The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-06
NORTH

J2SI 1uli Oh DUCKS anu geese, duQ SSESIdI
parties from the north are making
Hunting Quarters their head quarters
fer the winter.
Kinston Free Press: Mr.. Geo. l. Kirk
patrick says most OF the cotton in this
county has been sold. Not a bale has
been sold on the Kinston market since
last Tuesday, and this morning there
was hardly any prospect OF a bale be-
ing sold today. Five or six n
bales. he says, are still being held in the
~Ormondsville and Ridge Spring sections
OF Greene county.
Fayetteville Observer: MIR. George
Otis. special correspondent Of the Wall
Street Journal, N. Y, spent today in the
eaty and left this afternoon for Will
Mington. He is on his way home from
the Bankers Convention at New Or
beams. Kr. Otis was driven around the
city an visited the silk mills, the cot
ten factories. the oil mill. the wharf Of
the Fayetteville and Wilmington Steam
boa Company. and other interesting
manufacturing and industrial institu-
lions. He was profoundly impressed
with Fayetteville and also with the
great possibilities of the place as a
manufacturing centre.
Wilson News, Dec, Goth: Mr.. J.. E.
Johnson, who has just returned from a
weeks vacation, spent with his parents
at Teacheys, in Duplin county, says the
strawberry growers in that vicinity are
reapIng an unusual harvest. Wonder
full as 1t may seem, these fortunate peo-
pie are gathering and shipping the finest
strawberries ever known in their his
tory. Mr.. Johnson says he had them or
the able at every meal, n for delicacy
OF flavor and richness of appearance,
the beat all he had ever seen The
oTnyuarG a-n ShininnD from piOht RI ten
bushels a day and the berries sell read
lily in the northern markets at S1.O TO
81 per quart
c. A. Matthews in Charlotte News:
Colonel H. c. Eccles of the BufOrd hotel
remarked to me the day after Christ
mas that he had never, during his long
stay in Charlotte. witnessed such an or
DERBY Christmas day as last Thursday.
There was less bOis~terousness; less
drunkenness and. in fact. less r~6wdyism
than at any like period in the history Of
Charlotte so fas as he could remem-
Der. The opinion OF Colonel Eccles is
shared in by all. irrespective of local
political feelings. Can any one guess
the cause of the splendid order that pre-
vailed in Charlotte last Thursday?
Would any one deny that the under
current Of moral sentiment that per-
vades this city, had a great dea to do
with 1t? l do not believe there is a m a
IN Charlotte who will lake issue with
me or attempt to contradict the above
statement
Charlotte Observer: Zettia McCorkle,
4 young white man, was before Record
ct ShannonhOuse yesterday morning,
charged with the deseC-ation of the
Oliyet Baptist church, On West Trade
street. hcCorkle. in company with
Dick Hatch, another white boy, went
e tho nbIrrph Uo6nnc1aU niOht and
built a Ere in the stove and began to
celebrate with whisky peanuts and
sandwiches. They ere arrested by
Officer c.. L. TOrrence. The trial had
been postponed ORce on account of the
absence of Hatch, who has left the city.
After hearing the evidence in the case
the recorder sentenced McCorkle to a
term Of 80 days OF the gang. suspending
Judgment upOn the payment of a fine
Of $40 and costs. Hatch has left town,
but will be delt with when he returns
Gastonia Gazette: Last night at Ills
Captain B. N. Ormand W a hurled from
n top of his train, neal Lowell. and
was seriously hurt. At the place
known as AUNT James Crossing" be-
tween Gastonia and Lowell, his train,
the through freight. No. ~. become I'M
coupled. Captain Ormand and his flag
man. as soon as they learned this.
mounted the cars and applied brakes.
The engineer with the forward section
was plunging along toward Lowell.
Near Mr.. Policy Stroup's he Stacked up.
not knowing that the rear section was
~uncoupled. Then came the crash from
fhe rear. Cautain Ormand, was hurled
krom the top Of his car to the ground.
His scalp was cut from h forehead
around to one ear and the skin peeled
81 that it dropped down over the EYE
The brakeman was seriously injured in
.terRallY.
Durham Sun: The special committee
appointed by the Durham chamber Of
commerce. had d conference with Col
snei a. B.. Andrews, first vice president
OF the Southern Railway. in Raleigh,
saturday, relative to the union depot
question The committee were accorded
rather cold comfort. or to palmer state
1t, no encouragement at all. Colonel
Andrews said to them that nothing
would be done until the Peabody street
controversy was settled and his road
E1vea that street. h Is the same
position that Colonel Andrews has held
for years, and on one o two occasions
before this said the same thing. Colonel
Andrews would not so much as agree
for his road to even build a depot COM
mensurate with the travel to and from
Durham and the business Importance
q the city. To go further. he would
mot even consider the erection of n shed
oyer the passenger platform.
Kinston Free Press: While a crowd
OF young colored boys were out cunning
yesterday. Ed Dixon q small hUnchback
darky who peddles fish for Mr.. G. D.
Wade, at LaRoQue's n shot SCipiO
Locks, another diminutive specimen of
the oolOred race, in what Dixon claims
TO have been Il peculiarly accidental
way. Dixon claims that he was remOv-
ing the shell from his gun 1t went
off, the whole load entering Locks left
shoulder and producing a dangerous If
not fatal wound. The other boys that
were along tell a different tan-that
Locks had enraged Dixon by s~lurringly
calling him Il hunchback. and that he
shot Locks p~urposely. However, Locks
wound developed so dangerously last
night hat the attending physician adj
vised the Arrest and holding of Dixon
To await future results, which was done
by Policeman BrinSon this morning.
and Dixon is now in jail.-The re-
eeipts. both passenger n freight. at
the Atlantic and North Carolina depot
during the past year nearly doubled
those of the preceding yeaC.