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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

named Alex. Peace. That he should be
prominent in a populist convention is
proof positive that this Is a day OF
small things with them. He was made
chairman OF the Corporation Commits
sion. This little fellow was prophetic
He said. Let Thompson follow Ay-
cock and he will run him into his mol
low" Cy knows better h that He
has a memory as well as Astounding
cheek" Butler has a high opinion OF
his county Sampson. He says that
county will go l.5o0 majority against
the democrats. We are not willing TO
believe hat il is possible for such a
number OF white voters in Sampson as
must b included in the 1.5oo are really
willing to perpetuate negro rule. when
the platform OF Butler says among
many other things-that he democrats
must have known the dangerous NTH
section was unconstitutional, which
digniies with suffrage the most dang
erous element of negroes; hat
no one should be more anxious 20 de-
feat the amendment than the demo-
CTdlSp uclldAi0S A4Aok
Of the constitution, be amended by In
serting among the persons disqualified
for office all negroes and all persons
of negro descent to h third genera
ton; that if the legislature does this,
it will have the populist support, If not,
that the populist vote for legislators
who pledge themselves to do it."
The intelligent negroes who can read
and vote under the amendment can
see here what the Butler gang think
of them-that they are h most dan
gerous element of negroes" and that
they demand to 50 amend the consti-
tuition as to deprive all negroes from
holding office, etc.
The platform will hurt the pops more
than it can hurt the democrats. Mr..
Moye was right when he declared the
platform as presented would do the
party vast harm all over the state"
What a condition North Carolina
would be in with la gang of office
seekers nominated at Raleigh only
elected and installed. They praise
Russell and his gang. Tha is their
standard. God save the state!
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24
Wilson News Notes.

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Wilson, N. c., April 10.
The Barnes-Pace marriage here this
evening was quite an event socially.
both young people being social favor
ties. Wilson society was out in full
force. The weather was very bad,
but this did not hinder the crowds
which gathered early to witness the
event At exactly 8 o'clock the bride
entered on the arm Of her father, Capt.
T. NJ Pace. She was Joined at the altar
by the groom, accompanied by his best
man, Mr.. w. W. Vass, of Raleigh. The
ceremony was beautifully performed
by Rev. Thomas Bell. pastor of the
Episcopal church. The bride wore white
and carried white roses. Her maid of
honor, Miss Lottie Lewis, OF Goldsboro,
wore white and carried red carnations.
The ushers were: Messrs- James Lips
comb, 7. NJ. Anderson, Jr-, 7. S. Pace
and Z. T. Nadal. After the
the bridal party, with a few invited
friends, were driven to the home of the
bride. where a delightful luncheon was
served.
Mr.. James /. Thomson left yester-
day for Hartford. where he was today.
at high noon. married to Miss Maud
northern tour, will return to Wilson,
their future home. They will be at
home to their friends here after April
9th
1 am sorry to note the serious illness
OF MIS- Elvina Mckay. She has been
W for the past month. but only
Turing the last few days has her con-
oltion been considered serious.
mr.. y. w. Whitehead. Of Whining
TON, editor Of The Lumber Journal of
mat place spent Wednesday in Will
son.
The Wilson county delegation TO the
populist convention, which met at RaI-
eigh yesterday, was a small affair, only
nve being in the party. These were
former republicans and populists COM
bined- The day Of populism in Wilson
county is on a rapid decline and 1t is
believed that when the amendment
comes UP IL will be supported by the
entire white population OF the county.
Messrs. James n Will Whitehead
came in today from Chapel Hill, to be
present at the Easter dance tonight
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24
HOME FOLKS.

1t matters not how many ballot stuff
fers, b~lue-coated soldiers, and negro
philist speakers from the northwest
are brought into North Carolina in this
year Of grace, 1900, it is a certainty
that negro rule and rascally white
bossing will forever end right here.
1t is an abuse of privilege to import
demagogues and bush-whackers, and it
is a positive waste of time to continue
the vile effort to bring back negro
domination in ful bloom that trading,
low-down out-at-the-heel politicians
may keep their grip upon the public
crib and the succulent teat.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24
q, Nassau ST., New York.

