The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-21
Especial to The Messenger.)

(Sp6ClaH 10 line Messenger
Fayetteville, March 18.-Mr. c.. r.
OVERLY, magistrate and auctioneer o.
this city, lis understood to be an asr;-
rant for the mayoraIty of Fayetteville,
against the present incumbent, Mr.. z.
B. Mcmillan. 1T lis not known whether
or mott Mr.. OVERLY has the endorsement
of the prohibitlonists, wIho are supposCd
to be a~nttagonfstic Ito THE present murlic-
pail administration, and will endeavcr
ITO Dust i'm. The inns are pretty wei
i~nItrenched, claim ito have given a good
government, and will prove formidable
i'm fight.
The relapse of the negro missionary,
Wilberforce into savagery and heathen-
ism i'm Africa, which has been noted in
th epress, recalls am authentic story
in 1.-THE colonial HISTORY of this country.
During a raid ON a New England settle
ment, a band of Indians carried of an
infant of Mr.. and Mrs Siocum, which
was long mourned as dead. Many
years afterward, one or two genera
ftionls, a government agent, visiting AN
Indian tribe, found living among them
a middIe-aged white woman the sQuaw-
of cne of the chiefs. Inquiring into her
history, THE agent was convinced, from
the "details given by THE old men of the
tribe, that this was the infant of h
Slocums. The parents, still living,
were Uniformed of the strange fact. and
their second daughter was induced TO
go Ito THE home of her birth in New
England. But lit was a new and dis
tasteful WORLD to her, and the call of
the wild" was all powerful. She-yearn-
ed for the balsamdc breath of the pine
woods and the blossoming glades. She
moped and grdeved; and, rather than
see her pine away, they sent her back
tic THE only life h hnew-the life Of
tine savage.
General Mckay, the able Conglcss-
man of the Bladen district in old times,
the original watchdog of the Treas
ury," emancipated a large numbe: Of
mis- slaves, and many OF them %emigrat-
ed Ito Africa. There is a strong current
in BIaden THAT years afterwards some
of them returned ito visit their old
home, and that ONE, am infant when
CduuSo AWAY, plfV uoSNS S"0Ai5 H'
was tattooed, painted, plumed and
~feaprhered as an African chief. which he
had really become in aihe land of his
race
Mrs. D. b. Marsh died at Parkton on
Thursday, after a brief Illness. She
was the Wife of Mr.. Daniel A Marsh.
of a prominent family in Guay's Greek
township, this county.
Rev. J. nj. Page has accepted the
passionate of a. church at Southport,
much to the regret of THE congregations
of two br three churches which he &C
ceptably filled i'm this section
Rev. J. A. Smith, pastor of uTnDer
land Union church, a gone TO Ffori-
da, Ito recuperate his health
United States Commissioner ex-Jucg
T. H. Sutton has appointed MIR j. A
CoGvin deputy marshal, in place Of NJ.
Kin Taylor, resigned
The legislature recently appointed the
following additional magistrates .or
| Cross Greek townships: W. s. Cook.
| w. w. Huske, John Davis. D. n. Nc
Lean.
Mr.. STILES Sedberuy is now occupying
| his beautiful residence. corner OF Rus
| seIl and Dick street. Mr.. Frank Beas-
| ley has moved into his handsome dwell
| ing on Arch street. DR.. Al s. Rose has