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To Get New UnformS.-The mem- bers of the Birmingham Rifles will be given new uniforms this morning at 9:30 o'clock. The uniforms will be given out at the armory.
 arriaee Licenses.-Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to MT. Addison c. Jones and Miss Josie M. Jones, MT. J. W. Hyde and Miss Lizzie Warren, Mr. William J. Landreth and Miss Rilla Harden.
 Arm Amputated.-Robert Galloway, a negro working for the Central of Georgia Railway Company, had his right arm crushed yesterday morning. He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospi- tai, where the limb was amputated.
 Falr Associ iation.-A meeting of the Alabama Fair Association will be held Tuesday afternoon. The call was is sued by Secretary Engsfeldt yesterday afternoon. Important matters in con nection with the fair this fall will be discussed.
 The Alabama Elk.-The first num- Der of the Alabama Elk'' will be is- sued on June Is. The paper will be monthly and will be Handsomely illus trated. It will be devoted to the good of the order. MT. H. W. English is proprietor of the paper.
 Preliminary Postponed.-The pre- liminary trial of Hattie Davis, the negro woman who stabbed and killed Annie Mack, another negro woman. several days ago, was continued until Wednesday by Justice of the Peace Abernathy when it came up yester- day. The woman is charged with murder. She became involved in a
The age-herald., 1902-05-11

Prof. Roof to speak.-Prof. F. M. Roof of Howard College will discuss "Denominational Education at the Baptist Church in East Lake.
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Bank CIearings.-The bank clear ings of Birmingham for the week end ing yesterday were $1,146, ,516.58.
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fire to the shipping as he says the boats are anahsrea mile or more from the aff
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Frenoh Lsdv Is Prostrated.

Stockton, Cal, May 1o.-Mme. Louise touit, teacher of French in thls city is prostrated over the news of the terrible disaster at St Pierre. Martinique, as her sister and family resided in that city. Her sister, Mime. dentiie her husband, two sons, George and Raoul, and two daughters Alice and Anias, are believed to have been killed. Raoul Gentle was rated as one of the most brilliant lawyers and orators on the island, and has held many prominent positions of trust. For the last two years he has been one of the representatives from the island to the French Chamber of Deputies.
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quarrel with Annie Mack and stabbed her with knife. The woman died few minutes afterwards in the ann bulance while en route to the hos pital.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
COAiING STATION Al = Il TIL
PORT.

1t looks like Wilmington is at last
20 get off the side track and become an
important railroad point. Contracts
have been awarded for the construction
of two railways that e a great deal
for Wilmington and this section. Tt
seems that we are at last TO have a
coaling station at Southport and the
lo~ng-talked of railroad to that point is
to be built. The other railroad to be
built is one running west from Ruther-
fordton, the western terminus of the
Carolina Central railway, giving US di-
rect rail connection with the coal fields
beyond the l Ridge.
The news of awarding Of the contracts
for building these two important ines
of railroad we get from a special dis
patch to ne Raleigh Post yesterday
from Baltimore, which says:
1.-THE movement OF southern coal TO
the seaboard with the increasing de-
mand for it in commerce direct and in
direct, which has become of such i'm
portance to Baltimore, Newport News.
Norfolk, Pensacola. Mobile and New
Orleans will be accelerated by the COM
pletion OF a couple Of projects reported
In this weeks issue of The Manufacture
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20

lers' record. For quite a while the water
facilities OF Southport, N. c., have been
considered in connection with plans for
handling foreign bound southern pro-
ducts, especially coal The contract has
now been awarded by the Cape Fear
Terminal Railroad Company to the
Southport Construction Company OF
Wilmington, Del, for the construction
Iof a railroad thirty miles long, between
Wilmington and Southport, with large
coal and freight piers at the latter
place. the contract price being $3.50
i000. The awarding of this contract n
at the same time OF a contract for tn
construction Of forty miles OF the pro-
jected Rutherfordton, Hickory Nut GAP
and Asheville Railroad, running west
from Rutherfordton, n. c., toward the
lTennessee line indicate the tendency -
the mineral regions OF the South
ern Appalachians by additional rail
roads and TO increase the facilities at
southern ports for handling traffic &c
come out of the mountainous section
Another contract bearing upon this
movement is that secured by the Gala
han Construction Company of Knoxville
for the building OF about thirty-eighi
miles of the Knoxville, LeFollette and
IJellico, railroad, which will connect the
Louisville n Nashville with the At
.lanta, Knoxville and Northern, giving
a through line from Cincinnati ami
Louisville to Atlanta and opening an
other outlet for the Jellico and dja-
cent coal fields"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
EDITORIAL

