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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08
GoLDsBoRo ALDERMEN ALERT.
Changed-BugGy Factory Strike
Comes to m End-Gone to Calf
fornia.

CCorrespondence OF The Msssenger)
Goldsbcro, August 2.
The board Of aldermen of the city Of
Goldsboro intend 10 have thcir agree
ments and contracts with individuals
respected. At a meeting Of the board
last night 1t was decided to suspend
work on the new city hall until the
property owners of adjacent lots COM
ply with their agreements TO lear down
old wooden structures which nave been
an eye-sore for years. An alley-way
leading to the city hall from John
street was promised the city and the
board will not allow work to be re-
sumed on h building until a deed for
the alley-way has been forthcoming.
If the agreements are not complied
with by Monday night the board of
aldermen will select a new site for he
city hall.
Mr.. B.. H. Griffin, the proprietor of
the Hotel Kennon, accompanied by his
wife, left this morning for California
to spend the remainder of the summer.
Major w. T. Hollowell. past grand
chancellor Of the grand lodge, knights
of Pythias, of Moth Carolina, also left
for California with Mr.. and Mrs. Grit
fin, Major HolloH ell goes as a delegate
to the Supreme Lodge of the world.
While Mr.. j. 3. Ellsworth, the gen.
tleman sent here by the government,
did not say anything about which site
he would select for the government
building, still it Is believed that either
Judge w. r. Aliens property, corner
of John and Chestnut streets, or Mrs.
Kirby's lot, corner of JOIN and Null
berry streets, Will be selected.
The differences between the en-
ployes of the Goldsboro Buggy Com
pany and the conlpany's superintendent
have been adjusted and the men have
all gone back to FORK. The question
for discussion was altogether foreign
to the factory n its management,
and was Numerically considered by
the men and caused them to take a
very rash act. The community is
much gratified that the matter has
been adjusted so easily and hat the
operators have all returned 10 work.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.
POSTAGE PREPAID.
FRIDAY, U T s. 1902.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES.

IN the present huuse - representa-
1ives the f"pI) .cans have a majority
OF forty-seven. The next house will
consist of twenty-nine more members
Than the present one, and the demo-
cratic campaign committee claims its
party will control it by a majority of
thirty-five.
Tn members of the present house
We're elected in 1900 when there was a
regular republican landslide. 1t was l
presidential election year and the coun-
try was excited and enthusiastic over
the outcome of the wal with Spain.
The campaign cry of the republicans
was: Sustain President Mckinley in
his conduct of the wal the people forced
upon him during his first administra-
ton. There was no possible chance
for victory by the democrats. 1t wa
either Reputation by the people OF
their own action for the past two years
or the reelection of Mckinley and 4
congress in sympathy with his admin
istration OF the foreign affairs of the
country.
At the coming lection his issue IS no
longer the most prominent one. The
wal is over and we are reaping the
evil results thereof in high tariff for
wal expenses. scandals in conduct OF
affairs in Cuba and the Philippines
and charges, sustained in the public
mind, of brutal treatment of the sub
jugated Filipinos by American soldiers
nf III. !, nd nE hirI N.Y.
The people are aroused and alarmed at
the aggressive attitude of the multi
millionaire trusts n combines which
have greatly advanced the prices of
the necessities OF life and threaten to
soon control all the industrial and
transportation concerns of the coun-
try.
Whereas two years 81 there was
nothing in the state of affairs in the
country that tended to aid the demo-
crat3 in securing victory, now the Sit
uaJ-Jn is completely reversed and they
have everything in their favor. An
aggressive campaign senSibly con-
Quoted should result in the election by
the democrats OF a majority of the
members OF the next house. The ten
-dency OF tie democrats in many sec
lions Of the country in nominating
their candidates for congress this year
has been to choos such men as will
receive the support of those former
democrats who two and six years ago
would not support candidates who
stood on a free silver platform. The
prospects for democratic victory are
surely bright.
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when the Clock stops.
f


