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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-18
NOT FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE.
President Michigan, of the A beyilIe
Bank, Denies the Charges Against Him
and Cashier Misunderstanding Fire
~Noar Tarboro
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial to The Messenger.)
Tarboro, n. c., March 15.-Judge Phil
lips lost a large barn on his Knightland
farm Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock. All
his farming implements on this farm
were destroyed. It was an incendiary
fire. Judge Phillips m his loss at
s.. 900. He had no insurance.
In yesterdays edition of The News
and Observer was a dispatch taken from
The Telegraph, of Macon. Ga, stating
that the Bank of Abbeville, Ga, had
been closed and that the cashier had
left for parts unknown. 1t also seemed
that the cashier had made an assign
ment Of the bank. and before he left the
wrong combination TO the bank safe had
been purposely given to the assignee.
This article concluded by saying that or
ders of arrest had been sent out for the
cashier. H. T. Latham, and the president,
J. G. Michigan.
1t is a fact that the bank has made
an assignment, but it is not a fact that
the cashier Or the president nave alb
seconded. Mr.. Latham and Mr.. Michigan
are both from this county. Mr.. Latham
is now residing in Abbeville, and has
charge of the bank of Abbeville, of which
Mr.. Michigan, who resides here, is pres
ident. These two young men left here
several months ago and went to Able
vile and bought out the bank of Able
Vile.
Mr.. Michigan, of Tarboro, informs your
correspondent that the statement as
made in The Telegraph is untrue. Soon
after the assignment papers were writ
ten, Mr.. Latham left Abbeville for At
Ianta to have them recorded, and his
absence on business was heralded over
the country as fleeing from prosecution.
Nj. Michigan says that the cause OF the
assignment was due TO a heavy run on
the bank by time depositors who were
drawing interest on these deposits. and
whose time for withdrawal was not due
until the LIST of July. He says that there
are sufficient assets to pay off ali the
Indebtedness of the bank and this will be
done within the next thirty days. when
the bank will resume business as be-
fore.
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GOSSIP

Mrs. Hamilton, an English woman of
letters, has been long engaged in max
ing a translation of G~regovins' His
tory of the City of Rome" The fifth
volume has Appeared. Three other
volumes are to follow. There must be
a great deal of interesting information
to be found in this massive work.
A new edition of the works Of Rev.
George Berkeley is to be published in
England, edited 10y George Sampson.
Berkeley was a very extraordinary
man, a much greater thinker and
writer than is commonly understood
London "Literature'' old that he
was the greatest English metaphysi-
clan" and had extraordinary gifts of
style"
A life of very distinguished Cardi-
inal Wiseman, Of England, has been
published in two large volumes and
is by Wilfred Ward, who is a promi-
nent literatus and scholar. Cardinal
Nicholas Wiseman was born in Spain
of Irish parents settled there in loO2.
He was honest, true, able, a most ex-
emplary controversialist and very
genial as a man
Mr.. w. f. Henley, the famous En-
glish critic and a very bright one, has
published a volume of poetry that is
not highly praised as such. He is
thought not to tbe genuinely inspired,
but to write verse (mainly descriptive
by force of intellect and resolution,
rather than from real poetic endOW-
ment. His verse is vivid, smooth,
strong, but lacks the divine affatus.
What we have read showed literary
skill, quick movement, eff
fort, very spirited, and radiant with
intellectual light.
Recently there ave been republished
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oppressors. Read the awful account in
yesterdays Messenger gievn by Colonel
NJ. NJ Parker, who recently visited
Cuba with Senator Proctor. They had
full opportunities for observing in the
country, as we'll as towns, and what
they saw and report is simply heart
rending and ~sdckening. The Spaniards
destroyed all n people had among
whom they operated, and then COM
PEELED the survivors to come into the
towns. Colonel Parker says:
You might believe, but you could
not realize, the condition of the recon-
centradoes in Cuba. 1t passes h COM
p~rehension of a man accustomed TO
the usuai phases of life. Their emacia-
ton is terrible, their suffering indie
scribable. We saw warehouses full OF
starving women and children"
What a picture OF human suffering
and woe and helplessness. But it
would be a wrong step to annex Cuba,
unless this country is to throw all
previous policy and tradition to the
winds and become a country of on
quests after the British example. That
means double taxes and a navy of
huge dimensions at enormous cost. 1t
means voters that are not desirable for
our country.
We hope Justice Harlan's views will
be repudiated. They will do harm,
and encourage the wrong. We would
be gratified to know that he has been
misrepresented. AT this time such ex-
pressions. from such a high source,
will do damage for, as The New York
Times observes,
The government of the United States
is involved in a situation of great deli
cacy and of possible serious difficulty
on cou of the condition Of affairs
in Cuba, and this situation nay be
greatly aggravated when the facts as
to the destruction of the Maine shall
be officially made known. In meeting
it, the government needs and has
shcwr much discretion and calmness
o. e part of every responsible Of
fetal"
''Jingoism'' and wild talk of conquest
are not out of place in our country at
any time, in any place, and more es-
pecially at such a critical juncture in
American affairs. Put or the breaks.
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Supreme Court Decisions
Special to The Messenger.)

