The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-20
STATE

Assaults Of women may be affected
by a form Of insanity but it is a form
Tor which hanging is the safest cure
Durham Herald
MIR. Thomas J. McCubbins viii bring
suit against the city of Salisbury this
week for injuries sustained by Mrs.
McCubbins by a fall received on Coun-
Gil street Sunday night.-Salisbury
Sun.
Durham Herald: The many friends
OF Kew. j. w. Wellons will be
glad to know that he is much bet
ter. For some time he has been
suffering from a very sore hand
and when he was sent to the Watts
hospital a few days ago il was feared
that blood poison would set in. He is
now out Of danger and will soon be
entirely we'll again. He is still in the
hospital.
There is a great Zeal OF kicking about
he law which authorizes the state SUI
p~erintendent Of public instruction 10
use free passes on railroads, n every
kick along this line is Just. The state
should not authorize an officer to ac-
cept presents from railroad companies
nor from any ether company, corpora
ton or from individuals. If the state
sends an officer on a trip the fare OF
that officer Should be paid by the state.
Monroe Enquirer.
Superintendent Mann and Director
Heckett, of the p~enitenitary, are nov
in the west making preparations for
seding TO hat section some 400 or 500
convictS to build the proposed railroad
from Marion to the Tennessee line. 1t
is the Of the penitentiary
management to call in all the convicts
nnyv nrIr nr JTnrl in tho cpoo11a- ~
and send them to this road, which
makes application for 500 men.-Ra-
leigh News and Observer.
The cotton mill men are beginning to
see daylight again. For the last six
months times have been dark with
them. None o fthem have been able
to make expenses and some have lost a
great deal of money. But we are glad
to hear that the price of yarns are be-
ginning to advance and the demand for
the goods indicates that a better sea-
son is approaching. This will be good
news to the south. The cotton milling
business has become SO important that
it affects every other business in the
south.-Newton Enterprise.
The information that the average
northern news gather doesn't know
about the south would fill a book. In
SCiiOlilS u III lSlll dUOul LII IeulllOl
of the confederate veterans which be-
gins today, at Wrightsville, this para
graph is added:
There is something pathetic about
the meeting Of these veterans, many Of
whom have suffered for more han
thirty-ive years from wounds, and do
no get any pensions. although they are
incapacitated from active work"
The southern states not only provide
liberal pensions for it's veterans, but
also, in a number Of states, comfortable
homes: and this in the face of the fact
hat the south contributes it's share OF
the national pension funds.-Charlotte
Mr.. John G.. Mclaughlin, who lives
with his grandfather, Mr.. John Kirk,
in Mallard Creek township, lost a Jer-
Sey COW. a day or two ago, through
the agency of dynamite. Workmen are
digging a well at his house and a left
over stick of dynamite was carelessly
dropped in the feed box in the COW
stall. The stick was capped and ready
for work. Next morning the COW was
found dead in the stall and the, dyna-
mite was missing. The circumstances
indicated thai she had eaten the dyna-
mite.-The friends in this section Of
Rev. j. 7. Chalmers, who has been in
Mexico for a year or more for the ben
eft of his health, have been much con-
cerned lately owe unfavorable reports
received from him. The more recent
letters however, indicate an improve
ment. DR.. Chalmers has moved from
Guernapaca to a town about 100 miles
north of the City of Mexico
The most sublime act of war in his
tory was the joining of the southern
confederacy by North Carolina because
Mr. TinpC1n'S nn19 wfI11 nrnnlo m q fi01
forced her to do so in defense Of her
rights under the conStitution-there-
fore in defense of the constitution. She
vas averse to war. n was almost the
last to Secede, but. once committed, she
poured out her blood in more copious
streams thar ay other state. War, as
undertaken b. North Carolina in 1861,
was righteous. The constitution as the
protector Of the reserved rights of the
states, was assailed, n it stood in the
same relation to the citizens Of North
Carolina as the monarch to his sub
jects. But those Of our citizens who
favored the recent Spanish war acted
a foolish part, in our opinion. The
further ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of hat central
federal power against which they
fought in 1861, a been h only result
affecting us. 50 far apparent.-Fayette-
vile Observer.
AS to DR.. kilgo being run out OF the
state we believe that he is forcing him.
self out as fast as time can roll, and
the quicker it rolls the better it will be
for North Carolina Methodism. Now,
we are not going to discuss the Gattis-
Kilgo affair at ell, neither are we max
ing IN attack On DR.. Kilgo. We re-
cognize the fact that he is a man OF
and courage. In fact he has too
much urage-m courage at times
than Judgment. He is too vindictive
ard delights TOO much in venting his
spleen at those who oppose him. He
has too much OK personal animosity to-
wards his enemies, n is too much
lacking in conservatism to be at the
head of so great a college as Trinity.
is unconstitutional wrangler," would
fight than not. Sometimes when
be is in the right ne Injuries himself by
injudicioLs attacks. Being a Meth
in belief ourself we believe we
bo,-a n r;-L, 20 Nv fhat Dr Ki1Oa has