Miss Katherine Hart took an awful
risk in snatching her fiance from a wa
terry death in HackensaTk Sunday.
Marriage is inevitable now, and in all
the years to come she will be haunted
by the bitter thought that she can
balme no n but herself.-Durnain
Sun
A West Virginia editor wrote of d
certain young lady that "ha: breast
was filled with rage" and the typeset-
ter made it rags" The editor flew for
safety to the pinnacle Of a neighboring
mountain, where he could detect the
Approach of an enemy from our differ
snt Observation-Disclosures Journal
=. :. -
"Fishing-pole thieves persons who
go about raising widows and fish cloth
ling from bedrooms, without running the
risk of possible capture and trial for
burglary, which is a capital crime iii
this state, have been active in this city
the past week or so. In a few instances
they have made good hauls from the
clothing they secured in this manner
Greensboro Record.
If a thief IL the night time raises the
window of a residence and, by putting
in his hand or a stick, commits q theft
is he not, under the law, as guilty as
if the had bodily entered the dwelling?
- ;. 4.
The Philippine fever seems to be con-
tagious. The house of representatives
has caught a violent case of it from
the senate.
81 - -
Senator McLaurin of Mississippi, tells
the republicans Of the senate that the
democrats are not discussing the Phil
ippine question for the purpose of max
ling political capital, because the re-
lunrly
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL AD-
DRESSES

In conversation Il few days 6 with
a gentleman who, by h way, was 4
gallant confederate soldier, on the sub
ject OF confederate memorial observ-
ances. he made the remark that the
memorial addresses made in his state
should be preserved and published in
book form. This, he said, was espe-
-.ially desirable as to those addresses
which, both in past years and in the fu-
ture. take for their subject the career of
some prominent confederate officer OF
this state or some important action
during the civil war in which North
carolina soldiers took part.
The Morning Post, of Raleigh,
somewhat the same view. 1t rightly
says these addresses should be preserv-
ed. The Post says:
1.-The memorial addresses delivered
on Memorial day in the state should De
preserved. There is not n that Will
not contain more OF less of much value
historically, aside from their literary
merit. We suggest that each gentle
man who delivers an address OF TINS
character send a copy to the state
Memorial Association TO be preserved IN
the archives of hat body until such
tine as it can be published in full. or
at least be used by some future histor-
ian of the part u state took In the
war between the states.
And we do not limit this to the al
dresses of this year, but desire to IN
all which have been delivered
heretofore, or may be delivered here
after. We can understand that the
orators may hesitate to send their man
uscripts until formally invited, but II
this has not been done we can but be
Iieye the association would be more
than gratified should this course OF
sending them in be adopted. There
were some very excellent n instruc-
five addresses delivered last Saturday
aft a number of points. All should be
preserved"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20

tract has been awarded for the ss.-
struction OF . part OF the read be-
tween R1thsrfS1dton n Ashevule. n
distance of about forty miles
"A portion OF the route Is TO be To-
Gated this moth and construction h
TO begin soon Rights OF Ways have
been secured fcr the entire line.
IL n very important road.
writes the informant OF the Manufae-
turers' Record. .Rutherfordton being
the terminus Of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway. TIL. proposed line runs
through n very romantic country which
has n great deal OF water-powsr and
fine timber, au6 il il not = very ex-
pensive road to build. II connection
with some railroad was made In the
west, say in Tennessee. and to the
north In the direction OF Virginia. IT.
would open up a large area ef country
and make a paying line.
Rutherfordton and Asheville are both
on the line OF a proposed railroad which
IL was recently said would be built by
northern capitalists from Southport.
y. c.. 10 Knoxville. Tenn. The back
ers Of the RItherford;on. Hickorynut
Gap & AshevIilA lire have not yet been
disclosed. but the fact that il via
penetrate tern.ory owards which the
Seaboard Air Line has been reported
TO be working IN quest OF an indepen-
dent coal supply has caused expecta-
lions that II - Interested In the new
railroad"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
THE APPALACHIAN PARK.

