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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13

T. w. Wood & Sons Descriptive
Catalogue for 1899 is unquestionabIy a
most valuable Seed Book. A new fea-
ture this year is insect remedies for
various crops, telling how to prevent
or rid crops of injuries insects. The
calendar telling what to plant each
month in the year is a most useful
feature, while the cultural directions
given both for Vegetables and Flowers
will prove of the greatest help to all
gardeners. The information about
Grass, Glover and all farm seeds, is
particularly full and complete, and the
recommendations as to grasses adapt
ed to different soils and situations will
be found very helpful to any one in
terested in grass culture.
Tobacco, the types and kinds best
adapted for different soils, n other
matters of interest about this crop, will
be particularly appreciated by tobacco
growers everywhere. Altogether, with
the fine illustrations, beautiful clear
print and handsomely Autographed
covers, make Wood Descriptive Cata-
logue the peer of American Seed Cata-
logces. 1t will be mailed free upon re-
quest to T. w. Wood & Sons, at Rich
mond, Va, provided you mention The
Messenger when writing for it.
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LAGRIPPE Is CONTAGIOUS
atmospheric IMPREGNATED
WITH GERMS
Disease Proved Beyond QuestiOn.to be
InfectiOus-ls Rapidly Conquerfng
the Country

InfectiOus-ls Rapidly C~Onquering
the Country
LaGrippe is a contagious disease. Its
specific germ has been positively iden-
titled, and it is transmitted from per-
son to person either by direct con-
tact or by inhaling the germs while
they float in the air. It is a danger
os disease, lowering the vitality and
wasting the resistive power so that
pneumonia, heart disease, nervous
prostration and insanity find easy vic
Tins. No specific is known that will
kill the Grip germ, but it may be
driven out n it's effects overcome by
the prompt use Of DR.. Miles Restora-
tive Nervine.
"LaGrippe left my system
SO racked and shattered that I could
not sleep and for two months was un-
der the influence Of narcotics. Ply
sicians and friends gave me up to die;
but in two days after I commenced
taking DR.. Miles Restorative Nervine
I began to improve, and in a months
time I was entirely cured. 1t is the
greatest health r%estorer on earth"
D.. w. HILTON, Louisville, Ky.
All druggists are authorized to sell
DR.. Miles Nervine on a guarantee
that first bottle benefits or money re-
funded. Be sui and get DR.. Miles
Nervine. Booklet on heart and nerves
sem free. Address
DR.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
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The ,Supreme Court Says h Senator
Must Stand Trial

Philadelphia, January 10.-The SUI
preme court today in an opinion hand
ed down by Chief Justice Sterrett, dis
conspiracy ase for a write of cVtiorari
and placed the costs On the petitioners.
The petition of the defendants, United
States Senator Nj. s. Quay r. r.
Quay and Benjamin j. Haywood,
averred that on account of political
p~rejudices they were Of the belief that
they could not obtain a fair and inn
partial trial in the Philadelphia court
of quarter sessions where the suit
against him was instituted.
The opinion of the court was handed
to the clerk, but was not read from the
bench, Judge Sterrett merely announc-
ing the dismissal of the rule TO show
cause why a write of certiorari should
not be issued. There was no dissenting
opinion. The charge against the de-
PENDANTS is that of conspiracy with
John S. Hopkins, the cashier of the
Peoples bank (who committee suicide
in March last) in the misuse of state
funds on deposit in that bank. The
defendants were placed under arrest in
October last and as a result OF a pre-
liminary hearing entered bail for trial.
Several postponements of the fixed date
for trial have taken place. Senator
Quay and his codefendants have per-
sistently claimed in their defense in
the preliminary proceedings that the
prosecution was instituted by his po-
litical enemies, with the object of de-
feating his reelection to United
States senate.
Thu nnininn holds that the court h3S
such jurisdiction and sustainS the
holding by previous decisions on that
point. 1t says, though, that the ques-
ton of certiOrari must be exercised
in and of the administration of justice,
not to defeat it or needlessly embarrass
it," and that the court cannot assent
to the petitioners contention that it is
this courts duty to, in this case, re-
view the action of the court below, in
overriding the demurrers to some Of
the indictments and refusing to quash
the others.
1.-The orders overriding the demur-
rers and refusing to quash are merely
interlocutory," the opinion says, and
no right to appeal therefrom, to n
court, lies until after conviction and
sentence"
The court, therefore, is of the opin-
ion that it has no authority to review
the action of the court below on the
demurrers and the motion to quash.
The court says the only other conten-
ton of the petitioners that requires no.
tice is that they cannot have a fair and
impartial trial in the court of quarter
sessions of Philadelphia county where
the indictments are still pending on is
sues of fact raised by the defendants
pleas of mot guilty." On this point the
cour says: w cannot assent to this
proposition. On the contrary, we are
satisfied Ia the petitioners can and
will have a fair and impartial trial in
that court before a competent and un-
prejudiced judge and a fair and i'm
partial jury. If we thought otherwise
we would not hesitate a m tc
send the indictments to another juris.
diction for trial"
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no PREvENr LYNCHING
Recommendation OF Governor E1ler.
bee I'm His Annual messBge 10 the
LEGISLATURE Of south carolina

