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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
AT1ASTICYA.Hr CLUB OPENING.
A Large Attendance -Beautiful Decor-
ations-DeliciOuS Refreshments-<Ihe
Dance Especially Delightful.

notwithstanding the extremely in
clement weather yesterday afternoon
and especially just at train time when
the storm was at it's height, there was
an exceedingly large attendance at the
Atlantic Yacht Club opening last night
in their elegant club house which has
Just been thoroughly repaired from the
effects of the terrible storm last fall.
The ball room was beautifully draped
in red, white and blue bunting and
japanese lanterns were hung in many
places, lending an enhancing effect to
the brilliant scene.
Besides the large crowd that went
from the city, a great many came over
from the sound and from the cottage
on the beach and all pronounce the
opening one of the most pleasant social
events of the season. Dancing began
shortly after the arrival of h train
from the city and lasted until clever
o'clock.
During the evening delicious ices and
cakes were furnished by E. Warren &
Son.
Those to whom much of the credit
for the great success of the evening is
due are Commodore James F. Post,
Secretary and Treasurer r. D.. CronIy
and Messrs. J. D.. Bellamy, Jr., and w
c.. Marlborough.
The evening was ~enjoyably spent and
all returned to the city we'll paid for
Drawing the storm.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
FOR WOMAN'S HEALTH
Earnest Letters from Women Re-
ieved Of Pain by Mrs. Pinkham.

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Before /
commenced to take your medicine /
was in a terrible state, wishing myself
dead a good many times. Every part
of M body seemed to pain in some
way. At time of menstruation my
suffering was something terrible. 1
thought there was no cure for me, u
after taking several bottles OF Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all
my bad feelings were gone. am now
well and enjoying good health. L shall
always praise your medicine. MRS.
Amos FEsCHLER. Box 226, Romeo, Mich.
Female Troubles Overcome
'sDEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-Ihad female
trouble, painful menses. and kidney
complaint. also stomach trouble. About
a year ago 1 happened to pick up a
paper that contained an advertisement
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and when I read how it had
helped others. 1 thought it might help
me, and decided to give it a trial. 1
did so, and as a result am now feeling
perfectly well. lwish to thank you for
the benefit your medicine has been to
me."-MRs. CLARA STIEBER, Diller, Neb.
No nore Pain
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Your Vege-
table Compound has been of much
benefit to me. When my menses first
appeared they were very irregular.
They occurred too often and did not
leave for a week or more. 1 always
suffered at these times with terrible
pains in my back and abdomen. Would
be in bed for several days and would
not be exactly rational at times. /
took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. and menses became regular
and pains left me entirely."-MRs. E.
F. CUSTER, Brule, Wis.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
FREE DELIVERY MAIL ROUTS.
A Second Route Recommended for New
o County New ROuts I'm
Scotland, Union and M~eckIenburg
Counties.

As announced in the Messenger sew
eral days ago New Hanover county is
already assured of one rural free mail
delivery route which will be put in OPP
Grafton early in July, the route adopt
ed by the department being much the
same as hat suggested in the MesSen-
ger at the time that special agent Lat
timer, of the rural free delivery de-
partment, was here.
A Messenger representative was told
last night by Hon. John D.. Bellamy
that on yesterday he mailed to the de-
partner at Washington an applica-
ton duely endorsed recommending a
second route for this county. This one
is to start from Wilmington running
III by the national cemetery thence to
Delgado village, down by ". A.
Riach's farm to second toll house,
thence by MaSonboro u by McEach-
ern's, Montford's and Sneed planta-
tions, thence to Elijah Hewlett's place,
thence down the sound to Biddle's
store and hence back to Wilmington.
MI. Bellamy is quite sure that this
route will also meet with approval of
the postal authorities so that New
Hanover county will soon have fifty
miles of free rural delivery route with
in her borders.
At the solicitation of Mr.. Bellamy
special agent Lattimer is now inspect
ing a % mile route in Scotland county
with headquarters at GibSOn's.
Other lines which will probably be
established very soon are in Union
county with Monroe as headquarters
and MeckIenburg with Huntersville as
headquarters. The latter will be the
second route for Mecklenburg an order
having already been made for a route
with Charlotte as the headquarters.
The rural free delivery system is a
very great convenience for the people
who live on the route and Mr. Bellamy
deserves the sincere thanks of his
constituents on the several routes in
this district for his faithful work in
securing them.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
DISTRICT COURT CONyICTs,
Three Men Sent to the P~enftentfar V
The Sad Case of Alexander Tyner
Convicted of Failure to Destroy Rev.
enue Stamp-Decree I'm Captain Har-
per'S Case.

