The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-18
MONUMENT TO OLD SOLDIER
Memoirs o Captain 7. n.
o"ith-Ihe Fight Over Street Rail-
"as-City Attorney Resign-The
'"s OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Per-
sonaI Notes.
Especial to The Messenger


Fayetteville, n. c.. September IL
Ar. E. L. Remsburg has just created,
oh a lot In the new cemetery, a very
artistic and handsomely executed mon
ument of Barre granite, the orra.
cap carved in egg and dart 70 the
memory OF the late Capt. James prad.
1oru smith, brave soldier rbro, gbor-
the civil war postmaster at FayetIa-
vie. And afterwards sherrr of Cnm-
berland county. His hand and pocka-
We're ever open 10 the call OF need. ne
a as many friends in this community
as n man that ever lived in il. ami
ne deserved every one. He was born
IN Raleigh October 9Th, 1888 named
AFTER Col. Bradford. commander of me
United States arsenal. and died In this
city February 18th, 1903.
Capt. A. d. McGill, gallant confeder-
ate soldier. sterling democrat and ex-
member Of the legislature, as vel! as
effective stump speaker. offers his ser
vices for the coming campaign 10 me
chairman Of the democratic county ex-
ecutlya committee.
The Fayetteville Street Railway ami
Power company is at work on the
abandoned 1oad-bed Of the Cape Fes-
and Yadkin Valley railway. preparing
to run its trolley line between here
and Hope Mills, The Aberdeen and
Rockfish r. r. claims a prior eight
under an amCndment TO its charter,
giving it the right to condemn any un-
used rOad-bed, and claiming thar It in
tends TO build on that rOad-bed from
Hope Mills TO connect with the RaIei.h
and Southport r r. The matter will
come up for a hearing before Judge
Council at Lumberton on Friday.
Mr.. c. j. Cooper, general manager of
the Fayetteville Southern Life inSur-
ance company, has been elected a mem
Der Of tn city board Of public WORKS.
Mr.. R. H. Dye, of the firm of S.n-
clair and Dye, resigns his position as
city attorney. His services have been
eminently satisfactory and his reslgna-
ton is accepted with regret
Chief of Police Chaser reports IL
arrests in Fayetteville for the month of
August, of which % were for drunken
ness.
Miss Williams. Of Clinton is visiting
the Misses Blackburn. on Russell
street.
Mr.. w. H. Pope, Atlantic Coast Line
attorney, left yesterda for Glenn
Springs, S.. c., to spend a few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Williamson have
returned from their summer stay a.
Blowing Rock.
Between $50 and 200 jugs, nearly
all of a gallon Or more, were thrown
Off Perry's excursion train yesterday
corner of Mumford steet. just before
it got under way for Wilmington. The
excursionists were nearly all negroes,
and the large size of the vessels leads
to the belief that they were being car
ried to Wilmington to be filled and
brought back here for blind tigers
It is said that about every negro who
did not have a jug carried a cloth
telescope grip-sack full of bottles. Mr..
Arthur E. Dixon had a photographer
take a picture of the pile Of jugs, about
five feet high, on which stood a negro
girl with an axe, representing carrie
Nation, and he will send it to a north
ern magazine as an object lesson.
Miss Eliza Macarthur has gone TO
Durham to enter the conservatory Of
music.
Mrs. J. A. Pemberton, Miss Lillian
Haigh, and Mr.. Edward Pemberton
have returned from Black Mountain.
Mr.. J. A. Huske, Of the Atlantic Coast
Line R. R., is travelling in Florida and
Georgia on business.
Mr.. A. H. Slooomb and daughter,
Miss Mary, are at Buffalo Litnla
Springs, Va.
Gen. John Gill, former receiver Of the
Cane Fear and Yadkin Valley railway,
was in the city today.
Yesterday several freight cars were
~ ~ +uo,l- town I'M on the
Raleigh and Southport R. R.. between
McCullers and Raleigh. No one was
hurt.