The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-11

The Messenger regrets that a ine
cotton mill at Graham was burned on
the lth instant. The loss Of q cotton
mill concerns the state. Some resi-
dences caught fire and also some busi-
ness houses.
Suing corporations now Is very COM
mon. The idea is h corporations
kill and main people of purpose. or
ought to have prevented accidents and
injuries resulting The Raleigh Times
tells Of a trust for SO. 900 agai st the Ra-
leigh cotton mills which was begun In
superior court today and will probably
last several days. The plaintiff is Miss
Matte Baker, who il represented by
her next best friend, N. F.. Baker. II
juries award damages for such acct
dents then the mills will have to issue
contracts, stating that in no case will
they be held responsible for accidents
and hurts. No one not signing and
agreeing shall be admitted in the
working force. Physicians are expect
ed to be greater than nature. and to
heal all the sick and relieve all who
suffer from accidents. In case OF fail
ure a suit for damages must be enter
ed. Why practice medicine IL you are
not a "cure-an?" People ought to
have some sense about such things.
Everybody errs. everybody slips-up.
just as all are liable to accidents and
bad consequences. Railroads. mills
and doctors are not common enemies.
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Mr.. Gerald Mccarthy, the states
biologist at Raleigh, sent out some
months ago a paper on silk production
in this state. From it we cut the fol-
lowing, which has interest for the
people of the state:
Those who are looking for a light
all the year round rural business will
find what they want in a combination
of silk worms and poultry. The null
berry bears fruit for the hens as we'll
as leaves for the worms. A northern
with authorized capital = of
50, 500, 600 proposes to enter the state
and establish silk farms and silk mills
company will purchase for each
all the silk cocoons that the people
l. ldiSS. IIOSS II nave lie III
neSe of Downing mulberries on their
should TAX care Of them. Those
who have them not should plant
some. Plant only the Downing"
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The Dunn Democrat writes cheerily
Of it's young town. New enterprises
are often springing up. 1t is to nave
oon an Oregon Chair Factory, and
cotton seed oil mill is a certainty, it
states, while there is talk of a cotton
Colonel D. W~orthington, of Wilson,
8 now writing a novel with Sir Walter
Raleigh as the central figure. While
he great Englishman never had his
upon any part of North Carolina,
lie is Of much interest to North Caro-
inians. Colonel Worthington wrote a
book for North Carolina and
he south in 1.-The Broken Sword" a
tory Of Reconstruction and Destruc-
ion. A correspondent from Wilson
writes to The Raleigh Post on the 4th
Instant:
by the way, the fame Of Colonel
has reached the classic
ihades of the world-renowned Dart
mouth college, and he has been invited
o deliver a literary address in April
t that shrine Of culture and learning.
Colonel will accept the invitation
md we know his effort there will en-
his reputation as a charming
md polished speaker, and add richer
md rarer and brighter laurels to the
ROW Of North Carolina, for he is a
crowned prince in the realm Of litera-
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1t has been announced that Rev. DR..
T.. M. Buckley, editor of The New York
Advocate, is to preach the
,accalaureate sermon before the Uni
of North Carolina in June next.
Dr.. Buckley may not be be the great
,st preacher in all northern Meth
but he is its most gifted, many
sided, influential exponent. The great
.st nonconformist minister in 1.-THE
lation Of London" as Thomas De
Quincy called it when half of it's pres
INT size, told Rev. DR.. Deems that DR..
Buckley was the most remarkable man
lie knew. We got it from our friend
Dr.. Deems upon his return from a SEQ
md visit to Europe.
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We congratulate the flourishing town
Z Durham upon it's good luck" The
senate has passed a bill to give Dur
a fine public building. 1t will
,ost 500, 900.