The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-10

The ministers in Atlanta belonging to
the Evangelical Association, held their
monthly meeting and discussed the Gig
arctic question. It was the opinion of
several ministers that 1.-The cigarette
was doing more harm than whiskey, as
it led to whiskey and everything else
that was low and degraring." A COM
mittee was appointed to confer with the
committee from the senate.
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Georgia like North La.--.- Is dis
GUESSING the greatest man. that state
has had. A we'll known lady of talents
says it was Robt Toombs. Another Writ
er thinks it was George Michael Troup.
He says of this eminent and able man
of the past: Governor Troup vas the
essence of principle in everything he
did. He hated the word compromise
and policy when a principle was involv-
ed. All of his letters and speeches
bristled with principle. He never went
on political crutches and pratcI about
what other men said or did. His mind
was far too original for that, and self
reliant"
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That means very much and we like
it. 1t is not infrequent hat public men
now hobble around on crutches, and
some carry two-a republican-populist
crutch. or a neutrality-suspicious.
crutch. No man should be trusted for
an hour who cannot walk upright with
put any crutch and no hobbling or
wobbling. Tombs was indeed a great
man. and we have been more impressed
as to his supreme abilities han any
other Georgian WHO has come under
our observing eye for a half century.
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The evidence to show'that; DR.. Craw-
ford Long. of Georgia, was the real.
first discoverer of surgical anesthesia
has been published many years to the
country. But the Yankees have got the
honor and thus robbed the south of an
important honor. Everybody ought to
know who DR.. Marion Sims is-a ma
tive of South Carolina, and the great
est genius in surgery this country has
ever seen. He wrote in 1877, in a little
pamphlet. as follows: 1.-The state of
Georgia will, at no distant day, erect
at the national and at its capitol or its
university a statue of Long, who was
unQuestionably the discoverer of surgi-
cal anesthesia." He stated that Long
was the first man to Intentionally pro-
duce anesthesia for surgical operations,
and that this was done with s%ulphuric
ether in 1912. That Long did not by
accident hit upon it, but tina he rea-
soned it out in a philosophical and log
ical manner That Wells, without any
knowledge of Longs discovery, demon
strated. in the same philosophic way,
the principle of anesthesia by the use
Of nitrous oxide gas in 1874" We get
the extracts from a recent communica-
ton in the Atlanta Journal.
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German is an important customer OF
the United States. 1t is known that it
is engaged in the constructing Of a new
tariff that will operate to the disadvan-
tage of this country, when we can not
COMPLAIN If it is done. A high Chinese
wall arrangement called a high pro-
tective tariff is Just as proper for Ger
many as for the United States. In che
wear this country exported 1884. 000. 600
to Germany. That is greater than is
shipped to any other country except
Great Britain. or rather to embrace
more. the United Kingdom. What was
shipped is divided as follows: Bread
stufs. $50. 600. 900: cotton. ss4, 900. 900;