Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-02-05
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
William Lee Gets a Settlement. Pastor
Makes a Good Record.

Lexington Dispatch, Nan 29th.
F. Hunter, of Rowan county
has entered suit through Walsel
& Walser for damages against the
Southern, on account of alleged
personal injuries received ir
South Carolina. The amount ask.
ed is $4,000.
The Southern railway has ap.
propriated $4,000 for immediate
improvements at the station in
Lexington and work is to begin
within few days, and be com.
pleted at the earliest possible
day.
Last Wednesday morning at !
o'clock the main building at Lib
erty Institute, Wa]lburg, this
county, was burned. Prof. Vann,
the principal, was in Lexington
and got the news about noon on
Wednesday. The fire is supposed
to have been caused by defective
f1ue.
T. L. Moore for the past two
days has been enjoying muskrats
for dinner. He bought a lot from
a man and had them fixed up ac-
cording to his taste at his board
ing house. Mr.. Moore was reared
in Maryland on the Chesapeake
Bay, where muskrats are in high
favor. He likes them very much.
Chas. Roberts, the negro who
assaulted Will Sechriest some
weeks ago, was tried last week,
Mr.. Sechriest having become able
to get out again. The negro was
bound over in the sum of $500,
and in default of bond was sent to
Jail. It will be remembered that
he slipped up behind Mr.. Sechriest
and dealt him a fearful blow in
the back of the head.
Last week G.. M. Thompson &
Company, of Tyro, hauled to Sal
isbury some so odd bales of cot
ton, receiving 123 cents for same,
save for one badly stained bale,
which brought a littls over II
cents. The cotton was part
of the crop raise, in the
Tyro section and on the Holt
farm. Twenty-odd bales belong
ei to Messrs. G. M. and G.. M.
Thompson.
During the latter part of last
week DR.. George L. Leyborn, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
church in Lexington, was quite i'll
and was unable to be out until
Monday of this week. Conse-
quently he could not fill his ap-
pointment at the church Sunday.
This is the first time in S3 years
that DR.. Leyburn has missed an
appointment on account of sick
ness, or for any other reason-a
record that perhaps no minister
in the state can equal, and which
few in the whole country can sur
pass, if, indeed, there is one any
where who can surpass it.
The case brought by the negro
William Lee against F. R. Loftln,
for money alleged to have been
secured from Lee. was settled Sat-
urday by a compromise in which
the defendant paid to the plaintiff
the sum of $3.50, and the costs of
the case. It will be remembered
that the negro alleged that the de-
fendant got from him a total of
$198. and paid back $17. According
to these figures, then, the defen-
dant has paid $167. The settle
ment affects the case which was
to have been tried before Squire
W. A. Heitman Thursday, but
which was put of until Saturday,
in which the 100 note was involved
The other case, in which the $81
claim figured, has been sent to
court, but this will not sbe pushed,
as the plaintiff is satisfied with
the above settlement. Public Inter.
est has been centered on the case,
sentiment divided, some thinking
that the old negro was mistaken
in his claim-that all the defen.
dant owed him was the 500, rep.
resented by the note, and the ST.
which was repaid.
If you have Catarrh, rid your
self of this repulslve disease. Ash
DR.. shoop. of Racine, Wis, tt