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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-07-14
THE REYNOLDS CASE AT CUM
BERI,AND MD

a special dispatch from Cumberland.
Md. says: "Thc city put to work this
morning three of the four tramps SEN
fenced 10 thirty days in the chain gang
for creating disturbance in South
Cumberland. Each man has n ball and
chain attached to his leg The fourth
man. John l.. Reynolds. OF Portsmouth
Va. the Spanish war veteran, was not
put to work because OF his alleged
crippled condition as the result OF his
service in Cuba. He will be examined
by q physician to see II he Is feignlnR."
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-07-14
INSTALLATION OF orr1cERs

INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS.
The following ladies were Installed
Wednesday nisht,as officers of the Mar
tina Washington Lodge of Daughters of
Rebecca:
Mrs. r. p. Bunting. N. c.: Mrs. A. j.
Jefries. V. G.; Mrs. Geo. r. Jackson.
r. S.; Mrs. Mary Williams. +. s.; Mrs
Jane Dougherty. treasurer: Mrs. G. c..
Cummings. chaplain.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-07-14

w ANTED-TO BUY PROPERTY IN
w Norfolk or Portsmouth, must be
cheap. Store for rent suitable for furni-
turc or second hand business Bar for
rent. Apply 3l4 County street, Portsmouth.
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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-07-14
Fine DeIlicatessen

All varieties staple and fancy food.
fresh meats and vegetables. Another lot
OF those fine Silver Premiums to arrive
Monday. Get our premium card; use it,.
and be satisfied.
ALLEN & JARVIS.
s. S. Phone. 1866. 500 and 500 County st.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-07-14
OTHER TSMOUTH 10.
CAL ON PAGE II

a OR .SALE-NICE HORSE. YEARS
l. old. sound and gentle: afraid OF
nothing; sold because have no use for
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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-07-14

We keep every shape OF collars. Let
us sell you your collars. Chas. II. Wei
ton G. Co.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
SPONSORS AND MAIDS OF HONOR
Only One OF Each to be sent to the Con.
federate Reunion From Each o
-gressional District

Atlanta. Ga, March II John
B. Gordon Ia issued an order that
only one sponsor and n maid OF hon
or from each congressional district
shall be sent to b next reunion OF
ex-confederate veterans az Charleston.
The circular is in spoons 10 a reso-
luton adopted at a convention OF the
United Daughters OF the Confederacy.
held in Hot Springs, Ark, November
1898, requesting the United C~onfeder-
ate Veterans to limit the number or
sponsors and maids Of honor to n OF
each, from ZACH state and territory
where there is a camp OF United Con-
federate Veterans-because the confed-
crate reunions have Of late years been
an entertainment for the sponsors n
maids OF honor instead OF the veter-
ans
Genera Gordon desires that h orig
quests the appointment OF a sponsor
by general, department, division n
brigade commanders and by every
camp, with as many maids OF ono as
desired, but with the understanding
that the reunion committee ut Charles
ton will only entertain and provide
for one n and maid OF honor
from general, department and division
headquarters.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
HOME FOLKS

The Washington Courier, a we'll edit
ed state weekly exchange, has a very
appreciative editorial on Mr.. R. D. Gill
mer who was elected by the legislature
as a member of the state board of cleo
tions. The Courier strongly urges Mr..
Gilmer for attorney general. 1t holds
him up as a lawyer of high ability and
a gentleman of noblest character. 1t
closes its eulogy by saying:
Mr.. Gilmer's recent brilliant canvass
in all parts of the state when so much
depended on the results was probably
the browning effort of his life in behalf
of democracy and it is still fresh in the
memory of leading democrats all over
the state. To them all, u suggestion
should meet with the heartiest approx
al. Let us nominate Bob Gilmer for
attorney general"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24

Roanoke River on a BOom-An Adver.
tiser for q Wife Gets a Reply From an
Color, Respondent