Mark Twain lives In London. He Is
none the less a characteristic Ameri-
can humorist. n John Bull can not
change him. He is making money
and making English friends. He ap-
peared before a select m OF
the house of lords and made a very
impressive and convincing argument
in behalf of perpetual copyright. as
Just and humane a proposition as can
be conceived OF. His argument is 50
satisfactory and so much on the line
of Justice and common sense, We copy
a small part. OF course he got off
some fun. He thought no distinction
ought to be made between a book and
real estate, considered as property:
Was it sound public policy. he ask
ed. that conferred a benefit on the ma
ton as against the author? Out OF a
hundred tons OF books ninety-eight
tons were light literature. My works
are light said Mr.. Clemens, with a
sigh. Many unthinking thinkers
think they think he added. Cheap
editions of deathless books woul be
insured by perpetual copyright Only
one book in the world. he believed.
had been fairly treated since Queen
Annes' time and that was the English
Bible 1t was the only book in pos
session Of perpetual copyright. Had
that deprived the public Of cheap edi-
tons? 1t had not. How many books
outIived the forty-two years limit?
He placed those forty-two years i'm
mortals at sixty-fve. The amount
which would accrue to authors and
their relatives from perpetual copy
right would not exceed E6,500 per an
mum in all.
"Tn the course of ron1V m questions
Mr.. Clemens remarked incidentally,
that some of his manuscript was once
taxed as gas works Qaughter) and
that hurt me. that did,"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24
The Wessenger.


There are really living two Tennes-
part of East Tennessee, Brownlow's
and Jeter Pritchards' county, turned
against h south and its cause, and
were tories in the great fight for libsr-
ty and secured independence. A Ten
nessee teat-sucker, Judge Oliver Tenn
pie. publishes a work in g~lorification
of the traitors, and feels glad, no
doubt, III he has received the MEM
cries of men who were unfaithful to
the cause Of freedom and freemen
from forgetfulness. The North always
halls with great satisfaction anything
that will help to bolster up its bad, its
wicked cause, the most foul and vene-
nous since the days OF the Duke Of
AIva. Even the literary Saturday Re-
orial. 1t says:
THE loyal people of East Tennessee
drew their inspiration from the pa
triotic speeches of Webster and Clay
and the magnificent example of Presi-
dent Jackson The latter, in 1892,
crushed notification, and, in his dying
hours declared that il the leaders in
that scheme had persisted he would
have hanged them as high as m
Another reason why the people re-
manned loyal was the strong and
determined leaders encouraged them
and shared their perils."
The Evening Post is also moved to
much approval.
Webster, in his Capon Springs
speech, admitted that the union was
simply a compact" and could be
broken. If Clay and Jackson had
been living in 1861, they would have
been on the right side, and not against
their neighbors and the south. A
movement of twelve states for indie
pendence "a a very different thing
from a single state refusing to accept
congressional action. We do not be-
Iieve any man of high morals, of pure
character, of nobility of sou in all
the south fought against the south or
too sides with the north, carrying on
a d~etestable war of devastation and
plumber, and for the meanest, lowest
ends. To glorify East Tennesseeians
who went against their state and the
south, is to justify outrage and VIC
lation of law and the constitution,
and to magnify and glorify wrongs
and inequities perpetrated upon the
fawless principle that might makes
right.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24
~FEED-TROUGH POLITICS.

1t is amusing to rea of the fire.
quent pow-wowings between the two
hungry gangs-the Pritchardites and
the Butterflies. 1t would be an ap-
propriate badge for the former to have
an engraved whisky still-house and
many coon-skins hanging around. A
big bologna sausage and a fox would
mt the Butler gang. When Pritchard
was told by Butler hat he could not
shoulder the negro and make the
franchise amendment an issue, it must
most peculiar. He look time to con-
slider the very remarkable proposition.
His conclusion was most from his
standing point of grab and power. He
old the Sampson legal giant that The
could not drop the amendment as that
would be dropping the negro vote in
North Carolina, and if the negro vote
were dropped here it would cause the
loss of the negro vote in North Caro-
lima, Ohio, Indiana and other states,
and thus greatly injure the national
ticket. In other words Senator Prit-
schard was willing to let h party go
to pieces in this state and look out
only for national matters"
Jeter is very cunning, and knows pre-
cisely the value of Sambo a. a politi-
cal factor in North Carolina and just
which side of his own bread is but
tered. 1t is not that his soul is on
fire, for love for the negro, but he is
fully purSuaded that without him
there will be no more feed-trough for
such as he is and no more bossing of
people every way his superior.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

