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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-08
Is. F., No. 9S6-Department One-Filed
July /, 1899

Is. F., No. 9S6-Department One-f1leo
July /, 1S99)
James D. Brown, assignee, appellant;
Angus Mckay, respondent. Ejectment
by assignee against insolvent. Re-
versed.
In determining whether party has
endeavored to gain title to property by
adverse possession, the hostile intent
of the party is an all-important factor,
All presumptions Of law, of fact and OF
good morals are against an adverse
holding in the case of a father, who
has merely acted as guardian for his
sons, for their property and has de-
vised property to them in his will. To
overcome such Prescriptions there
must be showing of the record of clear,
direct and unequivocal acts on the part
of the adverse holder, indicating an in
tention to claim the property as his
own.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-08
DR.. CROSSMAN'S
SPECIFIC MIXTURE,

For the cure tof Gnnorrhoea, elects.
Structures, and analogous complaints
of the Organs Of Generation.
Price 81 bottle. For sale by druggists
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-08

Admis sion, Csc; Children, 1Oc.
jy7-3t
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-08
SOMETHING NEW. Gan ,

CESSPOOLS AND VAULTS
Pumped out Odorless excavator THOS.
LEWIS, 1916 Tenth street. Rina up Cap.
Tel. 1903 g bells).
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MONEY ON OF PA ! 4.

jewelry. pianos and furniture.
Reasonable rates of interest. Strictly con-
fdential. EMIL STEINMANN 1912 9TH st.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
TO SEND TROOPS NORTH
at Southern Camps to Go to Camp
MeadI-Changes In Diplomatic Repr
resentatives

Washington, April 15.-Secretary AL
ger is considering h matter of bring
ing troops from southern camps to
Camp Meade, which has been put in
excellent condition for the reception
of the volunteers. 1t is expected that
six regiments in all will be there. The
arrangements for bringing home all the
pleted, and as fast as the transports
can make the trips to n from Cuba,
they will be returned.
The naval orders posted today an
nounce the promotion to the rank of
zeal admiral of Sampson, Schley and
Farquhar, the latter the commandant
of the Norfolk navy yard. This is un-
der the operations Of the personnel act
and has no reference to var service
The president has appointed Law
renee Townsend, Of Pennsylvania, to
succeed Mr.. Bellamy StOrer as United
States minister to Brussels, Belgium.
Mr.. Townsend is at present United
States minister at Lisbon and his
transfer leaves a vacancy in the Por-
tuguese mission for which a selection
has already been made and will short
ly be announced.
The state department has been in
formed, from an unofficial, but relia-
BILE source, that Mr.. Bellamy Storer is
persona grata to the Madrid govern
ment, and that he will be properly re-
ceived as United States minister.
The Kansas dispatch to the effect
that United States Commissioner
Nichols has decided to surrender to
h Mexican officers Santiago Morphy,
charged with embezzling $70,0 900 from
the Mexican National bank, was re-
ceived with much surprise here. The
responsible officials who deal with
matters of extradition question the le-
gality of this proceeding. It is said
that the commissioner has no authority
to surrender prisoners in the absence
of any existing extradition treaty be-
tween the United States and Mexico.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
Arrested for a MurderOus Assault

Sheriff F. w. Hargett, of Jackson
Vile, Onslow county, passed through
this city yesterday from Warsaw where
he went to take into custody a young
white man named VIM. A. Sandlin, who
who was arrested there on a warrant
charging him with assault and battery
with a deadly weapon. He brought his
prisoner down and carried him to
Jacksonville yesterday afternoon and
committed him to Jail.
A few weeks ago in a difficulty with
Mr.. L. G.. Atkinson, the railroad agent
at Verona, on the Wilmington and
e Bern railroad, Sandlin cut Mr..
Atkinson across the throat with a
knife inc came dangerously near kill
ing him. Mr.. Atkinson was laid up
quite a while and is just able to be out
again.
After making the murderous assault
on Mr.. Atkinson, Sandlin made his es-
cape, n has recently been working
in the crate factory of Mr.. H. F. Pierce
at Warsaw.
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stocks, Wheat and Cotton


