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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-30

Mrs. Almeria r. Gordon and family,
of this city, are summering on upper
Little River, in Harnett county. A
few days 6 she and the children
went to the river to battle and had
quite an exciting adventure. The
stream was considerably swollen and
in some way, Miss Bette Gordon,
aged IA, got separated from the others
and becoming exhausted went down.
When she came to the surface she was
too badly frightened to call out. Mrs.
Gordon, however, noticed that she was
in distress and screamed to Miss Lucy
Swami, a young lady of Is, who is a
very good swimmer, to help her. Miss
Lucy bravely swan to the rescue and
caught Miss Bette by the arm. Miss
Bette, of course, chung to her and
both sank out of sight. In some mi
raculous way Miss Lucy managed to
struggle with Miss Bette out of the
swift current and luckily lea enough
to the bank for Mrs. Gordon to reach
her daughter and pull her out.
A letter received by friends in the
city says the two young ladies are
none the worse for their experience,
though the affair might have ended
seriously. To be ure all the party
were badly frightened.
Miss Lucy is regarded as a heroine
in the eyes of everybody. She is the
daughter of Mr.. J. G. Swami, of Har-
nett county.
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Bradstrcct'~ Report.

New York. August 26.-Bradstre"t's
tomorrow viii say: business Condi-
tions in the main reflect the c%ontinu-
ance OF the most favorable feature
hitherto dominating the trade situa-
ton in the more favored sections OF
the country. Prominent i'm this di-
r%eCtion. OF course, are the iron ard
steel and allied industries. in which
active demand, present or prospective,
has led To further price advances. sus-
tanned and even increased activity in
distribution at most western markets.
with some improvement likewise noted
at the south and on the Pacific cast,
steadiness in prices-whcat. corn and
cotton, however excepted reduced
number of business failures, fair gains
in railroad earnings. IA "A whole, ana
bank clearings, in spite OF "A slight
reduction from last Week. showing
heavy gains owe all corresponding
periods in previous years.
The less favorable elements i'm the
situation are the reports OF arrested
or smaller than expected trade at
eastern markets, more particularly in
textile lines. lowered quotations and
apparently less active demand from
abroad for our cereal products and re-
duced prices paid for the south's great
staple. raw cotton. Qualifying the last
might be mentioned the fact that
spring wheat has APPARENTLY begun to
move in the northwest and the prom
Use OF large yields in wheat and cot
ton alike has tended To depress prices.
In the iron and steel trade the
strength developed has been notable
and the confidence expressed la strik-
ing, in view Of the Willingness of new
buyers to Immediately grant price de-
mands. Less complaint about rain IN
hDl ri fran thu p,,tL .~l a. ~
satisfactory trade accounts from lead
ing markets apparently reflect the on
hdence in n large yield OF cotton which
has depressed prices nc per pound.
business failures in the United States
this week number 172, against 1876 last
week and compare with 30 i'm his
week a year ago, 800 in 1896, 1870 In 1895
and 1872 in 1894.
The feature OF the demand at west
ern markets this week has been the
inquiry from jobbers OF dry goods.
clothing and boots and shoes. special
activity being noted at Chicago, st.
Paul, Louisville and Omaha.
Wheat shipments for the week, in
Guiding -four. aggregate 1858. 476 bush
els, as against 1855. 34S bushels last
week, 5~,149.653 bushels in the CORE
spending week Of 1897, 1921, S54 bushels
in 1896. 1871, 92S bushels in 1896. and
100000 bushels in 1894 Since Just LIST
this year, the exports OF wheat aggre-
gate %, zoe. $50 bushels. against 90 5sl-
999 bushels during the same period last
year.
Corn exports for the week aggregate
2,64s, 1913 bushels. against 3,196. 021 bush
els last week. 2.692. ASP busheIs in his
week Of last year. 2,610. 800 bushels in
1896. /. 124. 536 in 1896 n l19. 600 bushels
in 1894. Since July LIST, this year. ex-
ports OF corn aggregate %. s77.3 iO.
against %, 1868. 345 bushels last year.
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A gentleman who came down yester-
day from Magnolia showed us a sample
of beautiful tobacco grown by Mr.. G.
B.. D.. Parker, of Duplin county, who is
not only an enterprising merchant, but
it seems is something Of a farmer. The
tobacco is of a fine grade, and we are
informed that the best tobacco sold
on the Kinston market comes from Du-
plin county.
Mr.. Parker has this season gathered
fifteen and one-half barrels of corn
from one acre of a 200 arce field, nearly
every acre of which will yield equally
as much per acre as hat from which
Mr.. Parker gathered the fifteen and
one-half barrels. Who can eat this?
The rive and creeks in Duplin are
very low now, but there has been good
rains the past week.
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An Encendiary Captured.

