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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
RAPIDLY INCREASING IsDEBT-
EDNESS

The Messenger has called attention
to the outlook now for a great deficit
lin the u. S. treasury. The balance
ment. and exclusive of war expendi-
lures. Extravaganza IND reckless pen
sion voting have lone the bad thing
and brought Uncle Sam in trouble.
With the war expenses included there
is probably not less than 5000, 600, 600
deficiency in governmental receipts as
compared with expenditures. The
trouble has just begun, for with the
great prospective outlay for ships and
the 100, 900 standing army and innum-
cradle wars and wild dreams of x
pansion and the Empire it really looks
as if this once peaceful Republic is fast
losing all purposes of decent and just
economy and had grown as reckless as
England in the matter of public ex-
penditure. In January it is reported
that the public debt was added to by
ONE s24, 900, 900. Think of the army
and navy bill alone for the next year
, calling for s342, OOO, 900, which is more
@AAi ~cAN@A 0AA~S y 49,
ministration required for all expenses
through our years. Rivers and har-
bors only ask for a trif1e of s25, 600, 900.
Then there is that bootless, fruitless
craze for the government building of
the Nicaragua canal. The experts say
that the present session of congress
will appropriate more than a billion
| I11lor- -Dtra rro ~;4t o-I
the masters of the peoples o
should be put in the penitentiary. This
congress in two years will have prob
ably expended all of two billions-a
sum far beyond the capabilities of
this country to pay. Large bono issues
will be made and the public debt will
be increased to a great and most
shameful sum. The New Orleans State
is mindful of the fact that the people
themselves have a responsibility in this
matter, for they contribute to swell
the Indebtedness of the country. 1t
avs n with the painful emphasis of
truth:
"a remarkable fact citec by a mem
Der of the house commit &c on appro-
priatiOns, Mr.. Moody, OF Massachu-
sets, showing that this spirit of ex-
travagance has taken possession of the
people. He says that boards of trade,
chambers of commerce, business Or
CARNATIONS, municipal committees and
private citizens everywhere are con-
stantly imploring congress, through
memorials, petitions and letters, for the
expenditure of money somewhere, but
there is never a line of recommended
ton in the other direction. The pres
sure brought upon congress is to spend
money, not to be economical in it's use.
THE disease is epidemic. State leg
%islatures and the city councils are in
creasing expenditures, and everywhere
there is great opposition to increased
taxation. Deficiencies are created, and
h bond issues, putting of the day of
payment, are resorted to as the easiest
way to shift the load and postpone pay
ment."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

Cecil Rhodes is the big Englishman
in South Africa. He is greatly praised
by E~nglishmen and is a man of great
Expansive ideas for Great Britain,
and putting on a cap Of a seer he pre-
diets greater expansion for his own
country and the United States. He
predicts, seeing that the American peo-
pie to a considerable extent, have lost
their senses and forgotten all former
political theories, traditions and deliv-
erances, that Jul country will enter
upon a career of wal still further until
both continents will belong to the
American empire that will stand in the
place of the once giant republic. All
the countries in Central and South
America are to be completely 'gobbled
up" by this empire after it has seized
and added Cuba, Porto Rico and the
PHILIP pines. We can only hope that
the American people will hang a hun
dred or two public enemies and con
spirators before that calamity befalls
this once land Of the free"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
PLAIN TALK

The Messenger gave up in despair
months ago the job of correcting err
roneous judgments as to the south and
gross and malicious Misrepresentation
by the northern press. The ignorance
is very dense Or the willingness to mis-
state and abuse is very >nimble-footed
or both. The late Representative
Dingley had a newspaper called the
Lewiston (Maine) Journal. 1t INDUCES
in an unfriendly strain relative to ne
gro suffrage in North Carolina. One
of it's unfair, untrue statements is this:
'In the meantime South Carolina
and North Carolina are to see to it
that the black man has no place or op-
p%ortunity wherein he can learn to read
the constitution and thus the reign of
ignorance in the colored race is to be
perpetuated. These facts speak loudly
as inst the domination Of the democ-
racy Of the SOUTH
AS this hostile sheet is to be represent
ed in the proposed tour of northern ed
itors in the south it is to be hoped it
will pick up some sound information
and stop disappearing the south.
The Danville (Va.) Register says:
IF these gentlemen are coming south
to learn they will find much that they
do not know, and if they are honest
men they will be open to conviction
and the abandonment of petty preju-
dices."
If they come to "spy out" our naked
ness and go home to SANDER and mis-
represent and abuse the white men and
women in the south they would do well
to remain at home. The south is al
ways hospitable and accessible, but it
is not anxious to entertain enemies and
slanderers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
Remnant Sale of Silk

