The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-02
BURGLARS RANSAGKING A ROOM
They Enter Mrs. Small's Dwelling.
h Meeting at Flea lillian Access
sion to Bryan's Forces-Sub-EIector
Appointed-Notes of All Kinds of
News.
Correspondence of The Messenger.)

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Fayetteville, N. c., September &c.
While Mrs. Small, residing on Hay
mount, was nursing a very sick child
night before last, her house was en-
tered by thieves, and the room next
to her was overhauled throughout, and
many valuable articles taken People
here have about arrived at the point
where. if a burglar ever does run up
against a man with a gun, that weapon
Will go off without any parley or QueS-
tioning.
1t is estimated hat there were about
1000 pOpuliStS at the gathering in Flea
Hill township. The two speakers were
Marion Butler and Il. Z. Owens, a
pOpulist elected to the legislature from
Sampson county. Butler has a seat in
the most agust deliberative body in
the world, but he did not seem to re-
| gard any national issue as of sufficient
Importance for discussion, the enormf-
ties of the state election law being the
burden of his song. Owens was like
a bull, and saw the red shirt Haunting
on every bush.
1t is street talk, seemingly we'll au-
thenticated, that Mr.. Warren Carver,
for years a leading republican of this
county, and an eX-member of the. state
Scldle, VIII upDOI bryan, DctlS III
accord with the latter in his views on
free silver.
Mr.. H. l.. Cook, chairman of the DEM
ocratic county executive committee, as
we'll as presidential elector for this
district, has appointed as sub-elector for
Cumberland Mr.. Isaac A. M~urchison, of
the Fayetteville bar, who did excellent
work on the stump for the democracy
in the last campaign. Mr.. Cook calls
a meeting of the county executive
committee on october 4th, for the pur-
pose of appointing the officers for hold
ing the senatorial primaries, and for
other business.
The funeral services, laying to rest
| the remains of the late DR.. B. r. Tay-
lor were very impressive, Rev. H. F.
Graham, of the Presbyterian, and Rev.
S. j. Porter. of the Baptist, churches,
conducting the exercises, which were
attended by the mayor, aldermen n
other city officers, and by the order of
the Knights of Pythias in a large body.
Hereafter the lOng-eStabliShed crock
cry house of TillinghaSt, existing for
half a century without a blemish on it's
character, will be conducted by Mr..
John b. TiIlingbdst, who resigns his
place with the Southern railway in
Washington city to take charge of the
business so long in the hands of his
| grandfather. Samuel w. Tillinghast,
| I'LL lllS III Y y oo(.
Rev. A. B. Crumpler, the broad
axe saver of souls has pitched his
tent in Seventy-frst township, where
he will carry on his work as long as he
can find a harvest. His tent never
abides long in one place, but he is al
ways camping somewhere, and is
never gone for good.
a son of Mr.. NJ. L.. Courtney, little
| Andrew, While at play on the piazza
of the family home, fell out DOCS back
ward, receiving very painful INJURIES
| about the head, from the effects OF
which he was for some time uncon-
sciOuS.
The children of the First Baptist
| church Sunday school, of which the SUI
perintendent is Mr.. j. A. Oates. Jr.,
| editor of The North Carolina Baptist,
collected among themselves 81 for the
benefit of the sufferers from the flood
| at Galveston. This is not a large
| amount of money, but it is a generous
contribution from a band of young
| folks.
The superior court of Cumberland
| county for the trial of the civil docket
is in session today. Judge Brown
| and Solicitor Mclean having arrived
last evening, n registered at the Ho-
tel Lafayette.
Rev. Jesse Cuninggim, who has been
attending the University of Chicago
1 TOT d pOSI-STduudle COuISS oI "
gy, is spending some lays with his
brother, Rev. w. l.. Cunningham, pastor
Of the Methodist Episcopal church.
They will visit their sister at Southport.
Mrs. Aiken Mallett has returned to
her home in Georgia after a visit to
relat. res here, accompanied by Miss
Liz a Robinson.
MS Mary Norcott Broadfoot, eldest
dat. hter of Major and Mrs. John b.
BroSifoot, an exceptionally bright girl,
has gone to New York city to enter
d. well-known female seminary.
Mr.. r. H. Bidgood, formerly auditor
of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
Railway Company, now living at Mum
Gle. Ind, is expected here on a visit,
which will give much pleasure to his
many friends.
Miss Mary McKinnon, granddaugh-
ter of the late venerable ex-Sheriff Nc
Neill, a musician of very fine gifts, re-
turns to the female institute at Searcy,
Ark, where she has been teaching for
the past year.
heavily covered Fall