About a o ago Isaac Jones'. q
young negro man of bad reputation.
set fire to and came very nearly burn
ing down a house at Navassa, belong
ing to Justice Francis NJ. Moore. The
fire was put out, however, after the
house had been badly damaged. 1t was
not occupied at the time.
After setting fire to Mr.. Moore's
house Jones decamped and has avoid
ed arrest. For some time he has been
hanging around the city and yesterday
afternoon at $50 o'clock ne fell into
the clutches of Policemen r. NJ. Muir
ray n J. A. Temple. They arrested
him at the corner of Water and Chest
nut streets, and locked him up at the
station house to await the arrival OF
an officer from Brunswick county. He
was arrested on a warrant issued by
Justice Francis NJ. Moore.
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Fired Through the Window

About $50 o'clock Friday night some
miscreant shot a buck shot through a
window of Policeman Kuhl's residence
on Harnett street, between Fifth Inc
Sixth. The shot evidently came from
an air rifle, as it went through the
window with considerable force, shat
tering a pane of glass and making a
hole in the window curtain. Policeman
Kuhl's daughter was in the house and
came hear being hit.
Policeman Kuhl was sitting on the
front piazza at the time, and made a
search for the miscreant, but without
finding him.
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whose affairs need them to go and look
after their business At the same time
these gentlemen must not presume to
speak for the regiment as a whole.
There are many good men in here who
want 10 remain in the service and the
places of those who leave can be easily
filled with new recruits. II h war de-
partment will keep the Second North
Carolina in the service / think all
matters CT enlistment can be salts
factorily arranged"
In Thursdays issue Of The News.
another very interesting article ap-
pears, which is as follows:
Even the North Carolina volunteers
at Tybee. with all the advantages OF
a frst-class seaside resort, are desir-
Gus of quitting the military service,
doffing their uniforms and returning
TO the quiet but more lucrative walks
of civil life
There are two companies OF volun.
teers from the old Tai Heel State
down on the island. Company a. OF
Fayetteville, commanded by Captain
| Huske, and Company E, Of Greenville
| commanded by Captain Smith. Their:
| are s12 men, exclusive Of officers. anC
| out of this number ii is doubtful II
| over twelve want to do police duty fol
the next eighteen months at Santiago
or San Juan.
a uIlO VI lIiS A<OI1u NdTollElAdIs
have been in the city the past tw,
DAYS. Yesterday several OF them wer,
asked what was the desire OF the pri
Yates as talked OF among themselves
All said that the chief desire of tn.
men now is to get back home, int
their regular occupations, and make
up for lost time. Company A. it is said
either has gotten up a petition TO b,
mustered out, or will start one a
once.
1--WE have had all the soldering W.
want unless there is an absolutely ne
cessity for our staying in the bust
ness a one of the men. We do no
want to become professional soldier;
and follow the business for the bal
ance of our days. Some of the Off
GERS, / guess, wouldn't object to doin:
so, but the privateS want to get bacl
home just as soon as the government
can dispense with their services. Tha
is the truth of the situation. The Off
GERS would doubtless feel the sam
way if they We're privateS. But, o
course, they wouldn't acknowledge il
l gave up a job that paid me 81, 600
year and expenses TO go into the arm!
and do not regret that l did so. At tn,
same time, l do not want to be KEEP
in because some men who perhaps di,
not make as much sacrifice as | di,
think they have got pretty good job
and are patriots enough to want L
stick. You can put it down that w.
don't want eighteen months OF garri
son work in ours"
