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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
Red Springs Notes

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Red Springs, n. c., September 3.
The Red Springs ginnery with three
of the celebrated Munger, seventy saw
gins and up to date methods of hand
ling cotton we'll and rapidly began op-
erations September LIST. The capacity
is about t~hirty-five to forty bales in
ten hours. w. M. Roberts ginned
about three bales last week. The first
bale sold at So cents Cotton buyers
from Wilmington are arriving.
The r. F. DeVane Lumber Company
is filling an order of 1900, 600. The
lumber men feel encouraged at the
outlook. w. J. McDlarmid was in
creased the daily capacity of his mill
5000 more feet.
The tax books show an increase Of
about so per cent. in wealth ETC., in
m year.
r. S. seminary had about 1856 board
ing and local patronage last year, eigh-
ty-three boarding pupils. Up to date
ninety-five boarders have registered
and the full capacity, about 40 board
ers-will probably be engaged by
September 14th, the opening date.
Eleven new Gomitories are nearly
ready.
Red Springs Male Academy will soon
have eleven dormitories ready, and
the academy greatly improved. 1t
opens September 14th, Professor M.
Wooten principal.
Rev. G. G.. Vardell is expected home
from Steel Creek and Blowing Rock
next Wednesday. His family will re-
turn with him.
Judge j. G. Macrae and wife and Mrs.
Haigh and children, of Fayetteville,
and other guests are at Hotel Town
send.
Judge MacRae and Hon. J.. w. Nc
Lauchlin delivered addresses at the
confederate veterans reunion It Lum-
Der Bridge yesterday.
We are expecting a big democratic
rally here SOC Favorable reports are
coming in; a number of populists are
coming into the democratic fold.
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BREVITIES.

The building of needed warships
continues. Build a good, strong navy
and be content.
Two of the best don'ts we have read
lately are these from the Chicago
News:
Don't Judge a woman's complexion
by the box it comes in.
Don't attempt to borrow money on
your wheel. 1t won't stand alone"
Something is very rotten not Gin
Denmark" but in the United States
commisariat, medical department and
wal department. There is a rotten
system and that is the trouble.
Europe is in a futter and almost all
foreign newspapers and public men
ridicule and scout the Russian Tsar's
pacific policy of disarmament. They
call it chimerical. 1t would not be if
like peace lovers they would all agree
to the proposal in good faith.
Nine hundred Spaniards were lost
on three transports in a storm. They
were trying to escape from the in
surgents at Manila and were hoping
to surrender to Admiral Dewey.
The crop of cotton is now guessed
at by the New York Financial Chron-
icle at II, 056, 1853 bales. 1t will pro-
badly exceed that great crop. And
what will the southern farmers re-
ceive for their toll?
Miss Winnie Davis was extremely
sick with gastritis at Narragansett Pier,
Long Island. On 2Sth ult, she was
considered critically ill.,"
The Salvation Army has just cele-
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Correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Wilson, N. c., September 3.
The Wilson tobacco market has had
the most successful opening month in
its history. The official report Of the
tobacco board Of trade shows that dur
ing August 1,992, 934 pounds of tobacco
were sold on this market. These fig
ures are WORT to by the book-keepers
at the different warehouses and by the
president of the board of trade. The
prices have been good, often high, and
the planters are well satisfied.
Cotton is opening rapidly. The crop
is good.
Our people are indignant at the at
tack made on the character of Mr..
]. A. Crews at the Clark-Kilgo trial
at Durham Wednesday,. Mr.. Crews is
well known here and all who know
HIM know the charge to be false.
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Manila, September 2.-Several ship
Dad of insurgent troops have invad-
ed the southern islands, with a view
of Selling every thing possible prior to
the settlement of the peace conditions.
General Rios, the Spanish commander.
with a fiotilla of gunboats, is acting
energetically. but the insurgents have
captured the outlying islands of Rom
blon and Palawan, where they found
treasure to the amount OF s42, 900. The
prisoners captured have arrived here.
Delegates from the Hong Kong in
surgent junta are TO have an interview
with United States Consul williams
tonight and il Is thought this may
possibly result in a settlement Of the
insurgent question.
Berlin, September "A semi-oficiaI
note issued todays says A state Of
peace having been re-established be-
tween the United States and Spain or
ders have been given that the German
naval forces at Manila be reduced Tn
n or two ships. which. pending the
complete restoration of order in the
Philippine islands, will suffice for the
protection of German subjects and in
terests In that region.
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The greatest of humbugs are the
faith-cure humbugs. People are al
lowed to suffer and die when a physi-
clan might alleviate and help nature
to work a cure. Many ugly instances
have been reported from time to time
in the press of people dying without
medical attention the faith-cure
quacks doing their work Of failure. A
recent case is reported from Orient,
Long Island. A child was ill of ty-
phoid fever and the mother would al
low no doctor to see it. She said that
cure would come from prayer, but the
little one died. The mother persists
that it was intended that the child
should die and that doctors could not
have prevented it. The child was
sick for weeks. When it vas nearly
dead she was threatened with prose-
cution and at last sent for a physician,
but it was too late then. She believes
that faith would have cured if it had
been durable.
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BlancO,s Political Future

