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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

1t is almost certain that the senti-
rope. There must be fire where there
is so much smoke. 1t is repeated
again from Spain that the peace par
ty there is really strong, n it urges
hat direct negotiations shall be had
with the United States. While there
is a division in the Spanish ministry
all Europe seems to be united in an
anxious desire for the war to end, 1t
is reported from Washington that the
government officials confidently eX-
pect overtures for peace from the
Madrid government. Be it so. But it
be granted. Let Camara's fleet be
captured or destroyed first. If an ar
mistice is granted it will find safe
harborage under the powerful guns of
a fort. A dispatch from Madrid on
the 9th inst. stated that Madrid was
tranquil, and it is hoped that the gov
eminent will yield to the heavy press
ure bearing upon it to try to, termi-
nate the war. The Ell Nacional says
that Spanish ministers who expect
prodfgies of valor from the army in
Cuba cannot compel the Americans to
fight there. The Americans may pre-
fer to attack the Canaries, Puerto
Rico, and the Peninsula, and, as Ell
Nacional says, having succeeded, they
might impose still more distasteful
terms" ~1s--
The Madrid correspondent of h
London Times tells Of frequent dis
cussions in the cabinet. and that ex-
IRENE advocates of war are toning
down. He says z-a 1G7--.@G 50
THE idea is that, owing to- the i'm
mense difficulties of the campaign in
Cuba, the United States will probably
abandon the system of storming for
titled places and will adopt the plan of
starving garrisons u by biockading
the whole island. e1 :acf =
"The government would probably
prefer suing for peace to suffering an
indefinite blockade; but 1t fears the
large body of patriotic opinion in IA
vor of resisting to the bitter end if
Cuba is blockaded." E
Blanco is opposed to peace. but
wants the war to go on. Russia is
urging peace. +-Er-1 - =1fr.. s-,5.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15
STATE PRESS

The Wilmington Messenger correct
Rambler as to its receRt statemeu,
that North Carolina gave its first sol.
dier's life in battle in the civil war
1t says that Henry Wyatt was born liz
Virginia and that it wrote q column
article the other day TO prove II
Rambler ought to read the Messenger
Il Is well up On North Carolina his
toTy.-Charlotte n. G. Presbyterian.
We learnthat the Illinois Manufac-
turer's Association, which took I'D the
fight against the assertion OF express
companies that patrons must furnish
revenue stamps for receipts. has re-
ceived notice from the internal reve-
nue. Office, az Washington. that the ex-
press companies themselves must af-
fix the stamps How about the tele-
| graph companies? viii they not,
also, be required TO furnish stamps
for messages? We think so, whenever
the matter is brought to the attention
of the government. We take it that
these taxes were intended I apply to
the corporations and not TO their pa
trons.-Winston Sentinel.
The Norwood incident completes
the circle OF repubiicanism md demon
strates that no department OF our
state government can be administered
by the republicans without disgrace
to the department and humiliation
to the state. In the legislative
branches we had two clerks indicted
for incompetence and r~ascaliTy of the
incompetence of the clerical force
has called for several decisions of the
supreme court to tell what the acts
really dc mean. In the executive de-
partment we have the governor of the
state violent and p~rofane, standing in
the state house armed as a bully and
| using language that would be out of
place in a pot house. In the peniten-
tiary management we have had the
Hughes and John r. Smith, incompe-
tent, vicious, and leprous, whose man
| agemement of the institution was such
| as to cause their removal. Until i'm
partial investigation of that depart
| ment can be had, the truth of the bad
state of affairs will never come TO
light. The asylum was the scene
of ~debauchery and lust The depart
ment of agruculture-the farmers
| branch of the government-has been
degraded by having John R. Smith
| put at the head-a man who was so
| unfit to manage the penitentiary his
own crowd kicked him out. The
| railroads have been made the means
whereby lustful men could debauch
unprotected and dependent females,
and Bob Hancock, who made republi-
canism possible, was dismissed in dis
grace. The Agricultural College has
been turned over to Loge Harris
whose whole fitness to oversee it has
been acquired in the radical primar-
les Of Wake county. And now comes
the Norwood disgrace. We pity Judge
Norwood's weakness.-Windsor Led
ger. a.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