tSpecldl 10 Inc N1cSS6lSeI.D
Raleigh, n. c., March 15.-The su-
preme court files the following opin-
ions: Blake VS.. Blake, from Wake,
motion to reinstate appeal denied;
Whitney Glass Works VS.. Sneed, from
Durham, motion to docket and dismiss
defendants appeal under rule II, al
lowed; State VS.. Hanna, from New
Hanover, appeal dismissed, upon
ground that the same cannot be taken
from the criminal court directly to the
supreme court; Ross VS.. Davis, from
Granville, affirmed; Shoe Company VS..
Hughes, from Orange, new trial; Bla
loo VS.. Strain, from Orange, error;
Garner VS.. Worth, from Wake, revers-
ed; Scarborough VS.. Scarborough, from
Wake, affirmed; Fort VS.. Penny, from
Wake, reversed; McCracken vs..
Smathers, from Haywood, affirmed;
Causey VS. Snow, from Guiford, affirm
ed; Gable VS.. Railroad, from Guilford.
new trial; Andrews Us. Andrews, from
Chatham, two appeals, decided in IA
vor Of plaintiff; Vass VS.. Brewer, from
Wdhc, dlllTIIltu, Maroon vs.. fSdllTOa1,
from Johnston, new trial; State VS..
Hester, from Wake, affirmed; Ray
mond VS.. Newman, no error.
The case of Garner VS.. Worth is one
which involves the costs in the Pamli-
CO and Carteret oyster cases. The su-
preme court holds that the costs ad-
judged against the state are not gen.
eral expenses Of the state; hat no ap-
preparation is provided by law for the
payment, and that the judgment of
h owe I'll making the state
liable is merely recommendatory TO
the legislature which will have 10 pro-
vid for it. Father Worth is in a
state Of joy at this decision. He was
greatly depressed earlier in the day
because he vas forced 10 pay for a
mileage book for Chairman Caldwell
Of the railway commission.
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TNWISE AND UNTlN1ELY VIEWS

