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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-21

Wilmington. ~. G.. October IL.
Editor Messenger

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Editor. Messenger.
G~ove.a1- Daniel l.. Russell was IN
the city on Saturday fJ- tie declared
| urpo1 IS Il Is said. Gf making the
| negroes reyiE'-." The negroes VIII
note the language, mot request or
induce" but make" The governor
was speaking the exact truth. He can
make them register if he chooses, or
not IL be chooses, ard they do not care
to oppose his wishes, yet they pretend
TO be free men ana TO have rights,
they wish to exercise. There is no
right that they dare to exercise in op-
position to his will. He poses before
them, as the champion OF their rights.
They are his absolute slaves.
The better class Of negroes claim
I o discountenance the lawless acts OF
the worst of their race and 10 be as
anxious as the whites to suppress IL.
yet while admitting their inability 10
| control this lawless element. they do
not dare to cast their votes with the
whites who can control il. Slaves, all
| slaves,
The governor also had his private
secretary down with him, doubtless 10
assist in revising the list Of white Gus
| toners of his dairy farm. This secre-
tary was also at Southport on Monday
TO make a speech, looking as sour as
a vinegar bottle on a side table and
twice as lonely.
| The governor, doubtless considered
matters political here so serious as 10
require his personal intervention,
backed by all the prestige of his guber-
Material office, and when he %intervenes
he does so, not in the interest of good
order, and good citizenship, but on
behalf of violence, lawlessness and ne
| gro ~insolence. He apparently desires
to continue a reign of robbery here;
to incite rather than allay the race feel
ing; and he joins the negro against
his own race. Well there is no cause
for surprise in this; it does not even
excite remark. 1t is no more than We
expected. 1t is no more than ne has
always done. If any citizen can point
to one occasion when this man has
been identified with a movement that
tended for the good of their commun-
ity, it is time he were naming it. Let
him come forward. On the contrary
his whole life has been spent nursing
bitterness, and revenge. Selfishness is
his creed and disturbance his profess
sion.
We are not in the least surprised
that he degrades the highest Office in
the state to make negroes register"
and assemble with them in night meet
ings, if he car thereby humiliate de-
cency, n degrade his neighbors.
When negro robbers were running riot
here, and ladies could not with safety
walk the streets beyond the view of
a white man, and the governors tools
sure liberating negro robbers h had
been arrested by white women, who
heard of any interference from him?
But when the elements of law and or
der are about to prevail here, then he
must need interfere, and make" his
miniOns register.
Governor, you had as well attempted
to dam up the Nile with bulrushes, as
to stem the tide Of outraged feeling in
this community. The negroes are 60
ing down and you with them.
ORDER.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-21
Troops Not TO be Sent south TIL After
Frost

Washington, October lit was
stated at the war department today
that troops will not be sent TO the
southern camps until after frost has
niade IL certain hat yellow fever viii
not spread. This applies to the troops
now at Camp Meade, Lexington and
Knoxville.
Major Idle, OF the medical DEPART
ment, who has been stationed at Lex
lngton for some time past. was at the
department today and says the health
OF the troops there has been steadily
Improving. II is said. however, that
II Will be too cold for the troops TO
occupy tents during the winter in the
Kentucky highlands.
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A Patriots Letter.

John Station, N. C, October TO- 1898.
To the Editor: When III popuhst movement arose., I vas m of that
number who thought h party promised relief from conditions la were
burdensome I went into h party honestly believing that what vas prom
isd as the purpose If the organization would be kept ever before the people
ad tht we woul triumph in he end. OF late there las com a chang
over he party and it seems to m that the sole aim and object 10 is fol-
epubHcans n negroes to get control of the government. With negro nag
istrates negro h ommtteemen controlling whites schools n with ur
turned over 20 h negroes, I cannot think of remaining longer with
tn party hat aids in this. n If it were lot for popunst hep this could
not be IN North Carolina
T "a appointed registrar for ny precinct for this.e election, but l cannot
serve as a populst, when 1 am 10 ne; but a for White Supremacy in
eyervthing. n shall work n vOteh encefOrh with the democratic party
the ONLY white nan party in this State. Yours truly,
j. W. JERNIGAN.
Mr. Jerniean was a deinocrat befo h joined he popuists. He is a
Justice of h peace, elected OF the popuist ticket lie has never sought Of
So M is a rLain honest farmer attends to his farm for his living,
~ &c in no sense a politician. W.. H. MLAURIN.
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Cases of Negro InsOlence.