New York. April 15.-Stocks-Tne,
market was active and strong on buy
ing for both accounts. The iattering
ban statement helped sustain prices
when raids by the professional ele-
ment near the close set in. The close
was with firm undertone with a net
advance for the general list. We are
advised that Standard Oil people are
purchasing Atchison, preferred. and NJ.
o. p. on receSSions; also that the ad-
journing Of the Illinois legislature will
favorably affect Peoples Gas on recess
sions. Continental Tobacco is a good
purchase.
Wheat-Opened dull and easy. May
1915 to 73Ac, July 73A to FAC. Small de-
mand, no crop news OF Importance and
very little foreign selling caused a dull
featureless market. Trading was prin-
cipally by Scalpers-closing prices, May
1925 to 73Ac; July 73hG73%c bid. Some
a crop news was received from the
southwest late. prospects are Of more
heavy shipments from Argentine. 1t is
a crop news market and we advise buy
ing on decided breaks.
Cotton-The market opened dull and
featureless. Gables were as expected
n there were no new features to the
weather reports to infiunce prices,
which remained dull and narrow until
near the close, when covering by over
sold shorts advanced prices. Liverpool
continues to buy here oil any slight
depression and there is less disposition
to sell the market than at any time
during recent declines, bears realizing
that present prices discount their most
sanguine expectations and that any
thing unfavorable to the growing crop
will cause a sudden upward movement.
We continue to advocate the purchase
Of late crop months, believing thai IL
will eventually prove profitable. Par
ties who sold New York and bought
Liverpool are undoing their straddles
and making considerable profit.
s. MUM, SON & CO.
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D~OCKERY,S LATEST MOVE
Melton and other Refugees to Testify
in Raleigh Wednesday for DOckery.
Probably Something Besides the Con-
test Case IL i'm the Wind

The latest move Of oliver H. Dockery
in his contest suit against Congress
man John D.. Bellarny looks as If it has
a hidden meaning and has caused much
speculation as to it's real motive.
Yesterday Mr.. Bellamy was officially
notified that a hearing in the contest
case will be held Wednesday in Raj
eigh, and nearly all witnesses to be eX-
amined are Wilmington refugees. They
are J. R. Melton, who posed during the
republican-populist regime as chief of
police, L. H. Bryant, who occupied the
position of superintendent of streets;
w. J. Harriss, who vas county stand
ard keepr; John T. Howe, travelling
representative of the Infamous Record,
and W. E. Henderson, h negro at
torney. There are two other witnesses,
one r. B. Russell, Of Raleigh, and the
other the of The Caucasian,
Raleigh.
The notice specifies where the wit
nesses can be summoned. Melton and
Bryant are put down as residing in
Magnolia, Harriss in Raleigh, Howe
in Washington, D. c., and Henderson
in Indianapolis, Ind.
The hearing will take place in the
United States court room before E. J.
Best, notary public. Claudius Dockery
will officiate as pas counsel.
Another hearing in the contest case
is to take place Wednesday at Lilies
vile, Arson county, before ]. w. Steen,
notary public. Dockery has nineteen
witnesses summoned for this inVeSti-
cation, embracing persons from the
surrounding country.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
FIELD DAY AT GRADED SCHOOL
England Bears Off the Honors-South-
ern Pines Committee Shakespeare
at He'd Springs

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Fayetteville, N. c., April Is.
Yesterday was England Day" at the
Fayetteville graded school, perhaps the
most interesting of the periodical exer-
cises held during the scholastic year,
to reward public interest in the insti-
tuition and to incTte the students TO re-
newed efforts in their work.
With the opening of the doors Of the
assembly room. the school choir render
ed a. beautiful song, and straightway
the audience surrendered without a
protest to the address Of welcome by
George CT. Myrover, Jr., e picann!ny,
who extended a cordial greeting in a
fetching lisp that vas simply ire
sistible. Then came excellent readings
and Rotations by Edna Johnson, Wal
lace Prior, Henry Cook, James Taylor,
Myra Bell, Ida Calais, May Shutz,
Ellen Brandt and Fannie Broadfoot.
The essays were really of high class.
as follows: England" by Jeanne
Pemberton; Queen Victoria" by
Amanda Amos; Gladstone" by Norah
Wis; goldsmith" by Nan Fisher;
"Enoch Arden" by Mary Norcott
Broadfoot. Messrs. 1. A. Murchison, d.
T. Oats and E. r. Mcclellan, the
committee to whom the task had been
entrusted, found themselves confronted
by an embarrassment of riches In
passing judgment on these admirable
essays, but finally awarded the prize,
a handsome copy of Tennyson, to
Miss Nan Fisher, and it was presented
by Mr.. j. II. Myrover in a brief talk.
The large gathering showed the graf
flying interest taken by the community
in the welfare and progress Of the
cahnn1 and the cordial On0~rafn1afiOnS
rendered to the superintendent, Miss F.
H. Matthews, and her assistants, ave
some little for their faith
full and arduous labors.
Major E. J. Hale, editor Of The OBJ
server, chairman, n a large member
of representative citizens, have been
appointed by Mayor Cook a committee
to speak and act for Fayetteville in he
approaching convention at Southern
Pines
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
The Montgomery Sails

