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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
THE Trial Of HIS LIFE FOUND GUILTY

And sentence passed by Judge Popu-
lace as being h criminal charged
with bringing down standard values
and underselling competition. GEO. 0.
GAYLORD. the Racket Store man. has
stood the test for air years and by
living on less than he made and divid-
ing his profits with his customers has
gained a large share OF the public
patronage and good will. He has al
ways been the first man in the race to
cut the. price on every article thai,
could be bought for less and the last
man to advance the price. The new
tariff law has not made until this day
the price advance on any article in my
store. Read my prices and see IL you
do not think the goods are very low
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
THE OPINION OF The MEDICAL
RECORD.

The great revolt against the foot
ball brutalities grows in force ana i'm
pronounce daily. We could gather every
day records of injuries. Before us in one
paper, New York Evening Post, Of
Thursday last We find this. a boy in
Pratt's Institute OF Brooklyn Was
crushed under a heap Of boys. He was
found lying ON the ground ~groaring
with pain. A doctor was quickly sum-
moned, and it was found that Pierce
had his collar one broken" At Stone
ham (Mass.) d grammar school be-
came a hospital because of he game
sprains, breaking of bones dislocatlG,
etc. One victim has water on Tie
knee" The account II the Boston Re
cord says: Several of the boys have
hobbled about for days, and attended
school only with the aid Of crutches.
Others have appeared with tandagei
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26

Ladies' and Gentiemen's Underwear.
Union Suits for Girls and Boys 8 to Il
years old. ut Soc a suit: Ladies' for 4Sc
a suit: Children's Suits. nice Merino.
size l6. at Sc each. Shirts and Pants.
large. l0c up 20 sc. Chilcren's Wool
suits for CSC to 30. Ladies' Wood Shirts.
extra big value, worth at least asc. I
bought in the summer at a price. now
1 offer them to you al soc each. Mems
Shirts from Is to 3Sc. Nice fleece lined.
DR.. Jaeger make. at SOC ach Ladies'
suit from 15c. long sleeve. heavier,
aeece lined. at sc. better half wool at
DC. Nearly all wool knit at 75c. oil wool
at CSC. Ladies'. Mems n Children's
he'd Flannel knit pants and shirts
from so to 81 IS each. Gents Gowns.
nicely trimmed, at SO and TSc each
Ladies' Gowns, plain. with RUNE at the
top, for SOC. Nicely trimmed at 76c
and 100. Ladies' Undershirts made Of
heavy Flannel. at soc. Black Satteen
Shirts at 75. IS. $1.2S: knit Shirts at SOC
each.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26

We have received a note from our
friend Colonel F. M. Parker,
one Of North Cardinals "bravest
Of the brave" in the great
war, announcing the death Of Mrs.
Thomas w. Nicholson, of Halifax coun-
ty, on 18th inst, at the home of her SON.
in-law, Mr.. Nelson, in Alabama. She
vas of the Thorne family, one of the
foremost in the old historic county.
She was perhaps seventy-five years Of
age, and indeed a n "elect lady" a most
piOus Christian and for half a century,
dist church, as were many others of her
family. She had two noble sons, Will
liam and Edward, to fall in battle in
the same week. Her son William was
a man of good intellectual parts and
if he had lived, as he once told us, he
intended to write a history of North
Carolina in the var of the states, a
work u%nhappily not yet written al
though SO much needed. We heard a
brave man say that Captain Nicholson
was the only man he met in the army
who was ever ready for a fight, and
never seemed happier than when
the revielle sounded calling men
to arms to meet the enemy.
The last time we met him, at
his fathers, he was at home wound
ed. We asked him if he knew in how
many pitched battles he had been en-
gagged. He said twenty-five. He saw
several after hat, and was killed in one
of the final fights around Petersburg.
He was as modest as brave, and like
his brother, who was killed in two or
three days Of him, he was a member
of the Methodist E.. Church. We know
a very interesting incident of his life,
but can not tell it here. It concerns
General Lee. We were told it by Gen
eral Lane, we him No county sent
better or drawer soldiers to Virginia
than Halifax, and among them there
were not superiors to Colonel Parker,
the Nicholsons, the W~iggins's, Captain
Octavius and Eugene, and Captain
Buck Kitchin.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
PUBLIC