Instance of negro insolence are O confined entirely to eastern North
Carolina. There we're two or three EXAMPLES IN Statsvnle last Sunday that
mark h disposition of some of h colored people. A negro youth, nearly
grow showed a little white boy whom he met or the sidewalk, n not cor
tent with lat struck thu boy in he back. boys fathers saw the oc-
currence n ut for HI fact hat lie did not wish to create & scene in the
where a number of people were going home from church, the negro
YOU have received the chaStiSement he deserved he las been unaDI to
lay yes on he negro since then.
ada afternoon some cOlOred WOnen met some white youths o. the
street n of the women insolenty owe on of the boys inoth he ditch
ad then turned loose uon him a filthy trade of abuse.
n same day a coored woman passing along thu street nsoRnuys showed
her b inot n face Of a white gentleman VIII was standing gin his yrd
leaning over he fence-Statesvile Landmark.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-21
Illness of Major Gordon

Washington, October 15.-Major
Frank Gordon, late of the Third Unit
ed States volunteers, immunes, son of
General Gordon, of Georgia, has been
placed in a hospital in this city by mis-
wife, suffering from fever which he
contracted during his service with the
army in Cuba. He is quite i'll. but
no doubt is entertained Of his ultimate
recovery.
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A Young Negro Boy Beats a White Lady.

On Saturday October 1ta about six miles southwest of he tow of um
bcyton, h county seat OF Robson county. a young negro aged abou 1
years assaulted NJ numerically beat with a portion of a gig handle, Mrs.
Dorcas Legget a young widow lady. Te Boys smother lived OF the planta-
ton of Mrs eggett who turned her calf into the field in which tn negroes
lived. IT so nrage h young fen that he got a stck and told Mrs.
Legget. 1T he vas going to whip her She rGreated toward the yard n
succeeded in getting old of a fish gig, with whichs she struck att he blac
brute. The blow missed and the gig handle was broken on striking the
ground. Selling N of the broken pieces h negro knocked Mrs. Leggett
down n began to beat her. h screams OF tn stricken lady brought the
boys mother to the scene m he was stopped. u for thsin Interference she
wcuId probably have been killed. Mrs Leggett is of as good family as there
is in Robson county n commands the highest respect from all who know
her-Correspondence Lumberon Robesonian.
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Statesville Landmark: Deputy Sher-
IN Scroggs of this county arrested
Charles Harmon, colored. in Shiloh
township last Saturday. Harmon was
wanted in Winston for the murder of
an old colored woman named Margaret
Pritchard. He shot at another negro
but missed him and killed the woman.
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Frost in IL Yellow Fever Section
WASHINGTON. October 15.-The occur

dSHIHSCOn OCt0UCT To
renee Ct frost at various points in the
south is welcomed by the marine hos
pital service authorities, who look for
it's continuance and a rapid diminution
of the fever. The frost is reported Oh
ficially at Jackson, Starkville, Column
bia and Holy Springs, Miss. Today's
dispatches regarding yesterdays new
cases in the state of Mississippi report
a total of SO.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-21

The seachIght started u by advocating d.. Rutherford, thu negro ply
more negroes N h county tickets and that he had arranged with negroes
give them w appointments in h agricultural department instead of
putting negroes on h county ticket o Wake.
Following this n o negro was III o n the fusion ticket Of Lenor n W e
think the following explains why it a lot done:
Yes it is tre we ave some cOlOred men biz n ompetent to hold
nlaces And the revenue bos, {. Duncan, promised a Kinstonc olred mar
a place Will he get t."
So it seems the negroes are bought on with the promise OF other posi-
tionS-KinStOn Free Press. A&lx1txktA L AA xLk4IH.- - A3
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-21
Crippled by
Rheumatism,

Those who have rheumatism find
themselves growing steadily worse all
the while. One reason of this is that
the remedies prescribed by the doctors
contain mercury and potash, which ul.
timately intensity the disease by caus.
ing the joints to swell and stiffen.
producing a severe aching of the bones.
S. S. s. has been curing Rheumatism
for twenty years-even the worst case,
which seemed almost incurable.
Capt. 0. E. Hughes, the popular railroad
conductor, OF Columbia. S. c.. had an eyners
ence with rheumatism which convinced mir
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-21

