The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31
BREvITIES.

Speaking of much marrying" didn't
that fellow in Chicago simply take the
cakes off the griddle. He confessed to
having had forty-two wives. He would
make a good chief of the Mormon COM
Germ in Utah, and a frst-class Mormon
representative in the United States
house. He rejoices in the name Of Wal
ter y. Favusworth. He should go to a
museum.
1t is pretty hot in Kentucky when
witnesses in court are murdered on the
way and the judge is so intimidated he
is afraid to hold court
Probably little Mckinley wishes the
country to join him in thanking God
that there is a war OF little Macs make
now on hand 10, 900 miles away. Mac is
"amiable" you see and of pious turn.
Michael Davitt is one Of the foremost
of Irish leaders. He administers a
strong rebuke to the Chamberlayne
British war upon the Beers by resign
ing his seat in the house of commons.
He hit the bulls eye when he said
that the war for the meanest and
most mercenary aims would be known
as the greatest crime of the century,"
war o the Filipinos.
The South Carolina ~dispensary scan
dai is m~alodorous. What a failure and
stink,
Mckinley thinks that the American
people are with him. in his war upon
the Filipinos. He was cheered in his
sixty or seventy speeches and he puts
it down he was sustained in his vile
course. The New York Evening Post
says:
1T is only a pleasant little fic-ion of
Mr.. McKinley's that he knows any
more now about what the people wan
done in the Philippines than he did be-
fore the star of his empire took its way
westward"
1t is noticeable hat several shootings
with fatal results have recently occur
red in Virginia.
When negroes get On "a tare," they
are dreadful. The turpentine negroes
in Alabama tried to occupy a town and
appropriate. Result three dead ne
groes. When will they learn decency
sense and become civilized?
The fighting of the Beers is Just he
role, according to British accounts,
but John Bulls men wipes them ur
every time. Such splendid bravery
may be for 80 lost cause"
Was Patrick O'Brien far in error
when he told Chamberlain, who brought
on the war, that he was las much
stained with blood as any murderer
who ever mounted the scaffold."
1t is so easy for newspapers that
Filipinos should lake sides with the
British against the weaker side-the
Beers. They are organs of hat immor-
al, Ubiquitous, detestable sentiment that
might makes right.
A Virginia newspaper is perplexed as
to the politics over there. 1t asks
How are we to know a democratic"
In North Carolina a democrat votes the
democratic ticket, does not keep bad
company with republicans, and lives
above suspicion. He favors a white
mans government and fights radical
ism all the year round.
The republican chairman in Ohio
says his ticket will be elected by So,
900, and he would not be surprised if it
reached loo, 900.
Prices are still rising and beef is
higher. In August and September
there was an average advance of 5 pei
cent ION 100 staples of commerce." says
the Cleveland Leader. but it does no
give the list. 1t is a gold organ.
The wheat supply of the world is now
stated and reported to be over 300, O0o, 0D
bushels short of 1898. An improved
| market is looked for.
! All! They are now having and dis
| cussing THE Negro Problem in tn,
| North" 1t seems to be a growing, lex
panding" problem.