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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-12

Phelps, NJ. D., LII. D., of Dartmouth
college, who after years of patient in
v~estigation and study, assisted by all
that was best in the progress of medi-
cal science at home and abroad, first
discovered the wonderful formula of
Paine's celery compound.
There wa, no doubt of the interest
that would be awakened at once by
the announcement of any discovery by
Prof. Phelps. The formula from the
first was furnished to the best ply
sicians, and forthwith this remarkable
Paine's celery compound was PERSONAL
ly used and professionally prescribed
by them. The, result of the closest in
v~eStigatiOn might have been expected.
1t soon required a considerable indust-
ry to produce the remedy, and rapidly
but steadily, without ceasing, the de-
mand for Paine'S celery compound has
increased, until today there is 10 other
remedy that in comparison begins to
hold half the public attention that it
holds.
In untold number of cases where
every other remedy has been tried and
failed, Paine's celery compound has at
tanned the wished-for results, making
the weak strong, purifying the blood,
rebuilding the WOrnOut nervous it's
sue, curing chronic sickness, proving a
neVer-failing and paramount relief
for rheumatism, neuralgia, kidney dis
eases and disorders of the liver. " due
to the impairment Of the persons ner-
vous system, the consequent impover-
ishment of the blood and the breaking
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PITHY LOCALS.

Mr.. j. r. Adams, of Waverly, Ohio,
receiver for the Union Construction
Company, building the railroad from
Wilmington to Southport, arrived IN
the city Tuesday. He states there Is
nothing definite about the project as
yet.
The receipts Of cotton here Wednes-
day were 10 bales, against 119 bales
the corresponding day in March last
year. The local market closed firm at
z cents, against 7Rcents the o re-
spending day last season.
Mr.. Dan Branch, while handling a
pistol at Mr.. 2. r. FOwler's coal and
wood yard Wednesday afternoon, acct
dentally shot his cousin, Mr.. Andrew
Smith. The ball entered the thigh, but
was extracted. The wound is painful,
but not serious.
. Raleigh Tribune Of Tuesday: 1.-THE
students of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college are highly gratified at
the appointment Of Mr.. Henry b..
Bonitz Of Wilmington, as one of the
board Of commissioners Of the college,
said Mr.. David Clark yesterday. This
is the first recognition the alumni have
ever a on the board"
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Two Elopments.

Fort Monroe, Va, March 10.-The VIII
lage oAHampton has been quite stir
red up over two Opponents which oc-
CURED there yesterday, the happy cou-
Piles going to Baltimore to have the
nuptial Knot tied. The parties were
James Guy, an employee at the New
port News shipyard. and Miss Nellie
Green, daughter Of Mr.. Charles Green,
chief clerk at the national soldiers
home; and Miss Jennie Darden, daugh-
ter of Mr.. E. G. Darden, a prominent
merchant Of Hampton, and Mr.. Dor
sey Wood, a leading young merchant,
of the city. Parental objection was
the cause Of the trobuIe.
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down in consequence of some particu-
lar organ.
When Mr.. Graham, writing Jan. Is,
1897, said: Il have used Paine's celery
compound to my benefit, and l have no
great physica. and mental strain
would find it of great service. For
students especially it ought to be Of
great value."-When so prominent a
student of bodily health, who has no
equal, unless, perhaps, one mentions
Dr.. Sargent of Harvard, with whose
methods Mr.. Graham became we'll ac-
Quainted at Harvard-when Mr.. Ora
ham says bluntly that after his expe-
rience he believes others would find
Paine'S celery compound of great ser
vice, what man or woman out OF per-
feet health can afford to neglect his
we'll considered and expert advice!
There is no doubt that Paine's celery
compound cleans the blood Of eczema,
salt rheum and such humOrs, not only
in the spring, that is so favorable a
time, but at any time during the year,
so thoroughly hat nothing further is
ever heard of them
Paine's celery compound has been
tested, tried ,scrutiniZed ~andheartily APP
proved by SO many impartial physi-
tians and men and women whose word
in any matter would not be questioned
for q. moment, that n must be stub
born-minded indeed who prefers to
NOPE around half sick instead of veri-
flying these positive, straightforward
tatementS
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s1Gvx So
RIVER-HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS
Coptain william +. Craighill Arrives Here
to Succeed Colonel ID. p. Heap.

