The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-10
MUNICIPAL rLEdrroN FIGURES.
The Fayetteville Mayoralty Vote
Worth Noting-A Musical Jubflee-A
Shoe Mark Captures a Thief Confed-
crate Memorial Day-Personal and
Other News.
Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Fayetteville. n. c.. Nav Z.

Fayetteville, n. c.. May Z.
The Messenger correspondents tel
egram, not published in full, last
night gave the bottom line as to the
mayoralty contest yesterday; but, as
The Messenger is h mex thing to a
Fayetteville paper up here, on account
of it's many readers, some details of
the vote will not prove uninteresting.
First the election was a vindication of
Colonel Cooks OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
| right or wrong, there is no doubt about
( that. The adminiStrationiStS beat the
observation-disclosures almost three to
one throughout. Secondly, the result
at the polls showed that the word re
publican is no longer a name to con-
jure by with negro. He simply ignor-
ed the ticket put out by his party, n
gave his support by a large majority
to Colonel Cook. - Thirdly, on the
administration ticket, Mr.. w. A.
Vanstory, of the committee on audit
and finance, and Messrs. Haigh and
Hall, of the. board of aldermen, led,
while on the anti-administration tick
ct Mr.. w. r. Horne, of the committee
of audit and finance, led, and Mr.. A.
H. Slocomb received a very f1attering
vote, although he is h leading re-
publican here, and was the supporter of
the Underwood ticket-a tribute to his
high business standing in the commu-
nifty. An now it is to be hoped that
the incident is closed" The anti-ad-
ministrationists mad a plucky fight
against a l~ong-cOntinued rule which
they wished to put out of Office, n
drought to bear a strong presentation
of their case. Let victor and van
quished work together for the material
betterment of the town and all it's in
ereStS.
Mr.. E. L. Remsburg, the efficient
n popular worker in marble" and
tombstones of this city, will celebrate
a double musical jubilee at his resi-
dence this evening-the anniversary of
his entrance into this professional
world Of music, twenty-five years ago
as a clarionet player, and the eighth
anniversary of the well-known n ex-
cellent ~Remsburg's orchestra, whose
high order of merit Is known all over
the state. The members of the orches-
ira will admit to a share of the pleas
Of whom are skilled vocal and instru-
mental musicians, and the occasion will
doubtless be full Of enjoyment.
A shoe-mark, just at v On the lef
sole, brought one Major" Johnson, a
negro e~x-convict, to book through the
shrewdness of officer Bentor and Dep
uty Sheriff Monaghan. Nearly $50
WI III III "CIC SoiCII liz
warehouse OF Mr.. J. H. Culbreth, with
no clue but a shoe print on the sand
with the telltale mark on the left heel.
The goods were found in Johnson's
den up stairs in a tenement on pper
Hay street
Captain E. r. McKethan, the talent
ed young Fayetteville mi of the
house in the legislature, will deliver
the address before the Confederate
Memorial Association next Friday,
10th instant. The ceremonies of the
day will be impressive, as they a
never failed to be in this community,
where the memory of the lead south
ern soldier is tenderly enshrined.
Judge Fred Moore opened Cumber-
land superior court, for the trial Of civil
cases., yesterday, and the session viii
continue two weeks.
The "Woodmen of the World un-
yelled the monument to the memory OF
the late E.. w. Bristow yesterday, at
McCalTs S. c., MI. J. D. Craighead de-
livering the address, and Miss Eula
Roper giving a poetic recital. The
occasion was Of interest to many Fay
etteville people, as Mr.. Bristow mar
ried Miss Kennedy. the lovely daughter
of MI. Charles Kennedy, one of the
| most loved and esteemed Christian men
| in all this community.
This afternoon at 4 o'clock the funer-
a. services will take place, at Hay
Street Methodist church, the pastor.
Rev. III. T. Smoot officiating, of Mrs.
Annie Jordan, relict of the ate Thomas
]. Jordan. and daughter Of the late
Howard Massey, aged G. years, who
leaves the following eight children:
c.. w. Jordan, Mrs. W. NJ. Reid and
| Mrs. j. S. McNeill, of this city; Robert
Jordan, OF Florence, S. c.; Thomas and
Dillon Jordan, Of Hope Mills; Mrs. +.
C. Stout, of Rocky Mount, long resident
in Wilmington, Mrs. Margaret McPher-
son, of Newport News. The late
| Thomas j. Jordan was an old-time
| printer, of marvellous skill in his craft.
an upright, kindly man, known all over
| North Carolina in journalistic circles,
who worked part OF his time in the
newspaper Offices of Wilmington. Peace
to their ashes, commingled in death.
Rev. w. III. Tomlins, who filled an
| Episcopal church in Wilmington so ac-
| ceptably recently, viii not fill the call