All of the 80 United States prisoners
who have been confined in the New
Hanover county Jail the past two
weeks while h United States district
court has been in session have been
either dismissed or sent to their re-
spective counties except three and
these will be sent to Fayetteville to-
day.
Only three convictS were sentenced
TO terms in the ~penitentiary by Judge
Purnell during the recent term of the
district court. They were Sol NJ. Hill,
colored, sentenced to one yea and a
day for retailing spirits il Duplin coun-
ty; David Vestal, colored, convicted of
retailing spirits in Cumberland coup-
ty, n Alexander Tyner, Richmond
county, convicted of failure to destroy
evenu stamp on whiskey barrel, sem
fenced to one year and a day in penti-
tertiary. The latter case us one of es-
peclal interest for the reason that the
convict is a white man of good stand
ing whose friends little dreamed thai
the trial would result in a conviction.
He has a wife and several children in
Richmond county; is a LAND owner and
has a considerable crop under way
with no to cultivate it. Indications
are that a movement will be inaugu-
rated at once by h friends of Tyner
to secure a pardon. The sentence i'm
posed upon him by the judge was the
minimum punishment prescribed for
the offense for which he is convicted.
He left yesterday in charge of a dep
uty marshal for his home and thence
to the penitentiary.
DEGREES have not been issued as yet
in either of the admiralty cases TO
which reference was made in yester-
days Messenger. AS stated in yes
terday's Messenger Judge Purnell has
tain j. w. Harper, Of the steamer Will
mington $4,000 salvage for assis lance
rendered to the schooner Pen obscot-
IN tne suit, evidence and argument in
which were heard on Wednesday. At
torneys for Captain Harper are now
a decree for the Judge to sign
and it is understood that 50. 1000 will be
the amount Of salvage allowed Cap
tain Harper.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
PERSONAL

Mr.. A. E. Stevens, Of New Bern, was
a welcome visitor in the city yesterday.
Miss Maud Mcleod returned yester-
day from a visit to friends in Colds
boro.
Mrs. W. H. burlington and daughter.
Miss Grace, left Friday morning for
Roanoke to spend the summer.
Mrs. Ridley and Miss Ridley. of
Huntsville, Ala, who have been guests
at the Seashore Hotel for several days.
left yesterday.
Colonel w. F. French, who has been
in the city attending the United States
district court, left yesterday for his
home, at Lumberton.
Mrs =. NJ. Butler and children left
last night for Richmond, where they
will spend several weeks.
Mr.. j. Cox Webb, of Hillsboro, ar
rived in the city yesterday on a visit
to his friend, Mr.. Bruce Bridgers, on
the beach.
Miss Dixie Lee Bryan and DIR. Anna
N. Cove, of the State Normal College,
Greensboro, y. G., are the guests Of
MIS- G. A. Cardwell, Nc. 316 Ann street.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. I. Holt, of Buriing-
ton, arrived in the city yesterday and
are the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. z. c..
Holt, at their cottage on Wrightsviile
Beach.
DR.. J. II. Honnett, left yesterday for
New York 10 re-enter. IS assistant sur
geon, the Vanderbilt Clinic. He was
accompanied by his father, Mr.. George
Honnet, who will spend a short while
in New York.
Messrs. Marsden Bellamy. Jr., and
Thomas W. Davis left yesterday for
Chapel Hill, where they viii study law
in the summer law school of the Uni
yersity under the direction of Judge
McRae, assisted by Mr.. j. Crawford
Biggs.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03

Wilson Times Says He is a Good Law
yer, and Expeditions and Impartial
Judge New Hanover Court Next
Week.

