The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-17
A DAMAGE SUIT THREATENED
The Silk Mill superintendent May
Yet Have some Trouble-Captafn
Humphrey on the Cape Fear-whole-
sale Grocery B~usfness-Let the Pri-
marieS Decide-PeopIe on the Move.
Correspondence of the Messenger.)
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Correspondence of the Messenger.)
Fayetteville, y. c., August IA.
In the trial of J. T. Thurston, super
intendent of the Ashley Silk mills.
charged with numerically beating a
boS employed in the factory, Colonel
w. 5. Cook, the presiding magistrate,
decided in favor of the defendant.
From this decision the plaintiff, the
negro boy Maxwell, appealed through
his counse ex-Judge T. H. Sutton and
Mr.. A. S. Han, and if the issue OF this
appeal be favorable it is very probable
hat a suit for damages will be insti-
tuted against Superintendent Thurs
| ton or the mill owners.
Captain Humphrey, of the govern
ment civil engineer service, arrived
here yesterday, accompanied by a
small corps of assistants, and your
correspondent learns that he will make
a trip in batteauX over the upper Cape
Fear preliminary to the survey and
| navigation work which will now go on,
pursuant to the action of the last ses-
sion of congress-. The low water of
| the river is all the better for the OBJ
tour contemplated by Cap
tain Humphrey and that his work
twill be thoroughly done all here feel
well assured, for he was with us years
\ ago, and is an official OF exceptional
ability and skill.
Messrs. T. c.. Williams and X. q.
A Burton, of Durham, have chosen Fay
\ ettville as the most promising point in
state for establishment of a wholesale
grocery business, after a careful
survey of the field with it's attendant
advantages Of low freights and river
transportation They have selected the
store on the corner of Hay and Win
low streets, opposite the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad station, now owned by
by DIR. H. w. Lilly, and will probably
secure it when the term of its present
tenant, Captain S.. NJ. Taylor, express.
Here history will be repeating itself"
The store, one of the largest in the
state, and admirably constructed for
a wholesale grocery business, was built
in the early fifties by the late Henry
l.. Myrover, who for many years en-
joyed a large trade with the back
country Of North Carolina,
over into east Tennessee and South
west Virginia. OF course, commercial
conditions have greatly changed; in
those days it was largely a barter
business, with long credits, n carried
on wholly by wagons.
Is not the Raleigh correspondence of
the state press rather too arbitrarily
forecasting public sentiment in the
matter of the United States senator
ship? We are told almost ~conclusively
that we must accept it as a foregone
conclusion that Hon. F. NJ. Simmons
is the choice of the whole democratic
party of the state, and one newspaper
writer intimates that it would be un-
fair for any one even to appear as a
competitor against him.. No good dem
ocrat will ~diSparage the illustrious ser
vices Of Mr.. Simmons, but North Caro-
linians, thousands of them, will not
forget that to the stand taken by
Wilmington we are indebted more thar
to any other influence for white SUI
. premacy in this state, and that at the
fitting moment Tor A. M. Waddel
placed himself at the head of this
movement subjecting himelf to a.fear'
full responsibility, and, in case of de
feat, exposing himself to ruin. Wad.
dell and Simmons-both haye deserved
we'll of their fellow citizens. Let the
people decide this matter in the sena'
/, torial primaries.
Red Springs secured among the very
first of the bales of new cotton thi:
l year, the planter being J. d. Gibson
who sold it on that market last Satur
, day.
1t was close work in the senatorial
: district composed of Harnett, Sampson
and Baden, entitled to two state sen
1 ators The honorS are divided, Currie
democrat, and Robson, populist, being
returned by the ~canvassing board.
Mr.. G.. wv. Stancill, manage of tn
s Fayetteville Drug Company, and Mrs
q Stancill will give up house keeping 70
a time, taking boar with Mrs. Carson
on Gillespie street-ProfeSsor Gilmor
w. Cheek, of the Durham conservator,
of music, was in this place yesterday
+ Major Joseph w. Evans, of Arizona, i
visiting his mother on Haymount.-
. Mrs. J.. III. Robinson, Jr., has bee
= spending a. few DAYS at Red Springs
= Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. King are visitin
n friends at Raleigh.-Professor Alez
4 Graham, superintendent Of he Char
0 Iotte graded schools, g~laddened man
friends by a visit to this city within n
b past few days.