Correspondence of The Messengerl
Weldon, n. c., March %
Roanoke river is higher than 1T has
been since the great food Of 1887 n
it is in three feet of the water mark of
1877, when the railroad bridges here
were swept away. The water is still
rising slowly at this writing.
]. ]. Thompson, a we'll known farmer
living in the CASTOR section, lac the
misfortune to cut his leg with an axe
yesterday, inf1icting a painful wound.
nearly the entire length of the axe.
A gentlemanAiving in this county d
vertised for a rich wife, in a matrimo-
NAL publication. In due time he re-
ceived a reply. 1t came from Califor-
MIA, requesting an exchange of photo
graphs, and set forth at length her
charms and wealth. The advertiser
was delighted and fastened to reply
sending his pisture. He was impatient.
for the reply and visited the office daily
1t came a few days ago. To his surprise
and disgust he drew forth the picture
of a genuine California coon, %grinning
like a hyena, and as black as the ace
of spades. l get this from the gentle+
man himself, but he eQuests me to
Withhold his name.
Kemp Newell, colored, of Panacea.
Springs, while loading his cart with
stone dropped a very heavy one and ex-
claimed. Il have broker something in.
my breast" He went home, sat down
in a chair by the fire and Immediately
expired
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
ARNOLD ON THE BIG NORTH

Matthew Arnold was a very eminent
English author and visited the north
ern states of our country. We suppos-
ed at heart he was not favorabiy i'm
pressed. He did not visit the south as
the great Thackeray did, and liked It.
Mr.. Griffin in his fine address in Eng
land. to which we made reference re-
Gently. gives a curious opinion from
Arnold. introducing it in these words:
The greatest OF English critics OF
this generation, Matthew Arnold, in
the asst essay he ever wrote, discussed
an opinion which l a expressed in
a book on The Great American Re-
public that there was no country in
which a cultivated human being could
live with less pleasure than in Ameri-
ca; and when l heard him deliver his
first lecture in New York, / realized
the truth of this remark, and how deep
a gulf in sympathy lay between the
critic and his audience"
We have observed that British crit
les are much given to visiting the
north as lecturers. They gather in
big money" and yet the deep gulf"
may yawn. One English author follows
another in quick succession. Hall Game
came and stayed. Now he is back. Ian
Mclauren" CRev. DR.. Watson)' is on
hand lecturing with profit to himself.
Others nave preceded and others will
follow. How far wrong was Arnold in
his judgment?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24

Some Americans abroad have won
fame and distinction. Lady Randolph
Churchill, a very handsome American,
who married the gifted Lord Randolph
Churchill, who died some years ago in
his manhood's prime, is to begin soon
in London the publication of a quarterly
of rare qualities. 1t will sell nigh and
be a very sumptuous publication. The
london correspondent of the New York
Tribune, says that the new candidate
for fame and patronage will be printed
on heavy paper, with artistic letter.
press and with a high standard or Gro
lier binding. Each number will have a
specially designed cover, which will be
an example Of the highest achievements
and best taste of the III time art of
book binding in England and France
and Italy. Each lumber will be an art
work with illustrations, whether pho
togravures, ~engravings on wood or etch-
ings, of the highest order of excellence.
The quarterly will contain about two
hundred n fifty pages, and will be
made up of miscellany in politics, liter
allure, criticism, rot and science"
Mrs. Craigie is another American Of
more intellectual reputation, who has
achieved success as a novelist, and who
is now adding laurels to those before
gathered by dramatic productions She
lives in London and is unq~uestionably
one Of the famous women of that great
city.
It will be recalled that Mi. Whistler,
born in Boston, we think, has become
Of much reputation both in England
andao or the continent as a painter. Mr.,
Sargent, Of whom we know u little,
is placed with Mr.. Whistler by the Tri-
bune's correspondent. He gives this of
Whistler's independence:
He holds the British academy in
contempt, and eve exhibits paintings
or drawings in the United States: bur
his influence in Paris and on the con-
tinent is very great, and his position
as one of the chief masters of modern
art is unchallenged. Mr.. Sargent is now
the most famous portrait painter in
England"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
CHILD


