The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-16

we uOLIcc LudC Lu0 DOchcTy Iam-
lily organ" was considerably "swunk
up" last issue. So is the old colonel
Rockingham Rocket.
1t is told that a man in the eastern
part of this country hung himself be-
cause people found fault with him. II
the practice should become general in
this country the tree would be COM
PEELED to work at night to support
school teachers, pI -achers and editors.
Durham Herald.
If the trusts ever capture the press
and the pulpit the last bulwarks of
liberty will have been swept away
and aggregated wealth will inaugu-
rate a reign of tyranny nor oppres-
sive than it has yet attempted and
that will continue until despair and
desperation will eliminate in a revo-
luton, terrible in results.-Winston
Sentinel.
In this day of patent medicines and
proprietary remedies, there is sharp
competition, but an ASheville pro
FOUNDER of a new discovery seems to
have a cinch in this line, according
to the Marion Democrat, which says:
"Pie cement is one of the most power
full adhesives known. Congressman
Pearson has made many fast friends
by its judicious application. The re-
cipe for its manufacture is very SIM
pie. Just yourself as a re-
publican opposed to the present reg
ime and you will DON receive a pack
& ready for use.-Waynesgille Cour-
Ter.
Ter negro has been made post
mas in Halifax. That county al
ready had the distinction CD of hay
ing more postofices in charge of
negroes than any other one county
in the south perhaps. This latest adj
dition is one Tom Shields, who was
appointed in place of the negro bar
keeper whose nomination the senate
refused to confirm, and no less i'm
portant and responsible a position
than the postofice at Scotland Neck,
among as cultivated and refined peO-
pie as there are in the senate or out of
it, is the place thus af1icted.-Hender-
o Gold Leaf.
The present Infamous election law
ought to be labeled "a bill to permit
ex-penitentiary cOnvicts, and prejur-
ed minors and nOn-residents to VOTE
Honest populiStS cannot afford to as
sumo responsibility for the perpetual
ton of the present corrupt state gov
eminent in order that a few trading
demagogues may feast sumptuOusly
at the pie counter. The way, and The
only way, to wipe out the present dis
graceful state of affairs and return to
good government is to restore the dem
Ocratic party to power.-Winston Sen
tinel.
The democratic administration leas-
ed the Arson farm Of 2,40O acres for
$1.10 per acre per annum. Besides the
arabl land-and there is non bet
ter-there is a large quantity of wood
land, and with the lease is the privi-
lege to cut and sell this wood. The
democrats only had his farm one year,
and the wood cut that year amounted
to about 81, 200, we are Informed. This,
besides excellent crops of cotton and
corn and other products. Mr.. Leazar
says the farm paid it's eXpenses-in-
Guiding, of course, the %cOnvicts. What
the Russell administration has lone
with it in 1897 and this year it only
knows. The governor will not let the
people know anything about TRIAL
eigh Post.
In North Carolina, and especially in
Richmond county, there are two great
political parties, the first, the demo-
cratic, composed entirely of white
men; the second, the republican,, COM
posed of a large body of negroes and
a few white men they carry along to
hold the offices, and a few white men
who have been dependents, beliey-
ing that the republican party is the
peoples party. Then there is a third
party, once known as the populist par
ty, which has been wrecked and dis
in~tegrated by it's treacherous leaders.
This party is now represented by two
factions n seeking to do h right
thing, the other proposing to do any
thing that will enable them to get a
tastee Of "Esau's porridge." This ever
proposes to run directly against its
avowed principles, for the sake of pie
and a little power. "Give US a dip and
we'll do anything you say" We are
for free silver, but We'll vote for a
goldbug, all the same-principles are
nothing-pie and power are what we
want.-Rockingham Rocket.
The Wilmington Messenger says that
Mr.. Walter H. Page has succeeded Mr.
H. H. Scudder as chief editor of the
Atlantic Monthly. This will be pleas
ant news to Mr.. Pages friends. The
Atlantic Monthly is the pride of liter
airy New Englanders n is p%ronounc-
ed by competent critics to be the best
literary magazine in America. The
fact that a North Carolinian is at the
head of this Yankee literary light tells
a story that means much. Mr.. Page
is a native of Wake county, was born
at the little town of Cary son! forty
years ago. The social life hat sur
rounded him in his early boyhood
knew little of the cult Of Boston's
folk, yet this man has made his way
from the Cary home to the centre OF
the most learned society that environs
Harvard. No man could gain that po-
sition without literary ability of a
high ORDER. and without brains INC ex
ecutive ability. Heredity has crepl
into a good many things in this coun-
try but it can never get into literature
A man does not inherit a position in
the literary wOrld.-Sanford Express.