The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-06-14
BREUTIES.

| An unhappy actress lately killed her
self with gas in New York. 1t is a
wonder that Butler has not destroyed
himself in that way before this. His
gas is both pestilentiaI and poisonous.
The Washington Post publishes
some very clever cartoons. 1t had on
the 8th Uncle Sam sitting at a bagam-
mon board. Blanco was at one end and
Cervera was at the opposite extreme.
Uncle Sam had twelve men scattered
all between. Underneath was, Now,
Mr.. Sagasta, It's Your Move"
In Georgia Colonel Gambler, long
time in the federal house, was nom
mated for governor by a general land
slide. He got $50 out of $50 votes, car
mense in counties-13O or more. per-
haps. Some papers talked about beat
ing him. Bah!
Emperor William refers to Dewey's
splendid fight at Manila as amateur
ish." What about his talk? 1t it
not puerile in the extreme?
It is a happy conception Of the Char
lesion News and Courier to form a
regiment to go to Cuba to be composed
entirely of would be-oficers.' Excel
lent, By all means have it. 1t will
be fun for the boys.
Captain Charles ". Gridley, who
commanded the Olympia in the Ma
nilla fleet. is dead of an injury received
in the battle. He was Commodore
Dewey's right hand man and was con-
sidered in naval circles as one of the
very best of all commanders. He died
at Kobe, Japan, on the 4th Of June.
He was a native of Indiana, and was
born in 1845. Like nearly all the heroes
he was educated at Annapolis Naval
Academy.
If the war between the sections is
really over and the north wishes to re-
turn the captured confederate flags
they should be received, and then in
time send back Union flags held in the
south. In one battle Lanes North
Carolina captured three or four flags.
In the north confederate flags are held
as trophies to adorn the walls of cap
ito1s, as pleasant reminders of how
the 2,7OO, 900 abIe-bodied men licked the
600. 900 confederates, often shoeless and
blanketless and ragged and hungry.
Return the flags, of course
The AIabamians want the brave hero
Hobson promoted. Right and proper,
for he richly deserves it.
Dewey's plans appear to be work.
ing out with great precision. He is
successful from early morn to Dewey
eve"
Sampson is only a captain in rank.
He is acting merely as rear admiral.
On the 3rd of July Rear Admiral Will
liam A. Kirkland, native of North Car
lima, will retire as senior officer in the
naval service. Sampson is senior cap
tain, and then he will become a COM
modore. The New York. Sun says of
Sampson:
HI remains the junior commodore
until next November, when COmmO-
dore Norton retires, and thus makes
| one number for him. Admiral Kirk
land is the first officer of the navy
from the south to be the senior officer
of the whole service since the war,
and is one of the few officers of the
navy of high rank appointed from a
southern state"
That excellent traveller and clever
| writer, Mr.. Poultney Bigelow, a Har-
| ward man, we think, is out in a very
caustic and elaborate paper in Har-
try is head over heels in war and with
out preparation. He satirizes the
folly md describes "the undisciplined
host at Tampa, which is dignified with
the name of an army"