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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

lar audience, it is Schley who gets the
applause. What profit is there in ig-
noring his fac and putting the navy
in antagonism to a pronounced public
sentiment. a sentiment that is certain
to be reflected in Congress?"
These long continued and bitter at
tacks by the Mckinley gar upon the
distinguished fighter. whose victory at
Santiago is certainly fully equal. if not
greater, than that Of Dewey's at Ma
Mia, have brought great and deserved
reproach upon the navy department
and those officers who have lent them
selves to the d~isgraceful work Of envy
and depreciation and ISLANDERS. Secreta-
ry Long has just published a letter Of
such vindictive animus that The New
York Times examines il in nearly two
and a half columns. It's last sentences
read thus, after having referred TO
Longs letter as "disgraceful:"
1.-The only logical sequence TO that
letter is an order appointing a curt
martial to try the admiral on the
charges it contains. On the other
hand. if Admiral Schley is worthy of
the honors the president and the de-
partment have conferred upon him.
the secretary's letter is a cruel and
wanton SANDER of which he ought to be
ashamed TO the end Of his days"
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SECRETARY LONGS WAR ON
SCHLEY.

The threatened assaults upon Rear
Admiral Schley continue, and such rep
resentative, able northern dailies as
the N. Y. Times and the Washington
Post apply the lash properly to h
men guilty of outrages upon that
American navy. Secretary Long is
playing an Infamous part and he ought
to be kicked out of the Navy De-
partment which he disgraces. No such
outrage has ever been meditated and
worked against a distinguished Ameri-
can m Even the Army and
Navy Journal sees the iniquity and
notes with some directness and plain
ness. 1t says, and we reproduce but a
little of what it says:
'"The controversy in this case has
not originated with the newspapers.
1t has been started by the navy it
self and it has received it's stimulus
and encouragement from navy officers.
Admit the worst that can be
said about Admiral Schley, it is still
obvious that these attacks upon him
are a serious mistake. They only ten
to create a public sentiment against
the navy, which will make Itself mani
fest when congress meets, to the dis
credit and disadvantage Of the service.
Try the admiral II you will, and infiict
upon him any humiliation and punish
ment that a just verdict may require.
but stop abusing him in the newspa-
pers. . Whenever the battle of
Santiago is referred ITO before a popu-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24
WILMINGTON. NJ
FRIDAY, NOV. "a. 1899.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

The Messenger is mailing statement
of subscriptions, in sealed envelopes,
to all delinquent subscribers. This was
done Ito let every one know how he
stood and to give every one an oppor-
tunfty to remit amount in settlement
ct the same.
Many will respond promptly, we have
TO doubt, but some will not, we fear.
We desire to say that the Semi
Weekly Messenger (two papers, 8 pages
each per week. is we'll worth the price
we charge, 800 per ear, and to send
it rear after year without receiving
anything for it. is more than we can
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ed to further improve the paper.
1t has been the habit of some in
the past to entirely ignore statement
of their subscription account, and we
earnestly ask those to remit.
do unto other as you would have
others do unto you"
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mia as924c, loss of; western ungraded
at mark 14G20c.
POTATOES.-Firm: southern sweets
s1.5o.
tone with prices 5 to 10 points higher
on firmer cables. n decreased crop es-
Inmates from Rio. vigorous general
support led by room bulls. absence OF
sellers. and active pot emand Fur
shar advances were scored following
lthe opening on continued good general
|buyiug and bullish closing European
cables. Profit-taking at times trough
about partial reactions. Plague news
were meagre and OF vague import;
closed steady in ton with prices net
10 TO 15 points higher: sales 2s.2lO
Ebars Including December at s5.SeH
e. &. January s5.S5. Spot coffee-Rio
Iarm. No. . invoice CSC; No. I job
nc mild firm: Cordova Ga Gllac.
ST-GAR.-Raw firm: fair refining
n 13-lec bid: centrifugal. 50 test, SAC
bid: molasses sugar 3 e-isc; refined
quiet.
Arm with sSsc paid for December
shipment OF prime summer yellow anu
Ip~eneralry held for % cents spot. Meal
very firm: prime crude tanks
lsOG alc: prime crude barrels 23d2ec;
prime summer yellow eShG2ec: OF
summer yellow 27hG2Sc: butter grades
Is0Nm3lc: prime winter yellow Sic;
prime white 2sG3oc: prime meals s2Sg
SEA.
NAVAL STORES.
New York-Rosin quiet: stVained'
common 10 good. si.30Gi.35. Turpen-
tine steady al 5iG5lhc.
Charleston-Spirits turpentine market
firm al 47c: sales none. Rosin firm
and unchanged: sales none.
Savannah-Spirits turpeutine firm at
I47L paid and bid: receipts l,4Ss: sales
Il.l72: exports 4s3. Rosin firm and un-
changed: receipts 1876; sales 2,4so; ex-
225.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