gainesville. Ohio, March 2l.-A start
ling sequel to the abduction OF Gerald
Lapiner, the 3-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Lapiner, which occurred In
Chicago March 80, 1898, developed here
today in the recovery and restoration
of the child to his mother and the ar
rest Of Mrs. Ann Ingersoll and John
c.. Collins, who live about a mile west
of gainesville, at whose place the child
was found and where he had been kept
since last June. On March Both Gerald
Lapiner was abducted by a mysterious
woman from in front Of his parents
home, in Chicago. The woman and
child were traced for a short time and
then ali track OF them was lost. A
large reward was offered for the re-
covery of the child, and although the
Chicago police made every effort TO
bring the kidnappers TO justice, nothing
further could be formed.
Two months ago a newspaper ac-
count Of the abduction and the reward
offered came under the notice OF Mr..
L. L. Ferris and his sister, Miss O.. g.
Ferriss, neighbors of the Ingersolls.
Mr.. and Miss Ferriss suspected that
the little boy who had been at the res
ldSnce Oh MITE. lnBerSOll since last June
might be the missing child, and they
entered into correspondence with the
Chicago police. After two months
investigation and correspondence. It
was determined that the child was the
missing Gerald Lapiner. Mrs. Lapiner
was not satisfied n arrived here this
morning. She was met at the station
by Deputy Sheriff A. T. May, who
has been in charge OF the case. and
was taken to the Ingersoll place,
while Sheriff st. John went on ahead
to prevent the oscar af the abductors-
Access to the house was gained
through the rear door. and there. tied
in a high chair, half dressed, the boy
was ound. Both Mrs. Ingersoll, and
Collins were placed under arrest. Mrs.
Ingersoll denies the charge OF abduc-
ton and could be induced TO say moth
ing about the case.
The hearing of the prisoners. which
was set for his evening, was post
poned until Thursday morning. Sheriff
st. John this evening received a dis
patch from Chicago. saying that an
officer was on his way q take charge
Of the prisoners who will probably be
removed to that city as soon as reQui-
sition papers can be secured.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
LIGHT BR EAkING ON RLUNE.
ERERS

The north has been slow to learn as
to the ballot but it has learned some
thing II is slowly but surely finding
out that clothing a million or two mil
lion Of illiterates, without any civil
training whatever, was a speculative
and ~inexcusable blunder, and that il
has proved a great and crushing curse
in several southern states. The blind
ed demagogues who in their satanic
hatred sought to affiict the men they
could not whip in battle save at great
odds, have passed away. and a new
generation is learning by degrees that
nothing is more distasteful TO free white
men thai TO put them under the heel of
heioIs for political ends. The able
American monthly edited so well by
Dr.. Albert Shaw, a northern man, has
this TO say Of the negro and the ballot:
1T is probably the opinion of a large
majority OF the wisest friends OF the
egroes that the franchise is at pres
ent more hateful than useful, and tina
they might Well afford to allow white
men to do the voting and hold the Of
fees, II only eolored men are accorded
justice in { court of law, with fair
and equal opportunities TO obtain edu-
cation n 70 acquire property. In any
case. it is obvious that equal political
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24

mites his Office" from time to time with
fresh pardons, and places the climax OF
his wisdom by committing the punish
ment of Samuel B. Pearson, a notorious
criminal Of blacklist type, both muir
derer and horse thief, from ten years TO
two years in the penitentiary. This is
the third time this black criminal has
been pardoned. OF all disgraces this
one man power is the deepest It is a
great reflection and blot upon the in
telligence of the white men of North
Carolina.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24

Education in North Carolina is grow
ing more important and more interest
ing. North C~arolinians of the right
kind, believe In education, and they
believe in educational qualification as
q principle for voters. We have known
many really we'll qualified voters in tho
past who We're illiterates. We said TO a
distinguished citizen Of this city some
two years ago that we had known uned-
singularly we'll informed politically, and
could handle a disputant with intelli-
gence and force. They knew why they
were of a certain political party. They
had learned much from abundant pub
lie speaking and from frequent con
versations held with reading men of
their political school. We recall an IL
Illustrative example: For twenty years
prior TO the great war for second in
dependence a we'll known farmer lived
in excellent style about a mile and a
quarter from the town of Oxford. 1t
was Col. Iverson Hicks, and he owned
a grist mill about a quarter of a mile
from his grove. He was a democrat of
the old school. He read closely, re-
tentively, intelligently the old Rich
mond Enquirer, Tom Ritchie's famous
newspaper, and the Raleigh Standard.
Der Of the able opponents Of Jackson
ian democracy. Col. Hicks was hard
to handle in political matters in con
versation. He a several plain men
who brought their grist to his mill.
Every day he would spend hours there,
and would set on prepared logs with
some Of his neighbors and patrons
reading to them from the two papers
named and explaining and charging
upon what had been read. He thus
equipped them we'll for intelligent vot-
ing and they knew why they voted the
democratic ticket and what measures
of Importance they represented. Our
friend referred to above confirmed our
impression as we gave it, and said by
way of Endorsement that he remem-
bered a white man in the en-
ployment~ Of his father who could
IlOl ISdu. Uul was VI Capital
sense and we'll informed, and had a
judgment hat was excellent. Such a
man would vote with more discretion
and wisdom than thousands of men
who had learned the Three Rs, and
gone beyond them even.
But let education be pursued. Let
there. be a genuine educational revival
all over the state. Let the school terms
be made at least six months in the year.
Let the school houses be far better
than those now used, and made every
way more comfortable. Let the grade
Of teaching be made higher. To thia
end pay better salaries and secure well
equipped and faithful teachers. Then
let all the children of q school age at
tend. After that illiteracy will be less
~Obtrusive, less violent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
nov THE RJMOx SIAxFED
A. to the Death OF John Sherman-Mrs.
Woods Reception at Santiago Post
pOned on Account of This Rumor