The Globe-Democrat is rather lame
in it's election statistics. Two years ago
Governor Bushnell's plurality was 3d.
900, and in 1893 William Mckinley de-
feated Lawrence T. Neal by a plurali-
ty Of so, 000.-Washington Post.
This country will lose none Of it's
charm, though Henry Watterson is to
pass from dress parade to the darkened
corners of o~bscurity. 1t will continue to
be one sweet song of joy, just the same
as though Mr.. Watterson were in the
centre of the stage and under the full
glare of calcium and bunch lights
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The old adage that murder will OUT
is well illustrated. in the confession of
Mrs. Augusta Mack, the New York
woman, who charges her paramour,
Martin Thorn, with Staying and mutt
lating her former lover. William Gull
d%ensuppe, for whom she deserted her
legal husband. By this confession a
great mystery has been cleared away,
murders on record will soon be brought
to justice.-Houston Post.
It is said that several of the New
England cotton manufacturers who are
now visiting the south are on the look
out for sites on which to build cotton
mills. The Yankee has never been &C
cused of blindness to business oppOr-
tunitfes, and the fact that he sees in
the south the best of all regions for
the manufacture of cotton is a sufH-
cient guarantee that he will TAX care
to get his share of the advantages Of
fered here.-Atlanta Journal.
The only man in the United States
who is committed to the belief that
the Dingley tariff bill is a success in
every possible way is Dingley him
self. Others may think that it has
brought prosperity to the country, but
has failed to yield the necessary reve-
nue.. Dingley is committed to the be-
lief that it has brought both prosperity
and revenue. Some persons nay think
that even if it has been a success in
both these particulars, the American
people ave failed to appreciate it and
have come somewhat short of express
ing their admiration in the recent elec-
ton. Dingley was committed before
hand to the opinion that the elections
were highly satisfactory except in New
York, where two republicans were run
ming for the office of mayor.-New
York Evening Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
EUTLER'S DEFAMATION OF TIE
WHITES.

Tn Messenger has long since thought
given by the North Carolina democrat
fc press to Butler and his antics and
sayings. He would not have attracted
one-tenth the notice he has if he had
been really a superior mana great
man like Badger, or CASTOR, or Vance.
1t was his clatter, his red-mouth DEM
agogic TRADES, his ultraism, his vanity,
his assumptions of infallibility and all
mightiness, his stupendous impudence,
his monumental gall, his Identification
with the most extreme and unweary-
Ing hobby-riders, his sansculOtism
generally, his unterrifying and insatia-
BILE ambition-these are the elements
of this revolutionist hat have given
him such prestige in the past, and
drawn out so much Over-talk among
democrats about Butler and his doings.
The Messenger has only now and then
noticed this slanderer of the white race,
this deserter of the Anglo-Saxons and
the men Of the Aryan stock. 1t did
not yer refer to the reported abuse
and most foul attempted defamation Of
character in his recent speech at
Rocky Mount. 1t thought that possibly
the prating turncoat had been misun-
derstood, and that depraved as he is he
had not fallen SO low hat he could
bring against the white race in North
Carolina the damning charge that they
s~ere the cause of the rapes perpetrated
In North Carolina upon the white wo-
men-that the democrats were respon-
tsible for these diabolical crimes as they
sought to promote them. Moth
ing more positively absurd and
vicious, low and devilish, was ever con-
rocted in the brain of madness against
race of which the calumniator is
such a ~disgraceful representative. It is
d charge without the faintest SEM
blance of Justification. 1t is pure, UNI
Adulterated SANDER hat should have
clustered the throat n cankered the
tongue that expectorated the Shiny,
venomous accusation We refer to it
now because it was not a false report,
but the plain, unvarnished truth made
good by competent witnesses. There
was nothing lacking to make the hon
orable and se~lf-respecting white men
of the state hold the enemy of their
race n the maligner of the democra-
cy in that contempt which virtue and
honor must always regard as baseness
and pretense. He suggests what Mil
ton said of the speech of Satan when
he had been exalted "to that bad emil
Anence:"
But all was false and hollow
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
OVERCOATS ARD MACKIHTOSHES