amendment. The report in The Raj
eigh Post says
Captain E E. Parker introduced the
candidate for d. r. Lacy.
who responded in a happy speech
Lawyer Jim Murray introduced
Hon. Franklin Mcneil. the candidate
for corporation commissioner. General
Thomas F. Toon was introduced by
Professor Garwood; Commissioner OF
Agriculture Patterson, by Samuel L.
Adams, and II. B.. Warner. candidate
for commissioner Of labor statistics.
by J.. R Alexander. All Of them made
brief speeches"
Chairman Simmons was forced to re-
spond to repeated calls. He predicted
victory for the White Mans govern
ment and peace and order afterwards.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

The newspapers of all parties have
been showing up Mckinley's tergiver-
stations and floppings. No other poll
tician ever turned so many summer
.sauIts. was ever such a splendid gym
nastics. His vaultings are immense
and astound both the groundlings M
the fellows in the boxes. He can whirl
O ON questions of moment with
the rapidity Of any veering weather.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

At Goldsboro the negro republicans
held a meeting and appointed a big
gang of delegates to the black and tan
convention to meet at Raleigh. Hogan,
negro chairman, hit back at Major
Grant. There was one declaration that
had in it more of war than peace,
which we take from The Raleigh News
and Observers report:
H said the negroes had been tools
in the hands of a few white leaders
long enough, and the time had come
when they should 10 their own taink-
ing and vote in a manner hat would
be subservient to their interests
Bumptuous George was not on hand
but he sent his lieutenant who paved
around and explavigated nightly
There was no wool-gathering.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

There is talk Of moving hat excel
lent Presbyterian college, Davidson,
from the country to Charlotte. 1t is
no doubt a good suggestion in so far
as the prosperity of the college is oon-
cerned. The Charlotte News mentions
hat "Mecklenburg presbytery at its
meeting last week, at Olney church,
CASTOR county, decided that it was
time for the synod to be raising some
money for Davidson college, and rec
commended that the sum of 800, 900 be
raised by the synod for that purpose"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

The south is very much better ad-t
vertised now as to its industries thar
ever before. The north has much to
say and the press in the south is much
more constant in publishing the facts
as to the south. The Chattanooga
Tradesman published in the list of
industries for the south for the week
ending 14th inst, the following from
North Carolina: "A chair factory.
one cotton mill, cotton seed oil mill
excelsior factory. timber mill, but the
number Of the last there Is not stated
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

1t is pleasant to know hat the Mes
senger is SO appreciated in the Durham
Herald office as the following from it
would indicate: .
Some gentleman succeeds in swip-
ing the Wilmington Messenger from
our desk on an average Of about four
times a week, and if we knew the
gentleman's name and address we
would go the Messenger halves and
have the paper sent &c him, as il ap-
pears he cannot get along without it."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

Robert D.. Gilmer, democratic nomi-
nee for attorney general is a native of
Mt. Airy, in Surry county, and was
born in 1856. So he's about forty-four
years of age. a good age for a LAWYER,
because it allows him time to learn
law, and practice law and gather much
else besides. He was educated at
Emery and Henry CMethodist) college
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24
cock. The Portland CMaine) Argus

cock. The Portland CMaine) Argus
sees and tells it:
There will be no step backward in
civil service reform declared President
McKinley-and he took IL. A war of
conquest would be criminal aggression
and not to be thought Of. said Presi-
dent McKinley-and he is wagfng It.
Our plain duty is to abolish the Gus
toms tariff between the United States
and Porto Rico, said President Nc
Kinley-and last week he moved
heaven and earth to get a Is per cent.
tariff bill through congress. and Sue
ceeded. What shall be said Of such a
president as this?"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

