The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-23
NORTIl

Of poems by Miss Lucille Armfield, OF
High Point, just issued. The contents
deal largely with North Carolina his |
tory and the book is Of much interest
and merit on which the authoress is to |
be complimented.
Greensboro Telegram. MI. T. J..
Finch, whom the democrats of Ran
dolph nominated for sheriff last Sat
urday, was in the city today. He says
the democrats are reasonably sure Of
carrying the county in November. The
republican majority of last election is
considerably less than the number of
colored voters who will be disqualified
this year.
Monroe Journal, Sept. 16: There Will
be a meeting 1t Sandy Ridge school
house, Buford township, Thursday
night to discuss plans for uniting the
district with New Hope and getting up
a local tax district to run a school six
months All the people OF the two dis
tricts are asked to attend. Buford IS
about to take the lead. The other town.
ships must bestir themselves.
Kinston Free Press: Among the pos
sible industries of Lero OR county is
that Of raising English walnuts. An
old colored woman has a tree from
which she sells several dollars worth
every year, and there are others who
have these trees that are bearing and
maturing nuts. This is an expensive
branch of agriculture and might be
conducted to great advantage as there
is always great demand for these nuts
at a good price.
The Washington Gazette-Messelger:
Sheriff Hodges for the eleventh time has
been honored by his party with the
nomination for Sheriff and if elected,
and he will be, and lives to see the end
of his term, will have occupied the Of
flee for twenty-five years. He sur
passes the state record. During all
these years he has been the same faith
full painstaki1g official. Everyone is
his friend, democrat, republican and
pOpulist speak in high terms of him.
He is a model officer, a popular citizen,
a high toned Christian gentleman.
Durham Herald: Taken as a whole
the carnival was a success. The
steady rains of the first two lays made
the business small for Monday and
Tuesday. Since then, however, there
has been a rush and it is learned that
the amount of business done was all
that could be asked fOr-being entirely
satisfactory to all concerned. The
shows are all moral and clean and
worth the admission prices charged.
There is no reason why there should
not be a large attendance at a town.
Elizabeth City Tarheel: When Jailer
Gum fed the prisoners in the county
Jail late Thursday afternoon seven ne
grOeS were secure in the lower tier of
steel cells. Friday morning one of
those negroes was missing. The steel
cage is intact and a gaping hole in the
brick wall of the prison is the only clue
to his exit. The escaped convict is a
negro youth by the name of Charles
Morgan. How the negro made his exit
from the steel cells is and may ever, re-
main a mystery; as all of the prisoners
claim to know not how and when he
departed.
Wadesboro special to Charlotte OBJ
server: a most singular and horrible
accident occurred in the upper part of
this county early this morning. Messrs.
Charlie and Thomas Curlee, sons of D.
Curlee, Esq, went out to Richardson's
creek turkey hunting before it was
light. Thomas went up II the top OF a
tree to yelp up the birds, while his
brother was out on the skirts of the
forest. No knowing where his brother
was, Charlie ollowed the sound of the
%yelping, thinking it was a turkey and,
spying an object in the top of a tree,
fired at it. To his utter amazement
and horror he had shot his brother.
who fell to the ground and died almost
instantly. The surviving brother is
Frustrated with grief.
Charlotte Observer: Calvin Grier, the
negro who was run over by a freight
train in the Seaboard yards, as report
gu III yesterday > observer, Is DIT Tic
Good Samaritan hospital, with one foot
amputated at the instep and the other
above the ankle. Grier is a plaSterer.
In going through the train yard Satur-
day night he sat down with his back
against the cotton platform and his feet
across the track. Then he went to sleep
and was walked by the first train that
came along. to find his feet crushed.
The accident occurred at IL o'clock at
night. 1t was not until 80 in the
morning that the negro was found by
Officer Crowell, who was attracted to
the spot by the groans of the injured
man
Durham Herald: w. g. Rogers,
charged with attempt to commit rape,
was arraigned in the police court Sat
urday morning. No evidence was il
reduced and he plead guilty to a
charge of simple assault. For this Of
tense he was fined So and cost. 1t is
learned that the Misses Mooney who
made the complaint against Mr.. Rog-
ers, did not want to go on the stand
n tell what they knew about the
case. For this reason the charge was
changed from assault with intent to
commit ape to a simple assault. At
ter looking into the case the mayo
decided that there was not sufficient
evidence to send over to the higher court
and the plea of simple assault was &C
cepted. Mr.. Rogers paid the amount
of the fine and cost and left later III
the day for his home in Henderson,.
ASheville Citizen: Every ~precaution
was taken by the Southern railway in
the handling of the presidents train.
Every mile of track between Asheville
n Salisbury, a distance of 141 miles,
was patroled just previous to the train
passing over it; all station agents were
instructed to inspect the condition of
the track at their respective stations
Immediately before the arrival of the
presidents train, special men were sta
toned at all block switches and sec
ton forces along the entire line ordered
to patrol the track. On the noXv
division a pilot engine was sent out but
this was thought unnecessary on the
ASheville division and every precau-
ton had been taken to prevent an ac-