The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-03

Smithf1eld Herald: Recent rains have
greatly improved the crop conditions
throughout the county and the pros
pect was never more encouraging at
this season of the year.-Beware Of
the use of Paris Green. We are infor1:'-
ed that a little colored girl Of the town
has been at the point of death recently
on account of having ate apples that
had received an application Of the Dois-
on.
Alamance Cleaner A negro child, in
the southeast of town, is reported to
have been bitten by a mad dog a few
days ago. The victim went to Mr..
Stanford Murphy's and had a mad stone
applied.-A dog belonging to Mr.. A.
M. King, the fireman at Sidney Mills,
went mad Sunday and bit Mr.. King on
his arm. He went to Mr.. Pleas. Dix
on's, near Haw River, n had a mad
stone applied, which adhered to the
wound.
Dudley. S.. c., whose son, James Belk,
was killed by lightning On the 14th in
slant, an account of which we gave
last week, was in town yesterday and
told US that the crystal and whole face
Of the watch, which his son had In his
vest pocket when he was killed, was
melted, and that his knife was also
melted. A strange thing about the
young mans death is that at noon the
day before he was killed he wrote in a
book. Dear Mother:-After one more
day I will be better off,"
Mr.. H. c. Eccles says that one of
the pleasant incidents of his visit to
Winston-Salem was his meeting with
Senator Clark, of Montana He told
the senator of the gold mines Of Char
lotte and Mecklenburg county and at
once interested him in this section.
Mr.. Clark promised to make a trip to
Charlotte in the near future This was
his first trip south and he was much
interested in the country and people.
What he heard about the gold mines
! under the streets of Charlotte seemed
to nave caught mis- attention quite Sc
riously.-Charlctte Observer
Representative Blackburn, in whose
district Winston is situated, opposed
, the appropriation for that town. This
is probably tne only case on record
where an American representative ey-
er opposed an appropriation for his
own district. His opposition gave the
Republican members of the house con-
ference committee an excuse not TO
agree to the appropriation. Had he
heartily supported it, there is little
reason 20 doubt that the appropriation
for Winston would have been made
Washington Correspondent Of News
and Observer
Charlotte Observer: The sovereign
grand lodge edition of The Carolina
, Pythian. edited by Professor J. G. Baird
was issued from The Observer Printing
House yesterday. 1t contains an excel
lent illustrated sketch of Asheyille-
| where the Knights of Pythias grand
lodge viii meet On June 10th-and is in
| all respect an attractive, readable pub
lication.-The location OF the 800, 900
State Masonic building will be decided
upon at the meeting Of the grand lodge
at Oxford, June oath. The towns that
have made offers for the building are
Greensboro. Raleigh, Durham and Char
lotte. Charlotte's offer, which seems
to have been pretty generally mis-
understood-is that this city. or cit-
gems OF the town. viii take $4,000 OF the
preferred nontaxable 5 per cent. stock
and SIG. 900 In the non-p-eferred or COM
mon stock The offer really 70
a prefer Of a donation OF $10.000-em-
bodied in the taking Of the non-preferr-
ed stock