A<eX4Uf0IuTe Oh SOWk1 AaHObAM4
Columbia, Sc, January 10.-The
general assembly of South Carolina
convened in annual session today.
There are eighty new members in the
body. In the house the former speak
er, Frank B. Gary, was unanimously
elected.
In the senate the governors message
was read and two resolutions looking
to the extension of time for the pay
ment of taxes were introduced. Gov
ernor Ellerbee, in his message took oc-
casion to refer to a matter now very.
much in the public mind, the subject OF
lynching. He says at the outset:
During the last several years there
has been an apparently increasing dis
position among us to attempt the
! righting of real or supposed wrongs
by the law-breaking practice OF lynch
ing" He says it ear the abolition
| of the regular order Of justice and this
is the first step in the destruction Of
| social order.
Concluding he says the remedy sug-
guests ITSELF" See to it as conservatOrs
of the peace of the state, as makers OF its
laws, as the guardians of its sacred
| honor, that it's laws are SO enacted n
| so administered that conviction and
punishment shall follow crime with the
/ certainty that links effects to causes.
1t is possible, it is necessary in the
protection of society n vindication
| of justice that a stop be put to those
legal bubbles, those astute technicali-
| ties, that vice encouraging dilatoriness
- 4Lo os~tctrat ~ ifcfio0
which tends not so much to the pro-
lection of individual rights as to the
| subversion of the rights of society and
to utter loss of confidence in the sta
bi1ity and eve in the possibility of gov
eminent.
THAT an officer charged with the
| duty Of holding and of protecting a
prisoner should suffer him to be seized
and snatched from the hands of the
representatives of the states power and
sovereignty should constitute forfeiture
in itself Of his Office, for it is confess
sion of ~indisposition or of inability to
perform the high duty committed to
him. Such officers will never correct
lawlessness, for they are either in SYM
pathy with it OF they are afraid Of it"
LAS an additional measure of restraint
it would be we'll, and I recommend
that any county in which the crime of
lynching is committed shall be liable
to the heirs of the victim Of the lynch
ers in the sum of $4,000 and that men
who shall be convicted Of participation
in lynching shall be deprived Of the
right to cote or hold office in the state"
He referred to the ever interesting
subject of the ~dispensary in existence.
He recommends the submission of the
question of dispensary or prohibition
to the people for a popular vote and
letting each county decide on which
it will adopt. High license as a fac
tor in the vote is omitted, though it was
generally expected. The laws delay is
vigorously handled in what he says
about the courts of the state.
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Effect of Sale of The G. #. & ". ". Rail.