In the teleGraphic account OF the
proceedings of the house of representa-
tives on "Wednesday we are told that
s.Mr. Elicit, of South Croiina presented
the advantage of the proposed Appala-
cbean forest reserve" There is a bill
pending IN congress to establish an ex-
fenttve government reservation or ma
tionaI park embracing a large portion
of the mountain section Of the states OF
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
and Georgia. In other words 1t is pro-
posed that the national g~oVernHlehI
shall take under its protection ana
control a vast section OF mountain
country exter1ing along the Nof'h
Carolina-TenneSse line and into VIZ
yinia on the North and South caro-
Tina on the sCuth-that magnificent
courtrv. known as the Land OF the
Skias." with a. scenery
in any section OF the world; with VIZ
gin forests, thousands OF acres IN eX-
tent. of the NEST valuable woods; with
minerals Of every kind known TO the
mining expert, with its undeVeloped
resources Of unknown quantity and
U1aIity-and save it from the destruc-
tive hand of the specializing lumber
man and ignorant land owner Whl
either knows not or cares not what
evils ne brings upon future generations
so he can make a good bargain for
himself and rsaliZe profit out OF pres
sent conditions.
AS I'm other parts of the state, so in
this magnifcently wooded section the
axman is paying havoc with our
forests. Mon is the only thought.
How to turn present circumstances IN
60 profit is the order of the day. The
owners of thes: magnificent forests or
our mountain regions, not only take no
thought for the future owners OF these
lands. but they ignore the effect that
the denuding of these and
valleys will have upon the entire sec
ton OF cOuntry.
There seems to be no way to stop
this vandalism except to let the ma
tionaI government step in and a a
halt. Let it preserve this magnificent
stretch Of ountry in its grandeur and
pictUresqueness-protect it for the
benefit Of coming generations.
We approve Ct this bill in congress
for the establishment OF the Appala~
chan park, not from any sentimental
standpoint, but as d matter OF utility,
and of Justice to the generations to
come. This is very different from the
several propositions that have been in
sroduced in COZ gress OF late to make
national parks of locations on which
important battles of the civil war were
fought. These latter are based on
nothing but sentiment, and sentiment
of the kind We do not approve. For
instance, why should southern men
wish to rear d lasting monument to the
collapse of the Confederacy by max
ing q public park, a place Of recreation
and pleasure, of the spot which
brought such sorrow and despair to the
men who had there to admit their de-
feat.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
THE n COUNTY.

In the matter of doing their duty III
bearing their share of state expenses
and qualifying themselves as electors
continued in North Carolina the ster-
ling white men of Greene county can
not be surpassed. Every white demo-
crat in that county paid his poll tax
before May 1st- The Green County
Standard says:
I'VE are informed by Sheriff B. w
Edwards that every white democrat in
Greene county paid his poll tax before
May l, 1902. Trot out your county that
can beat old Green"
There may be other counties in the
state which have done as well, but we
have seen no statement to that effect.
Scotland county comes next with only
seven white men who have failed in this
respect.
The democrats Of the eastern coun-
ties seem to attack more Importance TO
this matter of qualifying themselves
for voting than those Of the west.
The republicans for years have charg-
ed n pretended to believe that the re-
suits of elections in the negro counties
of the east were obtained through
fraud n corruption, and that the re-
suits were of themselves, when compar-
with the vote farther west, proof Of
that fact.
The difference in interest in qualify
ing themselves as electors shown by
the lit men of the two sections of the
8 -I---- 49,, A. e 49,
eastern counties make a so much better
showing in election results than those
of the counties farther west.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
Dunn News Notes.


