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

Gibson, was fooling with an empty"
pistol at his home on the Arsenal.
when the weapon went OF, sending a
bullet through both thighs of Nellie
Lutterloh, a grand child OF John Lut-
terloh- The girl is not dangerously
hurt-A telegram has been received
by the clerk OF the court from the gov
ernor stating that Judge Blythe, Of the
Western Criminal Circuit. will hold
court next week in the place of Judge
Sutton, who is seriously i'll at Rocky
Mount.
DR.. k~ingsbury, the scholar OF the
state press. says he has made several
attempts to read Dan Quixote appreci-
atively during his life. but has always
failed And then the editor of the
Gastonia Gazette, who can quote Latin
as well as use vigorous, healthy, Eng
lish, comes up and says he no longer
feels lonesome because he has failed.
after much effort, to get interested in
Scott and Dickens. It's strange. We
can understand how DR.. Kingsbury
can balk on Cervantes, but how n
man with h culture of the Gazette's
editor can fail to read Scott and Dick
n with pleasure, We confess our ina
bility to see. We have never raved
o these authors, but we find great
pleasure in their books. But our con-
%fession, also, may seem strange to the
Gazette, namely-we never could do
anything with the famous allegory of
John Bunyan.-Monroe Journal.
Washington Messenger: Tomorrow
twenty-five years ago, Rev. Nathaniel
Harding preached his first sermon as
rector of st. Peters Episcopal church,
this city. The sam love that was man
tested then is tangible now-only the
twenty-five years of service has famed
that love and kindled a devotion more
enduring than brass.-Judge Browns
attention was called to the extraordi-
nary accusation made by Claude Ber-
nard before a negro convention in
Greenville, Judge Brown said: q do
not need any defence against such an
u~nwarranted SANDER made by such a
fellow. [ have been on the bench ten
years n have held court several times
in evrey county in the state and nom
mated for the supreme bench in 1897.
Let my record speak for itself. There
is not a respectable lawyer from Cher
okee to Currituck who will testify that
he saw me intoxicated on the bench or
off. Bernard himself never saw it.
The charge is SO utterly grOundless
that l think Brown must be mis-
quoted"
Whiteville News: The democratic
primary held in North Whiteville last
Saturday was more largely attended
than it has been in years. And the
hast nor{ of - ryo1 4Lo& 49, -
goOdly number of former populists
present, including Messrs. H. B. Col
lier, N. w. Fryar, D.. H. Cook, Owen
Sellers, NJ. A. Fyar and Others. They
were cordially welcomed, and the
names of several of them appear on the
list of delegates.-SOme person tried
to enter Rev. Mr.. Billiards. house at
Clarkton, a few nights ago. Mr.. Bal
lard was away from home and his wife
| shot at the burglar through the win
dow and frightened him away.-Just
T! as Sheriff WoOten had crossed the rail-
road Saturday night on his return from
Elizabethtown, he was stopped by a
negro, who made the demand for his
money or his life, ~whereupon the
sheriff jumped from his buggy, caught
hold of the man and called for help,
but the would be robbed made his es-
cape down the railroad before help
came.
Charlotte Observer: The mine at
Cumnock have been in operation for
some time. The manufacturing inter-
ests of Greensboro use a good deal of
this coal, which costs $3.50 per ton at
Greensboro. Some of the users consid-
er it fully equal in value to the Poca-
hontas coal. The company is known
as the Cumnock Mines, and the post
office address is Cumnock, N. G. The
other company is the North Carolina
Coal and Coke Company. The post
office address of this company is Glen
don, N. c. This company will proba-
bly, put up coke ovens n make coke.
When these ovens are in operation the
coke can be used to operate the blast
furnace at Greensboro. This will give
to the state pig iron at minimum cost.
The yarn mill at Rutherford
ton, almost within the shadow of the
two big $4,000 spindles at Henrietta
Mills, will soon be completed. 1t will
start with 5000 spindles. The stock
holders of the Statesville mill have
authorized the purchase of machinery
to increase the capacity of the mill 33
per cent. A firm at Cherryville have
| determined to establish a yarn mill,
and have begun the erection of a build
ing o have a capacity of $500 spindles.
Only 1000 will be placed in it at the
| start.
1t is astonishing to what depth Of
degradation and infamy these fusion,
| calamity bowling organs can descend
mot condescend) in trying to impress
| the minds of the poor white man and
negro of the danger of d~isfranchise-
ment by the next legislature. 1t is the
last, the lowest resort of these fusion
organs. Unless they are awfully ig-
norant, they know the legislature can't
d~isfranchise a voter. 1t can only be
done as a criminal punishment, or by
a convention of the people Of the en-
tire state, when every voter will have
| the right of franchise. So you see it
is impossible for a man to be disfran-
l chised, except for crime, unless he