The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-13

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Sampson Democrat: The finest straw
berries we have seen this season. and
probably the nest we eve saw, were
laid on u table a few days ago by Mr.
Jerre NJ. Boon. of South Clinton. They
were of the Profit variety and meaSur
ed 5A inches in circumference.
News and Observer: Mr.. w. Sturgin
from AShe county, who graduated last
June from the A. and NJ college, has
received an appointment al West Point
from Congressman Blackburn. He has
been admitted without mental eXami
nation on his diploma from the A. and
NJ. He has passed a physical eXami-
nation held at Fort McHeIry, Mary
land, and will go to West Point in June,
A special telegram from Pittsboro to
1.-THE Charlotte Observer of the 7th says:
The democrats of Chatham held their
Icounty convention today ana every pre-
Icinct was fully represented the utmost
Harmony prevailed. By unanimous vote
Hon. Walter Clark vas endorsed for
lChief Justice. For Associate Justice
IConnor received 6S votes ana Brown IL
Votes. No Instructions for other justices.
For corporation commissioner, H. c..
brown received 81 votes and Bedding
field 10 votes.
Kenansville correspondence in Duplin
Id III lIol- EibooI lhlSS vi lOoI L NJ
white voters have failed to pay their
poll tax and will not be able to vote in
the coming election, but this is only
their misfortune and canno affect the
situation IT. the county, be-
cause this loss to the white vote will
be much more than offset by the 1.200
negroes who have sworn off on any fur
Their politics in Duplin. From every sec
ton of the county comes reports of fine
crops indeed, and u farmers will no
doubt again be on th.eif feet after an
other harvest.
Dunn correspondence OF Sampson
Democrat: While 1 WAS ditching on my
farm on the L. H. Lee land, four miles
south of Dunn, l found a Ids four
feet in the ground, three feet of it solid
Iclay. There was no sign of a hole there
and the ditcher thought he had struck
la trunk of money, but when he got it
up, it was a saw. The handle was per-
lfectly solid, and the saw was not rus
ty a single bit. 1t was made by Sears
& Jackson at sheffield. The blade was
lseven and th~ree-quarter inches in
width. Any person not believing this
to be so can come and see the saw.
Kinston Journal: The big gray horse
that disappeared from the Neuse Mill
ing Company'S stables several nights
has beer found n returned. 1t
lis probable that he was rIduen twelve
'or fifteen miles from ninston by some
Iperson and then turned loose. The
horse was found about ten miles
from the city.-The body of the color
ed boy. Jesse Brown, who was drown
ed in Neuse river Sunday morning. "a
this morning about a mile from
floating near the shore.-The
.|original and only San Jones, the great
Georgia evangelist, VIII lecture in Kin
ston at the Farmers warehouse on
Saturday night, May 24th.
Charlotte Observer: Alex Tate, a son
of the late Colonel s. Med Tate, and OF
Mrs. Jennie S. Tate, was killed by a
freight train on the Southern railway,
between Connolly Springs ard Valdese,
at 10 o'clock this morning. For several
months past Alex. had been tagging on
the construction train of Messrs. Olive
& Co, the railroad contractors, who are
improving III line of the Southern in
this section. This morning the young
man had orders to flag down a west
bound local freight. He did this, but
the train did not stop, as 1t passed he
tried TO get on the running board of the
to deliver the order and, making
a misstep, was caught under the wheels
and rightly mangled, death resulting