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changed. September 34hc: December
closed at 3iizc.
oats-spot steady: No. 2 &c. OPP
tons neglected, but fairly STEADY:
closing unchanged. September closed
at 24&c.
Lard-steady; western steamed $40,
September 1857 nominal; refined
steady.
Pork-DulI: mess 81. 5oHIo.oo. short
clear s1l.ooIl3.0o. family $i1.50Il2co.
Cotton Seed oii-Dull: prime crude
nominal: prime summer yellow Sc
butter grades entirely nominal.
Eggs-Steady; state and Pennsylva-
MIA i5Gl5Lc: western fresh l5c.
Petroleum-Quiet; Philadelphia and
Baltimore se.45. do in bulk $2.95. REIN
ed New York $3.50.
Rice-Steady: domestic fair TO ex-
ira 5lsG6ac: Japan 5SGeisc.
CoTee-Options opened steady with
prIces 5 points lower, later in symp9-
thy with decline In European and Bra
lillian markets: reacted on local buy
ing. liberal warehouse deliveries, COM
parativeiy small receipts and good
consumptive demand. Trading very ac-
tive with switching Of September OPP
ton 10 more remote delivery the prin-
cipal feature: closed steady and un-
changed TO 10 points lower; sales $500
bags, including September at 5000
5.s5: October $50. Spot cone>Rlo
steady; No. I invoice s%c; No. : job
hing csc: mild steady: Cordova SI
I5c: sales moderate tobbing trade.
Sugar-Raw strong: fair refining
3 l3-lec: centrifugal. s6 test, 4Ac; mo-
lasses 3 9-i6c; refined strong; granu-
lated 5Sc.
NAVAL STORES.
New York-Rosin steady. strained.
common 10 good. sl.30Gl.35. Turpcntinc
steady at 2sA Gs9Lc.
Savannah-Spirits t%urpentine Arm at
&c; sales 745. Resin firm and u~nchang-
ed: sales 2.034 barrels.
Charleston-Spirits turpentine firm at
esc: sales none. Rosin firm and un-
changed: sales none.
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Death of Captain Simpson Adkins AT
Charleston on Frfday-He was born
at Old Brunswick. on the Cape rear

The Charleston News and courier VI
yesterday says:
Captain Simpson Adkins, the Mes coz
of the Charleston Pilots Association,
made his last port yesterday safely
and easily, and IL the testimony of
the men left on this side can be de-
pended upon his papers" will be
found all right, and the peace and
rest he has VOL by sixty years of
earnest, honest and faithful work will
be accorded him in the beautiful land
beyond the seas.
CAPTAIN Adkins was for sixty years
a familiar figure in Charleston. Born
at Old Brunswick, near Wilmington,
n. c., nearly 70 years ago, he came to
Charleston when a lad of 10 years
His taste was. for the sea, and he was
| soon studying the currents, the shoals
| and banks, light and buoys of Charles
| ton harbor. At the age of 10 he was
| thoroughly familiar with the channels
and was awarded a pilots license.
Not many months ago he was still
guiding the ships that come and go,
as he had lone more than half a CEN
fury ago.
During the wal Captain Adkins be-
| CdtilE OI1c VI tuc uIOSL Id IlS liz u
cessful blockade runners and made
many fine trips through the enemy's
lines. One of the most notable runs
was that made through the federal
blockade at Galveston, Texas, on board
the steamer Fox. The story of this
daring trip has been often told and is
well remembered by all his friends in
this city. Upon this occasion Captain
Adkins passed through a perfect hail
Of fire and projectiles n eluded his
enemies by strategem and manoeuvres
that could not be followed or under
stood by the federals. When he final
ly passed into the Texas port untouched
he was cheered by his bafied foes, and
was afterwards presented with a hand
some silk flag by the ladies of Calves
ton as a tribute to his gallantry.
This trip to Galveston, however,
was only one of many for Captain Ad-
kins, and sometimes the fates were
against him. Several times he was
captured and he spent some time in
Fort Warren, off Boston harbor, as a
prisoner of a
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POpuIist Nominations in Brunsvf