Ever hear a clock stop in the mid
die of the night?" said the retired burg
lar, according to the New York Sun. "I
did. once. and 1 never was much more
scared by anything, for n minute, in my
life.
I'D just picked up n watch that was
ayin" on the top OF a bureau in a
house that 1 was in when all of a sud-
den there seemed to drop right down,
somehow, a stiffness that was like
death: and l found myself standing
there holding that watch and looking
around in the dark in all directions ex-
pecting something terrible 10 happen;
and scared?
why, for a minute l was scared al
most out Of my senses. And then all OF
a sudden it struck me that a clock that
I'd been hearing ticking away good and
strong up to hat minute in the room
back Of the one 1 was in had stopped.
That's all. but that was enough for
me, and I just slid out.
Il like a quiet house, but / don't like
one with that kind of stiffness II. it;
and then, sometimes folks are walked up
by a loo stopping just about as quick
as they would be by the firing Oh q
gun
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Washington, August 4.-The monthly
report of the statistician of the depart
ment Of agriculture shows the average
condition of cotton on July 18th to have
been S1.9 as compared with S4.7 on June
25th, ia on July %, 1901. 76 on August
1, 19OO "a, on August I. 1899, and a ten
year average of S2.S. Except in Texas
and Oklahoma, which report averages
OF cotton on July 25th four points higher
than last month, indian territory where
there has been an improvement OF 6
points, and Missouri, where there is no
appreciable change, a more or less
markei deterioration Is reported from
the entire elton belt. the decline
amounting to 1 point in Virginia, 2
points in Arkansas, 4 in Louisiana, s
in Mississippi, 6 in Texas, Z in North
Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama.
s in Georgia and II in Florida.
There is a marked absence OF unifor-
nifty of condition even in the states
making the most unfavorable showing,
not a few counties reporting a condi-
ton far above the average and some
ven reaching the high figure Of 100.
The condition in the principal states
is reported as follows:
North Carolina So; South Carolina IS;
Georgia SO; Florida Sc: Alabama II;
Mississippi so; Louisiana 81: Texas II:
Arkansas 80; Tennessee 81: Oklahoma
81; Indian territory So.
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THE BOSTON CASE AGAIN.
Prominent Negro Calls
on Governor and Don't Want
lima.

Bosom, Mass, August Ex-Governor
Crane today received a delegation of
prominent Boston colored men inter-
ested in the case of the young colored
man Munroe Rogers, under arrest at
Brockton, who is wanted in Durham,
n. c., on the charge of arson and for
whom requisition papers have been
asked. The delegation claimed that
they had no wish to save a criminal
from justice but they feared hat the
man might be lynched unless some
guarantee against such an act was OBJ
tanned from the governor of North
Carolina. This they desired to have
Secured.
Clement, c.. Morgan, a colored law
yer, conducted the case for Rogers be-
fore Attorney General Parker. Ser
geant w. J. Crabtree of Durham, N. c.,
who vas sent mere to bring Rogers
back to the south was present. Nor
gan said that i'll the Indictment the
charge of arson is not made against
Rogers, III only in the requisitiop
signed by the governor of North Caro-
lima.
The hearing was adjourned.
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Betterments on the SeabOard.

The Seaboard Ihr Line is making a
lot of improvements on the line be-
tween Monroe and Hamlet, when COM
pleted, will make this piece of road
bed n of the finest in the south.
On this line there are a number of
long trestles owe. dry stretches of low
country. Wherever there is not dan
ger of a great flow Of water after
heavy rains these trestles are being
converted n fills. These t~restles are
not being torn down, but the fills are
being built up OF dirt dumped from
trains on the ~tretles. As the ~trestles
are left standing there will be no
weight on the fills until the dirt has
settled down as hard as natural
earth.
This work is being lone preparatory
to the laying of the eigthy-pound rail
with which the Seaboard is to equip
all its main lines. A large order for
these rails was given some months ago
and the work OF laying them will 500
begin on the Atlanta and Hamlet line.
The RobeSonian.
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owing to d Nebraska smash-up I
got left in a little Nebraska town one
night a year ago. said the drummer,
according to the Detroit Free Press,
and the way / came in contact with
a trust made my hair stand up. 1t
was a wretched town and a still worse
hotel. My room was small and the bed
was as hard as a board. 1 got up
feeling mad. and after a miserable
i was ready to boil over.
The boiling cane when the andlord
presented me with a bill Of ST
is this correct? / asked as l looked
at the figures
Entirely so, he. replied
Then you are a blamed old high
way robber.'
The landlord mad three sons. and
when they bega.I to mix in I turned
on them and gave EN- some red-hot
talk When / stopped for breath the
old man, who turned out to be a Jus
tice OF the peace, sat down an his chair
and calmly
Hear We! Hear We, / now declare
this court duly opened. James have
you any business
have replied his eldest son, who
TO me that he was a con-
stable and that 1 was under arrest. He
then made a charge against me, one
OF the other brothers testifying as to
my language. and his Honor fined me
SO AS the third brother hadn't taken
any part. L turned to him and sarcas-
tically asked:
do you come inn
Me- he replied. Oh. I'm the town
marshal, and 40 you are evidently a
desperate ~charaeter.I shall have TO lock-
you up for a couple of days and then
run you out Of town
1T was A nice little family trust, you
see" smiled thu drummer, and /
couldn't beat III. j was locked up for
forty-eight hours. u / had 10 pay the
hotel bill and the fine, and when I was
set at liberty ard got my mouth open
TO say somethin- else he jaiier laid a
hand Of my arm and whispered:
Don't do II. L am the old mans
son-in-law n If you kick against INV
jail he'll make your next stop twentv
days"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08

