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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27
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Apex News. The boiler which was
! attached TO a saw mill at Duketon, De-
! longing TO Farmer &Weaver expiooso
Thursday morning about ? O'Clock, Kill
ing w. s. Wood, white, and Silas JUDD.
| colored, and seriously troy
! Dennis. Mr.. Wood was standing near
looking on when he was struck by a
nying fragment and instantly Killed.
! Mr.. Dennis was terribly mangled and
il is thought he vii die. Five others
were more or less injured.
Durham Herald: Henry Taylor. q
! colored man, who lives in East Dur
ham. is the champion red pepper raiser
so far as heard from. From a rev
rows of the frey pods he has sold TO
date $1S.52 worth and still has enough
left to bring him in several more dol
lars.-Although Summerell has been
, exonerated by the penitentiary board,
| thi. does not alter the fact that the
evidence submitted by the investigating
committee is sufficient to warrant a
grand jury in taking action in the
matter.
Charlotte Observer: Rev. John +.
| Butt will preach next Sunday at 3 p. m.
at Newells. About twenty names have
! already been given for membership
in the new church and others will be
| added next Sunday. a lot has been Sc
SuIto ain SoOlA d NhoANA $500
be erected. The name chosen for ii VIII
| be Cedar Grove.-Mr. T. r. Wingrove,
Of Baltimore. Nd, arrived here Friday
to look over the town with a view OF
establishing a large brewery here, a
branch of the Maryland Brewery Com
pany. The investment would mean
800, 900 to the city.-Hickory Special:
The patrons of the colored graded
school here are in a rather excited state
of min Charges of gross immortality
have been preferred against Rev. Roam,
principal of the school,. Roar is pastor
of a large colored church and the accu-
sation against him has naturally excit-
ed a good lei of interest. The matter
was heard before the board of trustees
last night. The parties were represent
ed by Thos. +. Huffman and Self and
Whitener. J. T. Flick, editor of the
Mercury testified hat he saw Roam on
one occasion, late at night talking to
one Of his female pupils n trying as
witness thought, to decoy her away.
John Lewis, colored, swore to having
found the defendant engaged in a posi-
tive act of immortality.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27
HOW TWO NEGROES
NEW YORK.
ED IN

The way negroes are handled in the
north by whites when they give offence
is told at length by the New York Tri-
bune of Sunday last. Two negroes were
terribly beaten by an Infatuated mob on
Broadway. 1t say that "a crowd OF a
thousand persons in upper Broadway
last night watched fifty or sixty white
men mob two negroes, driving them
from the saloon of James j. Corbett
| into the street and beating them un-
| mercifully. One negro escaped. The
| other not only got a bad beating, but
was locked up, and a physician VINO
protested the colored mans innocence
was also arrested" Corbett charges a
| negro 81 for a drink, as the law compefs
| him to sell to him. The negroes went
in and drank, and were told the price
was 81 each. The negro Smith was
abusive and cursed out the saloon:
whoever is right, Smith and his
friends, in ten seconds after he had or
| dered the drinks, were being pummei-
led by nearly every n in the SalOOn
who could get near enough to strike
them. The crowd was in a turmoil in
a few seconds, and the cries OF mems
| voices sounded away out into Broad
way.
Smash the - niggers!"
kick the life out of 'em!"
And that is the way they are treated
in the north and would enjoy equal"
drinks. 1t will be worse when they try
Social equality. The Tribune says:
."Tha negroes were awful sights.
Smiths face was pounded in a repul-
sive amer. His lips a been bat
tered till they were swollen and cut,
and the rest of his face was bruised and
he was bleeding. The other colored
man was no better off. But he seemed
to be more active than Smith, as he
looked to his escape instead of trying
to retaliate on an overwhelming mob,
and he succeeded in getting away"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27

South Carolina. There are q, ABS negro
teachers-or one to every 80 pupils.
The commissioner gives this for 1867
for scholastic year-the total "expen-
diture for the public schools of the six
teen southern states and the District
of Columbia was s31, LA, sol. The cost
of the schools for the colored race can
not be accurately stated, but a fair es-
innate will place the cost of the colored
schools at about s6.575.0 900. This is
something over 20 per cent of h ag-
gregate expenditure of the southern
states" He gives very many other
statistics bearing on education Of ne
groes in the south, but this will suffice
for our present purpose.
In 1890, the negroes occupied 55o.OOC
farms. OF these they owned p pei
cent. We shall recur at another tim
to the statistics as to education and
the opinion of Governor MacCorkle as
to the proper education to make the
negroes useful, valuable and progress
siye.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27

