The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

cause no un~eaSinesS- NO onc SNP
the senator and the negroes 10 favor
tt--Durham Herald.
Durham Herald: Freedman. a small
town in Caldwell county,
solely by negroes, Is infested with
smallpox hic was brought there by
a worthless negro. He boosted o.
spreading the disease and the citizens
went cunning for him and he only ss-
I capped death by leaving the town.
Complaint is made by The Whining
ton Messenger that the good old word
function is being worn
nv people who talk OF social func-
TONS" Our contemporary calls on the
/ word-makers TO create a new term TO
take its place. tt is not a word OF our
| dent simply TO inquire what's the mat
sar with ''blow-out?"-Gastonia Ca
zette.
Nfonroe ENQUIRER: A young man in
unner Lanes Creek township filled up
ON blind tiger liquor last SUNDAY after
noon and went to a neignoors house
and raised a disturbance. Inc drunken
fellow made some insulting remarks 10
! the lady Of the house and she gave
! him a whipping he will not soon forget.
That fellows face was beaten black and
hlue and the lady's fists were IN not
much better condition when the JOB was
finished than was the boys face. We
dare say that the boy got no more IMAM
he deserved.
Concord Standard: On Wednesday
night the flames were foundt 10 De play
inc havoc with the Kitchen OF Mr..
! Rrantle Plyer. who lives near Misen-
heimer and LentZ's springs IL was
| about . O'Clock in the night Wheh the
family discovered the flames n IL was
found out too late TO save anything,
even their own clothes. The dwelling
4 bn,,e a ~ .nraSpa ~ sized home Kitchen
and smoke house were totally con-
sumed, robbing this man of everything.
| He has a wife and five children, all OF
whom are now reduced to poverty
Shelby Aurora: Peter w. Cooper. OF
| Vladivistock, Siberia, was last week the
guest OF his s~choolmate, Mr.. kossie
| McBrayer. Mr.. Cooper is OF japanese
parentage, and has just completed the
course at Oak Ridge, graduating with
distinction. He expects TO enter the
university next fall. ne is n bright
| young fellow and is an interesting and
entertaining conversationalist.
Raleigh Post: Salisbury, n. c.. June
l4.-Mr. j. S. McCubbins, Sr., one OF
| Salisbury's oldest and most prominent
| citizens, dropped lei yesterday about
| IL O'Clock at hiSNhome on Fulton street.
| Mr.. McCubbins was rs years or age,
and had, during his long and useful
life, been ii with several en-
| Tel pIlStS III CaiiSbdiS ~ NA'
| of years he was one of the leading mer-
| chants OF this place. For several years
| he represented Rowan in the iegisla-
ture-
Fayetteville Observer: Yesterday al
| ternoon another ~17-year-old boy met
| his death while in swimming. He was
| the son of Mr.. N. b. Norris, and was
| drowned in Carver's Creek, about
| twelve miles from Fayetteville.-Mr.
II. b. Smith, who lives five miles the
| other side OF Lumber Bridge, had a
very unpleasant adventure on the out
| skirts of Fayetteville yesterday after
noon. He was homeward bound in a
buggy loaded down with bundles OF
merchandise he had purchased in thiso
city, when, in crossing the bridge over
the Minis pond race, his horse became
| frightened and jumped clear over the
| railing into the swollen waters below,
dragging the buggy, driver and railing
in after him..
There is no more forcible point made
by General Cowles than when he says
that under the proposed law any ne
gro who has an ambition to fit himself
for suffrage can do so under the pro-
| posed amendment by learning to read
before he is barred by it's provisions.
This letter shows that North Caro-
lima white men, whether voting the
republican or democratic ticket. when
ASSOCIATED from public office, look at
the negro question from practically the
same standpoint, and will vote the
same way. 1t is but an indication that
next years fight is to be only a repeti-
ton of all its predecessors, waged on
similar lines, the Anglo-Saxon Will win
another victory.-Asheville Citizen.
The real old fashioned democracy
never was more united and determined
to drive from power the enemies OF the
republic than now. They have only TO
be true to the traditions of the party
to make success certain. Ask one of
these pious pleaders for harmony how
it a be made sure. He will answer
that we must recede from the position
taken at Chicago in 1896. The ines be-
tween the great political parties were
never more distinctly drawn than in
the election of 1896. The antagonistic
forces in our politics are corporations
on one side and the people on the 9TH
er. Corporations have taken possession
Of one Of the political parties and the
people have the control Of The other
Rich Square Patron and Cleaner.
Judge Speer says the negro race is
not responsible for crimes committed
in the south by negroes. This is doubt
less true. and it is also true that the
white race as a whole is not response
BILE for the punishment that usually
follows such crimes-Durham Herald.
John WILDER Jenkins, the very talent
ed young local editor OF the Charlotte
News, is writing some very pleasing
and Interesting sketches for his paper,
Under the title of AT the Pens Point"
They deaf mostly in North Carolina
local history, and they are valuable ad-
ditions to the literature of our state.
They should be preserved for a North
Carolina sketch book--Durham Sun.
The Nashville Christian Advocate,
organ Of the N. E. church, South, dep
recates the fact hat a bishop OF the
NJ. K. church TO X part in a mass meet
ing in Chicago a few Sundays ago, held
for the purpose OF discussing the gov
ernments foreign policy. This Is hardly
more reprehensible than what a south
ern Methodist bishop is alleged to have
done in Raleigh in a sermon, on June
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