The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-09
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~ a. &c CO4lkOcCu VI the IGRIc-
sentative members, both clerical and
lay, from eight states.
Charlotte News: Captain DewolfeI
tells h News that Mr.. Thomas Vance
son OF the late Senator Vance, is being
prominently spoken OF as the next
gubernatorial candidate in the state OF
Washington.
Durham Sun: The largest hog so
far reported anywhere in this part of
the state, was killed by w. +. Luns-
ford if Umbra, this county, on Satur-
day. II pulled down the scales at the
weight OF go pounds
Charlotte Observer: Professor J. A.
Holmes OF Chapel Hill, stated while
in the city yesterday hat in a fort
nights time the bill for the establish
ment Of the Appalachian Park in the
mountains of Western North Carolina
will be introduced in congress.
Greensboro Record: 1t has been
uphill work, but the Postal Telegraph
company will get to Greensboro after
awhile. 1t is expected the office viii
be open and ready for business by Feb
ruary 5th. The force struck a snag
near Lexington the other day.
Rocky Mount Argonaut: Mr.. j. c.
Stout, contractor, has about completed
IL lakSG dlo SOLlllALOolOdo SAolaSG
room for the Rocky Mount Ice Compa-
NY. This is one of the largest. if not
the largest storage warehouses in the
state.
Kinston Free Press: Captain Cox
was badly hurt at Kinston last week
by being thrown against the switch.
striking the back of his head He was
brought to his home here and is now
able to be out. The wounds are heal
ing nicely.
Greensboro Telegram: City Engi-
neer j. NJ. Bandy, of this place, and
w. R. Richardson, county roads en-
| gineer for Guilford county, nave been
for several days surveying water power
| location, cts, for the Capel-Cotton Mill
Company. They located the dam and
canal and found the water owe all
that was desired.
Greensboro Record: lust as expect
ed, the abble is yelling for provisions
reason of vaccination they even by
reason of v~avvinotion they are not
able to work. One fellow sent up an
order this morning for flour, lard, meal,
meat, tobacco, snuff n some corn
whiskey. He said his entire family of
ten nae smallpox, but he u~nthoughted-
ly enumerated them and it did not
tally. AS a matter of fact only one Of
the family had the disease.
Asheboro Courier: The Asheboro
Furniture fectory has been in opera
ton for three years, and Mr.. Morris
and his associates have demonstrated
that money invested in a furniture
factory in Asheboro is a most profita-
BILE investment. We have been told
that the showing made at the recent
meeting of the stockholders of the
| Asheboro Furniture Company was most
~- - fe.@ r. oo40-y
ha made money from the beginning.
| When a factory is built there is en-
ployment given people. Who will be
the first to organize a new furniture
factory? 1t can be done in twenty
four hours.
Raleigh News and Observer: A SER
mon that caused something of a
| sensation was preached here lately
at Edenton Street Methodist church
by Rev. DR.. John c. Kilgo,
president of Trinity college. In the
nounced Jefferson as "a monster"
ridiculed Drummond and LeConte;
made little" of Darwin and Huxley
and Spencer and Tyndail; declared
that there was more atheism in the
| church and pulpit Than ever before,
and said that human love was depen-
lent upon, and changed with, circum-
liz 4NoIdI III NhSo-
have caused much comment.
Raleigh News and Observer: Last
night at the A. and NJ. college Profess
sor J. B. Carlyle, of the Wake Forest
college faculty, delivered a very fine
address before a very large audience OF
college tudentS and people from the
city. He spoke without notes or man
ucript and his fine n oratorical man
ner made a deep impression. He at
- -@- I..-
ing the entire three-quarters of an hour
he was soaking he held the closest at
tention of his hearers. His address
was compact, to the point, and showed
a wide range of reading and much
thought. His subject was Muscle,
Mind and Morals as Factors in State
Building."-The Baptist University
is now in debt $35, 900 and a strenuous
effort is being made to raise the money
to pay off the Indebtedness.
Charlotte Observer: The bill. which
Hon. j. D.. Bellamy recently introduced
in congress. to create the office of resi-
dent clerk of the federal court here
has created a lite stir among. the re-
publicanS if his section.-At a meet
ing of the central committee of the
county democratic executive committee
held last night, it was decided to ask
Mr.. c. 3. Aycock, of Wayne county, to
formally open the democratic campaign
in this county inside of the next ten
days.-Mooresville, FEBRUARY 2.-The
two-year old child of Mr.. Alfred Carr,
living at Mt Mourne, While in the
house alone this morning caught fire
and was burned so badly that it's life
is despaired.-At l o'clock this morn
ing a negro hack driver found w. L.
Folger, an engineer on the Southern
railway lying unconscious some dis
lance below the coal chute. Eolger was
revived and carried to the police sta
ton, where he explained that he had
been beaten by two friends John Con-
nell, another engineer on the. Southern,
and a white fireman. He said. that they
attacked him without provocation. His
face was badly bruised and swollen and
he was unable to see at all. He bled
a great deal but the wounds are not
onsidere dangerous.-Iust after
midnight last night Mr.. William Foil,
who lives at 227 West Vance street, was
the victim OF a most mysterious and
murderous attack. AT ten minutes
past II o'clock he was awakened from
sleep by a knock at his front door. He