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

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Duncan is favoring expansion--hai-
eigh News-Observer.
Lumberton Robesonian: Work on
tie North Carolina Northern raiitoau
is going on smoothly and sa~tisfaceori,
". The grading has been
for a mile and a quarter and the ran
| roae bank has been constructed 10 the
river.
Hill former editor Of this paper who
! Maxton Scottish Chief: ]. Kirkland
has been spending the last six or eight
nonths in Fla, returned home Monday
| We are glad 10 know the soft breezes
| of the land OF flowers, has much m
proved his health
Mr.. Thomas F. Lyons. OF North Car
DINA, was yesterday appointed a first
| lieutenant in the United States Ma
rine Corps, says the Washington Post
He was formerly an enlisted man in
that corps and was promoted TO the
grade OF sergeant.
G~oldsboro Argus: Wendell Taylor,
a white nan about so years or age.
was brought to this city today by the
| sheriff of Greene county and placed in
Wayne county Jail. Taylor and an
, other white man are implicated in he
! murder of j. II. Twedie, which occur
red in Lenoir county about two weeks
J ago, the in order TO separate the mCr-
{ derers Taylor was brought here.
It is claimed by some that the con-
stitutional amendment is simply q
/ makeshift. but il this is SO, it is the
| best that can be done under the cir
! cumsctances, and If those who n
fault with it have anything better to
offer as a substitute they should have
made it known at a time when 1t
! would have done some good.-Durham
Herald.
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. Brown,
/ president of the Fayetteville and Abe
marie railroad, was in the city this
morning. Six miles of this road has
already been completed from Southern
Pines. and Mr.. Brown tells us that he
is certain that the road will reach Fay
etteville.-It is with sorrow that We
! record the death of n Of Fayetteville's
best women. Mrs. M. J. Graham, who
died yesterday afternoon at $40 o'clock
! at her residence on Haymount, in the
5Sth year of her age.
Burlington News: On last Saturday
! evening at 6 o'clock the house of Mr..
| r. L. Seymour, near the Academy, was
! discovered to be on fire. Mrs. Seymour
, was in the house very sick and had to
be carried out: and her mother, a very
old lady, also had to be carried out.
About all the furniture was saved, and
all personal effects, except some cloth
ing. Mrs. Seymour was carried to q
! neighbors house and suffered greatly
from nervous shock.
In the -baccalaureate address to the
graduating class of Trinity college, de-
, livered Sunday night, Preside~t Kilgo
, is reported to have said: THE reasOn
that North Carolina has never produced
great men like Washington, Clay, Web
| ster, etc. is because there is too much
of the socialistic spirit in us to per-
! nit having a great man." Within the
| past few years we have heard many
| charges brought against our old state,
but this is the first time we have heard
her people accused of being socialists.
Greensboro Patriot.
Although General A. d. Cowles, Of
| Statewide, is the first republican Of
| prominence in thes tate to publicly an
nounce that he will support the con-
! stitutional amendment restricting the
suffrage, there is good reason to be-
lieve that he and the other Iredell re-
p%ublicans who are with him will have
plenty of company. The Landmark has
it from a high source and a reliable
one that such prominent Raleigh repub-
| Iicans as Colonel Shaffer, Hon. John
Nichols, Judge Pernell, Major Joshua
| Hill, Mr.. Thos. DevereauX and other
leading republicans will support the
amendment. With such republicans
as these favoring the amendment 1t
! will be adopted by an overwhelming
majority, notwithstanding the efforts
| of SenatorPritchard and a few who train
with him to defeat it.-Statesville
| Landmark.
Here, with the mercury out of sight,
but to memory dear, The Observer gets
a copy Of The Bristol, Va, News, con
tanning a three-column argument on
the birth place of Andy Jackson, and
presumably inviting it to take a hand
in the debate. Summing up the case
The Bristol News assures us that "all
the facts show that General Jackson
the facts go to show that General Jack
son vas not born in either North or
| South Carolina, but neither almost GER
tainly at B~onnybefore, parish Of Car
rickfergus, or possibly at sea-" Well,
we hadn't thought that of Andy, and
in his behalf we will say that the peo-
Dle Of this section of North Carolina
still stand up for the little cabin in the
Waxhaw section as the place where he
vas originally born. A Charlotte citi-
zen has the door to the cabin and this
door we can hold up a a shield
against the assaults of all scoffers and
unbelievers who may come against US.
Charlotte Observer.
DR.. Kilgo who is remembered as a
! scrapper Of some distinction also spoke
It was at Trinity college last week,
and the learned doctor delivered the
tobaccolaureate address. He is report
ed as having said that the reason
North Carolina has never produced a
great man like Washington, Clay or
| Webster is that the socialistic spirit is
| too strong here" This divine should
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