The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-20
NORTH CAROLINA.


Oxford Ledger: In the list OF banks
given out by the corporation commission
for taxes. we find that the Bank OF
Granvflle's stock Is rated at s15o per
share. total tax value $4,000. and tax
levied STILES. This Is a good showing,
and speaks well for Oxford.
Greensboro Patriot: Rev. DR.. Hern-
don. the pastor, closed a very success
full revival meeting at Pleasant Ridge
church. twelve miles OF Greensboro.
abo two weeks ago During the meet
long twenty-tbree persons profeSsed re-
ligion. There were fourteen acCessions
to the membership % the church.
Greenville Reflector: Constable .. w.
Gaskins. of Grifton. brought Arden No
bles, coiored, here this morning for COM
mitment to jail. On Sunday u1crninS
Arden assaulted another negro with a
brick. breaking his finger and severely
wounding his head with n blow.
Hillsboro Observer: Louis Snipes. an
old negro man aged about 80 Years, was
instantly killed by the mail train on the
Southern railway one mile west OF
town Monday morning while crossing the
track d. He was warned not TO cttempt
to cross the track "a the train was TOO
close to him, but he paid no attention
to the warning.
IIOtlN ~ INSlltClOI. ia VA
Greenville do not know the danger
their boys are subjected 10 by the gam
bling slot machines which the board OF
aldermen "a permitted TO be run In
town. Some OF them would be shocked
to know their boys were being enticed
into bar-rooms and standing around
these machines.
Gastonia News: The failure OF the
court to punish for homicides is not
lesSening the number of murders in
North Carolina. The man contemplat-
ing murder thinks that If he is not
lynched when the crime Is committed
he will be hung-stands a good
chance of acquittal and if imprisoned
can get p~ardoned. In Wilson county
there were twenty murders in two
years.
Faison Journal: Mr.. Jasper Weeks. Of
Sampson COUNT when asked what he
thought of the fall price of cotton. said:
II believe that cotton will go to the 10
cent mark this year. The crop is about
t~wo-thirds short throughout the coun-
try, so we must look for higher prices"
Speaking of the crop. Mr.. Weeks re-
marked: There will not be enough corn
made in my country this year to last
until March of 1902"
Raleigh Post: Jesse HeathCock died
yesterday afternoon shortly before two
o'clock at the Soldiers Home. Mr..
Heathcock was from Stanley county,
and was a brave and fearless soldier
during the war. He served in Company
H, of the Fourteenth n. c. regiment un-
der Colonel Bennett and was quite \
favorite with the latter. The funeral
will be held from the chapel at the
Home this morning at $50 o'clock.
Kinston Free Press: NJ. Pryant
Hughes little boy. who was taken to a
hospital in Baltimore last week to nave
an operation performed. and who WAS
brought back Friday because the doctor
said that his n of recovery were
only n out Of a hundred. was bitten by
Mr.. G. H. Hughes dog Sunday after
noon , while playing near the dog. h
dog has been confined since it vas re-
ported that he was bitten by tae dog
that bit Mr.. Hagen's little boy.
Raleigh Post: The Davie Record.
republican organ seems to condemn Sc
verely the grandfather clause which
permits white men to vote. If there
is any logic in the Records contention
it is seriously offended because the il
literate white citizens are not disfran-
chised. 1t seems equally disconnected
because ignorant negroes are diSfran-
chised. The democracy thinks that
every white man should vote and only
requires those who become of age after
1908 to be qualified by knowing how to
e n write.
Durham Sun: Mrs. w. G. Norman is
nursing severakvery sore fingers on her
right hand. Some time ago a hole was
dug near the front steps of the larson
age to make a connection with the wa
ter pipe. 1t was filled up and the late
rains softened the dirt to such an OK
tent that when Mrs. Norman went 70
the faucet Tuesday afternoon. 10 turn
on the water, she sank in The miry
clay and received a severe fall, Druis-
ing her fingers very severely. Rev. DIR.
Norman went to her assistance. and he,
too. got a fall by stepping on the soft
earth. His only injury was bAing two
feet in the mushy dirt. 1t Is fortunate
they were not injured more seriously.
Charlotte Observer: Engineer NJ. C.
league, of the southern, has e5ta blished
an enterprise at Roaring River. Wilkes
county. He is manufacturing cross
arms for telephone and telegraph poles,
and is behind with orders. a COM
pany for the manufacture Of trunks at
High Point was organized here tonight
with the following officers: President,
W. H. Raglan: Vice president, NJ. J.
Wrenn; secretary and treasure. E. L.
Ragan. The paid-up capital stock is
SIS, 900. - Captain T. B. Lvor, one of
Durham county's best known anG aged
citizens, died at his home in north Dur
ham last night. He was about 50 years
of age and had been ill for ten or twelve
weeks. Captain Lyon moved here from
Granville county in 1872 and since hen
has been in the tobacco business. Be
fore leaving Granville he several times
represented the county in the legisla-
ture.