The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-11-18
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u,r.+on nostofice for October show an !
Increase in receipts over october OF last
wear of over 81, 200, and that month was |
considered large Business or all kinds
in this city is rapidly expanding
Durham Herald: Walter L. Main,
proprietor of Mains circus Is going
To bring suit against the Seaboard Air
Tjra for fifteen thousand dollars so it
was learned yesterday. This suit will be
the second chapter III the attachment
proceedings begun by the Seaboard
and by which Sheriff Markham seized
ten horses day before yesterday.
New BEN Journal: 1t has been d.
served that the electric light wires are
infuring the shade trees in many parts
of the city. The insulation is rubbed
off and the contact OF the bare wire
with the trees has a tendency to burn
the trees and work a great deal Of dam
age. The shade trees are one of the at
tractiye features Of our city and to
have them burned in this way should
not be allowed
Charlotte Observer: The Southern has
purchased twenty-five new freight en-
gineS, which viii be put on the Dad this
week. tt. engines were bought from
the Baldwin Locomotive Works at an
approximate cost of $25C 900, are the
most modern and best types of freight
locomotives. They will be distributed
all alONB the SOuIneTn s. nleS, ana VIII
render great service to a rather con-
gested condition of traffic.
WashingtonGazette:T The oyster, which
was once found in abundance along our
coast. is becoming a scarce article and
the quality as a general thing is not
what 1t was a few years ago. There
seems to have been an evasion OF ,xlst-
ing laws and regulations the result of
which has been the practical destruc-
ffnn Of -nn7n Of M ran-E 4; Ill
where some years ago the oysters seem
ed to abound in inexhaus-IbIe uuanti-
ties.
Reidsville Review: S. G. Lea, of Cas-
we'll county, is at the Home for tie Sick,
in Danvillc, suffering with 4 knife
wound inflicted by a Mr.. Naa!, vino was
his school cOmrade at ScoLtburg. Mr..
Neal became angered over a joke and
stabbed his friend in tnA back us :he
latts. w3s entering the dining " CIR
Mr.. Lea was making his way home
when the bandages became loosened
and the wound broke out afresh. 1t IS
not believed hat his rounds will prove
serious Mr.. Neal expressed the deeD-
est contriticn for this rash act.
News and Observer Special: Ashe-
Vile, n. C.,Noyember ia warrant
has been issued by United States Com
missioner Summary for the arrest of
F. c.. Ebbs, of Madison county, on the
charge of embeZzlement. Ebbs is
charged with having appropriated to
his personal use $1,000 left in his care
as guardian for James Blaine House, a
boy who was injured by a train of the
Southern Railway Company and sub
sequently recovered damages in the
sum mentioned. Ebbs for a number of
years conducted one of the largest mer-
camille establishments in Madison coun-
tv the business being located at Hot
Springs; but a few months e he filed
a petition in bankruptcy. No part of
the 1900, it is said. has ever been paid
to the boy, either by Ebbs or his bonds
men.
Duplin Journal: Mr.. H. H. Ezzell, a
most successful farmer OF Bowden's
sent The Journa a string of 16 Hawks
Yet and 1 OWLS foot which he has re-
Gently caught with a steel trap fastened
to a high pole near his house. Mr..
EZzell we'll says that if every farmer
would do likewise that they could effec-
tually destroy all the hawks with but
little trouble. This Is a cheap, econOmi-
cal and effective plan and our farmers
should take Mr.. Ezzelrs advice as eggs
and chickens are among the most
profitable products of the farm. a
Farmers Institute will be held at Mt
Olive, Thursday, November the 10th
The object of the institute is to draw
together the farmers of the country tx
discuss with them SUBJECTS ISIdllLS u
their business. Prof. Kilgore, stat'
chemist; DR.. Butler, state veterinarian
Prof. Massey, and others will delive1
addresses. All farmers are urged Il
attend the institute. Meeting will opel
at 10 o'clock a. m.
Fayetteville Observer: The buildin:
of the new wharves and warehouses D
the Fayetteville and Wilmington
Steamboat Company has availed L
make a much-traveled highway from
the heart of town to the Cape Fea
river, and has opened a wilderness o
river forest n a jungle OF dens
growth hitherto trodden rarely by an
but the adventurous sportsmen. Nea
the wharves the passer-by is attracte
by a quaint old burying ground, who's
walls have been crumbling and it's me
mortal stones yellowing with time TO
generations; and half-effaced irscrlp
tions here and there tell of those VIII
passed away more than a century an
a third ago-some Of the lnscr1be
names are utterly new to a Fayette
vile ear. A notable feature of this Ole
old graveyard is an iron railing or ex
Quisite tracery and tasteful deSlS:
nearly intact, though worn and disco
Ored with the storms and bullets or
century and more.
Special to News and Observer: Wasl
ington, n. c., November ia pla
has beer formulated to build a hotel c
the northern part of Ocracoke Islam
l|at Cape Hatteras, and to build one tn;
will eclipse the Chamberlain and tt
famous Hygeia in splendor and fu
nishings. Hatteras, the storm-sWep
the Atlantic's graveyard. is to be T
deemed superintendent John Lemon
in charge of the North Carolina dlvisit
of the Old Dominion Steamship Con
pany, in talking over the proJect'
work, a few days ago, said: The Sa.
phire country, paying thousands to l
promoters, is not a circumstance cor
pared with the bonanza offered to Il
investor in the hotel resort bus1ne
of Cape Hatteras. Northerners are nc
considering the venture and the y
Dominion people themselves have ma
a close study of the situation. 1t is t
best place on the Atlantic for a sur
mer and winter resort and it is goil
to be made such. 1t will not be do
on q small scale. The project to p.