Mckinley is something of q Sphinx
He is not always the same to the on
locker He has often straddled and
Topped. He began with sound views
and a wise plan in the matter OF the
Philippine troubles. h has ended as a
revolutionist and a crazy advocate of
expansion with a purpose no doubt to
force the changes so radically in the
form of our government as TO make IL
finally an empire OF she British or Ma
poleonic kind. The other day Mr..
Garnalial Bradford. OF Boston. deliver
ed an address before the Brooklyn
Philosophical Society. He thinks our
country is in great danger and owing
TO Mckinley and says hat his 're-elec-
ton will mean-though of curse the
result will not come immediately-that
within one or at farthest two genera
tons congress and the supreme court
will be turned adrift by a military
ruler, just as certainly as within ten
years after the first French revolution
the whole power OF the republic passed
into the hands OF Napoleon Bonaparte."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27

At h time we referred to Colonel
Julian S. Carr's address before the
state convention of confederate veter-
ans We a not seen it and had no idea
that it was so elaborate and important.
1t appears in full in the Raleigh News
and Observer. and fills some five col
umns. 1t is a clever production, full
of practical ardor, human sympathy
and the genuine North Carolina spirit.
His closing appeal in behalf of a onu
ment for the noble women of the con-
f~ederacy who were so diligent, so faith
full, so earnest, so self-sacrificing, so
completely patriotic, is pathetic and
eloquent. His closing remarks were in
excellent taste. We give the last para
graphs:
Fearless in danger, unmoved by in
suit n persecution, unaffected by fiat
terry or subtle arts, %scorning the threats
or military power, she was the life and
soul, n inmost spirit of the strug-
gle Tor southern independence. Gap
plause.)
Let all our manhood rally to this de-
termination to leave before we pass
away, a memorial to her devotion, as
solid and ~steadfast as her immovable
sense OF duty; as graceful in it's beauty
as the loveliness Of her person and
character, as pure in its spotless mar
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27
MY VOICE Is STILL FOR WAR.

Mckinley evidently believes in the
dense ignorance Of the American peo-
pie. His recent stump speeches show
this beyond doubt. He finds thousands
who gulp down his statements and
pleas for a war of conquest, and his or
gans blindly, ig%norantly echo and in
dorse all his chaf and rot. In his 54th
stumper he spoke this as t o the Philip
pines, and in the face of a war he has
been openly waging for many months
1.-THE president has no power, even if
he was disposed-which he is MOTTO
ALLEVIATE a single foot of territory which
we nav honestly acquired or give I'D
sovereignty over it to any other peo-
pie. That power is vested in ongre
and to use such power would be a base
usurpation of prerogative by the chief
executive Of the government"
He is carrying on a war 10, 900 miles
away at very great cost with no thanks
to congress or permit from the people.
Whence does he derive power to wage
war? How did he secure the right to
raise 10000 soldiers and a large feet to
fight a people far away? Congress is
the wal making power. Mckinley is
an usurper. and should be impeached.
The New York World asks most peril
nently:
is not Mr.. McKinley's war by edict
and ms government be proclamation in
the philippines more in the nature of a
base usurpation of prerogative' thar
the maintenance of Admiral Dewey's
status of peace woul have been?
Mr.. Mckinley further claimed that
having BEEN practically united in the
conclusion of peace we (the people)
should stahd together until the job is
finished
what Tjob? Acknowledgement
lent assinilation'-the establishment of
a mlitarY satrapy in the Malay archi-
The httf fellow is Shiny and artful
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27
THE WORK DONE IN REGINENTAI
NJ HISTORIES.