Captain William E. Craighil1 arrived
here Tuesday evening and will succeed
Lieutenant Colonel D. 2. Heap as chief
of the United States engineer corps
here in charge of river and harbor i'm
provements. He was seen by a Mes
senger reporter at The Orion last night.
and says he will a charge as soon
as the transfer of the affairs of the
office can be made.
Captain Craighill comes here from
Willet's Point, in New York harbor
where he has been stationed as captain
Of the engineering battalion. He Is the
son of the distinguished General VIM.
p. Craighill. who for so many years
was the able chief of engineers, L. S.
a. and who is so highly regarded by
the people of Wilmington. Captain
Craighill is about 2S years of age, and
was promoted to ID captaincy upon the
recent retirement Of his father. He
graduated at West Point in 1885. He
expects to remove his family to Will
mingtOn at an early day.
Colonel Heap has been transferred
from here to Staten Island, New York,
to be engineer of the Third Light
House District. He came to Whining
ton in October, 1895, and will leave here
in a week or ten days for his new
charge. During his term of service in
charge Of the river and harbor i'm
p~rovements here, Colonel Heap has i'm
pressed upon the people his eminent
ability as an engineer n has won the
highest esteem of our citizens. He n
his charming family have been con-
s%picuous members of our social circle.
and there is general regret that they
are so soon to take their departure from
our city.
Unde Colonel Heaps administration
Of the engineer work here. notable and
gratifying results have been accom-
plished in the deeping Of the Cape Fear
bar and in widening and deeping the
channel Of the Cape Fear river, from
Wilmington to the bar Our city is to
be congratulated hat the continuance
Of this important work falls into the
competent hands of Captain Craighill.
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The Mechanic Ignored,

The republicans always make a pa
rade of their love for the mechanic. 1t
is never anything but a parade and
pretense. This was shown when their
caucus decreed TO elect, and yesterday
their governor appointed, j. Y. Ham
rick to succeed Mr.. B. r. Lacy as labor
commissioner. Mr.. Lacy is a skilled
mechanic, having been a locomotive
engineer for sixte en- years, and has
made a most efficient officer. Mr.. Ham
rick had but two cla inns for the place.
/. He declared for Russell Tor governor
more than a year ago; z. he spent a
month in Raleigh in tn early part or
this session of the legislature working
for the election of P~riAcharu, "hlle
claiming to be a %populist.
The farmers have their representa-
tive in the agricultural department;
the educators in the superintendent or
public instruction.; the lawyers IN the
attorney generals office and on the
bench, and the fishermen in the oyster
commissioner. But the mechanic alone
is denied representation in the epart-
ment created for his special service.
There will be a day of reckoning
Raleigh News and Observer,
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The SOlitary'Gr