Norfolk, Va, April 15.-The little
cruiser Montgomery, which has re-
Gently been thoroughly o~verhauled at
the nav yard, sailed this morning.
Captain j. H. o. Colby and Captain J.
P. Merrill, U. S. N, are aboard. The
Montgomery, it is given out, is destin-
ed for Santa Lucia, West India islands,
and that she will go from there to the
South American coast. 1t is also said
hat she will be for the next three
years on the South Atlantic station,
but there are those who believe that
she and the Vixen will accompany the
collier Abarenda to Pago-Pago bay,
Hawaiian islands, n guard the latter
while the workmen aboard her put up
the steel coal pier, which is in sections
aboard her, ana which will be erected
at our new coaling station at Pago-
Page.
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Corn-Spot steady: No. . Assoc. OPP
tions opened steady and were sustained
all day by the rally in wheat: closed
steady and unchanged. May closed at
4oisc; July closed at 4oSc.
Oats-Spot dull; No. . Sc. options
dull.
Lard-Steady; western teamed $3.50.
April s5.47s nominal.
Eggs-Strong: state and Pennsylva-
MIA lac: western fresh i32 Gitc: south
ern 1sG13Ac.
Petroleum-Quiet: refined at New
York sos; Philadelphia and Baltimore
500; do in bulk $500
Rice-Ffrm; domestic fair 10 extra,
49G7c; Japan 5G5Lc.
Cotton Seed Oil-Prime crude 2snc.
butter grades 30Gs2c.
Conee-Options opened steady at un-
changed prices: ruled quiet and fea-
tureless with steady undertone. Euro
pean and Brazilian cables being bet
ter thar expected, Brazilian receipts
moderate and United States warehouse
deliveries still liberal: closed quiet and
unchanged to 5 points higher; sales
1,750 bags. including July at $50; Oc-
tober at s5.45. Spot coree-Rio firm
and higher; No Z invoice 6Sc; do job
bling csc: mild Arm; Cordova sQlsc.
Sugar-Raw strong and tending up
ward; fair refining 4hc; centrifugal.
90 test, 4 9-16c; molasses sugar &c; re-
fined firm and fairly active; mould A
size; ~granulated SIC.
NAVAL STORES.
New York-Rosin steady: strained.
common to good. S.35. ~Turpentine firm
at 4hG45c.
Charleston-Spirits turpentine mar
ket firm at Ale; sales none. Rosin firm:
sales 100 barrels. \ b c d sl.oo; Z
$1.10: f s 40: G. s1.25; III Sl.35; / Sl.45;
X $3.50; NJ SITS; y $3.50; w G S2.25;
w w $3.50.
Savannah-Spirits turpentine firm at
413c; tone quiet: sales III: receipts
763. Rosin firm at decline OF &c on wa
ter white; sales 1.025; receipts 2.605.
Quote: A b c d $l.05, T. sl.15, f sl.25.
G $1.30, H s1.40, l $3.50. X S1.60. NJ sl.S5.
n $500, w s2.35, w w $3.50.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
Chapel Hill Notes
Correspondence Of The Messenger
Chanol Hill NJ q Anril *

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Chapel Hill, N. c., April Is.
The Uni ersity commencement for
this year will be one Of t e most inter-
esting and profitable e " held. Next
Saturday week, the annual meet be-
tween the leading preparatory schools
of the state for the championship of
athletics will take place here. This
plan was organized last year and was
very successful.
Mr.. Marsden Bellamy, Jr., of Will
mington. has resigned as editor-in-chief
of The Tar Heel and Mr.. NJ. London is
elected in his stead. Under his editor
ship The Tar Heel has been very cred
liable and newsy and he deserves praise
for the excellent publication he has
gotten out.
DR.. Alderman continues to receive
plans and bids for the construction Of
Carr Halr' a domitory recently made
possible by the munifcence Of Carroll
mas devoted son Colonel Julian S. Carr,
in front of the library and opposite the
New East Building.
The system of water works recently
provided for by the legislature will
Don be put liz.
The record and magazine for this
month are out. Both are full of well
written and interesting matter and re-
feet credit On the editors.
The Chapel Hill Choral Society will
oon give another conce.-
The Chapel Hill bank was organized
here Thursday. The capital stock is
limited t. 500, 900. Colonel J. S. Carr
was elected president and Mr.. C. l..
Lindsay vice president The company
will erect a banking house Immediately
and soon begin business.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
Unique R~ailrOading