Justice Harlan is beyond oub one
,DF the leading minds on the United
Ssrates supreme court bench. We very
x1s4lrh doubt if there is a more vigorous
intellect among the nine jurists. He is
MOI afraid of his own conclusions, and
has several times freely the
attitude of the court in some OF It's
3~a5Yerances He has disturbed some
geg the northern people recently by his
CyUInion relative to Cuba. 1t was not
from the bench he spoke, but in an
Interview" He had been charged
with having advised the president as
so the proper course to he pursued in
ssaaling with Cuba. But this he de-
MES, but adds this:
But L am free to say that, in my
opinion, there are two additions
(Which the United States must make
10 its territory for its protection and
xafety-Cuba and the Hawaiian Is
lands. 1t would be folly, almost GRIM
fna4 to neglect the opportunity now
presented of acquiring possession OF
Hawaii."
AT this particular time, when the
american people are so deeply aroused
t,y the prospect of war with Spain, II
might be that a majority OF voters
.zs,YYd favor the annexation OF Cuoa
E2ar ave do not believe that they WouIo
TaEor the annexation of HaWall. LIE
latter is 2,20O miles from the neares'
rs,int on the Pacific coast OF the Unit
ed States. 1t has but a few thousand
zTye or six of whites and lots oil leperS
ard half breeds. Cuba lies close to oul
doors. Its people have been terrlol!
punished by their Spanish enemies ant
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Congress is wisely disposed to build
SIX %,attleships instead of three. Our
navy is too small for peace times, and
Tar too small for war. DO you know
THAT England's avy is now nearly six
times as great as that Of the United
St2ses? England has in terms of value,
5<-5. and this country has but 100. Then
fsJk at the other great powers. France
stands 37.5; Russian, 22.5; Italy, POO.
Think Of allowing italy to double the
Envy Of this great republic. The Unit
I'd States stand numbe five. After
1a"m comes Germany with 9.S, and
Spain with but As. Austria has "a. 1t
1EEDuid do we'll not to think of helping
spain 1t is said that Germany has
enlarged it's navy as it is now fifth, put
ing our own country sixth. But re-
<cent preparations will no doubt keep
tAe United States fifth in the column.
Rear Admira Frederick V. McNair
TX az the mead now of the navy and will
E~> IN command if war comes. He is
CD years old. He is described as big
axhf brave, with a massive head, gray
eyes and open forehead, and a voice
u voice that is capable of the force of
IL speaking trumpet, with a heap more
of melody.
This is the man who will be practi-
ca2fy the foremost figure on the Amerf-
ran side should we go to war, for no
tszse doubts that the burden of such a
WRIT wOuld fall on the navy. He has
always been a marked nan in the ser
vice which he has now adorned for
10g4y-five years"
Orders have been certainly sent to
Europe for more ships. They M be
obtained. England has supplied Spain
si1a1 some destructives.
The two vessels purchased by Brazil
are not armored, but the guns are
protected. Their names are the
Amazonas and Admiral Abrevail. They
are English built. They are steel
.skeathed. The Amazonas is about the
size of our cruiser Charleston, but
xnuch faster. Her guns are of unusual
power and range 1t a cross the
Atlantic without coaling. "A descrip-
ton of the two says
"The cruisers carry no armor in the
ordinary sense, but their machinery is
protected from the fire Of the guns by
an arched steel deck just below the wa
ter line, varying in thickness from 1.2O
10 3.5 inches. The battery has an un-
usual train, being arranged to fire
1hree ahead and three astern of the
principal guns"
Spain is hurrying up. She has one
1otiIla of torpedo boats on the way TO
Cuba, and will soon start a second n
In the meantime its press is making
Itself ridiculous in buster and in ridi-
ale OF the United States. The Span
Ns.sh cruiser recently at New York will
sGpsn arrive at Havana. Spain is great
IA worried over the United States be-
muse they do not honestly favor au-
If they did peace would come
xss The weary Cubans and much to the
relief of the distressed and anxious
Spanish army in Cuba. 1t would be-
.>nrEe Spain at this j%uncture to be
tr2uTning over the destruction OF the
Maine and the numbering of 25S Amerl-
IAN sailors, and what may come OF the
<4arnning barbarity and treachery. With
1az immense beam of reproach IN us
OWN inflamed eye, it is trying to pull
.s,ut the mote of noncompliance from
raz. optics keen of Uncle Sam now cloth
10 in a full suit of military roguery,
md armed cap-a-pie.
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WILMINGTON, n. C.
WAR PiCK-UPS

FRIDAY, MARCH IS, 1898.
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It is one thing to surve yourself
with pride, and quite another to TX
plore your heart with humility.
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"A man without a creed of some kind
IS a man withou; a moral backbone,
The record-union., 1898-08-14
THE JOINT COMMISSION.