Enquiry has frequently been made
of us in regard to a solitary a in
the wilderness near Lebanon chapel,
on Wrightsville sound, the headsuone
bearing this inscription: known in
Eternity" and h stone at the foot
u. J. H., 1888" nothing more.
More than three score years ago
there stood, within a short distance of
this lonely grave, a rough log house,
with ~clapboard roof, which was used
during the week as a SCI DOL house for
the children Of those who spent their
ON the sound, and on Sun
days for religious purposes, where in
the interregnum between the regular
visits of the rector Of st. James in Will
mington, the services of the church
were conducted by lay readers duly
appointed for that purpose.
They were deVOut and earnest men
and commanded the respect and es-
TEEN of all classes of society. DR.. ThOs.
H. Wright was one and there were Mr..
James S. Green and Capt. F. N. Gantier
and others whose names are not now
recalled. Among the teachers of the
schools were Mr.. George Hooper, who
subsequently removed to Alabama, the
Rev. JOhn Burke, a Roman Catholic
priest primarily, but h recanted
and connected himself With the EpiS-
cQpal denomination and was ordained
a minister of JfGat church. He was a
fine scholar and was as fond Of the
classics as "Domsie' in that charming
book Of "Maclaren's," the Bonnie
Brier Bush"
A large number of boys attended
the school, the Bradleys, Davis, Burrs,
Lippitts, Greens N others, and among
them a youth named John J. Hunt. He
was a nephew of the Rev. Thomas p.
Hunt, at that time pastor Of the res
bpterian church in Wilmington and a
popular lecturer on temperance. He
was a very bright, manly fellow and
greatly esteemed by his schooimates
but in the early fall of 1888, he sickoned
and died at the residence of Mrs. Giles
on Lees creek, which is still occupied
by members of that estimable family.
His uncle, the Rev. Mr.. Hunt, placed
that tombstone over his emains and
it's singularity caused considerable
comment at the time and has give rise
to many enquiries since.
1t is a lonely grave N the woods.
but the birds sing merrily above it and
the last ray of the setting sun throw
a halo o it as one reads the only
inscription upon the stone of the peace
full sleeper beneath, whose identity
has long n been forgotten here, but
who is surely known in eternity"
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John Graham is the foremost man in
American athletics.
1t was he who managed the success
full team from this country that at
tracted worldwide attention in the re-
cen OLYMPIC games at Athens.
Formerly trainer for Columbia col
lege, then for Princeton and finally for
Harvard university, Mr.. Graham had
much to do with raising the standard
of collegiate sports. A small army of
gentlemen have been guided by him
since he left Harvard and took his
present position, superintendent of the
famous gymnasium of the Boston attn
letic association.
Three of his proteges, White, Brewer
and Mccarthy, have just won the New
England championship at the mile,
quarter-mile, and five-mile run. He
has trained Weeks Of Brown univer-
sity, one of the best college sprinterS in
the country.
Many another student Of what makes
men and women strong has used INC
has recommended Paine's celery COM
pound as the best known remedy for
those who are weak and dispirited,
the overworked and enfeebled persons
who are most concerned in the general
awakening Of interest in outdoor ex-
ercise and indoor attention to the proper
rules of health.
It was the ablest professor Of medi-
cine and surgery in any college, that
giant among men, Prof. Edwar E..
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The Puritan Disabled Off Hatteras.

Washington, March 1O.-The navy de-
partment today received the following
dispatch in regard to the diabled moni-
tor Puritan:
"Hatters Cove, N. c., March 1O.-1 p m.
"The Puritan's engines are disabled.
One may run a short time, but have
! a convoy ready to tow We weathered
the ale admirably
BARTLETT, Com. Officer"
Secretary Of h Navy Long wired
this morning to Captain Sands, Of the
cruiser Columbia at Hampton Roads,
Va, to proceed to Hatteras with all
dispatch to assist the monitor Puritan,
which is reported disabled near Cape
Hatteras. The Puritan is lying south
of Hatteras life saving station, sup
posedly with her machinery disabled.
She put into Southport, N. c., on
Thursday last for shelter from the
heavy weather and. it is thought at the
navy department that she started
from Southport to New York yesterday.
The triple screw cruiser Columbia,
which has been ordered to the rescue
of the monitor Puritan, disabled off
Cape Hatteras, car scarcely reach her
destination before tomorrow morning.
The distance is over 26O miles from
Hampton Roads, and the Columbia is
not expected, in her present condition,
to run over eighteen knots an hour as
a maximum. Captain Sands t~elgraphed
h navy department that he would.
leave at 3 O'Clock, which would bring
him off HatteraS about 5 O'Clock to-
morrow morning. In the meantime the
naval authorities hope the gale will
not increase and that Captain Bart
lett, of the Puritan, will be able to
keep off shore. Secretary Long has
done the best he could by ordering the
fastest ship in American waters to the
Puritan's relief, the Columbia luckily
being in that vicinity. Otherwise IL
might have taken several days to eff
feet a rescue.
Norfolk, Va, March 10.-The United
States monitor Puritan, which left
Charleston last Friday and encount-
cred heavy Weather all the way up the
coast, is now in Raleigh bay, near Du-
rants life saving station, North Caro-
lima, in a disabled condition and the
cruiser Columbia has gone to her as
sistance. The Puritan. after leaving
Charleston, was obliged to anchor in
Saturdays storm and shortly after
wards it was discovered tina one of
her engines was disabled and that she
she could make but little Roadway.
against the heavy sea. After an ex-
ceptionally slow trip, however, she ar
off Hatteras late Tuesday even
ing, when it was discovere that the
engine was working badly. The
Puritan steamed back and forth in
front OF the life saving station, signal
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Chattanooga, Tenn. March 10
Through a clerical error OF the paying
teller. the First National bank ~ this
city is a looser to the extent OF s.. 900.
A few days since a Tennessee river
presented an order given by
Snodgrass q Fields for $500 at the
bank. Charles Knoedler. the teller,
opened his cash drawer and tossed out
eight bundles Of bank notes, each con-
tanning eel $50 bills. The raftsman
whose home is on the French Broad
river in extreme east Tennessee soon
disappeared. The mistake was not
discovered until notice OF the payment
was sent to the lumber firm OF Snod
grass & Fields, who produced the can
celled check made out on its face for
but $40O. The r~aftsfnan was seen in
Knoxville yesterday spending money
lavishly.
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The Shooting AF-cy.