The enterprising management of the
Seaboard Air Line has not only accom-
plished great good by it's industrial
department and its agents everywhere
j. lines run, but it is untiring in
the Introduction Of new features to ben
eft the people who live at the various
cities and towns on the system. The
latest wrinkle is a railroad circulating
library and there are now along the
Seaboard Air Line ten. such libraries Of
100 books each. The books are alter
nately sent to the industrial agents at
the various cities and towns and can
be secured for perusal by the people for
ten days. Mrs. E. B. Heard, of Middle
ton, Ga, a most cultured lady, has
charge of the circulating libraries,
and the feature is becoming quite pop
ular. Mr.. Andrew Carnegie recently
sent his check for $1,000 to aid in this
c~ommendable work.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
GOOD
Fine Live Bird ShOOting-MayOr Tom
Marshall, of Illinois, Again the VIM

New York, April 1.-THE seventh
Grand American handicap at live
pigeon shooting furnished an oppor-
tunity for Mayor tom" Marshall, of
Keithsburg, Ills, to make a record for
himself by winning the event for the
second time on the clover leaf shaped
traps at Elkwood Park, N. j., today. .
Two years 6 Mayor Marshall won
this event from the twenty-eight yard
hard field of contestants, and today his
nerve stood him in good stead when he
was pitted against some hard PROPOSE
lions in the final rounds of the live
bird championship.
Seven men were tied for first place,
with twenty-four straight kills each,
when the shoot was adjourned last
night. When it was resumed this morn
ing, the weather conditions were most
favorable for the marksmen, n for
a time it looked as if the seven leaders
would have a long argument to estab-
lish the right to supremacy.
1t the beginning of the contest the
seven men who tied with twenty-four
straight kills, were: T. A. Marshall,
Keithsburg, Ills; Samuel Hoffman, Jr.,
Atlantlc iowa; Ed. Kansas
City, Mo-; J. A. Jackson, Austin, Tex;
DR.. j. G.. Knowlton, New York; G. M.
Grimm, Clear Lake, Iowa; George Roll,
Chicago.
This morning Hickman lost his TWEEN
ty-fifth bird, leaving six men in the
race.
In the shoot off miss and OUT both
Hoffman and Roll failed to score. Jack
son and Knowlton each missed his
sixth biard, Inc Marshall and Grim
had the contest to themselves. They
shot a hot race. each killing straight
until the thirty-third round. Grim
missed a right quartering incomer,
While Marshall killed his thirty-third,
which left the mayor of Keithsburg a
two-time winner of the grand American
handicap.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
A City Block Destroyed by Fire

Cleveland, Ohio, April 15.-Almost
half the block of business houses sur
rounded by Lake, Bank, Academy and
this afternoon, the damage done
amounting to nearly 81, 900. 900. Nine
persons were injured put none was
fatally hurt.
The fire started in the rear of the
second cor of Comey & Johnson's fac
tory and in a few minutes the whole
building was ablaze, the 800 girls and
women employed getting out by means
of fire escapes. The flames then spread
to h other blocks damaged. Nearly
the entire fire department was at work
and the task in stopping the march of
h flames was not a light one.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
Our Good Roads Movement

In view of the election to be held in
this county on Tuesday, May I'd on the
question of voting $780, 900 in bonds for
the purpose Of building good roads
from the city into the surrounding
country, Professor J. A. Holmes, the
state geologist, came down last even
ing from Chape4-Hill to ascertain what
our people propose to do in this matter
and to render what aid he can He
will investigate as to what material
for road building can be had here and
will make known his views when he
has locke over the situation 1t is well
known hat near this city and through
out this county there is an abundance
of shell rock and experts say tina there
is no better material for road building
than the stone which we have at u
very doors.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
STRAwBERaIES
The Luscious Reds ON the Market Yes.
t~erday-The Growers Begin Ships
nlents to the Northern Markets