We did not know personally Mr., ].
Kirkland Hill. who for a year or two
conducted a weekly, The Maxton Scot
fish Chief. We regret to earn OF mis-
death at his fathers home, Rev. Dr..
H. G.. Hill, near Maxton. He was 30
years of age, vas graduated at Hamp-
den Sidney college, Virginia. His dis
ease was consumption.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

The campaign opened auspiciously at
Burlington on the 18th instant. Mr..
Aycock was the chief attraction, of
course. and he made an admirable
speech as was to have been expected.
There was a large gathering. Mr.. Ii.
D. Turner, the candidate for lieuten-
ant governor, most fortunately, and
Mr.. r. D. Gilmer, candidate for attor-
new general, also made forceful argu-
ments for good government and the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

The New Bern fair has opened with
much success and it promises to eclipse
all it's fairs that have gone before.
Great success attend it. All the week
1t will be open and much racing is
promised.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

Recently writing of the editors who
were turned down by the democratic
convention we strangely omitted the
name of Colonel w. S. Pearson. the
brilliant editor of The Morganton Her
aid. 1t would lave pleased us no lit
tie to lave had the pleasure of voting
for him. We failed to note tdat a
newspaper man, Mr.. Warner, got The
place sought by Mr.. Britt. Without
knowing anything of him We do know
Mr.. Britt deserves we'll of the party
he has so faithfully served through the
years as the editor of The oxford
Ledger. The Messenger took no part
in advocating aspirants, but it would
have been gratified to be able to urge
the claims of Messrs. London, Pear
son and Britt if they had been more
in favor by the convention.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24
STEEL RAILS FOR RUSSIA.

Baltimore, April 1s.1The British
steamship Samoa Is taking on board
at Sparrow's Point the largest cargo Of
steel rails ever loaded al an American
port. II will amount to 500 tons, de-
stined for V~ladivostock. Russia.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

Colonel Colson testifes in his trial for
killing Scott and Demaree.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

We find this in the New York Even
ing Post and it is too much of a rid
die for us. Mr.. Tompkins is a leading
citizen of Charlotte so we turn it over
to our esteemed contemporary, the OBJ
server, for solution.
ID. A. Tompkins, a cattle-mill owner
of Mississippi, is to give $40, 900 for the
construction at Jackson, Miss, of the
textile school authorized at the recent
session of the legislature"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

In 1890 North Carolina grew go, 900
bales of cotton; in 1898, it grew 629, 500.
In 1890 it produced 1924, 900 bushels
of corn; in 1899, 81, 953, 16s. In 1890. 3d.
156, 900 bushels of wheat; in 1899, 1885,
sos. In 1891, 6,19S,OOO bushels of oats;
in 1893. $685. els. In 1891, 315, $50 bushels
of rye; in 1899, ASSISTS. An examination
of the above shows unsatisfactory in
crease in the sereals. The population
in eight years probably increased at
least 1000, 900. After eight years it pro-
duced less corn by over 1000, 900 bush
els. The increase in wheat was less
h a $780, 900 bushels. The increase in
oats was small, and h total rye crop
was small with but little increase. The
truth is North Carolina can produce a
great deal more than it does. 1t does
well enough in cotton and tobacco, but
it ought to produce more of food for
the people.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

The Florence Is. c. Times refers to
Mr.. Charles B. Aycock as the Wade
Hampton of South Carolina" The able
Columbia State says in comment:
Mr.. Aycock has not and never will
do for North Carolina what Hampton
did for this state, but he is doing all he
can, and we hope North Carolina will
not in the days to come treat him with
such ingratitude as South Carolina
Shove Wade Hampton"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24

"Honorables' now in the North Caro-
lima newspapers. Not only are all Of
flee holders, and all legislators and all
ex-senators, Representatives, ex-
governors, etc, referred to always as
"Honorables," but all who are nomina-
ted for any office, or who are seeking
office, or who eve sought n kind of
office are dubbed with the prefix Hon."
1t makes it very cheap and common.
1t is better to go back of the advent
of the carpet-baggers and use the title
as confined by the fathers than to
scatter around broadcast a title so
wholly undeserved, so uniting and Sc
spoiled by abuse.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
COLLINS DIVORCE SUIT ENDS
JUSTICE ANDREWS DISCONTINUES THE
ACTION WITH THE CONSENT OF
BOTH SIDES.

