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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12
M CONFIRMATION Received.

Washington, November 11.--Although the
Peruvian legation has not been officially
advised OF the passage by the Peruvian
congress on Tuesday OF the bill to legalize
non Catholic marriages by the magistrates
OF towns, no sort OF doubt Is expressed by
the legation that the cables TO this effect
are correct. The contest over this question
has been protraeted and has aroused con-
siderable feeling, In Peru
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12

'AGO-The pugilist.c fraternity are
.qui vive over the meeting tomor-
Tattersal.s of Kid Mccoy and Aus
Billy Smith. They will fight six
for $1,000. They would fight more.
mayor won't allow them to.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12
"a the Couf.derney.

Baltimore. November 1.-The fourth an
nual convention OF the Daughters OF the
Confederacy resumed it's sessions today,
holding one In the morning and the other
at night. the interim being devoted To
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12

YoRK-T'he Eighth regiment ath-
emes tonight may furnish the &C.
for a condemnation of indoor cycle
on smooth, fiat tracks with M
turns.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12

YORK-Tihere. will be inaugurated
Pind tomorrow In the Astoria hotel
Promises TO be the most remaUS able
|ltural exhibition in the United
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12

Admirers of Brown Uni
are arriving here today to witness
rows game between the Carlisle In
hhu the Brown team. In the game
gar, Brown defeated the Indians.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12

fokLYN. n. VA public hearing
gwen today on the proposition of
|yn, New York and Jersey city Ter
ia way company and of the Long
railroad company. to construct
from the dep3t In Flatbush and
Lc avenue in Brooklyn under por-
that city and the East river to
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12
WEATHER INFORMATION.
Last Nights Rcadinn..

An area of high pressure of considerable
magnitude is central over North Texas
and Oklahoma tonight. with the highest
barometer so % inches. An area OF COM
parat!vely bow pressure is central over the
South Atlantic and East Gulf States. The
weather is clear throughout the country.
a trace at Atlanta is the Only prec!pi-
tation reported tonight.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12

ROTT, Neutrality-suspicious. are 60
for the memorial service in honor
late General Neal Dow of Maine.
ED here Sunday.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12
ToDAY,s FORECAST.

PING, Pa.-The annual National
Hon of the Brotherhood of Andrew
nip will be held here today and
Dw
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12
Gcncrni UbservntIon..

Observations taken by the United States
weather bureau at o. IN. 10th meridian
time,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-12

London, November 12.-The Daily News
this morning argues that the concession of
preferential tariff TO England will give
Sir Wifred Laurier. the dominion premier.
n powerful argument in favor of renewed
reciprocity with the United States.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

most extraordinary" She refers to
1ynchings in the south having become
"a most popular form Of entertain
ment"-which is a broad burlesque Of
the facts involved, and then closes with
h fine morceau:
las we nave seen Int lately realized
again in Georgia, any cause will do to
rouse the outraged manhood Of this
when they go forth to burn and kill
in the name of the honor OF their wo-
mankind, it is time that we should re-
pudiate such champions. Too loEg
have the women Of the 5outh Kept
silence and allowed their men free
dom for the full play OF their passions
and the brutal, dangerous negro is
one of the results. But when the sa-
cred names of home and honor are
made a shield for lust Of murder. it is
time to strike it down and call the
world to witness we will approve. no
cowardly 1a~w-breakers in guise Of
chivalrous protectors"
She can hardly be a southern wo-
man" in feelings and views if she is
one by reason Of birth. She lives in a
great city where there are no lurking
black brutes to threaten the life and
persons Of the white women Of purity
and character. She is in no danger
and she knows nothing whatever of the
fears and feelings of the good and true
white southern women. We have good
reason, abundant reason, for saying
hat all over the south in the exposed
homes, in suburbs or in the rural dis
%r;a%- %lo~o - tI1 ,l1J1-- l-,s.
violence darkening every home and a
great fear resting upon mothers for
themselves and their daughters. A gen.
tleman of culture who travels and is
well Informed told us lately thai there
were much fear and apprehension of
evil existing among southern women.
He said it was UNIVERSAL in the rural
districts. We were told by one gentle
man that when he left his home on
business he advised his wife to load her
There are many negroes near his home
in he country, and she felt something
alarmed. The oma who writes so
glibly of the "cowardly law breakers"
is wholly ignorant of the profound
sense of -uneasiness, Of real fear, now
filling the homes Of the southern peo-
pie. The numerous recent assaults
have begotten a condition of fear and
desperation that will make the night
riders more numerous more de-
termined. The southern home must be
guarded from harm, n the sacred
person of the good women must be
shielded against all brutal %ssaults
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06
A Steamer Abandoned at Sea