Correspondence of The Messenger.l
Dunn, N. c., May 16.
DR.. W%inston's address yesterday to
the Dunn high school was very practi-
cal Int full Of good advice n thought
for the youth of the state. He held
North Carolina up as the grandest state
of the union n advised the young
men and women of the state to learn
some trade and remain on their native
heath. All the closing exercises were
well rendered. Dr.. Winston especially
spoke in h highest terms of Dunn rs
the city Of Eastern Carolina.
Hon.. D.. H. Mclean will deliver the
instant to the Newton Grove high
school. Professor Robinson principal.
Mr.. T. l.. Gerald, formerly of our town
but now if Kansas City. came in last
week and brought a car load Of stock.
Mr.. J. c. Cowell went to Greensboro
Monday to attend the grand lodge OF
odd Fellows. He is the representative
from Lucknow, No. lis
The machinery for the Oregon Chair
Company is being placed, and n day
about the first of June the whistle will
blow and wheels turn.
The crop prospects are very fattering
at present. Cotton and tobacco promise
to be god. The farmers are at work
and in good spirits.
The Cape Fear and Northern will
soon have the track laid from Dunn TO
Angler, giving US a new connection in
railroad facilities.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
NEW LINES OF RAILROAD.
Contract Awarded for 4 Railroad
From RutherfOrdtOn to Asheville.
Southport Likely to Get Two
Roads-One 10 he Built I'm @
b Extended 20 Southport.

State Senator J. A. Brown, of Chad
bourn, spent yesterday in the city on
business. He is = member OF
the Whiteville Lumber Company.
and tells us that work twill be
commenced on the companys rail-
road today. 1t will run twenty miles
from WhitevIiie to Pireway Ferry, on
the Waccamaw river. It will run
through and open up the magnificent
timber lands " the Whiteville Lum-
Der Company, ard Mr.. Brown "a it
Is quite likely hat it will be extend
ID 10 Southpo.t {.
III following items are from the
manufacturers record Of May 18th:
COAL PIERS AT SOUTHPORT.
Mr.. William S. Hilles. Of Whining
ton. Del. secretary of the Southport
Construction Company. telegraphs the
Manufacturers Record hat the COM
pany has the contract for building the
Cane Fear TarIoinal Railroad between
Wilmington. y. c.. n Southport. y.
O. Mr.. Alvin T.. Morrison. also OF VIII
mington, Del. is president Of the con-
strIlction company.
THE railroad is 10 be about thirty
HlllCS IOIS. ana Is IOT lIS puI pOsE VI
reaching advantageous harbor facili-
ties at Southport. 1t is stated that
large piers for coal and other freight
will be erected at Southport. and thai
construction Is to begin in two weeks.
The contract pI ce is 81, 45o.0 900, and the
Lincoln Savins5 & Trust Company, OF
Philadelphia, Is the trustee under the
mortgage. All the funds are In hand.
II is understood, for building the line.
Southport has long been regarded
as a splendid location for ~coal-export
business. The Seaboard Air Line and
the Atlantic o. Line reach to Will
mington.'
THE ROAD TO ASHEvnLE.
THE Manufacturers Record has OBJ
tanned from an authoritative source in
formation concerning the projected
Rutherford. HIckorynut Gap & Ashe-
vile Railroad ac follows:
This company was recently char
tered in North Carolina to build a rail-
road from Rut1erfordton to the Ten
nessee State line via AsheviIla. A %
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
4 STATE ~REFORMATORY.
To be Established by the Kings
Daughters-Literary Contest at
Agricultural College.
Stoneyvan JncksOn's Bridge Builder
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., May 16.

Raleigh, n. c., May Is.
There is general satisfaction at the
decision of the Kings Daughters to
AXE up the establishment Of Il reform
|atory for yOrng criminals as what
they may TEN their state worH."
Undoubtedly they will have h moral
and financial AID of various other or
CARNATIONS and Of many private IN
|dividuals. The state officials well
know the great need for a reforma-
tory.
State Auditor Dixon today mad" an.
address at WIcston-Salem. at the clos
ing of the pubic schools.
The fifth anC last volume OF the
North Carolina Regimental Histori IS
is now being distributed. 1t is de-
cleared to be the most interesting of all
the volumes.
At the STATE Agricultural and Me-
|chanical cole. = here this eveing the
Biological Club had its first annual
contest Among the subjects were
seed Reorganization" The White
Ants" '"Toads and Their Economic.
value" How Plants Are Pollenized, .
Ietc, Junius c. Gates is the president
of the society.
An eastern league Of base ball teams
is being formed in this state.
E. A Johnson. colored, second assis-
Itant United States district attorney
II from Petersburg,
where he made The annual address be-
the negro state normal school In
this school are a number Of students
from this state. There were fifty in
the graduating class.
Only the mel est routine work is go
ing On in the various state depart
|ments mere at present. News was
never ScarcSr:
At the base of the confederate mon
|ument IN Union or Capitol square are
four lamps, each carrying three electric
lights. These are to be removed and
placed in the grounds OF the executive
mansion n cannon balls will take
their place The lamps are hot lighted
and the iron Columns are staining the
granite base OF the monument.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
THE DANISH WEST INDIES.

