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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-04
To Encourage Manufacturing Piants
Wilmington, N. c., August 2.

'AAA6loAp ~ W. uSN 80
Editors Wilmington Messenger:-The
taxpayers Of Wilmington unanimously
expressed their wishes that aid shall
be rendered parties locating factories,
and manufacturing in the city of Will
mington, thereby keeping pace with
other cities in South Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee and Kentucky. This prac-
tice has continued for seventy-hve
years in the New England, Middle and
Western States.
At present it is a necessity for Will
mington to hold out such inducements
as will bring enterprise and money to
our city. Our burden Of taxation for
general expenses and the interest on
our bonded debt, r such that some
thing must be done. Something may,
can, and will be, done which will result
in a change to better our condition.
1t is we'll understood by many that
things cannot continue as at present.
Unless something is done it will be i'm
possible for US to protect our idebted-
ness.
The citizens in mass meeting secured
the passage of a bill, by the legislature,
allowing them to vote to encourage
manufactures to locate within our city
limits. This vote was unanimous. If
extending this aid is not constitutional
it is extra-constitutional. If the tai
payers are allowed to act upon the law
mentioned, Wilmington will blossom
as the rose"
Let us e what it is the taxpayers
desire to do, which was so fully ex-
pressed in the Wilmington Messenger
last Sunday morning.
Will the reader please notice and
make comparison between the two fol-
lowing statements:
There are three pieces Of property
in the city of Wilmington unoccupied
| and unused, bringing in no inmome to
| the owners. One of them is being sold
year after year for taxes, thus bring
ing nothing to city, county or state.
On two of them some of the taxes,
. s~(state, equity or city, are paid, which
~, taxes will soon amount to the gross
| value of the property.
What is being done, and what is de-
| sired to be done the following will
show. AS it is now, stating the taxes
approximately, towit: One Of these
pieces of property, valued at $4,000 at
present is taxed,
| state >taXeS.... .......... ....S SV.Ut
| County taxes. ...... SU.Ul
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-04

Two Of Heureaux's Assassins shot
Santo Domingo, August 1.-Two OF
the assassins of President Heureaux
have been captured and shot.
The country is entirely quiet and no
movements of troops are in progress.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-04

Total...... ........ ......$530.O
AS it would be if the taxpayers were
allowed to act. Locate a plant costing
$4,000 upon this $40, 900 piece Of real
estate. This would make a plant val
ued at $100, 600. AT the same rate Of
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-04
GRAIN AND PROVISION.

Chicago, August 2.-The leading flu
lures were as follows:
Open. High Low. Clos.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-03
HOPKINS WITHORAWS
From Speakership Contest in Favor Of
Henderson Of Iowa.

Chicago, June 2.-Congressman A. J
Hopkins, this afternoon, withdrew from
the National House Speakership contest
in favor of Col. ID. r. Henderson of Iowa
Nine of the II congressman in the Illinois
delegation were present at the general
roundup meeting, this afternoon. After
four hours discussion 1t was decided "a
withdraw Mr.. Hopkins name and sup
port Col. Henderson. The conference was
perfectly harmonious. Mr.. Hopkins made
the following statement:
believing as ] do that my retirement
from the Spcakership race at this time
will simplify the situation and conduct to
harmony in the party, with consequent
best results to the whole country. l have,
with the approval of the Illinois delega-
ton. decided to withdraw from the
Speakership contest. After my with
drawal and further conference by the
delegation. It was decided to support Col.
Hendcrson's candidacy for the Speaker
ship, in which action | fully concur"
At the conclusion Of the conference, Mr.
Hopkins sent the following telegram 10
Col. Henderson at Dubuque, Ia:
al have decided to withdraw from the
Speakership contest and the Illinois dele
cation has determined to support your
candidacy. ! wish you every success"
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THE STEAMER ORION LOST.
On the Rocks at Freshwater Poin..N. F.-Tota
loss-AIi Hands Safe.

