The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11

saiter Path. n. c.. February 5.

saiter Path. n. c.. February s.
Editor Messenger:
This settlement is moving on. but not
thriving 30 much. Some are moving
away. but a few are coming In Last
week we lost a whole family who moved
away root and branch. away down east
to q place called Hunting Quarters
about fifty miles from here. They were
Mr.. Alonzo Guthrie and family. the
most prominent parties here Mr..
n wife. who moved In Immediately.
Mr.. Tilman Willis. one of the old citi-
Gems here. cut his foo very badly last
week while chopping rood in his yard
with an axe. Had it not been for his
heavy shoe. he would probably have
los his foot.
Mr.. Daniel Lewis and Miss Eva Frost.
of these banks. were seemingly happily
married last week. the ceremony being
performed by Esquire William w.
land. Dan and Eva had to trudge
across the sound to Bills house to get
the knot tied. We don't think that
was hardly right. Billy ought TO have
accommodated the couple by coming
over here. We think
Mr.. Damon Guthrie and Mr.. Micaiah
Adams are building themselves eacn. a
nice sharpie for this years fish n
clam trade. Fish are very scarce now.
but CLAIMS are plentiful n sell for 81
cents per busheI right On shore here.
Escollops are beginning to be plentiful
too: thev sell for 75 cents per gallon.
Wild duck. geese, brandt, etc.. are not
so numerous this winter as they usually
are. but the hunters kill a good many
killed at one snot twenty-five rafe
ducks hat he got: Jimmy Willis eigh-
teen mallard and black duck at n
shot. Others made shots from five to
ten at a Shot. Mid duck and raccoons
are plentiful. Last week a party came
from Morehead City over here II
killed several duck and about twenty
coons One of the men named Moron
had rather a novel experience: a large
buck ran I'D to him and stopped IN
about ten feet of him.: Brake prompt
ly raised his gun and pulled trigger
hut the trigger didn't pull: at least the
hammer didn't fall. Brake shut his eyes
and gave a double-barrel pull, but no
shoot. Ihe deer then started to run OF
but got tangled in some vines n
hriars and fell down. Brake used som.
kinder "cuss words, then threw
down his gun. picked Ut a branch Of a
tree and proceeded to belabor Mr.. Buck
nver the head furiously. then up me
the deer and made a bee line for Brakes
stomach. ~whereupon Brake turned and
made a straight for a big live oak a few
feet away. and It is said he went up
that tree like a shot out OF a shovel,
though his friends say he was never
known to climb a tree before. He veil
ed loudly for help. Help soon came
but the deer was gone. Brake said lie
wasn't scared. but Glib said. If Brake
wasn't scared he deceived his looks.
for a ghost was never whittier than he
was when he came down out OF that
tree minus hat, pants-bottom, vest and
coat. and when Glib. Stacy and the 9TH
er bows told Brake what was the mat
ter with the gun, you-well we won Z
tell on him any more. The gun was a
hammerless one n Brake had locked
that gun with the spring.
Stacy w. Bridled a large coon with
a rope and the last seen Of him and
coon they were fighting each other 60
ing down a hill. Stacy eXclim.ng you
needn't snarl I'll carry you home awe
or die trying.
Mr.. G.. w. Ward has returned to his
school teaching after spending a whtle
at his home in S~wansboro. They All
seem to like him much but some OF the
people don't want their children cor
rected. and If one is punished. a row Is
imminent sure, but as yet his skin -
whole and clothes not torn. though 1t
looks sometimes as il he would get n
hole in his hide. w. w. U.