OF the sever democrats in the present
congress from this state six have been
unanimously r~enominated. In the next
congress we will have ten representa-
tives. OF these ten, the democrats
have, as said above, unanimously re-
nominated six of their present MEM
bers, two new ones have been nominal
ed and conventions are yet to be held
in two diStricts-the Wilmington and
the Tenth. The democrats have re-
nominated Messrs. Small, Thomas, Pou,
the two Kitchins and Klutz, and have
nominated in new districts formed by
the redistricting the state Page and
Webb. Mr.. Klutz has been transferred
by the change to the Eighth district and
will be opposed by Spencer Blackburn.
In the New Hanover district, now rep
resented by Hon. John d. Bellamy the
convention meets in Fayetteville on the
10th instant. There are a number of
candidates and a hot fight is anticipat-
ed.
The democrats stand a good chance
OF electing at least nine out of the ten
congressman and may have a solid del
egation in the next house. There is al
ready but one doubtful district and that
can probably be carried by hard work.
In the senate we will have some good
democrat as Senator Simmons col
league to take the place of Senator
Pritchard. How glorious it will be for
our state once more to have a solid
democratic representation in the ma
tional congress.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08
A YOUNG LADY'S LIFE SAVED
At Panama, Colombia, by Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and DiarrhOea
Remedy.

DIR. Chas. H. Utter, a prominent ply
stefan, of Panama, Colombia, in a re-
cent letter states: Last March I had
as a patient a young lady sixteen years
of age, who had a very bad attack of
dysentery. Everything I prescribed
for her proved Intellectual and she was
growing worse every hour. Her parents
were sure she would die. She had be-
come so weak that she could not turn
over in bed. What to do at this criti-
cal moment was a study for me, but !
thought of Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy and as a
last resort prescribed it. The most
wonderful result was effected. Within
eight hours she was feeling much bet
ter; inside of three days she was upon
her feet and at the end of one week
was entirely we'll" For sale by r. r.
Bellamy's Drug store.
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Bears ths The Kind You Have AxaS Bought
ss &MMzZzM
Concert at the Seashore Hotel this

Concert at the Seashore Hotel this
~erno
The Carolina Orchestra will give a
concert al the Seashore Hotel, Wrights-
Vile Beach, at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
The following will be the programme:
March-Harmony Maze, Mills.
Overture-Lutsplel. Kela Bella
(A) Duet for two Corncts-I Would
my Love, Mendelssohn, Dowd and Hol-
lowbush. (b) brass Quartette-The
Last Hope-Gottichak, Wilson, Dowd,
Fettie and H~ollowbush.
Selection-Blaze Away, Hoffman
Violin Solo-Concerto No. /, (Beriot),
Mr.. Kimbro Jones.
Hearts and F1owers-Tobour.
Cavalry Charge-Descriptive.
National Airs.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08

Do American statesmen wear out at
an earlier age than British or do
American people stelve them sooner
than their cousins across the waters.
One often hears the remark that such
men as Cleveland, Hill, German and
Olney will be too old to nominate for
Presidential candidate for 1904. Look
at the British premiers of recent years,
who are the real rulers of England.
Gladstone. Salisbury, Palmerston and
many others who could be mentioned.
While up in the 70's and even SOS they
ruled the British empire won glory
and renown for their country.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08

What will Whitelaw Reed do with
those nee breeches? Keep them as a
memento of what was to have been. or
sell them to a base ball player? The
latter disposition would prove a draw
ing card to the club to which the player
belongs.-WinSton Sentinel.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
signature Re: # &MNzZu
The Apostolic Delegate.