"A Canadian Liberal" writes in the
North American Review" glowingly
and generously of the Joint High Com
mission erected by Great Britain and
the United States. charged with the
amicable and satisfactory adjustment
Of all outstanding disputes between the
two Governments concerning matters of
Irritation and Of commercial policy. He
dds:
1t is an emphatic Endorsement by
both Governments of the principle of
arbitration. 1t is a movement rejecting
, the best spirit of the highest existing
form Of civilization. Perhaps no diplo-
matte conference has ever been intrust-
ed with more important functions. Upon
the issue of its deliberations hang con-
sequences of the deepest Importance to
the present, and consequences that will
reach far down into the future. the un-
folding Of whose mighty issues man
kind will watch with bated breath
The gravity Of the matters in hand
Is ihndeniable, and that erection of the
commission is measurably an indorse-
ment Of the principle of arbitration
none will deny. But there is in it no
Endorsement of the policy which it was
a few months ago desired by our Eng
lish cousins to force upon this country.
namely, the establishment of a per1na-
Pnent high court of international arbitra
tion, with the pledge that nearly all
questions Of dispute, mo matter what
their character. should be referred to
that court, and It's decision should be
binding upon both Powers.
The Record Union at the time Wig
orously opposed the suggestion, though
the idea had the support of many of
our contemporaries and Of many of the
statesmen Of the land We believed
then and still hold that such a compact
would not be beneficial to the nation:
would serve to bind us in commercial
slavery to Great Britain, and amount
to annexation Of the United States to
England.
We then held and still maintain that
arbitration must stand upon the merits
of each case: that in itself arbitration
under the conditions Of each case sug-
gesting it may be commendable and Is
to be resorted to to avoid war, If it can
be done without sacrifice -of national
The record-union., 1898-08-14

The story is that Russia. has secured
complete control Of Newchang. thus
stripping China of any important port
in Manchuria and Shen-King. When
England conceded the right of Russia
to secure her terminal privileges in
Manchuria she parted with the right to
protest against any occupancy essential
to the construction of the Russian rail-
way and the security of it's terminal
points on the Chinese coast. England
now discovers her error and is attempt
ing to regain lost ground by playing
for the open door policy for the con-
ceded ports, thus opening them up to
her own and the trade of all other coun-
tries. So far as Newchang is con-
cerned, the British have a treaty ac-
cording them free trade in that harbor,
which is binding upon Russia, and the
late concession to her cannot therefore
fears is a gradual absorption by the
Cars Government of the entire Chi
nese coast down to the limits of other
foreign possessions, hence her conten-
ton that the open door policy should
be the rule. She not only breads, but
possibly will make manifest her fear
that the real object of Russia is to an
mex in time the Chinese ports the Car
now occupies. Any voicing of such a
protest, however, would amount to the
offensive, and justify Russia in so re-
buking the English timidity as to bring
on dangerous friction between the two
Govprnnooptc
The record-union., 1898-08-14
Los Angeles. January l. 1896.

To the Public: / was seriously afflicted
for about ten years with lung liver and
kidney troubles Tongue could never ex-
press the misery l endured during those
years l was reduced in flesh until l was
q mere skeleton; my sight and hearing
were badly impaired: was constantly
troubled with constipation and piles, and
had a severe chronic cough. In short, life
was a burden and death would have been
welcome | was treated by various spe-
cialists without avail. ! finally resolved
to give Dr. Wong Him of No. 639 Upper
Main street a trial. OF course, like many
others. I had no faith in a Chinese doc
tor. but it only took a few doses of his
life-giving herbs to knock all the skepti-
cism out of me- In just five weeks the
doctor pronounced me cured, and now
can truthfully say that l never was
healthier and never felt better in my life.
Ny sight and hearing are both fully re-
stored; that obnoxious cough, constipa-
ton and piles are entirely cured and L
am rapidly gaining in flesh, having gained
forty pounds in two months.
I earnestly recommend all sufferers and
skeptics to give the doctor a trial and be
convinced of his superior skill a physi-
clan. JOHN M. STEVENSON,
620 Bellevue avenue. Los Angeles Cal
The record-union., 1898-08-14