Judge Walter Clark has charge of the
very important work Of having all Of
the North Carolina regiments and bat
talions and artillery companies written
up by competent and informed writer's.
At the recent meeting at Raleigh of the
North Carolina Veteran Association,
he reported progress in the work. He
has secured nearly a completion of d
most necessary and patriotic work, and
gives the list of the completed histories
Of the regiments. There are si~xty-three
of them. Of the sketches promised but
three. He says that mo historian has
| yet been found who will undertake to
| write the record of the following brave
regiments.
/ Twenty-first Regiment.
Thirty-seventh Regiment.
Sixty-eighth Regiment.
Stars Battalion. Total yet unwrit-
ten, four. And there are some other
battalions of whom I have not found
any survivors,"
al NS -
volume of some 1000 or 1000 pages.
What a valuable contribution it will be
to the truth of history, and to the his
tory of the brave men of 1876, who
were not surpassed in fortitude, devo-
ton, patriotism and heroic bravery by
any troops in any var ancient or mod
ern. The fighting in Cuba and the Phil
ippines was child's play compared with
the fighting of the North Carolinians
in the greatest war of modern times, in
which were engaged over $500, 900 men
in actual service inclusive of the great
Yankee navy and the small naval force
of the confederacy. Of the $500, 900
men, not more than 625, 900, all told,
were of the southern confederate
army and navy. Behold the difference.
in the War Records show the north had
over 2,700,0 900 men in the army. We
think it had some 200, 900 in the navy
total over 1900, 900. The confederates
had coo, 900 in army and not to exceed
5000 in navy, if SO much. Judge Clark
oCSCA NCS Tx liidiIhS VI oil tlc VIII
people of North Carolina for his faith
full, patriotic work. In concluding his
report he says we'll:
Had care been taken to have similar
sketches of each of u regiments in
the revolutionary and other wars writ
ten by participants, il would be exceed
ingly interesting and valuable, bur
North Carolina who naS always known
how to make history, has been careless
in recording the deeds of her heroic
sons. More than 1000 years ago, Peri
cles, in his grafton over his c~ountrynen
who had fallen in a great war, said
with prophetic truth: The whole earth
is their sepulchre and in all times
whenever there is speech of great deeds
they shall be held in remembrance 1t
is our duty, the duty of our state and
of this generation to see that the same
Immortality shall preserve the fame of
our brethren who died in behalf of
North Carolina an dthe confederacy.''
North Carolina had ninety different
commands in the war. Some of the
regiments were very large. This does
not include the battalions referred to
by Judge Clark of which he could find
no one to write.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27

It is a bad, very bad to have the old
states invaded by the emissaries and
agents of trickery and immortality un-
der the name of an organized church.
1t is worse if POSSIBLE to find they are
spies and defaners as well. The gov
n of Virginia has received a news
ape published in Utah containing a
letter from one of the Mormon elders"
The Richmond Dispatch says thai 1.-The
letter makes charges against the people
of the state of the most vulgar charac-
ter. His ATTACKS IN Virginia women
are not fit for publication. They would
be sure to win for the elder a new coat
If uttered in Virginia. Indeed, tar and
feathers would probably be regarded
as too mild. OF course, the governor
will a no attention to the publica-
ion." Vice grows, widens, becomes
o insolent- Fifty years ago it was
very warm times in Illinois for the In
Smith Mormon gang. 1t may come tn
pass h a the people in the south win
grow very weary of the campaigns of
lust and something will happen. But
what?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27

BILE. as her stainless and exquisite life,
and pointing forever upward to that
home, not made with hands, her ever
lasting habitatioa. tApplause-)
Permit me to close these remarks
bv the expression of my grateful ap-
probation of your kind support and OF
my belief that it lies in your power
hrough your concerted action, to do
| much for the welfare Of the aged vete-
ran. and for the preservation IN history
| of the Just record Of those eventful
l years that are the proudest In our lives
| and the most glorious in h annals OF
| North Carolina" Cheers and loud ap-
1 DiauSe.1
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. N. c.. October %.

