The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-06
UNDER THE NEW REGIME.
The Dispensary in Operation-The Girl
Preaeher-Notes Of Current News.

Correspondence Of The Messenger
Fayetteville. y. c.. July !.
AS your correspondent turned the
corner of Maxwell and Franklin streets
this morning he came across an .old
black hen. marshaling with doleful
cluck half a dozen -biddies." She was
probably leading her unwonted brood
TO the first mud puddle. there 10 shift
for themselves-and there was about
the whole procession an air of feeling
that they were in a false position be-
fore the public. a few minute later.
OF the corner of Market square and
Green street. he ran up with the county
dispensary in full disadvantages:
Judge Buxton, eX-occupant of the
bench, dignifieG member Of the bar and
Of society; Q. K. Nimocks, prominent
in business and church circles: Mr..
McCaskill, a sedate, upright farmer.
There was another case OF the sur
vival of the (un) fttest," and one could
not help thinking of the French adage:
Que lie diable font-ils dams cette
galere?" But, all pleasantly aside. we
congratulate ourselves, if there must be
q ~dispensary, that it is in the hands of
men of irreprcachable standing and
character.
Judge McIver's judgment in the case
of S. j. Guy VS.. the county commis-
sioners ct al, has been received, and
the gist thereof amounts to this-that
the complaint is dismissed as to the
dispensary board. but the commission
ers and the county treasurer are en-
joined, until the final hearing, against
the application of any public moneys
TO dispensary purposes. The establish
ment opened at 6 o'clock this morning.
in charge of Mr.. Ingold, a young nan
much esteemed in the community. The
Hotel Lafayette bar closed at 8 o'clock
last evening: of the other saloons, some
have their bars open, but, of course,
are selling nothing. Keepers contem-
plate putting grocery stocks into their
nements and catering to the hunger
of the masses, as they can no longer
quench their thirSt-recalling the era
of the in Philadelphia in
1883, when a change in the municipal
law having closed about 1900 barrooms
they incontinently went into the res
taurant business.
Large crowds flock nightly to hear
the cOlOred child preacher. If there be
any imposition practiced on the public
in this case (and your correspondent is
far from believing there isl, it has been
conceived with wonderful art. In the
first place, the girl has all the gawky,
spindle appearance in limbs and body
belonging to a growing child of II or
II years. Then, IN her discourse there
is none of the fluency and SmOothnesS
of a lesson carefully cOnned. Now and
then she halts, seeks for the right
word. and goes back to catch up the
thread of her argument. She is abso-
lutely without the self-cOnsciousness so
characteristic Of childhood, and, so far
as can be detected, almost without
emotion While preaching.
To a reflective observer, there is
something strangely impressive in one
of these meetings in Evans chapel. 1t
is a very large, handsome church, in
Of Rev. r. A. Scott, a portly
man of fine address. a large section of
the interior is set apart for the whites:
and, although the colOred people feel
intense interest in the services, they
crowd together in the galleries and
stand uncomfortably in the Hobbies.
while the ushers strain every nerve to
see hat the whites are seated. There
is the fervid, ringing music of a hymn
or two. and then this little child Of a
despised race-wearing her hat quite
ornate affair, trimmed with bright
pink ribbOnS-bOWS the heads of these
hundreds of cultured CaucaSianS in
prayer, warns them SOlemnly how they
shall lead their children to Christ. and
eXhOrtS them to come n De washed |
in the blood of the Lamb!
At the close of the sermon the girls
mOther-a dignified woman, gray hair
wearing a long black veil falling |
her back, comes to the front and
commences to sing in a high. but
very musical tone, a paean of rejoicing, |
in the chorus of which the whole vast
cOlOred congregation join. Here and
there through the building an excited
man or woman commences the holy
the girl preacher, calm and un-
moved, rises and makes her appoint
for the next day, and the whites
file out solemn and p~erpleXed.
Colonel c.. w. BrOadfoot and family |
are spending a few months at their
country place, Holly Springs. Mr.. E.
H. Jennings is at home for the holidays.
Colonel Gardner. chief engineer of the |!
Atlantic Coast Line, is at the Hotel
LaFayette; he has many friends here.
Captain J.. NJ. Fry, general manager of
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail-
way, came down from Greensboro yes
terday. Messrs. w. F. Leak and J. r.
Williams have been spending some time
at beautiful Lakewood.
beautiful little address before the
knights of Pythias on Tuesday even
ing on the present condition Of Cuba.
1t CAV great pleasure to his auditors.
A Big Boat Race Today
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