The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-02
NORTH CAROLINA.

OAA(C mere Was uOlllCu yes
.erday morning by Deputy Surles that
ne mad captured near Dunn, in Har-
nett county, one Of the largest oon
SHINE stills he had ever seen.
Tarboro Southerner: Two negro men
from shooting craps began shooting
each other Sunday in Rocky Mount.
one was shot in the neck and the other
IN the abdomen; both proved to be
seriously wounded and both are in the
ospita at that place
Charlotte Observer: So Mecklen-
burg has crept to the top. The re-
turns OF taxes to the state auditor
show the county's taxable values to be
$14,179,O27, against 81, n7,44 in 1902,
about 800, 600 in excess of the values OF
Wake, the next highest county. The
record Is a good and gratifying one.
New Bern Journal: The shoofy
SENS to have been the victim of a
combination OF accidents Saturday.
The derailment occurred near Newport
In the morning. On the trip to Colds
boro in the evening the cylinder head
blew out OF the engine at a point
between LAGRANGE and Goldsboro.
Another engine was sent up to assist
the train to Goldsboro.
Newbern Journal: Sunday was the
last Sabbat of Rev.~. H. Ricn's pas
tOrate over the First Baptist church.
He will spend a few days at Morehead
and Beaufort and later will go to
Richmond, where he will supply the
Leigh Street Baptist church during the
month OF August. He will assume his
duties as pastor of the Baptist church
in Salisbury, September 4th.
Greensboro Telegram: Quite a rip
pie of excitement was caused in hotel
and real estate circles yesterday morn
ing when ii became known that the
Guilford and Benbow hotels on and
after next Saturday would b. under
the management of Cobb n Fry who
for some months have been managing
the Guilford alone. The papers have
been duly executed and the new lessees
of the Benbow will take charge on the
day mentioned.
GastOnia Gazette: A Chinese whole
sale merchant named Guam Hin, from
New York, was dropped here Sunday
morning by the Southern railway. He
was on his way to Jacksonville to help
out Of trouble a cousin who has been
arrested for lack of a certificate"
At Charlotte he had got shifted off his
route. He was as mad as a wet hen
and talked of suing the road when he
gets back safe in New York again.
The Southern too him back to Char
lotte on the evening train.
Charlotte Observer: Because a lamp
trimmer had been put on the car line
and given a better run han they had,
five motormen and conductors in the
employ of the 4Cs yesterday quit work
leaving their cars at a standstill until
extra men could be gotten to them.
The 4Cs. claim that there was no in
justice 10 the men who quit work be-
cause the man had formerly been on a
car on the best run and that yesterday
he simply resumed his old run otter
having worked in another department
a few months.
Reidsville Review: Railroad men
Say that the present week will wind
nu the best part of shipments of Geor
gia peaches. For some time an aver
age of eight to ten sections of peach
trains have passed through here daily.
Most Of them were shipped from Geor-
gia. There were II to Is cars to the
section. so that anywhere from 100 to
$50 loads of peaches passed through
mere daily. These trains were eQuipp-
ed with powerful engines and were run
as sections of Nc. 80, one of the South
ern's fastest passenger rains They
made regular passenger time.
Greensboro Record: There is one
less ''bobbing' car on the line now.
The trucks, as stated, arrived some
days ago and car No. 8 was the first
to be fitted UP with a double truck. 1t
was brought out from the barn at Z
O'Clock yesterday afternoon and was
operated until midnight. 1t runs like
a top and glides along as smoothly as
a man ON skates, no bobbing, springing
and jumping. The truck is a peculiar
looking affair-one large and one small
wheel on each one. but it answers the
purpose and the smaller wheel being in
fr0nt all tho fima If &c said there iG
less liability to jump the track than
with the larger wheel.
Kinston Free Press: Al shrewd
scheme was baked by a merchant in
the city a day or two ago. The mer-
chant has chewing gum and wrapped
in with the gum are numbers, which
If guessed correctly by the purchaser
he gets a prize. "A negro bought one
and failing to get a prize kept his
number and returning some time later,
bought another, guessing the second
time h number taken from the first
package. He opened the package and
presented the first number, dropping
the one from the last package on the
floor. The merchant was attracted by
the negro's guilty air and came around
the counter and found the right num-
Der taken from the package on the
floor. The negro ran off.
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. J. w.
Bolton who was committed to Jail
for ten days by Magistrate Mclean
for contempt, was discharged by that
magistrate two hours later. Mr.. Boil
ton was Kept in custody by Sheriff
Marsh. on the advaice of his attorney,
who said that the commitment was not
properly made out, as in contempt
cases the act Of contempt must be
specified in writing and attached to
the commitment, which was not done
in this case. About 4 o'clock Magfs-
trate Mclean held a conference with
b sheriff, Mr.. Bolton and come OF
MIR. Bottoms friends, and shortly af-
Rewards it was given out that an am
Scable understanding had been reached
and Mr. . Bolton discharged. Magis-
trate Mclean, when seer by an OBJ