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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
THE LAWLESS GAGE.

z seems that Secretary Gage has
founG out that he made a thunder in
his recent Operations in New York,
and put himself in a rather dark mole.
The world deserves credit for its ex-
eellent hunt after him. He violated law
and got into trouble. He says the
proceeds of the sale, of the custom
house in New York were deposited with
the National city hank"
The World answers this statement
with the law. 1t says:
Section 3,617 of the Revised Statutes
say that the proceeds of such sales
shall be paid by the officer or agent
receiving the same into the treasury at
as early a date as possible
Section 3,61S says that the proceeds
of all such sales shall be deposited
and covered into the treasury as mis-
c~ellaneouS receipts, and shall not be
Withdrawn or applied except in conse-
quence of a subsequent appropriation
made by law"
Yet the secretary is blind enough TO
contend that he has the law on his side
and acted within its powers The World
says, and most honest people of sanse
will agree to it as proper and just:
His assertion counts for nothing be-
side the plain language of four tatut
of the United States. His action was
as lawless as it was Improper. Il was
precisely the sort of fayoritism and Jug
Cling with the public funds which the
laws were passed steruly to prevent.
Mr.. Gage admits his guilt. He has
completed thu public demonstration OF
his unfltness for the conspicuous and
responsible office of secretary Of the
treasury. The least that he can DO Is
tn resign"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
Wilson News Notes

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Wilson, y. c.. January ..
Wilson has developed a dancing fev-
er during the past week. there having
been three dances mere during this
time. The da-..a last night was count
ed the most peasant of the sea
Mr.. T. D. Martin led in his u-~aI
graceful manner with Miss Virginia
Tyson. The other participants were:
Miss BetEie Tyson, of G~reenville. with
Mr.. w. b. Whitehead; Miss Nettie
Martin, of ~Lynchburg. with +. f. Ma
dal; Miss Rebecca Martin, of Lynch
burg, with Mr.. j. S. Whitehead; Miss
Maude Tyree, Of Virginia, with Mr.. G.
T. ~Stronach; Miss Ellen Branch with
Mr.. Ed. Graves; Miss Ellen Branch
with Mr. S. H. Anderson: Miss Kath-
rine Pace with Mr.. Robert Barnes:
Miss Page Martin, of Virginia. with
Mr.. T. S. Pace; Miss Eliza HOdgers
with Mr.. Graham Woodland, Miss
Gladys Clark with Mr.. Campbell Dance.
The tobacco men OF Wilson county
have organized and chosen a delegation
which NETS in Raleigh on January 18th.
The object OF the convention to be
held in Raleigh is to formulate some
plan by which more profit a be got
ten out of the product of the tobacco
farm by the producer himself II is
claimed that I'd the present man
agement the profits are unequal1y di-
vfded. The organization here is enthu-
SiaStio-
The tobacco manufacturing plant Is
now an assured fact. The articles Of
agreement have already been flied in
the clerks office. The incorporators
are Messrs. s. G. Wells. H. G.. White
head, w. NJ. Carter, T. NJ. Westing-
ton, w. P. Anderson and r. s.. Wells.
! The name Of the company viii be The
| Wefls-Whitehead Tobacco Company"
The Incorporation is fixed at thirty
years and the business named Is buy
ing. selling and manufacturing cigar
cites. cheroots. and plug tobacco.
The county commissioners have re-
duested Judge Battle to hold an extra.
term OF court here. There are
here several important cases and the
people are becoming anxious To have
THESE cases settled. Jefferson the muir
derer Of Calvin Barnes IS 10 be tried.
as well as Ruffin. who recently killed
r. l.. Bullock. It IS hoped that Juden
Battle can arrange for the extra term.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
RUSSELL'S

