The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-05
STATE PRESS.

Captain Kitchin may have some SEN
atorial material as well as congress
sional in his family-Tarboro South
erner.
One OF the surest ways to ruin our
boys Is to allow them 10 go at large
through the streets Of the town; a
public nuisance You had better let
them work for some good man with
out compensation.-Mars Hill Enter
prise.
Now Populist chairman Butler mere
~ for a p~retence, has challenged re-
publican chairman Holton for a joint
Mr.. Holton says the repub-
leans and populist are pretty well
agreed in state matters and intimates
that they would hav nothing to on
tend about in a joint A joint
between the populist and re-
p~ublicans, both working for the same
end. would be a sight for gods and
men. Il is a farce that will not fool
the people of North Carohna.-States-
Vile
The democratic party stands for the
rights OF the states, which Jefferson
considered the very Palladium OF our
liberties. Upon this. as upon every
other true democratic principle, Mr..
Bryan is heart and soul with his party.
When We remember that the president
has the appointment TO fill any vacan-
cy that may occur upon that bench.
it become a matter Of the greatest i'm
portance, in this aspect of the matter,
as we'll as in other most important re-
spects, who is elected president--Sal-
isbury Truth.
Judge Ewart is done for at last. For
many weary months he has been on
the anxious bench. hoping against
hope that his nomination as federal
judge of this district would be con-
firmed. The president and senator
Pritchard have stood by him faithful
ly, but at last it has dawned over
them that the senate would not con-
firm his nomination. By agreement
the judiciary committee will make no
report on Ewart's case and it will not
be passed on by the senate, the presi-
dent ~conSenting, if this course was
taken, to drop Ewart and nominate
another man later on. Who the new
man will be is not known. We are
sorry for Judge Ewart.-Ashevilie Cit
zen.
The Charlotte News says that Mr..
S. Gallert, of Rntherfordton. has dis
| covered a negro magistrate in Polk
county elected two years 6 by white
republicans in White Oak township.
Continuing the News says: There
were two white republican S elected
in that township the same year The
name of the negro is j. j. Mills. Re-
Gently he issued a warrant for Robt
| Champion, an enthusiastic white re-
publican, and he was forced to make
affidavit to get the case moved for
trial. During the republican-popu-
list rule in this county only a few
years g the white people of Dur
ham were Inundated by having a ne
gro member on the county board OF
education. This son Of Africa sat in
judgment on white school teachers
Durham Herald.
AS the eclipse reached the point OF
otalitv the lights and shadows upon
the foliage below-and upon the hills
and dales in the distance-was beau
tiful beyond descriptions; it was worth
the journey to the top Of the cupola
to see it, and will remain a lifetime
remembrance. When the moon which
had hidden the beautiful sun from our
sight was passing on and let the sun
Spring forth with that glorious flash
of light which StartleS all beholders, a
lady who was gazing, with so many
others, at the wonderous sight, ex-
claimed:
Then God smiled and it was morning,
MatchleSS n supreme;
Heavens glory seemed adorning
Earth with It's rare gleam."
This gem is taken from "Leonainie,'
found (it is said) among Edgar Aller
Poe's unpublished writings.-Fayette'