Rome, August 1.-The delay in APP
pointing an apostolic delegate to Man
lila is due to the desire of the vatican
to please the Washington authorities
by sending TO the Philippines an Amer
lean preIate. rne vatican is now
awaiting letters from the United
States. The prclate. who Ii is likely
will accept, is thoroughly adapted 20
the position Should the plan fall
through, h most probable candidate
Is Mr.. Guidi. now in the Office of Car
dinal Rampolla the papal secretary of
state.
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Bi.marck's Iron Nerve

Was the result Of his splendid health.
Indomitable will n tremendous en-
ergy are not found where Stomach,
Liver, Kidneys and Bowels are out Of
order. II you want these qualities and
the success they bring, use DR.. Kings
New Life Pills. They develop power
Of brain aud body. Only sc at r. R
Bsllamy's drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08

The Washington Post thinks tha the
xrmy and navy in their efforts to keep
Aret their movements in the ap-
hching maneuvers would do well to
{4kel lessons from Harry Tracy the es-
convict and many-times muir
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Monroe Enquirer: Two pickpockets
were on the Pritchard Memorial excur-
SION from Charlotte to Wilmington last
tuesday and they succeeded I'm getting
about a dozen purses before thew were
arrested OF the return trip last night.
Tne p-ickpockets were q man and q boy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08

Poor old General Smith. We cannot
help feeling sorry for him, although we
know he deserved to the fullest extent
the punishment inflicted upon him by
President Roosevelt for his outrageous
conduct in the Philippines.
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Acts with the most direct. beneficial effect
on the kidneys. 1t contains the best and
safest substances for correcting and toning
these organs.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08

The best physiceChamberlain's Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets. Easy to take
Pleasant In effect For sale by r. r.
Bellamy's Drug store.
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Drdgged=D0W
Feeling
In the loins.

Nervousness, undressing sleep, despon-
dency.
1t is time you were doing something.
The kidneys were ancienty called the
reins-in your case they are holding the
reins and driving you into serious roubl
The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-09-12
Ginghanns

10c quality now 5c per yard 12ac and 15c qualities now 85c
 per yard
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-08-08

not be glad to be able to identify every
national flag on sight? This pretty
recess or home game will help you to
acquire this knowledge.
Like most of the instructive games IL
requires some preparation. In all the
large dictionaries and in many ency-
clopedias and gazeteers may be found
all the flags of the nations, printed in
colors, and they are usually printed
on page all together. Let some one
who has n box of water colors paint
the flags on a sheet of white card
board, putting a number under each
flag, instead of the name of its coun-
try. Then as many sheets of paper
should be prepared as there are per-
sons to take part in the game, with
numbers down the left-hand margin OF
each sheet.
When you are ready to play tho
game, give sheet of paper to each
player, tack the cardboard up in plain
view, and allow, say half an hours
time for the players to write opposite
to the numbers the names of the ma
tions that belong there. No. 1, for
example, will be the United StateS;
No. g, Great Britain; No. 3, France:I
No. 4, Russia; No. 5, Italy; and so on.
When the time limit has expired let
the leader of the game collect the pa
pers and check them off by key which
he or she has for that purpose, and the
player that has the most correct num-,
bers wins the game. If the game in;
played ut home prize may be offeredi
say a small U. S. flag made of silk!
1t is not necessary that the flags
should be drawn on the cardboard ini
really artistic way, though the morei
neatly it be done the better.-Louis-,
Vile Courier-Jo Journal. (,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-08-08

