The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-11
NORTH CAROLINA.

Chatham Record Our state consti-
tuition (Article II, section % requires
every of the senate to be not
less tnan twenty-five years Of age"
One or the republican nominees for the
senate (Mr. H. G. Dorsett) Is only
tWenty-three years old and Is therefore
Tina makes no difference.
however, for Of course nobody had any
fdea Of his being elected.
Mount Airy leader: B.. ". Holcomo.
the popular butcher, had an unusal
experience in h butcher business last
saturday nigt, in which he was decid-
~ n iooser. He has a stock pen just
outside the city, and some one wen:
there last Saturday night and butcher
ed a fine hog without consulting the
owner. After dressing the animal, the
thief very generously left the owner
the half OF the hog, only taking the
hams.
In the news columns OF this paper To-
day appears an count Of he trial, in
the police court this morning OF a
butcher in the Raleigh market on the
charge of exposing for sale rotten meal
that had beer condemned by the mar
ket Inspector. While this specific
charge was not proved, to the satisfac-
ton of the mayor, ii was proved beyond
a doubt hat over one thousand pounds
of beef was condemned by the market
inspector here last Saturday, and that
over two hundred pounds of that meat
had been exposed for sale in the city
marhet-"unfit for human food" as the
Physician, the market inspector, the
sanitary officer and half a dozen other
witnesses swore to.
Greensboro Record, Oct. 4.-Out at
the State Normal and Industrial col-
lege every body is hard at work ar
ranging for the opening of h institu
ton Thursday. The new dorm1tory TO
take the place of the one destroyed by
fire last January is about finished aid
the furniture is being installed by a
large force OF labOrers. the uildl
is a mammoth structure, measuring
1872 feet long and over 100 feet deep. 1t
is two stories high and has every con-
Venience. The u ladies began ar
irving today, but the most OF them will
reach here tomorrow. The train from
the east tomorrow evening Will have
several extra coaches attached to
transport the hundreds of young ladies
to this city.
Kinston Free Press: Jim Crow" the
big fire engine horse which the city dis
posed OF last week because he had be-
come useless from disease, was traded
to the circus and yesterday when hitch
ed to a wagon. with five other large
horses. he looked like the equine king
that re is. But before going thirty
yards the old fellow dropped in the
streets. showing that his race was run.
One of the hemmorrhages which a
him valueless to the town occurred
Kinston Free Press: Yesterday was
q record breaker in receipts at the dis
pensary. There was $7S2.5O worth o.
booze dispensed" inc no doubt this
amount would have been greatly in
creased if every one who wanted to
could have made purchase after the
circus in the evening. The receipts for
last Saturday were the next highes-
$44S,S.
Charlotte Chronicles: The vital stat
iSticS on Charlotte, for September,
show hat during that month there
were but Il deaths among the white
population and IA among the colored,
making a total of % out OF a popula-
ton of 10000. Further, two of these
deaths were due to old age, and nine
to inanition, which brings the number
OF deaths attributed to disease down
to Is. That Is a health record OF which
any community might well be proud.
Monroe Journal: Little John, the five
rear old son Of Mr.. II. NJ. Nicholson,
of Wingate for some time had a great
lea of pain in the head with offensive
nasal discharges, as if there were an
internal sore. He was treated for ca
tarrh but got worse. The little fellow
suffered fearfully. A few mornings
ago the cause of all the trouble was
found out. In a fit of suffering a cotton
seed was discharged from the nose.The
seed had been gotten in two years ago,
k,,k 90 %hA %;-,n Ahn r0nt D,,- a.
had been gotten out, and so never at
trfbuted the trouble to it at all. "rhG
little fellow is now getting well.