The good people of Lumberton are
very naturally indignant at the course
OF Governor Russell in sending troops
into their midst to prevent a lynching
that was not meditated. 1t is possibly
an election trick to make capital
against Hon. John d. Bellamy and to
pave the way for bringing the federal
army at the election this year. He has
respited a scoundrel duly tried and con-
victed of raping a white woman last
September. Guilty conscience" may
have said, this would make me fighting
mad if in h place of the white men
at Lumberton and 1 would be for
Iynching a savage" Therefore, 1 will
send soldiers there to prevent doing
what 1 would be inclined to do. The
citizens in mass meeting denounce the
outrage perpetrated by the governor.
After writing the above the News N
Observer of 9Th, was handed US, and
we read what confirms that we a
said, that it was a scheme in Dockery's
interest. The special to the News n
Observer says:
After reviewing the circumstances of
Ross crime Professor Duckett contin-
-ued:
He had a fair trial. He was convict
ed. We believe ne is guilty and it is the
spirit of u people that he pay the
penalty. applause and cries of APP
proval.)
who asked the governor to send
troops here? Did yo do it, sheriff Nc
Leod?"
Sheriff McLeod-"I did not"
Professor Duckett-"Nor did the
mayor. Why are these troops brought
here? I'll tell o why. 1t is to infiu-
.ence congressional action in the Dock
-ery-Bellamy contest. There can De no
other reason.
+'This negro was brought here when
he committee the crime. We could have
lynched him then. He has been here
ever since, and perfectly safe once
before he vas reprieved. We offered no
objections. We knew it was to give him
time to meet his God. "a voice We'll,
he's not lone IT'D No. he curses those
who go about him. He's a man of the
very blacklist record. He has been in
the penitentiary three years for another
crime. He's a desperate fellow, Now
he has blighted the life of a woman
than whom no one can prove a better
character. Such careers must be put
to an end, but it must be done accord
ing ITO law" (Applause)
p. S.-Since all the above was sent
to the printer, we have seen an edlto-
rial in the Raleigh Post that puts a
very different aspect upon Russelfs
action. We print an extract under
state Press" If sustained it will ex-
onerate Russell from craftsmanship. We
await farther intelligence. II the
prisoner is not guilty as h court
found, he should not die. If he is gull
ty he is unfit to live.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
SCHLEY CLEARED.

The Messenger from che first esp0us-
ed the righteous cause of ear Ad-
mial Schley, and denounced and de-
spised the low-down prosecutions and
injustice Dracticed upon him by the
Mckinley cabinet. a resolution has
been introduced in congress to divide
onors giving Sampson what he never
won and making him equal in a battle
he. fought with the gallant sea-
man who did fight and who won it. And
Mckinley with his usual slippery way,
wants Sampson to be equally hon
ored' with Schley. Just like the little
trimmer. And now il turns out that
Captain Cook all responsible
fty for the Brooklyn's loop, for which
Schley has been so damned and lied
upon by his graceless enemies. This
puts the rascals in the limbo OF public
ceasure.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
DEMOCRATS OF CUMBERLAND
Meeting of Executive Committee
Want Municipal Ownership OF Water
and Lights-Death Of Mrs swami
Correspondence OF the Messenger.)'

Correspondence Of the M~essenger.)f
Fayetteville. y. C. January 6.
The executive committee of the dem
ocratic party for Cumberland county,
met in conference yesterday. with a
large majority OF the present
There was an interesting discussion
as to developments OF plans for the
coming campaign. and the opinion was
generally expressed in the committee
that the democracy OF Cumberland
would give a good majority for the
franchise amendment. A committee.
consisting of Messrs. J. H. Currie. w
]. Smith and II. l.. Cook, was appoint
ed ia issue an address TO the voters.
The resignation OF Chairman w. w.
Huske. owing TO the demands OF his
private business, was ccepted with
great reluctance. the omrnitte paying
tribute to his invaluable services by n
rising vote.
Colonel Peter Mallett. OF New fork
city, who has recently purchased n con-
trolling interest in the Fayetteville
Water Works Company, was before
the mayor and board of aldermen yes
terday as TO sewerage, Improvement OF
the plant, etc. The general desire
seemed to be for the city to acquire
ownership of the water and light pow
ers, which, il is thought, can be effect
ed in two or three years.
Mrs. Penelope Swami. relict Of the
late DIR. John Swami. passed away af-
ter > Iriaf Illness. 'ast evening. Her
usban died after only a few months
of married life, leaving her one OF the
loveliest of all the brides OF Fayette-
VILE, and to an advanced age she re-
tanned her sweetness of n and
winning personality. One child sur
wives her. Mrs. Charles Haigh. wife Of
Major Charles Haigh. a prominent
business man.
Mr.. j. 4. Crews left here yesterday
to the genuine regret of the hundreds
of friends he had made for himself n
the Messenger. May his journey round
the world be full of both pleasure and
profit. This correspondent felt a great
friendship for him, and regarded him
as one of the best newspaper men in
the state.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
HOME FOLKS.