talions of pioneers, comprising 2s COM
panies Ito be increased to 80 COM
panies), 13 battalions of train of 2
companies each and the railway and
telegraph battalion, each of 3 COM
panies. In addition to the 13 divisions
there are regiments of coast and 2
battalions of foot artillery, as well as
the Yesso brigade, comprising bat
talions of infantry, besides cavalry ar
tillery and pioneers. The army of the
second line (garrisons and reserve),
consists of 36 battalions of infantry,
besides cavalry, pioneers and depot
troops. The peace strength in 1902
was s,166 officers and 135,53s men, be-
ing total of 1896 The war strength
with III battalions, 43 squadrons and
II batteries), was 392,220, with 1.09s
guns, but this does not include all the
reserves.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-08-08
Carried Away by a Tiger.

The men who are surveying a rail-
road through the North Cedar Hills, in
India, often find it well to fight shy
of man-eating tigers. A few weeks
ago, Mr.. Lodder, the assistant engi-
neer, was going with party of nine
men to work in thick jungle, when =
tiger suddenly sprang forward, seized
n man by the throat and made off,.
Mr.. Lodder, armed only with q
hatchet, at once gave chase, hoping
to overtake the tiger before it should
kill its victim. Three of the men fol-
lowed their leader. They ran along
the trail, which was marked by spots
and splashes of blood and by bits Of
clothing. They heard the tiger crash
ing throught the jungle ahead, and
soon coming up with it they ran it so
close that after dash of mile and
a half it dropped its victim. The poor
man was not merely dead, but his body
was so badly torn that there was
trouble in gathering the parts of flesh.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-08-08
SHE NEEDED SYMPATHY.
And She Got 1t from n willing Ply
sicinn mt the Rate of Five
Dollars an Hour.

"When DR.. Pills went abroad" said
the young physician, according to the
Washington Post, she left me in charge
of his practice, and opposite one ad-
dress in his book he made a mark-I
won't say what it was-but it meant
that was to call at that house every
day, without fail. / naturally expect
ed to find the case n serious one, but
owing to another mark beside the
name l learned that nothing in the
world was amiss with the patient.
st was a woman, and she lives in
a handsome house in the best quarter
of the town. She has a husband who
is wrapped up in his business, and two
grown sons who have their own affairs
to attend to. / found her in bed, her
elderly face topped by a coquettish in
valid's cap. A lace shawl lay about
her shoulders, and silk quilt was
spread carefully over her.
Every time went to see her found
her in different toilet. Even the quilt
was never alike two days in succession.
ter with her but what 1 may call heart
ennui. She was rich, but she hadn't
anything in the world to interest her.
Her husband and sons were good to
her, but that is all. They didn't pet
her nor make of her. She was simply
pining for little sympathy. 1t divert
ed her to see me come in.
'It pleased her to be able to talk
about herself to somebody who would
listen. She gained in her own estima-
tion from having her pulse felt every
day. She wanted the doctor to plan
her day for her. Some days ordered
her to drive in a closed carriage. 9th
er days 1 told her a drive in her VIC
toria would do her "a world of good.
I always cautioned her to wrap up
we'll. l gave her sympathy and atten-
ton, and made her feel that she was
an object of interest to at least one
person.
"Of course, she was silly and selfish,
too, but if her thick headed family had
only thought of flattering her, of max
ing of her, of treating her with any
thing besides their unvarying, unemo-
tional kindness, she'd never have fam
cied herself an invalid. As it was, and
as it is, she pays SIS visit for the
chance to talk to somebody who is
sympathetic, and I'm willing to sup
ply sympathy to the whole town at
that price"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-08-08
THE OBEDIENT FISH.
Here's n Trick That Can be Per-
formed by Any Bright Young
ster with n Steady Hand.

A raw egg is blown out, after boring
small hole in both ends. One of the
holes is carefully closed with piece
of wax. Draw two large eyes on the
eggshell with lead pencil, as shown in
figure. Then make little bag of two
pieces of red flannel, sewing them to-
gether along the dotted line. Put a
few pieces of shot or few small nails
in the bag as ballast, and pull the
bag half over the eggshell, with the
opening of the shell inside the bag.
The edge of the bag is fastened to
the shell with red sealing wax and
the fish is ready.
Put the fish in glass jar filled with
water, covering the jar with stiff pa