The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-25

III JAIL charged Win the t1eft OF 80
in bills and several dollars IL coin from
his sister. Lou Dotson
Webster's Weekly: A private o.
lpany Is at present surveying for a rail-
Iroad from Elkin to Sparta. ". c., pass
ing Stone Mountain. one OF the largest
masses OF granite in thu world
Concord Tribune: Bishop A. Coke
Smith will dedicate the new Methodist
lchurch at Mt. Pleasant on Sunday, No
lvember Is, tine Sunday before the meet
ing Of the annual conference at Mon
roe.
i'm the city Wednesday afternoon with
his little daughter who was bitten on
the nose Tuesday morning by a cat.
lShe was taken to Squire Lehman and
a maidstone applied. The accident oc-
lcurred at the home az Mr.. Smith at
tGuilford College.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: Mr. Lindsay
Patterson, of Winston. is spoken of for
the republican candidate for thief JUS
itice of the state. Patterson is a good
man and an honorable. clever, pleasant
gentleman, but he wouldn't make much
lof a u on the republican ticket-it
isn't his place, properly.
Fayetteville Observer: 1t was re-
Ipoil leu Oi I1dSiIlOunt last hight ludl
1.-THE band Of robbers had been surround
led but they proved to be tramps. and
all made off in the woods. The sneak
robbers ave left his vicinity. They
were evidently tram;'s and will no
doubt Soon come to grief.
Kinston Free Press: Mr.. Arthur
Cherry Of this place and Mr.. G. NJ.
Wooten Of Fit. Barnwell. Craven county,
have enlisted in the United States army
lat the recruiting station III Kinston,
Uncle Sans fighting jsckies are being
considerably strengthened from this
VICINITY, as quite a number have n
listed here recently.
News and Observer. A letter has
been received at the AdJutant Generals
loffce inviting North Carolina to send
companies to Fort Riley, Kansas, next
month to the military manoeUvreS there
lOf course, no company a go from this
state since there is no provision for
lpaying the expenses, but it is possible
that some officer from the state guard
will attend.
Elizabeth City Ia Heel: The seven
teen year locust has mad its appear
lance in the fertile fields of ~PdSquotank.
lOnly the advance guards have appear
led but already one can almost hear the
thrumming of an army, eXcelling in
number the house fly n mosquito. This
unwelcpme visitor resembles the ordi-
mary locust in color and in noise but
any child will tell you that his size is
almost double that OF the fellow who
lcomes with us annually.
Kinston Free Press: The thermome-
ter went up again Friday to 104. This
makes the third time This summer it
has been this high.-The farmers from
NEARLY all the sections in this vicinity
lrandor faI-nra h1o rpnor+S nf the cr0DC
but all "a that they are needing rain
very badly. The prospects Tor a large
yield of tobacco, cotton. corn n other
farm products are brighter than they
lhave been for years.
Mount Airy News: Mr.. John 7. Hoyie
better know as JOIN Nick of Kings
Mountain, while visiting relatives near
fleetwood, Cleveland county, committed
suicide Monday afternoon by shooting
himself with a rifle. No cause is known
for the act. His health had not been
(good for some time. He was formerly
a Baptist minister but had ecently
Joined h Methodist church. He was
not, however, a minister in that church.
Pender Chronicle: What will be the
loutcome of the present agitation, along
educational lines, instituted in North
carolina. by Governor Aycock and our
foremost educators, cannot now De
IlOISSc6H. Let, IL Is d S6ll-cNldSlI lIulH
THAT the present educational conditions
lin the state warrant the agitation;
flor our present public schools with
1.-THE possible exception Of the graded
schools in the cities fall far short of &C
comprising the objects for which they
were intended. This state yet remains
the most illiterate in the whole union.
Charlotte News: According to a state
Iofficial at Raleigh who has been doing
a little figuring, the negroes Of the state
i'm 1900 paid into the school fund s19. S02
las tax on property and $SS,731 tax on
lpolls and they received that year from
the state $214, 900 for school teaching and
l$9,493 for school houses; in other words
THAT the negroes piad One-tenth of the
takes and received one-fouIth of the
appropriation for public schools. The
same official figures that since 1873 the
whites of North Carolina a paid out
S., 3S1 ,633 for the education OF the negro
in public schools. Ans the white man
has borne the burden unc~omplainingly.
Charlotte Observer: Il saw some
thing yesterday WHICH would have
pleased the most violent Bostonian race
Equality proclaimer," said a Charlotte
imam who returned to the city last night
l"It was a base ball game between a
white team on the on side and colored
players on the other. II was at a mill
NV hcAA AAtAiS tOA OANA
llotte, and when I passed the grounds
the whites were at the bat. 1t seems
that there were not enough white play
lerS present to make III two Mines, and
lit was Saturday afternoon, n a ball
game just had to be pulled off. hence
the unusual scene.
Washington Gazette: A more discon-
ISOLATE set Of men cannot be found any,
where than the farmers We met in town
yesterday. Every n we met was suf-
lfering from a genuine attack of the
blues. They tell us w weeks age the
prospect was the largest crop of corn
ever raised in Beaufor- county would be
harvested this year. Now on account Of
the continued dry weather. the fodder
i'm some places or corn that had not
Itasseled was ripe enough to pull. In
some places the wells are 80 low it is
impossible to get drinking water, es-
lpecially for stock. and the bear and
other wild animals are leaving the
iswamps and taking to the highland in
search Of water, and are playing hav-
loc with pigs. Unless there Is rain in