Enect OF Sale OF The e. f. & Y. W Rail.
way p
The Fayetteville Observer of Janu-
airy 10th says:
We commend the following interest
ing communication from a valued cor
respondent, to all concerned:
There is much larm felt because of
the sale of the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley to the Atlantic Coast Line. Of
course there must necessarily be many
changes made, some that will affect
the condition of some Of our best young
men, but h a the Coast Line will in
Jure n town by removing shops and
doing other things nurtful to the place
is not to be expected. They have bought
the road n expect to make money
by it, n they are not apt to do any
thing to III town that will in the least
affect it's trade. Their policy, for their
own good, is to build up, not tear
down.. Fayetteville people must har-
monte with them n try to be help
erS to the road, and if they do there
a be little fear that a. town situated
as Fayetteville with so many natural
advantages-will be hurt.
1t is ~self-interest that awakens in
us the spirftto do, and the
OF the Coast Linz are men of brains
and calculate far ahead. They will, as
is their interest, try to build up every
town on its road and max two blades
of grass grow where only one is now
growing.
The Coast Line can now, from this
point. join with other roads and pene-
trate into new fields. What could be
easier than to connect with the Aber-
deem and Rockfish railroad at Endor
only twenty miles from Fayetteville?
joining this, go to the little centre
of railroads, Aberdeen, in Moore coun-
ty, at which place it will meet the
Aberdeen n Asheboro and Aberdeen
and Mt. Gilead. Mt. Gilead is only
eight miles distant from Norwood.
Connect here, and we have a through
route to Salisbury. So, by connecting
at Endor or Raeford, We will have
through routes to Concord and Sails
bury. There is also another railroad
being built by Mr.. Eknout, called the
Moore County and Concord. Over TWEEN
ty miles of this has been built or is
ready for the iron. These roads go into
a section never until recently traversed
by the iron horse. In days gone by
this trade was with Fayetteville, and
it, of necessity, will be so again if these
short connections were made.
Wilmington is their nearest outlet
to the sea- 1t would realize as much
or more benefit from it than Fayette-
vile, but Fayetteville would lose moth
ing by the Joining of Moore, Montg0m-
cry, part of Stanly and the section on
the Uwharrie. 1t is a fertile valley,
and the country is fast improving. II
is a matter worthy Of at least OF
thought by people and the Atlantic
Coast Line. Let the two fraternize.
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Democratic Primary in New Bern

The New Bern Journal of yesterday
says
The election for candidates for
mayor city tax collector and clerk,
chief of police and councilmen from the
six wards, who are to be recommended
to the legislature under h proposed
change of the city charter Of New
Bern, was held yesterday.
The election was strictly a white one
and democratic, there being no votes
cas- by republicans.
The vote was a full one, and while
there were a good many candidates for
all the offices, everything proceeded
quietly, so quietly that the large vote
cast was a. surprise to every one.
Frank T. Patterson, for mayor and
John M. Hargett, for chief of police,
were elected. There being no majority
vote for tax collector and clerk, there
must be another election held, tomor-
row, and the candidates to be voted
for will be j. j. Tolson and S. H. Lane.
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e Your Sister

A Beautiful Complexion is an impos-
sibility without good pure blood, the
sort that only exists in connection with
good digestion, a healthy liver and
bowels. KarFs Clover Root Tea acts
directly on h bowels, liver and kid
neys keeping them in perfect health
Price Is cts. and so cts.
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To the Public

We are authorized to guarantee
every bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy and If not satisfactory to re-
fund the money to the purchaser. There
is no better medicine made for la
grippe, colds and whooping~ cough.
Price, Is and soc per bottle. Try it. r.
r. Bellamy.
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SCRATCHED TILL RAW
Eczema on Leg from Knee to Toe. No
Rest Day or Night. Doctors SaIves,
etc., Could Not Cure. CuTl.
CuRA Remedies Cured.