Boston, August 3.-The British
steamer Sycamore arrived from Liver
pool today with the entire crew of
twenty-one men of the British tramp
steamer Furtor, which was abandoned
on July 9th, in a sinking condition in
latitude so degrees so minutes north,
longitude 50 degrees west. The FurtOr
was in command of Captain ]. D. Jen-
kins, and sailed from West Bay, N. S.,
June 23rd with a cargo of seals for
Barry, Wales. She a into an iceberg
and was forced to put into ST. Johns,
N. s., for repairs. She again put to
sea July 22nd. On July 25th a strong
s%outherly gale sprang up n the ship
soon sprang a leak. The water filled
gradually, but the crew remained on
board until 2:30 o'clock on the morning
of the 9th, when, fearing the steamer
might founder at any moment, our
boats were lowered. A fire vas started
on the deck Of the steamer to attract
the attention of any passing vessel
and soon the Furtor was in flames.
The crew then put off in the boats,
which We're kept near together for
fOrty-eight hours, when the Sycamore
sighted them and took the crew on
board.
The Furtor was a steel steamer built
at Stockholm in 1889 and was owned
by J. Holmes & Sons, of London. She
was formerly named the Tynedale. Her
registered tonnage was 1,404 net.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06
THREE

Just how many people have been lost
in poler navigation we are not inform
ed. But for a long time expeditions
have been fitted out and now and then
n has been lost. The one lost under
Sir John Franklin is the most famous.
DR.. Nansen's expedition is in some re-
spects the most interesting and re-
markable. He made it triumphantly,
and it has brought him a great for
tune in a few months, estimated at
$3.50, 900. He went farther thar any one
else had gone. His conclusion is that
north of 81 degrees there is no land
except Franz Josef Land. DIR. Nam
sen, however, makes this statement,
that perhaps though, there may be
land On the other side of the pole be-
tween it and the North American archi-
pelago. These stands extend probably
far north"
There are now three expeditions
pushing northward. Mr.. Peary, Ameri-
cam, is striving to extend observations
on the Greeland coast northward.
Frederick Jackson is another explorer,
English, who is trying to get at or
near the pole by way Of the newly
named Queen Victoria sea. Then there
is the Andree balloon attempt, so full
of hazard and SO trying. It has been
published that the brave navigator of
the air had serious f~orebodings as to
the issue of his most dangerous en-
terprise. Nansen attained to SO degrees
Is minutes north as the limit of his
exploration. Andree thought it pos
sible to go farther by means of a great
balloon.
The Philadelphia Record noting the
recent explorers says this:
"Nansen's expedition got within 22G
miles of the pole. Before his exploit
the highest point reached in the old
world had been Cape Fligely, Franz
Josef Land, 80 degrees 5 minutes
north. Explorer Frederick Jackson,
who was attracted to Franz Josef
Land by the Payer expedition of 1873,
sailed from England, in the Windward,
in July 1894. He has not only altered
the geography Of the region, but has
found a great sea where the maps of
Payer, the Austrian explorer, shOw
land. This Queen Victoria. sea extends,
in Mr.. Jackson's opinion, from a point
about seventy miles north Of his win
ter quarters to within three degrees
of the pole. He was to have attempt
ed to reach the pole this past spring.
His supposition is not necessarily op-
posed to Nansen's results, as Nansen's
conditional allowance concerning the
American archipelago might alo be ap-
piled to the end of Franz Josef Land
nearer to America"
1t is to be hoped the three explorers
and their men may all get back safely.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