His (Blanco's) position is made worse
by his asking to be relieved of his
command. 1t is his business to arrange
for n effect the evacuation of Gu
ba in the most economical and expe-
ditious manner, and SO as to saw for
Spain the greatest possible number of
men and quantity of material. That is
a plain piece Of administrative and
military business, with which his po-
litical opinions have nothing whatever
to do. Instead of doing what service he
still can for his country, he seems to
imagine that his political future
will be injured if he superintends the
evacuation. 1t will not be creditable to
the Spanish people if it turns out that
such a man has any political future
at all.-New York Times.
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small and at the bottom OF the semi
circular book case is or was a seat
The latter had been torn away by the
pieces OF shell. The Jagged hole through
which the shell had entered was near
ly two feet in diameter. The injury
Is a queer n 1t appears that the
shell struck the water and then ex-
ploded Just outside the ship. and that
pieces passed through the thin steel
with an upward direction, several
sticking in the ceiling and cutting the
electric wires. Evidently the shell did
not burst as IL entered. for IL il had
it would have torn a great hole and
disabled h steering gear: nor did II
burst inside the room. for had IL done
SO it would have wrecked everything,
whereas. in fact, the damage was very
slight The San Francisco was within
a mile Of the MORO castle at Havana
when she was hit. Sailors told me
some o-inch shells passed just over the
bow. one not missing a guns crew
more than ten feet.
The reorganization OF the state
guard, which is to be made as soon
as all the volunteers return from duty,
will be OF public interest 1t is quite
evident that the old plan will cease TO
exist.
North Carolina is noted for its corn
whiskey. Some of it is mighty bad.
There are people who think that the
whiskey made by the moonshiners is
the best on earth. If these people only
knew how much concentrated I've the
moonshiners use to give their whiskey
a bead" they would give the stuff a
very wide berth.
The labor commissioner will give in
his report for this year some statis-
tics about cotton exports for North
Carolina. The exports show an in
crease of IS, 900 bales over the previous
year. There is a very marked falling
off in exports to Great Britain and a
corresponding increase in those to
Germany. Norway and Sweden.
The mining law OF this state is a
copy of that OF Pennsylvania. 1t was
intended to apply only to coal mines
and to protect miners by making a
death of a minor from carelessness or
neglect by a mine owner punishable by
81, 00G fine. But the North Carolina legis
lature left out the word COAL so the
act applies to all mines. Then the SEN
ate put in the bill a S., 900 appropriation
for mine inspection. The house struck
out the appropriation. But it is the
duty of the labor commissioner to go
at nee to m mine where an accident
has occurred and make an examination
and see whether he will impose the fine
or not.
The white Government Unions" are
being very rapidly formed. Francis d.
Winston tells me. He says there are
already $50 organized.
The republicans appear to an outSid-
ed to be ratified by the impetuOSity and
quickness of the democratic fight this
year in this state. Chairman Sim
mons is in truth using his secondary
battery" of rapid-fire guns on them,
and Chairman Holton is beginning to
look about as dilapidated as Cervera
did when Schley got him.
FRED. A. OLDS.
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De Blowitz, the famous Paris CORE
spondent IF The London Times, writes
that Alsace-Lorraine should cease to
belong to Germany and come back to
France would be the pivotal condition
for sanctioning the Tsar's peace pro-
posal. He says Bismarck said to him:
There are three of us who made the
German Empire. The German nation
would hang all three if we offered Of
our w free will to give back Alsace-
Lorraine to France"
He doubtless referred to Emperor
William, Won Moltke and himself. But
really, Bismarck was the great build
err without whom no Empire would
have been formed. That is apparent
to the student of German history
through the last forty years. The
man of iron and blood was the inspi-
ration and directing power in the
great movement that ended in the HUI
initiation and defeat of France in
the c~ompacting and rearing of the
great German power now one of the
four great factors in European his
tory n policy.
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Weldon Notes.
Correspondence of The M~essenger.)
Weldon, N. c., September 8.