Caps from &c to zoe. Large line Of
Ladies' Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats,
new and pretty goods, for early spring.
prices very low.
We a received a big line OF fine
Suits for men. We can save you mon
ey on Clothes. We have only one price
to all. Mems Suits from $500 up to
$1,000. Large assortment All-Wool
Suits, well made. for $500. We buy
our Clothing from manufacturers for
cash and We guarantee our prices to
be the lowest. We have 2,000 pairs
odd Pants for men and boys. Boys
Pants from 15c to CSC. Mems Pants
from 29c to $3.50. Odd Vests from 35c up.
We are in the market TO do business.
We want you trade. We sell goods at
Low Prices for Cash. and for further
inducements we offer a present free
with every purchase. For a SIS pur-
chase Twill give you a set OF Glass
ware or a cabinet picture frame; for a
SO purchase / will give you a life-size
portrait of yourself or a member OF
your family; for a SIS purchase we
will give you a nice oak centre table
or a thanksgiving machine; for a s25
purchase a Ladies' willow rocking
chair or easel or a beautiful picture.
Bring your card and have 1t punched
with every purchase. Wilmington's
Big Racket Store, opposite The Orion.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

Spring is approaching. Now is h
time to buy Silks and Silk Shirt
Waists. Silk Remnants in lengths
from 1 to Is yards, As pieces to select
from. foods sold at 25c, now 23c per
yard. All Silk Taffetas Is inches wide,
4Sc per yard. Lovely line of Plaid Silk,
SOC per yard. One piece slightly dam
aged Black Satin, &c per yard. All
grades of Black Satin Duchess, from
SOC to 81. e0-new goods. New line OF
Satins, all leading shades, SOC per yard.
Fifty pieces fine Percaie for Shirt
waists, l yard wide, from sc to 12h
per yard. A large line of Pique, in
White and Colors. Colored and Plain
from SC to Soc per yard. Fifty pieces
fine 12kc Bingham, new Spring Pat
terms, at 1Oc per yard. Some fine
pieces Silk Bingham for 35c per yard.
Five Hundred pieces narrow Ribbon
for Dress Thinning, from &c to 10c per
yard; 5000 pieces wide Ribbon, all
shades and pattesns-prices lower than
ever.
Mems Laundered Shirts, special, 29c
each; regular price Soc
Just received 300 Boys Suits, from
4 to Is years, from 69c to $500. Small
Boys Suits, with sailor collar, CSC; same
in Flannel and Serge, $500 and $3.50.
Big line Children's Tam-o'- Shantas
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
BREVITIES.

The Richmond (Va.) Central Presby-
terrain gives this hint to parents and
boys as to cigarette smoking:
Boys are seriously injured by it.
The subtle influence of the nicotine
nal muscles of the body, and the boy
who uses tobacco will not grow into
so large or so healty a man."
Congress has adjourned. 1t is the
end of the present congress. 1t has
proved itself wasteful, extravagant,
and incapable to a high degree. The
next to succeed will be worse because
it will be more republican. There are
but few men in the public life you
may trust. In a pinch they deceive and
betray their masters, the people.
10000 Cubans wish to enlist in the
American service.
Sir Henry Irving, the English actor,
has received the degree of LII. D. from
the three Notwithstanding
Dublin and Glasgow. If reports are
true as to his financial troubles he
would much rather receive a fat cheque
from some plethoric pocket.
A negro is in Jail in Virginia. He
has tried the north. He says he would
rather live in Jail in Virginia than live
in New York and be free. Experience
is a good teacher.
The Spanish carricutarists are max
ing game of Mckinley and his great
conquest.s They are amusing.
Strong opposition to Speaker Reed
is developing among republicans in
the north and in administration cir
cles. Reed is a grasper of power in
the chair but he opposes wholesale
fleeing of the people and wildcat ex-
travagance. He is possibly in McKin-
ley's way.
1t is Admiral Dewey now by act OF
congress and he is at the head of the
U. S. ANY. He is worthy every way
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
NORTH