1t gratifies us to see that a paper 50
far from here as the New Orleans
State has been so favorably. so strongly
impressed with the excellence and abil-
ity of Hon. Benjamin Franklin Grady's
work. 1t Ices not write a word not
true. We quote:
I'VE doubt whether n book has
been written that more clearly defines
the political relations between the
states since the organization Of the
government, or that depicts more
truthfully the Use hat led to the
civil war. It is a calm, dispassionate
and mastery vindication of the south.
Every proposition is stated with intel
ligent precision and sustained by unan-
swerable arguments. Mr.. Grady's book
is an invaluable addition to southern
historical literature and should have an
honored place in every library In the
land"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

The Medical Record is probably mis-
taken as to what it says Of salaries OF
the preachers. There are many who
get very small pay, but there are thou
sands who are paid we'll for labor per-
formed and are we'll kept. It says:
"Dt is somewhat of a surprise to
learn that a first-class clergyman in a
country town averages only from $500
to $500 as yearly salary, while those in
those figures to make up the relative
the large cities are not enough above
differences in incidental expenses Of
living. The latter amounts are said tv
range from 81, 900 ito $1,000 yearly. Ger
tainly the average doctor must do
much better than this, otherwise he
must either run in debt or look for
some other occupation"
North Carolina has no large cities,
but it has scores of congregations that
do better han the Record indicates.
We have not sought information, but
would say at a venture that there are
eight or more ministers in this town Of
hardly 10000 whites, who receive more
han 81, 600, and some of them from
$500 to $1,000. 1t is SO all through the
south land in the north too we doubt
not. But they get less than the doctors
we have no doubt.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

How easy it is to get the wrong view
and to misrepresent facts. The Rich
mond Dispatch tells of a remark Of
Judge Leo D. farrell. of Washington
City. He said:
Il spent several days last week ait a
county seat in North Carolina, a town
Of probably 1000 people, in which not a
single daily paper is taken. The in
habitants, or many of them, are peo-
pie of wealth and culture. O they
get along I can't imagine"
That was a gross error and it is sur
prising that the judge fell into it. He
evidently has no unpleasant impress
sions of the town, if we may judge by
his entire remark. But he blundered
strangely. The Raleigh News and OBJ
server says it has sixteen daily sub
scribers ait Jackson, North Carolina,
che town referred to-. No doubt other
dailies in and out of the state go there.
We doubt if the population is 1000 un-
less it has grown more rapidly than we
have supposed. What sort of company
did the judge keep?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

After all it was a very small affair
that meteoric shower that was looked
for and that came in Europe. The re-
cords from the best stations show that
not more than from 100 to $50 meteors
were seen ait each, and they were not
at all remarkable.
The Washington Post is right when
1T says that "the south needs no defense
against the New York Sum. The south
whatever else may be SAID or thought
OF 1t, is ~ohtspoken and straightforward.
ut takes refuge in no concealments or
hypocrisies." The south merely de-
spises the traiterous Sun and it's inlu-|
is really nothing this way. |
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24
HOME FOLKS.

The accounts from Greensboro Nor
NAL and Industrial are very alarming
indeed. How could the sewers be neg
lected SO as TO produce such direful re-
suits, the striking down in serious ILL
ness Of seventy or eighty female pupils,
causing the deaths of some, creating a
panic, distressing so many homes and
breaking UP the large and important
school perhaps for many months? A
close inquiry should be made by medi-
al experts into the cause or causes
that bring about such sad and most
distressing consequences.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24
BREEITIES.