The case of the United States VS.. J.
M. Pittman, cOlored, postmaster at
Tillery, was called in the United
State commissioners court here yes
terday. Hon. J. T. Gooch presiding.
Postoffice Inspector Gregory appeared
for the government and Solicitor w.
E. Daniel represented the accused.
Pittman vas short $340 in his money
order accounts. This amount was
made good, and the other charges
against h~im-opening ordinary let
ters-there appeared probable cause
and the commissioner sent the accus-
ed on to the next term of the United
States court, at Raleigh and held him
in a bail bond of $500. The bond was
promptly given.
The democrats of Northampton have
drawn the color line and put up a
straight white mans ticket. An eff
fort will be made to get all white men
together in Halifax county.
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brated its thirty-third anniversary. 1t
has done a great work.
1t is said over 1000 soldiers at the
camp at Chickamauga have professed
faith in Christ.
Richmond, Va, is justly crying out
against bad water. The people are
being sorely tried. The Dispatch
says:
Many and mighty have been the
groans of the public on account Of
muddy water. Drinking water has
been obtained by many families buy
ing spring water or filtering city wa
ter. Alum, too, has been used to some
extent"
There are other cities and towns
that have good right to cry out for the
same cause. Muddy water" is poor
stuff to drink.
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out the blessed Holy Spirit you will
die in your sins. Here is every en-
couragement to pray for our God is a
placable and answering God. Lord
teach US to pray" and for what to
pray. Let us pray with earnestness,
with confidence, with a deep sense of
dependence, with a full assurance that
God will hear. Let US pray for light,
for immortality, for the coming of His
Kingdom, for grace to help in every
time of need, for the grace of patience,
the grace of fidelity, the grace of hui
mility, the grace of contentment. Let
us pray for guidance, for wisdom, for
the meekness of saints, for holy liv-
ing, for grace sufficient under all temp
tations and trials. Lord teach us to
pray"
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The recent northwest storm which
swept across the Baltic sank a Ger
man torpedo boat and severely dam
aged the whole German torpedo fotilla
Five Of the torpedo boats barely
reached harbor.
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The real field for uncanny and ridi-
culous "isms" has always been in the
New England states. Witchism, John
Brownism, ~Fourierism, Negro-slavism,
Abolitionism, and all the other "isms''
either originate or find a hospitable
home in that prolific, self-asserting,
opinion" and aggressive section
It seems that those two arrant hum
bugs. Theosophy and Christian
Science have many disciples in that
country of education and much money.
The "Jargon" Of the schools ramify
and permeate, and among the new fads
that find favor and flourish to some
bugs, the most baseless and foolish,
called by a horrible misnomer Chris
tian Science" The Messenger has
given before some extracts from
northern writer's showing up the stu
pidity and falsity of the whole thing.
A New York city correspondent writes
to New York Saturday Review" of
this disreputable, pretentious thing,
He says of a defenders plea:
"The jargon it calls science is made
up of terms taken from mathematics,
which have no more reference to re-
ligiOn than the term knee drill"
which the Salvation Army applies to
Tlpo That fhn pn1iri0n in hoooI
upon the teachings of Jesus as she
says, l absolutely deny. His teach
ings are so perverted and distorted
that no Christian would recognize
them, and the historical truths of His
life r completely falsiied."
He refers to Mrs. Eddy's awful mu-
tilation of travesity of the Lords
Prayer" She laid her "sacriligious
hands and dared to call her profana-
ton of what is sacred to every Chris
tian heart spiritualizing it? There is
not a vestige of the original left, and
if you heard it repeated you would
never recognize it. The command
ments do not mean what they say, but
what Mrs. Eddy declares them to be,
and so with every thing else" He
heard il of the teachers of this mis-
called science and it was a woman
Her text was "And they found the
napkin and the linen clothes lying"
She chose the word napkin as the one
requiring explanation, and said:
Il suppose you think that means al
ordinary napkin, or, in other words,
something to bind about the head,
but you are mistaken. Nap means
sleep and kin little; therefore, the sig
nificance is only a little sleep. Jesus
never died. He only took a little
sleep. You must take it in a spiritual
and not in a material sense"
Here is rot and rubbish, nonsense
and stupidity to the degree Of nau-
seating. These disciples of humbug
have got back into the Dark Ages into
which so many people nowadays in
both great sections are descending
pell-mell. Imposters and charlatans
play their antics and tricks in hidden
corners or the broad light of day and
there are people to follow and believe.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

