The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-07
NORTH CAROLINA.

The first consignment OF cant2i0Upes
was received by the New Bern Produce
Company yesterday from NliFl.H3~oh.
The are exceptionally fine melons,
New Bern Journal.
some micreant cut the wires Of the
te1err0ne line to Rev. c.. w. Howard 5
Yesterday afternoon, in two places.
SUPERINTENDENT Cockrell says that it
has been done on this line half dozen
times. The guilty n should be found
out and punished.-KEnston Free
Press.
Charlotte Observer, July Is: Miss
COnvere Springs Jones, daughter Of
Colonel and Mrs. Hamilton c. Jones'
of this city, was married last night at
5 o'clock to Mr.. Charles Francis bTy-
ant. Of San Francisco. The
took place at the home Of Colonel Jones,
on East Avenue, and was witnessed
Only by the relatives and a few frlehdS
of the contracting parties.
Wadesboro Observation-Disclosures:
Rev. DR.. Gilbert Hig5s preached ms
first sermon here as rector OF the EplS-
cOpal church Sunday, and mad@ Z EeIS
fine impression. His p~arIshoIeis are
delighted with him. DR.. Hlgss Is dis
rector of the Episcopal churCn a.
Monroe and will live there until me
first of January, at when tiih3 II -
expected that he Will remove 10
WadesbOrO and occupy the reC-oIS
here. He will preach here on the nrSI
and third Sundays in each month anc
in Monroe on the SecoNu dh" uit
Sundays.
Solicitor Daniels has
from different parts of the county
and examined in accordance With ru-
mors and at the sanction of Judga
Shaw some fifteen witnesses TO fnd, II
possible. some ground for the idea that
the jurors in the Jones case were lamp
cred with. So far he has been unaole
tn secure evidence sufficient to indict
any one. We felt extremely sorry
for the father and wife of one Of the
Jurors this morning. The wife FAINT
ed at her home when she heard OF the
proceedings. and his father hurried
his son away from toWn.-NISon
Times.
Milton Johnson, colOred. killed one
of the largest snakes We have seen lof
some time on Monday. He was Hsh-
ing in a small pond near his noIh1'
about two miles from Rocky Mount
when he saw what he thought was d
black log in the water. Later ne saw
it move and hen jump. Then ne saw
it was d huge water mOccasin. he Sc
sured a pole and attacked the snake
with all his might. After q nght OF
more thar thirty minutes he succeed
ed in dispatching his snakeshIp. FROM
actual measurement the snake proved
to be five feet long and ten lncnes
wround the largest part of its body
Johnson found that the reptile nad
swallowed two large bull frogs, Whlcf
were alive when released from tht
snake.-Rock Mount Motor.
The receipts in h office of Inter
nal Revenue Collector Bowling at El'
close of business yesterday Afternoon
at 5 O'Clock showed that Uncle SAN
did a thriving business here nuflii'
the month of June. The recelpts IL
cash were larger by over eleven thou
sand dollars than during the mont!
of NAV. The business done last mont
showed cash receipts [
S1342 S2. Is. In addition to TINS IN
office did u large export business ina
- rot counted in the cash business Q
the government During May the re
.ceipts were $123, 1911. At the close 9
business yesterday afternoon hot ohl
did it close for the month out close
the fiscal year. to-day being the mrs
,1s-- of the new year in the inferno
l-evenue department. The books sho'
that Durham contributed larger! t
wards running the government q
Denses the receipts being aoout
million and a half of money III cds
The exact uSuTeS lOI bHS SN"
en- as being S1.473 ,424.S1 in cool cash.
Durham Herald.
The law suit between the city sen"
.pmmittee of ASheVille and the couIl
hoard of education was settled JeSte
day. The suit itself was simple o
its settlement was Il delicate and som
what complicated affair. Inc COZ
DIaint by the city school COMMUTE
alleged that the county board hau Il
turned over to it the pro rata pa
of the county school fund which car
to the county board from the i
taxes. and asked that the county Urea
,Irer as treasurer of the school fund
anioined from paying out any Of t
eund in his hands. This inIunctl
was issued but dissoled by request
the parties concerned at the last tel
OF court. The county board ADM
ted that it owed the city commi
several thousand dollars OF which
had paid So. 800. but could not pay I
rest because it did not have I
money. On the other hand the couI
hoard had tied up in the cltys mar
the fines collected by the police CO.
of Ashville. one the ground that 81
fines belonged to the county educate
al fund. The settlement made "
thus: The city consented tnaI
county board have $500 of MS III
anon giving bond that it should De
turned to the city in case 1t was ma
adiudged to belong to the city.
board then turned this money over
the city committee. This make 81
the board has paid the city commit
surgical Operation
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