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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
The Bond Case Appealed

Richmond, Va, August 21.-The
Union Bank of Richmond has instruct
ed its counsel to apply to the supreme
u Of the United States for a writ
of certar: in the case of the board
Of commissioners of Oxford, n. c., YER
sus the Union Bank, Of Richmond,
which was decided in favor of the
former in the United States circuit
court Of appeals on the 18th instant.
The case involves the validity of the
railroad aid bonds issued by Oxford.
The circuit court of appeals decided
that the failure to record the yeas and
nays On the second and third readings
of the act authorizing the bond issue
invalidated them.
There are several other railroad aid
bonds and other important cases on
which the final decision will have am
important bearing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
BREvITIES

General MERCER is becoming even a
laughing stock in France. The boys
in America would a him a rotten
egg"
Is 1T you? The heirs of Matthias
Sitter, a German nobleman who settled
in Maryland in 1873. are wanted. There
are SIS, 600, 900 awaiting claimants. Do
not all apply. w. ]. Sitter, of Efing-
ham, ILL.,, is the man to write to.
, 4 writer in the New York Times says
there are no Caucasians in the United
States "who admit the negro to be
their equal" That will be news indeed.
1t is thought in the south that there
are big lots of people in New Eng
land and other states who are dread
fully sweet on the Africans and take
them to their bosoms on terms of much
intimacy. Not equal Pshawl
The negroes held a meeting at Chica-
go, threatening their party if it does
not protect their race and saying they
will desert if it is not done. They say
nothing of protecting the white women
in the south. The r~ascals, the murder
ers, the house-burners, the robbers and
the rapists must be protected in their
villainy or the negroes will know the
reason why"
The New York Independent praises
General Joe Wheeler's book on the
Santiago campaign. Upon general
principles after that we would say to
the hero look out.
Agnes Lide, aged twelve, died from
neglect at Darlington, S. C. She lived
in a family of faith curists.' who did
not cure. The case will be investi-
gated.
Democrats in Kentucky are greatly
divided. A house divided against it
self can not stand. Abuse of each
other runs violent
The l%ascivious and wanton w. c.. P.
Breckenridge, is down on Goebe!, the
regular democratic nominee for govern
or. And so is that very dead failure
as a soldier and politician, Simon
Buckner. Their opposition ought to
unite the democrats.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Ex-Judge ]. c.. MacRae, of Raleigh,
was elected by the trustees of the uni
versity to fill the place as professor of
law, vacated by the death of the able,
learned and greatly lamented DR.. John
Manning. We suppose h trustees
elected the best qualified man for the
place among the half dozen or more
seeking it. Mr.. MacRae has served
9th on the superior and supreme court
bench. He is regarded as a good law
yer Of large experience and was gradu-
ated at the university. He was elected
on the second ballot. The News and
Observer states that he will receive
$4,000 a e the salary Of a regular
professor, with an additional income of
$3.50 a month for the summer school,"
He is a native of Fayetteville and was
born in 1888, and is s~ixty-one years old.
He served in the great war is Major,
and has been in the legislature. The
made him an LII. D.
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NEW NORTH 6 ROLlNA ENTERs
Pr

