The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-08
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
NORTH CAROLINA.

New Bern Journal: Will Riggs o
Pamlico caught the first white shad
a fine buck, on October 31st. This j!
ahead Of the usual date for the catct
of early shad.
News and Observer: The Upchurci
property, on Mcdowell street next te
the Park Hotel, has been purchased
by Mr. Howell Cobb, lessee Of the Var
borough House, owner of the Park Ho-
tel, for 5000. BY this purchase he also
OBTAINS the alley opening on Martin
street back Of the hotel. The property,
it is understood. will be used in plans
developing the hotel.
Kinston Free Press: Rev. c.. S.
Churchill has accepted the pastoriate
of the Free VIII baptist church IN this
city and will hereafter conduct ser
vices the first and third Sundays in
each month having appointments at
two churches in the country the other
Sundays. MIR. ChurchilI's family, which
is now at Fayetteville, will join him this
week or the first of next week and they
will make this their home.
Monroe Journal: MI. T. J.. Gordon,
of west Monroe township takes the
banne as a corn grower. He had this
year 80 acres of bottom corn which
good judges estimated would make
from so to 100 bushels per acre. He has
measured the corn from one and one
eighth acres and finds that it pro-
duced 12O bushels. Mr.. Gordon thinks
that this vas his best acre, but was
NOT greatly ahnvya tho oIrara 90 ThpSa
figures are, from actual measurements
of the land and the corn.
Durham Herald: Hon. R. B. Glenn
spoke at the Academy Of Music last
night. He psoke to about fifteen hum
dred people. The seats were all filled.
There were about s~eventy-five or nj
hundred people standing and some six
ty or more on the rostrum and in boxes.
Fifteen hundred is a conservative es-
innate of the crowd. The speaker was
suffering from hoarsenesS and apollo
gized in the beginning HI asked that
the audience remain as quiet as posi-
BILE on this account He spoke for an
hour and three quarters and the re-
ception given him was enthusiastic.
There was frequent applause and much
enthusiasm. There is no doubt but
that the speech made votes for the
cause Of democracy in the county.
TaTboro ESoutherner: Preparations
to move the monument of General
Louis d. Wilson to the commons have
begun. Today the remains which have
been resting for half a century in
the family burial plot on the farm
about seven miles from here, now own
ed by Mrs. William Redmond, were dis
inferred and brought here and rebur-
led in the town on the west
side of main street and between that
street and the graded school. General
Wilson as is well known died en- route
to he Mexican war. His remains were
brought back and were first inferred
in the cemetery wherein is now located
ake Presbyterian church and later NOV
ed to where the committee have just
.disinterred them. The coffin was found
ito have been constructed of wood and
lined with metal, and all the interior
space, not occupied by the corpse, filled
with charcoal. The wood had all ROT
ted away and the acids and oxidation
effects of earth and water had eaten
holes into the metal. The upper por-
ttion was easily lifted up and only part
sof the skeleton was to be seen, a few
bones and nothing more, save the teeth.
which were in a seemingly perfect State
of preservation.