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The age-herald., 1899-06-09
INTERSTATE TRACK MEET
In Chattanooga July 4 Between That City, Birmingham and Other Clubs

The Chattanooga Athletic club is ar ranging to have big athletic>tournament in that city on the Fourth of July, in which Birmingham, Nashville and other cities have been invited to participate It is intended having the twelve standard track and field events on the programme
 The Birmingham Athletic club has a number of athletes who have made splen- did records in New Orleans, Nashville and other cities, and Chattanooga's invitation has been accepted. The men will get into active training at once for these events.
 Chattanooga has offered gold medals for the first prizes in all of the events, and handsome prizes for the second and third places in the contests. There will also be q trophy offered to the city winning the most points in the meet.
The age-herald., 1899-06-09

A DAYLIGHT TRIP TO CINCINNATI
 Leave Birmingham 5:55 a. m., via Ala bama Great Southern railroad, arrive Gin cinnad same evening at 7:30.
 Beautiful scenery and service unsurpass- ed. 5-14-tf.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-08
Scandal in South Carolina
Especial to Baltimore Sun.

Especial to Baltimore Sum-
Columbia, S. c., August 1.-The leg
islative committee which has been in
vestigating the conduct Of the peniten-
tiary by Colonel w. A. Neal finds him
short $1,000. Colonel Neal admits
misappropriating $4,000.
The committee also finds that Sena-
tor Tilln1an and John Gary Evans,
when Governor, worked and fortified
a small farm entirely at the states ex-
pense and owe the p~enitentiary for
groceries and other articles gotten for
private use. 1t is claimed also that
their laundry was done at the peniten-
tiary.
Next week the committee will report
to the governor, recommending the
criminal prosecution Of Colonel Neal
and recommending that the two ex-
governors be given an opportunity to
pay what they owe. Colonel Neal was
the friend and manager for Senator
McLaurin i'm his campaign. Colonel
Jones, of the Second South Carolina
regiment, a Columbia banker, is his
bondsman.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-08

Sick women suffering from unpleasant
drains, irregularities, bearing down pains,
Inflammation and liberation are invited
to consult DR.. Pierce, Buffalo, n. Y, by
letter free of charge. Every letter is
guarded as a sacred confidence. All let
tiers are promptly answered and mailed
in private envelopes without printing of
any kind upon them.
"Favorite Prescription " is in the full
est sense a temperance medicine, CON
tanning neither alcohol nor opium or
other narcotic in any form. Accept no
substitute.
Mrs Rena Hensel. Of Massillon, Stark Co,
Ohio, writes: " had been troubled with chronic
constipation and female weakness and doctored
with different physicians. none of whom seemed
to help me- / saw one Of your advertisements.
and I thought I would Try your medicines. I did
50 and with good results. took one bottle of
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. and two of
his Golden Medical Discovery and 1 can say
i am cured Of my troubles, thanks to DR.. Pierce
and his medicines. They do a world of good to
those who give them a good trial"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are a per-
feet cure for constipation.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-08

Mr.. Wade, who has the con-
tract for grading the extension of the
Atlantic Coast Lines branch road, the
Southeastern railroad, from Ashepole,
Robson county. to Boardman, on the
dividing line between Columbus and
Robson counties, was in the city yes
terday. Grading was begun in the past
week and about two miles of the road
way have been graded. Mr.. Wade has
a force of 100 state penitentiary con-
victs at work n is making arrange
ments for $50 more in a few days.
1t is contemplated to have the entire
road completed and ready for operation
by the LIST Of November. The extern
sion from Ashpole to Boardman (for-
merly Hub, is ten miles. Twelve miles
of h road from Elrod, on the Short
Cut, to A%shepole, has been in operation
a year or more. At Boardman the
Southeastern will form a junction with
the Conway branch of the Coast Line,
giving a continuous line from Elrod to
Conway, S. c., by way of Chadbourn.
n q
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-08

Newport, r. l., August 5.-The De-
fender met the Vigilant today for the
first time since the trial races four
years ago and not only showed her SUI
periority again, but gave her the worst
beating in the history of these two cup
defendeds, namely II minutes and AZ
seconds.
The Navahoe was also in this race,
but she, in turn, was beaten by the
Vigilant almost as much as the latter
was beaten by the Defender. The Co.
lumbia, under tow, passed all the three
boats on her way to New London, so
tina the yachtsmen did not have a
chance to see how much she could have
beaten the other Herreshof slOops. Off
Slock island the Columbia cast off from
her tender and headed westward under
her own canvass.
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reasons, just as was first stated in this
correspondence two weeks ago."
HIS HEAD WAS CUT OFF.

