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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-10-21
y. 1. Henley. n. -. Phillips.
HENLEY & PHILLIPS,

GenI Insurance Agents,
OFFICE Peninsula Bank B'idfng.
Representing ths foilosr'ag Companies.
Virginia Stale. Of Richmond. Va.
Home Insurance Co, OF New York
PENNSYLVANIA Fire Insurance Co, OF
Philadelphia
Delaware Fire Insurance Co of Phira.
Hamburg BENIN Fire Insurance Co,
Hamburg. Germany.
Now ch Union Fire Insurance Socie-
". of Lon. .on. England.
Fidelity and Deposit, Guarantee. Co,
OF Baltimore Md.
The Northwestern Life Insurance Co. f,
IL Milwaukee, " Il.
All on tic above are first class stock
ompsn;es. a'.d we are prepared TO han-
lie at reasonable rates any line OF insar-
ance offered Us. large or small.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-10-21
MIR. Berxh. OF rosno, Writes.
Toano, Va. Aug. 2s. 1899

having OeSn resident OF the
Peninsula for several years |
thought il would be of interest
at least to some OF your readers
to hear a few words from an old
Wisconsin man, and a Norwe
gian at that. / am s real estate
agent. TO be sure, but notwith-
standing, 1 shall az any rate en-
desvor 10 tell you the truth. L
know that ii Is claimed that
real estate agents will prevari
cate will make things look too
bright, &c, but there are exc p
tiOns in this : we'll as in every
thing else. Real estate agents
can tell the truth if they chose
10, and do as 4 rule.
Many persons come here 10
IN ke home on farm that
never have lived on a farm in
= all their lives. but have spent
their lives in shops or pla ces of
{ public business. and don't know
any more about farming than q
q cat about the moon. For fuch
e people farm life soon gets tire
> some. their crops, If they have
any at all, are grown up to
= weeds, their horses starved out
Re and full of sores, their COWS
10 give no milk for the want o
II care, their stock of hogs look
j, more like a set OF starved
g hounds than the race 20 which
re they belong, and everything else
x in the same proportion. No
+ wonder such settlers get home
Ct sick and write discOuraging let
{ tiers back to where they came
- from They are a burden to
ID themselves aud a damage TO the
A. South, and / say that all real
estate agents ought to avoid
III such people as much a posi-
." bic. What We want here is goot
"a practical farmers that are no
at ashamed TO put their hands {,
a" the plow and who know how Z
- farm. Such men will make
-" success here in Virginia and AT
people that are wanted and wei
10 come to the old Commonwealth
~ have settled several goo
&c Northern farmers here that hav
SN- the best Of success. Come an
~ see them yourself. II you do q
4 successful man advises you I
do then you are pretty sure {
success. Talk with the success
% full settlers, don't listen TO II
nc failures. We are here at Tom
in one of the best sections of II
South, and / could begin wit
this issue OF the GAZETTE 10 te
nc you about all the grand, goo
things and continue in the san
tone for several ISSUES, but
trust that those that come
~ the Peninsula will investiga
for themselves.
$50 have now lived here wi
my family for several years al
one we all like &c very much. ha
Ga bought a farm which we q
der, working ourselves, ana viii
rour will be our future home. Sc
he'd eral Norwegians and Danes ha
and also bought lands here and 6
anv doing well. / have sold land
ich several Of the eo-called "YaT
ees" who also are doing fine a
ID. / shall with pleasure take y
hun. TO any OF them when you col
lkees here. Ia tuying your tick
gain from the West don't forget
! '65. get them via Cincinnati theI
warm over The grand old ~ChesApes
toms & Ohio Ry." TO Toano or y
that Iismsburg. Va The G. d q.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-10-21

afforns. and Counsellor at Lar,
WILLIAMSBURG. VIRGINIA
OFFICES - Peninsula Bank Building.
Rooms Nos. / and 2,
Stenographer aud Notary in ofhce.
Also branch Office at Toano, Va, in
| iotcl Felix" On Thursday OF each
week
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02

Henry T. Sloane eeure a Divoree and
His Wife a Few Hours Afterward
marries Perry Belmont

