The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-02-05
FAYETTEVILLE NEWS BUDGET
Judge Fuller's Critical Illness Greatly
Depiored-Messrs. Ledbetter Move
Their Quarters Smallpox Brief
Paragraphs.
Correspondence of The M~essenger.)
Fayetteville. February

Correspondence of The Messenger.D
Fayetteville. February 1.
The people Of this city greatly Lament
the critical condition OF Judge Thorn
as C.. Fuller, who lies without hope OF
recovery at the Buford hotel. Charlotte.
His home was here for many years,
where he led a busy n honorable pro-
fessional life, being considered one OF
the ableSt lawyers and most eloquent
jury advocates IN North Carolina Here,
too. he married, his wife being Miss
Caroline Whitehead, niece of the late
John d. Eccles, one of h most dis
tingulShed citizens in all the history Of
Fayetteville.
Judge Fuller entered the confederate
service in MAY. 1861, as a private IN
Company F. First North Carolina reg
iment of infantry, which rendered it
self famous at the battle of Bethel on
the peninsula of Yorktown. Suisse
quently he served rs first lieutenant in
Shaw's eight artillery, until he vas
elected TO the congress of the Confed-
crate States. Two years after the civil
war he was elected to the federal con-
gresS from this district, but was not
| permitted to take his seat on account
Of his political disabilities. In private
life Judge Fuller has always been
warmly welcomed by hosts of friends
and admirers for his genial nature. his
winning personality and his charming
conversational gifts.
Into each life some rain must fall"
and, crowned as his public career has
been with the substantial guerdonS Of
success, 1t has been for him to tread
the wine-preSs," and anliction has rest
ed heavy on him.. The loss of a bright
little son-sweft away with the wreck
Of EccleS bridge during a freshet in
Fayetteville many years ago-was a
sorrow of a life time. Judge Fuller
removed from Fayetteville to Raleigh
some time in the seventies, but for
years the legal firm of B. & T. C. Full
Ter was n Of the prominent and sue
cessful in the state.
Workmen are now renovating and
making extensive additions to the large
brick building belonging to the Penn
berton estate. on Hay street, and in d
short time the Messrs. Ledbetter, we'll
known proprietors of the Fayetteville
Steam Laundry, will occupy it, their
increasing business demanding more
commodious quarters than those they
now hold.
Messrs. Merry and de Zeng, Of Phila-
delphia, after a day spent at the Hotel
Lafayette. go to the Orion plantation
below Wilmington, where they viii be
the guests OF Colonel Murchison. They
expect to return to this city in about
ten days, when they will be Joined by
their families, who are now at Southern
Pines. The object of their visit was to
purchase suita BILE land on which to
erect a country seat, and they express
ed much pleasure with Fayetteville.
Miss Mary Warren Cameron arrived
here today from Wilmington.
Mr.. n Mrs. Hunter G Smith give
a reception this evening in honor of
Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Gorham, whose
marriage in Mobile, Ala. was recently
noted in The Messenger.
The status Of the smallpox In this
city is now as follows: On next Satur-
day a month will have elapsed since tho
disease made its appearance, and the
total OF cases numbers Z. all of a light
character and very successfully and
skillfully treated by the county ply.
sician, DR.. j. V. McGougan. All are
negroes, except two white children and
developments are awaited in these two
cases, as it may be only varioloid. All
have been strictly q~uarantined, and OF
the nine. six have been 6iSobarped