Rev. P. j. Carraway, well known in
his section, has been quite sick for
three weeks from grip. He has recov-
cred.
Clinton Democrat: DR.. Allmand
Holmes, for many years a prominent
physician n surgeon of Clinton, suf-
fered a stroke of paralysis of one side
on Saturday afternoon. His condition
has since been unchanged.
St%atesville Mascot: Monday county
Commissioners Davidson and Steele in
%structed the county attorney, Mr. Chas.
H. Armfield, to draw a bill authoriZ-
ing an election to be held in this coun-
ty, at such time as the commissioners
may determine upon, on the question
of issuing 500, 900 in bonds to macad-
amize the county roads
Lexington Dispatch C. L. Leonard's
little daughter found a bar of gold
somewhere in town yesterday afternoon
while out playing hat measured 3k
inches in length and weighed Z ounces.
The town commissioners have or
dered an election to be held March Doth
on the question of whether or not the
town shall issue bonds not exceeding
$1,000 o for the improvement of the
streets and sidewalks. Also bonds to
an amour not exceeding $1,000 for the
purchase or erection of anselectric light
plant.
Winston Sentinel: A. L. Shipping, who
was shot through the lungs, near Sails
bury, Monday night, died at 1925 last
night. A brother of the deceased, A.
D. Shipping, was vigorously wounded,
being also shot through the lungs. He
is in a hospital. p. F. Hedrick and
David Mauney, who stand chrged with
doing the shooting, have given bonds
for their appearance at the e term
of court.-Nothing has been heard
from James Nelson, h married man
who ran away with his cousi last
week. The Lexington Dispatch learns
that Nelson's cousin won his affections
by frequent visits to his home.
Fayetteville Observer: The A. c.. L
has issued a circular which reads;
Taking effect March 1st, 1899. Mr.. J
| A. Huske is appointed OUT agent with
headquarters at Wilmington" Mr.
| Huske's ability was long since recog-
nized by the officials Of the c. f. &. Y
W, and when the road passed into its
! present hands he held the position OF
| chief clerk to the general freight m
| passenger agent. A man Of MI. Huske's
| knowledge and personality is bound Il
rise in any professionally Caviness
| returned from Caryer's Creek thi!
morning, where he held an inquest yes.
terday morning over. the body of tn.
! young colored woman, Mary Elizs
| Blue, who was found dead in Mckay.
| Creek Wednesday. The verdict of tn,
jury was that the woman came Il
her death by a blow on the head witt
some blunt instrument in the hands o
one Jesse Ray" Ray. disappears
Wednesday nigh. and a posse Is nov
out searching for him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

II viii be a real misfortune, to put
il mildly, IL the legislature adjourns
without providing for legal primaries
In North Carolina Asheville Citizen.
Mr.. Frank McNeill, who will be
chairman of the commission, was long
solicitor Of his district, is one of the
ables. men AT the Wilmington bar, is
not and has not been the attorney of
any railroad, and has the confidence Of
all men who know him He was not a
candidate Of his own volition, and
made no effort TO secure the position,
but was pressed by the business men
Of Wilmington, who asked him TO per-
NIT them 10 urge his eleetion.-Ral-
eigh News an Observer.
Unless the Hon. B. B. Nicholson
falls into some error within the next
few days he will retire from the legis-
lature with as clean hands and as pure
a record as any member of the General
| Assembly. On all matters that have
| come before the legislature he has
been on the side of the people, and
| whenever in doubt as TO the best course
to pusue, has not failed TO consult his
constituency through the columns of
the te-Messenger.-Washing
The legislature ought to consider
well what it does before it abolishes
the township public school committee
/ men or trustees. The bill recently re-
ported by the educational committee
Of the house has very properly retain
| ed the township system Of the law of
1897, modified to the extent of provid-
ing separate trustees or committeeman
| for each race. The township system of
tt e law of 1897 was a distinct gain to
the school machinery of the state, and
no small politics should be permitted
to work its emasculation. The bill as
| reported should be passed, possibly
with an amendment permitting local
taxation elections in the townships at
any time o%ne-fourth Of the qualified
| voters ask for such an election.-Char-
I lotte Observer.
We stated last week that the trusts
were fighting the Stevens bill with
| desperation and were depending on the
| senate to defeat it by amendment or
kill it by mastery inactivity. Suisse
quent events have demonstrated the
correctness of diagnosis of the sit
uation. Monopoly generally gets in
its work in the upper chamber, both
in the State and Federal Legislatures.
The senate is smaller and more easily
controlled IN that count. Another
reason is that the senate does not rep
resent the people as directly as does
the house. 1t is true that both bodies
are elected by popular vote, but it is
likewise true that the senatorial dis
tricts in many instances embrace sew
eral counties and thus afford a few
sharp men an opportunity to get in
their work in the selection Of candi-
dates. Members of the lower chamber
are nominated by the county conven-
ton and feel accountable to their
neighbors and friends for the manner
in which they discharge their duty.
Mr.. Stevens antitrust bill Jared bad
ly at the hands Of the judiciary com
mittee of the senate last Friday. Its
best feature-the dynamite intended to
blow up the trusts-waS stricken out
and other changes made that render it
impotent to harm the trusts.-Web-
ster's (Reidsville) Weekly
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
Gh Wessengm.
LEGfSLATI We