My husbands legs, from knss - - -
itching with Eczema. He had no res day -
night, and would scratch 30 his legs would be
raw. He had a good many doctors, who gave
him about a peck of bottles, salve and other
things to rub on. but none did him any good. I
told him to try CUTIcURA remedies He went
that instant and got CUr1cuRA SOAR, CUrICURA
(ointment), and CUTIcURA REsoLvENT. That
nighthe rested well, and kept getting better until
he was cured. Mrs. H. JENKINS, Middleboro, Ky.
INSTANT RKLIxr AND SPEEDY CURE TREATMENT. "A
warm bath with CUTICURA SOAP, and q single amounting
with CUTIoURA, followed by q fun dose Of CurIcuRA
REsoLvENT, instantly relieves and speedily cures the
most torturing and disfguring humors of the skin, scalp,
and blood, with loss of hair, when all else faals.
Sold throughout the world. POTTER d. AND C. Corr,
6ole Props, Boston. chow to Cure Every Humor, free.
Save YOUR HAIR By Cum csaao sa.H gse:. with
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WILMINGTON MARKETS.

Wilmington, ~. c.. January IL.
Receipts of cotton today-2Ti bales.
Receipts on same day last year-I,o65
bales. b
This seasons receipts TO date-2I1.s sos
bales.
Receipts 10 same date last year-27T.-
096 bales
The quotations posted at 4 o'clock
today at the exchange:
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May 900. 5.071k 5.12k 5.O2k 5.12k
New York January 1I.-Flour duh
and easy. closing a shade firmer with
the late bulge in wheat. Winter pat
ents s3.55@3.65.
Wheat-Spot firm: No. 2 red S0kc.
Options opened weaker; bears held
control most of the day b~y-Feason of
scant speculation, lower English cables
and heavy southwestern selling, but
were finally alarmed over big clear
ances and export Developments. Prices
in the last hour therefore rallied sharp
ly and closes &Gkc net higher with
the undertone strong. March closed
at 7S%c; May closed at 75Ac.
Corn-Spot firm; No. 2 43Ad43Nc.
Options opened easier with wheat, but
displayed subsequent strength on large
clearances, Liverpool steadiness and
sympathy with provisions, closing firm
at &c net advance. May closed at
41Bc.
Oats-Spot quiet: No. 2 33hc. Options
neglected and nominal.
Lard-Firmer: western steamed S.. SO:
January S5.5S nominal; refined firm.
Eggs-Steady; state and Pennsylya-
mia 24c: western fresh 221zc; south
ern 23c.
Rice-Steady.
Cotton Seed OLA strong undertone
was reported and higher prices asked
owing to- scarcity of desirable grades
n another advance in lard. Prime
crude 1skG1shc; summer yellow 21L6
&c; butter grades 2S929c.
Cofee-Options opened steady at nm
changed prices, ruled exceptionaIIv
dull with easier undertone under Iocal
liquidation. European and Brazilian
accounts being-unsatisfactory and local
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NAVAL STORES.
Spirits t%urpentine market opened
quiet with small sales at 4shc and
42%c. and closed with offerings at
same figures. but nc takers.
Rosin quiet at s7hc and Si.02nc.
Tar steady at $1.10.
Crude turpentine quiet at $3.50 and
$3.50.
Prices same day last year-Spirits
~turpentine 32nc and SIC: rosin $i.15
and s1.20; tar s1.05; crude turpentine
$40 and $50.
Receipts today-5 casks spirits tur-
p%entine, 127 barrels rosin, 259 barrels
tar, S barrels crude ~turpentine.
Receipts to same day last year-64
casks spirits turpentine. 6S7 barrels
rosin. 200 barrels tar, Z barrels crude
~turpentine.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Peanuts-45 to soc.
Rice-Lowlands. 90c to s1.10: upland.
65 to soc, on basis of As pounds to
bushel.
Corn-47 to 4Sc.
Corn meal-5c.
Cow peas-50 10 e0c.
North Carolina Bacon-Hams, 10 to
lie; shoulders, 6s to &c; sides, S to
SIC.
Chickens-Firm: spring 10 TO 12kc;
hens, IA to 1sc: roosters, IA to Ice.
~Eggs-Steady at 1212c.
Shingles-Per 1000 five inch, hearts
and saps, $1.50G2.10; six inch, s2.5o6
$50.
Timber at $500 to $500 per 1000 feet.
, 1899-01-18