In Justice J ~ McGowan's court
-Wedro-Iay Riley Smith, the young
white man who fired a revolver at
Josie Mintz a few days ago. was given
a hearing on the charge Of assault
and battery and with carrying a con-
was defended by Marsden Bellamy,
Esq, and was discharged. 1t was
shown that he was attacked with
rocks and fired the shot in self defense.
1t was said also that he carried his
pistol in his hand and did not have It
concealed.
Josie Mintz was fined $40 and the
costs on the charge of ssault.
Herbert Bessant, charged with car
rying a concealed weapon, was dis
charged for lack of evidence.
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Death of MIR. Fred Rhow

We regret to chronicle the death Of
MI. Fred Rhew, one Of u oldest cit
liens, who had a strok of paralysis
on Tuesday morning, as mentioned in
The Messenger yesterday. He passed
away yesterday morning at 7 o'clock.
He would have reached the 77th year
of his age on the Goth inst. The de-
ceased leaves a wife and daughter who
have the sympathy of their friends in
their sad bereavement.
The remains will be carried on the 2
o'clock train on the Wilmington, New
bern and Norfolk railway this after
noon to Edgecombe, where the inter-
ment will take place in the family
burying ground. The following will be
the ~pallbearers: Messrs. M. Mashburn,
John F. Everitt, Bryant Hill and c. w.
HcClammy.
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To Renew the Senatorial Fight,

frankfort, KY, March 9.-When the
state senate meets Saturday there will
be thirty-three senators sitting and en-
titled to vote. Five new men will pres
n credentials. Four Of these are re-
pubiicans n the plan of the silver
democrats will be 10 keep them from
being seated and thus prevent the cleo
ton of a republican United States s7na-
tor. Contests have been filed against
the four republicans and the Blackburn
people claim to have enough votes to
refer their cred rntials until the on
tests are pas .on. 1t is going to be
the old fight last winter over again.
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The Sugar and Wool Schedules.

Washington, March 1O.-The sugar
schedule was finished today by the re-
publican members of the ways and
means committee. The conclusions
reached were foreshadowed in the
Southern Associated Press dispatches
OF last night. The differential duty
was placed at IL Of a cent a pound. A
countervailing duty against bounty
paying countries was fixed so as to
equalize the net amount Of the bounty
that is to a the extra amount Of
the bounty, less an internal revenue
tax levied.
The wooden schedule was taken up
at the afternoon and evening sessions
and several tentative rates adopted.
but another session will be necessary
before the schedule is completed.
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Washington, March 9.-President
Mckinley has signiied his intention OF
receiving Liluokalani, the former
queen of Hawaii, in response to her
request for an audience. just as soon
as the rush Of visitors is over. The
president does not intend to make any
specific arrangements at this time with
any n excepting senators and 9TH
ers with whom he wishes to consult
If h ex-Queen wants to see him she
must take lei chances with everybody
else. AT the present time Liiiuokalani
can see the president by waiting her
turn with the scores OF public men who
want his ear for a moment, but she will
not be afforded the opportunity Of an
extended conversation. Her reception
by h president later on will be
purely informal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-12
N EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED.