Senator and Governor from California?
What earthly or other difference does
it make whence come the candidates if
they are competent, able and represent
ative of the whole State? We do not
care up in this part of our common
State whether the candidates for Gov
ernor hail from Squat Ham and Pin
Hook or from Milpitas and Yuba Dam.
Nor do we care tinker's sacriligious
blessing whether these places honored
by candidacy are in the south, center,
north, east, west, valley or mountain
sections, as long as they are in Cali
fornia, and the men nominated are fit,
competent, able, representative of Cali
fornia and her highest interests.
Is the Senator to be chosen by the
next Legislature to represent Southern
California or Northern California. or
Coast California or Mountain California
or Valley California, or just simple,
plain, grand, glorious, magnificent Cali
fornia, from Siskiyou to San Diego,
from the Sierras to the sea- as the old
perorative phrase. worn and rounded,
but good and comprehensive, has it,
Absolutely this contenrion-and, by
the way, very little of it is manifest
north of Tehachapi Pass-is boyish,
ignoble and debasing. 1t hinges upon
narrow, jealous and unmanly localism;
it turns upon false conception Of State
hood; it revolves about a miserable,
pettyfogging idea that section, not
State, is in interest. 1t is as unworthy
as it is unmanly. 1t makes us a laugh
ing stock abroad and a shame at home.
1t should be dropped out of sight and
mind from this time forward.
Alas, we fear that it will not be- AL
ready cards are flowing through the
mails throughout the southern counties
asking voters to respond whether they.
wish the Senator or the Governor. 1t
seems never to have entered the skull
boxes Of these people who agitate the
matter that some one else is to be con-
suited in the choosing, that it is not
given to any locality to pick. and say
to the others take the leavin's"
We think we reflect the sentiment of
nine-tenths of the people who are so
happily situated that they dwell north
of that mythical line that separates
the heaven of Southern California from
the hell of Northern California-if we
are to believe the south end country
aDostles-that no such narrow, sectional
and contracted views are entertained
by them. They want a broad-gauge
Governor and high-minded, able Sem
ator. In each office they want capacity
high character, representative popular
lty and business ability; men who will
stand forward before the nation as
brainy and possessed of more than a
single idea, and dispossessed of fads.
fancies and cranky notions of every
order
And these people, the masses who
90 the voting and taxpaying, do not
care where the men hail from if only
they are the strong, able, high-class,
energetic, aggressive, talented men they
oaght to be; nor do they care a snap
OF the finger and thumb if both of them
hail from the same county, the same
town, the same family, the same church
II only they are the men wanted, men
who know California and the whole Of
it, regardless of any section, locality
or corner in it.
The record-union., 1898-08-14
Eczema, ,zlas 1ls
Suffered Untold Agonies. Limbs
Swollen So Could Not
Get About.
AbIest Physicians SignaIIy Failed.
Was Absolutely Disheartened.
Had Lost All Hope.
Gave Cuticura A Trial, Which
Resulted in Absolute and
Perfect Cure.

For ten years suffered untold agonies from
that dread disease Eczema, my lower limbs
most of the time being so swollen and broken
out that could hardly go about. Ihad to wear
slippers so that could move about at all. My
brother, a physician of thirty years practice
and extensive experience, had tried in vain
to effect cure and signally failed. 1 tried
other physicians of splendid ability with like
results, and had reached that point where
became absolutely disheartened, and in fact
had lost all hope, when friend induced me
to give CUTICURA REMEDIES trial. used
two cakes of CUTICURA SOAP and two boxes
of CUTICURA (ointment), and it resulted in
an absolute and permanent cure. l am now
perfectly cured, sound as dollar, and to Gu
TICURA REMEDIES attribute my almost mir
aculous cureoI refer all interested to the
Postmaster of this place, any of the ministers,
the prominent business men, and all of the
citizens of our vicinity indiscriminately, and
especially to my friend, John A. b. Shippey,
attorney at law, who persuaded me to give
CUTIcURA REMEDIES trial.
DAVID M. SAPP, Plymouth, Ill.