The action for divorce brought by Clarence Ly-
man Collins against Rosalba Beecher Colllis' 'i'e
concert singer was discontinued by Justice An
drews in tn, Supreme Court yesterday oy cohseit
of Archibald T. Clark counsel for MT ColihS' 440
of A II Hrmmel for Mrs. Collins
Mr. Collins is a member Of the drygoods firm Oh
Within & Collins, of No. u2 Worth-st' ana accotu-
ing to his wifes statements in her application for
temporary alimony, has an income OF $'V'V'O d Se.
Hts first wife was Miss Lulu Clark, the daughter OF
Horace Clark for many years president OF tne
New-York Central Railroad She was the erahu-
daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt Her daughter
was Miss Edith Collins Of whom Senator ChaunceS
NJ Depew became guardian She was married TO
RechId Rey Czaykowskt. Councillor or the TURKISH
Embassy Rome. and a favorite or the sultan
Mrs Rosalba Reecher Collins, the defendant in
the suit now discontinued. was pr1or 10 her mar
rage well known singer. After her marriage
she and her husband lived at No. Al West ffteth-
st until 1889 when they removed to No. 90 west
Fifty-third-st. After Miss Collins had been marrleo
TO Count Czaykowski Mr. Collins announced that
family expenses must be curtaiied, and consented
that his wife should to the stage she con-
suited Maurice Grau who advised her to go 10
Paris and study Mr and Mrs. Collins then went
to Paris Mr. Collins returned but his wife has re-
mained in Paris since she first went there With
him.
In the divorce suit Mr. Collins charged his wife
with undue intimacy with two members OF the
American colony in Paris. Mrs. Collins denied all
the allegations. Mrs. Collins said she did all she
could to stop her husbands extravagances, but he
had chided her for not being energethie h and hneTai
chances Of making wealthy and aristocratlc mar,
a1g T%ge eT9 m 9n and ressakers Bills Mrs Collins
said she purchased the dresses at her huspands re-
Czavkowskt Mr Collins said he had always made
a liberal allowance for his wife ~,
chants ana New-York clubs, the National sculpt.
Society The New-Engand Society the oraer or
tan Museum OF Art and the Chamber OF Commerce.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
GIRL. WITH DRESS AFLAME, SAVED
TENEMENT HOUSE TAKEN FROM
ROOF DOWN SCALING LADDERS.

Fire broke out on the ground floor OF the five
story double tenement house at No. Is Moore-st
Brooklyn. about 10 o'clock last night when most
OF the occupants consisting OF nearly one hundred
men. women and children. were asleep. The ground
foor Of the building occupied by David Do
browsky clothing dealer
Twenty families had apartments IN the building
They were aroused by the dense smoke which f,led
the Railways and got into the rooms Scantly
clad, those who were alive TO the danger gave the
alarm to those who ignorant OF IT, and all
made rush for the front stairway. When they
reached the second floor they found escape by the
front stairway impossible, the flames enveIoping
stairs and hallway They retraced their steps and
clambered to the roof
minnie Shlrk. the eldest OF the four children OF
Adam Shirk, who lived the third floor became
separated from the other members Of the family
Whe they were making their way the roof and
ran 10 the fire escape attached the front Of the
tenement house at the second story. Stupefied bv
rear she remained there until the flames which had
mounted 10 that height. set fire her dress. The
ilFeIlen or Hook ana Ladder No i5S arrived tst
~ uHe 10 rescue her. The burning clothes were
iorn from her and she sent to St Catharina's
I1ospltal She was severely burned about the bcdy
ana her condition is critical.
.,ocaling ladders were brought into play 10 allow
tne tenants to descend from the roof Tie da mage
70 the building is estimated SO The cause of
the fire Is unknown.