The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-24
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
NORTH CAROLINA.

arrangements are being made to
repair the CaswelI monument at Kin
sion. 1t will be remembered that the
was badly injured by the
great fire which occurred there in
1895. The state has appropriated
$1,000 toward the repairs.-New Bern
Journal.
There have been sixty-fve carloads
or fertilizer brought here this spring,
whereas only twenty-nine carloads
were shipped here last spring. This
acreage has been greatly increased
or the LAND this year Will be in a far
better state of cultivation thar ever
Decentralization Record.
The grand jury returned a true bill
this morning against John Reid and
Jones Moore for the murder of John
Rue. Solicitor Ward stated to the
court that he would only ask for a
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree. The trial begins Thursday
Observation-Disclosures Gazette-Mes-
senger, May 18th.
4 right severe hail and rain storm
struck the city about noon to-day,
doing considerable damage to young
plants of all kinds, it is feared. The
extent Of the damage cannot be deter
mined fully, but in the gardens in the
city, the plants are beaten down pref
ty badly. Some of the hail stones
were of the size of bird eggs and they
came thick and fast, one gentleman
remarking that a peck or more accu-
muIated on his back porch in a few
seconds.-Kinston Free Press, May
18th.
Secretary of State j. Bryan
Grimes, who has returned from a
WaaE'S yiSit RI Dift county Ga that
on account of the cold weather and
drought considerable cotton has not
come up and that the growth is very
slow. More damage is being done
tobacco and corn by the cut worm
than has ever before been known. He
m the decrease in acreage in
tobacco at from 40 to so per cent
News and Observer.
The excavations have been made
for the new cotton mill at Hudson,
says Mr.. Frank White, who came
down from Lenoir Saturday evening,
and everything is ready to begin lay
ing the foundations.-"'The tin fever
is still on the folks" said Mr.. H. l..
Ramseur, of Kings Mountain, yester-
day. Il was offered SIS an acre for
the tin-right on a piece of land L
have, IL 1 don't know whether there
is any tin on it or not to amount to
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gazette.
The Ayden Lumber company's en-
gine last Thursday pulled in as fine
a train of logs as one seldom sees.
One log measured at the butt five
feet and six inches, and it is es-
timated this log alone will furnish
not less than '2,209 feet of lumber.
The tree from which this cut was
taken furnished six cuts 16 sect in
length and readily yield more than
10000 feet, at present prices max
ing it worth $125. The Ayden Lum-
Der company is one of, if not the
largest in eastern Carolina and is
doing a thriving business.-Green-
vile Reflector.
men, Thomas Foil and Adam Poole,
Of this county, perpetrated a most
heinous crime on Lawson Josey, an
%iAnocent old white man. Josey was
drinking, and after mutilating him
with a pocket knife, he was left lying
and bleeding by the public road, where
ne was found Sunday morning. DR..
C. NJ. Poole was called and had to
resort to a most tedious surgical oper-
alton. His recovery is hardly to be
expected and his deposition has been
taken. He says that while one of the
men held him the other mutilated
him. Both Foil and Poole are in
Jail. though they express the convic-
ton that they will be released soon.
Salisbury Sun.
There is a strong possibility tina
the Norfolk and Southern railroad
will in the very near future, make
electricity the motive power instead
of steam. and instead Of operating
trains will use trolley cars. This in
formation is given out by a gentle
man well informed in the affairs Of
the Norfolk and Southern n who is
closely associated with the new presi-
dent, Mr.. 4. H. Finch. The company
have already received cars for use on
the line from Norfolk to Virginia
Beach and they are capable of maxi
ing a speed of so miles per hour. The
poles are already being placed, and
it IS expected that the line operating
between Norfolk and Virginia Beach
Will be operating trolleys by the time
the season opens. Just Why Mr..
Finch. who owns the Chesapeake
Transit should have pur-
chased the Norfolk and Southern has
not been clear to those who are versed
in railroad affairs, but it is now given
out that he did it in order to get the
Norfolk and Southern out OF the way
as a competitor and as to be able TO
make a belt line via Cape Henry and
back into Norfolk. AS soon a his
is completed, it is his intention to
make the whole line electric and oper-
ate the large cars to Elizabeth City
and Observation-Disclosures City Econo-
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