for dry goods at a reasonable price that
will give satisfaction. We warrant
every article we sell to be as repre-
scented and sold at bottom prices, and
if goods do not fit nor suit those that
are not cut we take them back and
cheerfully refund the money. You
take no risk in dealing with us as our
prices are always h lowest, our stock
and store is the largest, where you can
make the best selection.
We want your Dry Goods trade as
we lead the city in sales and variety
we can reasonably expect a share of
you patronage which We have been
dealt by so kindly in the past. The
long hot days of August are now here
and you may need some cool goods to
help out through the season.
WHITE LAWN at &C, sc, &c, SC, 10c,
12bc; Batire best Collars at 41ac, sc;
Fine Lawn So inches wide, our best
prices have been 10c worth 121ac, now
to close at Sc. Bicycle Suitings at SC
and 1Oc. all colors in ducks at 10c; Lin
IN crash at 1212c.
FINE LINE OF CORSETS-Our best
brand 21c; French woven 39c; our fav-
orite a regular soc corset at Csc; r. &
G.. vigilant at SOC, r. & G.. long waist
at 75c and S 800; Warmers best long
waist nursing corset at $1.00; Caroline
Corset best made by Warner at $1.25.
I have white and black in fine Corsets
Kabo Corsets I bought Of Mr.. Mcintyre
his price s1.0O, my price 75c.
I have a big line of colored goods.
Goffre cloth worth 10c, pretty colors,
and styles, now at &c per yard.
All shades Of cheese cloth this week
at 4c; hea-y outing at sc: good Cotton
Pants cloth to move at TIC; the best
all wool Heavy Pants cloth I eve saw,
worth 37ac wholesale, I bought in a
job, I will sell at Csc; if you need buy it
before it is gone.
I have just received a very nice line
Of Black Dress Good before the tariff
got in their nice job. I can sell them
at a very low price. Cashmeres SO
inches wide in black and blue zoe, bet
ter quality, all wool, at Csc. Fin strict
ly all wool imported surge SO inches
wide at 29c, worth Csc. Beautiful black
Fancy Goods all prices from 35c, SOC,
621sc, 75c, S5c, CSC, $1.00 to $1.25. This
line Of Fine Dress goods are new this
season; styles made in Germany by the
Gold Medal Black Dress Company.
Every piece is warranted by the maker
to be all wool and to hold its color un-
der all circumstances. We have these
new goods in a beautiful line ofpatterns;
also a line of fine Silks. A job in
Pongee silk, assorted colors, worth soc,
cost 43c whole sale, that I want to
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

Ing, and that a strong navy able to
cope with q foreign power should
be built n equipped. In time Of
peace prepare for war. The United
States cannot possibly be always at
peace. Some nation will give it trou-
bic. and it may be several nations will
combine Get ready for the worst.
But we do not desire any foreign &C
quisitions-no Cuba or Hawaii. The
only annexation to be thought of is
territory on the North American con-
tinent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

The Washington Post in writing Of
the educated negro from Albany, N.
Y, from whom The Messenger lately
copied, says this:
w think we can assure him that
cOlOred people will never commend
themselves to respect. either north or
south. by the mere expedient of put
ting on good clothes. Not until they
learn to conduct themselves with dig
nity-not the false dignity which is al
ways on the alert for Sights, and which
expresses itself in an aggressive at
titude, but the true dignity which is
calm and courteous and assured-not
until then will they placate the pref
udice they so loudly deplore."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