Halifax, ~ S, June 2.-Later par
ticulars received here regarding the
loss OF the steamer orion on the New
Foundland coast show that she struck
Thursday evening, in a thick fog. at
Freshwater, Trepassy bay. on the
south coast OF New Fuundland a
heavy sea was running and the lives
OF the crew We're Immediately In great
danger. They We're only rescued from
their pcrilous position by the employ
ment Of derrick. The vessel becam,
a total loss.
The place where the disaster occur
red IL looked upon as one Of the most
dangerous spots on the New Found
land coast and is. in fact, perfect
steamship graveyard. az IN and about
this bay dozens OF steamers known and
unknown have been lost in recent
years. The place il literally strewr
with the remains Of ships.
1t was there the Allan liner Hano-
veran was wrecked. also the Cromwell
Line steamers Gamma. George Wash
inEton and oliver Cromwell.
The orion is supposed to be wrecked
at the base Of the cliffs, thus neccssi-
tating employment Of a derrick to take
the men on. Her dimensions are.
Length. io2 feet, breadth, 80 feet and
depth. 32 feet The orion was for
merly the Furness liner St Romans.
She is commanded by Capt. Callesen.
she Is a 4-mastcd iron steamer Of 29l6
tons net ana 4+J1 tons gross. she was
built at Hun. England. in 1851. She has
three decks and seven hulkhcads and
her engines are Of 500 horse power.
y dispatch from ST. Johns. this after
non says the orion. capt. Callesen. was
wrecked at t'reshwater point, two
miles off Cape Race. in dense fog. The
ship is nearly full Of water and prob
ably will be total wreck. No com
munication was had with the ship. to-
day. The tug steamer InGaH which
left st. Johns. last night. arrived at the
wreck. this morning at Z o'clock. II the
weather continues fine probably the
tween decks cargo Will be saved.
The steamer Algerine left st. Johns.
today, at noon for Freshwater Point
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those six long, dreary, miserable years.
Think of the distress of a refined, modest
woman during the useless examinations
and treatment of four different doctors who
each and all failed to give her any comfort.
Think of all this and then think that she
was finally cured-completely, wholly, per-
manently cured right i'll the privacy of her
home without the abhorrent "examina-
tons" and local treatment so uniformly
insisted upon by home physicians-cured
just as she might have been six years before.
These are simply the facts in the case of
Mrs NJ. B. Wallace, Of Muenster, Cook
Co, Texas who writes:
II had been great sufferer from female weak
ness tried four doctors and none did me any
good. ! suffered six years, but at last found
relief l followed your advice. and took four
bottles of Golden Medical Discovery and eight
of the Favorite Prescription now feel like a
ns7U 40maH. have gained eighteen pounds !"
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a
medicine made for just one purpose-to
cure disorders or diseases of the feminine
organism. 1t is the only preparation of its
kind introduced by regularly graduated
physician skilled specialist in the dis
eases of women, whose thirty years of sue
cessful practice are guarantee of health to
all sufferers who consult him.
Every woman may write fully and CON
fdentially to DR.. K. V. Pierce, Buffalo,
n v, and may be sure that her case
will receive careful, conscientious, conf
dental consideration, and that the best
medical advice in the world will be given
to her, abS0Infelpftee
In addition TO this free advice DR. Pierce
will send paper bound copy of his great
1000 page book THE Common Sense Med
ical Adviser" to any one who will send 2I
one-cent stamps to pay the cost of mailing.
French cloth-binding, 81 stamps.
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CONVINCING PROOF.
The Average Augusta Citizen Must Accept the
Following Proof.