Mems Overcoats. heavy and warm.
long and we'll made, at $3.50 up to S.. 90.
Fine Beaver O%vercoats, nice. new
stock, extra cheap at $500; satin lined
at $3.50 and $3.50.
Mems Rubber Macintosh Coats,
with long at s2.75, s4.00 and $500.
Mems d Pants and Coats. A good
Wool Coa at s1.50, Vest at SOC, Pants.
Cotton Jeans, at %, 40 and soc. Geor-
gia Kersey, heavy weight, SOC. Wool
Pants, heavy weight, S3c. Nice Pants,
one values, at $1.00 and $1.25; fine
Pants in pretty patterns, at $1.50, $1.75
and up to $3.50 a pair. We nave at
least 1000 pair Of pants to select from
and the best goods, you ever saw for
the money. Boys Suits with sailor
collars, braid trimmed Wool Cheviot,
at S1.39 a suit; nice, heavy Wool Suits
at SIPS; large boys Suits from 10 to Is
years old. at S1.50, $1.75 up to $500 a
suit. Very pretty styles at s1.75. Boys
odd pants at % n SOC. Boys Blue
Flannel, with button on top Golf
Caps, at 20; trimmed in gold cord and
nice quality at 25c. Mems heavy
FLANNEL and Beaver Caps at 25c.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
Mattings, Etc.

We have just received a large stock
of handsome mattings at low prices,
12Rc per yard. Also we have decided
to cut down our Carpets. Brussels at
As up to so. worth from So to 75c: In
grain Carpets from 20 to 4sc per yard.
worth 25 to Csc. We can and will save
you money on your carpets. mating.
and rugs. Chenille Curtains at $1.9S n
pair. Table Covers from % TO 75c. Piano
covers from $3.50 to $2.75 each. Piano
felt at 90c per yard. We have just re-
reived a new supply OF chairs. tables.
book cases and hat racks to give away
free with every $500 cash purchase.
We want your trade and have long
since had judgment passed on US as
being the lowest priced store in town.
We are very busy selling lots Of Ladies'
Hats. Trimmings, Shoes and Hosiery,
Notions, Corsets. Gloves. Umbrellas
and laces.
Come to Wilmington's Big Racket
Store. at 112 North Front Street, oppo-
site The Orion Hotel.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26

Our readers can bear witness to the
interest manifested by The Messenger
relative TO pure drinking water against
contaminated water. 1t has given
from year to year many facts and no
little evidence bearing on this subject
1t is one Of the most important of sub
jects, and no public journal a do bet
ter work or be more faithfully and
humanely employed han in spreading
information as to sanitation and ali
that concern the public health. The
New York S~enitarian in a recent arti-
Gle gave some facts illustrative of
vicious water supply. Writing of the
river Tees, in northern England, and
but ninety miles long. it says it runs
through towns with plenty Of opportu-
nifty for contamination. There are
hundreds of outhouses discharging into
the river underneath, and during dry
weather there is quite an accumula-
ton of it running down through a
lumber Of towns. About $50, 900 peo-
pie drink that water at the different
stations all the way down, while about
the same population do not, being stu
alter Though in the same sanitary dis
trict) so as to take their water supply
from other sources-making a pretty
good chance for comparison" What are
the known results. The people who
drink the Tees water are constantly
suffering from typhoid fever, while
their fellow towns-people, drinking
from other supplies, have no typhoid
fever increase amounting to any
thing" Very significant.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26

limbs, and scratches and bruises have
been and are now a very CONNIE n
sight. What makes the aspect CT sf-
fairs most serious is the knowledge that
these boys in nearly every instance are
from ten to fifteen years OK age and
not as yet out of the grammar grades.
The Providence (Rhode I5land) jour
nal says Brown ~universit. .eam play
ing in New York had two men carried
in an ambulance to the hospital and
there was much "slugging." The Yale
university medical bill for games for
the year, 1867, was 1886 %. This Is
copied from the Yale Alumni Weekly.
But the best sign of a growing revolt
is the opinion of the eminent doctors.
The leading American medical Journal
is the Medical Record, of New York,
That high authority is decided and
strong against the game. We copy a
part, only, but it is important:
I'm view of the great number Of St
rious accidents on the foot ball fs'd
between college teams, it is impossible
any longer to view the game in the
light Ol lIlLOCelll T6CTCdllSc amusement
with harmless and healthful athletics
as it's object. Although so-called slug
ging has ben ruled out in the new game
there is still left enough of brutal mus
cular force to make the alleged sport
productive of the greatest variety Of
surgical injuries to every part OF the
body. In fact, there is hardly a game
played in which some one of the con-
testants is not more or less seriously
hurt. Only the severer injuries are
noted, while the lesser ones serve as
enlivening incidents to call forth ne
plaudits of the excited audience. Short
of actual death on the field, not much
account is taken of the hundreds Of
young men who are oftentimes injured
for life as the result of the rough and
tumble methods of the match"
Other medical authorities are speak
ing in the north. They agree with the
Medical Record as to it's dangers, seri-
u casualties and smuggling abuses,
and say with it that cit should be
abolished" The New York Evening
Post, editorially c~ondemning the game
gives what a New York surgeon said:
Unless a player is so badly hurt that
he cannot enter the field again during
the season., the injury is generally dis
missed by both the young man himself
and the public as a mere trife, while
really he may suffer the effects always,
and more severely as he passes on from
middle life into old age. No, I do not
allow my son to play foot ball, recent
ly remarked an experienced surgeon of
this city who has a SON in college and
who is a hearty believer in college ath-
leticS rightly conducted. I have had in
my practice too many cases of water
on the knee and other such really Sc
rious %injurines, which players treat as
of no account, to be willing to have my
boy run the great risk Of a hurt hat
he will never get over"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26

