The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-28
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High Point is &c have a $4,000 chair
factory.
Halifax has become the banner
county, having given a democratic ma
Jority of $40 at the recent election
The Elizabeth City cotton mills, OPP
Grating $500 spindles, is installing $40
600 worth Of additional machinery.
Durham Sun: Durham was we'll
represented at the Primitive Baptist
Association at Fiat River church. near
Roxboro, Sunday. Two trains were
commodate the crowd. About eight
hundred persons took advantage of the
cheap rates and went.
Tarboro Southerner: j. J. Britt
while butchering a beef yesterday. by
some unexpected movement Of the ami
NAL, had his arm broken. A few weeks
ago he was thrown from his wagon and
had his other arm broken, which he
mas had u OF a sling only a short
time.
GreenvilIe Weekly: A ~distractins
accident occurred at Faison Monday
morning. Mr.. Emmett Herring, while
shooting a mad dog in the street ac-
c~ldentally shot a u year-old boy and
ne may die. The ball passed through
the dog and glancing off its course,
struck the boy in the right breast.
Weldon News: NJ. David Day, an
honored and highly esteemed citizen Of
Weldon, died at the home of his son.
w. D. Day, Jr., on Elm street last
Saturday night, after a painful illness;
aged 81 years. Mr.. Day had been in
charge of the coaling station for the
Atlantic Coast Line here for quite a
long time.
Charlotte Observer: At Tapp, Long
& Company's store yesterday evening
a plank three feet long fell from an
upstairs window and struck the small
boy on the head, cutting an ugly cash.
He was aiken to a drug store, where
his wound was dressed and sewed UP.
A thick leather cap saved the lad from
serious injury, the physician said.
Sanford Express: Twenty-Five on
victs that have been at work at saw
mills in this county, AVE been return
ed to the penitentiary at Raleigh. One
concern at Southern Pines has ship
ped over 1000 crates of peaches this
season. They also ship as much as
two car loads of grapes per day.
Clinton Democrat: Mrs. VI. H. Oates
Of TaylOr's Bridge, recently had a hen
10 steal her nest some distance from
the house a partridge laid IN the
same nest with the hen. The h=n 50;
on both The partridge n the hen
eggs, and the result was that the hen
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a brood of six cartridges and six chick
Ems.
Henderson Gold Leaf: President
Winston, of the Agricultural and Me-
college, who recently visited
the mica and kaolin mines in Jackson
county, says that from one kaolin mine
near Webster $3.50, 900 worth of that ma
terial is sent to New Jersey to be made
into china and porcelain. He "a
ware made from it is finer in quality
of material than any he has seen even
in Dresden.
Lumberton RobeSonian: G.. T. Web
ster, the timer, was painfully though
not seriously hurt Saturday afternoon
by a bucket falling from the shelves
in his tin shop n striking him on
the head. An artery was cut causing
dry weather is causing some of our
peolpe to become alarmed about our
artesian water supply. Some wen say
that all the streams are decreasing in
volume and one has almost ceased.
Mr.. T. T. Barnes, of Henderson, shot
a chicken thief filling his back with
No. 8 shot as he ran. The Herald
says: The negro continued to run but
was tracked some distance by the
blood from his wounds. This morning
it was disclosed that Mack Jones, the
negro who a few nights 6 assaulted
Chief of Police Malone and Mr.. Sam
Allen, was the man HI had received
the contents of Mr.. Barnes gun He
is said to be very badly injured.
Winston Journal: The new pastor
at Broad St. Baptist church, Rev. J..
Alfred Garrett, whom the church ten
days ago called to be its pastor, ar
rived in the city Friday night and
preached two very interesting sermOn
yesterday.-The High Point Enter
prise printed Friday, a half-tone cut
of Green Kidd, of hat place. who will
be 100 years old OF August 23rd, next.
If Mr.. Kidd lives until January, 1901,
he will have lived in three centuries.
Lincolnton Journal9 Luther Hovis,
a son of Melchi Hovis, of Ironton town
ship, called Saturday to ave the Jour
nails maidstone applied to a wound on
his hand made by a hog supposed to
have had hydrophobia. About IL
O'Clock on Tuesday morning Of last
week young Hovis went ITO feed his
hogs when one of them attacked him
i%nf1icting a bad cash on his thumb.
hours later. The maidstone was ap-
piled and stuck for In hour and a half.
Greensboro Record: Twenty-one
persons We're added to the family of
Mr.. Albent Harrington Of Deep River
township one day this week There is
nothing at which to be alarmed, how
ever, for it was regular" in every
sense, though a little out of the ordi-
nary. 1t came about in this way. Mr..
Harrington was a widower with II
children and on Wednesday last mar
ried Mrs. Hayworth, a widow with 10
children. After the marriage the chill
dren We're moved TO Mr.. Farrington's
house in squads of four each and he at
once found it necessary to increase his
stock of beds.
Kinston Free Press: Work Ia been
commenced on a two-story dye house
for the Orion Knitting Mills, just back
of the main building. The dimensions
of the new building will be 40x72 with
an engine n boiler room 16x32 at
tached. 1t is expected to do dyeing for
other mills in the neighboring town.
A cart load Of country produce was
brought from OnsIow county this
morning and sold to Mr.. J. E. Parrot
for $50. Raising chickens seems a
small thing to do on a farm, but it
surely pays, as there were over 300