The great Sir Isaac Newton, one or
the most profound reasoners the world
ever produced. once cut large hole in
a board fence to allow a favorite cat
access to two gardens, and cut a small
er hole to allow her kitten 10 1oiio"
her. The weakness manifested In Slr
Isaac's action was due to want Oh
thought. Any reader who mentally de-
bates the proof offered here about
Doan's Kidney Pills and arrives at any
other conclusion than that stated IN
this citizens statement, is as short OF
reasoning powers as the philosopher
when he turned carpenter.
Mrs. +. c. Folger of SO Northern
avenue, says: In the spring OF 1880
got Doans Kidney Pills at Partridge
drug store and they cured me OF e
cruciating backache, prevented SER
Gus loss of rest and sleep, and renewed
my energy so that the performance oi
my household duties became pleasure
in place of a pain. | allowed my ca
perience to be published in our Angus
ia papers at the time, and now luiiy
two years and a half after that uate'
am only too pleased to corroooie.e
what | then said. My cure mas oes"
permanent" -,
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sane ~
all dealers. Price 80 cents. Maneu
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, n T. SUI
agents for the United States. Reh'e"
Der the name-Doan's-and take ="
substitute 49,
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Mr.. Geo. Remission of Machias, commit
tee on boarding house, police. gate and
stables; Geo. Remission, tickets and
signs; Cyrus Thaxter and son, Ralph,
lamps DIR. Barker Of Jacksonville.
| tracts; Presiding Elder ]. w. Day of
| Milbridge, music. The boarding and
/ londging house is to be enlarged.
On Thursday the certificate of incor-
| poration Of the American Symmetro-
| scope co. with a capital stock of 800
900. Of which $4,000 is paid in, was filed
| at the registry of deeds office at Ban
| gor. The officers Of the company are:
| President, Frank z. Irving of Troy n.
| Y: treasurer. VIM. g. Cousens Of Bos-
| ton; clerk Thos. W. Vose Of Bangor.
The directors are: VIM. G. Cousens and
VIM. p. Van Amringe Of Boston, and
Frank P. Irving Of Troy, y. Y. The
purpose of the company is to manufac-
ture and sell a certain instrument
called the symmetroscope and to pur-
chase. lease or control shops. factor
les and other property necessary for
the prosecution of said business. The
par value of the shares is 800.
Two popular young Searsmont ladies'
are about to eHter-upon- a new and
what will soon be a decidedly popu-
lar attraction for entertainments and
seaside programmes. They are the
Misses Mary McCorrison and Jose
phine Knight. They have ordered di-
rect from London a new "hurdy gurdy'
Of the latest 4S-bar design and having
the latest in dance music. This will
he used to furnish music throughout
the State and county for summer balls,
lawn parties and entertainments. The
machine will be the first of the kind
yet introduced in Maine. and it is pro-
posed TO entertain the people of Maine
during the coming summer with some
thing which is just now a very pleas
ing fad in Massachusetts. The ma
chine is of excellent make and the
young ladies will no doubt make a
great hit with it during the summer
season.
The sardine packing being about the
principal factor of PASSPORTS business.
a casual observer cannot help noticing
the strides that the two syndicates are
taking. While in former years the in
dividual packers had their offices in
their factories. there now has come
ONtI al anu rs IOlAPd-
MES. they center their business at one
general office and transact their work
at the factories through superfnten-
dents. Their offices, although still in
the hands of the carpenters, will, when
finished be veritable specimens of what
money and taste can produce. Every
thing is up-to-date in design and quail
ity and will be so arranged as to accom-
modate the needs of the managers and.
clerical forces that occupy them. The
offices Of the Standard Co. are to be
in the building formerly occupied by F.
s. & c. A. Paine on Sea street, while
those of the Continental Co. will grace
the Kilby block on Water street. Those
Of the former company are well under
way and large crew is pushing the
work along as fast as possible; while
the Continental Co. has matters so far
advanced as to permit occupying the
lower floor.
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SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Another big gang of Italians passed
through, Bangor, Thursday to work on
the Jumbo" pulp mill at Millinocket.
C. w. Robbins of the Old Town En-
terprise, has offered his newspaper
plant for sale, and. it is said, intends
to move West. This will be a loss to
Old Town and to the Maine newspaper
fraternity.
The Junction house at Washington
Junction, has changed hands and in
the future will be carried on by Mr..
and Mrs. David FarnswOrth of Jones'
boro. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Grant
moved out. Wednesday.
On Thursday. George l. Loveland Of
Brewer, was arrested on the charge of
the larceny of several valuable articles
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General Wheeler in Boston.

