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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
The Kentucky Senatorial Contest,

frankfort, KY, Marcn 13.-The extra
session of the house opened at 10
y CLOCK and the enate convened at
moor The Blackburn men have sprung
a new scheme to beat Hunter. On he
flrst ballot the silver and sound money
democrats will vote for Governor
bradley and 50 may a dozen repub-
licans.
AT he conclusion of the reading Of
t1e governors message, both houses
adjourned until MONDAY without +aLD
ing any action or the question of
when to begin balloting for senator.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

OOoS
Skinner Blacklisted by Populists-Strain-
ed Relations Between the Governor and
Senator Pritchard Improvements AT
Agricultural Co~ilege-Lively Contest for
Federal District Attorneyships-Uepub-
Iicans Ridiculing Populists.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh, N. c., March Is.
The cost Of the state legislature will
very closely approximate that Of the
legislature Of 1852, 900. 1t served
two days without pay.
The regular populsts have blacklist
ed Congressman Harry Skinner and
now put him down as a republican.
There is some comment on Governor
Russelrs delay in giving out the names
Of the new state directors of the North
Carolina railway. 1t is said at the ex-
ecutive department la the lists will
be printed and all given out at n C.
The former directors have been notified
of their removal.
The strained relations between Gov
ernor Russell and Senator Pritchard
become more apparent day by day.
One wing of the republicans now
heaps ridicule on the boi..ng populists
as greedy fellows who care for moth
ing save Office.
improvements at the agricultural and
mechanical college continue. The hos
pital will be built during the summer.
The heating arrangements are defect
i've, owing to lack of boiler power, and
two large boilers will be put in.
There is quite a lively contest in
progress for the United States attor-
neyships Of the Eastern and Western
districts, as we'll as for the assistant at
torneyships. The hand Of Governor Rus
sell is said to be felt in this matter, too.
Granite will arrive here next week
to be cut into headstOnes for the graves
of the North Carolina soldiers buried at
Winchester, Va.
Secretary Of State Cyrus Thompson
received a letter today addressed to
Cyrus 3. Watson, secretary of
state. One came the other day address,
ed to Hon. John Sherman, secretary of
state Of North Carolina.
The steam filters are now at work
in the agricultural departments build
ing, which is to lave an independent
heating system.
DR.. Monroe, who is selected by Gov
ernOr Russell to be the head of the
Western asylum for the at Nor
canton, is said to be a democrat.
There appears to be no prospect of a
state base ball league in North Carolina
this yea
The legislature fixed the license tax
on fire and accident insurance compan-
les at 5000 and on life companies at
$3.50. The tax on all gross premiums is
2 per cent.
The cost to the state Of the election
in the legislature was 1881.
Governor Russell is manifesting much
interest in having North Carolina make
a highly creditable display at the Ten
nessee centennial exposition, opening in
April.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Mr.. H. l.. Cromartie, OF Lollie, Ga,
and Miss jamie S. Brady, daughter Of
Captain K. j. Brady, Of Westbrook,
N. c., were happily united in marriage
Wednesday evening at 7:3O O'Clock at
the residence Of the brides father. The
Rev. T. H. Newkirk, of Whiteville,
performed the The bride
was given away by her father. Mr.. w.
P. Monroe, of this city, was best man.
attending couples were Miss Katie
Brady, sister of the bride, with Mr..
John Halves, and Miss Henrietta Gro
martie. sister of the groom, with Mr..
James A. WOoten.
The residence was beautifully dec
GRATED with cut flowers, cedar and
moss. An elegant supper was served to
the guests.
Mr.. Cromartie and his bride left
Thursday for their home in Georgia.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
LOCAL POLITICs.:s.~ q
The Democratic Committee tc Meet To-
: night-The Democratic Primaries to Te
Held Friday Night and the Republican,
- Friday Night.

