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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
DEATH OF MRS. ROBINSON
Died at Her Home in Goldsboro Wed>
nesday-TwO Gretna Green MARI
rtages

Correspondence OF The Messenger.)
Goldsboro, n. c., June 16.
The remains of the infant child Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Edmundson. Of
Black Creek, formerly of this city, were
brought here Tuesday and the inter
ment was made in Willow Dale ceme-
terry.
The death of Mrs. j. J. Robinson oc-
Cured at her home in this city at s
o'clock Wednesday morning. She was
a member of the First Baptist church
and a good Christian, and her death
will be mourned by her many friends.
She leaves a husband, a young son and
the following brothers and sisters: Mrs.
Willis Edmundson, of Black Greek;
Mrs. r. A. Smith, of GoldSboro, and
Messrs. Fred and Sid Woodland, of VIII
son. The funeral was held from The
home yesterday at 5 O'Clock, conducted
by Rev. w. G.. Newton, pastor of the
First Baptist church.
Their were two Gretna Green mar
riages at Seven Springs last Sunday
all the parties being from Goldsboro.
The contracting parties were Miss Car
RE Lewis and Mr.. j. A. Haynes, and
Miss Sudie Hall and Mr.. Richard H.
Petty. They drove over to Seven
Springs through the country Sunday
morning and the marriages were a
great surprise to their friends here.
Among those from Goldsboro who are
attending the Teachers Assembly at
Morehead are Misses Addie Souther-
land, Sallie Lee, Anna Belle Borden,
Mrs. L. G. Switzerland and Mrs. F. X.
Borden and children.
Miss Ophelia Howell, who has been
spending the winter in Greenville, Miss,
teaching music and French, has return
ed home.
Miss Saliie Borden has returned home
from New York city, where she gradu-
ated in medicine last month.
The song recital given by Miss George
G. Royal and her vocal class, assisted
by Miss Helen Privett, violinist, and
Mr.. Thomas Dewey, pianist, in the OPP
era house last night was a great sue
cess and thoroughly enjoyed by all.
On next Monday, the 18th instant,
the Eclipse Hose Reel Company will
leave for Columbia, S. c., to take part
in South Cardinals fireman's tourna-
ment.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
IL Made Them All Sad

Charleston News and Courier.)
Sergeant Mccartney is now in charge
of what is known as the "raiding
squad" at police headquarters. Usu-
ally the "raiding squad" is taken to
mean a party of foragers, who go out
and secure provender for nan and
beast without asking h owner any
thing about permission or such small
matters. The police raiding squad
does not bother abou consent OF own
erS and they are after provender, too,
but they destroy what they capture,
and are, therefore, not looked upon
must witness what they think is wan
ton destruction of the good things Of
life.
The squad now on duty has beer
vigilant and yesterday Sergeant Nc
Caffrey gave a beer party in the yard
at headquarters. Two quarter kegs Of
the Germanian Brewing Company's
best crew were rolled into the yard.
The kegs were sweating. not like the
cops from heat, but from cold con-
tents within. The kegs were moved
UP to the sink that connects with the
gutter, and all the COZ who had moth
ing special to do gathered about with
just about the same spirit as a people
b attend a funeral. The beer was
tapped, and the amber liquid, cool and
inviting, flowed into the sewer. The
faces of the mourners, who stood about
with bowed heads, were studies. There
was not n OF them whose mouth did
not dribble, and whose neither lip did
not hang much lower than usual while
a few tongues hung out.
Sergeant McCaffrey merely smiled
as the c keg was tapped and
thought of the splendid weather for
tantafzing thirsty mortals by sending
cool lager on a journey through the
sewers in order that rats and other
reptiles might enjoy what was forbid
den to men. Verify
"A policeman's lot is o a very happy
one,
For there's duty to be done, to be
done"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20