Rev. DR.. c. S. Blackwell has attract
ed large congregations at the First
Baptist church, and people of the other
denominations are found there by the
scores. He possesses talents, tact, ad-
ministrative ability, popularity and GER
tain evolutionary and dramatic quail
ties that draw audiences. He has had
a successful year of it in 1899, his first
year, having received into member
ship nearly 100, and placed the church
upon a sound paying basis. He is to
be congratulated upon his marked sue
cess.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

Ex-Judge Avery protests against the
talk of impeaching the supreme court
judges because of their late decisions.
If they have nj wrong, abused their
high office for low partisan purposes,
they are not fit to wear the ermfne,
and should be put out of the office they
disgrace. Judge Avery says "he would
favor im~peaching any partisan judge
who may conspire with the republican
executive committee to enjofn the
holding of the election under the laws
enacted by the legislature. 1.-The Mes
senger does not know that the supreme
court is corrupt and partisan, but it
looks hat way. If they are of that
stripe it would rejoice to see them duly
tried and bounced for their offences
against justice, civilization, decency
and humanity. No corrupt judge can
be relied upon to dispense justice.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
Sudden Death of Mrs. w. A.. Ouarfes
Correspondence of the M~essenger.)
Winson. y. G. January G.

Ai0CbS ~ - allhd y
wilson was very much shocked this
morning to learn of the death during
the night Of Mrs. w. \. Quaries. She
had been unwell during the past three
weeks, but not even her physician
thought her case serious. Her death is
the more sad because she leaves three
bright lettle children to mourn her
loss. Mrs Quarles was a leader in the
Wilson Baptist church. She possessed
a lovable Christian disposition and her
death will bring sadness to many
homes here which were in no way re-
lated to her. Mr.. Quarles has Wilson's
deepest sympathy in this hour of his
severest trial.
The funeral services were held from
the Baptist church this afternoon at &
O'Clock, conducted by Rev. w. II. Red
dish. The funeral was attended by a
large crowd, in sadness paying their
last respects to her who by a loyable
disposition a added sunshine t o
many homes.
The pallbearers were: Messrs. w.
w. Simms, c. E. Blount, J. r. Mclean,
Robert Boykin. r. g. Briggs, w. J. Da-
Wis and w. N. Moss.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
Mrs. Bradish, of Detroit, Wrot'
Mrs. p;nk:,ara and le:is the Result
[LErrzR &c. MRS. pIxKaAM 40. sa,s.ol

about two years ago L began TO run
down and cor became almost a wreck.
Host my aH;se-.c aud began to lose
f&h: n blood 1as .opoye-isaed ant
INA - lie our -.
}The /. .crs g: re a lite ton
bVy Ts-sotl.- Ere.v roTse and consult.
ajothcr do -. 'se helped ae i &c..
Il. .uSn na,.-s c'csc oEt3rEea. az
Vbcgan - -. -i-it 5x1&cs and n,
Hst was 50 distu ped that / would have
Hysteria ana wou.ld cry and worry over
BUSINESS m iters and nv poor health.
Finally. husband took me South. hut
with no benefit. This was a year ago
no one can ever know what a winter o.
misery I spent. Would bloat afte1
eating and = "a troubled with palpita-
ton of heart and whites. Having read
by happy chance of your medicine,
bought it and wrote for your advice,
and before having finished the first
bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
compound, the Mysteries nearly stopped
land 1 slept soundly.
! Il used sever or eight bottles with
Isuch benefit that / am as healthy as
tcan ever remember of being. 1 shall
tnever a to sound your praises
Mrs E. NJ. BRADIsH, 179 DIX AVE.
pETRoTT, MICH.
Mrs. Pinkham's advice Is at the free
disposal of every ailing woman who
wishes help. Her address is Lynn, Mass
Every case is sacredly confidential
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

We find this bit of teaehing-the
duty of resignation, of submission
from a Heather author greatly distin-
guished in the long g among Orien-
tails, with a bit of Christian comment:
"Saadi, the Persian poet, tells US that
he never complained of poverty but
once and That vas when he had no
money to buy shoes; but meeting a
man who had no feet, he became con-
tented to go barefooted. If a heather
could keep cheerful by his philosophy,
why should a Christian believer ever
complain who is the heir through Christ
to an eternal inheritance?"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