The great event of the week in Bos-
ton, and the greatest event of this
years Memorial day, was the presence
in Boston of that famous ex-Confeder-
ate leader, General Wheeler of Ala
bama, now wearing the uniform of a
United States major general. His ad-
dress to the G.. A. r. veterans there
has attracted attention all over the
world, and marks an epoch. Ten years
ago. or even two years ago, the participa-
ton, as the central figure, of General
servance would have been impossible.
The war has made many changes, but
none greater or more beneficial than
in the closer relations established be-
tween the North and South The tu-
multuous enthusiasm with which Bos-
ton greeted little, old Fighting Joe"
was a grand and inspiring spectacle.
The hero of two wars must have been
stirred to the Utmost depths of his soul
by the warmth with which he was re-
ceived in conservative Boston. Those
who We're fortunate enough to be pres
ent at the address and the reception
will ever cherish it in memory as an
event of greatest import.
His speech was notable one for
several reasons. The Alabama warrior
struck the true note of the patriotic
duty of the hour. He has no patience
with the pessimists of the Atkinson
school. These were some of the old
fighters words: Patriotic devotion
can be exercised by volunteering to
serve in the field, but it may also be
most profitably exerted in encouraging
confidence among our people at homo.
Certainly, no good, and only evil, can
come from words and acts which tell
rival nations that even a portion of our
people, however few, are not in full
sympathy with our government, or,
what is worse, that any Americans
actually do sympathize with our coun-
tryS enemies. Sucn a course cannot
fail to weaken confidence and embar-
rass the executive power. Those who
admit that the United States is 50
great that it must always triumph will
admit that difficulties or obstacles
created by some of our own people will
have the effect of retarding, at least in
some degree, the prompt and happy
restoration to perfect and lasting
peace"
This is direct challenge made to the
"Anti-Imperialst League in the city
of its birth. The report sent out that
General Wheeler was not welcome
visitor to Boston was surely utter non
sense, based upon the utterances of one
or two hot-headed men who do not yet
know that the war is over. The Bos-
ton anti-imperialsts do not voice the
sentiment of New England. This sec
ton of the country is as thoroughly
loyal, as thoroughly patriotic, as any
other section. 1t will stand by the adj
ministration and by the government
until all the problems now in hand are
completely solved.
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The new minister, the Duke of Ar
COS, upon his arrival in New York,
Tuesday, displayed every indication of
a desire to cultivate the friendliest re-
lations between his own country and
our own. II begin entirely anew" he
said graciously to the reporters. There
is no old or unfinished business for me
to attend to. We forget the past and
look now only to future relations,
which, | know, will be of the pleasant
est" The duke even expressed the
hope that Admiral Dewey would stop
at Cadiz on his way home and receive
the congratulations and courtesies of
the Spanish government and people
Which was diplomacy of high order
Perhaps his American wife has been
giving him a few pointers.
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Saving the Cargo Of the Orion.

ST. Johns. y. f. June THE crew
Of the Danish steamer orion. Capt
Callesen. from New York. May q. for
Copenhagen, with a general cargo
which went ashore. yesterday morn
ing. at Freshwater Paint, miles west
Of cape Race, arrived here, this even
ing.
They say the ship will hold together
probably for several days yet and the
salvers are busily engaged in taking
out as much Of the cargo as is posi-
bic All that is above the lower decks
is likely to be saved unchanged. while
the heavier goods-tierces of pork,
hams and the like-stored lower down,
will suffer not much from the INNER
sion and in all likelihood will be taken
out before the wreck goes to pieces.
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Bradstreets Canadian Report.

New York. June 2-Bradstreet's to-
morrow, will say: A good average
business is being done in Canada.
Failures for the week number only IS.
against 23, a week ago. q in this week,
a year ago. 81. in 1897. 30. in 1896, and
q. in 1895.
Bank clearings for the week aggre-
gate $299l1 ,6O4 gain of % per cent.
over last week, and of per cent, over
this week, a year ago. For the month
of May clearings We're IA per cent.
heavier than those of April, and % per
cent. heavier than last year, while for
the five months period the gain of 1898
is II per cent. -.
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General Otis. in answer to another
inquiry from Washington, reiterateS
his former statement and cuts short
sensational yarns by cabling that he is
still of the opinion that thirty thou
sand men will be necessary for the
effective control of the Philippines"
figure. very far indeed from the one
hundred thousand soldiers whom Cen
perialistic" authorities as requiring.
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ST. LOUIS NEXT EXPOSITION.
Trans. Mississippi Congress Endorses the
Proposed Exposition for 1903.

