute for the past
two days. The of the far
mers was not what it should have
been.-Hon. NJ. H. Justice Will ad-
dress his fellow citizens at Lincolnton
on Tuesday, April End. being the Tues
day Of court week. and at Shelby on
Tuesday, April 10th.
Baltimore Manufacturers Record:
h Patterson Textile Company has
completed the building for its silk
manufacturing plant. reported last fall
as to be established at Rap
ids, y. c.. The structure mentioned Is
two stories high, 7Sx26S feet, and the
equipment of machinery is being IN
stalled now. The raw material TO be
worked up into marketable goods Will
be shipped to the mill from China, ia
pan and other silk-producing coun-
tries. The p expects to COM
mence operations within thirty days
it's capitalization is S400, 900. Sam Pat
terson is president
Fayetteville Observer: News has
just leaked out hat on last Friday
night a negro named George Ritter
was taken from his home seven miles
this side of Carthage by a, party OF
masked men, and after being horribly
mutilated, he was hung up TO q tree
and riddled with bullets. The little
community near where the deed took
place is aid to be greatly stirred up
and Mortified over this revolving crime
and have been trying to keep knovl-
edge of it from the outside world, while
making tremendous efforts to pr
bend the perpetrators. 1t Is thought
tina Ritter met his death at the hands
of moonshiners, who believed that he
had informed on them.
Salisbury Truth Index: Mrs. Oba-
diah Beaver. the bride OF three days
who deserted her spouse at China
Grove several weeks ago after being
married to him for only three days and
left for South Carolina with another
man, is suing for a divorce. Mrs. Bea-
yer says that two men were counting
her at the same time. One OF them
CMr. Beaver) she learned had secured
license for their marriage and when
she learned of il she demanded that he
destroy il. He refused to DO So and
demanded that she marry him. She
says he brought a minister TO the house
and the ceremony was performed but
she did not make an affirmative reply
to the question Of the minister when
he asked il she would take Obadiah
for her lawfully welded husband. She
claims also that she was frightened
into going through the ceremony and
asks for an absolute divorce. h has
employed counsel and her suit will
probably come up at the next term OF
court.
oxford Ledger: We greet our
friend Mr.. Josh Barnes, of Vance,
with all our heart and most
cordially welcome him into the warm
embrace of Anglo-Saxon rule as we are
automatically informed that, although
a true populist, will not lend aid TO a
cause that has for its object negro
rule again in the lear old state.-we
are highly pleased to learn that the
gifted Colonel A. NJ. Waddell. OF Will
mington, has accepted an invitation
from President Hobgood to deliver an
address at commencement exercises Of
the Oxford Seminary.-In order to
advance the material welfare of their
race in Greenville some Of our colored
people have gotten together and or
ganized a Fair Association with Viii
liam Register, president. and NJ. A.
Ridley, secretary, with the following
board of directors: A. D. Jenkins. N.
NJ. Winston and Frank Royster. II
has been decided to hold their first fair
June 10Th and 21st In one Of the large
warehouses in Oxford.
Raleigh News and Observer: Con-
gresham Atwater is in the city. hav-
ing just returned from his home in
Chatham county, where he made two
telling speeches. "Yuo may state thar
Chatham is in line and will give a ma
Jority for the amendment" said Mr.
Atwater asst night. These meetings
did good. / am enlisted for the fight
for White supremacy and am ready
TO fight for il anywhere and at any
I time D~~Ao4 ~ EnHzL In Lr4nIlfD