The end draweth nigh. Some Of the
members without leave or license"
have hied them home. They could not
t'abide in the ship" If the pay was TO
Carolina If it was to cost them SO or
SIS. Patriotism runs high
Thestate guard appropriation Of &c.,
900 a year has. passed and most wisely.
soldiery should be maintained, and
the efficiency should be incurred. Re-
peated drills are necessary. This writ
er was a cadet in the forties at Love-
joys famous military academy at
Raleigh. The cadets drilled every
$50 O'Clock in summer save on Sat
urdays and Sundays. Frequently on
Saturdays they drilled for three or
four hours, marching many miles.
That is the way to attain to proficien-
cy. We have seen So cadets wheel in
one line around a pivotal man with
great precision, the line being as
straight as the spoke of a wheel.
Senator Justice is a fighter against
higher education. He is evidently no
friend to the University and the other
important higher state institutions.
He favored just half to the University
that Virginia SO freely voted to it's
University. 1t was a grand sight to
see the foremost men of Virginia rally
to the support of that valuable and dis
tinguished institution of learning,
when a few years ago it suffered a
great calamity from fire. Our W
University, now more than 103
years old, and that is doing such
a grand work for North Carolina,
deserves to be generously fostered by
enlightened legislators n other North
sCarolinians. 1t is really a great orna-
ment to the state. No one can examine
into what has been done in the past
isfaction. The University will get it's
usual aid annually, and $4,000 for very
much needed improvements.
Several counties received power to
SilpIOy COHNlClS " WOEh IuelI pubic
roads.
The soldiers home is provided for
$40 900 for expenses, and $4,000 for re-
building and adding to the buildings.
It is honorable and becoming in a high
degree for North Carolina to take care
of the veterans who are necessitous.
Theschool bill passed the house. How
good it is we cnnot say. Mr.. Wallis
amendment was a good one, providing
for a commission of seven to select an
uniform series of books for the common
schools. 1t vas to be without pay
and that killed it, we guess.
A strong bill to operate in several
counties against public drunkenness
passed the house. 1t makes the penalty
$50 fine or 80 days Imprisonment. If ex-
ecuted faithfully it will prove salu-
-tary.
Lots of new officers were appointed.
May they one and all prove efficient
and .-seful.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

time of adjournment is near at hand.
Unless the committee reports the bill
tomorrow, killing the emasculating
amer In ents, it will die in the pigeon
hole of that committee or on the CAL
endar. The responsibility of its death
ought not to be taken by this senate
after the house has passed it by a prac-
tically unanimous vote.
In the fusion legislature of 1895 and
1897, democratic members tried TO Sc
cure the passage of antitrust legisla-
ton, but the trusts were powerful
enough to defeat every effort This
democratic senate ought not to adjourn
until it has passed the Stevens act"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

