The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-07
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speciaI to Charlotte Observer: Lau-
rinburg, September 30.-Mr- j M Gov
ington- secretary of the Dickson cotton
mill, died at 5 p. m, To-Day o. typnoio
fever. He was a OF captain
Joseph Maglenn OF Raleigh
Gastonia Gazette: Giles Crawford, an
Industrious negro, of Pleasant Ridge,
was in town yesterday with his 14-year-
old daughter, Daisy, who is an interest
ing figure on account OF her stature and
corpuIence. She is three feet Line inch
es high and weighs 100 pounds.
New Bern Journal: Some of the resi-
dents of Carteret and Palmico counties
are agitating the building of a rail-
road from Beaufort TO q point where
connections may be made to the New
Bern and Palmico railroad now in pro-
cess OF construction. The road will be
about 40 miles long and will traverse
a part of Carteret that will be a good
feeder TO the Bayboro road. The scheme
is excellent and should prevail.
R~utherfordton Special TO Charlotte
Observer: Fair View, in Buncombe
county, is the scene of another name
less crime of a negro upon d white
lady. 1t was committed late Tuesday
evening by a convict supposed to have
escaped from the Mitchell county rail-
road. The negro is OF a Iigt ginger
cake color, about 30 years old, and
after the crime he secured Z suit OF
citizens clothes and nrew his convict
suit aside.
News and Observer: There was a
moonshine still not far from Murphy
in a hole under a corn field. The door
was between two row. kept covered
with turf. Down below was q comfort
able room and a plant with a capacity
Of 20 gallons a day. The smoke was
carried three-quarters OF a mile through
pipes and there mingled with the
boughS of a mighty oak. a pipe con-
nected with the sparkling water OF a
spring half a mile up the mountain
side.
Sampson Democrat: Rt. Rev. DR..
Watson. bishop OF East Carolina, will
make a special visit to Clinton next
Monday, Oct. 9th, to lay the corner
stone OF st . PauI's Episcopal church.
The service will be held about 4 p. m,
and will be in the open air CT course,
where the edifice is being erected. The
work On the building is rapidly going
on, and the devotion, energy and sac
rifice of the good people in this laud-
able work is something TO be admired.
Durham Herald, October 1st: The
police had troubles of their own yes
terday. 1t looked as If additional quar-
tiers would have to be provided in
which to lock up those under the in
fiuence OF whiskey, n this would have
been the case had all of tte DRINKS
been locked up. During the day the
officers arrested about twenty-five peo-
pie all Of whom with the exception of
W or three are charged with drunk
enness. There was very little bolster
usness of any kline and the rolice ar
rested only those who took o. such a
load that they could not conveniently
look after. themselves.
Greensboro Record: Captain Charles
Price, a leading attorney at Salisbury,
was in the city at noon. He TOLD a
Record reporter that he was going to
Durham this afternoon to get the COM
plant in a suit which he would insti-
tute in the United States court here
tomorrow in which the Travellers In
Surance Company of Connecticut, is
the complainant and the county of Hen
dersOn, this state the defendant. This
is to be Il bond suit similar to the
famOus Stanly and Wilkes county bond
suits which have been in the courts for
two or three years.
Durham Herald: Register of Deeds
Suit has completed the tax books and
they are now ready to be turned into
the hands of the sheriff. The books
show that the county has gained more
than two million dollars wealth since
last year, this IN real estate and per-
sonal property. The exact gain is ST.
OBJ, 5S4. This is not only the largest
gain III (ilS history u DuIIldIIl, puI 10
probably the largest gain made by any
county in the state. The total taxable
valuables in this county amount to S12 =
SOC, $50. The total amount of taxes to be
collected is $107. $50.
Winston Journal: The tobacco sales
of the past week have been prob
ably the largest of any previous week
in September ever known on the local
market. The tobacco was of the
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Warehouse man yesterday, the farm
ers are keeping the best of their crop
back in order to sell the poorest" The
sales yesterday lasted till afternoon.
Thursday, j. 3. Hancock, of Surry
county brought in 1873 pounds OF tobac-
co to the Piedmont warehouse. and sold
It tor % cents. w. T. C~hristnsan, OF
Surry, on Thursday brought in 7S3
pounds of the weed to the Farmers
warehouse, where it commanded 4 price
OF $129.79, an average OF 20 IL cents.
Rev. P. r. Law in Tn. Robesonian:
The time has come for us to make a
final appeal for that hat we lost at the
Presbytery in the spring at Raeford.
Recall, reader. that We were the last
to leave the church and were forced to
take the only hat left. 1t was the
same size as our hat. Our name was
in our hat On a silver plate which was
fastened securely on the leather band
We ventured once to say we would
get our hat when the straw hats Of
summer should be laid aside n ours
taken down from the rack where it had
been hung up for the summer. Men
and brethren, bring the hats to the
P~resbytery you wore away from Rae
ford in the spring. We are not sure
we are going to swap back, because we
have bought a new at. What we
want is our silver plate with our name
on it.
Raleigh Times: Mr.. A. B. Stronach
Tuesday afternoon had a narrow es-
cape from what might have proven
fatal. He had his hand within three !
inches of a spreading adder, one of
the o poisonous of all v~arities of
snakes. Mr.. Stronach was starting
from home down street and went into
his yard to pull a switch for his horse.
When he reached down and caught TIE
DOT Of the -twig he heard a Kissing |
sound n saw a snake coiled UP. He
quickly withdrew his hand but was not
frightened then as he thought that it