other sections of the state. They are
efforts in the right direction and will
do ore to destroy the wolves than any
legislation. The cattle business is
healthy, growing and prosperous and
big enough to take care of itself.
why wouldn't it be a good scheme
for the wolf bounty lobbyists to ask
the state to erect barns to protect their
stock from the billiards on the range?
1t would be quite in line with the pres
emit demand OF a state bounty on wolves
at 500 per head, which will cost the
state at least 800, 900 in two years il
the demand is complied with. 1t will
then be in order to invoke legislation
to protect the sheep of the state against
seal and any other incidental losses in
CURED in the business"
, 1899-01-18
OPPOSES THE BOUNTY.

The Denver News has an occasional
lucid interval. In referring to the wolf
bounty proposition it says:
I'VE are pleased to note the fact that
the fair-minded stockmen of the state
do not ask that wolf bounties be paid
from the state treasury. Those who
have employed attorneys and newspa-
pers to influence legislation in that be-
half do not represent the best senti-
ment Of any class of taxpayers. In diff
ferent parts of the state stockmen are
forming local associations and paying
for the destruction of wolves from a CO.
operative fund raised by themselves.
"In this county twenty stockgrowers
around Cheyenne have recently signed
an agreement to pay 81 each for every
wolf killed in the neighborhood. This
agreement is being published with the
signature of each party. and a treasurer
is appointed, who will pay the sum OF
$40 for each wolf killed and shown to
one OF the signers before removal from
the spot where killed or trapped.
similar associations are formed IN
, 1899-01-18

Young children, to avoid
marasmus, s~crofula, or
ricketts,, and develop healthy
tissues, bones and teeth, need
fats and hypophosphites. DR..
w. Gilman Thompson,
Prof. Materia Medica and
Therapeutics, in the Uni
versity of New York, asserts
that Cod-liver Oil is the
best fat for the purpose.
SCOTS Emulsion is cod
liver oil partly digested and
combined. with hypophos-
phites, it gives children
material for rich blood,
solid flesh, bones and teeth.
SCOTT Sc < R nd ,;iso, ~ d~,ussi;..
, 1899-01-18

OF course, we find people who have
each other until old age; bus those
cases are rare. If we were to make
statistics of the greatest and most en-
during passions the world has yer
known, | have no doubt it would be
found that the lovers were
nearly always past twenty-five, and 1t
Is a suggestive fact hat as a rule a
mans second wife and a woman's sec
ond husband usually receives more love
than the first.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
in Pittsburg Dispatch.
, 1899-01-18
THE PROPOSITION FIGURED.

The appropriation of S24 900 made
by the Fourth legislative assembly for
the destruction of predatory wild ami
mails has been exhausted. OF the
most, s3,54S, and Big Horn county the
least, 1891. The animals killed were
divided as follows: Coyotes, 1885;
gray wolves, 3,493; black wolves, 10;
wolf pups, 769. Albany county receiv-
ed Sill, and it's tax on cattle amount
ed TO more than any county in the state
except Laramie. The small number Of
wolf pups killed would seem to indicate
that they are extremely coy and hard
err to kill than the old wolves, or else
there is an inclination on the part of
the wolfers to let them grow and thus
obtain from the state a larger bounty.
During the past two years the wolf
bounty law has worked in a manner
most unequal, aside from the fact that
it is a special appropriation for a par
ticular class Of citizens of the state. To
illustrate, Converse county received as
much from the state treasury for wolf
counties as Albany, Fremont, Sweet
water, Uinta and Big Horn combined.
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature appropriating $40, 900 for
wolf bounties. This bill calls for a
bounty of S. on all classes of wolves
and 81 upon coyotes. If it should be-
come a law it will take from the state
treasury almost 20 per cent OF the levy
for the general fund. 1t is a matter Of
regret that men can be found in the
legislature advocating such a law. 1t
is an infamy of which lone of the sur
rounding states have been guilty.
While Montana made an appropriation
from the general fund for bounties, it
supplemented it with a fund raised by
a special tax upon the live stock indus
try alone. Colorado does not indulge
in such class legislation. The great
and growing stock industry of the state
10 ~ "'ie anu ous"' NC winning
~ %
1t is estimated by conservative men
''o''o' WIN e'''
WV Heo Vi = s'"'e' Q 'ne
"eie ie'uineu ioi aei' III 1880
only $50 1000 head. Horses, sheep, ETC.,
"e ie'uineu III Tine pf'pof'ion III
~ w was law ~ pei
eau 'u"' aoou' " pei 'en"' inu' 1t
""h NC aeen oh"' ohis "Dou' ~ per
~ u III So'A nave
'o' Las IL ln "a vi
, 1899-01-18
WOMAN'S CLUB OFFICERS.