We Congratulate tho Raleigh News
Observer upon the intelligence and ap-
p~ropriateness of it's legislative discus
sions, generally, and for the %fulness,
completeness of its legislative reports.
1t has been a decided help to us n
we suppose to other editors as we'll
as to it's numerous patrons. 1t has
been emphatic, aggressive, vigorous
and democratic. We do not wish to be
understo d that we agreed with it in
every thing. No man who is capable
of thinking yer agrees with a news
paper in all things. Independent minds
differ. But in differing o need not
become narrow, proscriptive, and
mean spirited. Do not curse out your
newspaper when you disagree with it,
and boycott it like a fellow without
brains or fairness. Allow freedom Of
opinion il you demand it for yourself.
This is a free country as yet. There
is no telling how long DIT will remain
SO. If there is any one ulwar of
freedom it is in a free and untram-
melled public press. When a fellow
with intense prejudice, narrow soul
little brains, and exalted opinion of
umb one sees something in a paper
he takes Chat some how thinks he owns
it) that infringes upon his obtuse, ill
-digested views he swears like a troop
err and stops the paper. The strange
thing after all to him is that the paper
does not die instanter. Not dying he
concludes tina miracles hive not ceased.
Mirabile dictu! The first thing a
Journalist should learn is to write
what he believes, to try to present the
truth and not to lumber himself with
the fear of any man, be he as wise as
Solomon or as statesmanlike as Henry
Clay. Try to do right and do not write
to placate n great man." or any
L~boycotter. Any state hat has a libel
law aimed at the press under which
great injustice may be wrought, is in
it's own light. The great friend Of hui
mainly is IN enlightened, fearless, in
dependent, truthful press:
'God give us men! A time like this
demands
Strong minds, great hearts, trute faith
n ready hands
Men whom the lust Of Office does mo-
kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannor
buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will
Men who love honor; men who will no
lie"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

What is the fate of the antitrust
bill? Did it die in the senate? If so,
why? Has not the senate the good OF
the state, the health Of mankind, the
justice to farmers at heart? We be-
lieve the judiciary committee gave q
black-ey to the bill. We confess to
ignorance as to whether the bill "died
a-borning' or was simply swallowed by
a senatorial maelstrom. The News and
Observer Of Sunday says:
1.-The Stevens antitrust bill is in the
hands of the senate judiciary commit.
tee or for careful consideration The
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

The trade and trust combinations
rgrow daily and increase all the time ia
: numbers. Think OF that coffin trust"
They have a trust now on all you wear
and eat. and now they are such enc
mics Of the race they wish to get rich
aou OF the poor dead. Next will be a
grave digging trust Some pople would
like to see some or the rascals hanged.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

The choice of Mr.. S. L. Patterson, Of
Caldwell, as commissioner Of agricul-
ture, was wisely made. He had for
years served the state with zeal and in
telligence in the same important ca
pacity.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

The legislature made 20 mistake in
electing MI. Frank Mcneil a railroad
commissioner.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
HOME FOLKS

We tried to write on Sunday Victor
Hugo's LES Miserables."
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1899-06-02

versatlon he hnd with Gilnanc
lhortly after disapuearnnce of The
Fountains, in which illlllaud I n
that old man Fountain had come
from Tex in chicken coop aud
had pried M hell ever slnce. nul
that he guessed he would not pry
mp any more Witness slao teS-
tied that when the conversation
turned TO the little Fonntnin boy
Gillland said ihat the child WAS
nothing but u half breed md At
il was no mo,e harm 10 kill him
than tn kill dog. The defeuse
endeavorad to break the witness
down but he was too strong.
William II Baker, a deputy
sheriff under Pat Garrett anG a
brother-in law of Gillland, was
sworn next, Hlp stated that 1T a
point in Grapevine canon, in the
Sacramento mountains. while gath
ering cattle w.th Glllila d, thp
latter showed aim a spot wherA
he. Lee and NcNew had ~, with
eye glasses and watched the po-se
searching for the Fountains
Witness also teauhed to convar~a
tions with Gllliland in which Oh
!ilnnd sa,d things were quleter aud
better since Fountain dirsppeared
and thst as to the Fountain hnv
he WAS only half breed aud NJ
better than dog. Gilllland also
that il no ono conld ha convicted
until the bodies were Found. no one
wnnla ever be convicted Witness
further testified that he heard
dil'l'and say IN cnnv rsation with |
another party something about ~
wagon and a hnrk hoard being
around Col Fonntain'a hnggv,"
hut witness wn- too hrsv at the
time to snv what Gilliiatd meant.
Cross expminei bv dnfense wit
ness eaid he d,d MOI know whether
referred to common rn-
NOR or not IN bia remarks about
he wncon und hncehoard and the
Fountain RIG. The 2efenae 81
'nred an admission from Witness
hat ho. as deuutv sheriff, with
,ihers all fully armed. hnd
Watched from honsetnp IN Ala
naporio ~ capture Lee and Gill
and last elertinn dav when they
anne to vote. also that he, ss den
Itv eheriif, had dona sod denI
Z sparchinp for the defendants
M hed never visited or searched
heir homes In the Sacramento