HIS HEAD WAS CUT OFF.
1t is well understood that Postmaster
Chadbourn's resignation was
ed by the postoffice department. The
only alternative was his resignation or
his removal. In other words, the guilo~
tine would have descended on his Off
cial head. The presumption is that
charges were preferred against him as
grounds for the demand for his res
ignation. II is said that one IL not
the only charge against him is the sale
Of stamps in order TO increase the re-
ceipts to the basis required TO make
Wilmington a first-claSs p~os.office, but
there can be no manner Of ioubt thai
he was bounded into resigl alton. The
stamp business may be the alleged
cause, but the motive is political. and
no n doubts that the letters written
by Mr.. Chadbourn to Senator Pritch-
ard during the campaign last year are
the meat in the The LETTERS
referred to the political situation in
Wilmington and the second letter OF
Mr.. Chadbourn to Senator Pritchard,
in which he gave the tru condition of
negro domination here, was what hurt.
Senator Pritchard was deeply incensed
over this letter, and he, Russell and
other leading Republicans blame Mi
Chadbourn as largely responsible for
the overthrow of the republican party
by the letter he wrote. If there were
any irregular sale of stamps, our peO-
pie are convinced that it was the re-
suit Of ambition to make Wilmington
a first class postoffice. No one believes
that any wrong doing was intended.
for the increase in the salary of the
postmaster would have been only 800
or 5000.
Mr.. Chadbourn made a good post
master and was as acceptable to the
community as any republican could
possibly have been. The office was we'll
conducted, Mr.. Chadbourn was cour-
teous and obliging, and in fact all the
employees were.
THE ASSISTANT POSTMASTER.
Now that Miss Darby has been ap-
pointed postmistress, interest centres
in the assistant postmastership, n
there is much anxiety as we'll as spec
ulation as to who will be made assist
ant. OF course it does not follow be-
cause Miss Darby has been appointed
postmaster that G.. z. French will be
appointed assistant, but there was q
rumor to that effect more than a week
ago. We do not make the assertion on
our own responsibility, but from a
knowledge of the temper of the COM
munity when we say that the appoint
ment Of French in any connection with
the p~ostoffice that will make him again
a resident of Wilmington, will surely
disturb the peace of our city and put
his lige in jeopardy. There is a very
powerful element in the community
that is determined, whatever the con-
sequences may be, that French will
not be allowed to make his residence
in Wilmington again. We would regret
to see him attempt it n shudder 20
think Of the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-08

Gen. Hoke,s Line Into b Tennesse &c
Coal and Iron Ffelds-The Survey
Has been Completed and the Road
VIII be Built
xtnn EnternrisA SAYS:

The Newton Enterprise
The extension of the Seaboard Air
Line across the mountains 80 the iron
and Goa! fields of Tennessee and Vir-
GINA. is attracting general attention. It
is considered the most important ex-
tension that is under way or contem-
plated anywhere in the south this
year. By acquiring the Narrow Gauge
read to Lenoir and the lumber road
from there TO Colletsyille and changing
them TO the standard guage, there is
only about 80 miles of new road to
build. The company is already work
ing in this direction from Cranberry on
the new link. This road will not only
have a great business in through
freights between the two terminal
points, Wilmington and Bristol, but it
will go through one of the finest noun
tain sections Of the south. II will be a
great road, and Newton being the place
where it crosses the great Southern
road, will be n Of the most important
places On the line"
BOUGHT THE NARROW GAUGE.
In his connection yesterdays Char
lotte Observer says:
THE evidence multiplies that the
narrow aug railroad, as it is IA
IlIIdI II has CIdllSSd IdIlOS OF
is about to do SO. We are copying else
where today an article from The New
ton Enterprise on the subject, me fol-
lowing is a Columbia dispatch Of the 3rd
in regard to the matter:
William Barber, attorney, of New
York, today acquired a majority of
the bonds and stocks of the Carolina and
Northwestern railroad. Barber left for
New York this evening. The road is
the narrow gauge, extending from
Chester to Lenoir, n. c.. 1t is under
stood hat it will be converted into a
broad gauge, extended across the
mountains to Bristol, and tap the Vir-
ginia Pocahontas coal~region, and that
it will De operated by the Seaboard Air
Line, which connects with it at Ches-
ter
The important junction point of the
narrow guage with the Seaboard Air
Line. however, so far as practical pur-
poses are concerned, is Lincolnton. We
are quite prepared to believe hat the
intention is to make it a part of the
system of roads which Gen. r. F. Hoke
has projected across the mountains; to
widen it to a standard gauge from Lin
colnton to Lenoir, in which case the di-
vision from Lincolnton to Chester
would be somewhat of an orphan. I'm
der the plan reported to be in contem-
plation, it would be a link in a line
which YOU extend from Tennessee
and Virginia to tidewater at Whining
ton and Portsmouth, and this, it ap-
pears, is another Of the ambitious
schemes which the Seaboard Air Line
has in hand under it's new administra-
tiOn."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-08
Remembers the british Soldiers

