The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-23
NOnrH CAROLINA.

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Joint debate at any place and any time.
Kings Mountain Reformer: James
]. Rhea. who farms on Kings creek,
| saws as soon as his pumpkins quit
| growing and ripen he win e US In
a sample. His vim is y feet long and
81 feet from the root OF the vine Ii has
a pumpkin that measures five feet and
one and one hat inches In circumfer-
ence.
F~airbrother's Farrago. Of Danville,
Va. says: The papers which are nav
ing conniption fits o what Judge
Adams said do not seem To be disturb
ed concerning kilgo's proposition 10
the effect that the average woman can
be led anywhere with a diamond ring.
Truly. what Adams said is no worse
than that The Observer accepts with
! shame its share of this rebuke.-Char-
lotte Observer.
While we feel the scurrilous attack
made upon Judge Brown, by Claude
Bernard. in the negro convention, at
Greenville Saturday, charging the
democratic judges naming four, among
them Judges Bynum and Brown of
l hdNlu bCCn III oh oAu oh kA~
bench, needs no denial at the hands OF
the democratic press, o r Judge Browns
home paper, we refer to the matter
simply to show the lowness the repub-
/ lican leaders will stoop TO prejudice
the people.-Washington Messenger.
The worst of corn liquor never COM
bineJ with any part Of the democratic
administration in North Carolina to
make such a blasting record as this
sober Rep-Pop. crowd is responsible
for. And there is no Kelley to cure II.
1t actually appears that the n virtue
of the present administration is a neg
! alive one-that, knowing what ruin 1t
| accompliSheS in its senses. such as
| they are, it fears TO befuddle them
further. For this confession the state
should certainly return thanks
Asheville Citizen.
Judge Norwood is in his cups again
as he has been OF various occasions
in this very town of Charlotte. A spec7
ial from Windsor, BERTHE county says:
The people of BERTHE, and especially
the good people of Windsor were treat
| ed Thursday to the degrading and hui
initiating sight of seeing one of the SUI
perior III judges of this fusion
cursed state of our drive through their
county and principal town, Windsor,
their county seat, so beastly drunk
that he did not know or care whether
he was the Hon. w. L. Norwood, Judge
of the Twelfth district Of North Caro-
lima or not.
The Democrats said to the Popu-
| lists that fhpv Upro nnnncad RI frodoS
but hat their doors were open to them,
and that they would be received with
the greatest friendliness n respect.
Now if the populst were unwilling to
accept his offer. was fusion with the
republicans the only road left to them?
Was there not a middle road? Is it
not illogical and absurd to say that
because the democrats would not agree
to change their position on fusing for
office and trading in votes, that the
only thing left them was to turn round
and help to do that which they a
admitted was wrong?-Newton Enter
prise.
There is no business in North Caro-
lima so ~overdone as the newspaper
business, and yet every fellow who can
write a few illogical sentences, set a
stick of type, and raise enough money
to buy an old press and a few fonts Of
second hand-type, is rushing into the
business with poster-type advertise
ment to the effect that he is going to
publish "a live paper" such as the
world has never seen before. The re-
suit is he helps to starv out the paper
in h town or county where he opens,
runs his own into the ground and
leaves indebted to everybody for fail
ure of promises that can never be
made good. BY this sort of tomfool-
cry the best papers in the state are
cramped, impoverished and made to
lose money. What has become Of the
foolkiller ?-Sanford Express.
The continuous low price of cotton
furnishes food for thought if it does
not furnish money with which the
farmers may pay their debts. North
Carolina is not a cotton state and her
farmers cannot raise cotton to COM
pete with the gulf states. Five cent
cotton will not pay for the making Of
the staple. There can be some money
made by farming in this state. Here
is, however, no profitable money crop.
In half dozen counties fine tobacco can
be grown, which brought the farmers
handsome prices until the tobacco trust
laid it's greedy and damnable hands
upon it. In half dozen others fine corn
grows; in some others peanuts and
rice. In the sand hill section fine fruit
grows. In the seaboard and piedmont
sections cotton grows but not nearly so
well as it does in South Carolina
Sanford Express.
Under recently enacted laws the best
Office in North Carolina is that of sec
rotary of state. 1t is said to pay Sc, ZOO
a year. DR.. Cyrus Thompson, it's in
cumbent, in going over the state now,
Safeguarding his betters and preach
ing the beauties Of fusion, presents the
spectacle of the dog who stands up on
his hind legs and speaks for bread"
Aspersion of character has been the
meat and drink Of the political ele-
ment with which DR.. Cyrus Thompson