All department meetings are held
at Mrs. ]. w. T. Grsy's, o1ner Sixth
and Grand Avenue. Executive meet
ings occur or the first Tuesday even
ing OF each month at the court house.
The General club meetings are held
on the last Saturday OF each month at
the club headquarters. At this meeting
the members are entertained by a pro-
gram given by one OF the departments
President-Mrs. Wilhelmina Brown.
First Vice Presidemt-Mrs. Mary
Preston.
Second Vice President-Ms. Emma
Knight.
Third Vice President-Mrs. Nellie
Corthell. /,
Fourth Vice President-Mrs. Emma
Symons.
Recording Secretary-Mrs. Anna
Spafford.
Corresponding Secretary-Miss June
e. Downey.
Treasurer-Mrs. Harriet Balch.
Assistant Treasurer-Miss Nellie
Johnson.
Board of Directorx-Mrs. Nettie
Harris, Mrs. Mary Bellamy, Mrs. Han
nah Durlacher, Mrs. Fannie Manasse,
Mrs. Elizabeth Ingham.
DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICERS.
SOCIAL SCIENCE. Meets second
and fourth Wednesdays, from $3.50 to s.
Mrs. Nettie Harris, Chairman.
Miss Adelaide Brown, Secretary.
MOTHERS. Meets second and fourth
Mondays from 2:30 to 4.
Mrs. Annie Arnold, Chairman.
Mrs. Maud Buftum, Secretary.
HISTORY AND LITERATURE.
Meets first and third Saturdays from
8 to A:3O.
Mrs. Anna DeLario. Chairman.
Mrs. Kate Holmes, Secretary.
ART. Meets first and third Thurs
days, from 1880 to 9 p. n.
Mrs. Emma Knight, Chairman
Mrs. Eleanor Fox, Secretary.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE. Meets first
and third Saturdays. from 2:3O to 4.
Mrs. Fannie Manasse, Chairman.
Mrs. Lucy Hodgeman, Secretary.
HEALTH. Meets every Tuesday.
from 2:3O to 4.
Mrs. AIDA Ulen, Chairman.
Mrs. Cora Brees, Secretary.
MUSIC. Meets first and thard Tues
days, from 1880 to 9 .. m
Miss Wdnant, Chairman.
Mrs. May Baird Campbell, Secretary
CURRENT EVENTS. Meets second
md fourth Wednesdays at 2 p m.
Mrs. Jennie Land, Chairman
Mrs. Hattie Denig, Secretary.
, 1899-01-18

precaution should be taken to avoid
1t. Its specific cure is One Minute
Cough Cure. A. J. Sheperd, publisher
Agricultural Journal and Advertiser,
Eden, Mo-, says: mo one will be dis
appointed in using One Minute Cough
Cure for La Grippe" Pleasant to take,
quick to act. F. H. EgglestoE.
, 1899-01-18

Members of the legislature were de-
lighted with the treatment they receiv-
ed at the hands of the people of Lara
mie and with one accord they proclaim
the state institutions here all right and
in first-class condition.