Tn u there Is only one
cure for that painful dis
ease He says: II was a
great sufferer from mus
cular rheumatism for
two years. / could get
no per q relief
from any medicine pre-
scribed By my physician.
took about a dozen bot
ties of your s.. S. S.. and
now / am as well as I
ever was inmy life. lam
sure that your medicine
cured me. and I would
~recommendit TO any one
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04

beverage Ezperweuts with the r7isin grape
 have shown thai this climate aId soil possess ovory advantage for the production and curing oi
 this staple article of commerce.
 "Besides the fruits already mentiored, tho or
 ange, lemon, lime, olive, fig, pomegranote, and
 others of the citrus family, can be grown success fully in the valleys of Southern Arizona. Orange
 trees are now in bearing in the salt River valley and at Yuma while the bananas is also being cuI-
 tivated at the latter place. The Arizona orange iH quality and flavor win compare favor3by with the best California.
 "in the valleys Of the CoorJ. the Salt and the
 Gila rivers, there is room for thousands. It is not
 too much to say that nowhere within the limits of
 this broad Union can be found a more desirable re-ion for the making of home No labOrious | clearing Of the land is reqUiroG it lies almost ready for the plow. Trees and ehrubbery nave so 1 rapid growth that within eighteen months the immigrant can surround bis abode with attractions
 When would require years to matJr in less favored ! ciuhates. Fruits riPeu and are ready for market lu!l month fore the California product. The 1 bfish, sunshine makes life a luxury. and the pure. 4f| atmosphere brings health tO all who iUhae It. for the establishment Of colonies sUch as we have made of Southern California arden, Arizona presents Uurraled opportunities Thousands of
 acres, now proitless, be made productive
 by the construction of irrigating dtches and there IS nc investment which assures larger or more permanent returns Y"
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04
WHICH TOWN IS THe BEST?

Primarily that is a question for the phy- sician, if there is a physician in the case if not, try them all If a mountain region, considerable altitude and comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott is in a picturesque region, near a great mining districts, and has the social advantage of an army post, whipple Barracks. Flag staHa stiil higher, is in a region of dense pine forests, and is within 9. hard days journey of one of the wonders of the world, the Colorado Canyon. Oracle is a pretty mountain nook, embowered in splendid live oaks, like those Of California, and is also near an important mining district.
 Ii lower altitude and a distinctly semi tropical climate are desired, the three places most likely to be considered are Yuma,
 Tucson and Phoenix. The first is near the sea level; is the warmest and probably the driest of the three, has the least population, and the smallest provision for visitors. Tucson is the oldest town in the Territory. and, after Santa Fe, perhaps the oldest in the Southwest. Its adobe houses give it d Mexican look, and arc thoroughly comfort- able, Its newer houses are of a handsome building stohe, found n the vicinity. The Territorial University is het-, auG t was
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04

formerly the capital. It's elevation Icing more than double tlat of Phoenix. it i, somewhat cooler, and as there is next to TO
 irrigation near it, tha air is a little dr.er. Phoenix is the centre of the greatest frr.e8- ton in the Territory. The country for miles arouud smiles with green feliz. cover ed with almost countless herds of cattle. and it is everywhere shut in by low n.5r,t- ains. It is the Territorial capital. has the Government Indian School, the Territorial Lunatio Asylum, and other institutions and is the general focus for the Tsrrito,-, Like Tucson, it has it's occasional wind and sand storms perhaps not quite so often. At either place visitors who know how to adapt themselves to circumstances can he entirsIy comfortable, and in each they will ind an intelligent, orderly, eatorprisine and most hospitabLe community. They will ind a country full of mines. full of rich a5ricuiturai lands, aJounding in cattle and horses, in vineyards and orchards and the beginnings of very successful orange groves
 "a country, in fact, as full of promise for hardy and adventurous men now as CaIfor- nla was in the.hftios. Above all, is has been their lot to search for health in far countries, they will revol in the luxury of being in their own land, among their own countrymen, within easy reach of their friends by telegraph or rail, and in a climate as good of its Kind as any in the world.
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04
WHY IMMIGRANTS SHOULD COME TO YUMA

WHY IMMIGRANTS SHOULD COME TO YUMA
 COUNTY.
 Because the climate is perfect.
 Because the soil is fertile and prolific.
 Because Iandis abundant and cheap.
 Because a home can be made with little labor.
 Because so great variety of products can be grown.
 Because the yield is large and the prices always remuneratiye.
 Because life is a luxury in a land wzere the sun shines every day.
 Because th,Te are chances for Q poor man which he can never hope to find in older countries.
 Because the country is advancing and property values are increasing.
 Because, unlike Southern California if does not require a small fortune to secure a piece of land.
 Because capital does not block all the aY- enues to wealth, nor crowd the poor man to the wall.
 Because Uncle Sam has vet many farms in Yuma county waiting for occupants.
 Because churches, schools, newspapers and railroads are fast developing the moral and material elements of the Territory.
 Because good land is becoming scarce. and if you don't catch on now, your last chance will soon be gone.
 Because the country is one of the few regions of the Uuited States that yields the products of the temperate and semi-troDic zones.
 Because the worker receives Q fair con. pensation for his labor, and the hustler has a field for the display of his energy and ea- terpr;se. Because there are neither bIizzards or tornadoes, earthquakes nor inundat.ops snow-storns nor cyclones.
 Because the vast and varied resources of the country are yet to be developed. Because the wealth of it's mines. its farm ing valleys, and grazing lands, will yet build up great and prosperous county. Because man can make livelihood her with less labor than in any other part of the i United States. Because there is health in every breeze. ! and strength and vigor under it's cIoudlsss i skies.
 Because the settler need not spend uic- ! time in felLing trees and grubbiag cut stumps.
 Because vegetation ie go ~aPi7 chat ;, t~e . year, the home is surrounded hy 4rov-'
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04
Is IT 4 LAWLEsS CnrNTRY2

The man who goes to any considerable Alizona town with the idea of the South west derived from novels, or from 'sThe Arizona Kicker" will he greatly mystifed. He will ind as mans churches as in towns of corresponding size in Peunsylvania pr Ohio; and probably more schoolhouses. He will ind plenty of Iiquor-shops. too. and gambling houses, and dancehouses. and vel he will sec little disorder unless he hunts
 late at night for it, and he will be ant to dnd-as at PhoeuiE-a community of ten thousand people requiring in the daytime only one policeman, and hardly reouiripg him. During my winter there did not see single disturbance in the streets or half dozen drunken men, all told. Min. ing men and an occasional cowboy certainly had QUarrels, sometimes, in the disorderIy quarters at night; and there were stories of the use of the knife among Mexicans. but the visitor who went about his own business had as little trouble as on Board way or Chestnut street. The Pima and Maricopa Indians, who are encountered everywhere, have been friendly with the whites for generations, and there isn't an Apache within some hundreds of miles.
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04
Is TT 4 PLACE FIT TO LIVE IN?

This depends on what one expects in a
 huge, parsely settled Territory of mount
 aims and deserts. The man who looks fol
 either the beauty or the seductive excite ment of Monte Carlo will not ind it. As little will he find the historic remains or
 the cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt: nor
 cculd he reasonable expect the amusements and luXuries of our own Eastern cities. The people of Arizona are still chiefly busy in
 the pioneer work of subduing it to the residence and uses of civilized man. But it has two transcontinentaI lines Of railway
 with numerous feeders; it has fast mails
 and rival telegraph lines, and is throbbinq with the intense life of the splendid West.
 The two principal towns in the south ern portion, chiefly sought for their climatic advantages, are Phoenix and Tucson. Each of them has ten thousand inhabitants or more. They have the electric light. te!e- phones, trolley cars, plenty of hotels.
 banks, bookstores, good schools, churches
 an occasional theatrical performance. some times lecture or @ circus, often horse race, and, in the spring, a thoroughly curious and interesting 'festa. For the cest, people must take their amusements with them. Coed horses are abundant and cheap, and there are plenty of cow boys-the genuine article-to show what horses can do. The driving for fifteen or twenty miles in almost any direction from Phoenix, is nearly always easy. The roads are apt to be dusty; but there IS one we'll sprinkIed drive of six or eight miles; and since the winds are quite regular in their direction, it is rarely difficult to choose route or which the dust will be largely carried away from you. The un5rokeu desert itself Is often as easy to drive over as an Eastern highway, and the whole valley is paradise for bjcyclers, or eques- .riaus.
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04

