The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-10
THE BETHEL MONUMENT.
Daughters OF the Confed-
Moving i'm the Mafter-A Rail
on the .Blfnd Tiger-A Cook shot
by Coiorcd Driver-News and Per-
sonaI Notes.
Especial to The Nessenger.l

~12f&~2 Va "a 1AAAASNf aug
tiers OF the c~onfederacy. of which Mrs
Hunter c. Smith is president and
Mrs. j. d. MacRae secretary will hold
a meeting at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
TO take into consideration the matter
Of cooperating with the Bethel Mon
ument Association OF Virginia in the
erection Of a monument on the battle
field on the Yorktown Peninsula, 10
commemorate the first pitched engag-
ulent between the Confederates and
Federals, and to perpetuate h mem
DRY OF Henry Wyatt. of the ~Edgeconlbe
guards, the first soldier killed in ac-
tual battle. The association now has
a fund Of about $500 in hand; and
with this, even if there be no addi-
tional contributions, a monument will
be erected and unveiled at Bethel on
the 10th CT June, 1906.
Sheriff Marsh sent his officers on 4
raid yesterday afternoon on the blind
tigers" and it was far from a water
haul" Eliza Holiday. colored. charg-
ed with selling whiskey, was arrested,
a search of her premises showing that
she had several gallons Of liquor in
her possession. Menas Murphy was
also arrested, a quantity of whiskey
being found in his place He and the
oma gave bond for their appear
ance at court. 10 James was arrest
ed, charged with selling whiskey, and
ave bond.
Annie Williams, colored, was ar
raigned in Mayor McMillan's court
and was bound over to the next term
of court.
Yesterday Deputy United States
Marshal. Ken Taylor. of Seventy-first
township, arrested George Rends, COL
ured, charged with selling liquor.
Miss Stella Jones. who has been for
some time with Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
King on Harrington Hill, went down
to Red Springs yesterday afternoon to
nurse a patient, Miss Jones is q
prominent Hillsboro graduate of the
Highsmith hospital, and for a time its
head nurse. She will probably make
Fayetteville her home during the
spring and summer, Offering her SER
vices in special cases of illness. .
A remarkable cure in surgery has
recently taken place here. A little son
of Representative McGill of this coun-
~ has been operated on for removal
of stone in the bladder, the mass re-
moved being nearly as large as a wal
nut. me little fellow, who is only
six old. has endured untold suf-
ter1ng, but he is o getting on finely.
MISS Belle Cook, well known in VII
where she has relatives. is
very i'll OF consumption at the KIRK
patrick homestead in Gray's Creek
township, where She has been residing
for sometime.
Mr.. Joe Barnes, baggage master Of
eie AtlaIMlc Coast Lime railroad, has
called to Lumberton on account
of the serious Illness of his father.
Miss Tara Downing, who has been sa
r1ously i'll for some time, was carried
TO Baltimore for treatment yesterday.
accompanied by DIR. J.. V. MdGouean
and a special nurse.
Messrs. A. S. Williams and J. c.. Yves
sci, Of Wilmington, were registered a.
the Hotel Lafayette last evening.
Coronel Peter Mallett, of New York.
is the guest of the Misses Malfett Oh
Rowan street.
Captain r. P. Gray, of Greensboro
secretary and treasurer of the Cape
Fear Electric Power Company, is in the
city on business.
Mr. w. D.. Mcmillan, who is to be
the general manager of the big Cole
mar Cotton Mill soon to be built her ?
running 10000 splndles, is at his home
ON H~ayunount, after several weeks alb
Sence on business.
Fayetteville people greatly appre-
c1ate the kindly and graceful terms IN
winch The Messenger takes occasion TO
SPEAK of this community in writing
about the Raleigh and Cape Fear rail-
road i'm h Sunday edition-but his is
no lew thing with The Messenger.
Miss Highsmith, a graduate in the
alt CT PAINTING, whose work has been
much admired, and who has had espe-
cially n exhibits at the Cumberland
fairs, designs opening a studio in this
city IN The summer and fall, and besides
taking private classes, will offer her
services to the pupils of the graded ana
private schools Of Fayetteville.
About IL O'Clock this morning Wad-
dell Monroe, a colored boy in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Humphrey, drove their
delivery wagon up to the Donaldson
Academy to deliver groceries, carrying
a pistol with him. He explains his
possession Of the weapon by saying
that he INTENDED to swap pistols with
a coloTed boy in the service of Prof.
tWakeland. He drew out the revolver,
and it was discharged, whether BY in
tention or accident, shooting Pro-.
Wakeland's clerk through the lung,
and inflicting a dangerous wound. His
solemn declaration is that he drew the
revolver out only TO see that it was n
good order for the trade, and tina the
shooting was purely accidental. Mon
o was arrested and lodged in jail.
I owe my whole life to Burdock
Blood Bitters. ~ScrofUlous sores covered
my body. I seemed beyond cure. 2. 3.
B. has made me a perfectly well wom-
an" Mrs. Chas. Hutton, Berville, Mica.