The Wilson Times Of recent issue,
in referring to Judge Augustus NJ.
Moore, who is to New Han
over criminal court on next Monday,
says:
Judge Moore is a lifelong republican,
good lawyer, a splendid gentleman,
and during this, his first week as judge,
has proven especially satisfactory to
our people, by his saving of time in the
court room, by his impartiality and his
swift melting of punishment to evil
doers."
An unusually extensive docket awaits
Judge Moore in this county, there be-
ing now 160 cases. Several of the pris-
oners awaiting trial have been in Jail
sine last January. There are several
cases OF a more or less serious charac-
ter, the one of most unusual and spe-
cial interest being that against Percy
of Dominica and two accessories charg-
ed with being the cause of the death Of
a negro woman whom they lac induced
to fast in accordance with their fanat-
ical teachings.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
THE STEAMER WILMINGTON.
Has Carried Loco More Passengers
Th1s June Than Last-1rip to Sea
Today-Carolina Beach Outlook.

Indications are that hundreds of peo-
pie will ~patronize the trip to sea by
he steamer Wilmington today. The
boat, as previously announced, will
leave her dock at the foot of Market
street at 10 o'clock this morning and
return to the city at z p. m, and pas
sengers who so desire can spend four
hours At Southport while the boat
makes the trip to sea- The teamer
Southport will make the regular 2:30
trip to Carolina Beach pier this af-
ternoon.
Referring to the patronage being
accorded the steamer Wilmington this
eason in her regular service it will be
of interest to note that Captain Har-
per has carried 100 more passengers
during June 1900, than he did during
June, 1899, this too in the face of the
great destruction wrought on the
beach last fall by the storm. The
Messenger is informed that every cot
tage is occupied now as is every room
in the old Oceanic Hotel, and fifty more
cottages could have been rented this
season if they had been available.
Judging from this record it is safe to
predict that Carolina Beach will build
up materially by the 1901 seaside sea-
son.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
TO REDUCE PRICE OF LUMBER.
This Decision Arrived at by the North
Carolina Pine Lumber Association.

The Norfolk Landmark of yesterday
says:
IAN important meeting of the North
Carolina Pine Lumber Association, of
which Mr.. John L. Roper is president,
and Mr.. w. w. Robertson is secretary,
was held yesterday afternoon at the
Atlantic hotel. Quite a number of out
of-town members of the association
were present. The most important
business transacted during the session
was the granting Of certain reductions
to the dealers.
THE meeting was one Of the most
numerously attended in many months.
The association unanimously decided
to curtail the output of all the mills
connected with the association for the
next month. This agreement has been
reached at all the previous monthly
meetings held by the association.
1.-THE meeting also decided to make
some slight reductions in the prices Of
inferior grades of lumber, and the as
ISOLATION agreed that this should posi-
lively be the last reduction made. The
cut in present prices r very slight,
and are only in inferior grades.
After transacting the above bust
ness, the association adjourned to meet
again next September"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
AT wANANISH, LAKE WACCAMAW
An Opportunity fO:' WflInington1ans
to Spend the Glorious Fourth De-
lfghtfully.