1.-The Messenger has not once refer
red to the popular loo as it is proud
"" called in Washington.Gf'I 1t was
prophesied that the people would rush
to take the war loan that it would be
their work and not bankers Sc. There
was to be a tremendous rush to make
Investments of $40, Of Il s44os and that this
qwouldl serve to work a radical, change
in popular as toilcurrency9 sc.
The Messenger Has stood off saying
nothing put awaitinse results The
popular loan was to be for 5000, O0O, 900
There y is 3 some 2 I fdisappeintment,9 We
Suppose News from New York last
week was that the subscriptions ag-
gregated the great sun of $3.50, 00O. 900,
bat the people We're notrvery much in
its In fact, it was stated tina but
$40, 600, 900 had been taken by small
bidders. The comment OF the, Houston
Post IS this;stnnFhe- REVOLUTION ia sen-
tIm1ent on the vi financial question,
Will evidently have to be- Accomplish
Ped in some other way than 1throdgh3A
bond issus.p IiGL ..d9f ,ErBmO"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15
BREyIEIES.

A. F. Manning, editor Of the Indian
apOlis World, is president of the negro
National Democratic League. He calls
for a meeting Of the convention in
New York city on the 18th of August.
All negroes who are n accord with
Thomas jefferson" are invited to at
tend. If they follow Jefferson they
will not wander far from sound de-
mOcracy. . .. " # @y. rt DrDIe
General Shafter is under suspicion,
it apears He is suspected. Of cultiva--
ting too free an intimacy with the
bottle. He is brave and bibulous. 1t is
reported. Richardf Harding Davis, he
we'll known traveller and novelist, is
near Santiago reporting for the New
York Herald. Here is a significant
paragraph from a cabled letter:
General Wheeler, who refused to
remain in bed with his fever, is here
beside me asleep on-a rubber blanket,
bullets passing over him. Near the
same locality are Generals Sumner,
Kent, Lawton. and. Chaffee and Col
Onel Wood. Never before have so
many commanding officers lived 50
constantly on the fring-line, yet the
man who is supposed to direct the eX-
petition is in a tent at the rear"
Lying ski1lfully or bungingly, DELHI
erately and positively, is no new thing
with the Spaniards. There were great
liars in Spain before Weyler, 1t is
suggested by the Philadelphia Record
that there is at Madrid a, modern
Spanish Bureau of Fakes and False
hoods If correct it has many5e cor
respondents in Cuba and elseWhere.
Cervera was ordered to get out by
Blanco, as he states, Il and he tried
bravely, to make good his escape The
more Commodore Schley's splendid
victory is studied the greater the feat
and the more astounding the performs
ance. s~sIEe- o. o~5-rr14f 4Te aryg
The Philadelphia, Record mentions a
curious example of the irony of fate
| in the destruction of Cervera's feet
that a great war vessel has been left
battered and stranded, upon the Gu
ban coast; named in honor Of the dis
coverer whom Ferdinand. and Isabella
sent out to find that, very island and
this huge destined he mispherea3 LIT
refers to- the Cristobal. eColon.dE 10 "a
What a nlournfuf cadence aolinger-
ing wall of sorrow may be- found lin
Cervera's message to Blaneo-@We
have lost ALL" But the noble Span
lard had not lost his honor or his
chivalry or his splendid courage.
Maryland's governor suggests that
the state of Maryland at once present
to Winfield Scott Schley a sword OF
| artistic beauty and intrinsic value. OF
course this should be. done Mary
land has a right, ntQ, be immensely
proud of such a gallant son-yictor at
Sah'Aaso' 2rh E1hQatoo aae1ax.E Grag
Is Captain Sampson is a Presbyterian
as is Rear Admiral Dewey. but the
captain did not win that Fourth of
July present With which he is r. still
credited in, some newspapers.
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Another Transport at Charleston

Charleston, nS9f G., July 1I-The
Grand 4Duehessis reported off the bar
tonight, though Eshetarrfved there too
late to come up tenthe city on account
of the m line fields in the barber The
GrandnD Duchess iso scheduled ITO take
the next expedition from here topre-
'inforce Shafter, dbut it has not been
definitely Settled nasn to which dof the
regiment in camp here, the Second
and Third Wisconsin anaothe Sixteenth
P~ennsylvania,, viii goon hersbsThere
has beeh4no ihefdsnt wefthy ofImentionI
in camp today eahast been raining
hard for forty eight hours. but the
soldiers are in cotton sheds and there
fore we'll sheltered from the. storm.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