Santiago, March 22.-Owing to the
supposed authenticity of the report re-
ceived here from Captain Leigh, the
chief signal officer, regarding the alleg-
ed death Of John Sherman, the former
secretary of state, the weekly reception
Of Mrs. Wood, the wife Of General
Leonard Wood, was postponed yester-
day afternoon. After the arrival of the
American Lone Star steamer Paris at
Santiago and the announcement thai
there was no truth in the reports of
the death of Mr.. Sherman, word was
sent out that Mrs. Wood would re-
ceive- 1t was too late. however, to OBJ
tain the services of the band. In spite
of this, fully 200 passengers from the
Paris were present at the reception.
When the Paris reached here those on
board noticed that the flag flying from
MORO Castle at the entrance of the
harbor, vas at half mast, and it was in
ferred by the passengers that some i'm
pOrtant parsonage was dead. Their
surprise was great when told, on being
reached by a tug that a report was cur
rent that Mr.. Sherman was dead.
Captain Leigh gave the signal office
at Guantanamo a bad quarter of an
hour. The men on duty there explained
that they had received the. alleged
news Of Mr.. Sherman's death from the
French Gable Company and, supposing
IL to be correct, sent an official con-
hrmation, as they had no cause to
doubt the authenticity of the report.
Mr.. Sherman continues improving
and will be moved from MS cabin on
deck this afternoon for an hour.
! MIR. Sherman's condition this evening
continues about the same. He rested
comfortably throughout the day, and.
II anything, is somewhat improved. He
expects TO go on board the United
States cruiser Chicago tomorrow.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24

privilege will never be exercised 70 ad-
vantage, except as the race has built
itself up upon the foundations OF sdu-
cation and thrift. 1t is wholly armfu
10 colored men 10 be given postmaster
ships in communities where nlne-tenths
OF the m III matter sent and received be-
longs 10 white patrons OF the office who
are opposed 20 a eolored postmaster.
Mr.. Mckinley himself has made mis-
takes in that direction"
Yea, verify. But there is scarcely
any direction in which Mckinley has
not blundered most ingregously. He
Is probably the greatest political blund-
erer who has yet sat in the presiden-
tial chair. unless one exception is made
in the case OF another northern man.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
Death Of q Famous Jockey

Toronto, Ont, March 21.--Harry
Blalock died here last night Of paraly-
sis. In his day he was n Of the best
jockeys Of America AT one time he
was the chief jockey for Pierre Loril-
lard. who paid him $4,000 a rear and
allowed him privileges of taking other
MOUNTS. AT that time he probably
made $4,000 a year. Later he rode
for Joseph Seagramand. carried Mar
tello to the f-ont when that platter won
the Guineas In 2:14. A year or two
later, growing too heavy for his profess
sion, he. started a stable of his own.
U gave 1t up after a year or two when
iH-heaith forced him 20 retire. He
W. 10 years Of age,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
Arrival Of Volunteer nj savannah

Savannah, Ca, March 21.-The head
quarters, the band and companies b,
and d, Of the Two Hundred and Second
New York regiment reached the city
late tonight. They came up on a river
boat that has been chartered by the
government to bring troops from the
city quarantine station TO port. The Of
icers and men who arrived were thor
oughly disinfected at the station.
The remaining companies are aboard
the transport Thomas ON which they
came from Havana and will be disin-
fected and brought TO the city tomor-
row The regiment will go into camp
and remain until mustered out Of the
service.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
LITERARY GOSSIP.