The British reports suffer so from
censorship they are scarcely more re-
liable than those Otis sent from the
Philippines. You may take them with
many degrees of allowance.
Russell Sage says that Wall street
is on the verge of a panic.
Grand Master Parsons. of the
knights of Labor, recommends tina
the members be instructed in politics
and says that labor is vitality interested
in the issues pending. He says HI
the trusts have hurt the workingman
and one instance of militarism is al
ready in evidence.
1t is amusing now to read the repub-
lican and mugwump sheets on the
decentralization of the democratic par
ty." Those sheets have been prophe-
sying evil of that party and preaching
its funeral for quite thirty years. It is
an old, empty, windy wall.
Strange to say there is really Span
ism emigration to Cuba going on
now. One steamer has 800 on board
thither bound.
The Charleston News and Courier
predicts that the same squad Of
North Carolina. cotton manufacturers,
Representing fifty mills around Char
lotte, who are accused of "chucking ex-
Dansion under the chin" will soon
be clasping protection so close they
cannot see its face. Facilis decensus.'
What is the difference between re-
publican expansion, high tariff, robber
taxation and gold standard only and
democratic expansion, high tariff rob-
berry and gold standard n why? Will
they nave to travel far to unite forces?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

The death of Vice President Garrett
A. Hobart on the 21st instant, All his
home in New Jersey. was looked for
through several days. Before his NOM
ination by the republicans for the sec
ond, place On the Mckinley ticket he
was not known to the country at large.
He was deemed a man of personal hon.
or, was of popular turn, of fair parts
and bore himself we'll in his new office.
avoiding extremes and inviting no
scandals. We think he was respected
by democrats as well as republicans.
knowing but little of him, we know
no evil of him beyond being a repub-
lican and a protectionist and all that
they imply.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady. No. 2 yellow corn, 800
331zc; No. 3 spring wheat, 63% @65c: No.
2 red, 61kG69c; No. 2 corn, 33033Lc:
No. 2 white, 261zc; No. 3 white. 25K6
25&c; mess pork, per bbl., s7.70G9.60;
lard, per 100 lbs, A.s0G5.0 21z; short
ribs sides. loose, s4.S0@5.15; dry salted
shoulders, boxed, S5.37kG5.50: short
clear sides, boxed, $5.15G5.20; whiskey.
distillers' finished goods, per gallon,
s1.23h.
New York, November 22.-FLOUR.-
Less active, but firm until toward the
close, when the feeling became easier
following decline in wheat.
WHEAT.-Spot steady; No. 2 red
73Ac- Options steady at NC advance
and further advanced Nc on cables and
local covering. following Disappointing
northwestern receipts. Later the feel
ing became very weak, owing to the
apathy Of exporters and an entire lack
or speculative support: closed weak at
Nc net decline. March closed at 75Ac:
May closed at 75zc: December closed
at 72Ac.
CORN.-Spot steady; No. 2 Axc. On
tons opened steady at &c advance and
ruled hrTn on. higher cables, turning
weaker, however, on clearing weather
IN h corn belt and absence of sum-
cient export support: closed weak at a
net unchanged price TO &c decline. May
closed at 3szc.
OATS.|Spot firm: track white ala
DC. Options nominal.
EGGS.-Easy; state and Pennsyfva-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVED

ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
American schooner Chas. c. Lister,
|Robinson, New York, Geo. Harriss,
Son & Co.
American schooner Ira II. Ellems'
IMarston, New York, Geo. Harriss. o
& Co.
CLEARED YESTERDAY.
British schooner Brothers, Kelly,
Nassau, j. A. Springer & Co.
EXPORTS FOREIGN.
For Nassau. per schooner Brothers,
|320. 900 shingles, 2 spars. 5000 feet OF
lumber. valued at N.s2o.s9; cargo ana
by j. A. Springer & Co.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