Whether or not we shall acquire the
Danish West Indies depends upon the
action of the Danish parliament. The
matter has been settled as far as
the United States are concerned. The
president has negotiated the purchase
with the executive branch of the Dan
ish government through a treaty and
the senate has confirmed that treaty.
1t is maintained that the house OF
representatives-the body which moro
closely than the senate represents the
people-has nothing to do with the
matter.
The president, exercising the power
conferred upon him to make treaties
with other nations, agrees to purchase
two or three islands and obligates the
government to pay several million dol
lars for the same. In other words the
president of these United States, does,
by and with the advice and consent of
the senate, and without giving the pop
ular branch of the legislative depart
ment of the government an opportuni-
ty to act upon the matter-in fact, de-
nying it's right to a voice in the case
saddle a debt of several million dollars
upon the American people.
If the president can, under the clause
of the constitution giving him the pow
er by and with the advice and consent
of the senate to make treaties, purchase
an island from Denmark without any
authority from the peoples representa-
f;pae- u-ifha,f onv oct of ooncracS an
thorizing such action-why can he not
by treaty purchase any other article
from a foreign power What is to pre-
vent the purchase in this tanner Of
warships, Of army supplies or n other
commodity which the president as head
of the government chooses to buy.
We are told that the house has moth
ing TO do with the purchase of these is
lands; that it's only concern is in pro-
viding for the payment The bill au-
thorizing payment of the debt contract
ed by the president and senate must be
approved by the house. We are told
that the refusal of the house of repre-
sentatives to pass such a bill would in
no way effect the purchase of the is
lands or the title of the United States
to them; that as soon as the treaty is
ratified by Denmark and exchange of
notifications made the title to this ter
ritory will pass to us and the Danish
West Indies will be United States terri
tory, for which we will owe Denmark
the sum agreed upon by the president
TO be paid therefor; that it will simply
be a question of paying an honest debt
or of repudiating the same-we will
own the islands and Denmark will lave
a bill against US for goods sold and de-
livered-
The Danish parliament has not yet
ratified the sale of these islands. In
fact there is a deadlock in that body Oh
the question of leaving the matter TO d
vote of the people. The governmen
wishes to have the treaty ratified
subject to the approval Of the people
of the islands in a subsequent plebiscite
and the opposition demands that the
SANDERS shall have a opportunity,
through an election, to express their
preference before the treaty is ratified.
This is the only matter now delaying
the transfer of this additional territory
to the United States.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
No Loss of Time.

| have sold ~Chamberlain"s Collie
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for
years. and would rather be out of cof-
fee and sugar than it. I sold five bot
ties of it yesterday TO threshers that
could go no farther, and they are at
work again this morning.-H. r.
PHELPS. Plymouth, Oklahoma. As
will be seen by the above the thresh-
ers were able to keep on with their
work withou losing a single days
time. You should keep a bottle of this
Remedy in yolr home. For sol
r. r. Bellamy's drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
Stonewau Jasckson's Bridge Builder

The bridge builder with StonewaII
II the following story is true:
The Union soldiers ~retreating from
the valley Or Virginia, burned a
bridge over the Shenandoah.
Jackson, who wanted to pursue. sent
for his old bridge builder.
Sir" he SAID. you must keep men
at work all day n night, and finish
that bridge by tomorrow morning.
My engineer shall give you a plan"
Old Miles saluted and withdrew.
Early the next morning the General
sent for Miles again
General" SAic h old man slow
ly, this bridge is done; I don't know
whether the picture is or not-"%Caro-
lima Baptist