New York, April 2S.-Henry T.
Sloane, the well-known and wealthy
society man, was today granted an
absolute divorce from his wife, Jessie
A.. Sloane. The decree was handed
down by Justice Htover, in the supreme
court. al : was based upon the report
of a referee, whose name was not dis
closed.
The name of the correspondent was
also kept secret. The custody Of the
Sloanes' children, Jessie, Emily and
Eleanor. was given TO Mr.. Sloane. He
was also accorded the right TO marry,
the defendant in the suit, it was stated,
should not lawfully marry again until
after the dealt of Mr.. Sloan. But
the decree continued the re-marriage
of the said parties to this action is not
hereby prohibited
Mrs. Sloane is deprived Of the right
to any part in Mr.. Sloa. e's property.
Separation Of the couple was announced
last December.
SHE MARRIES PERRY BELMONT
New York, April 2S.-Perry Belmont
and Mrs. Jessie A sloane, the olVorceu
wife of Henry T. Sloane, were married
at $3.50 O'Clock tonight at Greenwich,
Conn. by the Rev. Walter NJ. Barrows,
pastor of the Second Congregational
church of that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Belmont will go TO
Washington where they will be the
guests of Mrs. S. G. Rowland, Mr..
Belmont's sister for several days, Mr..
Belmont will then take his bride TO
Kentucky to visit his stock farm.
Before leaving this city tonight and
at Mr.. Relmont's request the new Mrs.
Belmont conveyed her home at No. .
East Seventy-second street, the house
that had been recently given to her by
Mr.. Sloane, and all its contents, TO the
State Trust Company, with instructions
to convey it back again to Mr.. Sloane
The property is valued at $550,000.
If he shall refuse to accept ii the
trust company is instructed to invest
the proceeds of the sale of the house
for the benefit of the Sloane children.
1t was learned that the referee in the
divorce case was William L.. Turner
AID that he had been appointed by
Justice Francis M. Scott, on March 18th
last. The refree held two hearings.
Mrs. Sloan did not attend either.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02
The Departments Of the Army

Washington, April 2S.-An official
list of h different departments of the
army under the war department has
been issued. 1t shows no changes save
those recently made in Cuba. Texas is
not established as a separate depart
ment, II remains in the department
of the gulf, with HEADQUARTERS at At
lanta, under command of Colonel R T.
Frank, First artillery. The departments
of California and Columbia are under
General Shafter; the Colorado and
Missouri. under Genera Marian; Da-
kota, under General Wade; the East,
under General Merritt. The command
ers of the Cuban departments are the
same as previously announced. No az
signment is made for the department
OF the Lakes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02
YADKIN WATER POWER
Development of h NarrOySs for
trial Purposes Assured

Manufacturers Record April 28.)
It is announced that hydraulic engi-
neers have about finished their work
preliminary to the development of the
magnificent power of the Narrows OF
the Yadkin river in North Carolina, and
it is estimated that the plant, repre-
senting an outlay of $4,000, 900, will be
abb to develop $4,000 horsepower,
which it is proposed to distribute by
electric cables to manufacturing plants.
At the Narrows the Yadkin river,
which is 1000 feet a short distance
above, is forced through a gorge one
quarter of a mile long and seventy-fve
feet across at it's widest part. Through
this gorge the river falls from thirty
SIX to forty feet.
Severtl months ago the North Caro-
lima Power Co. was incorporated for the
purpose of making the developments.
The widely-known firm of Messrs. j.
G.. White & Co. Qncorporated) Of New
York city, who built the Niagara Falls
Buffalo plants, have been engaged to
act as engineers and contractors for
the work, and their Baltimore repre-
sentative, Mr.. G.. G. Young, has just
returned from an examination OF. the
property. The North Carolina Power
Co has placed it's capital stock at So
O00, 600, and. besides. an issuance OF
$4,000, 900 in bonds is planned. The
Manufacturers Record is reliably in
formed that all financial arrangements
have been successfully closed. Mr.. E.
B. G. Hambly, of Salisbury, c. N, is
president of the company.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02

MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.