We are more than eve persuaded
that Tom Watson's work on France is
a booming and blooming success"
While the New York Sun abuses it,
most critics praise it. 1t is said to be
Remarkably readable and very bright
and original. We have not seen it, but
1t being a southern book, we would aid
in it's circulation. 1t has pleased five
critics where it has been damned by
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
Funeral Smash.Up

Evansville, Ind, March 21.-Five per-
son were injured, two possibly fatal
ly, in a runaway during a funeral here
today. h injured are: Mrs. Carolina
Fresyer. aged 60 years, right shoulder
dislocated and internally injured; Mrs
Susan Smock internally. Three Others
unknown badly injured. The persons
We're in a hack and the team became
at a street car. The hack
was completely demolished and funeral
procession was stopped an hour.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24

While others are gaining laurels
Governor Russell is not oblivious of
passing events or Indifferent to his own
fame. In order to give additional lus-
tire to the great pardoning power GEN.
tired in him, and to make it less obnox-
ious to his political enemies, he "mag-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
Lynched for Murder

Texarkana, Ark, March 2I.--A negro
named Duckett was taken from the
sheriff Of Little River county. Arkan-
sas, by a mob today and hanged. He
confessed h murder of James Stock
ton, a planter.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-24
Z OF SUBSCRIPTION.

THE DAILY MESSENGER, by mail,
a year, $500; six months. $3.50; three
months, s1.75; one month, so cents.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER
xtwo 8 page papers). by mail. one year.
N.0o: six months, so cents, in advance.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-09-15
YANKEE SANITARY METHODS.

The American occupation of Havana
has produced marvellous results in
checking yellow fever, and in dimin-
ishing the death rate of that disease,
to the introduction of sanitary meth
DDS in the city and to the thorough
system of cleaning and sewerage es-
tablished under Gen. Ludlow. Some
idea of the splendid results achieved
by American officers in Havana may
be shown by the following enumera-
ton of the deaths since $780, In 1890,
327 deaths; 1891, 1868; 1894, 418; 1895,
$40; 1896, 1,540; 1897, 1855; and 1898,
1862. From January to July of this
year, the deaths have been only eight,
which added to eight deaths this
month brings the total for 1899 up
to the middle of this month to the
extremely low number of 16. Surely
this is an exhibit that should COM
mend itself not only to the thinking
people of Havana but also of the
entire island.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-09-15
LARGEST VESSEL AFLoAT.

The new white Star Line steamer
Oceanic, arrived at her dock in New
York on Wednesday, on her maiden
trip across the Atlantic. The Oceanic
is the largest vessel afoat. She sailed
from Queenstown on September 9Th,
with 2,044 persons aboard. The crew
are men of immense stature. Each
man, it is said, is at least six feet in
height.
The boat has capacity for $50 sa-
loon passengers, 275 second cabin,
1, 900 steerage and crew of $50 men,
The Great Eastern for forty years
was the biggest ship afoat, with a
length of $50 feet. The Oceanic
stretches out 704 feet. That is nearly
the length of three blocks on Broad
way. The ordinary width of a street
sixty feet-is eight feet narrower
than the Oceanic.
The two tunnels of the Oceanic
are each eighty feet high and twenty
feet in diameter. An electric street
car would have no trouble in running
through one of the tunnels. Fully
500 tons of coal are burned daily on
the new leviathan. When she started
from the other side she carried 5000
tons.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-09-15
FOR GOSHEN.

Independent Hose Co. and the Board
of Fire Wardens are actively engaged in
preparing for the pilgrimage to Goshen
where these senior organizations of the
Morristown fire department will be the
guests of the famous Cataract Engine
and Hose Company on Thursday, October
5. Voss' own band of twenty one pieces
has been engaged for the occasion. 1t
will reach Morristown Wednesday noon,
and accompany the firemen. who will
probably leave on the 2 Is p. m. train
over the Lackawanna, switching to the
Erie tracks at the tunnel, reaching their
destination about o'clock. The Hose
boys will take their dapple greys with
driver and assistant driver and chemical
engine. The Wardens will take their
service carriage, life nets. &C., driver
and handsome bay mare Unable" The
return trip will be made Thursday night.