The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21
HERE AND THERE.

As Paddy was going along the street
one day became across a chip potato
van drawn by an ass. He stood and
looked at it for some time, when a
passer-by asked him what he was star
ing at. oh" says Paddy, ~"begorra,
an Olive seen muny a lazy ass in Dire
land, but Olive never seen wan that
needs a stame engine to push it."-Tit-
Bits.
A conservative estimate says that
probably one thousand men are hard
at work in New York city devising
means whereby some fuel other than
coal, may be utilized for heating and
cooking purposes. Asbestos bricks
soaked in oil, hold forth the most
promising prospects at present. An
almost untold fortune awaits the sue
cessfuI Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
Judge Pennypacker, the republican
candidate for governor of Pennsyl-
vania, is warning his audiences against
creating what ne regards as a pad
omen. His arguments are presented
something like this: Pattison's cleo
ton as governor in 1882 was followed
by the election of Grover Cleveland to
the presidency. Again, in 1890, Govern
or Pattison triumphed at the head of
the democratic ticket, and two years
later Grover Cleveland was again
CHOSEN pTeSluSlI. 60 III lol oS(.
Colonel Rueben Arnold has discover
ed on his picturesque estate at Hape-
vile one of the landmark stones set by
the expedition of Ponce de Leon when
he was making his way across Georgia
after turnino westward from the VII
entity OF Athens and was seeking the
Father of Waters" in the indefinite
west. The stone is of peculiar shape
and So placed INC marked as to show
its in line with other stones,
TO show the progress of the march to
followers, or to enable the expedition
to retrace its route if necessary. Colo
mel Arnold is quite proud of this ancient
relic amonp his poSseSsiOnS.-Atlanta
Constitution.
A fortune of over s1OO.O 900 was found
TO-DAY in the desk OF Police Captain j.
J.. Domaine at his place in the station
house, where he dropped dead last
week. TIE sum of $4,000, in cash, was
found in a small iron box in a drawer
and diamond jewelry valued at $1,000
including a solitaire ring worth Sl,5OO,
vas found in another drawer. The rest
of the property, including $4,000 in
| United States steel stock, 81 600 in gold
mining stock, $4,000 in Metropolitan
railway stock and five life insurance
policies Of $1,000 each. The discovery
of the treasure was a complete Jul
| prise, the captain having been worth
: about $4,000 in other property.-New
York Dispatch.
Sheriff John Spradley, Of Nacogodo-
hes county Texas, today paced in the
parish Jail of Caddo, in this city, James
| Buchanan. s~elf-confessed murderer OF
the Hicks family for whom a mob OF
several thousand persons have beer
| looking for two days. Buchanan was
captured in a swamp near Nacogodo.
ches. Mobs had gathered at Tanapa
Appleby, Nacogodoches and Other
places and to throw the mob at Naco.
godoches off the scent the sheriff sem
the negro ahead with Deputy Mat
thews. while he himself took a trair
with his other companions. The maI
was brought to Shreveport in safety
All sorts of rumors are rifle tonight
but it is believed hat the negro is SAFE
in the parish Jail here.