The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-05

.FAYETTEvHLE NEWS LETTER.
New Cotton Mill Projected-Sentence
OF Death Afirmed-A Christian
WOman's DeathALve News and
Personal Comment.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial TO The Messenger.)
Fayetteville. n. c.. March 31-Cap-
tain D. II. Graves, OF the well known
cotton firm of Borden. went up to Selma
yesterday. where a meeting was held
of property-owners and capitalists TO
organize a company for the erection OF
a cotton mill The sum of $50. 900 has
already been subscribed, and this IL is
expected to increase to $4,000. Selma
is well situated for the enterprise, with
excellent railroad facilities and good
tributary flaming n cotton country.
The brick structure is nearly complet-
ed on North Bloun street for the sub
station of the Cape Fear Electric Power
Company. the system of poles and wires
has been placed, and the apparatus
Will soon be installed.
The Supreme court has affirmed the
Judgment of the lower court in the
case OF State VS.. Mann from this coun-
ty. Mann is a negro who killed anoth-
er negro, Mcneil. at Goodwin, in the
northeastern part OF the county last
summer. He was tried, convicted and
sentenced to be hanged at the fall term
OF Superior court. and this decision OF
the Supreme court makes it likely that
Cumberland VIII o o have another ex-
ecution.
The death of Mrs. Warren Carver,
aged about 60 years. at the old FANNY
homestead in Pearce's Mill township,
remove from life a truly good woman.
a member of the Presbyterian church.
tor whom many who enjoyed her
friendship and felt her kindness will
mourn. The remains were inferred in
the family burying ground.
Mr.. G. d. Sedberry, of the drug firm
of Messrs. Sedberry's Son has bought
the Mcdonald place in East Fayette-
Vile, a tract of about % acres, and
will engage largely in the cultivation
of berries. lettuce ard other vegetables.
Mr.. J. h. Young, who has been for
some time the efficient lineman Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
at this place, and who has made him.
self muck liked in Fayetteville, has
k a position at Lynchburg. Va,
n left yesterday to enter on his new
duties.
Miss Roxie NJ. Dodd has bought the
valuable lot on Green street just north
Of ther residence of Captain r. A. South
erland, II intends building there a
handsome residence during the sum-
mer.
In the Superior court yesterday af-
ternoon, in the case of ]. j. Mallard VS..
Atlantic Coas Line Railroad Company,
plaintif took a non suit on the ground
of co~ntrlbutory negligence-that he
a undertaken {. certain work without
adequate force to accomplish it.
A successful and observant Cumber-
land farmer expressed the opinion to
the correspondent today that the cot
ton crop in this county will be largely
increased in acreage this year, and hat
the cultivation of tobacco. certainly in
his neighborhood, would be reduced.
Mr.. F. X. Borden, of Goldsboro, dis
trlct manager of the Southern Cotton
Oil Company. was here yesterday on
business.
Mr.. w. Hampton Smith, we'll known
in Wilmington, son of Captain J. c.
Smith. formerly of the steamer Comp
ton, has been made health officer of this
city. and will enter on his duties to-
morrow.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. F. r. Rose,
secretary of the chamber of commerce.,
received q telegram from Congressman
Patterson, stating that the chairman
of the Congressional I'M on
Public Buildings was absent from
| Washington, and there could be no
hearing tomorrow of the chamber of
committee on a public build
ing for Fayetteville.
Mr.. w. r.. Smyre. government in
spector of immigration at Norfolk, Va,
has been visiting Fayetteville for the
past day or two.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ. Cooke, who have
been the guests of DR.. and Mrs. T. D.
iho3oh VII Aiay AiN'ohb ~
Bayowne. n. j.
Mrs. f. J.. Lilly and children have re-
turned from a visit to Judge and Mrs.
j. G. MacRae at Chapel Hill.
Mr.. Charles Faucette, of New York,
is the guest of Mr.. w. NJ. Morgan on
Haymount.
Should the sentence Of the lower
court be carried out in the case of the
negro Mann there will have been six
executions in Cumberland county since
the war, Richard Lee. q small, black
negro. but a giant in nerve and
strength, was hung in 1874, while the
late r. w. Hardie was sheriff. He was
a desperate criminal, and by his own
confession deserved his fate. 1t was
a public execution in a field north of
town. with the Independent Light In
fantry in hollow square around the
gallows. In 1855. under the shrievalty
of the late Sheriff Neill Mcqueen,
Howard, white, and Gee and Mcneil,
negroes, were hung in front of a skirt
or woods south of town, at the same
time, on the same gibbet. the Indepen-
dent Light Infantry being agan the
military guard. While the late G. A.
Burns was sheriff Louis Council, ne
gro, was executed inside the Jail in the
upper corridor. The rope broke, and
the fearful ordeal of a second hanging
was necessary.
Fayetteville extends hearty welcome
to Mrs. A. S. Holden and Misses Hol-
den. who this week join Mr.. Holden
here, where he is manage OF the Ar
mour Packing Company.
Reduced Rates Via SeabOard Air Line
Railway.