The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-06
NORTHERN HEALTH SEEKERS
ARRIVING IN LARGE NUMBERS AT
PiNEHURST
The Drought I'm the Centra Section.
Increased Popularity OF Rural Mail
Deltvery-Political Gossfp-Peculiar
Elects OF a Black Snakes Bite-Re-
publican Estimate OF the Election.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, November 3.


Henry A Page, president of the
Aberdeen and Asheboro railway, is here
tells me that until today not
enough rain had fallen along the line
OF that road since July to Wet the
He has had to use two enders
on his freight trains, in order to carry
the water supply. The streams have
run steadily in the sandhill ountry
but in the clay country only the rivers
are flowing.
People from the north are arriving
at Pinehurst in greater numbers and
earlier than usual. The hotels, save
the new one, the Carolina, open No
vember 18th. 1t is not the intention to
fopen the Carolina until January 1st.
The union cotton mill operatives in
Alamance county are in many cases
disposed to give trouble as to getting
out of the companies tenements. and
the sheriff may have to make some
levictions.
The state charters the Merchants
Protective Association, OF Raleigh.
There was a rear-end collision Of
freight trains near Neuse river, about
nine miles north Of here, last night on
the Raleigh and Castor division of the
Seaboard Air Line. The wreck was
quite a bad n and trains could not
run until noon today.
A fox which it is claimed was a cross
between red and a gray and which had
been chased for six or eight years, was
Icaught yesterday afternoon, after a
run of over fifty miles. 1t lasted for
seven hours.
One of the rural mail delivery post
men here illustrates the rapid increase
lnf rOntr1 a ritxy nP thof rr-to- -
that, while in September he handled
2,273 pieces of mail, he handled in Octo-
Der 3,773. He took up last month $50
letters written by farmers. The latter
greatly like the system.
Secretary W. S. Hyams, of the re-
publican state committee, was asked
what was that party's estimate of the
ELECTION in this state. He replied: IAN
honest election would result in McKin-
Legs carrying the state by 81, 600 ma
lJority and the election of seven repub-
Il1canS to congress. Under methods
similar to these adopted at the August
ELECTION we will elect three and possibly
-four of u congressional candidates"
During October the meal tempera-
Iture here was 65.6 degrees, or Sc above
the average. The rainfall was only 1.O4
Inches, while 1888 is the average. There
was a thunderstorm on the 3rd and a
heavy frost on the 18th.
Curator Brimley, of the state muse
Ium, who over three months ago was
bitten by a black snake, has since lost
thirty pounds in weight, and has Deer
sick all the while. He was bitten on
the hand The latter and the arm were
full Of sores. Now there are dark
lblotches. The case is a puZzling one,
las the snake is not in the least venom
louS.
Ex-republican State Chairman Holton
who was here yesterday offered to bet
ION Carr in the senatorial contest.
The Simmons men are very lively in
making bets. They are %crowding the
Carr men in this matter.
Yesterday the state treasurer cashed
Ia warrant issued in December, 1885, by
wv. p. Roberts, state auditor. All these
years it had been in the secretary Of
Estates office, wrapped in some papers.