Old man Cudjo Mutt, the oldest color
ed man, and, in fact, the oldest inhabi-
tant hereabouts, was in the city yester-
day. He resides at Old Town, and not
w-ithstanding his extreme age, is yet
able to do some work on the farm.
The venerable old man is a link with
the past. He was born on Christmas
day il 1897, and will be 1O2 years of age
If he lives till next Christmas. His
hair is as white as cotton and he has
lost his teeth, but his eyesight is much
better than would be expected. He
claims that he can yet see to thread
a needle.
Uncle Cudjo tells US that he well re-
members seeing the British soldiers in
Wilmington during the war of 1872.
When a youth he came here to drive
cattle to market, while the relocated
soldiers had possession of our city.
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TO COAL STEAMERS
The Atlantic Coast Line Will Build
Coal Chutes at Its Terminal Docks
Near the Foot of Campbell Streets-TO
be Completed by the Opening of the
Cotton Season

otSO SCnooh
The engineer department of the At
lantic Coast Line has prepared plans
for a coal chute and the work of con-
structing it will begin tomorrow morn
ing. The work will be done by the car
penters and machinists from the rail-
road shops.
The chute will be automatic and mod
ern in every particular, and will ex-
ten yer the dock of the. Coast Lin
terminal, near the foot of Campbell
street, and on the east side of North
east river, nearly opposite the old Point
Peter depot Of the Cape Fear and Yad-
kin Valley railway. The railroad track
running up to the chute has already
been elevated about twelve feet ADORE
the yard tracks, making an incline
plane on which to run coal cars onto the
chute.
The purpose for which the chute is
being erected is to coal cotton steamers
and other vessels coming into this port.
The facilities viii be such that a YES
sci carrying from $50 to 400 tons of coal
car be coaled in a few hours. The chute
will be completed in time to coal the
British steamers which will come here
this fall for cotton.
The coal to supply the chute will he
brought here from the Pocohontas coal
fields of Virginia, over the Yadkin
branch of the Coast Line. The coal
fields in Chatham county, N. c., on the
Yadkin branch of the Coast Line, are
also being developed now, and that will
make another possible source of supply.
We understand that coal of good quail
ty is now being mined at Egypt and
Gulf, Chatham county.
We learn that the Coast Line will
construct other chutes whenever the
business demands it.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-08