More machinery for the Salisbury
hosiery mill came in this week and the
mill will turn out more work according
ly. The last shipment of machines is
soon to be made and the mill will be
put to it's full capacity.-Salisbury
Sun.
The Elkin Times says there is money
to be made in the honey industry in
that section. Several citizens have
gathered from 1000 to 1000 pounds of
the sour-wood variety this season.
A roller process flour mill with a daily
capacity of forty barrels is to be es-
tablished at Murphy.
There is a movement on foot by a
few of the substantial business men
of Mocksville to secure subscribers to
stock sufficient to establish a furniture
factory here and we are thankful to
say they are succeeding nicely, as
about half of the amount wanted has
been secured with little canvassing.-
Mocksville Times.
MI. John H. Hays, b chief engineer
OF the Erwin Cotton Mills Company,
with his corps of assistants, has estab-
lished a camp near the old JOhn Will
liams mill, on the east side Of Haw
river. They will be busily engaged
there for several weeks in surveying
III I1dh1uS IN CRdi otoIy W
the construction of a dam and ana
for furnishing the water power for the
cotton mills, which are proposed to be
built on the property recently bought
by that company on HaW river.-Pitts-
boro Record
The walls of the new cotton mill are
nearing the top. 1t will d a great
deal of business to the tnwn, n we
are glad to know that the machinery
is expected to be in operation by the
end of the year.-Newton Enterprise.
Work at the site of the cotton seed
oil and fertilizer mill is being pushed.
The foundations Of The buildings are
being laid. The WELL. although not
forty feet deep, has an output of fif-
teen thousand gallons of water per
day. An engine has to. be kept run
ming all the time to pump the water
out of the we'll so that the workmen
can work in it.-Monroe Enquirer.
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Mr.. J. S. Walker, cf Alabama, says:
81 have had twenty years experience
in ginning. / cut my press box down
last fall to 24x54. 1t cost me only a
trifle to make the change. I find that
the bales are easier handled and stored
at gin. as well as in warehouses and
in cars. I cam press a bale anywhere
from 400 to 500 with perfect safety, and
can gin and handle the crop of cotton
in the standard size box with as little,
if not less, expense than bales of larger
sizes. l deem it of vital importance to
the cotton raisers and ginners, as we'll
as the compressors OF the states to con-
form to the standard bale. Throughout
this state there is a large per cent. OF
cotton raised at some distance from
railroads that is ginned in SCARE bales
by small planters, and should our
spare bale g~inners be stopped, the haul
ing of seed cotton, a distance over the
rough roads, to get to a round bale
plant, would damage many OF our cot
ton ~raisers, TO say nothing of the trust
that, no doubt, would be carried out
over the round bale operations"
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M. Askfnson, Or nsossen. geesenss D.
nu~nciasaon for vale CF1stcssm o A.
lann Counetfmcu

M. AekfnsOn, Or neOseon, leesenss 1es
nunciasaon for vale Crlsacssm o. A.
lanra Counctfmen
Atlanta Ca, August flowing 20 a
denunciation OF Harry NJ. Atkinson.
formerly Of Boston. Mass, and a
nephew OF Onward s. Atkinson. Of that
city. by w. s. Thompson. councilman
from the fourth ward. al a meeting Of
the general council this afternoon, the
police reserve was called out to pre-
serve order and quell what threatened
ar one time to be a riot
Several days ago a card was pub
lished in n OF the newspapers In this
city. supporting a petition for fran
chises which Mr.. Atkinson was asking
from the city. In the card several mem
bers OF the council and board OF alder
men were said to have collars oun
their necks branded with the name OF
the opposing corporation-tke Atlanta
Railway n Power Company.
Mr.. Atkinson is a capitalist we'll
Known in Boston and is secretary or h
Collins Park and Belt Railroad Com
pany. Councilman Thompson resented
what he termed an insult and said OF
Mr.. Atkinson. after intimating hat the
latter had falsifed regarding certain
statements before a committee: He is
the meanest Of all Observation-Disclosures
said lying is the vice OF slaves Men
who marched to the lannon's mouth
where blu bellied yankees were as
thick as hops are here told by one of
that ilk that we have a master. 1t
makes my blood boil. The idea that a
man a come from that seat of learn
ing and say that we have a MASTER!
oh, it make by blood boil 10 be singled
out for the venom of this viper and
then know what a cur he is, breath
the whip OF this master-money. And
then he thinks he is the equal of gen.
tlemen. What insult could be greater
than this?"
Mr.. Atkinson was also denounced by
Alderman Turne After the session
adjourned, Mr.. Atkinson accosted Col
onelT Thompson and before words could
pass they started for each other when
the reserve of police interferred and
prevented blows.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
Kruger Replies 10 Great Britain

Capetown, August 21.-The report
that the Transvaal government had
handed it's reply to the BRITISH agent
at Pretoria, to be forwarded to Sir AL
fred Miner, British high commissioner
for South Africa and governor of Cape
Colony, is confirmed. 1t is believed,
however, that the proposition Of Great
Britain for a joint commission TO in
vestigate the effect which the franchise
reform legislation would have on the
Outlanders, has not been accepted, but
that fresh proposals have been adj
yanced.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Richmod, Va, August IA special
from Winchester, Va, says hat dur
ing a violent wind storm there this af-
ternoon, the big tent Of John Robin
sons circus was blown down upon the
vast crowd in it. A general panic en-
sued and some forty people were more
or less injured by being trampled on.
Fred O'Brien, an acrobat, was the most
seriously injured. His right thigh was
broken, and he received other injuries.
While the struggling mass was under
the nvas thieves reaped a harvest
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
REPUBLICANS RAY LOSE.