Raleigh. ~. c., October %.
The Scotland Neck Riffemes failed
IN obey orders n go to the encamp-
man, last summer Flo this IL was
aishanded In general orders today. Tne
Granite City Guards of Mt. Airy. the
captain of which as in jail at Dopson'
was also disbanded n its properly
| will be turned over to the Blue fHuss
Guards. of Mt Airy. which IL accep IT,
as Company *. Third regiment Inc
Scotland Neck company was Company
II. First regiment.
THE lee Rifles. of Charlotte, have
gone 10 Atlanta. 1t and tile artiiiery
detachmen represent this state theTe.
The ouartermaster general a y the
old arsenal will certainly De removed
from the capital square before the year
ends. ga
The Nasons here decide to build n
,amnle. 10 cost $4,000. The odd Eel
lows will soon have very handsome
stewart Ellison. one of the best
known negroes here, is dead.
The supreme court VIII 'his week
hear the case from Durham which IN
wolves the constitutionality or the
Craig law. The attorneys who appear
against the Southern Bell Telephone
Company. the defendant, declare that
the United States supreme court mas
in a case from Alabama, upheId the
constitutionality OF such a law
A white man from Clay county was
brought TO the penitentiary today TO
serve five years for stealing a mule.
Hon. George NJ. Rose, or Fayetteviile
is here. He says the owner or the new
silk mill at Fayetteville, which en-
| ploys only negro labor. is sure OF the
success of that experiment, and says
the employees learn rapidly. They are
all selected from the most intelligent
class OF negroes. There are v white
instructors, from Paterson, y. j. The
owner says he VIII put up another mill
at Fayetteville.
At Durham today the law office OF
Winston & Fuller was partially burned.
A teacher in a public school writes
the state superintendent of public In
struction that his pupils will not cut
wood for the school and that the board
says the teacher must do the cutting.
The superintendent says this is a new
requirement.
Sixth district cases will be called in
the supreme court next week as fol-
lows: Kerr VS.. Wadley, Smith VS. Rail-
road Company, Waters VS.. Waters.
commissioners VS.. Best. Miller VS.. Gu
ano Company. Jenkins VS.. Daniel. Nc
MILAN VS.. Railroad, Graham VS.. Walk
err. Bernard VS.. Hewlett, Rhodes VS..
Moye. McLamb VS.. McPhail.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27

To Cure LaGrippe In Two Days.
Take Laxative Bromo ouinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money IL It
iaiis 70 cure. f.. w. Groves signature
Is on each box. Csc.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27

The members of the supreme court
who are not democrats should feel in
suited by the calculations of the Jeter
Pritchard gang. They hope to obtain
an adverse decision from them as to
the constitutionality of the suffrage
amendment, and thus estop the further
proceedings on the part of the white
men of all parties who favor a White
Mans government. But as Burns long
g said,
THE best laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft aglee."
So Jeter and the grub hunters may
go empty-bellied for a long time in
spite of their hoping for aid among
their partisan friends in the highest
court. We shall not believe that the
chief justice and some one or more Of
the judges will play into the hands of
the party plotters, and tricksters to
help undo prevailing peace and pros
perity and turn chaos loose again in
North Carolina.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27
STATE GUARD NOTES.

Two Companies D~isbanded -ftaieignt
usvea Masonic Tcmple-CoIorcd La
Dor I'm the Fayetteville SILK fac'ory'
~.x nufie- for Public school Teach
erS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27
HOME FOLKS.

The west if not so united for the
suffrage amendment has still a great
many earnest friends. The east will
have to save it. and h white men
must rally as one man to it's support.
The intelligent colored people should
vote for it, and many will unless I'M
duly biased against it and poisoned in
their minds by the regulation lies of
the white radical office seekers and teat
suckers. The Raleigh News and OBJ
server says:
1.-The Waynesville Courier has not
heard of a single democrat in Haywood
county who will oppose the amendment.
During the past week, the editor of this
paper has talked with hundreds of peo-
pie, representing all callings and Sec
TONS, about the amendment, and has
beer gratified to learn that it is strong
in every part of the state. There are
hundreds of republicans and thou
sands of populists who will be true to
their race in spite of the orders of Of
fice-seeking political BOSSES"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-11-22
ROBERTS WILL NOT RESIGN.
Was Elected on Purely Political Lines and ID
Free From Church Influence.

Brigham Fl. Roberts, the polygamous
Mormon congressman elect from Utah,
against whom fight is being waged
throughout the country to prevent his
being seated in the house Of representa-
tives, Is at present In New York
1t was stated in Washington Dispatch
es that Roberts intended to resign after
being sworn in In order to avoid the
ventilation Of the International con-
Germs Of the Mormon church, sure to
follow II his status in the house was
attacked and an investigation commit
tee appointed.
All nonsense" said Mr.. Roberts to
newspaper man. "Since came east
have seen many such stories, but there
Is absolutely no truth in them and abb
Solutely no basis for the statements set
forth.
l will say as emphatically as I can
say 1t that l do not intende to resign,
and never have had any such intention
since my election. / was fairly elected.
and propose to fight 1t out to the end
with all the vigor at my command.
II have also heard 1t SAID and have
seen 1t in print, that the presence of
many Mormons Of influence In New York
at the present time is for the purpose of
inducing me to resign my seat and go
back to Utah.
1.-THE Mormon church has no more to
do with politics than the Episcopal
church or the Roman Catholic church.
1t Is not in politics. I was elected on
purely political lines, and will go 10
congress absolutely free Of this so-called
church influence over me-"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-11-22