Mr.. J. P. Council, Jr., that prince of
good fellows, has opened up at his own
expense a magnificent place to spend
a holiday. A splendid pavilion with
private rooms for ladies, a grand flow
of water, fresh and cool, from an ar
tesian we'll within twenty feet of the
pavilion. The grounds are nice and
clean and the scenery beautiful and
varied, and within a short distance of
three creeks which enter in the lake,
where the fishing is splendid. The
Mr.. Council, and he has made arrange
ments with the sheriff Of the county
to have it properly policed, and guar
anteeS the best of order. No horses will
be allowed hitched within a certain dis
lance Of the pavilion. This desirable
location is two miles east of the lake
shore from the old pavilion up at Lake
Waccamaw and one short mile from
Wananish postoffice or PowelrS Cross
ing, where the train will stop.
There will be an excursion train
which will leave Wilmington on the
morning of the Fourth, and Mr.. H. NJ.
Emerson, the clever general passenger
agent of the Atlantic Coast Line, has
very kindly agreed to stop the train
at Powelfs Crossing. opposite this re-
sort, going and coming that day. so
any and all parties who wish to visit
this place can get off and on the train
at Wananish. There will be convey
anceS at the place where the trains
stop to transfer baskets and children
free OF charge. There will be on the
train from Wilmington a fine band of
musicians to furnish music for the &C.
casion. The people Of Wilmington are
cordially invited to attend and spend
a delightful day.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
FINANCIAL

New York, June 30.-Money on call
nominal; no loans; prime mercantile
paper 3&@4k per cent. Sterling ex-
change steady with actual business in
bankers bills at 1854 for demand and
at 4.S3A for sixty days; posted rates
4.s3A; bar silver 61A; silver certif-
Gates e1K@62A; Mexican dollars 4Sz:
government bonds weak.
COTTON.
Liverpool, June 80, 4 p. m.-Cotton:
Moderate business, prices higher; mid
ding fair SIC; good middling 5 1920;
middling 511-64d; low midling 5 Slid;
good ordinary 5 lid; ordinary SID.
sales of the day were 5000 bales
of which 500 were for speculation and
export and included $500 American.
Receipts 200 all American.
Futures opened n closed easy;
American middling L. NJ. G: July 5
|29-64dQ5 30-64d sellers; July and August
5 24-64d sellers; August and September
. 14-S4d sellers: September and Octo-
Der 4 5s-S4d sellers; October and No
vember 4 $3.50 sellers; November
and December 4 39-64d sellers; Deem
Der and January 4 36-64d sellers; jan
uary and February 4 33-S4dQ4 34-64d
l%sellers; March and April 4 32-64d value.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston steady al csc; net re-
Iceipts 40 bales
Norfolk Steady at csc; net receipts
I323 bales.
Baltimore nominal at sac.
Boston steady at 10c.
Wilmington nothing doing.
Philadelphia quiet at 10Ac; net re-
Iceipts So bales.
Savannah quiet at sAc; net receipts
1859 bales
New Orleans quiet at g 13-1sc; net
receipts 1888 bales.
Mobile steady at 92sc-
Memphis firm at 9Ec; net receipts %
bales.
Augusta steady at s14c; net receipts
III bales.
Charleston nominal; net receipts 9
bales.
Cincinnati steady at sAc; net receipts
l121 bales.
Louisville firm at 9 5-1sc.
ST. Louis steady at 91sc; net receipts
$50 bales.
Houston quiet at SIC; net receipts
|107 bales.
EHE NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, June 30.-Cotton quiet at
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
THE WORK or L.IGHTN; &c.
VI. J.. Corbett's Cottage on W rights
Vile Beach Struck and Misses Bessie
Gore and Madeline Corbet Painfully
Injured by Flying S~plinters-