night-The Democratic Primaries to Te
Held Friday Night and the Republican,
Friday Night.
The registrars appointed al the met
ing Of the board of aldermen on Wed
nesday night, appeared at the city hall
Fridaynighta and were sworn in by F. B..
Rice, justice of the peace. They will
open the books of registration this
morning at 9 O'clock. All citizens who
expect to vote at the city election to
be held on the 25th instant for the
election of one alderman in a OF the
five wards Of the city, must register.
We learn that the act recently pass
ed by the general assembly to amend
the charter of Wilmington will be con-
tested in the courts by the democrats.
The question of the constitutionality
Of the measure will be raised.
We learn from Mr.. H. Mel. Green,
chairman of the county democratic ex-
ecutive committee, that the committee
has charged the date tor the democrat
ic primaries from Tuesday night to
next Friday night, March 18th. The
call will be made in due time.
The republicans will hold their pri-
maries next Tuesday night to nominate
candidates for aldermen in the five
wards.
Chairman H. Mel. Green gives no
tice in our advertising columns that
there will be a meeting of the county
democratic executive committee this
evening at 1880 o'clock at the office Of
w. B. McKoy, Esq, in the Smith
building.
The question as to who will be can
didates for the democratic nomanitiOn
for aldermen from the Second, Third
and Fourth wards is exciting much in
terest. There are no lack of aspirants.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Norfoik, Va, March 1.-The argument
10 the demurrer in the noted rate war
case closed this afternoon and the matter
hughes. The demurrer was ARMED -.
Messrs. Smythe and Thorn for the trust
companies and by Mr.. Robert NJ. Hughes
jurisdiction Of the court and the right nf
uonuholcers individually to interfere in
me analrs OF a rad except through the
Win Inc ion is not looked for
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
General Lees Family to Return.

Havana, March 13.-The family of
Consul General Lee will return to the
United States within two weekS This
is thought t o be preparatory to a
change in the consulship.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Becker see by the posters that
Footllghts, the tragedian, travels under
his wife's management.
Decker-So does most men, only they
don't advertise it.-Tit-Bits.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
new STATE DIRECTORS
OF NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD
AN EXECUTIVEssECRET.

Cost of the Legislative ession-Harry
Skinner Blacklisted by Populists-Strain-
ed Relations the Governor and
Senator Pritchard Improvements at
Agricultural Coilege-Lively Contest for
Fedora District ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
licans Ridiculing Populists.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
Poultry.

If chickens are stunted by being
overcrowded in their coops, or by in
sufficient feeding, or by failure to
keep them warm and dry, or by not
protecting them from vermin, it
will be difficult to raise a flock with
profit.
Poultry will be Improbable if not
given good start, like all things
else on the farm. 1t only pays to
keep them when you keep them
well, attending to their needs as
carefully as you do those of the
horses and the cows.
Invest $40 in a good COW, and as
much in poultry; give them equal
care and keep strict account of ex-
penses and receipts (yOu will not eX-
pect the cows stable to go unclean-
ed for a month, nor the COW to pick
up her own living). You will then
know whether fowls pay or not.
One reason why hens lay more
eggs in summer than in winter is
because they are dependent upon
themselves. They pick little here
and there in delightful variety, and
have no chance to glut themselves.
Often he censures his own man
agement who complains that his
chickens die from gapes. They
should not be allowed to follow their
own uncleanly tendencies. They
befoul their own water, and drink
endless numbers of disease germs.
Give the little chicks your best
attention; even pure bred fowls,
with scrub treatment, are never
satisfactory. Especially give the
little ones pure air to breathe at
night.
Young fowls need to be especially
well fed when putting on their coat
OF feathers. This is merely one of
the steps in that good management
which results in profits-prOfits
which never come from haphazard
methods.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
What lanes Was Reading.

james, dear, will you bring me
up scuttle of coal from the CELLAR"
said busy wife.
That's just the way with you"
said James, with a frown, as he put
down his book and rose from the
arm chair.
Just the way with me?"
Yes" he snapped. "As soon as
you see me enjoying myself, you
have something or other for me to
do. Didn't you see 1 was absorbed in
my reading?'
well, dear, l will do it myself
Eyes, and tell everybOdy-your
mother especially-that you have to
carry your own coal up from the
cellar. No, I'll do it. Let me
mark my place"
So he marked the place in the
book at which he had ceased read
ing, and when he went down into
the cellar, grumbling all the way,
she picked up the volume and found
it was a love story, and that the pas
sage he had been absorbed in was
as follows:
MY darling, when you are my
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
Dairy.