told OF his being confirmed In the Epis-
copaI church since ne was here"
Miss McEwan, OF Kentucky, has
been awarded 81, 900 for being wounded
in the face by a drunken negro who
fired a pistol She is permanently in
jured. The Jim Crow car in that
state is the outcome OF the rowdy ne
groes who were aboard that day.
The Boston Herald has some sense
and takes this view OF the vexed ques-
ton:
"A calm view OF the negro question
viii convince any one who Is ~acquaint-
ed with the condition OF the south tha
whether white supremacy ia right OF
wrong there, il must be accepted as a
fact. To contend against il. "a things
now are. only makes the condition OF
the colored man worse"
Booker Washington is in Paris. Here
is what he says as the result OF travel:
Judging from what I have seen of
the poor people OF Europe and their
condition, / believe the colored man in
the south has a brighter prospect. Only
q few days & / met here a colored
man who has traveled much in Europe,
having formerly lived in the south. Al
o his first words to me We're: Tell
the people 20 remain in the south. 1t is
h best place for the poo man TO get
on his feet"
South Cardinals United States sena-
tor, McLaurin. has declared for impe-
rialism. urn him out. II looks as IL
Senator Daniel vas Hopping that way
also. McLaurin is evidently a dema-
gogue.
The University of West Virginia
leads southern literary institutions in
attendance. The last year it had S07
ceding year
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20

Bishop Huntingdon, of the Central
Diocese of New York, in his annual
address made sharp comments upon
the notorious Briggs affair, and con-
demned the course of Bishop Potter.
He waxed really eloquent and his
phrasing was apt and his points strong.
We make room for an impressive and
it is we'll to treasure. The able bishop
said:
can unshrinking attempt by any or
dained minister to fix terms of con
tempt, ridicule, incredulity, upon the
matchless and singular volume which
has declared itself through ages, with
out effectual dispute, to be the word
of God, which has been handled with
awe in the highest seats of law and
courts Of judgment, which has been
pressed with adoring gratitude to the
breast of martyrs, saints, statesmen,
and seers; which mas saturated lita-
MES, missals, prayer books, altar an
thems, and august ~obsequies with it's
~unearthly spirit and glorified them
with its grandeur, could have been only
offensive by its impertinence and amaz-
ing by it's audacity.
Nothing al persuade me that any
bishop of the church of God can be
compelled to lay ordination hands for
the Christian priesthood, by n known
law of God Or the church, on any man
he deems unworthy of h office and
it's sanctities-the church continuing
to pray at the ember season for ali
bishops hat they may faithfully and
wisely make choice of fit persons to
serve in the sacred ministry of the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20

If any one will take trouble to read
carefully that really good specimen of
biographical writing by James Parton.
a journalist in the north of distinction
in his day, but Of foreign birth, we
think. on that eminent American and
southron, Andrew Jackson, of distin-
guished war fame and president for
eight years of the United States, he
viii have no doubt, We apprehend, as
to where this leader of men vas born
Mr.. Parton proves he was born in that
part of Mecklenburg county now known
as Union. In his early manhood he
practiced law in Salisbury, and we re-
member to have looked upon his office
a long time ago. North Carolina has
had four presidents of the United
States-Andrew Jackson, James X.
Polk, Abraham Lincoln Fright name
Enloe) and Andrew Jackson.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20

Let us gather here a few odds and
ends. New York Saturday Review
thinks poorly of Mr.. James's "Awk-
var Age" and says that THE Awk-
ward Age is an unworthy book for a
writer SO able as Henry James, a
waste of splendid skill, a monument OF
futility." Dumas's great character,
D'Artagnan was a cal parsonage and
his name was Charles de Batz Castle
more. Three volumes of his Memoirs
have just been published in Paris. It
is not probably generally known that
c. w. Chestnut, who wrote THE Con-
jure Woman" is a negro, and probably
from North Carolina. The Bookman
has a full pag notice of it, and it is
favorable. It also notices favorably
Rider Haggard's last novel, "Swal-
low" and considers it 'as immensely
superior ito everything else he has ever
DONE"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
HOME FOLKS

1t is now reported that Marion But
Ter will leave the senate at the expira-
ton of his term. That he will. North
Carolina a had quite too much al
ready of this political chameleon If
he had any chance of disappearing
the people of North Carolina for an
other six years he would gladly do e
But his fate is sealed, and in 1901, he
will step down and out never again to
darken the senate chamber save only
as a visitor. There will be dry eyes"
in North Carolina when his term ex-
pires by limitation.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20

good literature, much less for the great
standards OF the ancient and modern
world OF letters. Hence, ne says, the
really clever work Is overslaughed as
too literary" But there is a class ef
stories that are greatly coveted, and
they fill the monthlies-and, as MIR.
Trail says, the short stories about de-
tectives, bank robberies, matrimonial
advertisements, breach of promise cases
are sure OF early and sympathetic con-
sideration. As for the miscellaneous ar
their case is eve sadder." Is this to
continue Indefinitely? Is there no wise.
able, truly progressive editor and pub
Usher who will take the initiative in
England and publish a magazine as
great as Blackwood once was when its
contributors were Scott, Carlyle,
christopher North" Lockhart, Faith
er Prout," George Eliot, Mrs. Oliphant
Charles Lever and a dozen others Of
distinguished genius and rare re-
sources ? Not now will this change for
the better come. The love of pure let
tiers u return soon or late. Mr..
Trail says in concluding his timely
discussions:
Some day, when the spread Of edu-
cation is more marked, and more Of
h people who have lately learnt TO
read have also learnt to think, he may
find it worth while TO change his plans
and raise his standards But we are
not very sanguine about this; and ex-
pect a good deal further before the
tide sets definitely in the opposite di-
rection."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20