While the democrats are in bad shape
in some southern states, the republicans
are not so we'll off as they flatter them
selves. They have troubles in some
states, and it may grow rather than
diminish. The Germans constitute a
large part of the republican vote in the
west, and are strong in other northern
states. They do not like, it is said by
that aggressive republican, negro or
gam. the New York Independent, the
h cruel treatment which their
ceived at the hands of Mckinley and
his tribe. In addition, many are Ro-
man Catholics, and do not fancy at all
thecruel treatment to which their
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
RESTATED

The gold papers for the most part
either do not understand the principles
OF the democratic party Or they DELHI
erately misrepresent them The DEM
ocratic party is a bimetallic party and
has been from the way back. The
Washington Post is a republican, high
tariff, gold only, expansion organ. 1t
has grace enough to tell the truth when
it says this:
"It is quite in order at this time
when efforts are being made to reunite
the regulars and boilers of 1896, to re-
study the history of 1.-The great schism."
1t is not true that the coinage plank
Of the Chicago platform Of 1896 was or
is un-demOcratic. 1t is a fact that a.
declaration for the gold standard would
have been un-democratic. Was the
fat money plank Of the democratic
platform of 1868 undemocratic? Did it
create schism? On the contrary, was it
not accepted as the faith and policy of
the party? Who, looking at that tenet
Of the democratic creed OF 1868, will
venture to assert that free coinage of
silver, at h old ratio, was heresy in
1896?
For twenty years prior and up to
1896 the democratic party in all the re-
Ildply ueIlOCTdlC states ndQ Ueel
stoutly contending for free coinage. On
every possible occasion a majority of
democrats IN congress voted for free
coinage"
That is historically true. In the sew
enties after the republicans had de-
monetized silver by the cunning trick
in 1873, John Carlisle, now a goldbug of
the Wall Street metallic kind, made his
terrible speech of arraignment against
the republicans n foretold just what
would happen from the cruel blow aimed
at the people. The democratic party
stands for bimetallism-both gold and
silver. If it's platform in 1900 should re-
pudiate that financial principle it will
go back upon it's record for a quarter
OF a century in the congress and in it's
state and national conventions. The
Post says this, and it speaks words Of
soberness and truth:
"Old issues are changing and new is
sues are arising from year to year.
Settled issues are dropped and new
ones are taken UP in national plat
forms. The tribunal that decides what
is democratic, what is republican, or
what is populistic doctrine is the ma
tional convention. If, therefore, the
free coinage declaration of 1896 had
been a new issue, instead of well estab-
lished democratic policy, a majority
vote in the Chicago convention would
hav sufficed to put it into the creed
and make it Democratic"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Could not express the rapture OF An
ME E. Springer, Of 1125 Howard street,
Philadelphia, Pa, when she found that
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption had completely cured her OF
a hacking cough that for many years
had made life a burden. All other rem
edies and doctors could give her no
help, but she says OF this Royal Cure
lit soon removed the pain in my chest
and 1 can now sleep soundly, something
/ a hardly remember doing before. ]
feel like sounding its praises throughout
the Universe" So win every n who
tries Dr.. Kings New Discovery for any
trouble OF the Throat, Chest or Lungs.
Price SOC and $1.00. Trial bottles free
at R r. Bellany's drug store. EVERY
bottle guaranteed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
DIAM or 1nA LAw scaooL
Messenger Bureau.


Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c, August 81.
There Is very general satisfaction felt
here in the appointment Of Judge Mac
Rae TO the chair Of law at the UNIVERSE
ty. The salary is $4,000, and, besides
that, the incorporation of the summer
school with the university to be taught
by the regular faculty gives $3.50 per
month each to the professors who teach
the summer school.
Persons coming up from the eastern
part of the state report great damage
to the crops. corn, cotton and tobacco
being blown to the ground in many
sections. Even as far up as Goldsboro
the crops felt the effects OF the storm.
The incorporators OF the Raleigh and
Great Eastern railroad met Saturday
afternoon and elected Julian S. Carr,
president; N w. West, vice-president
and G. B. Barbee, secretary and treas
urer. Mr.. West and NJ. Barbee are
both from Raleigh. Work on the road
which is a local one. will begin at once.
The members of the corporation COM
mission and the clerk to the commits
sion have returned from the convention
Of railroad commissioners at Denver
and report a most pleasant and prof.
table trip.
The August bulletin of the agricul-
tural department was issued Saturday.
1t is a 48 page pamphlet and is devoted
to the industrial and stock raising in
terests of the state.
The public printers are four days be-
hind with the state printing. The law
gives the secretary of state the priv
ledge of ining the printers $50 per day
each day for forfeiture OF contract.
This has been done and it is the first
time on record that this law has been
taken advantage OF.
The treasurer today received b
proof of the bonds for $4,000 which
were issued May 22nd.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
HOW TO PROTECT HOUSES AGAINST
LIGHTNING.

We did o know until Saturday that
lar about lightning. It corrects a wide
ly prevailing false opinion as to the
lightning flash. It say lightning is
! really like an avalanche, a landslide, or
the breaking Of a dam. The whole
force is exerted instantly and there is
, no after current.
The flashes vary very greatly in pow
err, but it is true that a well-construcc-
ed lightning rod will convey away a
great deal Of electricity and thus often
either prevent a flash or very. much re-
luce it's power. For this reason strokes
Of lightning are comparatively rare IN
cities. Spires and tall structures drain
over-charged clouds Of much of their
electricity. We know that the late
very eminent Professor Joseph E.
Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute,
held that a rod only protected an area
twice the length of the rod above the
object to which it was attached. Per-
haps forty years g it was that he
published his views in the celebrated
American Almanac where it may now
be found. To protect a dwelling or
other building with appropriate securi-
ty it should be we'll covered with rods
and their connections. The signal Office
publishes now hat there is no absolute
protection from lightning as it is imprac
ticable unless a. building is itself a good
conductor as a steel building would be.
Still a large measure of protection is
easily obtained. A chimney, a church
spire, or other point, high in air, is al
most perfectly protected by a good
lightning rod, and will reduce the dan
ger from lightning to a wide roof be-
meath it very greatly. 1t is added that
there is no definite "area of protection"
as Professor Henry held. But who
really knows now better than that rare
ly endowed man of science knew in his
day? AS to the rod the weather bureau
states that either iron or copper may
be used, and iron is as good as copper,
provided the section of the iron rod be
enough larger to compensate for it's in
ferior conductivity. A rod of iron
weighing 35 ounces per foot is held to
be equivalent to a copper rod weighing
six ounces per foot. A fiat conductor
is recommended. Glass insulators are
useless. The rod may be fastened di-
rectly to the building to be protected.
The matter of greatest Importance is
the condition of the two extremfties of
the rod-a matter often neglected with
disastrous results. A rod is perfectly
useless-in fact a source of danger-if
it's lower end is not carried down into
the ground far enough to reach wet
earth. 1t should be connected with a
good sized piece of iron buried at the
lowest depth reached by the rod. The
top of the rod should be pointed and
plated for protection from rust.
This is about the sum of all that is
communicated by the Washington Of
flee, as we gather it from In exchange
that has condensed it. In protecting
buildings you may learn something val
liable from the above.
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Jacksonville, Fla. August 21.-A
Hampton, Fla, dispatch TO The Times
Union and Citizen a y that Town Mar
shall Richardson shot and killed N. E.
Roberts, a prominent farmer, in self
defense at Lake Butler today. Roberts
friends swear revenge n guards are
now protecting Richardson. The affair
was the result of the killing of Deputy
Marshal Kite by the Richardson broth
ers on Saturday night. Sheriff Den
mark is on the scene trying to restore
nQ2cp
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Rio Janeiro, August 21-The United
States cruiser Montgomery, arrived
here last night from Montevideo reports
having rescued all the crew of the Brit
ish steamer Nettleton, Captain Vigers,
from Norfolk, July 18th for Rio Jam
GIRO, which vent around twenty miles
east OF here
The vessels forepeak and forehold
are full OF water, but the second hold
and the after hold are tight.
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Gadsden, Ala, August pa family
row occurred at Seaborn, Ala. today in
which Joe Ward, an eX-convict, BRAIN
ed his sister with a two-gallon churn.
neighbor, but her brother objected. An
other brother of the girl, Infatuated by
the ~eX-convict's act, armed himself and
went in search of the murderer. They
met in the. road and a duel ensued with
the result that the criminal is badly
wounded.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Norfolk, Va, August 21.-A tele-
gram was received by the weather bu-
reau today via their seacoast telegraph
line, stating that Diamond Shoal light
ship No SO had been broken adrift
from her m~oorings during the late
storm and driven into Hatteras blight,
around the hook, and was now lying
thefe-damage unknown.
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NO MORE PRESSURE