DINA newspapers that Mr.. W. J.. Peele.
of Raleigh, a lawyer. and brother Of
our friend Rev. Mr.. Peele, former pas
tor Of Second Baptist church in this
city, had made an interesting discovery
He thinks he has found a genuine por-
trait of the eminent, faithful and wise
old statesman in the past, United
States Senator Nathaniel Macon, Of
Warren. He Is the pure and noble
North Carolinian Of whom the eloquent
and celebrated Johl Randolph, Of Vir-
GINA, said hat he was the wisest man
- ever knew. This Is stated in his
VIII. If Mr.. Peele has really made such
a find" he and the st It are to be CON-
congratulated.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
Tae Wessenuer,
DEATH OF ID. G.. WORTH, ESQ.

With genuine regret we have learn
ed OF the death of Mr.. David G. Worth.
OF the long established mercantile
house in this city Of Worth & Worth.
1t was not unexpected, for he had been
fn declining health for a year Or more.
Recently his condition was so serious
ms to arouse the a~pprehensions of his
family and friends that the closing
scene was very near. A sketch of his
Ufe appears elsewhere. In this place
we merely wish to emphasize L very
high regard for the deceased gentle
man, for such he was in the true sense
Aof that strong word, and to express our
conviction that no man in our city
bore a more honorable record and
sustained a higher character, and that
I'm his death the loss to Wilmington is
great. He built up a large fortune by
Industry, judgment, and fair dealing.
Vie was long a faithful, liberal membe
of the First Presbyterian church. He
~as humane considerable of others, an
excellent citizen, a true North Caro-
EDlAn, q most worthy ana nODle son
of the university of the state. He was
generous, faithful to friendship, liberal
In his benefactions, and a man when
well known, to hold in very high es-
feean and confidence. In more than
kwenty-one years Of residence here we
have known no one who has discharg-
ed more faithfully the duties n re-
spODsibilities that attach to citizenship
than David G. Worth. He has not been
noisy or demonstrative, for such was
NOT the temper or disposition of the
man, but he has been circumspect,
ready, awake to what concerned the
true interests Of Wilmington and the
state, as ne understood them. Those
who have known much more Of his re-
Eisious life than we are informed, can
better write of that. We had learned of
his readiness and Willingness to de-
part and be with Christ. His suffer-
fngs were very great and he longed to
be at rest in the home of the good.
"He a kept
The whiteness of his soul, and thus men
DER him Wept."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
MEMS AND BOYS CLOTHING.

is article that I handle in large
quantities. This stock is on our Sec
ond floor n overs a a 60x55
feet floor room and we have all new
his seasons styles and prices in Mems
Suits run very low.
A nice Black Cheviot Suit, nicely
made, at $3.50 a Suit.
A pretty Plaid Suit at $4.25.
A strictly all wool nice Suit, well
made. heavily faced. at $4.9S: better
Suits inc nicer good at $3.50 and $3.50.
Black Clay Salts at $3.75.
Corkscrew Suits at $500.
Splendid all boiled wool, 20-ounce
Clay Worsted, satin lined. at $40. 90.
either Sack or Getaway Suits.
Fine Imported Worsted, in colors.
Suits for young dressy men, at $3.50
and $13.5 G.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26