Harper has a literary weekly called
"Literature." 1t praises Timrod, we
are gratified to note. That true poet is
at las being appreciated in the north.
He is not half appreciated yet in the
south. The new and handsome edition
Of his poems will make his genius more
prominent. His circle of true admirers
has been something small, but that fate
followed other men of genius in the
old world. There are many examples.
Even so great a genius as Milton
greatest after Shakespeare in all the
English speaking world-was neglected,
his sublime and immortal poem fetch
ing HIM but $50, and Cowley out-rank-
ing among distinguished contempora-
ries. Others could easily be cited.
Longfellow said to the Mayor of Char
visiting Boston i'm 1880:
From Charleston, South Cardinal! 1t
is a distinct honor, Sir, ito meet the
mayor of the city thai gave birth to
Henry Timrod, for h day will surely
come when the poems of your towns,
mar will have a place in every cultivat-
ed home in the United States
Then again this famous and sweet
poet of New England, after reading
Timrod's volume, closed it and said:
Il do not Wonder hat Tennyson ex-
claimed, The. man who wrote these
lines deserves to be called the poet
laureate of the SOUTH" The poet who
was praised by Tennyson and Longfel-
low should be known to every southron
who has taste and culture and Loves
his south.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20

Stettin, June lion the liver Oder.
off the village of ZueIIichew, the pas
senger steamer Blue Cher was run
into and sunk by the steamer Poelitz
today. Thirty persons are reported TO
have been drowned. Ten were saved.
Among the passengers were some fifty
school children, a majority OF whom, Il
is believed were saved. No bodies have
yet been recovered from the sunken
steamer
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20

Huntsville. Ala, June 16.-Ths
Huntsville Chamber OF Commerce to-
day wired invitations to General Mel
son A. Miles and General Joseph
Wheeler TO speak here July 4th. A big
celebration will be held here on that
day TO commemorate not only the dec
laration OF independence but also the
victories achieved by the north and
the south in the Spanish war.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20

If mar aspires to reach h throne of
God, %
Ger the dull plains Of earth must lie
the road.
He who best does his lowly duty here
Shall mount the highest in a nobler
sphere:
At Gods own feet our spirits seek their
rest,
And he is nearest Him who serves Him
best. Samuel Greg.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
RELIGIOUS EDITORIALS FOR
SUNDAY

Sanctify them through thy truth;
thy word is truth. John 1917.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
Best Prescription for Malaria

Chills n Fever is a bottle of Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply
Iron and Quininc in a taste1ess form.
No cure, no pay. Price soc.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
Potash

will insure the largest yield.
We will send Free, upon application,
pamphlets that will interest every cotton
planter In the South.
CERTAIN KALI WORKS.
Oh Nassau ST., New Ncrk
Arizona republican., 1899-10-04
BITTEN BY A COPPERHEAD.
D. Tracey in Serious Condition From
a Wound Made by Il Snake.

Nyack, N Y, Oct "a copperhead
snake three feet long bit d. Tracey at
West Nyack early last evening and he
may die Of the wound. Tracey was
stepping down to pick up something
cut of the grass when he felt sharp
pain between two of his fingers. He
thought he had been injured By I
thorn, but upon looking down, he saw
a copperhead snake. He seized Il stick
and killed the snake.
Tracey's hand and arm began TO
swell Immediately. He sucked the
wound to get the poison out, blu: ap-
Iarently this did no good. He was
brought to Nyack as quickly as pos; i
BILE and DR.. McKeeby injected
powerful drugs to counterfeit the uoi-
son. Tracey was taken to hotel and
became SO deliIious that four men were
required to take care of him and they
had all they could do to keep him in
the house. Today the delirium is
gone, but the swelling remains and the
mans condition is serious.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-04