Tl-r is no section of the United States, OF probably O, the earth, more rich in mir- a.ai..-alta than che County of Yuma. Al taeeoantrv north, caa. and south of Yuma lies .s.-t'y within sae main go,d belt that commences in Alaska and ends in Mexico. From the San Eeuardno mountains il
 California t, the sonora boundary line t.o mountains and hills are ozcep ptlanaliy rich in
 the frcc,aas metal, s7 though demonstrating tha i.7r a.aa 5vaure5 that the richest
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04

The atmosphere is singularly clear, tonic and dry. 1 have never seen it clearer anyv here in the world. It seems to have about the same bracins and exhilarating qualities as the air Of the Great Sahara in Northern Africa, or of the deserts about Mount Sinai, in Arabia Petraca. It is much drier than ID the parts Of Morocco, AIgiers or Tunis usually visited, and drier than any part of the Valley of the Nile north of the First Cataract. It seems to me about the same in quality as the air on the Nile betv veen Assouan and Wady Halia, but somewhat cooler.
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04

April The same reports show the highest and lowest temperatures, averaged for eight years, at the same place, as follows; ForNoyemhcr 7S11a degrees and 4 degrees, December 7312 degrees and 3G1a degrees, Jannary G51z degrees and g degrees, Feb ruary 7I1a degrees and 351a de rees. March Sl 1s degrees and fl degrees and April 961 degrees and 4G degrees, Toe nights throughout the winter are apt to be cool enough for open wood fires, and for blankets Half the time an overcoat is not needed during the day, but it is never prudent for a stranger to be without one at hand.
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Ess 2D E S EoE
 I.IA GO S5I8 E Es The Soil, Climate Rivers, and Many
 and Varied Offerings of FAIR ARiZONAS BANNER COUNTY.
and Varied Offerings Of
FAIR ARiZONA'S gaWNER COUNT
Brief Statement of Facts Setting Many Advantages offered t Coaat7 Residence.

lenrv i. ranging from s0' to 90'. The air is
 so dry that precipitation is absorbed as soon as it reaches the surface Of the hojy and at ns tune in the sumuer does the heat produce any discomfort.
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04

A white nan first set feet on what ]. now Yrnla County in I'll. It Is t.. southwest division Of She Territory, and one of the four original counties Of She Ter ritory, Many great reclamation projects arc however on foot, and in a few years ez- pect to see Yuma Courty rated as tls richest iu the Territory.
 The first glimpse the traveller from Cali. sorria catchesc cf Arizona is that oi tna picturesque town Of Yuma, which is s1u situated in the embrace Of e-ule rolling hills, upon Whose c!ests and sides t.. modern homes Of our superior civilization are crow ding the adobe dwellings iuto eternal oblivion. Yuma is the gateway to Arizona, the new empire Of the West, upcn whose unde~eloped riches the eyes of the aaGntry are at present turned, and as such, ., is bound to grow and prosper vlth Q rapidity that at present can hardly be re- alized But coupled with her gcorraphi- cal position we find that she is the center oi a country whose agricultural ro-sihi-- ties are practically unlimited, being sur rounded by soil the fertility of which exceeds that of the delta Of the Nile, and wanting only water to become paradise of bloom. Billions of gallons of that precious fluid have annually gone to waste at Yuma's very doors, butalrcady a reaction is taking place aad many enterprises are on feet to supply the hfe-giving waters of She yellow Colorado to the thirsty earth,
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-06-04
q!tECLINATE gF YUMA.

Thoe..aats of Trna for nine months ot sae yea. has "o @aeai as we believe ia .ao to.ld, al3 during the remaining three foutla 9l the year, comprising June, J1y and Aveust t4e heat is rot oppressive. Even 5loa-h the thernc-aeter in ml5-sum- 1,er may al times rise above 1902, ard oa- .s,ionaIly e> CD reach I.O', yet oaiug to :he absence of moisture i1 tAe air. tits not oppressive. Thsatn5pLore is puie. light and bainy. When the mercury marks tla Highest extreme of heat, pc'sen does not Feel that oppression or debility which is --s.. ,a tha E3etera States wen ths me.-