The scrub which shows more than
ordinary merit at the pail has a
pedigree back of her somewhere. A
good mich cow is not the product of
a day nor mere matter of accident.
She is a gradual development.
Usually the man has the better
herd who raises his own calves. He
knows the stock. AS they are at
home, they will do their best when
taken good care Of, and especially
do good cows suffer when put in
strange herds.
Though always an economical
feeder, good cow has no power to
make something out of nothing. On
the other hand, a poor cow can make
nothing out of something and half
try.
The worth of a cow depends in
large measure upon her capacity to
eat and digest large quantities of
food. The capacity of the owner is
shown in his ability to feed her
right.
There is no profit in 10 cent butter.
If you are not sure Of your ability to
do better than this, keep out of the
dairy business; but there is no ques-
ton as to yOnr getting above this
mark if you try.
If all the details, from bedding to
milking, be carefully and correctly
attended to, there will be no animal
odor. Animal odOr Is manure Odor
nothing more no less.
If the right kind of stalls are pro-
vided and proper bedding and
enough of 1t are used, the udders of
the cows will be fairly free from
Objectionable matter. Be there
ever so little, brush it off.
The time a heifer is allowed to go
dry before her second calf affects
her habit all the rest of her life
Three IT four weeks is enough The
very best cows can be hardly dried
off, the inbred tendency to milk
production having been developed
so strongly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
Game 10 the Last,

The Sevierville Star was in a whole
lot of trouble last week. Somebody
filed bill to close it up but the edi-
tor looks at the situation with grim
humor. 1t also takes occasion to
shoot parting arrow at some of its
enemies. The following are some Of
its paragraphs:
IF we never come back, Just tell
them that you saw u.s."
when some of the leading moral
lights of Sevierville get to their eter
nal home they will dethrOne Satan
and run Hades to suit themselves. -
THE divorce suit between John
and Lizzie Chandler showed the
standard of virtue of some Of the
leading moral lights of the town.
"If you do not get Star next week
you may know that the fighting rep
resentative of the pike commission
and his cOadjutors have wound
us up
1--WE get out a paper a few days
earlier this week to let the public
administrators have better start at
winding up our affairs"
"tf you fail to get a Star next week
you may know that the manipula-
tors have got us, and will be after
you in few DAYS for what you owe
US on subscription"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
Agricultural and Live Stock Department.

waste places, let sweet clover take
the place of rag weed, that your bees
may have a delightful feeding
ground. None Of the 'honey plants"
excel clover in virtues.
A small piece ofpotatO can nourish
but one eye, and increasing the
number of eyes and not the size Of
the piece is of no avail. The eyes
at the seed end are but little more
than a single eye.
Every wagon of the farmer and Of
the city merchantmen should be a
road maker instead of a rut maker.
The day for narrow tires is passing
away, and it can not go too soon.
Let not those who use commercial
fertilizers almost exclusively forget
that it will benefit the land to have
a crop of clover plowed under every
few years to Tighten and mellow the
soil.
When raw bone is ground and
placed under the soils surface it be-
gins to feed the crop in a very little
while; it dissolves slowly, but stead
lily, yielding up nitrogen aud phos-
phoric acid, but no potash.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14

There is a mutual benefit in the
plan.
Cultivate the raspberries. Then.
il you have timber and labor to
throw away, stake them; if not,
make bushes, not vines, of them, as
you would currauts or gOOseberries.
A. out the hills of melons or Gu
cumbers place light board frames,
without tops; no covering of netting
will be necessary. The bugs will
fail to find the plants inside these
frames.
Farmers would make much more
of their gardens if they would make
a practice of preserving seed in
abundance for their own use. Gar
dens will pay for all the "tinkerin'
round they get; and the more of it
they get the better will they pay.
Because apples and pears are
hardy and do comparatively we'll on
almost any soil, and in very adverse
conditions, it does not follow that it
would not pay to give them better
cultivation.
AS rule our fruit trees are utter
" neglected and allowed to take
care of themselves from the day
they are once established. This is
why the many find no money in the
business.
We can not give the larger fruits
high culture, but they need fertll-
izers as much as any other; we can
not pillow about them because of the
roots, but with mulches we can
keep the surface soil moist.
There needs be no further Demon
stration that in the growing of
Strawberries and other small fruits
high culture makes all the differ
ence in the world with the quality
and the size of the fruits.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
Stock.


