The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

Many ThinE. OF Local and state
interest.

Correspondence of The Messenger)
Greensboro. y. c., September IL.
The Steel and Iron Works here ar al
ready to go to work. but cannot get the
ore to start up with. owing TO delay by
the Southern railway in laying track to
ore beds at Wilson Mills. Superinten-
dent Isaac Prosser has just returned
from there. where he has started up 4
! wagon train from the beds to the sta
ton hauling ore. though he kinks the
branch will be completed by the railroad
in a few weeks. He is very anxious to
get enough ore to justify putting in the
fires. Mr.. ProSser brought back with
him a curious piece OF ore, which was
dug up this week. 1t is a perfect turkle,
about twelve inches wide and Is inches
long. not counting tail. The head and
eyes are out, and the tail protrudes
from the shell, while only one foe and
| the claws are exposed. 1t looks exactly
like a cast iron varmint, only the tip OF
the tail Is slanted upwards. which DIR.
Prosser says would hay been impossi-
BILE in a mould. Besides" said he,
who in the world, way Jack yonder
the earth's formation, would nave want
ed to mould a turkle in the first place.
and how the-could he have got the
iron to have done it with before the
ore itself was grown, or fully formed,
and besides there were no stores or
museums out in the piney woods of
Johnson county that would make de-
mand for any such thing 400, 900 years
ago."
DR.. McIver left this morning for Ath-
ems, Ga, where tomorrow night with
Hoke Smith, DR.. Wallace Buttrick and
other distinguished men he will speak
before the assembled county school
superintendent of Georgia.
The local school tax carried in James
town district Of Jamestown township
yesterday by a majority of % votes.
This makes five districts in Guilford
voting for the school tax, viz: Green's
boro, High Point, Guilford college, De-
lane and jamestown, while petitions
asking for an election in a number of
others are out. Guilford started the
ball rolling years g and SO far has
kept ahead Of any other county in the
state along this line.
Mr.. F. NJ. Medairis, a highly esteemed
citizen, dropped dea of heart disease
in his yard at Summerfield late yester-
day afternoon. He was about sixty
years old. His son, Ira, and ~son-in-law
MI. F. NJ. Sheriff. and family, in bust
ness here, left Immediately on receipt
of the sad news last night.
Deputy Sheriff Weatherly this morn
ing arrested J. P. Barbe, white, for
cruelty to animals. Barbe is said to
have become enraged at his horse,
knocked him down in a ditch and was
belaboring him with a piece of fence
rail, when a passerby drove up and
made him stop.
Miss Ball, of this city, had her purse,
containing S22., snatched out of her
hand by a burly negro in two doors of
her home on Spring street last night
about s o'clock. The police have the
case in hand.
superintendent Z. H. Coapman, of
this division of the Southern, left last
night for Wisconsin to spend a short
while. When he returns he will be &C
companied by his wife.
The correspondent who wired that
5000 people saw President Roosevelt at
the depot here must have stopped at
several places on his way down. He
certainly could not have reached home
without help.
Three full blooded Cubans went OUT
to GuiIford college from here this morn
ing to enter school. They have the ap-
pearance of belonging to the Cuban
aristocracy, but only one of them could
speak English.
Judge T. A. Mcneil will hold the two
weeks term of Guilford superior court
for civil cases only, beginning next
Monday.