The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-28
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The little tow OF Littleton on the r
End G. railrao6, has a creditable
weekly called The Herald" 1t is pub
listed by the editor, Mr.. w. E. Clark.
1t gives more local news than many
larger. more p~retentious weeklies. 1t Is
rileap-only so cents a year.
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1t is to be hoped that the black brute
who assaulted Mrs. Livengood will
catch the law at the fullest extent. His
name Is Dick Fleming and she has
identified the scoundrel. One of his
gloves was found very heal her house.
Three men knocked her door down. The
SALISBURY Sun says:
Then followed a fierce struggle in
which Mrs. Livengood broke a chair on
her assailant. One of them (Which she
thinks vas Fleming) dragged her 10
the yard n afterwards into the
house, where the crime was committed.
Mrs. Liyengood was left in a fainting
condition and when a physician called
found her badly bruised. She is still
unable to leave her bed and her condi-
ton is quite serious"
Pinehurst Is becoming city like. It
has outrages to report. A negro boy,
aged 8, stole watches and money.
Archie Palmer, a negro, was driving
near town when he was assaulted and
robbed by four white men. He was cut
twice. He lost So, and his horse was
driven to the Pines. Two negroes used
knives and pistols in an ARRAY. At
Pinehust saturday a young dentist
quarreled and struck his wife. The
trouble was caused by a difference of
opinion regarding the baking of hoe
cake. she contending that the northern
way was the best and he declared for
the southern way. The momentous
question could not be settled by arbi-
tration so force was used, in which he
hair-pulling. We get the points from
a special to The Raleigh News and OBJ
server.
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A gentleman sends us a long clipping
from a letter written in September 1853,
from New York, and that was publish
ed in The New Bern Daily Progress of
liz 1ol VI 1OOJ, d paper III
style and size that perhaps surpassed
any of it's successors in that old colonial
town. 1t is an interesting account of
his observations and reflections and
tells Of sight-seefngs in New York,
while there was a small own as COM
pared with the present great city. 1t
Is signed "H", and we guess it was
written by the late Edward J. Hale, Of
Fayetteville. Reference is made to h
late Bishop Ives as living in fine style
at Washington Heights on the Hudson,
and as being "a professor in a college
for making Catholic priests"
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A recent dispatch from New York
throws some light on a North Carolina
combination of railroad, canal and
steamer, and the plan is to thus control
the trade of our coast. The dispatch
states. and it Will interest North Caro-
linians who have not seen it.: can off,
cial statement, issued by the Norfolk
and Southern Company, says hat the
company, which was formed to acquire
the stock of the Norfolk and Southern
railroad and the bonds and stock of the
Lake Drummond Water Company, will
issue 81. 800, 900 of stock and SO. 500, 900 OF
5 per cent ifty-year gold bonds. This
merges places under one direction the
two proprieties which control the shore
industries of North Carolina. The Nor
folk and Southern Company has TIA
miles Of road ana owns thirty steamers.
The canal. which was reopened a year
60, after extensive Improvements cost
ing 81, 500, 600, mas developed a large
traffic. n the fleet of steamers and
barges. obtained through purchase OF
the Norfolk and Southern Railroad
Company, ecomes Immediately availa-
BILE for the canal"