member Of the committee was present
when the session was called to order by
Senator James X. Jones of Arkansas,
chairman.
This was the first meeting Of the COM
mittee held since the recent elections,
and although only routine business, in
GLIDING the naming of place and date
for a meeting of the full Democratic
committee, was stated to be the object
of the meeting, 1t was the general feeling
that the general scope and character of
the methods to be pursued in the presi-
Dental campaign coming would be
practically outlined before the meeting
came to q close.
There Is one thing certain" said
Chairman Jones. 1.-THE meeting will af-
firm the Chicago platform. AT this time
everything is favorable for the Demo-
Gratis"
1t was expected that William ]. Bryan
would be present at the meeting, but
he will not be able to attend. Vice
Chairman Johnson Of Kansas said that
considerable time would be devoted to
the discussion Of a general situation as
indicated by the recent elections held in
various states.
Committeeman Gahan was emphatic
In his declaration that the national con-
vention of 1900 would be directed from
Chicago as in 1896, and any movement
looking toward a change would be
strongly fought. A warm contest for
the honor Of entertaining the Demo-
cratic presidential convention OF 1900
was indicated by the delegations pres
ent to urge the advantages of their re-
spective cities. Milwaukee had big
delegation present, while delegations
We're also present from Kansas City and
Cincinnati
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-11-22
BOSTON PRODUCE MARKET.

Butter holds firm. Best creamery,
small lots and packages, 26@261kc;
northern fresh, round lots. 251s@26c;
western, 25Q26c; eastern, 241a@25lac;
held. 24@24lac; firsts, 21@22c; limitations,
1S@21c; jobbing. kQ1c more.
Cheese is very firm. Round lots, 100
13c; Jobbing, hQ1c higher: Liverpool,
54s Cd for white; colored, 56s.
Eggs are very firm on fresh, with
storage easy. Storage. 16k@17c; west
ern fresh, 2SQ24c; eastern, 26Q27c:
nearby and fancy, 2S@31c; jobbing 10
1lsc higher.
Beans are still firmer and higher
Carload lots, pea, 81; medium, 81; small
pea, S2.05Q2.10; yellow eyes, s2.25; red
kidneys, $3.50; California small white.
S2.25@2.30; Lima, &c per pound; jobbing,
10c more.
Apples are in rather better shape, and
long as fall fruit continues to come in
poor order. Gravensteins. s3@35O;
Baldwins, s2@2.50; greetings, $1.50Q2.25;
kings, $25OQ3 per barrel; pound sweets,
s2@250; No. 2 and mixed varieties, SIG
ESQ; jobbing and fancy lots, 5OcQsl per
barrel more.
Pork products are easier on fresh ribs
and lard
Beef has been ruling dull, but shippers
are firm, with beef costing higher.
Lambs and muttons are easy, with
veals firm. Lambs, 5@7]hc: Brightons
and eastern, 6hQSc; yearlings, 5Q61ac;
muttons, 41AQ6hc; fancy and Brightons,
6@7c; veals, 6Q1Oc: fancy Brightons. .
Q1Ohc.
Poultry is fairly sustained, though the
supply of iced is liberal, considerable
going over this week. Northern tur-
keys, 14Q1Sc: western, 12@14c; northern
chickens, 12Q16c; fowls, 13c; iced chick
ems, 1OQ11c; fowls, 9@11c; iced turkeys,
11Q13c; green ducks, 12@14c; green
geese, 13@15c: live fowls. SQ9c: chickens,
9Q10c.
Cornmeal and oatmeal are unchanged.
Corn maintains a very steady position,
with track and nearby firm. Oats are
we'll sustained.
Hay is quiet; straw steady; millfeed
easy. Hay, $12@17; fancy and jobbing,
s175OQ1S; rye straw, s1SQ15.