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady. No. 2 spring wheat, &c;
No. 8 spring wheat, 67@69kc; No. 2 red.
70Ac; No. 2 yellow corn, 32kc; No. g
corn, 31@31Ac; No. 2 oats, 20A @2OSc
new; Nofi 2 white, 23c (new); No. 3
$7.75@S.50; lard, per 100 lbs, s5.27k@
5.37kc; short ribs sides, loose, s4.S5@
SIS; dry sailed shoulders, boxed, IS. 500
5.62kc; short clear sides, boxed, $3.50
$50; whiskey, distillers' finished goods,
per gallon, $1.26.
New York, August 5.-Flour dull but
fairly steady at old prices. Winter pat
ents SO. 50@3.75.
Wheat-Spot steady. No. 2 red 1880.
Options opened easier at hc decline un-
der local realizing n favorable crop
news. They were later influenced by
liquidation and closed weak at NC net
decline. September closed at 74Kc; De-
cember closed at TIC.
~Corn-Spot firm; No. 2 37kc. Options
opened easy at &c decline on account
of perfect crop conditions and big esti-
mates. Later it was quiet and easy,
closing unchanged to &c lower. Sep
tember closed at 36Ac; December clos
ed at 34Bc.
Oats-Spot dull; No. 2 &c. Options
dull.
Eggs-Firm; state and Pennsylvania
15@16c; western regular packing 10G
13c at work.
Petroleum-Firm; refined New York
$3.50; Philadelphia and Baltimore
s7.75; do in bulk s5.25.
Rice-Firm; domestic fair 10 extra
4S@7hc; Japan 4z95kc. 4.
Cotton seed Oil-Inactive; prime
crude nominal; butter grades 30G32c.
Cofee-Options opened steady at un-
changed prices to 3 points advance and
ruled steadier on covering and some
investment following better foreign
market news than expected. Later the
upward movement was checked by
heavy Brazilian receipts and profit
taking sales; closed quiet, 5 points
lower to 5 points higher. September
$40; October s4.45; February $500:
March sos. Spot coffee-Rio quiet, but
steady; No. Z invoice SAC; No. z Job
bling SIC; mild steady with fair de-
mand; Cordova 7hG11c.
Sugar-Raw strong and tending up
ward; fair refining &c bid; centrifugal.
ss test, 4 5-1sc bid; moIasses snear
3Bc bid; refined strong with good de-
mand; mould A SIC; granulated SIC.
NAVAL STORES.
New York-Rosin steady: strained.
common to good, 81 .30G1.32hc. Turpen-
tine firm at 4ShG49c.
Charleston-Spirits t~urpentine firm at
44c; sales none. Rosin firm and IN
changed: sales none
Savannah-Spirits turpentine al 45c;
sales III; receipts 1,043. Rosin firm:
sales aba. Quote: A b c d s1.00. E
s1.05, f S1.10, G $1.20, II s1.25, / $I.30.
K sl55. II s1-S5, n s2-2o, w G s2.35. w
W s2.55.
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VETERANS, ANSUALREUNIoN
The Old soldiers Will go snso saMaP'
Next Weeks Tobacco breas-"sP
pies OF News