mind and training: % His home gov
eminent has taken pains to give him
in the primary schools, some education
at least in the elements of agricultural
science. He has been severely trained
by practice in the art of soil preserva-
ton. He is careful, painstaking hus-
'bandman (2) His sons have an am
bition to become farmers. The farmer
is on the lookout for farms near his
own for his children. This creates a
demand fer farms, because first there is
a farmer.
The agricultural mind of this coun-
try must come to a better cOmprehen-
sion than it has had of this chain of
causes for the decline or enrichment of
a country. We must settle down prac-
tically and hard to the conclusion that
we must commence with the child if
we are going to make good farmers.
for without good farmers the country
will soon go to- destruction. There is
the highest craftsmanship and love CT
country involved in this question. 1t
should engage the earnest attention of
the educational and political forces of
the nation.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-04
DEPENDS ON DEWEY
CONTINUED from First Page)

closed fer entries before the demo
cratic convention, and the friends of
the president do not expect to see any
books opened to entry for a race
against Mckinley in the republican
convention. Dewey's failure to dis
close himself as a partisan, however,
does not lead democrats, as a rule. TO
infer that he might turn out to be a
democrat 1t is conceded that If he
should become a presidential candi-
date it would be as the candidate Of
the republican party. The men who
cannot think with calmness CT any
candidate but Bryan hasten to express
the opinion that Mckinley is the only
candidate who need apprehend danger
from Dawey's popularity, but their
comfort over this is qualified by the
consideration that if Dewey should be
nominated by any party there would
be very little encoura cement fer the
candidate Of any other party.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-04
SAM JOHNSON TO HANG.
Negro Assailant OF Little Annie Ker-
foot Sentenced to Death

Oakland. Md, Oct Sam John
son, colored, was today sentenced to
be hanged On a day to be fixed by
Governor Lowndes for a felonious as
sault on Annie KeIfoot, little girl
living near HagerstOwn, Md.
The assault was committed in Wash
ington county, in July last, and the
negro had to be taken to Baltimore to
prevent lynching He was brought
here for trial and convicted on Satur-
day last. Under the law Judge Sloane,
who sentenced him, might have in
fiicted any punishment from three
months Imprisonment to death on the
scaffold. If Johnson hangs he will be
the fourth of his race to suffer the
death penalty fer a similar crime dur
ing the present year, three having
been hanged in Baltimore for an as
sault committed on a little negro girl
last May.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-04
w. d. HAMMOND, AuCtIoneer.

P.,O. Box CTS, Phoenix.
willery public sales anywhere in the valley.
Have had experience in selling live stock. i'm
plements. merchandise and household goods.
Reasonable prices for services.
EHF- Orders may be leftfo the services of
w. d. Hammond at The Republican Office,
where bills will be printed at reasonable rates.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-04
HOLLAND MAKES A CLAIM
Says Mapia Islands Included in Caro-
lines Purchase. Belong to Her.

The Hague, Oct. 3.-The govern
ment of the Netherlands has commun-
icated to the chamber OF deputies the
diplomatic history of Hollands claims
to the possession of the Mapia islands,
which are also claimed by Spain as be-
longing to the Carolires. From this
record it appears that when Germany
purchased the Carolines, Holland re-
qussted Spain to communicate to En-
peror William the notes exchanged on
the subject between Spain and Hol
land. The former replied that En-
peror William had assured the Spanish
government that he would be guided
by his feelings of friendship toward
Holland.
The Portland daily press., 1899-05-31
HARROR NEWS.
Items ofiInterest Picked Up Along the
Water Front.

