The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-26
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New Bern Journal: Gen. c. A. Battle,
of Richmond, Va a formerly we'll known
resident of New Bern, was bitten on
the arm by a mad dog recently. The
it is hoped that he will not have any
bad effects from ii. Gen. Battle was at
one time connected with the Journal.
New Bern Journal: The friends OF
Miss LOttie Justice in this city, Will be
interested to learn OF her marriage,
which o. place August 14th. in Way
cross. Ga. She is now Mrs. Alexander
Kelly Sessoms.|A heavy wind and
rain storm visited this city Saturday
morning and man trees fell before the
fury Of the blast. A handsome willow
in Christ church yard was blown down.
Nearly one-half inch Of rain fell.
Greensboro Record: The case against
the young white man, Victor Barnes
charged with a criminal assault on the
Z year old daughter of Shubal Walden,
in Sumner township on August 18th,
came up for a preliminary hearing at
4 o'clock Monday afternoon before
Justice j. a. Pritchett, having been
transferred from Justice Frank Glenn,
and he was sent on to court.
Durham Herald: The rear end of the
three-story building on the corner of
Corcoran and Parrish streets, belong
ing TO the Pleasant estate, collapsed
late yesterday Afternoon. The building
began to fall about sos o'clock and
within five minutes thirty feet of the
wall was in ruins. No n was hurt.
Had the collapse taken place an hour
earlier it would nave caught a number
OF wOrkmen who were employed on the
new building being erected by e. G.
Hackney. No telling how mony would
have met death had this been the case.
The Orphans Friend: The historic
old "Davie Poplar on the campus of
the University Of North Carolina was
torn down by the storm Of August 9Th.
This announcement has caused genuine
| regret to many with whose past ives
the old tree was associated. Under
that noble tree the committee Of great
men who selected the site for the build
ing in 1892 ate their dinner, so tradition
says. Governor Moseley of Florida
| wrote that it was called the 'Old Pop
lar in 1919. Many senior classes have
held their graduating exercises under it.
Half of it is left In good condition.
Kinston Free Press: The Gay Lum-
Der company received a few days ago
a logging macnine which was carried
| across the river and sent to their log
| cling camp. 1t Is a powerful machine
to be used in a stationary position on
the railroad track to haul logs from
quite a distance in the woods. A long
| wire cable is attached to a india
on the machine and the logger takes
! the other end of the cable and fastens
it to the log at any distance from the
machine and the log is hauled through
the woods rapidly I'M without the aid
of a. team. 1t is a convenient device
for logging pui poses n Will greatly
e%xpediate and economiZe the logging
business. h machine is very heavy,
weighing tweny-three thousand pounds.
News and Observer: There are said
to forty-eight trains a day on the for
ty-six miles of track between Green's
boro and Salisbury alone, and when
our Greensboro correspondent asked a
railroad man yesterday if it would not
pay the railroad in saving Of wrecked
property alone to build a double track,
he replied that the company was doing
everything possible to have a double
track; thai it involved first a straight
ening and regarding Of the whole line
from Washington to Atlanta; that this
work of Strengthening and regarding
was going on all the divisions with as
much expedition as poSSlble; that II
also involved the changing Of depot
sites in some cases and this brought
kicks and spite work; that the legis-
lature had been called upon in three
states to give the roads the right to this
Strengthening process; that IN more
than one state even this privilege had
beer fought and the passage of the bill
delayed, but that now in every state
the road was being straieTened and
that this work was indispensably a
part of the process to make practicable
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