The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-13
FAREWELL TO OLD LANDMARKS.
Buildings In Ruins.
Passing Counterfeit ~Money-Small
Fires Here at Hope Mills-People
Coming and Going.

Correspondent of the Messenger.)
Fayetteville, y. G, March g.
The scythe of time makes a wide
swath in mans careful concerns ana
dearly bought ambitions. Hardly a
stick or a stone is left of the hive OF
industry where for half a century
throbbed the heart Of railroad life In
FAYETTEVILLE. The car, machine and
paint shops are gone, purchased for
their material some time g by Mr..
j. A. King; and now Sheriff Burns,
the buyer, has leveled almost TO the
ground the big frame building used
as the railroad Offices from
the first days of the Western Coal
Fields railroad, through the presiden-
cies of D. Ct. MacRae, c. b. Mallett,
Henry l.. Myrover, Andrew J. Jones,
l.. c.. Jones, up to the reorganization
as the Cape Fear and Yadki Railway,
under the management of the late
Colonel julius A. Gray, of Greensboro.
About ten years ago the handsome
depot on Mumford street was built,
n il is now vacant and useless with
all its tasteful adornment and conye-
nience of construction.
d. Bennett, white, living in the east
ern suburbs of this city, a got into
trouble on the serious charge of pass
ing counterfeit silver honey 1t is
stated that he was working in compa-
NV with a stranger whom the police
have been unable to spot" Bennett
a a hearing before United States
Commissioner Powers.
Two small fires have destroyed some
of our property-the first a restaurant
for negroes between Whaley's jewelry
store n Remsburg's marble yard,
which might have dane much damage
but for fine work on the part of the fire
men; n the second the residence of
Mrs Martha Pullard Mt Homo Mile
with a loss Of $500.
The primaries of the precincts
throughout the county have sent in
their lists of delegates to the demo-
cratic convention next Saturday.
Good news comes from them all-newS
of jealous interest and whole-hearted
endorsement of the franchise amend
ment.
DR.. ]. w. Mcneil has been made
chairman of the new board of control
of the ~dispensary with Major John B.
BroadfOot as secretary, and Mr. j. w.
1ngold has been reelected manager,
as you correspondent predicted would
be the case.
An important matter was before the
last meeting of the county commits
SionerS-the e~Xpediency of discontinue
ing Big Rockfish creek as a public n
timber floating waterway, and it will
be brought to the consideration of the
commissioners of Robson county.
Superintendent Jones, having in
charge the WaterWorks plant at Glen
vile, a mile and half northwest of the
city, died this morning of disease of
the heart. He was a good citizen and
a faithful employee, whose loss will be
deeply felt and deplored.
Mr.. Stansbury Monroe was brought
to his home here last night very ill.
having suffered a stroke of paralysis
at the state university, where he was
a student and another at Selma, on
his journey to this place.
Mr.. A. S. Williams, of Wilmington,
vas registered at the Hotel Lafayette
yesterday, and this morning rode out
with Mr.. Irving O~verbaugh to Got
tonade," the beautiful country place of
his brother, Mr.. R. l.. Williams. Mr..
Harry Smith, now living in West Vir-
ginia, has been paying a visit to his
parents, Captain and Mrs. j. B.. Smith.
Mr.. Robert Troy, of Atlanta, Ga, en-
joyed a few hours stay in his old home
yesterday and today.