Ladies' Dress Skirts. made OF nice.
pretty goods, at $l.50 each: pretty
standard colors, all wool. at $3.50; bet
ter at $3.50. $500. $500. Nice Brocaded
Silk Skirts at $6.25. 800. $50. Silk
Merino Skirts at $3.50. We have q
large stock Of these goods and can At
and suit everyone. Dress Goods for
Waists and Suits are very plentiful.
We have a splendid stock and can sell
you pretty. all wool suiting. stylish
c%olors. al 25c per yard. Fashionable
Silks al 25, IS. Soc up to 81 90. Beautiful
Serges at Csc and "a inches wide. all
wool at 35c per yard. The Gold Medal
Dress Goods OF all kinds In Black at
so. 63. rs and CSC per yard. Lining.
Silk Buttons. Braids. Trimmings Of all
kinds to match.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26

North Carolina politics attracts more
or less attention in the north from time
to time. Russelrs performances have
drawn the eyes of both north and south
to him to some extent. His railroad pass
calamity has aroused both censure and
amusement. Occasionally a trick Of
Butler is glimpsed from a distance.
From that pronounced organ Of gold.
the New York Evening Post, We learn
through it's Raleigh correspondent, that
the new daily at Raleigh, to be called
the Morning Post, perhaps after the
aforesaid gold organ, is to be a gold
organ Here is what it said:
"It is true that among the stock
holders in the company are many Of rhe
most prominent sound money demo-
Gratis in the state, and one of the Dur-
poses of the paper will be to defeat
Organism inside the democratic party"
If that is really it's purpose it has a
very big job on hand-much greater
every way han the brilliant, able, dis
tinguished Henry Watterson had in
Kentucky. He failed and returns to the
fold he deserted. We do not propose
to anticipate the course of the new pa
per, but give the above for what it is
worth. It has been stated that Mr..
Robert NJ. Furman, of Asheville, is 10
be the editor. He has been a very pro-
nounced silver man. How can he edit
the Post if it's policy is as stated in the
extract copied?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
The OF all

Mr.. James Jones, of the drug firm Of
Jones & Son, Cowden, ILL.,, in speaking
of DR.. Kings New Discovery, says that
last winter his wife was attacked with
La Grippe, and her case grew so seri-
Gus hat physicians at Cowden and
Pana could do nothing for her. 1t SEEM
ed to develop into Hasty Consumption.
Having DR.. Kings New Discovery in
store, and selling lots Of it, he took q
bottle home, and to the surprise of all
she began to get better from first dose,
and half dozen dollar bottles cured her
sound and we'll. DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds is guaranteed to do this good
work. Try it. Free trial bottles at r.
r. Bellamy's Drug Store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
SHARPS AND FLATS.

The iron industry in the south is
steadily improving. In spite of hard
times there is much growth, and the
coal industry is also advancing with
steady steps. The editor of the Chat
tanooga Times has been writing up
these industries in the New York
Times. He says that in the south the
following states manufacture pig iron,
namely. Alabama, Kentucky. Georgia.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26

Diphtheria is prevailing considerably
among the children who attend the
public schools Of Baltimore. The
health commission directs attention 10
he drinking cups as a source of the
disease. The Baltimore American SAYS
the greatest danger Of a spread lies
in h water" Schools in other cities
might give special attention to the
water and the cups.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
home FOLKS.

We publish in the estate Press" de-
partment an extract from Asheville
Gazette that confirms what we thought
concerning the highest mountain in
North Carolina-Mt. Mitchell. We are
glad to get the facts from our friend
Furman
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26

See! Last year the Ohio republicans
swept the state with 81 ,009 plurality.
The election recently had gave but 2S,-
101 plurality-a loss Of 45 per cent. And
it was a personal Marx Hanna cam
paign, hardly fought, and no doubt
with the very free use of Doodle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
Bucklen's Arntca Salve

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands.
Chilblains, Corns, and all okin Erup-
tons, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction Of money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
r, r, Bell c.y,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
congratulated

What a deplorable chapter in the his
tory Of an old commonwealth that Is
filled with records of crimes and the
punishment that followed. They are far
worse than "gruesome sights Of war"
The Messenger for Sunday contained
One Of the convictions noticeable was
in Cumberland-selling cigarettes to
minors.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26

The short article in Sundays paper
nificance by the omission of the name
of the author. 1t was from a highly
distinguished northern source.