fon for Goo per yard. SILK Yelling for
l0c per yard.
We can save you money on all We
sell and kindly ask you to Civ us u
chance 10 prove II. We are still giving
away those handsome Arm Chairs
with all cash purchases OF $50. beauti-
full Oak Book Cases with n SIS pur-
chase, fine Writing Desk with a $50
purchase, fine Hall Hat Rack with
a S25 purchase. fine China Set OF IS
pieces with a $25 purchase. Eighteen
set piece with n $50 purchase. one
nice hand Sewing Machine for 1880.
One nice imitation Cut Glass Berry
or Ice Cream Set Of seven pieces FOR
$500 purchase. A nice Oak Table
for $500. \ three set piece OF fine
decorated China for a SO purchase.
Your picture made life size FOR n SO
purchase. 4 nice set of fine China
Plates with a so purchase. 4 set OF
Glass Tumblers with a s. purchase.
: Come TO see us and YOU viii md
that we are u~p-to-date in the Dry
Goods business and headquarters for
low prices u honest goods, at Will
mineton's Big Racket Store. on Front
Street, opposite the orion Hotel
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15
The Wessen9er.


: How did the Mckinley pingley pro-
fection dragnet turn out In its first
fiscal year? 1t is interesting to know
results Of it's operations for it's first
yer Of trial. Dingley was regarded
by democratic newspapers Is a wild,
reckle. SIS theorist in political economy,
and an ignorant manipulation of tax
p~roduoin,y articles. He figured and
talked an.l p~rophesied and yet all in
vain. Wba, toare the results He de-
clared that the new radical robbie
tariff would Q realty increase the reve-
nues over the democra ticzshybrid ia
riff. thar was b oth free trade and pro-
lection. But it did not It's revenues
for elf ven months were $40, $40, 594-
which. is a fallin g off of s26, 500, 900.
When DingIey FIR. st reported to the
house the radical E5cheme of class rob-
-. berry. he declared that it would pro-
duce in revenue IN one year 1858, 0OO,-
900. But it did not you see. He af-
forwards deducted s.DD0o0o0 Because
of the enormous fnpo rtations. Of wool,
sugar, &c. Take This sum from $685.
400 600 and there remains s194, 900, 900,
The amount Oh revenues LC ~ that
would be produced by the dragnet
Murderer. But that is $40, 600, 900 more
ahan has .cerae-in- Observation-Disclosures
age revenue for one month, to -com-
Dlete the years total work, and we
have $13, $40, 900. Add this to s149,819,-
594, and we have as total revenues for
one year $163, $40, 900. This is more than
non nnn nnN ha1nu, hiS calculations Such
is the humbug, deceptive, oppressive
protective tariff Of the present repub-
1ican administration. The Philadel-
phia Record is of the opinion that its
champions will hardly call up the
woollen manufacturers for witnesses
wool from the free list and subjecting
it to exorbitant duties. Imports Of
both wool and woollen fabrics have
declined to almost inappreciable fig
ures, but we have yet to learn of any
exultation Of American manufacture
ers over the change"
The tariff toOters of the press and
the high protection blowers in the
congress, are being daily taught the
IdlldCy anu uIIpIOIldDlSIIcSS VI LiCll
theory of enriching the few at the eX-
pense- of the many. The spell is at
last broken and Ichabod is written
over the portals of the republican
committee room. The able Record
says that las a scheme of revenue the
Dingley tariff is seen to be a failure,
and as a measure of protection the
march of trade is fast making it's pol
icy obsolete" ..
In eleven months under the hybrid
democratic tariff superseded by the
Dingley monster, there were imported
:12, 939, 435 pounds of free wool-duty
tree. OF this large amount, BAH
0t3 pounds were fine wool for clothing,
IS the Record states. Under Ding
ley's high protective tariff, in eleven
months, the total imports of wool
Oaxed) were but 1O2, ass, 465 pounds,
and Of this there were but "a, 0S2, IL
pounds intended for clothing wool
You see from this that Americans
not rich must be contented with shod-
dy clothing under the Dingley law.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15
1--5L' -ts EE'ftEI IL
PILES! PILES PILES!