pies OF NeWs
Correspondence of the Messenger.)
Fayetteville. N. c., August 8. 1879
Col. j. b. Starr. as gallant an officer
as served the south In the great civil
war. has isued his call for the yearly
reunion OF the Confederate veterans or
Cumberland county. who are ordered
into camp for two days next week-to
be at the fair grounds 10 answer TO 1
call at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morn
ing. with cooked rations for two days.
Captain A. ID. McGill. who did splendid
service in the army Of Northern Vir-
GINA, is adjutant OF the command.
On Wednesday the officers and mem
bers of the Ladies' Memorial Associa-
ton VIII be the honored guests OF the
veterans. and on the same day Mr.. =.
II. Mclean. a talented lawyer OF
Harnett, a leading member OF the Gen.
eral Assembly OF North Carolina. and
a very graceful and gifted speaker.
will deliver an address on The Con-
federate Soldier" All old soldiers are
| cordially invited TO share In the pleas
ures of this reunion.
The carpenters hammer has been
doing double tides for the past thir-
" days 10 get the immense building
| ready for the full business OF the Fay
etteville Tobacco Warehouse Company,
and now the auctioneers' hammer
comes into play in the hands OF Mr..
John Daily, who will conduct the sales
with his marvellous glibness of syllab-
rication in knocking down" 20 the
highest bidder a pile OF bright yellow
leaf. The first break will take place
next Thursday. 10Th inst. and the
amount OF stuff on the floor promises
TO be large. Major f. l.. Pemnerton,
the ~bookkeeper OF the company, gives
a good ccoun of the tobacco crop
after a trip through the surrounding
country, and expresses the conviction
that a very large percentage OF IL Will
| be handled in this market.
Your correspondent deeply regrets TO
| announce the serious illness OF DIR. w.
c. McDufiie. a physician known all
| over the state for his professional skill
and high character as a citizen. Last
night he suffered much.
Mr.. Edward Page, in the flush OF
early manhood, passed away OF con-
sumption yesterday afternoen-truly
a very sad death. He was we'll known
as a very skillful operator.
The liberal summer rates offered by
the Cape Fear Steamboat Company
| will certainly send many visitors TO the
| sound and beach from this section du-
| ring the remainder of the season.
| These rates are exceptionally low, and
| families especially will take advantage
| of them.
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FElCSs same Gay last year, SSC.
NAVAL STORES.
Spirits turpentine-nothing doing.
Resin firm at GOO and CSC.
Tar firm at $l6o-
Crude turpentine firm; hard SI.35:
soft S2.10; virgin $500.
Prices same day last year-Spirits
turpentine 26c and 25Lc; rosin 500
and sI.o5: tar s1.10; crude turpentine
s1.0o, s1.30 and $50.
Receipts today-104 casks spirits tur-
pe~ntine, 334 barrels rosin, loo barrels
tar, IS barrels crude truepntine.
Receipts same day last year-lS0
casks spirits turpentine. 464 barrels
rosin, liz barrels tar y barrels crude
turpentine.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Peanuts-North Carolina prime s1.l0:
fancy SLIP; Virginia rs to Sc: Spanish
s1.OO.
Rice-Nothing doing.
Corn-52c.
Corn meal-41Ac-
Cow peas-65c to zoe.
North Carolina Bacon-Hams, &C %
1oc; shoulders &c to TIC; sides SC 10
sac.
Chickens-Slow; spring 1oc TO 1Sc;
hens, 22c to Csc; roosters, 15c to zoe.
Eggs steady at 10c.
Shingles-Per j, 900 five inch, hearts
and saps, s1.50G..1o; six inch. s2.50d
$3.50.
Timber at $500 to $500 per 1000 feet.
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If this condition
had come suddenly
it would have been
u~nbearable. But the
transition was grad
ual. A little O
, strain each day on
1.-THE nerves. A little
o drain each day
of the vitality. Any
woman would be
glad to be rid of such
a condition. Every
woman tries to be
rid of it. Thousands
of such women have
been cured by DIR.
Pierce's treatment
with his Favorite
} Prescription" when
local doctors had
entirely failed to
u r
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EAnKrTS b. TELEGRAPH.


New York, August 5.-Money on call
steady. at 3 per cent; prime mercan-
tile paper at 4@4A per cent; sterling
exchange steady with actual business
in bankers bills at s4.S6A for demand
and at $4.S2B @4.S2h for sixty days;
posted rates at s4.S3k@4.S4 and $4S1@
4.S7h; commercial bills at $4.S1A @4.S112,
silver certificates at 60k G61c; bar sill
yer at 60A; Mexican dollars at AS;
state bonds inactive; railroad bonds
irregular; government bonds steady.
THE NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, August 5.-Cotton quiet:
middling SIC; gross receipts SO; sales
1864; stock 144, S39.
Total today and consolidated: Net re-
ceipts CTS; exports to the continent
4, $500; stock 357, S17.
Total since September 1st: Net re-
ceipts 1872, 043; exports to Great Bri-
tain 3,4S4, so; to France 796, 1852; to the
continent 2,S24,414.
Spot cotton closed quiet; middling
uplands 6hc; middling gulf csc; sales
1854 bales.
Futures closed dull. August 5.53, Sep
TENDER 5.56, October $50, November
5.73, December 5.7S, January $50, Feb
ruary 5.S5, March $50, April 5.92, May
$50.
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Ottawa, Ont, August 5.-Premier
Laurier was shown the Washington
dispatch in which F.. w. Fitzpatrick de-
scribes his reception in Ottawa 10 hav-
ing been a chilly n and gives the sub
stance of the remarks made by Sir
Wilfrd when asked to visit Chicago.
the premier said tina Mr.. Fitzpat-
rick's statement was sheerest >nse.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-08

Paris, August 5--Seventeen PERSONS
were killed and t~hiry-seven Injured In
a collision at $50 o'clock this evening
on h Orleans railway at Juvisy.
The disaster was the result OF imper-
feet signaling. The collision was be-
tween the Orleans Lines Paris and
Nantes $40 o'clock train and the Paris
and Lyons Mediterranean train. which
left s minutes late.