move. / bought 1t of Mr.. Mcintyre, to
close now at 25c per yard.
/ have just received q car load OF
Shoes, n can say l have as nice a
selection and as good an assortment OF
Shoes as any Shoe store in the city.
We sell Shoes at all prices from the
cheapest to the best-In women's Shoes
from soc, 63c, 75c, S5c, $1.00, $1.25, s1.50.
$500 $3.50 and $500. We have about
1000 of these ines in button and lace,
all styles in toes and heels. In mems
Shoes we nave the buf i'm lace and con-
gress at $1.00, better Shoes at 81. 25.
Our $1.50 line Is splendid and we war
rant every pair to be good, first quail
ty and fit correctly. Our fine Calf skin
Shoes run from $500 to $500 a pair.
Boys fine dongola Tans, best leather.
spring heel, button and lace, a job,
sizes from \ II to 2, at 75c, worth at
least SLIPS a pair. i bought these Shoes
in a railroad wreck and will sell them
at nearly half price. Baby Shoes at
19c, 25c, 40c, soc. Misses Shoes, from
II to 2, at Coo a pair. Our never-rip
Shoes, II to 2, at soc a pair. We can
fit your feet in fine Slippers which run
from Acc to $500 a pair. If you need
Shoes and Slippers for any Of your
family come and see our stock before
you buy elsewhere.
Well, lets &c up on our second floor
with an electric elevator and look over
it, which is 50x112 feet square. We
sell Clothing for men and boys on 50x55
feet of this room and sell all grades OF
Boys Suits at soc, 75c, CSC. all wool
s1.40, s1.50, s1.9s, $3.50 and $500; Mems
Suits, all wool, nice patterns, at SO. 98.
s4.25, $500, $500, $3.50, $500, $1,000; all
styles and best high grade clothing,
made by the best tailors in the country.
We can save you none on your cloth
ing bill, we have only one price, but
that price is right.
Mems percale loundried Shirts at 25c,
Ladies Leather Belts at sc, 10c, 15c, zoe,
n 25c. Mems two ring heavy Cloth
Belts at 15c. Good quality Trunks
from soc, CSC. 75c, s1.00 to $1.25. Zinc
covered. 20 inch Trunks. at $1.00. large
% inch s1.20, 30 inch $1.40. 80 inch sl.65,
"a inch $1.95 each. Fine Canvas Trunk
large size, "a inch, with heavy, strong
clasp lock at 1926 each, SO nch trunk
at $3.50 each. Window Shades, all
sizes, 36x72 inches Csc, 3x7 feet at 35c.
We have the largest department store
in the city and we sell almost anything
you need and want in the Dry Goods
line. You will find Us pushing the old
Racket for all IL is worth and doing
business every day and we want to add
you to our list Of customers. at H.
North Front Street, opposite The Or
ton Hotel.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06
OBJECT LESSON FROM MO
BILE.

The Messenger never loses an oppor-
tunity to urge sanitation, pure drink
ing water and a thorough sewage sys-
fem for all towns. Recently one of
the large manufacturing towns in Mas
suits. The typhoid fever prevailed
alarmingly for several years. Finally
the water used taken from the river
was properly analysed. 1t was found
10 be badly polluted, poisoned. The
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

source ST the water supply was chang
ek better water being procured, and
the very next season the typhoid fever
reports were reduced half way. We
notice that Mobile, Ala, with 40, 900 in
habitants has no sewer system and no
water works. That is inexcusable neg
lect. Can there fail to be a high death
rate with such conditions? In some
large cities that are well supplied with
good drinking water and complete sew
age, the death rate Is about Is or - in
the 1000 inhabitants. How has it been
at Mobile? The city council Ia been
investigating, and have reported re-
suits. The report states that the
death rate in Mobile has been % per
1000, while in Birmingham, where
there Is a sewerage system, the rate
has been but II per 1000. The only
water system which Mobile has had is
a fire supply furnished at a large cos
by a private corporation" Consider
that. What it means. 1t is this:
That eleven people in Mobile die every
year in every 1000 who would not have
died if it had B~irmingham's sewage
system. It means that 440 persons per-
ish every yea in Mobile who ought
to have lived because it a no good
water n no sewage That state
ment is positively most shocking, ever
inhuman. It shows such an utter in
difference to life. 1t is thought Mobile
will wake up and have the needed i'm
provements.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

The advance I'm trust stocks under the
new high tariff rates is something phe-
nominal but not surprising. There has
been an increase Of over 5000, 900, 900
the stocks of the trading combines. We
have before US a list of the trusts with
the price in last April and the price
oath July. The actual advance is $780,
O30, 900. There has been a farther ad-
vance since the date of oath ult.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

h causes bad dreams is a ques
ton that has never been satisfactorily
frightful dreams are the result of i'm
perfect digestion, which a few doses
of Ayers Sarsaparilla will effectuany
remedy. Don't delay-try it today.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