Dr. Williams Indian Pile Ointment
will cure Blind. Bleeding, liberated
and Itching Piles. 1t absorbs the tu-
mors, allays the Itching at once, acts
as a poHltioe, gives instant relief DR..
Williams Pile Ointment lis, PREPARED
only for Piles and Itching OF thu private
parts, and nothing else Every DO, is
guaranteed. Sold by. druggists, sent by
mail for soc and $1.08 per box. vii
liams Manufacturing Company, pro-
prietors. Cleveland, O.. o.. v-l-r,
Sold by John Fl. Hardin
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HOME FOLKS

The handsome, well edited North
Carolina Presbyterian at Charlotte il
mot OF the narrow-gauge kind. Its
editor does not survey the education
al heavens Through a key hole, but
uses a nineteenth century telescope.
He is a scholarly man who knows the
difference between the narrowest sec.
tarianism and a broad, generous sys-
tenn OF education. In it's issue OF
18th inst, the Presbyterian has this OF
the admirable and venerable univer-
sity of North Carolina now 104 years
old n marching ON to wider useful
ness and greater conquests in the field
of true learning and wide acquisition:
fThe university, a sufficiently dis
tinctive name to North Carolinians,
has a strong hold upon the affections
Of our people, and it Is winning new
prestige under the direction of its
gifted president, the ideal man for the
place. ..---..
The university has the largest num-
Der of students in it's history, and an
able faculty Of thirty-eight i%nstruc-
tors. 1t seems to have thrived upon
the senseless opposition TO our state
institutions from some quarters. The
president and many of the faculty are
earnest Christian men, and the in
fiuence of the university is all on the
side of a Christian education. It has
just added a course In Spanish to its
curriculum" n
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

The president of Harvard Univer-
sity, DIR. Eliot, has broken silence as
to the want of patriotism in that old
n eminent school. Unfortunately
the president made an unwise and pre-
cipitate speech against the war with
Spain and aroused more or less indig-
nation and distrust. But recently he
took another tack and at the annual
alumni dinner declared patriotism
was as strong nov there az il was in
1861. They called fighting the south
moving TO withdraw ~peaceably from
the union patriotism, although in
1869, New England was hot for Sc
cession and patriotism" UP there
then. consisted in wishing TO get out
of the compact and set up for them
selves. That is history. The Atlanta
Constitution noticing DR.. Eliot's re-
.traxit, for such it is, says:
ION account of the strange doctrines
which have been promulgated from
Harvard in connection with the pres
ent war, it was feared hat the patriot
ism of the student body might be
chilled somewhat, but it appears that
this apprehension was grOundless.
In justice to the student body, how
ever, it must be stated that it has
shown its patriotism in this crisis de-
spite the counter influences which
have proceeded from some Of the most
important chairs Of the institution"
Up to now Chicago diversity rests
under censure for its unpatriotic talk.
President Harper is silent as the tomb.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15
reHosPrtrrAE TRAIN IN COLLISION
One Car observation-disclosures of the Pas.
D~arLEseAgers Injured.

Washingt9n,sl July 11.-Surgeon Cen
eral SternburgSreteived a dispatch to-
day fromESurgeon, Richards. stating
that the hospital train bearing the
wounded to Eort Mcpherson, near At
,lanta, a in a rear-end collision six
miles south of High Springs. Fla, at
S-ocfock p m. No one was hurt, the
dispatch said but the private a was
demolished r.s1 a-aG
General qSteFnburg. says the demoli-
don of the, private car will not seri-
eusly interfere with the hospital train.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

The New York Mail and Express
well n truly says: There is no
Commodore Schiey-or at least there
won't be any when vafor and fighting
skill receive their just reward. Ad-
miral Schley is the only title that fits
the man and his Deeds"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

Last year was a very productive one
for gold, The, output is estimated,
and it is probably not far, from the
amount, to aggregate in all countries
$255, 900, 600, and it is believed that 1898
will witness a repetition Of this out
put, if not even surprising it. The
report states as to countries the fol-
lowing product of gold in dollars:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

The North Carolina college Of agri-
culture and mechanical arts is moving
out on higher lines of usefulness. It
has a faculty of twenty-three Well
Qualified specialists. 1908 "
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

Captain William Lassiter, q. S. In
fantry, a native of Oxford, is thought
to be among the wounded at Santiago,
He has been in the army for quite
twenty years, An Oxford paper re
ported that he and Captain Hal.~fP,
Kingsbury were at Santiago. t''41a
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

~ 'Presbyterianism is extending IN
Brunswick county, just across the
river. Five years ago there was but
one family in the county, and now
there are sixty-fve members. Rev.
w. M. Shaw is an earnest worker and
successful. He is the evangelist for
that county, and breaches upon ar
average fifteen times a month. He is
pressing his work with vigor.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-15