The time limit now has all to do
with the profit in raising stock.
Give good food to stock of early ma
turing tendencies, and the pork or
beef will be made in half the time
our fathers counted on.
If live stock is profitless during
the winter it is not owing to the ne
cessities Of the case, but rather to
the character Of the stock or the
mode of its keep.
Stock is property which grows the
plants and all productive growths
from the soil are dead property dur
ing considerable portion of the
year.
There is no animal which is not
benefited by an occasional grooming
even a hog. 1t would be easy to
give the COWS a brushing every
morning when stables are cleaned,
If good stiff broom was kept at
hand.
If the weather be warm, it is no
excuse for not warming the milk for
the calves, for cold milk will upset
them a backset to be regretted.
In fruit grating we procure the
full duplication of the fruit of the
higher quality, but with stock we
can not depend upon the sire giving
more than half his good qualities to
his progeny.
When ground with corn the cobs
are great value on account of their
percentage of potash, and the potas h
is necessary as chemical element
to change the blood to milk, and the
albumen to casein in cheese.
Bury the dead animals deep under
ground, covered with lime or car
bolic acid before the soil Is thrown
over them, that no cOntagion of bac-
terra may infest the air or drain
away into the water.
Keeping stock contented is great
factor toward keeping it thrifty. An
animal will then rarely be restless,
and will have nothing to keep 1t
from converting food with rapidity
into some valuable product.
The same expenditure of a feed,
care and time upon well bred ami
NAL means much larger per cen
tage of profit than when a scrub is
the recipient. To prove it, try it.
1t is of no advantage to have food
before animals all the time; wheth-
er it be grain or roughness, the eco
nomical plan is to give them what
they will eat up clean.
If any animal is not making gain
it is pretty surely making loss.
Feeding for maintenance merely is
feeding for profit. This is true for
all seasons of the year.
Improvements in farm animals
must be looked upon in the light OF
ENGRAVING, and the practice must be
carried out on that basis. Be sure
that your CRAFTS are better than your
stock, always.
Sorghum will not make as much
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
Agriculture.

Good roads place the remote farm
er, who pays as much for all he buys
and gets no more for what he sells
than the farmer nearer market, upon
a more equitable basis of competi-
ton.
If manure is kept in compost
heaps until thoroughly rotted, and
then spread as evenly as possible
over young clover, it probably does
land more good than if used in any
other way.
When frost first comes out of the
ground docks can be pulled out en-
tire, and easily. This spring many
were nearly cast out by the frost
alone, and vigilant eyes saw the OPP
portunity to finish the work.
Fifty per cent. of the manure on
many farms is allowed to go to waste
around improperly arranged barns
and yards. Such things as cutters,
cisterns and roofs will all earn their
cost.
Many a field of wheat will be cut
this summer and improperly shock
ed and then left in the field until
badly injured; all this in spite of the
lessons of last year.
There should be as much enter
prise, ingenuity and science among
the farmers of the United States as
among those of any country in the
world, and attention is called to the
sugar beet industry as one capable
of Indefinite expansion.
Grass plant roots need protection
from both the summers sun and
from the frosts of winter, and moth
ing will furnish this better than suf.
ficient top foliage. Do not pasture
too closely.
Let us give beet sugar an exhaus.
tive trial. This use of the land will
procure higher prices for corn and
wheat, beside making us independ-
ent of other countries for our sugar
supply.
ii seed is caught by frost before
becoming ripe the chit or germ
crumbles to a fine powder and dies
so the test of a good seed is it,
cheesy nature, and infallible.
Manure is so valuable that it IL
worth carrying away from the caves
Of the barn. Take it to some safe
place and pile cOmpactly in a soliC
heap, under shelter, II, possible.
If no other use can be made Of the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
Information AbOut Greece.
has a population of 9197 0n9.