Five Persons Killed and Others Wounded.
The ~Rain.Soaked Track Gives Way I'm.
der tho Train-Cars Precipitated into
Deep Water.
Evansville, Ind, March 10.-The
Louisville and Nashville limited train.
southbound from Chicago, was wreck
ed his morning at 1890 o'clock at a.
point one mile south Of Hazleton, Ind,
and thirty-seven miles north Of Evans
vile, on the Evansville and Terre Haute
road. Five men were killed and two
seriously injured.
The accident was the result Of the
heavy rains in southern Indiana since
Saturday. White river, near Hazleton,
overf1owed and the back-water washed
out the tracks Of the Terre aute
Trains were running On slow orders, as
h o bed was known to be in bad
condition.. When the Cannon Ball"
train reached the fill this morning the
embankment suddenly gave way and
the baggage and part of the smoker
dropped into about six feet of water.
The engine turned over, but the bag
gage car remained upright. The smoker
hung over the end Of the track. The
sleeper remained on the track.
Engineer John McCutchan escaped
death by jumping, but his fireman,
Bowman, was caught in the cab and
drowned. Conductor Sears, Brakeman
Baldwin, Herbert Allen and two I'M
known men were in the smoker. Brake
man Hansen was near the door. When
the baggage car wen down the jar
threw him against a seat, injuring one
of his limbs. He crawled out the door
and swan a considerable distance to
reach land. ]. B.. Henderson was in
jured by being thrown against a seat.
Wrecking trains were sent out i'm
mediately to the scene, but the rail-
road officials are unable to state when
traffic will be resumed.
A telephone message from Hazleton
says that another crevasse has appear
ed between White river bridge and the
one where the train was wrecked. It is
spreading rapidly. and the damage to
the Dad bed will be very serious. 1t is
reported that an overcoat marked J. T.
Phillips was found floating on the
water near the wreck.
The damage to the roadbeds of the
Evansville and Terre Haute and the
Evansville and Indianapolis roads by
the recent rains and floods to date is
estimated at 81, 200, 00e.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Rev. VIM. Black, Of Monroe, was at
The orion Tuesday.
Mr.. f. A. Holt, of Burlington, arrived
in the city Tuesday evening.
Mr.. John H. Morrison, Of Lumberton,
was here on business Tuesday.
Mr.. Z. H. Jennings, of Fayetteville
came down to the city Wednesday.
The Rev. A. McFadyen, of Clarkton,
was registered at The orion Wednes-
day.
Mr.. G.. G.. Porter, of Goldsboro, was
among Tuesday evenings arrivals in
the city.
DR.. w. B. Murphy, of T~owahaWk,
came down to the city Wednesday and
was a welcome caller at The Messenger
office last evening.
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Colonel Sutton Is Judge.

The Messengers Raleigh representa-
tive t~elegraphed us Wednesday that Col
onel Thomas H. Sutton, of Fayetteville,
has been appointed and commissioned
by Governor Russell to be judge of the
Eastern criminal circuit court.
Governor Russell ignored the selee-
ton of Walter r.. Henry by the fusion
>spo1lsmen for the judgeship.
The Messenger a few weeks ago sta
ted Ola good authority that Judge SUIT
ton would get the appointment.
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Russell's Mistake.

Russell made a great mistake, for his
own Ink his party's future, in his in
sistence upon the ~disgraceful blockade
OF legislative business in the house the
latter part of las week in order to de-
eat the Southern railway lease. The
people may have condemned the lease
to the Southrn on account Of the 1ong
time it a run, but they will condemn
far o the blocking Of public BUSH
ness by such outrageously unjust
as Russell made his boOtlickers
in the legislature resort tO.-CharIotte
Observer.
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Now Is the Time

To purify your blood with Hoods Sar-
saparilla. March, April, May are the
trying months Of the year.. At this
season your blood is loaded with i'm
purities which have accumulated dur
ing the winter, and these impurities
must be Immediately expelled. Hoods
Sarsaparilla is the One True Blood
Purifier. 1t is the medicine which has
accomplished many thousands Of re-
markable cures Of blood diseases. It
is what the millions TAX in the spring
to build up health and ward off sick
ness.
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ing her condition to the life savers who
patrolled the beach all night, so as to
give immediate aid should it be re-
quired. Captain Bartlett managed to
keep off shore all night, however, n
early this morning he wired the de-
partment that one engine was disabled
n he could not depend on the other,
and tina he must have a convoy to tow
him to Hampton Roads. The Columbia
at once left for Hatteras and will re-
turn with her in TOW tomorrow If to-
nights gale does not increase.
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IncendiarY Fire.

There was an alarm of fire Tuesday
morning at Has from box II, at Fifth
and Nixon streets. The alarm was on
account Of an attempt to burn the
store of John O. Nixon, on Seventh
and Nixon streets. Someone craWled
under the store and put a lot of light
wood together and started a blaze. n
fire was making good Roadway when 1t
was discovered and put out by the
time the fire department got there.
There wae no damage
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-12

People buy Hoods Sarsapa,-illa year
after yea because it does them good.
It will do YOU good TO take it now.