New York, April 29.-Money on call
steady at 4 perc emit; prime mercantile
paper at 312@4A per cent; sterling ex-
change steady with actual business in
bankers bills at S4.S7A@4.S715 for de-
mand and at $4.S5A@4.S5h for sixty
days; posted rates at s4.S5A@4.S6 and
S4.S7k@4.SS; commercial bills at $4.S49
4.S4k; silver certificates 63963h; bar
liver 621s; Mexican dollars at 40; state
bonds Inactive; railroad bonds irregu-
lar; government bonds irregular.
COTTON.
Liverpool, April 29.-1 p. m.-Cotton.
Spot quiet, prices unchanged. Amer
lean middling 38d. The sales of the
day were 1000 bales, including $500
American; receipts 5000 bales, includ-
ing $500 American. Futures opened Inc
closed quiet with a moderate demand.
American middling. low middling
clause: May 3 19-64d buyers; May and
June 3 19-64d buyers; Tune and July
8 19-6403 2O-64d buyers; July and Au-
gust 8 20-64d sellers; August and Sep
TENDER 5 20-64d sellers; September and
October 3 19-64@3 20-64d sellers; Octo-
Der and November 8 19-64d sellers; No
vember and December 8 1S-64d buyers;
December n January 8 1S-64d buyers:
January and February 8 1S-64Q3 19-64d
buyers; February and March 8 1S-64d
buyers.
THE NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, April 29.-Cotton steady;
middling 6 3-16c; net receipts 80; gross
receipts 4,912; sales AIS; stock 161, ASA;
exports to Great Britain SAG.
Total today: Net receipts II, 223; ex-
ports to Great Britain 10, 430; to France
1900; to the continent 1904; stock 49,
y79.
Consolidated: Net receipts II, 223; ex-
ports to Great Britain 10,430; to France
1900; to the continent 1904.
Total since September 1st: Net re-
ceipts 1859, 4S2; exports to Great Bri-
tain 3,225,019; to France 669, 101; to the
continent 2,467, 62S.
Spot cotton closed steady; middling
uplands s 5-16c; middling gulf 6 7-16c;
sales 675 bales.
Futures closed steady; May $50, June
5.S1, July 5.91, August 5.92, September
$50, October $50, November $50, De-
cember 5.93, January $50, February
f.9e, March 6.02.
GRAIN AND PROVISION.
Chicago, April 29.-The leading fu-
lures ranged as follows:
Open. High. Low Clos
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02
GERMANY TAKES A HAND
In the Dreyfus Case-If the Case Is Not
Speedily Settled Certain German Of
ficers Will Tell What They Know

London. April 2S.-Ernest Vizotelly,
who has hitherto shown that he is we'll
informed on the subject treated, has
an article IA The Westminster Gazette
today, in which he says the German
government has addressed an expostu-
latory note to the French government
regarding the Dreyfus case. This note
was recently presented to NJ. Delcasse,
the French minister of foreign affairs.
by Count o Munster, the German
ambassador to France, and deals with
the proceedings before court of
cessation as published in The Figaro
and which, the note says, surprised
and panied the German government.
The note. according to Mr.. Vizotelly,
intimated that in certain eventualities
it would be impossible for the German
government to refrain from officially
publishing the facts, in justice to its
own officers, who have repeatedly So
licited permission to speak The note
urged in forcible terms the desirabili-
ty in the interests of bot countries Of
a speedy conclusion of the present agi-
tatiOn.
The p-resentatioL of this note led NJ.
Dupuy, the French prime minister, to
bring pressure to bear upon the court
of cessation, which, however, by a
majority of three, decided to continue
the proceedings in its own "a and
hold a supplemental inquiry, which is
now virtually ended.
Mr.. ViZotelly learns that eighteen of
the judges of the u Of cessation are
in favor of, and fifteen opposed to a
revision Of the DreyfuS case. Ut is
probable, Mr. Vizotelly adds, that on
a full vote Of the judges Of the united
court of cessation the revisionists will
have a majority of eight.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02
THE rELRGRApER., ASSOCIATION
Ak Exhibition of wireless Telegraphy
to be MadeW When IL Meets Here-Other
Exhibits


The Association of Railway Tele-
graphers. which is to meet in Whining
ton May 18th, and will sit here for three
days, will be a big card for Whining
ton. Not only will Mr.. Thomas A. Edi-
son, the emminent electrician and in
ventor, be here. but other notables are
coming.
Mr.. W. T. Williams, Of Portsmouth,
superintendent Of the telegraph for the
Seaboard Air Line, who has in hand
the arrangements for the meeting OF
the association, telegraphed yesterday
to Captain T. D.. Meares, general agent
Of the Seaboard Air Line, that Mr.. w.
NJ. Mayer, Jr., another great electri-
clan, win attend the convention and
give an exhibition Of Marconi's wireless
biography. This is one Of h won
derful scientific discoveries Of the
times, and Wilmington will be one OF
the few cities in the world that have
had an opportunity to witness the ex-
pertinent. Mr.. Mayer will take a po-
sition on Wrightsville Beach and send
telegraphic messages to the city with
out the use of wire. By the Marconis
system Geographic messages have been
sent without wire for a distance of
thirty miles, and messages have been
sent ashore from ships at sea-
During the meeting of the associa-
ton there will be exhibitions by vari-
Gus manufacturers of telegraphic and
electrical inventions. Among the ex-
hibitions will be Messrs. j. II. Bun
nell & Co., who will show the Weiny-
Phillips relay transmitter, which has
brought about a revolution in long dis
tance biography, besides other inven-
tons and instruments manufactured
by that company.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02
Dr. Oliver at Charleston