Wichita. Kan, June 1.-The Trans
Mississippi congress, today, adopted
strong resolutions pledging support to
and asking federal assistance for the
proposed international exposition to be
held at st. Louis, in 1893 in commemo-
ration of the Louisiana purchase cen
tennial.
Prof Waterhouse of St. Louis. made
an address on Ancient and Modern Ca
nails" Hon. Presley II. Ewing Of Hous-
ton. followed with a talk on Gulf Out
let" Hon Sidney Clark of Oklahoma.
then addressed the congress on state
hood for Oklahoma.
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A Scotch Critic on the American Church.

The author of Beside the Bonnie
Briar Bush" during his latest trip to
this country, discovered that there
were some things in the United States
which We're deserving of adverse crltf-
cism. That it is the right of DIR. Wat
son to criticise no one will deny.
Neither the hospitabIe American re-
ception of himself or of his BOOKS
should he held to estop him from
speaking his mind freely. But the
soundness ofl his comment may be
questioned all the same. He was az
dressing the congregation of his Liv-
erpool church on his experience as a
traveller among us, when he joined
structure to eulogy by saying that the
one thing which startled him above all
others in America was the power or
the secular spirit and the weakness of
the Christian church. He added that
the men here were devoted to money
and money getting in a way and to
degree which he would not have mag
ined possible. The churches them
selves were permeated by money
making and were conducted like large
business concerns.
The general charge that Americans
evince frenzied devotion TO money is
not new, and it has at least an element
of truth. Perhaps, however, there is
a disposition to put it in an eXaggera-
ted form. In all the stronger and more
progressive nations the tendency is
much the same. Money making IS
pursued with feverish activity in
Berlin. Paris and London. as well as in
New York and Chicago. The age is
one which invites all sorts and condi-
tions of men to the struggle, and if
it appears more fierce in the United
States than elsewhere that is because
the United States is more typical of the
age than any other land.
But how about the churches? Are
they tainted with the common fault,
and is it fair to say that they are as
noticeably weak as the secular spirit is
noticeably strong? With regard to the
first point it may be answered that a
conducting its money affairs accord
ing to strict business methods. 1t is
we'll for if 1S an orgro pizatinn that tic
finances should be managed as care
fully as those of a bank. and if they
are it's effectiveness will be so much
the greater in the community. But
the second point is of superior i'm
portance to this. and il is the one ut
which the doctor goes farthest aStray.
1t is evident that he has been taught
by surface indications that are strange
to him. He has come upon the phe-
nomena of Sunday theaters and ball
games and jumped at conclusions. He
neglected to note that there were III
4S1 Christian churches in this country,
whose communicates or members
number %, 467 72S; that there We're To-
000,0 900 pupils in the Sunday schools.
and that in the churches and schools
and among the national associations of
Christian workers there was a splendid
earnestness. energy and activity Like
many other observers. he is too quick
to see the innovations. too apt to over
look what persists from the old
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we must believe it, for Admiral
Dewey says it, Speaking, of Lieliten-
ant Hobson, he says: Il like him. He
is brave man, dignified and modest.
The trouble about Hobson is that he
takes life too seriously and is bash
fui. 1t was excess of modesty, then,
that led to his recent notorietv He
was too bashful to refuse to be kissed
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Strange Cattle Disease at South Hampton.N. H

South Hampton. n. H.. June "A dis
ease. at present not definitely deter
mined, deadly in effect, has appeared
among cattle in this town, one owner
having lost five head. The animals when
stricken suffer great pain and die in a
short time. Word has been sent To DR..
Watson, chairman Of the New hampshire
state cattle commission, to come here and
investigate the disease.
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might also note the neatest, best kept
grounds, call public attention to them.
and so stimulate others to improve
ments. Even those who have but a
few feet of ground in front of their
houses can by little attention add
greatly to the good looks of the street
in their vicinity. The waste paper
and other rubbish can be cleaned up,
the lawn trimmed and mended useless
strips of fence removed, and necessary
fence repaired.
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Straiqht from BIuefieIds.

New Orleans. June Zion. w. b. Saus-
by. consul to Nicaragua, arrived. yester-
day, from Blueiields. Mr.. Sausby ana
Sam Well, a leading American merchant
Of Bluefields will go to Washington in a
few days and lay the entire Nicaraguan
matter before Secretary Hay.