Washington and Lee University,
Virginia, under General r. E. Lee,
had, we believe,f over 800 students. In
der the new president, w. L. Wilson,
it has 1879, TIL Virginia Military In
stftute a the same place, Lexington,
had 221 last scholastft year. The Uni
versity of Virginia has been in opera
ton seventy-fOur years, or some thir-
+ty years less than the University of
North Carolina, if We are not mistak-
en- as to dates The registry of the
former tfor, last, year Closing recently,
showed f4S9. The University Of North
Carolina had s5O7, Hampden Sidney
College, the Presbyterian chief seat of
learning in Virginia, had 12S students,
while Davidson the chief Presbyte-
rian college in North Carolina, had
1Q1 81 ts D3tD2)Dt. rtf 49,
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4. 1t is very gratifying to see how
hearty and united the American press,
with only "a few exceptions, are in be
half of Commodore Schley. Some one
or two New York papers have appear
ed to be leaning to Sampson, who had
no more to do with the fight than if
he had been ead We notice that the
English papers were deceived by
Simpsons disingenuous, unfair dis
patch. 70 Sehley behaved with as
splendid gallantry and secured as ire
mendous results, the number Of yes
sells considered, as Dewey at Manila.
Both were great. Let Commodore
Schley be honored according to his
| great merits as. Rear Admiral Dewey
was. a navy that can boast Of a
Dewey and a Schley is rich indeed.
The Coconino sun., 1898-09-03
Rules Governing Applications For Pardon

Notice or application Tor pardon should be published for at least two wer,.s in some newspaper in the county where the crime was committed for which the applicant w-s convicted.
 All applications for pardon should be accompanied by Il petition signed by at lc.sp twenty-five reputable citizens of the locality where the crims Was com IniD,cd.
 I'hrie should accompany the applica- ton tt recDnllcndal iou to clemency ana lessons therefor, signed by two-thirds oT the Grand Jury which indited, two thirds of the t.i,I jury which convict ed, the District Attorney who prose- cuted, and tn, Judge who sentenced the prisoner.
 if the required signatures of JudS Se. District Attorney and jurors cannot be ohtatuel because ui tne death or ab- sence of any number of hem from the Territory. the fleets in that regard shouid bc slated.
 4hil'i 'Vi ' pai u'b '' duo fJr.l. and in accordance with these requirements. is received at the exec utlve office. it will be forwarded to the superintendent of the Territorial prison for report as to the prisoners conduct white in confinement, and for the rec concentration of the sup ,rintendent.
 After the later recommendation is received by the Executive. the cas- will be reviewed and considered by him and such action taken as he may deem proper.
 These rules do noS apply to plfdons for the restoration of citizenship at the expiration of prisoners tern, when such pardon appears deserved.
 A strict compliance with the above regulations will expedite action in pIr- don cases. x. O. MURPHY,
 Governor. E T
The Coconino sun., 1898-09-03
Colonel MeCord's Regiment.


 mention of the troops now stationed at Whipple:
 It is growing pretty certain that Colonel McC,rd and his regiment will be retained in the service for some time. The policy of the war depart ment seeLus to he to muster out those by service and those who by majority vote desire to be mustered ont. In tOlonel Met ord regimen: there are few men who could not serve three years if need be without serious incOn- veniencc. They are al,nost all expert enccd pioneers. fighting men Of many ln encounter with Indians. and the for tner l.wIess element of the frontier The regiment, if il is ever called upon LO duyy under fire. will make record that will not be surpassed by any body of men yet sent into service. Colonel McCO is himself d fearless. cool. con sideraje man who would lead his regi lntnL wherever men udFtu lo lOllON anu wherever necessity called. It is to be regretted that his regiment did not go into service early enough to participate in hustilitie~ either in Cuba or the Phillipines. for it is certainly one of the most cap .ble body of men ever called into service and officered by men who are most capable and efficient. Tbe men are hardy, are inured to life out of doors under the most trying con 1 ditions, for hundreds If them are min l CTS. prospectors, cattle men. teamsters. and that sort of men whose lives are spent amid hardshipS as great or ] greater than they are ever likely to undergo in the service. and their free dom from liability to attacks of ordi- nary complaints would be far more than usual. The regiment should be sent to the Antilles or the Phil liDines.
The Coconino sun., 1898-09-03

THE SUN for one year and series of ll numbers of Uncle Sam's Navy for $3.