The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-18

Henderson Gold Leaf: There are
nineteen monuments at Guilford Bat
tie Ground. and through the efforts or
CONGRESSMAN W. W. Kitchin app-o-
p~riations fn- ~ more have Just been
made
Concord Tribune: A clipping from a
Ohio paper Of recent issue
received in the city gives an ccoun O.
Professor c. s. Coier. formerly principal
or the Concord schools Professor Coler
a Just been elected superintenuen OF
n OF the public schools OF that city al
a salary OF $500 per year.
Wilson Times: Mr.. Barnes. the regis
Ter or deeds, is now using a typewriter
that copies records. mortgage deeds
etc. This machine places three and on.
half times as much type written matter
as penmanship on a page. thus saving
book and vault space The ink is guar
anteed TO a
Washington Gazette: air. Giles Cutler
who resides about four miles below
Brnyan ~postoffice had the misfortune
last night to a his horse and buggy
stolen About 10 o'clock a negro called
at he gate and asked for a drink OF
water, and the horse WAS in the stable
at that time. and il is thought the ne
gro took the horse and buggy. The
sc Id d SIiLdII size UIE. ana Is moi
more tina seven a old.
Smithfield Herald: Mr.. JuniLs A. Mas.
Seng1ll was here last Sat Irday and gave
us some facts in regard to the whea-
crop in his neighborhood. He made ::
bushels on 2k acres using cotton SEED
under the wheat with nitrate of soda as
a top dressing. MI. Phillip Lee raised
III bushels on Az acres with BARNARD
manure and nitrate of soda. Mr.. F. P
Wood raised 1872 bushels on Az acres
with no manure except nitrate of soda.
MIR. John S. Wood raised 40 bushels OF
" acres with cotton seed and nitrate
of soda.
Greensboro Telegram: The McClam-
roch Mantel Company are filling an or.
der now of which they are very proud
1t Is from William j. Bryan and is fol
four first floor manteIs Of the very cost
lest kind made by the company. They
are for the handsome new home tina
Mr.. Bryan is erecting. Mr.. Bryan has
written the firm several letters with the
signature in his w handwriting. One
letter came also from Mrs. Bryan who
is naturally interested in the kind OF
mantels to be placed i'll the home over
which she is to reign.
Norfolk Special to Charlotte Observer:
Charles Frederick Osborne, who was re-
Gently acquitted OF the charge of MUIR
dcring his wifa-a native of Marion, n.
C.-who was found dead by his side in
bed with a bullet wound in her temple,
was arrested at $3.50 O'Clock his morn
ing by Detective George NJ. Heppel,
charged with numbering another wife
in Saltwater, Oklahoma. Osborne. in
Oklahoma, it is alleged. was known rs
c. F. Hiatt, but mis- photograph was OBJ
tanned by the authorities there and they
claim he is the man they want.
Salisbury Truth: Granite quarry is
one of the coming towns of Rowan
county. Their is a great deal of hustle
going about the place, that is work,
in the granite quarries. The
chipping, dressing, blasting and crush
ing of the stone is constantly going on
on all sides, and the mel chants seem to
be doing business. The Rowan Granite
Co., a just added a locomotive to
their plant for shifting cars. The
Dunn's Mountain Granite Co, has a
large force of men at work and is doing
a big business. The Pink Granite Co.,
is Just beginning and have a lot of orna-
mental and other work on land and
also have a large force OF hands at
work.
Charlotte Observer: The refreshing
rains, laying the dust and cooling the
atmosphere, will induce many people,
who have been hesitating, to go on the
Baptist excursion to Wilmington on
the 18th. The committee in charge are
laying themselves out in arranging for
the comfort and pleasure of hos who
go. They have a printed list Of hotels
and boarding houses and schedule Of
trains and steamboat for sid trips, to
be distributed on the cars going to
Wilmington.
Washington Gazette: DR.. David T.
Tayloe on Wednesday morning per-
formed a most serious M delicate OPP
ration. He operated on the two year
old child of Mr.. w. T. Morgan, Of Belle
Haven, for Glycoma. He was assisted
by DR.. Z. NJ. Brown and the little 5uff-
erer is getting along very we'll at this
writing. When six months old a growth
was noticed coming on the child's eye
by its parents n when the doctor re-
moved it Wednesday it was as large
as a mans fist. The eye was complete
ly closed. An operation Of his char
acter is very rare in surgery.
Rich Square Times: Smallpox has
broken out in the upper part Of North
ampton, SO miles from Rich Square,
brought there from Portsmouth, Va.
Seven members OF Mr.. w. L. Stanley's
family I'VE the dread disease. Mr..
Stanley's daughter, Miss Jennie, vas
attending the Norfolk Business Col
lege at the time the disease was con-
tracted and her brother called to see
her at the hotel m Portsmouth where
she was boarding not knowing she
had smallpox.
Gastonia Gazette: An Indian axe
different from any other we eve saw
was brought US a few days ago by Mr..
Robert Henderson. It was found in
the field near his house. and is a dou-
ble-bladed affair. The method of fast
ening a handle to this Weapon, If in
deed it was a weapon. is somewhat
puzzling, as it Is unlike that Of the
single-bladed axes. This n is GER
tainly a curiosity.-Last week while
Mrs. Sallie Foy and two sisters. who
live near All Healing were absent at
a neighbor's house one George McCree
q negro workman at the baryta mine,
broke into their pantry n carried on
all the provisions therein. McCree
was arrested and taken to Crowder's
Mountain where he confessed to the
theft IL cold fhof ho ond his IA mlly