At the populist convention of Bruins.
wick county held at Lockwood's yes.
terday the following officers We're nom
mated:
House of Representatives-W. W
Drew.
Sheriff-Daniel r. Walker.
Register OF Deeds-Jno. w. Brooks
Clerk of Court-ThOs. l.. Vine.
COroner-Geo. Grimes.
SurveyOr-SilaS /. King.
Treasurer-Jno. Jenrette.
CommissionerS-ISaac Milliken, T
D. Wescott, Geo. X. Andrews. =
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Sergeant Major Gore ONE Home

Sergeant Major John II. Gore, Jr.,
of the Second regiment Of North Caro-
lima volunteers, arrived in the city
yesterday, having obtained an honor
able discharge. He was one of the
most welcome visitors and was kept
busy shaking hands and an
sWering questions, which he did
in his usual terse and affable style.
Sergeant Major Gore left here as a
private in the Wilmington Light In
fantry, but soon after being in camp
was promoted to his present rank.
Corporal c.. NJ. Macarthur, who ar
rived home a Monday on a sad mis-
sion, returned yesterday to his COM
pany (our Light Infantry at st. 81
mons.
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MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.


New York. August 27.-Money on
call firm at 2G2l2 per cent; last loan
at 2 per cent. prime mercantile paper
at Sa@415 per cent; sterling exchange
steady with actual business in bank
ers' bills at ~s4.S564S51s for demand and
and $4.S2A G4.S2l2 for sixty days; post
ed rates S4.S412 and S4.S6; commercial
bills S4.S24 silver certificates at 59i2G
Gle; bar silver at 60; Mexican dollars
at 461b: state bonds dull: railroad
bonds firm; government bonds steady.
COTTON.
Liverpool. August 25.-1 p. m.-Cot-
ton.-Spot, retail demand, prices high
er; American middling fair 3Ad; good
middling 3hd; middling 3 11-32d; low
middling 3 3-16d; good ordinary 3 1-S2d;
ordinary . 27-32d. The sales of the day
were 5000, of which 300 were for spec
ulation and export and included 1900
American; receipts non Futures
opened quiet with a moderate demand
n closed barely steady.
American middling. low mIddling
clause: August 8 15-64d buyers; Au-
gust and September 8 14-6463 15-64d
sellers; September and October 3 12-64d
sellers; October and November 8 10-64M
3 11-64d sellers: November and Deem
Der 3 10-64d sellers; December and Jam
uary 3 10-64d sellers; January and Feb
4 q - AV-oII Il Z 10 oitA
March 8 10-64G3 11-64d value: March
and April 8 11-64d buyers; April and
May 3 12-64d value; May and June
8 13-64d sellers.
New York, August 27.-Cotton quiet;
middling Sac; net receipts none; gross
receipts 167; forwarded 167; sales 1,122;
spinners 397; stock 53,0S2.
Total today: Net receipts Abs: ex-
ports to Great Britain 1881: to the
anntinant . lOq. cfnnE III OFT
Total since September LIST: Net re-
ceipts S,555, GOA; exports to Great Bri-
tain 1928, 333; to France SIS, 692; to the
continent 1905, 673.
Spot cotton quiet; middling gulf &c;
middling uplands SIC; sales 1,122 bales.
Futures closed steady. August $50,
September 5.54, October SIS, November
5.61, December 5.64, January 5.6S, Feb
ruary 5.72, March SIC, April $40, May
$50.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston-Steady at ) 7-16c; net re-
ceipts 1884.
Norfolk-Dull at 55sc; net receipts
1S9.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at &c.
Boston-Quiet at SAC; net receipts
lis.
Wilmington-Dun at SIC; net re-
ceipts 20.
Philadelphia-Quiet at &c: net re-
ceipts 81.
Savannah-Quiet at SAC; net receipts
1S9.
New Orleans-Steady at 5 11-16c; net
receipts lob.
Mobile-Quiet at 5 5-16c; net receipts
96.
Memphis-Quiet at 5Sc; net receipts
IS.
Augusta-Steady at sac; net receipts
249.
Charleston-Quiet; net receipts ~.
Cincinnati-Quiet at &c; net receipts
1873.
Louisville-Quiet at ) 9-16c.
st. L~ouis-Steady at 5 7-16c; net re-
ceipts IA.
Houston-Steady at 5 7-16c; net re-
ceipts 1887.
GRAIN AND PROVISION.
Chicago, August 1.-THE leading flu
lures were as follows:
Open. High. Low. Clos.
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Daily The Messenger receives ur-
gent requests for copies of the Daily
Record containing the Infamous ar
ticle against the virtue Of the women
of North Carolina. To all it makes
the same reply, mot a cop to be had
in the city" However The Messen-
ger has one at it's Office which will be
gladly shown all corners. All visitors
to the city are urged to take a look at
the paper containing the original
slanderous article.
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Charlotte Observer: AMI David.

