The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-05

Laurinburg Exchange: We are pleas
ed TO Learn that Mr.. Colon Mccormick
Who was SO terribly injured last fall
mas almost entirely recovered. He has
prooaoiy lost the use Of his leg but his
health Is entirely restored.
A 500. 900 fertilizer factory is to be
built In Raleigh. as well as a large AN
ming factory. There has been a hal,
for several weeks in the building of cot
ton mills as a result of the low price
OF yarns and cotton goods. Most OF the
fniiis are running on half time.
j. ID. Moore, of Gastonia, n. c.. Is
saio 10 be In correspondence with NJ.
~ Courtney. of Lenoir. n. c., rela-
tive to the establishment of a cotton
mill at Lenoir. Mr.. Moore will put $40
800 into a new mill, provided the citi-
cents of Lenoir will subscribe s35. 900.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. R A. Cobb
FORMER state librarian. fell senseless on
the sidewalk between the store and his
nome IN Morganton Tuesday night, at
y O'Clock He was carried home and ex-
plred a few moments later. The cause
or death is supposed TO have been heart
failure.
Fayetteville Observer: Senator Nc
Laurin, of South Carolina. took lunch
In this city yesterday at the Texas Cafe
on his way to Washington. Those who
saw him say that they understood him
10 say that he was on his way to the
Philippine islands. This they took to
mean that Mckinley had offered him
a position there.
Raleigh Times: The Daughters of the
Confederacy of Kittrell have adopted
a unique plan for raising money q
place headstones at the graves of the
c~onfederates who are buried there.
They are raising flowers and selling
them. sending ali over the state flowers
that are as fragrant with good deeds
as with their own odors.
Raleigh News and Observer: Green's
boro, N. c.. March 9.-Temple
Stuart, a we'll known citizen, COM
mitted suicide at his home neal Gull
lord College,, today, by hanging him
self in his barn. Mr.. Stuart had been in
bad health for years. Continual brood
ing over this is supposed to have caus-
ed him to commit suicide. He was
seventy years old and a prosperous
farmer.
Waynesville Courier: Lieutenant
Harley B. Ferguson, of the engineer
ing corps, now stationed in Cuba, has
been recommended by General Chaffee
to the president as deserving Of promo
ton for his excellent services. The
general recommends that he be bre-
Vetted with the rank of captain, which
will doubtless be done soon. Lieuten-
ant Ferguson is a son of Colonel w. z.
Ferguson. of this place.
A~oskingham Papir. The barn of
Mr.. T. E. Diggs, about nine miles
south Of Rockingham. containing
rough food, farming indictments, etc,
was destroyed by fire Thursday. Fiji
teen mules were in the barn. and thir-
teen of them were burned to death.
The two escaping were so badly burn
ed that they will die. Mr.. Diggs also
lost a quantity Of guano.
Morganton Herald: Not long since a
blockader in this section was leaning
over the front Of his furnace in the act
of starting his morning fire when he
was suddenly seized by the scruff of the
neck by the deputy marshal. who had
been lying in wait for aim. Without
a moments hesitation the victims face
took on a look of startling surprise as
he said: why. mister, I was just pass
in by and wanted to light my pipe"
Beat that for readiness if you can. The
story is strictly true. being given US by
the officer himself.
Kinston Free Press: C%harlotte's Jail
birds are taking on West Point hazing
ideas. The upper class prisoners have
been initiating the new prisoners by
throwing them down and fogging them
WIN q" pi>SS Va "A
plebe prisoner resisted the initiation
ceremony and got his skull fractured
for his uppiShnesS. He may die.
Charlotte may start a movement TO
have an investigation or the hazing
methods in the county Jail unless the
prisoners pledge themselves to forever
abstain from these West Point prac-
tees.
News and Observer: Mr.. w. S. Will
son has been appointed corporation
clerk by Secretary of State Grimes.
This is a new office provided for by
the last general assembly. The salary
is twelve hundred dollars a year and
the statue provides it shall be paid from
the tax derived from the organization
of corporations. Mr.. Wilson is from
Caswell county and represented that
ounty with credit to himself and 20
his constituents in the lower house
of the general assembly. He is a grad
uate of the university. a lawyer by pro-
f~ession. and the second democrat to
represent his county since the war.
Sanford Express: The Sanford Cot
ton Mill Company lave received sew
eral car loads Of new machinery which
will be installed during the next few
weeks. They expect to fill the mill
with machinery and run the plant to
it's full capacity.-Mr. Ernest Cooke,
the engineer in chief Of the survey be-
ing made at Buckhorn for the estab-
lishment Of the plant of the Cape Fear
Electric Power COMPANY. says IN
water power is all that would be iced
ed for the work Of a great industrial
centre.-The Confederate veterans of
Moore county who recently met in
J~onesboro and organized named their
organization Camp Martin" They
have enrolled 12S members.-The ven
cradle AnSworth r. Spofford, who was
for many years the librarian of con-
gress, is spending h season at Pine
hurst.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth: Char
lie Hing. the Chinaman who came here
a laundry under the sign of Sing Lee,
of Tarboro, for whom ne worked, was
arrested Saturday night and placed in
the lookup. He poured oil about in
places in his own shop, on the steps of