A most disastrous and what came
near being a fatal accident occurred
yesterday afternoon about $3.50 o'clock
on Wrightsville beach while the electric
and rain storm was al its hight a
number Of young ladies and children,
members of Mr.. VI. J. Corbetts family
Inc their friends, were sitting N Al
upstairs room OF their cottage near the
Carolina club house when a terrific bolt
of lightning struck the building, SPIN
tering the boards on the side OF the
house and throwing them with violence
into the room where the young people
were, sitting and painfully in1ul I'd
two of the young ladies, Miss Bessie
Gore and Miss Madeline Corbett. The
splinters cut ugly gashes on their faces
and otherwise injured them. lmme-
diately several physicians on the beach
We're sent for but on account OF lack
of istruments they were unable TO be
of much service, though they succeed
ed in alternating the awful pain. n
most painful wounds are on Miss
Cores lip and Miss Corbett's left
cheek.
On the arrival of the 7:15 p. m. train,
the engine was detached and sent with
throttle wide open to the city wnere
DR.. Burbank was taken on board with
and yer to Mr.. COrbetts
cottage where he dressed the wounds
and did all possible for the relief of
the sufferers. He thinks there Will no
scars left by any of the wounds.
Misses Maggie Corbett and mary
Higgins were stunned by the same bolt
of lightning but not otherwise injur-
ed. Miss Gore came up 10 the city on
the late train, while Miss Coroett re-
manned on the beach.
No damage was done any OF the
other cottages on the beach by the
lightning. The cupola of the SeashOre
Hotel was very slightly damaged.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour easy; winter patents $4lo64eo;
bakers s2.30G2.s0: No. ; spring wheat
76d7skc; No. . red sec: No. . corn
42SG42Sc; Nc. . yellow 42@G42Nc:
No. ? oats 24Ixc: No. . white esnc; No.
3 white25% d2s%c: mess pork per a
rel sl1.40G12.55: lard per 100 pounds
s6.65G667R; short ribs sides Ooose)
S6.S5G7.15; dry sailed shoulders (box-
ED $6.75G7.0O: short clear sides box
ED s7.40G7.50; whiskey s1.2S
New York. June 3o.-FLoUR-Dull
an donminally 5 TO 10c lower TO sell.
Winter patents $4.25@4.6S.
WHEAT-Spot weak, No. > red ssG
sSAc; options declined sharply during
the forenoon under renewed domestic
liquidation. foreign selling and predic-
tions of showers in the northwest.
The market finally rallied a little on
covering and closed steady at sdIhc
net decline. July closed S7kc; Septem-
Der closed S6kc: December closed sea- c.
CORN-Spot easy; No. > 4scd49hc;
options Were weaker in sympathy
with wheat, supplemented by cabes
and ocal selling. Finally rallied a lit
tie on covering and closed steady at
Nc decline. July closed 47Ac; Sep
TENDER closed 4Skc.
OATS-Spot steady: No. . 2slkc: op-
lions dull N easier.
LAR-Steady; western steamed SOS:
refined steady.
PORK-Dull; family s13.75dI4.5O.
EGGS-Dull; state and Pennsylva-
mia at mark 13@15c; western loss of
13@14kc.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES; refined New
York $7.S5; Philadelphia and Baltimore
$3.50.
good S1.55. e~sthesthesthes
RICE-Steady: domestic fair to ex-
ira 1900; Japan 42@4Bc.
BUTTER-Quiet and weak: cream
cry 17Q1Sc; state dairy 16G19c.
CHEESE-Dull: large white and coll
ored 9h@9Ac; 10 small 9G9kc.
COTTON SEED OIL~Nominally I'M
changed from yesterday. Prime crude
barrels nominal; prime summer<ye1low
36@36hc; butter grades nominal; of
ter yellow 40G41c, nominal; prime
white 40c; prime meal s25. entirely
nominal.
SUGAR-Raw firm; fair refining 4
3-16c; refined firm; standard A. $500:
confectioners A. $3.50: mould A. ss.05:
cut loaf, crushed, $500; powdered $50;
granulated $3.50: cubes 1896.
POTATOES-Quiet: Chill s1.25G1.75;
old common 75c and s1.0o.
CABBAGE Steady; Florida per
crate s1.25@1.75.
NAVAL STORES.
New York-Rosin steady: strained
common to good s1.5s. Turpentine
firm at 46k@47c.
Charleston-Spirits turpentine mar
ket firm at 42c; sales none Rosin firm
and unchanged; sales none.
Savanahn7Spirits turpentine firm at
431ac; receipts 1905 casks: sales 1,1s7
casks; exports SO casks. Rosin firm;
receipts 1886 barrels; sales LIS bar
rn1c. a~ra4~%- A an- Az--
B. G.. D., $1.20; E., SIPS; F., s1.30; c.,
s1.35; H, $L45: L., s1.55; K. s1.65: M,
$3.50; N, Els; window glass, $3.50;
water white $3.50.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03