If the care of the hair were made a.
part Of a lady's education, we should
not see so many gray heads, and the
use Of Halls Hair Reviewer would be
unnecessary.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

Hay! The new American ambassa-
dor to the court Of St. James has ap-
peared in knee-breeches and silk stock
ings. We are anxious to learn If he
also wore a cocked-hat and a sword.
There is nothing like style. you know.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

According 10 report the fruit industry
of Missouri is a tremendous thing
more than 800, 900. 900 for 1897. Think
Of that. These are The st. Lou Re-
public's figures. That is a greater sum
THAI the combined wheat crops of Mis-
souri, and illinois.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

Mamma, was that a sugar-plum you
dear, it was n of DR.. Ayers Pills"
please, may I have another?" Not
now, dear; one of those nice pills is all
you need at present, because every
dose is effective
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

From the long silence as to the An
dree balloon trip north polward there
is u for much uneasiness that the
brave ~edventurer and his two daring
companions have been lost.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06
WRITING IN IGNORANCE OF
FACTS.

The New York Evening Post publish
es a most extraordinary communica-
ton signed "a Southern Woman" and
dated New York, July 26th. We say
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06
ROANOKE COLLEGE Oil: e!

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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. Is cents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
Railway Notes and Personals.

Nat Goodwin and company will reach
the city this morning from Denver over
the Rio Grande Western.
The u engines built for the Chinese
government by the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works are ready for delivery
General Agent Clay of the passen-
ger department of the Union Pacific
and Travelling Passenger Agent Rat
cliffe will return today from the west,
whittier both went some days ago.
Miss Clark, an eastern heiress of
prominence, will arrive from the west
this morning by the Rio Grande West
ern. She is accompanied by consid-
cradle party in the special Pullman
car Viceroy.
The lilac car will arrive this morn
ing from it's triumphal tour of the
Colorado mining camps. Everybody on
board is reported to be in excellent
spirits and full of praise for the well
come given them throughout the
Centennial state.
The report of the Union Pacific earn
ings for the year ended Dec. 81 shows
that the entire system of 1886 miles
was operated at total income of S.
1884 which left a deficit of 81, S93. SOC.
as against a like deficit of $1,514,319 for
the previous year. The Oregon Short
Line, 1,427 miles, was operated singly
under Union Pacific management at a
total income of $2.355,43S, leaving a de-
ficit of $54S,243 as against S55S, $50 for
the preceding year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
JAPANESE RAILWAY MAGNATEs.
Vice President of the Koya and
Others Will Arrive Here Today.

]. Y. Mort, vice-president of the
Koya, the principal railway in Japan,
will arrive this morning over the
Southern Pacific and Rio Grande
Western from San Francisco. He is
accompanied by Y. Kumswara, I. Sa-
kurai and S. Hasegawa. The entire
party is from Toxic and the members
are making an official investigation of
the railway systems of this country
and Europe. The line of which Mr.
Mort is one of the officials has recently
awarded contracts for the construction
of $500 miles of railway, and the best
method of operation as recommended
by these commissioners will be adopted
by the home company. The party will
remain in the city during the day.
The Koya line has recently placed
with the Brooks Locomotive Works
large order for locomotives of the six
coupled. double-ender, side-tank va
riety, with front and rear trucks. The
cylinders will be 15x22 inches and driv-
ing wheels 80 inches in diameter out
side. The tenders will have capacities
of 1850 gallons of water The boilers
will be 51-inch straight top radial
stayed, of Otis steel, for $50 pounds
pressure. The fire boxes will be sloped
over the flames. The engines will
have extension fronts, with the usual
draft appliances. The brakes will be
the American equali.ed hand brakes
and LIE Chatlier water brakes The
locomotives will also have NSthan lu-
bricators, Sellers injectors, Richardson
valves. Ashcroft gauges, French
springs and star headlights.