The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-07
A LIE OUT OF THE WHOLE CLOTH
An arabian Nights
Quiet Except at Cedar Creek-Honor
Where Due-Notes OF Personal In
terest.
Correspondence OF he Messenser.)

Correspondence 81 the Messenger.)
Fayetteville. ". C. August l.
A genuine surprise was sprung on
the officers OF the law and the boxers
on at the magistrates trial yesterday
OF the negro boy Oliver alias Afford
sharged with robbing Captain :. NJ
Taylor, as told in The Messenger q day
or two since. Oliver declared that his
confession as TO the band OF Burglars
with one Captain Jack Green" at the
head was a cock and buh story
evolved out OF the inwardness % his
own exuberant fancy: hat 10 such
gang existed, and that he hardly knew
by sight the -four egroe whom he
had accused. OF course hey were
discharged but Oliver will probably
have ample time 10 plot new stories IN
the retirement OF the r~enitentiary,
Cedar Creek precinct s
for she My blot on the quiet and or
derlin.ss OF the elections in Cumber-
land county. Mr.. q. A Hall had car
rieL the registration books 10 the poll
ing booth before sunrise, whence short
ly afterwards they were stolen. ana
were finally found several hundred
yards down the road. - badly torn ana
disigured that much OF the contents
became guess work. Many democrats
%N'N -
which made the election IN allegal
farce, and they declare that. although
the precinct gave the fuS!oniSts over
loo majority, the latter are responsible
for the theft OF the registration books
the act being a plot 10 the
whole county lection under pretence
OF frauds. After the count Was made
Mr.. Faircloth. the judge OF election,
refused 10 sign the returns, w~hereuPon.
il is authoritatively stated, he was
surrounded by a crowd of angry III
sionists, and forced 10 do 80 under
threats OF personal violence The can
wasting board is in session today, but
up TO the closing OF this letter the
result OF their work * not obta1nab!e.
The great probability is that Ceda
Creeks vote will be thrown out, giving
the county nearly 1,400 majority, as
telegraphed to The Messenger by this
correspondent on Thursday night
In the glow and exultation OF the
splendid triumph just achieved in
North Carolina, the grateful democrat
turns To bestow praise and honors
where most deserved: and let IL not be
that in November, lSss. the
city of Wilmington, with Hon. A NJ
Waddell as the chosen leader. sound
ed the thrilling bugle blast OF the great
revolution which, silent. resistless.
overwhelming, gives TO this great COM
monwealth white supremacy from
mountain to seashore.
Yesterday morning the beautiful Ay-
cock and white supremacy flag waved
out over market square, and Major w.
c. Troy surmounted il by a beautiful
~ ornamented cage of pure white BAN
tum fowls.
MIR. @. X. Nimocks, coming home
to cast his vote, returned yesterday TO
Chapel Hill, where ne is attending the
university law school. Though for
years a leading business man in this
city, we'll known in mercantile and in
surance circles, he will adopt the legal
profession as his chosen work in life,
for which his clear mind and fine &C
~quirements eminently fit him
The funeral services of Mrs. Evan
der McGilvary. who died at Swans
station, We're conducted from the Bap-
fist church of this city. of which n
was a godly member. Mrs. McGil-
vary was the eldest daughter of Mrs.
/ John Davis. residing on Haymount.