A powder to be shaken into the shoes.
Your feet feel swollen, ervou and
hot. and get tired easily. II you have
smarting feet or tight shoes, try Al
lens Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and
makes walking easy. Cures swollen.
sweating feet, ingrowing nails. blisters
and callous spots Relieves corns and
bunions of all pain and gives rest and
comfort. Try 1t to-day. Sold by All
druggists and shoe stores for 25c.
Trial package FREE. Address. Allen
S. Olmsted. LIE Roy. n. 7.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03

Hon. John L. Bellamy OF yesterday
received a letter from State Chairman
F. NJ. Simmons at Raleigh instruct
ing him to spend from July 9th to 21st
in the western part of the state in the
interest of the amendment campaign.
The counties in which he is requested
to speak are BuEcombe, Mitchell, Yam
cey, Watauga and Caldwell. THE exec
utive committees of the seveSal coun-
ties will arrange the places and dates.
for Mr.. Bellamy to speak.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03

While there have been no specially
notable demonstrations in n course
of the constitutional amendment cam
paign hereabouts since the visit Of
Hon. Buck Kitchin to this city to de-
liver three campaign speeches early
last week there is a lot Of good quiet
hard work being done by not only the
leaders but by the rank and file or
New Hanover democracy as well.
Faithful work is being lone by all the
white supremacy cubs and it is safe to
predict that very few white men will
vote against the amendment.
On Tomorrow, Monday night, there
will be the regular weekly meeting OF
the First Ward White supremacy
Club at Lambs hal corner Eighth n
Campbell streets and Secretary Lonn1e
Smith authorizes the Messenger to ex-
tend a cordial invitation to the mem
bers of the other white supremacy
clubs of the city n in fact to all
white men who are Interested in the
amendment. campaign to attend.
The club has arranged with Colonel
A. NJ. Waddell to speak at the corner
of Fourth and Harnett streets on next
Friday night. Colonel Waddell has re-
Gently made an extended campaign
tour through several of the western
counties and besides being thoroughly
equipped for discussing the amendment
in all it's phases will deliver to his
hearers good news of the progress of
the campaign in the western counties
in which he has been.
Chairman MCGOWAN of the Fifth
Ward White Supremacy club requests
tho n that oil
lamy, Esq, will be the special speak
er at the club meeting corner Fifth
and Castle streets on next Wednesday
night.
The democratic executive committee
of New Hanover county are planning
for a big barbecue and fish fry in Har-
/ nett township to be held within the
next two weeks. The details have not
yet been arranged nor have the
speakers been selected as yet. How
ever, it will be a rousing time and Their
will be no end of music, good speeches
and last but not least, good things to
eat. Quite a number of Wilmington
ianS will probably attend.
At the request of Mr. Nathan
O'Berry, chairman of the Wayne coun-
ty democratic executive committee,
the Messenger publishes the following
senatorial convention call:
1.-The senatorial convention for the
Ninth senatorial district, comprising
the counties of Wayne, Duplin and
Pender, will be held at Warsaw, Dup
lin county, Thursday, July 5th, at IL
o'clock, for the nomination for a n
didates to represent said district in the
next senate.
(Signed) NATHAN OBERRY,
Chairman Dem. Elk. Com. Wayne
County.
GEORGE E. HOOD,
Secretary.
D. L. CARLTON,
Chairman Dem. Elk. Com. Duplin
County.
w. H. GRADY,
Secretary.
]. F. JOHNSON,
Chairman Dem. Elk. Com. Pender
County.
r. G. GRADY,
Secretary.