The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-13

NOTIn SdIOllud c4AtDi cAoWS lie tuc
best thing thu far are the statistical
figures stuck about in the section al
lotted to his state as to its productive
ness. It is not what il has at Charles
ton but what it produces at home. It
is to be hoped the figures Of other pro-
ducts are more correct a those ap-
piled to tobacco. 1t dSed to be the case
that the very finest tobacco grown on
the American continent was Of North
Carolina product. and it sold for the
highest prices. 1t may be still the case.
II not that, it grows tobacco in greater
quantities now. Kinston had sold weeks
ago S,170.3 1s pounds.
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High Point is having built a water
works system to cost $4,000. Pure
water is absolutely essential to good
health. Durham is olive to health in
| another direction-it is constructing a
sewage system tina is to cost over sS4,-
900. That is wise but pure water n a
thorough sewage go together to insure
the public health. 1t will not begin to
do to neglect either. Have both and
6HIOTCtu SdIllldIy OldliOliS old IN
death rate will fall and many lives
be saved annually.
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DR.. R.. II. Battle. Secretary Of State
Board of Health. through the health
bulletin reports smallpox in the follow
ing counties with the number Of cases
in each county given: "Cabarrus. "A
90 D1n1in <. Crpann l. GJIilfnr6 I
Henderson. Z: Mecklenburg. IL; Rock
ingham, 10; Stokes, /; Wayne. 10"
Vaccination should continue. 1t is
| doubtful if this ~noxious disease will dis
appear from the state in ten years to
come. The black tramps will scatter it.
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There is a plan for the boiling demo-
Gratis and the republicans to unite in a
Western Congressional district. The
Lincolnton Journal, a gold bug paper,
says that they will nominate either
DR.. John H. McAden Of D. A. Tompkins
of Charlotte, for congress, and that
either Of them would receive the full
republican vote" 1t used to be kick
ing populists and radicals who united
for grub, but now it is kicking demo-
Gratis and radicals for the feed trough.
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From a paragraph in the Raleigh
News and Observer it is to be learned
that out of 1,261 persons tried in the
great state Of North Carolina for kill
ing people, there were but twelve con
victed and hanged j~udicially. Is it
any surprise to learn that Is were
lynched? 1t is marvellous under the
circumstances hat there were not $50
ynched. What is the matter with the
criminal laws? Or is it the indiffer-
ent courts, the corrupt. incapable
juries or a rotten public sentiment?
Something is wrong, somewhere. With
poor juries, sorry criminal laws and
Astounding pardons, it need not to sur
prise that the courts hanged but twelve
out of 1851 or one in every 105 murder
ers. That murder in The second degree
may work wrong to the state and the
punishment of crime in proportion to
the actual officers.
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The Baptists are a great folk in North
Carolina. If their statistics are not at
fault. and the church records are kept
properly revised, there are now fifty
five white associations in North Car
DINA. and these contain 1865 churches,
with a membership of 175, 600. Our la
mented friend, the able John H. Mills, |
used to say that the church books were
not we'll kept-that there were not as
many regular, live members as reported.
We have long suspected that the same
complaint can be urged against Meth
odist statistical records Many a dead
person still ives or the records. We
once knew a membe of a Baptist
church in Granville to drop a score or
two Of members in revising and pre-
pairing a new list. But that was in the
ffties. They do better now no doubt.
But the Baptists lead easily the other
denominations.
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Editor Joseph P. Caldwell, of the
Charlotte Observer, furnishes the Bal
timore Manufacturers Record with a
long and instructive paper upon Char
lotte: Type Of Southern Industrial
Progress" There are not so many cot
ton mills there as we have seen stated
more than once. In the town there are
fifteen cotton mills, and in the county
(Mecklenburg) there are four mills. He
writes that within a radius of 100
miles of Charlotte there are 500 cotton
mills. which operate nearly go per cent.
of all the spindles and over half OF all
the looms in the southern states" He
says:
THE textile and other factories call
/! for crrnn1Snc IF anrfnn u-nnI ;r4a 1anth
or, cotton seed, tobacco. broom straw,
marble. etc, which are turned into the
markets Of the country in the shape of
manufactured products from the COM
mon to the finest grades"
] The population OF all Charlotte, out
side and inside, is claimed to be q. 900,
according to a census taken by the city.
The census of 1900 gave 1901. in the
corporation line. There are five cloth
ing factories employing 1900 people n