1t has a population of 2,lS7 POS.
1t is called "Hellas" by its people.
1t has an area of 24,977 square
miles.
The mean temperature of Greece
is 81 degrees Fahrenheit.
No part of Greece is forty miles
from the sea or ten from the hills.
About one-halt of the population
are agriculturists and shepherds.
1t is the only country in the world
whose armies are provided with the
Gras guns and paper-covered car
tridges.
The Greek flag is white cross on
a blue grOund-the Bavarian colors
and the Greek cross.
Greece is more thickly populated
than any other country in Europe,
with the exception of Sweden and
Prussia.
1t has few rivers and many hills.
None OF the former is navigable and
many of the latter are fortified.
Its present boundary limits were
determined by an arrangement
among Great Britain, France,
Russia and Turkey, concluded at
ConstantinOple on July 81, 1882.
Only about 10000 OF the inhabi-
tants speak any language other
than Greek, and only about 10000
profess any religion other than the
orthodox.
The chief characteristics of the
average Greek are his inquisitive-
ness, fondness for excitement, love
of discussion, desire for knowledge,
an aptitude for learning, and aggres-
sive patriotism.
The climate has two striking pecu-
liarities-the heat in summer and
the cold in winter are far more in
tense than those of any other
country in the world lying in the
same latitude. Cell once remarked
that in travelling through the Mores
in March he found summer ir
! Messenia, spring in LacOnia, anC
winter in Arcadia, without having
moved beyond a radius of fifty
miles. New York Sun.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14

A sea-captain and a lawyer lived
next door to each other. One very
windy night the lawyer was reading
a book in his. study when a terrific
crash upstairs startled him. Upon
investigation, he found that a
chimney had buried itself through
his roof, doing considerable damage.
He discovered it was the sea-cau.
taiD's chimney. fastening down
to his library, he pulled out his law
books and hunted up similar cases,
devising and scheming how he
could secure satisfaction from the
detcstable captain. While thus en-
gagged, note arrived from his enemy
that read as follows: "Sir-If YOU
don't return those bricks at once, !
will put the matter in the hands of
the law. "-Argnnaut.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
Delightful Oh itnarY Verse.

Is there anything funnier than
obituary poetry? The Atlanta Con-
stitutiOn brings to light this
Aaron has crossed the river
And climbed the stairs so high;
He is warm, but we're left to SILVER
Goodby, Aaron, goodby.
That word warm" seems to be
painfully suggestive of dire posi-.
bilities. The couplet, however, as a
whole. is hardly up to the standard
Of a quantrain printed a year ago in
"a Chicago paper, which read:
The window was open,
The curtain was drawn,
An angel flew by
And Jimmy was gone.
Time erald.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
Cut Worms.

The Southern Planter" gives the
following advice concerning cut
worms, which is probably worth ex-
perimenting with on small fields:
MANY thousands of dollars worth
Of vegetables, corn, toboccO plants,
ETC., are destroyed each spring by
cut worms, which cut off the young
plants near the ground as soon as
these have been set out. The best
remedy for these worms is to pre-
pare the ground early, and about a
week before planting make up a
quantity of balls Of fresh clover, cab
bage leaves, or bran moistened with
paste Of ten parts paris green to
one part flour. Drop these balls
throughout the field about twelve
feet apart. The worms coming to
the surface and finding nothing else
to eat will devour the poisoned ball
and be Destroyed. Fresh balls must
be placed every three days and had
better be continued until the young
plants are out Of danger. In spite Of
precautions, some plants may be cut
off. When a plant is found freshly
cut, dig away the soil for two inc hes
around it and the worm will be found
near bv.n
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-14
Nonresident Notice.
CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE,
Columbia, Nav IL, 1897,


Martha Cant, COL, Complainant, VS..
Martha Caldwell, COL, ct al, Defen-
dant.
happening from affidavit filed in this
cause, that the defendant, Matilda Cor
don, is nonresident of the State Of
Tennessee,
1t is therefore ordered that she enter
her appearance herein, before or with
in the first three days of the next term
of the Cbancery Court, to be held at
Columbia on the first Monday in July,
next, 1897, and plead, answer or demur
to Compliments bill, or the same will be
taken for confessed as to her and set
for hearing ex parte; and that copy Of
this order be published for four consecu-
tive weeks in the Columb ia HERALD.
\ Copy-ATTEsT:
A. y. AKIN, Clerk & Master
J. a. Smiser, Sol'r for CompPt.
mayl4 It