Y The Charleston News and Courier
of yesterday says of the former be-
loved pastor of the First Baptist church
of our city:
The congregation of the old First
Baptist church is much pleased with
h Rev. Will B. Oliver, D. D., who has
been secured to fill the pulpit at that
church during the absence of DR.. Cuth-
bert, the pastor.
The Rev. H. r. Mosley, pastor OF
the Florence Baptist church, has writ
ten to the officers Of the First Baptist
church as follows:
L consider your church fortunate in
having secured Brother Oliver as tenn
porary supply. He supplied my church
for two months during my absence
in Cuba and my people were delighted.
not only with his preaching, but with
him as a a He was for several
years pastor OF the First Baptist
church at Wilmington, N. c.. and Va
highly regarded. I consider him one Of
the best preachers in the south"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02
FafsOn Notes
Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Faison, n. c., April %.

| Correspondence Of The MeSsenger.)
Faison, n. c., April %.
AS the busy season is now open, one
a see a great change around town
Men, and even boys, who a few weeks
ago were slow and seemingly ~lifeless,
| now have a pretty good move on them.
Next Monday will be a very busy day
with the truckers and a very, very busy
day with u score of soliciting agents.
Let me mark those berries for your"
is the question put to nearly every
farmer who ONE to town. Sometimes
the son of toll may have berries, while
sometimes he may not have them.
The young men of Faison are going
soon, to be called a minstrel, the pro-
ceeds of which will go to the Faison
academy, which, by the way, is in need
of immediate repair. The boys say
they are going to give the people some
thing good. 1t is to be a negro min
strel, strictly up to date. We hope
them great success.
Mr., Isaac w. Lane, railroad agent
here, has two assistants for the busy
season, and judging from the large
amount of business to be done here,
he may need several more.
Miss Ida Campbell, of Barnesmouth,
England, is visiting her niece, Mrs. p.
Mcintyre. In the early part of May,
Miss Campbell, accompanied by Mrs.
Mcintyre. will leave for New York,
from whence they will sail by the
American Star Line for London, where
Mrs. Mcintyre will visit her relatives
for several weeks.
Rev. P. Mcintyre .has just purchased
ten acres of splendid land from Mr.. I.
r. Faison at West End. The residents
of West End are glad they will have
Mr.. n Mrs. Mcintyre for neighbors.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02

Montreal, Que, April 2s.-Seven
years g Thomas Stewart, then 10
years Of age, lost the sight of one eve
the blade Of a penknife having been
ACCIDENTALLY u into it. DIR. Alexau.
der Proudfoot attended him. Recently
Dr. Proudfoot advised the removal ~
the useless eye as the only means 30
preserving the other intact. This Wa
agreed TO and the delicate task was en-
trusted to DR.. Proudfoot, who Is AISLE
ant oculist and aurist at the eena~sI
hospital. The operation took place =,
the family residence, and at the cor
ciusion it was found that a terrihIe
mistake had been made-the beaItbv
eye had been removed. On recover
from the effects Of the anaestha.ic The
patient found himself blind
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02
The strawberry Movement

The shipment of strawberries along
the Wilmington and Weldon railroad
yesterday was the largest Of the sea-
son, amounting to several thousand
crates. There We're shipped from Rose
Hill 1900 crates, from Faison 900 crates
and from Mt. Olive 600 crates. The 9TH
er stations made proportionate ship
ments
The northern market reports asst
night varied from II to % cents per
quart. The following were some of the
quotations: Philadelphia, Il to 20 cents;
New York, Is to 20 cents; Boston, Is
to % cents; Providence, Is to % cents;
Buffalo, 10 to 20 cents. Other western
points reported about the same quo
fationS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02
Development Of a Great Salt
Mine