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WILMINGTON. N. C.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1898.
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Last Sunday your correspondent de-
voted several hours to a trip through
the large feet Of war vessels at Nor
folk. spending an hour on the flagship
San Francisco. The object of curiosity
there was h damage lone by a
shell which entered the stern. The Of
Ger of the deck declared hat no one
could possibly be allowed to see the
library, in which the damage was done,
because to get there had TO pass
through the admirals quarters. fThat
great dignitary was then ashore eating
dinner.) This only increased the de-
sire to see the damaged place. A ma
rine was presently found who conduct
ed me TO the library. The latter Is
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-11-09
STONE WINS
In PsansylVnnia AEaipst the COlablned
Fight Of jerks and sWaIlow-Wili Have
$4,000 Majority.

In Psnnsylvunia AEatRSt the Combined
Fight Of jerks and sWalioW-Wili Have
$4,000 Majority.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. s.-At mid
night Col ". A. Stone made the follow
lung statement;
IT ana iubilant at the very evident
success of the ticket. We win have a
majority Of 1Ss,cOo In the state. These
are my original figures, and there is no
reason why / should wish to cut them
down. Numerous counties where ] eS-
pected to come second have rounded up
majority Of from 800 to 1900 and I
am well satisfied with the htuatlon.
OF course we have not received returns
from every section OF the state, but word
has come from every county chcatrmau,
and there Is no reason to believe that
they are not speaking with knowledge
Of the situation. cannot estimate the
majority that Philadelphia Will turn
out, but It will undoubtedly equal that
Of former years Allegheny county It
seems, has done nobly for the Repubh-
can party, and Will probably show 4
majority OF from 1000 to $500.
Senator G. L. Magee said: Il am
greatly pleased with the situation. We
will have a majority OF at least 10000
in Allegheny county. In the,state ex-
pect to see a majority Of not less than
100000 for the ticket"
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ExPECTED TRoVBLR
At the Polls Tn Greater New York did not
neauR

At the Polls In Greater New York did not
Occur.
NEW YORK. Nov. S.-superintendent
Mccullagh, after the polls had closed,
made the following statement in ref
erence to the operation Of the new cleo
tion law:
My deputies have had no trouble in
any Of the territory of Greater New
York. had seven hundred deputles,boo
OF whom were on duty at the polls, 100
in reserve ana 100 specials acting as
messengers.
The only territory in which had any
trouble was in the Sixth and Eighth
election districts OF the Second Assem-
big district, My deputies arrested four
men for detective naturalization papers
who were all held for the United States
Judge. ! expected to have trouble with
gangs Of repeaterB from New York, Jer-
sey City, Philadelphia, Bristol, Connec-
ticut and the famous bat Shen gang
from Troy, but as far as have heard
they had no difficulties with these men.
In case my men had been overwhelmed
at the polls would have called on the
police, although could, as a state off,
Ger, call out the militia to quell any dis
turbance,
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NEBRASKA

LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. s.-scatterIng
precinct returns up to 10 pm. indicate
a political surprise in Nebraska, inas-
much as they forecast the almost cer-
tain election Of Hayward. Rep, for Gov
ernor by a plurality OF not less than 1900
This VIII be q reversal Of the verdict
of 1895 BY nearly 1900. The count thus
far is wholly on the governor so far as
the state ticket is concerned, and as it
is the belief that Hayward Is running
slightly ahead Of mis- ticket, Il would
make the results on remaining state
officers very close.
LINCOLN, Nov. Sat midnight
Chairman Slaughter. OF the Republican
state committee said:
I'VE have elected the entire Repubu-
can ticket by pluralitles of not les than
5000 ana possibly to exceed 5000. We
have n majority OF the legislature on
Joint ballot and will elect Republican
United States senator to succeed sena-
tor Allen. We have elected three con-
gressmen and probably four OF the six
The Fusion committee made no state
ment further than TO Insist That they
mad carried the state and legislature
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CRep.), 5,07e; Sargent (oem.). The Re-
pnbllcans claim the state by 1900 plur-
atty The legislature Is Republican by
Q considerable majority.
NEW HAVEN, Coma, Nov, N.~Ehe
result Of the election In this state to-day
was q general victory for the Republican
tinket-
The ma1oritles OF the candidates on
the state ticket will average fully 1900.
The returns indicate that the Republi-
cans will have a majority Of Of least NJ
" In the general asgembly.
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rict. charle. +. Dick. Repui :

trict, Charles F. Dick. Repu e
CANTON, o., Nov. s-IEc1ll- =
precincts 10 Canton and staE "a
show a Republican gain Of 81 g 4 4
wear. The same ratios t -
would give the Republicans ~
BY 1900. Mckinley In 1885 earn 2 .1e
county by $50.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. d %
tai vote of Hamilton count ee
about $1,000. The plurality q ilt ~
publican state ticket viii be yen aaF
1900. The majority for cor - =
In sthe First and Second distfie WI
be IN that proportion. The eoul 4.s-
publican ticket Is elected by plq tla3
averaging about 5000, The loA can
dldaAs Is Otto Pheger, for jud el ls
court OF coEnon pleas, Albert 3 5tf'
(Dem.) candidate for Congre y t4e
Sixth district, IS undoubtedly eeses
having carried both CovingtQn ana
Newport by Increased majoriti
COLUMBUS, Ohio. NOV. S.-7at 81 a
m. incomplete returns indicate ~
Republican plurality on the str ae..st
will exceed the plurality Of 5lilg toF
Mckinley for President In 1895 ale qf99a
ably double the plurality OF to stqs
lAFHaAbAEAl AbA HUNGAAARA Ases's
Republicans elected fifteen OF ne WEE.
ty-one congressman and four q tsiee
are carried by the Democrats. 80 cl9f
tricts, the Third and Twelfth,
doubt. The present delegation if Sonf
gress Is fifteen to six.
CINCINNATI, Nov. s-ofiiciai lalnfng
complete Of Hamilton county:
Total vote 73,z76. Secretary. Of state
Kinney, Rep, 42,et0; Cutlery, Dem.
2s,Sss. Kinney,s majority 1894 Con.
gress, First district. Shattuc, RED "
F0liEtt. Dem, 14.esT. shattue's Aiaies-
lty Co.'s The second district, BfonHeili
Rep, 22,STs; Swain, DEM, 16,s6t hfom-
welfs majority 6,4t2.
CANTON. Ohio. Nov. s.-Repu lleans
carry Canton on head Of ticket ~ ~
gain of 100 over last year. Republic
cans elect coniplete county tlelt1E
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Captain poVsnsr iS re-oiecssd ~ .
handsome majority III tnO Hrgs con-
greSalonal district, dsfeatinE his opDo-
nent by majority that footD upward
OF !, 400 and may exesed thnt agugO Opq-
siderabIy. From the information thas
wsS obtainablo from the back coundaD
last night It would appear that the dis
trict outside OF Ohio county . About .
stand-off. and thAt the majority for
DSysner in Ohio couny q his majority
IN the district.
From the latest information, the tol.
lowing table Of majoritieS In the con-
ersssional contest. Il presented: