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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18

Waterbury, Sept 17.-,John NJ Riley. we'll
known as constable, is seriously i'll and
many not recover His ather was one of
the early settlers Of Waterbury, and he him
self had taken an interest in the towns
politics since his early manhood
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18
HALF A MILLION.


Big Fire in Llincoln, Nebraska.
big fire in Lincoln, Neb, Saturday. de-
stroyed the Masonic temple, ST Paul Meth
0diSt church and tAe Webster block. Loss
$5O0,000. Insurance figures not given
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18
BANKRUPTCY pETImON

A voluntary petition in bankruptcy has
been filed by Frederick ]. McKerness of
New Haven in the United States district
court. Liabilities, $S05,22; assets, S661,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18
SCHOONER MASsAsOIT ARRIVES

The monster fourmasted schooner Mas
sasoit, which arrived at the shipyard Friday
from New Haven is to be entirely recaulked
and is awaiting the launching of the tern
j. d. Dewell from the ways to have the
work done.---New London Day.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18

Walter r. Davis of this city was
among the speakers booked for an ad-
dress at rally day services at the Con-
sregational church, Wallingford.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03

The village Of Southern Pines is
made up strictly Of northern settlers,
and no negroes are allowed to find a
home there. The proposition to call a
meeting at that place of northern and
southern business men and manufac-
turers to consider the important ques-
ton of investments in the south is
one to be Endorsed for it concerns the
state. The Messenger would warmly
favor the suggestion. The time named
is the 18th Of April next.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03
LEGISLATIVE.

Of course doctors differ. So do leg
islators, and so do us all. There is de-
cided division of opinion among the
sclons as to local option. Some prefer
high tax. Senator Mcintyre gave good
reasons for favoring local option in
preference to Icense. He said crime,
rowdyism, and drunkenness had been
greatly reduced at Lumberton by local
option. Before under the high tax IL
Ger Sc drunkenness and rowdyism pre-
vailed so as to make it Unsafe for wo-
men and children. Experience is al
ways a good teacher
The outlook is for the adoption of
the Louisiana law. While very ex-
IRENE it will give sa -iSfaction provided
it does not come to its death in the
United States supreme court. There is
much danger we would suppose of this.
Pritchard is lying in his lair ready to
make a terrible leap with set jaws
and lashing tail. He wishes to devour
it skin and all. Pritchard lives where
there are no negroes n no outrages
by them. Like the numbering Yankee
negrophilists his sympathies are deep
down in his boots and at long range.
We are aware that some of the fore
most lawyers in Louisiana hold that
their law is all right and constitu-
tional. But who can count on the
present supreme court? We would not
trust it in any matter involving the
rights of the states.
We regret that the opposition to a
textile school is pronounced. Rather
than tack it on to some established
school and have a half and half thing
we would prefer postponement and
more enlightenment. A first rate school
built after the plan of the Lowell
school would be of great service to
the manufacturing interests of North
Carolina.
The idea mentioned in the Sunday
Messenger of an opinion of some men,
bers that criminal insane and the in
sane by disease should be differently
regarded in dealing with them appears
to be founded in humanity and JUS
tice. Many a fellow escapes the gall
lows now under the plea of insanity
who is a deliberate and pertinacious
scoundrel with all Of his sin upon
him.
The effort of the legislature to i'm
| prove white morals should be approx
| ed and will be approved by all moral
| people.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03
GEORGE @. GAYLORD.

Has this to say-for this week. nave
a very large stock of Dry Goods and /
would like to mike some special offers
TO reduce stock 10 turn goods, into
money.
I will sell this week 10 yards Of Ski
Unbleached SheeEing at lie per gard,
10 yards of SKA Reached Sheeting for
12Kc, 10 yards of 9x4 B~leached Sheet
ing for lac, is yards Unbleached SKA
at 12kc, Pillow casing SKA at &c.
Ready Made Hemstitched Pillow Gov
ers at s1.10 per dozen. Ready Made
S1x90 Bleached Fine Sheets at 47c,
90x90 at SIC. A large fine Linen Towel
36x20 inches at Is 2-3c, Oil Table Cfath
at 121kc, fine White -in vide
Table Linen at 221zc.
I want to have a special Carpet sale.
L will sell Cotton g-ply Ingram Carpets,
1 I'd wide. 1 sold at 25c. now for zoe.
My 50-wool Carpet, beautiful, for &c.
I have a big stock of Mattings at low
prices, good goods. from 15c to Csc per
yard.
We have on hand a big line of fine
Trunk from 81. SO TO so. My nice gan
a covered line at $2.25 to $3.50, are
splendid goods. Good Zinc covered
Trunks from 81 10 81.
We are ma ding great nducapapta
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03

Mr.. Malcolm B. Hunter, a young
North Carolinian who was compelled
to go to Philadelphia to obtain an ed
ucation in textiles, writes to The
Charlotte Observer in behalf OF the
establishing of such a school. He ap-
preeiates the advantages derived from
such a school and says:
"a technical education is the proper
basis upon which to build a textile ed
ucation; a milling centre is the proper
place for its location and not in con-
nection with any other institution, as
a department or adjunct.
"L, for my own part, could have
wished for such an opportunity, as
this would nave afforded Of acquiring
a higher knowledge of manufacturing
without the additional expenses and
inconvenience which attending a
school at this distance from home ne
cessitates. But, though too late for
nay benefit, let us hope that others
may have the chance given them Of
becoming skilled workmen, who, in
time, viii place North Carolina in the
foremost rank in the manufacture Of
the very finest grade Of goods"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03

careful inquiry and muc time TO in
vestigate satisfactorily. But 1t will
pay TO make the scrutiny. We will
give today only a point or two-facts
contributing to a better understanding
of the question.
Is the canal really a necessity TO his
country, to cur government? The
advocates of the plan make a great
splutter just here. If you could credit
their contention, the United states
would have TO construct and own the
canal for
1. Purposes of commerce.
2. From considerations of profit
8. For military purposes.
A. From a pure economic reason-to
save time.
AS to the first, the six trans-conti-
mental railroads a do all the bust
ness, and at less cost h a by way Of
the canal. The able essay by Mr.. JOS
eph Nimmo. Jr., published last year,
gave some statistical facts worthy Of
! attention. He said that the steel rail
is the most efficient instrument of
commerce on the globe" There is not
the slightest doubt of the truth of this,
and abundant facts confirm it. The
railrO d are the great commercial
distributors, taking speed, cost and ia
cilities into consideration. Mr.. Nimmo
gives this:
The year before the Union and
Central Pacific railroads line was com
pleted the value of the freights trans
ported between New York and San
Francisco via Panam was $40, POP, 029.
The next year it fell to SIS, 549, 255, and
during the year 1894 it had fallen to
only 3,517,5 $50. Commerce between
! New York and San Francisco via Pan
anna and via Cape Horn has almost
disappeared in the face Of railroad
competition. The results of such com
petition are summarily stated in the
following carefully compiled statement
Of tonnage Of strictly transcontinental
railroad freight and of freights carried
between California and the Atlantic
Seaboard by the anam railroad
route and the Cape Horn route during
the year 1897.
Tons.
Transcontinental railroad traf-
fic...... .......... ........ 1,9S1,3o'
Traffic via Panama and Cape
For the general purposes Of com
merce today one transcontinental rail.
road is worth a dozen isthmian ca.
nails"
Here is a very important point for in.
vestigation, The railways already con
structed can transport all commerce
between the Atlantic and Pacific wit,
great speed, and with due economy
when time is considered, which is ar
important factor. The Cape Horn
traffic, as is seen, has about disap.
peared under the great service, 81
speedy, efficient, ample and low, of the
six great railway lines. Mr.. Nimmo's
is this:
The traffic between the two coasts
by the Panama railroad route has also
become practically a thing of the his.
toric past. The great bulk of such
traffic has been captured by the trans.
continental railroads.. What remains
of the Cape Horn traffic of the Pacific
coast is carried in sailing vessels, and
for reasons hereinafter stated would
not be available for the Nicaragua
Canal"
So really, the Nicaragua plan is no!
actually necessary or important from
a strictly economic and commercial
standpoint. We will take up other
, points from time to time.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03
SPEAKER CONNOR,S OPINION.

The Messenger has no objection per
Sc to the Louisiana election law. 1t
has had reason to fear that finally it
would be fought over before the Su-
preme Court of the United States and
be declared unconstitutional. The
changes wrought by the war n the
legislation that followed in the United
States Congress were SO radical in re-
suits as to cripple the States and in
trDduce experiences hitherto nknoWn.
How far the new Amendments will
reach now in determining the validity
and constitutionality Of a law like that
Of Louisiana we surely cannot deter
mine not being neither learned in the
law nor familiar with legislative prece-
dents. We notice in Sundays Raleigh
News-Observer that Speaker Connor,
of the House, addressed the democratic
caucus On the important question of
suffrage on last Friday night He is a
gentleman of decided ability and of
high character and sound judgment.
What he says always commands our
attention. We will refer to what he
says in our next issue. His speech was
not reported out he has been Inter
viewed" in the usual way. OF the con-
stitutionality of the Louisiana law he
says this, and it is at least. plausible if
not conclusive:
1T is we'll settled and elementary
principle that each state has the abso-
lutte right to fix the qualification for the
suffrage, hence there car be no Ques-
ton that we. may prescribe the educa-
tional Qualification. This in NO man
ner infriI ges upon the 18th amend
ment. The suggestion that the excep-
ton does SO is based upon the idea
hat it in some way discriminates
against the negro. 1t is difficult to see
how this suggestion can be sustained.
1t simply extends to a class of persons
without regard 20 race or previous con-
dition of s~ervitude, the franchise. Those
negroes not coming within that class
are not included in the exception. WHY
may not one who has the right TO fix
the standard for all persons. except
such as ne may choose from such
! standard"
, We would like here and now to ask
one question lest we forget it when we
write at another time. If Judge Con
/; nor and others should be mistaken In
their views favoring the Louisiana
law, and the Supreme Court should Sc
it aside as unconstitutional what viii
they do about It? Suppose it comes 4,
months or a year hence. what then
viii the legislature adjourn sine di
sure you are right, then 90 ahead"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03

to move cur line OF Fine Clothing. Our
prices are cut to close out. If you need
a Suit come n see my line. from 81. 80
to $500.
We carry a big line OF Ladies Hats.
Capes, Ribbons, Flowers and Feathers.
Ladies Skirts and Waists.
our Dress Goods-We have lust re-
ceived a nice line OF fine Silk and some
beautiful things in nice Dress Goods.
We want your business. We carry
everything. Our store covers three
floors of $1,000 feet Of floor room. and
1t is all filed up with new goods.
We are giving away lots OF splendid
presents. Fer a SO purchase we will
have your picture made fife size free
OF cost to YOU For n SIS purchase we.
viii give You a nice set OF Glass Ware
and a set OF Gobiets. or a nice Oak
Table free. For a IS purchase we viii
give you a splendid Willow Rocking
Chair, worth $3.50 at any store. or "A
handsome Table. OF n Book Case. For
a s5o purchase we viii give you a nice
writing Desk or a fine Hall Hat Rack.
THESE fine useful presents are free to
you and besides I will sell you more
goods Tor your money than any store
in he state Come TO US for barratns
In every linz. WIfmington's Big Racket
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03

If Jeter Pritchard and Marion Butler
can induce the congress to give all the
south's money for pensions to the on
federates living, they will do a good and
just thing, and will nave done~at least
one act worthy of southern men and
worthy Of remembrance. But taking
care of the confederate dead belongs
TO the south. No help is needed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03
Many Lover

Has turned with disgust from an 9TH
erwise lovable girl with an offensive
breath. KarIs Glover Root Tea puri-
fies the breath by its action on the
bowels, etc., as nothing else will. Sold
for years on absolute guarantee. Price
70 cts. and so cts. For sale by r. r.
Rellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03

At Tampa, Fla, Judge James w.
Graham, died on the 1st Of Janu-
airy. We was born in Cumberland
county, n. c.. on January 1a. 1914. He
was a man of high character and for
the last thirty-five years Of his life
was a Presbyterian minister.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03
THE MICA CANAL.

Should the United States either ad-
vance the cash for building the Mica
ragua Canal and fully equipping it, or
should it become the constructor and
owner of it, or should it help private
stockholders to undertake to construct
it? We believe hat any intelligent,
fair minded man who will lake the
trouble to examine into the matter
with some ~particularity, and enters on
the investigation without prejudice or
favor as to any plan On either side in
the contrast will necessarily come to
the conclusion that the United States
have already greater burdens than the
people should bear, and that it will be
unwise, unjust, unintelligent for this
country to become a party to-we
might say with propriety, particeps
~criminis-the proposed scheme. Let
every voter, every taxpayer, every
citizen capable of understanding facts
and reasons give time to this question
kthat may become in the end agreat
nklen to the country, and a curse to
\ engage in the Nicaragua Canal
Investigate the matter at is
lou will be astonished to find
little there is really IN Avor
our country in a, err
ne that will cost !,
and in the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03

The penitentiary muddle wakes fouler
daily. It is utterly rotten all through,
and now people at Raleigh are talk
ing that it will probably take 5000, 600
10 pay out. Think &C the incompetents
and worse who have been entrusted
by Russell with that costly, sinking
possession. The more hat decayed
thing is stirred the viler the stencil.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03

Ex-senator Jarvis writes to The Raj
eigh Post that he is in nobody's way
as to the railway commission. He
has no CONCERN about it beyond having
it composed of good men. He would
make a safe, excellent member of the
commission, for he is a man of ex-
~perience, of judgment and ability. So
is our esteemed townsman, Mr.. Frank
McNeill, who is being strongly pressed
by many Wilmingtonians for the place.
He would be, we sincerely believe, a
capital selection, and The Messenger
hopes he will be appointed. With Jar
Wis and Mcneil and a strictly frst-rate
man from the west, it would be a COM
mission of very genuine merit. But we
are not nominating candidates, but
suggesting. The Messengers only con-
Germ is for the best equipped, most
honest and faithful men accessible to
be selected for so important a place.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03

HUGH McRAE,
CHAS. E. BORDEN,
GEO. r FRENCH,
VIM E. WORTH.
C. ". YATES.
JOHN s.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-17
SAW THE BIG BATTLE.
ENGLISH WOMAN WHO HAS
LIVED A CENTURY.
A waterloo Dancer Stiu Allvs-Lady
Carsw, q Belle of the Brussels Ball,
Celebrates Her One Hundredth Birth
day.

There was sound of revelry by night.
And Belgium's capital had fiathered
then
Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright
The lamps shone DER fair women and
brave men.
The English newspapers from time
10 time announce the death OF the sur
vivors Of the famous ball given In
Brussels on the eve of the battle Of
Waterloo by the Duchess Of Richmond,
which was made famous by Lord By
ron's reference to it in the third can.o
OF "Childe Harold"
1t is said there are but two survivors
Of this festive occasion, and one Is
the DOwager Lady Carew, who has
just completed her one hundredth
year.
At the time OF the ball she was Miss
Cliffe, daughter of Maj. Anthony Cliffe,
but in the next year she became the
wife OF Lord Carew, who died many
year ago. The old lady is delightfully."-
pictured as hale and hearty, though in
an invalid's chair.
1t is somewhat remarkable that the
exact spot where this famous ball took
place should be in dispute.
Byrons glowing lines give the I'M
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-17
PHILADELPHIA IN NEW YORK

Miss Josephine Drexel is an indie
pendent young lady who prefers to live
in the gay whirl of New York rather
than with her mother in the slow cir
conference of Philadelphia.
1t is announced that Miss Josephine
Drexel will give series of winter teas
this winter at her residence in New
York. 1t seemed at one time as though
Miss Drexel would not be able to graf
ify her desire to shine in society this
winter. Mrs. Drexel, her mother, does
not like New York, and so lives in
Philadelphia. Mrs. John Vinton Dahl
gren, her sister, is not going out just
now, so Mrs. Drexel found it necessary
to get relative to chaperon her, and
her cards are out and society is Cos
siping about her independence. Miss
Drexel is pretty as we'll as independ-
ent. She is worth $10,000,000.
She is a member Of the well-known
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-17