The Charlotte Observer c~ontemplat-
ing the luxurious habit of the gov
in his patronage of the needy
lawyers of his gang-giving two OF
them nearly SIS. 900. namely, Loge Har-
ris and w. C. Douglas-says well that
IF this rate of compensation for legal
services is to obtain, 1t would pay the
state TO rear and educate its own law
yers and put them on annual salaries
1t was contemplated by the con
Stitution-makerS to turn the governors
office into an ~elemosynary institution.
Some excuse is TO be rendered because
of the known tenderness of RUSSELL
heart n his profound palpitating
Sympathies.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
BRENITIES.

Gage is catching it all around. He
has shown himself utterly unworthy
of the important place he holds as sec
rotary of the United States treasury.
He should be ordered out.
The New York World says of two re-
publican worthless, representive men of
that degraded party:
with Hanna getting a subsidy for
shipping and Gage backing Wall street,
Any not begin Looking
hid turn all private matters into affairs
government"
THE empire is still planning to add
bminion and power" Uncle Sam,
and through his agent Mckinley, is
buy St. Thomas, of the British West
Indies, price $4,000. COO. Expansion ex-
kpands.
David Perkins, young negro, is ar
rested for attempting a criminal as
sault upon a lady, Mrs. Martha ]. Col
quit, of Richmond, Va.
Chere were more drunkards arrested
kBoston on Christmas, according t.
Nation, h probably in any place
bis country. The figures wer'
bus. Its death rate for last yea
Lo9 in the one thousand popula
Philadelphia was lower.
Hear! Two socialists wer
and inaugurated in two Massa
$ cities on the same day recent
nix of bowling Massachusett
d affected.
strike is pending in Pennsyl
vani9kahd soc miners will go out pro
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

The Messenger mentioned weeks since
of the withdrawal of Walter H. Page,
Ii. D.. from the editorship of the At
lantic Monthly, and his entering into
an engagement with Harper & Broth
ers, who have since shown up as hope
leSsly involved to the amount of quite
81. 900, 900. 1t was announced some fort
night ago that DR.. Page had formed a
connection with Doubleday & Co., late
of the Doubleday & Mcclure Company
and the firm would be known as Dou-
bleday, Page & Co. He is a North Car.
Gilman of distinguished gifts, and the
reading folks of his native state viii
wish him God-speed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

We resume our brief studies in Ephe-
slams. Paul, beginning at the 18th
| verse, chapter 1, INDUCES in a strain
of lofty praise and thanksgiving as he
contemplates the richie of Gods glory
in Christ Jesus. He writes to the Ephe-
sian Christians that after he had heard
of their faith in the Lord Jesus and
love unto all saints" that he did mot
cease to give hanks" for them and to
pray for them. He evidently was pro-
foundry moved, and gratitude filled his
heart because of their progress in the
true life, for he called them by the COM
mon New Testament name saints" to
designate their sincerity n ripeness
in Gods service. The great apostle
loved to see the work of the Lord pros
pering in his hands and he reioiced in
the salvation of lost sinners saved by
grace. Burkitt thinks that is what to
6 great extent shall command h at
tentfon in heaven of the redeemed and
Notwithstanding will indulge con-
~tinually in "thankfulness toGod for the
salvation of others, as we'll as our own
and he adds. "and, verify it might be
a mighty ar:Iment to nerve the heart
| of any one to work out his own saliva
| ton. when he sees another, be 1t his
minister. his parent. his master. or his
| neighbor, so solicitous for it, and TAX
ing such cara of it," The apostle avs
he did not cease to give thanks" and
it was for those at Ephesus who had
| accepted the Lord as their Saviour, and
| were living daily in the faith of the
Son of o They were reported to him
as both exercising great faith in the
Lord Jesus while bearing real love fol
the saints, for the true believers who
were members of Christ" He thank
ed God, His Father, and he failed no
TO pray for them. a was a man o.
lprayer. He sought God diligently and
he remembered his spiritual children
in the Lord when prayed for himself
We learn here that, first, the earl.
Christians-the first fruits at Ephesus-
exercised strong faith in the Christ
and cherished a sincere o for God
people, the saints. Second, that Chris
tians We're described properly n gen
orally. as saints" Third that Pau
was a man of prayer. for he desired t
grow in grace and in the owe Of tn
; Lord. Fourth, that it made him happ
and drew from him expressions of graf
: itude of thanksgiving. But to whor
: did he pray and for what Lie he pray
He prayed, THAT the God Of our Lor
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
When You Ride Your Wheel

