The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-10
STATE PRESS.

Railroads should be made to pay just
as much taxes as individuals. and no
more. When you attempt TO enact
Legislation aimed directly at the rail-
roads, you need not be surprised II
they attempt to fight back--Durham
Herald.
That ~threadbare error. that Jefferson
wrote in the declaration OF i~ndepend-
ence. All men are created free and
equal" appears again among some OF
our contemporaries Why don't peo-
pie read the text of hat document oc-
casionally? II might be OF service in
more ways than one--Fayettville OBJ
server.
Some mothers pretend to be so ten
ter hearted that they will shudder at
the thought of cutting OF the head of
a chicken, n yet they Will kick and
cuff their children about for any little
thing.-If Aycock Is nominated for
lgovernor-the second place on the
ticket should be filed from the west
Tarboro Southerner.
The Washington Post claims &c have
found some leading democrats" who
are seriously questioning the advisa-
bility of the nomination OF Mr..
Bryan" Yes, yes; that will do to tell
in Timbuctoo or Kurdistan. But when
you locate one OF those leading DEM
I~ocrats' you will find nat he is lead
ing away from the democracy-Ashe-
willie Citizen.
The negro congressman from this
state, George II. White. who attempt
ed to eat at the same table with white
people in a at Pittsburg,
and then sued the proprietor because
he was put out, has been awarded a
verdict of Ga cents damages. He sued
for 5000. That is about the differ
Ience between Whites estimate of him
self and other peoples estimate OF him.
Charlotte News.
The idea now seems TO be to run
Cunningham for lieutenant governor
we have no objection 10 Mr.. Cunning
ham but since he chose to lay eggs ir
"a governors nest, II is hardly fair tC
Those who have made themselves little
nests to let him get off his big nest
lay in theirs. This would hardly be
fair to our good friends, Turner, OF
lIredell, and Fields, of Alleghany.-Le.
Inoir Topic.
What a pitiful spectacle poor olC
admiral Dewey is making of himself
His announcement that he is Willing
Ito be elected president would be funny
were 1T not so sad. He has lost hi:
mind completely. 1t would be charita
BILE to pass over the house-taking in
Icident, the expectoratiOn It the yellow
cur at Concord, the Greensboro deliv
lerance and the other numerous nci
dents in the career of the admiral sine,
he landed from Manila, and to hin
of him only as he was when he Gu
the Manila cable.-Charlotte Observer
After escaping from jail in Ports
mouth about Christmas, he returns {
this state and conceals himself at o
near Weldon; and just here arises tn
matter which calls for the matte
which calls for the special cOnsidera
ltion suggested. In Northampton h
concealed himself at the home Of an
other negro, and was there harbor
and aided by this negro, h we
knew the general character of Cotton
and also must nave known that he wa
a fugitive from the law and under sen
ltence for a heinOuS crime. And thi
negro who harbored this murdere
was, two years a republican can
didate for the office of justice of tn
peace for his township in NorthamI
ton cOunty.-Raleigh Post.
Those who know him we'll deplor
the death of Rev. DR.. w. A. Woo
late pastor of the Presbyterian churc
of ~Statesville, which occurred at hi
home at hat place yesterday after
noon. He had not been we'll for a mum
Der of years, and recently resigned h
passionate on account of his declinin
health. His people and the whole CON
Imunity We're devoted to him, and wit
good cause for while it is not to
much to say that he was a grea
preacher, yet, better, there was neve
a more sanity man. He was a beaut
full exemplar of the holy religion whic
he professed with so great sincerit
and preached with SO great powe
90 ~-- - 4
=. his preaching or fallen under the gres
Influence of his life will ever cease
mourn and miss him.-Charlotte OF
server.