The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-21
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

We note from the esteemed Charlotte
Chronicle that leaving hat place out
in the encampment programme has
struck q sore spot. 1t can console it
self. however. with the KNOWLEDGE
that it came very near getting n Of
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Record.
All people who know that the courts
give the criminal every chance hat
is due him and for mis- reason some
people him that when one has final
" been landed in the penitentiary the
governor should let him stay there
GOldsboro Headlight.
Governor Aycock, in a private con-
V~ersatiOn while in the city last week.,
siad he avoided the funeral of Major
Morehead by placing the Nash ana
Davidson monuments at the Battle
Ground. Perhaps, but ne also saved
another funeral by his timely act in
which he might have been a conspic-
uOus NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Record.
Will the Charlotte News please tell
hat became of that statement the
governor was going to issue in reply
to a GaStOnia minister's very respect
full and temperate but unfavorable
reference to a certain pardon he had
granted? Did the governor really say
that ne was getting tired OF such
criticism by narrow people" and then
let the matter drop?-Gastonia Gazette.
The Delaware idea seems to be
spreading in the northern states.
Yesterday two lynching mobs in New
York were only prevented from killing
innocent and oppressed negroes by
the very prompt and vigorous action
of the police. OF course, the north
ern editors will severely criticise such
brutal and inhumaa proceedings
Winston Sentinel.
No honest man has anything to
fear from the True.
there are still a few newspapers IN
the country that will lie on a man,
but the percentage is so small and
those guilty are we'll known to the
public, for even a newspaper .;annot
foo all the people all the TIM. II
is the Of at least SO per cent
of the newspapers in the country TO
endeavOr to tell the truth and where
one man is unduly criticised ten thou
sand are unduly praised.-Durnan
Sun.
Judge PEBBLES is handling the pistol
tOting business with proper ViSOr, ana
ulSCIIIlll1IdII IlS 1IllelllStIlllS III law u
the tOter who also carries along with
the pistol an unnecessary amount o1
the rye that is red by adding so per
cent to the punishment. If the Law
prescribed a term of not less than six
nor more han twelve months on the
I county roads for every such offender,
such Judges as the able gentleman now
holding Wake court would nave fewer
such cases to dispose of.-Raleigh
Post.
\ mad dog, carrying poison and the
seeds of death, dasheS into a cOmmu-
nifty. The people turn out with guns
and hoo it to death. A savag brute
in human form invades a home and
| carries torture and often death. The
| people turn out with ropes and hang
him. And aggregated tools and indi-
vidal fools in far away sections de-
| nOunce the hangman in violent Ian
! guage, with never a word against the
| crime which caused it. There IS one
| effect, at least. 1t makes white men
| OF the south more determined than
| " to lynch the savage who does the
savage deed. This is the fact. We
speak of it as we see it.-MOnroe Jour
nal.
We are gratified to see that Mr.. W.
7. Blackwell. Jr., mas been eletteG
city engineer by the board of aldermen
of Durham. When he vas born youns
Mr.. Blackwell's father was the riChesr
man in Durham. Through misfor- une
and too great generosity Colonel Black
we'll lost his property. The young
ran has recently graduated at tbs
Virginia Military Institute, having tax
en- the engineering course. He is said
to be of the right stuff-a Il Dla
of splendid capacity and character
1t is gratifying to see his home city
open the door of opportunity to the sor
of the foremost of the early founder.
and give him the start to regain tn
fortune which his father made and LOST
in that young COMMUNICATIONS and
Observer.