Mr.. C. S. Morris, Of Georgia, says:
Il don't see that it takes any more
pressure to pack a bale OF cotton on
the standard press than it did when
the press box was larger, due to the
fact that we get the cotton in a more
compact space before pressing. thereby.
not allowing so much room for air."
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EASY TO

Il am simply delighted in the new
bale 25x54. It adds in every way to
the interest Of the railroad, warehouse
men and especially to the planter, on
account Of size, which makes it so easy
for him to handle"
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We received a letter from a well
known citizen Of Warren county in
which a depressed view of conditions in
that fine old county is given. His ac-
count is based upon observation, upon
knowledge. Prior to the war Warren
was the largest slave-holding county in
proportion to population in North Car
DINA, and probably the wealthiest. 1t
is not SO now. Fine farms are not pros
pering 10Y We can furnish excellent
authority to show that the once most
prosperous Of counties, Granville. is
now suffering much from present con
ditions. Real estate has in many in
stances deprecated one half in the last
Two decades. In fact hundreds of
farmers are in a bad way. The oppres-
sive, gouging, devouring tobacco trust
has done the destructive work.
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The Raleigh Post mentions in con-
nection with the negro town" in Ala
such a town for years; Princeton,
across the river from Tarboro. 1t is
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peopled by colored people, entirely, and
had It's own municipal government,
and the last time we heard Of the place
1t was a peaceable, quietly governed
community, ever interfering with
white people, and white people v
t~respassing upon them"
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HOME FOLKS

1t is announced that DR.. Walter H.
Page is to edit a new c~yclopedia to be
issued by the Harper-McClure COM
pany. He is we'll qualified for that
work-to select writer's for special
topics, and to superintend the publica-
ton. He may also write, we suppose.
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PIANO PERFECTION

Not extravagantly priced is what
you get in
Warren sheaf., 1899-11-30
Grain and Chaff. j.
Observation-Disclosures

The people OF the United States
have good reason to be thankful in
1899. In every nook and corner Of
the land there is an air of prosperity
The gloom that hung over the coun-
try few years ago has been dis
PEELED. Great activity characterizes
every industry. Labor is well en-
ployed at remunerative wages. And
OF this prosperity the farmers Of the
country get a large share. Our crops
have sought and found the markets
of the world. Two-thirds OF the
splendid balance Of trade in our favor
is due to agricultural exports. In
every part OF the world there is an
increasing demand for American
products. Republican administra-
tion OF the affairs OF government is
proving blessing to the country,
and the people see it. Our flag never
floated over a greater, happier and
more contented people.
And the people of Marshall county
have much to be thankful for to-day.
Our crops have been fairly good, and
nearly all products of the farm COM
mand good prices. Debts are being
paid off, and many farmers have,
during the past year, built large
comfortable houses and barns, and
made other improvements. Farm
lands in Marshall county are in good
demand, and prices are increasing.
The outlook for the future is bright.
Let us all be thankful to the Giver
OF every good and perfect gift!