Always shake into your shoes Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It
keeps your feet cool,prevents sweating
feet, and makes your endurance ten
fold greater. Over one million wheel
people r using Aliens Foot-Ease.
They all praise it. It gives rest and
comfort to smarting, hot, swollen, ach-
ing, feet and is a certain cure for in
growing nails. At all druggists and
shoe stores /, Csc. Sample FREE by
mail. Address, Allen 8. Olmsted, lie
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

She is a little hindering thing"
The mother said;
But still she is my wine of life,
My daily bread"
The children-what a load of care
Their coming brings,
But, OH, the grief when God doth stoop
To give them wings.
N. Y. independent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

a son of Rutherford B. Hayes. who
got the presidency by bold-faced fraud,
is to canvass North Carolina in behalf
of negro supremacy. He will help the
White Mans rule. A volunteeI to re-
mand the state to negro rule and. boss
ed by bad whites is sure to unite more
the honest, decent, real white folksA
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

There is very great education and re-
ligious restitution in the south among
both races. The whites in some sec
tions are represented as being in a most
d~eplorable condition of soul and mind
it ooks very like the Heather were
at the very doors of the churches.
not only in secluded, remote glens in
the mountain country, but in towns
and cities. While much money is ex-
pended on China, Japan, South Africa,
Asia and other parts of the globe, the
need Of the gospel to be preached to
the perishing heather in our own coun-
ties n states is indeed most pressing
as well as sured In a recent issue
of the Richmond, Va, Central Presby-
terrain, we read this and it should
arouse the churches, and the people
outside even, to contribute to the sup
port of evangelistic work of a most &C
tive, vigorous kind. Said this able or
gan of it's church G." the vast and most
lamentable religious and educational
restitution in our dear Southland, and
the ~disgraceful success attending the
effects of the libidenous and polygam-
GUS Mormon thing called a church (but
surely not in a Christian sense; but in
the sense ecclesia was known to be
among the Pagan Creeks:
IF any new testimony were needed,
the extensive and successful aggres-
sions of Mormonism in the southern
states supplies the want. In every one
of the states there are sections in
mountains and lowlands where are
multitude of people, ~unschooled and
unchurched, ignorant and unevange-
liZed, open to every form of error that
is ~zealously urged upon them. The
work the Mormon elders are doing, two
and two, without cost, i~ndustriously,
in country and in town, in every part
of tht south, makes a tremendous ap-
peal for home missions. Not the heath
en- are at our doors, but people of our
own blood and our own language, in
our land. scattered, ignorant, and not
reached by any of the churches"
In one sense they are heather, be-
cause they know not Christ and many
never so much as heard of Christ. We
mentioned before that the late Rev. j.
w. Crowder, of Raleigh, told US in the
seventies that he found a family six
miles from an eastern North Carolina
town who had no knowledge of any
kind of the Bible, God, duty, Christian
ity of even of the Saviour, never hav-
ing heard of Him at all. Rev. Mr..
Forbes, of Halifax, Va, told us in 1863,
that he met with a family in his own
old settled county who were as ignorant
of Christianity and all it teaches and
requires as any Malay or African in
the forests of his native land. He
spoke to them of God and salvation,
and said you know that Christ died to
save you, when the father asked with
a look of b~ewildering stupidity: rs he
dead, what allied him? SEND the Cos
pei to the hearthen in our own state
and south and educate their minds
while trying to educate their hearts.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

North Carolina is misrepresented in
the Chicago Tribune's report of lynch
ings in 1899. There was but one case
and not three as given. If its figures
are exaggerated in proportion to popu-
lation in other states, there is an occa-
sion for severe revision at once.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09
RELIGIOUS EDITORIALS FOR
SUNDAY.

Thou shalt o the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, ar.d with all thy mind. Mat
thew. 22:37.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

Jeter Pritchard, the Tennesseean
will continue to spin his marvellous
fairy tales all the year until in Au-
gust the people sit down heavily upon
him and co-conspirators against North
Carolina and the white folks.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-09

We did not know that Representa-