Charlotte Observer: AMI David
son colored, was arrested yesterday
on a warrant sworn out by his 16-
year-old daughter, Alice Davidson
charging him with criminal assault.
She claims that he assaulted her Sun
day night and beat her yesterday to
keep her from telling it. Davidson
lives on Mr.. r. E. Henderson's place,
beyond the Jewish cemetery.
The time has come for the white
men of North Carolina to get together
in a spirit of patriotism n concili-
alton and bury the Offences that have
divided them in the past. They W il
to themselves, to their wives and chill
dren and to the state they love, &c
come together like brothers and for
give and forget.-Webster's Reidsville
Weekly.
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Death Of n Noted Mare

Cortland, n. Y, August 27.-Marion
Mills. the guideless pacing mare, died
at 5:35 today. She stumbled and fell on
the track OF the Cortland County Ae-
ricultural Society yesterday. sustain
ing conclusion Of the brain. She was
unable TO move after falling. The mare
has been in the western circuit races
and was en- route to Bangor, Maine.
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Witness my hand and seal this Au-

gust q, 1875.
JOHN D. TAYLOR,
Clerk Superior Court New Hanover Co
1t is needless for this paper to en-
dorse the gentlemen who make the
above affidavits and certificates. Ev-
cry citizen of this city knows them TO
be men of prominence, character and
conservatism, not politicians, if you
please, and far and wide in this state
they are known as men of high per-
sonal and commercial standing.
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No other preparation has ever done
so many people SO much good as
Hoods Sarsaparilla, Americas Great
est Medicine.
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WLMNGTcN MARKETS.