7 Marine underwriters in New York are
calculating Row mich the steamship
Paris has cost them since she was trans
fsrrsd from the City of Paris to the
American registry Paris. Early in 1894
she had u serious accident, which laid her
up for two months and cost the under
writer's about 500, eco. Exclusive of the
present loss, she has cost the underwriters
about $3.50, 600. Her total insurance
amounts to 81, GOO, 900, and the Internal
ional Navigation company carries $780,
900 more. The International Navigation
| company is the only line which forces,
Its vessels across the ocean oitsner than
on weekly schedule, the line giving
about three or four days in port on a
twenty one days schedule
The flag Is on the steam crafts In the
harbor were at ha If mast yesterday out OF
| respect to the day.
Lobster arrivals: Smack Robert and
Edward with 300 for c. W. Marston &
| Co.
The famous five masted schooner Gov
Ames, the first and for long time the
only vessel of her type on the coast, lies
stranded on Low key, near Key West
Fla, and 1t Is feared she will prove to-
tai loss. On May the Ames left Norfolk
for Galveston, with "a cargo of about s700
tons of coal She was in command of
| Capt. Waldemar, an experienced naviga-
tor, who has been in the vessel for some
time. The schooner is said to have
bilged, and although tug and wrecking
vessel were rendering assistance yester-
day, those acquainted with the locality
| b elieve she will never be fioated
The Gov. Ames was built at Waldoboro,
Me-, in 1888, On her very first trip she
was totally dismastsd and for weeks was
laid up making repairs. Her registered
tonnage is 1890 and her principal owner Is
Capt @. A. Davis, who formerly COM
manded her. She cost about $4,000 to
build and was probably worth about $40,
600 when she ran aground.
| A Bath ship building firm is to build
two large ocean tugs, work upon which
to begin at once. They are to be equipped
| with very heavy machinery to do the
heaviest ocean towing.
The new five masted schooner Nj. ID.
Cressy has completed loading 2470 tons
of iss on the Ksnnebeo river for Balti-
The Portland daily press., 1899-05-31

AGENTS wANTED.-The Flower Medica |
"A Association of Isl West 34th St., New
York, wants an active Agent in every town in
New England. the Eastern and Middle States,
to sell Dr. X. C. Flowers great specialties, in
GLIDING his Polar and Electric Belt, his Great
Life Remedies for the restoration OF life, vigor
and youth 10 men and women, and his special
we'll as health These specialties sell as moth
ing else sells. Agents ind that every home re-
qures something they have. Good agents can
make from $50 to $40 day. Those who secure
agencies within the next two weeks will have
larger commits sions given them than ever given
here before. This Is a special offer. Write at
once Tor particulars. An agent can readily take
a vacation in any part of the country and with
these specialties pay his or her way and large
income every day besides. Address.
FLOWER MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,
ISL West saith ST., New York city.
my 24dlaw4wW
The Portland daily press., 1899-05-31

Hon. w. F. Mccarthy, Ex-representa-
tive Illinois State Legislature, lib Ash
tand Block, Chicago, Ill, writes OF Pc
ru-na as follows: after taking Peru
ma three months am cured Of cstarrh
of the stomach, with which had been
afflicted for four years."
Sam, A. Lehman, Payne, o, in recent
letter to Or. Hartman says;
al have taken four bottles OF Pe-ru-na
and am about well. had catarrh Of
the stomach. I advise everybody to
take Pe-ru-na that has catarrh. I was
sick for two years; couldn't work ct all.
Pe-ru-na is worth its weight In gold.
Everyone thought was going to die"
Send for free copy of "Summer Ca
tarrh." Address DR.. Hartman, Colum'
bus, OhtS,
The Portland daily press., 1899-05-31
- AP CALVARY GEM ETERY.

1t required twenty-five cars on the Cash
Corner branch of the Portland railroad
to accommodate the large crowds which
hocked to Calvary cemetery yesterday.
Detachments from the various army posts
and from the different companies of the
First Maine regiment visited the grounds
to decorate the graves of their comrades
and besides these there was big gather
ing of citizens and ladies'
Mass for the repose of the souls Of the
dead was celebrated in the Roman Catho.
lie chapel by Father McDonoueh and
there was appropriate singing bv q choir.
The Portland daily press., 1899-05-31
Young children, to avoid

Young children, to avoid
maraSm us, scrofula, or
ricketts,, and develop healthy
tissues, bones and teeth, need
fats and hypophosphites. DIR.
w. Gilman Thompson,
Prof. Materia Medica and
Therapeutics, in the Uni
versity Of New York, asserts
that Cod-liver Oil is the
best fat for the purpose.
SCOTS Emulsion is cod
liver oil partly digested and
combined with hypophos-
phites, it gives children
material for rich blood,
solid flesh, bones and teeth.
soc and $780, all druggists.
SCOTT s. BOVINE, Chemists, New York.
The Portland daily press., 1899-05-31

more. which Is the largest amount Of ice
ever taken from there In q schooner.
She is the first five master to load on the
kennebec above Bath. She receives 90
cents per ton freight money.
A late arrival yesterday was the italian
bark Leoue, the 18th from Boothbay, In
tow Of tug G. A. Warren. She will load
with lumber for River Platte.
The Portland daily press., 1899-05-31
MAINE PENSIONS.

Washington. May 3o.-The following
Maine Pension changes resulting from
the issue of May IL are announced:
ADDITIONAL.