THE DOWAGER LADY CAREW.
preston that it was a magnificent az
fair perhaps in palace, but as mat
ter of fact it was an impromptu gather
ing in large room hurriedly impro-
vised for the occasion.
No doubt the fair women" and
brave men, chased "the glowing
hours with flying feet" with as much
pleasure as in marble halls, and it
is quite certain that, though the ex-
act location Of their revelry may have
been forgotten, the occasion itself will
be preserved to all time by Byron's
lines.
A stanza, not as often quoted as that
with which the poet opens the bril-
liant scene, and which is not less beau
tiful, describing the battlefield, the
carnage and the dead, is as follows:
Last noon beheld them full Of lusty life,
Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay;
The midnight brought the signal-sound Of
strife,
The morn the marshaling in arms-the
day
Battles magnficently stern array!
The thunder clouds close Ger it, which
when rent
The earth is covered thick with other
clay,
Which her own clay shall cover heaped
and pent
Rider and horse-friend, foe-in one red
burial blent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-17

Waiting Twenty Years for Theater Box.
"To tax and to please is not given to
me-" said Burke. But the French ma
ton imposes upon itself peculiar tax
of 1,2SO,000 francs, and is pleased! TO
be sure, 1,280,000 francs invested in
pleasure ought to please. This sum
is paid annually to the state in the
way of theatrical subventions; to the
Opera, 100000; to the Theatre Fran
Gals, 100000; to the Opera Comique,
100000; to the Odeon, 100000 francs
The other nineteen theaters Of Paris
stand on their own legs. The Opera,
technically baptized Academic Ma
tionale de Musique," has 2,156 seats,
which sell for from two to seventeen
francs night. AS for the boxes, with
their miniature salons attached, they
represent not only money, but heart
sickening deferred hopes, because many
an aspirant for the permanent ten
ure of box has waited twenty years
and more and then got nothing for his
patience. A box-holder may transmit
his lease by will. But if his heirs
raise no claim, the directors of the the
alter appoint successor from among
the candidates en- queue, to those who
have survived after standing in line
for a quarter-century.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-17
Reluctant Witness.

COUNSEL insist on an answer to
my question. You have not told me
all the conversation. / want to know
everything that passed between you
and Mr.. Jones on the occasion to
which you refer. Reluctant Witness
I've told you everything of any conse-
quence. you have told me that you
said to him: Jones. this case will get
into court some day. Now, l want
to know what he said in reply" well,
he said: Brown, there isn't anything
in this business that I'm ashamed Of,
and if any snoopin', little, yee-hawin'
four-by-six, gimlet-eyed lawyer, with
half pound Of brains and sixteen
pounds of jaw, ever wants to know
what I've been talking to you about,
you can tell him the whole story -
New York Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-17

When mother brought the dinner on,
An piled the table high
With turkey and with salads
An with mince and custard pie,
Cranberries an plum pudding.
Nice, great big frosted cakes
I ate so much ma said: will, stop.
You'll kill yourself! Land sakes!"
Then, when the meal was over.
Pa sat in his easy chair.
An pulled upon a big cigar
Until 1t filled the air;
An then he said: II tell you what
A good cigars the thing
To cure that 'fullness feelin'
Quicker than most anything"
into the parlor then l crept
AS sly as any fox,
An sneaked big cigar right out
O. fathers Christmas box;
Then out behind the old woodshed.
Where mother couldn't see,
I smoked to try and get some or
That fullness out of me.
took a puff, It was so nice,
took another one;
An kept putin OMIT was
The very best of fun;
Then soon L got 10 1eelln queer
Ny head went round so quick:
The sky 1t got as black as night,
An l was awful sick.
Oh, I was sick, and didn't dare
To let ma look at me;
An oh. felt so hollow.
l was empty as could be;
The tears came in my eyes-I cried;
My head was just a reelin',
But pa was right. a good cigar
viii cure that fullness feelin'."