The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-09
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he will be in the eighth district in 1904.
and that lit is not improbable that he
will do this"
CIarkton Express: The negro WI
Iams who killed another negro in Car
vers Creek township about two years
ago. has been caught at last at Balm
bridge. Ga. Sheriff Lyon left yesterday
for cambridge. and Will return with
the negro the last OF the week
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. J. ]. Cross
well, the popular route agent OF -"
Southern Express ever alive
t. the interests OF shippers in this te:-
ritory. and of the people Of Fayetteville,
has added an extra two horse express
wagon in Fayetteville, solely for the
purpose of collecting lettuce for express
shipment.
Monroe Journal: In this year Of
scarcity of hogs the loss of any kind
of a shote is bad enough, but such a
loss as Mr.. VI. a. Griffin, propr etnr Of
the Richardson Creek herl Of Berkshire
hsgs, sustained a Few days ago. is
doubly sc. \ fine imported rog Of his.
worth 500, died Of blind stagsers.
Salisbury Truth December 2.----~
day afternoon the first snow OF the
season fell here. For a while things
looked as though we were in for a hari
storm. but there vas a sudden change
and the snow and buster was all over.
It has been remarked that il is just 4
little peculiar that we should have snow
this year before a hard frost.
Winston Sentinel. Seven others Of
Centreville were arraigle1 before May
or Vance Monday r,ght tOr refusing %
be vaccinated. Five Of Their. submitted
and with an officer they went direc. 10
the office Of DR.. Shaftrer, WEo proceed
ed TO put virus in their arms. The 9TH
er two gases will be hear in q day or
two If the parties are nOI vacciIated-
Durham Herald December 1T re-
quired less than two hours TO try aui
convict Monroe Rockers, the house burn
en-, yesterday morning. The jury was
out twenty or twenty-five minutes, but
it * understood that an agreement c
reached soon after going into the jury
room. Sentence will probably be pase'l
this mOrning.-The rush of tobacco on
the market here yesterday was the
largest his year and that is saying
much. 1t was probably the largest IL
many years
Greensboro Record: Miss Louise
Branch, of Asheville, who spent three
months in Greensboro this fall holding
Il position in republican state head
quarters, has been appointed to a posi-
ton in The Asheville pOstOffce. Just
wha the duties of the new appointee
wall De nave not yet DGeH ueIlIeu- DIS the
place is a new one recently created by
senator Pritchard. The appointment
dates from December 1st. Miss Branch
has Tor Il number of years been q lead
ing light in affairs social in the Queen
City Of the Mountains, being considered
one q the most graceful dancers in the
state
SaII-)ury Sun What was once a new
locomotive, but is now nothing but a
IL 90 rrn h~nr n -
the Spencer shop yesterday 1t was the
remains OF the engine No. 30 which
was in the S~partanburg wreck Il few
days ago, in which disaster the fireman
was killed and Engineer ALI Solomon
had such 4 miraculous escape from
death. The engine was placed in the
shops here to be ~overhauled and it will
require the building of almost Il new
locomotive to put her in running order
again. The most that could he sail or
it is to say that it was barely able to
move or, rather, to be moved. Only
the trucks and a part of the boiler were
left to tell the tale of the disaster.
StatesviIle Landmark: Some weeks
1go a movement which is designed o
secure the abolition of the liquor traffic
in Iredell county was inaugurated in
Statesvtlle. 1t is proposed % to ask
the Legislature to pass an act TO ~
hibit the manufacture and sale OF liquor
in the count outside of the town 4
StatesviIle, and (2) to pass an act au-
thorizing an election to be held in
StatesviIle on the 10Th of next March TO
determine whether the sale of liquor IL
this town shall be prohibited. Peti-
tiOnS asking for the passage of
acts are being circulated and 1t i
ders tJod that they are being numerous
j signed.
New Bern Journal: Sunday evening,
tho
Neuse river, observed two young men
in a sail boat which had apparently
come out of Hancock creek, on the OPP
posite side of the river, trying to make
the shore. One was doing the sailing,
the other bailing out the boat, and both
boat and men shortly afterwards disan-
peared from sight. The water was
dragged later on, but nothing was
found. neither was there anything visi-
BILE of boat o. contents. While nothing
could he learned last night, as
thought that the occupants of the boat
were Cain and Abel Powell, who live
near CrOatan, and who were in the habit
of crossing the Neuse river to visit on
the east shore.
Charlotte Observer: AT the congre-
gational meeting of st. Peters Episco-
pal church Monday night il was decid-
ed TO ask the Diocesan convention TO al
low the women of the church TO vote
in the church elections. The request
will be new, it is said. in the history of
the Episcopal church in this state. In
Georgia and in some other states women
are allowed 10 vote in church elections.
but not in North Carolina.-Mrs. NJ.
4. Kizziah died of smallpox at the pest
house early yesterday morning. Sever
al days ago Mrs. Kizziah, in a delirium.
escaped from the pest house and spent
almost an entire night in the woods
near by This exposure to the weather
no doubt caused or at least FASTENED
her death. Mrs. Kizziah was the wife
of Mr.. NJ a. Kizziah. the shoemaker.
on North College street