Professor K. P. Battle, of the Univer-
sity Of North Carolina, has been doing
an useful work in contributing to a
better knowledge of the North Carolina
schools in the past. In a recent issue
of the Raleigh News and Observer
there is a sketch Of the schools in
Granville county. This writer went to
school at the Oxford Male academy
for a dozen years. Among those men,
toned by DIR. Battle to whom he went
were Thomas H. Willie (not REV" as
published) Rev. T. S. w. Mott, David
S. Robertson, (who inherited a fortune
and returned to his native S~cotland)
and John J. Wyche. There were w
others who taught between 1888 n
1916, but we do not recall the name of
either. One was an Englishman, a
scholarly man, and the other was a
large man whose personality we recall
we'll but not his name as we write. Up
to the time of the late James H. Hor-
ner doubtless the greatest teacher was
James D. Johnston who afterwards
taught in Norfolk, Va. He had a dis
tinguished reputation long afterwards.
He was before our day. A great teach
err who had a classical school in the
ST. Johns college building, (now used
for the orphan asylum) was Ashbel G..
Brown, former professor Of languages
in the university of North Carolina.
He was partner with Professor Horner
ait first but they separated. After that
occurred Professor Horner said to US
one day that the best teacher he ever
knew was Mr.. Brown, and yet the
famous William J. Bingham had taught
Professor Horner.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

General William B. Bate. a gallant
confederate, and United States senator
from Tennessee lis a most worthy ma
tive of North Carolina, was born, we
have the impression, in the Albemarle
section, possibly in BERTHE county. He
recently united with the Baptists in
Summer county, Tennessee, where he
lives.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

North Cardinals copper mines attract
some attention now. Recently re-
ports hav been sent out regarding
those in Rowan county. Some very
rich finds have been made. Some ex-
perts have examined the Gold Hill cop
per mines, and pronounce that they
are 1.-The best in the world" The min
ers are giving high Endorsement as to
the outlook, and it is p~rophesied that
Rowan may yet become one of the
greatest producing copper districts in
the world. The North Carolina copper
differs from the famous Lake Superior
copper in that it is much more easily
mined and is nearly always found in a
natural fuX.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

If the national democratic committee
pushes silver to the real and gives a
quasi Endorsement by silence to expan-
sion and the empire it will inyite de-
feat before the fight starts. Hit trusts
between the yes and the Mckinley
gang.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

How people do shirk duty. Some
l, 225 people in Wake county-right at
the capital-have failed to list their
poll tax. And then think of it; of
these 535 white and 523 negroes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24
NAHksTS j.. TELEGRAPH


New York, November 22.-Money on
call firm at 6 to S per cent. last loan
at 6 per cent; prime mercantile paper
at 5Q6 per cent; sterling exchange
weak with actual business in bankers
bills at $4.S5k@4S5A for demand and
at $4.S1h@4.S1& for sixty days; posted
rates $4.S2h and $4.S7: commercial bills
at $4.8112; silver certificates at $500
59h; bar silver at SO; Mexican dollars
at 47k; government bonds strong;
state bonds inactive; railroad bonds ir-
regular.
COTTON.
Liverpool, November ga p. m.-
Cotton.-Spot good business done,
prices unchanged. American middling
4Bd. The sales of the day were Is, 200
bales, of which 1000 were for specula-
ton and export and included IA, 200
bales American; receipts 5000 bales, no
American. Futures opened quiet and
closed barely steady at the decline.
American middling, low middling
clause: November 4@4 1-64d value; No
vember and December 4 63-64@4d buy
ers; December and January 3 63-64d
buyers; January and February 3 61-64d
buyers; February and March 3 6O-64Q
3 61-64d sellers: March and April
3 60-64d sellers; April and May 3 $500
3 60-64d sellers; May and June 8 59-64d
sellers; June and July. 3 5S-64@3 5J-64d
sellers; July and August 3 5S-64d sell
ers; August and September 3 56-64d
sellers.
%rW YORK MARKET.
New York, November 22.-Cotton
quiet; middling z 9-16c; gross receipts
$50; sales $500; stock 102, 463.
Total today: Net receipts 5 / 1877; ex-
ports to Great Britain 1,731; stock $685.
SIG.
Consolidated: Net receipts 100, 1877;
exports to Great Britain 24,511; to
France 24,4O6; to the continent 52,519.
Total since September LIST: Net re-
ceipts 2,71S, 435; exports to Great Bri-
tain 702, 978; to France 296, $50; to the
continent $50, 435.
Futures closed steady. November
7.25, December 7.26, January 100, Feb
ruary 1892, March 1886, April 1877, May
7.39, Jun 7.4O, July 7.41, August 7.3S,
September 7.05, October 6.93.
Spot closed quiet; middling uplands
z 9-16c; middling gulf Z 13-16c: sales
$500 bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Chicago. November 22.-The leading
futures ranged AS follows:
Open. High. Low. Clos.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

The democratic state committee will
meet at Raleigh on 18th December. We
must hope for good results from con-
sultation. May sagacity, wisdom and
honor be present from first to last.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24
DIED.