Several of the dealers in Wilmington
had home raised strawberries for sale
yesterday. The following growers
brought berries to Market: Messrs. Kilt
Riggs, of East Wilmington; Matt Jack
son., of Greenville Sound; Henry
Thompson, of Rocky Point, and perhaps
others. The berries sold at 80 and 40c
per quart.
SHIPMENTS TO THE NORTH. T..
The strawberry growers began max
ing shipments to the northern mar
kets yesterday. Mr.. Charles Rogers,
superintendent on Messrs. Westbrook
& Co.'S Switzerland farm, was the
first to make a shipment from Will
mington. They were sent to Bower
Bros, New York.
A telegram to The Messenger from
Burgaw yesterday states that Mr.. J.
A. Concelmo, Of Philadelphia Our
townsman, Mr.. James A. Montgomery,
also shipped a crate from his farm at
Burgaw.
A special to The Messenger from
Rocky Point yesterday states that
Messrs. c. N. Sparkman & Son, Of that
place, shipped h first crate of berries
from that place to New York. They ex-
pect to ship several crates tomorrow.
We learn that six crates were shipped
yesterday from Rocky Point, one from
Verona, one from Dixon, one crate
from SCOTS Hill and two crates from
Currie. Mr.. ]. T. Foy shipped a crate
from SCOTS Hill.
Long Creek claims the honor of
making the first shipment, Mr.. A.
Bowen shipping a crate on Friday from
-,,o ~ fL4 Atlantic nn6 Vn6kin
railway. They were sent to Philadel-
phia. Wait til you hea from Long
Creek"
The market reports from New York
and Philadelphia quote strawberries at
from % to 40 cents per quart.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
MATE BANK ASSOCIATION
To Meet in Raleigh In June-Day OPP.
poses Resignation of Democratic
Members of Penftentfary Board.
state Bonds for sale
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. N. c., April Is.

Raleigh, n. c., April Is.
The local bankers of this city will
meet next Tuesday to arrange for the
meeting here June eth to 9th of the
State Bankers Association. The exc
Durham last week to arrange a pro-
gramme and select speakers.
w. H. Day, penitentiary superintend-
ent, was interviewed this morning and
said: If the eleven democratic direc-
tors rasign-and / hope they will not
do sc. for I see no reason for m fric-
ton between us, as We have a common
end IN view--I promise you that I will
ende& vor to have their places supplied
with eleven first-class democrats. I
am amazed hat any democrats should
advise the eleven democrats on the
board to surrender and resign, in the
face of the fact that the last legisla-
ture attempted and purposed to put the
penitentiary in the hands of the demo-
Gratis"
Secretary John E. White, of the Bap-
fist state mission board, left here to-
day for the country west of the Blue
Ridge, to look over the field there. That
vas until very recently the territory
Of the Western Baptist convention, now
dissolved and merged int the North
Carolina Baptist Association.
Today State Treasurer Worth adver-
Used for proposals for the $110, 900 of
penitentiary bonds Ito pay debts.) He
will not receive any bid for less han
1O4. There are already in hand bids
for the same bonds at as high fig
ures at 108 and 1882. He says he ex-
poets to get 10. The bonds run ten
years at 4 per cent.
The state today chartered the Rock
well Furniture Company of Rowan
county.
The current number Of the Lawyers
Reports Annotated contains a full re-
port of the noted case of the State VS..
Mclean, from Alamance. This was the
case in which Mayor Mclean and the
town commissioners removed some
bodies from a graveyard on public
property to another graveyard, were
convicted and sentenced, then pardon
ed. The legislature passed an act re-
lieving them and showing that what
was done was not grave robbery, blu
was entirely proper.
President Alderman, Of the UNIVERSE
ty, last night lectured on Egypt before
the students of the Horner school at
Oxford.
Vaccination here is becoming much
more general, both by the special physi-
clans and those not employed by the
city. There are only four cases of
smallpox, all in the pest house. Two
families are in quarantine-one in the
city n ore IN the country.
AS yet not al the one to pay for
the site of the Methodist orphanage
here has been raised. There is some
comment on the slowness.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
Foot Hall I'm England

London, April 1.-THE final tie in the.
English Association cup, the leading
football feature OF the year, was decid-
ed at the Crystal Palace today. There
were $4,000 people from ali parts of
the country present, including Lord
Roseberry and A. J. Balfour. The lat
ter presented the cup 10 the Sheffield
United, which beat Berby County by
four goals to one. Derby County sco--
ed the first goal UP to half time, bu:
in the second half OF the game III
Sheffield United had IL all their own
way and scored four times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
Vessels wrecked at Sea

Victoria, B. c., April 15.-The Glen
ogle which has arrived from the Orient
brings news of a collision between the
steamers Hokushin Maru and Kitami
Maru, off Ofuyu cape, in the province
of Teshio Hokkaido, on the 30th ultimo.
The Hokushin sank Immediately and
all on board, thirty-six persons were
drowned. The other vessel made for
shore and succeeded in getting into the
shadows where she stranded.
Fromethe Straits Settlement it is re-
ported hat there can be no longer
any hope entertained for the cap
tain and thirteen members of the
crew of the British ship Port Adelaide,
which was wrecked on a coral bank IN
February.