~~%@
Same day last year, &c.
NAVAL STORES
Spirits t~urpentine firm; machine
barrels 26Hc: country barrels &C.
Rosin firm at 800 and Sl.05.
Tar steady at $40.
Crude turpentine firm; hard N.le;
soft $50.
Prices same day last year-Spirits
t~urpentine. 26i5c and 2ec: rosin. Wis
and $40; tar, S1.1o; crude turpentine,
s1.30. $3.50 and $50.
Receipts today-116 casks spirits tur-
pentine. 32T barrels rosin. l22 barrels
tar, II barrels crude t~urpentine.
Receipts 10 same day last year-ao9
casks spirits turpentine. 5e3 barrels
rosin. 81 barrels tar, 81 barrels crude
~turpentine.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Peanuts-65c.
Rice-Uplands. e5Gsoc: lowlands,
$110GI15.
Corn-52 to SIC.
Corn meal-50hc.
Cow Peas-90c.
North Carolina Bacon-Hams, l0' TO
lie; shoulders, Ga 10 &c; sides. S to
sac.
Chickens-Firm; spring 10G1Sc; hens
1S025c; ROSTERS, 1SG22c.
~Eggs-Steady at 12c.
Shingles-Per leo five inch. hearts
n saps, sL.50q2.10; six inch. $500
$50.
Timber at $500 to $500 per 1000 feet.
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New 1ork. AUGUST 21.-Flour dull
and . TO 10 points lower to sell. Win
ter patents s3.75G4.00.
WEeat-Spo- market steady: No. .
red 73sc. Options opened strong and
higher on unexpected advances in
cables accompanied by foreign buy
ing. Later there was unloading and a
slow reaction, the close being easy at
k9Ac net advance. No. . red. May
6'1zc; August closed at 1880; Septem-
Der closed at 6sAc.
Corn-Spot steady; No. 2 36c. on
t.cns opened firm with wheat and in
the absence of selling pressure ruled
steady all the morning; closed un-
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WHO Is MANLY :
il Position i'm t'Ae Republican
Party of the Publish .ers of the Daily
Record, and Whati the Standing OF
that Paper?

No sooner had tie vile and villain
men tha the re publican politicians De-
gan to say tina t the publishers OF The
Daily Record were notwithstanding
simpletons" and irresponsible up
starts. Bar in mind, white men, that
the infa' nous editorial appeared in The
Daily Record on the 18th day OF All
~p,lst. It was not until the oath day
of august that the republican candl-
date for judge, seeing that the article
would defeat him for judge IL he dlo
mot do something quick, got a poflioh
tof the republican executive comml'tee
no the article and the pup
fishers Of The Daily Record. Inere
was no word Of condemnation from
radical politicians until they were
driven to it by an outraged puollo eN
timent.
They row call the editors and pup
Fishers irresponsible upstairs dno
~mischie f-making simpietohs' VIM
are they? The following arlodviI sno" a
that the editor WIS appointed uepu1
raoister Of deeds under the presen. &c
nuhliGan administrator -.
over county, and that Johh 800
tbe travelling agent of the paper Voc
elected by the republicans as d iItI
her Of the legislature IN 1882 anu
cd In the 1897 session OF the mousse VI
CONSERVATIVES, as appears from 'He
following afhdaVlts: -
p G.. Worth, of the Worth %, L.
w Hicks, wholesale grocer; I. 4: Do
den. president of the NaVassa Guan,
20: w. l.. DeRosset, u
~ q Division Confederate Veterans
and John G. Springer, of the hrfn o.
w r, Springer & Co., each BENG dulA
sworn saws that he has read the lore
going paper, and that the sald Is d.
accurate and true cop OF an edltorld
in The Daily Record OF the GATE .
August IS, 1888; that said paper, Inc
Dailv Record, has been published III
the city of Wilmington at least elgn
months prior to his date, and Alex. l.
MANLY the editor thereof, is a negro
ia well known as a republican ana ma:
held the position Of deputy reSlsIeI
of deeds in New Hanover county, un'
der the republicans. ~
Atlantis further say that Jonn ~
Coins, business manager; l.. II. NANNY
foreman: Jno. 7. Howe, general traV'
cling agent, n F. G. Manly, genera
manager. are all negroes, and repup'
licans. and the said John Il. Howe
was a republican representative IRON
New Hanover county in the leglslatur'
of S97.
w. L. DeROSSET,
JOHN c.. SPRINGER