SHOLAR.-At 7:45 yesterday morning.
in this city. at the residence OF his
daughter, Mrs. c. B.. Allen. Mr.. w.
H. Sholar. in the 65th year OF his age.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

Same day asst year 4Ac-
NAVAL STORES
SPIRITS TURPENTINE-Quiet n
steady: machine barrels 41iac: county
barrels 47c.
ROSIN.-Frm al sL.oo and s1.0s.
TAR--Steady at s1.40.
CRUDE TURPENTINE-Quiet; hard
$3.50: soft s2-Se.
Prices same day last year-Spiri,s
turpentine 36izc and Sec; rosin sl-oo
and sI.I0: tar $40; crude turpentine
SIPS and $3.50.
Receipts doday-34 casks spirits tur-
pentine, 327 barrels rosin. 1S4 barrels
tar, "a barrels crude turpentine.
Receipts same day asst year-42
casks spirits turpentine, go barrels
rosin, 80 barrels tar. . barrels crude
tupentine.
SALT-125's. SIC: 1s0's. 74c: zoos. soc.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS-North Carolina -: vir-
ginia so to 66c.
RICE-Nothing doing.
CORN-52 TO SIC.
CORN MEAL-49c.
COW PEAS-60c.
n. C. BACON-Hams, 9 TO l0c.
shoulders. z to nc: sides, s TO SIC.
TNRKEYS-(Live) 10c.
CHICKENS-Slow; spring 10 to lSc:
hens % to Csc; BOOSTERS. Is to zoe.
EGGS-Ffrm at 16c.
SHINGLES-Per ZOO five inch hearts
and saps, s1.5003.1o; six inch. s2.5o0
SO. so.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24
WILMINGTON. MARKETS.

Wilmington, N. C, November q :
Recesnts Of cotton today-s67 bales.
Receipts same day last year-2,sse
bales. 1850
This seasons receipts TO datei5s,sls
bales.
Receipts to same date last year
2o4. los.
The quotations posted At 4 O'CLOCK
today at the exchange:
COTTON-Sxeady.
Ordinary -.-....... ...---- iS-!c
Good ordinary ....--.--... s-ie
Low middling .....-.--...--. 9 1910
Aiddllng ..--.-...--... .-.-....-
GoOd middllng .-..--.--.--... "a
Same day last rear 4+c-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-04
Penny wiSe-Pound Foolish

A trite saying, as full of wisdom &C -.
onion is of tears, and in no case is this
more fully demonstrated than with man,
who contemplate purchasing pianos. Opai
ity lost sight of, price seems the only MAJ
ter of importance-save a dollar to-ds,,
and lose ten or more daily thereafter
that's about the size of it,
Buy large snowy piano (so-called) with
its gingerbread decorations to tickle tba
eye-don't mind so small a matter az 49,
having no record-take all sorts of risiy5
because you can get it "cheap'-r1lin -
child for whose use a piano is fntendad
sit up o nights with the thing-grow des-
perate even TO inducing a tuner TO boari
with you for the exercise il viii give bin'
as a health lift--lose money and Datienca
and finally kick it out into the yard fo1.
use as a pigeon roost-and then buy gooi
piano.
True economy, however, would dlctata
that you buy the best at frsI
and avoid such annoyance and expense
Buy a Mathushek-over 26. 900 in consf3nt
use--sold in Savannah by Ludden & Bates
S. M. II. for over twenty-eight wears
without a single case of failure It's rec
ord its guarantee. Prices low considering
quality. Every purchaser satisfied. cal
and see them at Ludden & Bates ware
room. No other piano so we'll adapted
TO the trying climate of the Southern
StateS.-ad.