The Gulf Company, a Chicago corpo-
ration, has secured the salt deposits on
Avery Island, La, and 1t intends 10
mine the salt on a very extensive
scale, carrying the output to New Or
leans and elsewhere in vessels. c. B.
Wiser, Of Chicago, general manager of
h company, in a recent interview
relative to the enterprise, said:
There are 15,O 900, 900 barrels of salt
consumed in the United States every
year. The consumption of salt and su-
gar is about the same; that is, n
has produced very little of the enor-
NOUS salt production, the output
amounting to about 20 1000 to 25, 1000 bar
.rels out of $4,000, 900 of barrels con-
sumed in the United States annually.
1t was for the purpose of getting into
this great undeveloped field that this
company of Chicago capitalists got to
gether and took possession of the salt
mines at Belle Isle.
1.-THE output will be about 500 on a
day. We have already spent $3.50, 900 in
sinking the shafts and in getting ready
for operations at Belle Isle, and we will
spend, perhaps, almost that much more
in the completion of the great plant
which Louisiana will soon possess. l
do not hesitate to say that the state
of Louisiana Will nave the pest salt
mine in the country for several rea-
sons, one of which is the water rams
portation which is available and which
we will utilize to its fullest extent. The
largest salt mines in the United States
today are at RetSof, New York state,
where the production amount to $780,
900 tons per year. Then there are two
good mines in the state of Kansas, but
they are not so extensive. The Retsof
salt, however, in the matter Of quality
cannot be compared to the Louisiana
Belle Isle product. The salt at Retsof
has a dirty, dingy appearances; the
Belle Isle salt is as white as snow, and
it is almost chemically pure.
THE salt industry is destined to be-
come one of the greatest industries in
the state of Louisiana, and in a short
time the once Improbable, unstable
Belle Isle will hold the key to the salt
situation in the United States. 1t is
our full intention to Supplant a great
portion of English salt now coming in
to United States. One of our first aims
is to knock out this salt Importation
as much as possible. / believe all the
sail We need can be mined and furnish
ed from our home industries, and we
are determined to do it. We are now
arranging to put in an evaporating
plant o make a fine table salt and the
highest grades Of the product. In the
market this finer salt is called evapo-
rated. The water transportation will
enable us to compete with everything
in the country. We are going to do all
our shipping by s~chOOners and steam
vessels"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02
NEW FIRM
Mr. j.. w. MurchisOn Admits Mr. w. e.
Perdew as a Partner I'm Hi whole.
sale Hardware Business-They Ex-
pect TO Hustle Thing


Mr.. ]. w. Murchison who has been
in the wholesale hardware business in
Wilmington for the past five years
and has built up a large and flourishing
jobbing house at 100 and Ill North
Front street, has admitted Mr.. W. E.
Perdew as a partner in the business.
In today's Messenger appears a copart-
nership notice to that effect.
Mr.. Murchison, the senior member
of the firm is we'll known to the trade
in the Carolinas and has done a large
business in the two states. His part
ner is also widely known and has had
long experience in the wholesale hard
ware business, Mr.. Perdew having been
a salesman for eighteen years, most Of
the time with his present partner.
Both members of the firm have a wide
circle of acquaintance and with ample
capital, they intend to greatly enlarge
and extend their business in the terri
tory to which the trade of Wilmington
extends. They have a large and
handsome store, and will compete in
prices with the jobbing houses of the
north and south. Their store has re-
Gently been thoroughly %remodeled and
overhauled, and their facilities for do
ing business are u~nequalled. Their
store has a frontage of 26 feet on Front
street and embraces three floors 14O
feet deep. This ~commodious store is
chock full of stock, including a large
assortment Of hardware, tinware, stoves
agricultural implements, etc.
Messrs. Murchison & Co. will travel
two men on the road, and The Messen-
ger can cordially commend the house
in every particular to the merchants
of this state and South Carolina.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-02
He Did Not Do It. Though

Berlin, April pa dispatch from
Kiel to the Vissiche Zeitung says that
naval officers there are smiling at the
statements made by Captain Joseph B.
Coghlan in the course of his speech at
the Union League Club banquet in New
York last week. These officers claim
that Admiral Won Diedrichs' answer to
Admiral Dewey's threat was simple:
'fClear for action and quietly steam
through the American lines into the
harbor."