The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-05

oA0ASA SSAOSA pAlAOAuk
in Salisbury was burned early yester-
day morning. The fire was incen-
diary. The building was insured for
$4,000 and the furniture for $500.
Greenobc-o Telegram: Abbotts-
burg, N. c., July 28.-Emma Single
tary, a colored woman was yesterday
tried and convicted before Justices
Thompson and Craig and today before
the coroner's jury of infanticide.
Winston Journal: The democrats
Of Rockingham and adjoining coun-
ties will have a grand rally and bar
becue at Madison, August 3rd. Ex-
Governor Jarvis, C.. B. Watson and
John r. Webster will be the principal
speakers.
Nashville Times: Among Davie
county's numerous enterprises there
is one Of which many people have
never heard. 1t is a threshing ma
chine factory. James A Creson, who
lives about six miles from MocksvilIe.
has made two threshing machines.
which do as good work as any of the
high grade threshers.
S~tatesville Mascot: Mr.. c. B. Webb
last Friday received a monument of
North Carolina marble. The stone is
known as the Royal Blue and is quar-
ried near Murphy. 1t is a dark slate
blue color Of very fine grain, takes a
high polish and presents a handsome
appearance. 1t is much handsomer
than the Georgia Blue"
S~tatesville Landmark: Aunt Sally
Hendren, of Alexander county, cele-
brated her Tooth birthday last Mon
day, 25th. Rev. ]. o. Shelly, of States
vile, was present. Mr.. Shelly saw the
bible in which the aged lady's birth is
recorded and there is no doubt as to her
age. She was born July 25, 1898. The
Bible in which the record is kept is
1873 years old, having been published
in 1715-Mr. w. F. Hall, ST., suffer-
ed a stroke of paralysis yesterday
morning and is in a serious condition.
He is conscious but is unable to walk.
Sanford Express: The political
status of North Carolina has recently
reached a very low ebb. We are told
that at the recent republican onven
ton in Harnett county the delegates
from each township were composed
of one negro and one white man, the
negro's name coming first on the roll
in each case. So completely did they
dominate the voting that they elected
themselves as delegates to the higher
conventions, showing the white men
to the rear.
Pittsboro Record: Among u SOL
diers who fought in the bloody battles
around Santiago was one of our Pitts
boro boys-Mr. Allen Taylor, who is
a son of the late Captain John w.
Taylor. Our townSman was a mem
Der of the Seventh United States in
fantry regiment, and was actively en-
gagged in the heaviest of the fighting
at Santiago, but was not wounded. A
letter was received from him last week
by one of his relatives here, written
on the 5th of July, stating that he was
then safe and we'll, but had endured
terrible hardships.
Winston Sentinel: A Greensboro
tie says the republicans down that
are flying at each others threats
fr%ightfully. Settle, who it was thought
was laid on the shelf for congress, is
about to come to life, while Spencer
Adams, who is the opposition candi-
date for the nomination is scared
within an inch of his life. He is be-
tween two ~fres-afraid of Settle and
afraid of Glenn. Solicitor Bynum is
also running shy of a nomination
something unheard of in a republican.
He is afraid he will be nominated for
judge. He wants to be solicitor.
The Duke tobacco trust is a cOmki-
of men and money, entered into
solely to control and mOnOpOlize the
tobacco business throughout the en-
tire country. It buys leaf obacco from
the farmers who produce it at what
price is chooses to pay them for
it; and it sells it's manufactured pred
ucts to consumers at whatever price
it chooses to charge for them. This
combination was fOrmed in defiance
of the laws; and it exists today, and
does it's WORK of robbery and pillage
in defiance of laws. 1t has been de-
to be an unlawful combination
both the legislature of North Caro-
lima and by the congress Of the Unit
States. This Duke tobacco trust is
engaged very largely in he manufac-
ture of cigarettes. To the use of these
has been traced a long list
of the felt diseases that sap and de-
stroy the young manhood Of today. 1t
is a. most alarming fact, that a very
large percentage of The young men who
have been called into the service of
their country in the present war, and
who have been rejected as unfit for
that service by the examining sur
geons, were found to be suffering with
diseases entailed by the using of these
1t is true, also, that his
Duke tobacco trust used to put semi
and indecent pictures in the pack
ages ofrhese cigarettes to increase the
sale of them; and they continued to
use these pictures to help the sale Of
their cigarettes and to debauch the
morals of the young men, until they
were stopped from doing so by the
of a public statute prohibiting
such action.-Raleigh Progressive
Farmer