The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-17
STATE PRESS.

For the benefit of those who do not
know, We will say that it is just as
much against the laws of the United
States to NEEDLE with the rural free
delivery mail boxes as it is to NEEDLE
with the boxes in the postoffice. No
one should touch these boxes only those
they belong to. It is dangerous
Clarkton Express.
Only $40, 900 for a North Carolina ex-
hibit at the st. Louis exposition, That
is parsimOny for you, a measly ex>
hibit at a big show will be worse than
none. If we cannot do ourselves credit
there, we had better stay AVA alcO-
gether. The 100000 originally proposed
vas little enough, goodness knows. The
only hope now lies in individual and
corporate MISREPRESENTATION Sentinel.
This coming dispensary election
should be conducted upon the same
lines, especially with registration, as
the last general election, and only
those who are entitled to vote for leg
islative officers and were registered
under the constitutional amendment
should be allowed to vote and the reg
istrars should see that only those ne
groes who are entitled to register under
Tie COIlSllIullOId dlI1SIlullltI1I lie UC
registered.-Wilson News.
We regret having 10 additional in
formation for our readers about the
petrified gentleman who was discover
ed last week on Mills river, Henderson
county Our Hendersonville and Ashe-
vile correspondents will please hold
their ears to the ground. 1t is desired
to know, definitely n conclusively,
whether this gentleman was petrified
according to scientific principles or
whether he was made out of cast iron.
Charlotte Observer.
Bishop may have thought he was
doing the correct thing when he thank
ed Judge Neal at Greensboro last
Thursday for giving him such a light
sentence for the judge is certainly en-
titled to Bishops g~ratitude), but We'll
wager that if Judge Neal could have
changed the sentence on the spot he
would have added at least five years to
it. The have been soaking
Judge Neal for the light sentence i'm
posed in this case, and the fact that
Bishop thanked him for the favor is
not calculated to make his honor feel
good.-StateSville Landmark.
The path of Senator Overman seems
not to be strewn with roses. Accord
inng to report from Washington, the
new senator is unable to dislodge some
Of Pritchard's appointees and place
men of his own selection in their
place. This is n of the rights of
but rights seem to AVE no
more weight with h fifty-eighth con-
gress than with the fifty-seventh. I'm
der the circumstances Senator Over
man would be justified in giving the
republicans some trouble when the
matter of the ratification of certain
treaties comes up.-Greenville Reflector.
Once it looked as if the Hon. Theo-
dore Roosevelt would have no trouble
whatever in, taking down the nominal
ton when the next national republi-
can convention met. But as the days
have dragged along signs of DETECTION
have kept cropping up until there are
plenty of indications of a growing rest
lessness in his party over his methods
and an evident disposition on all sides
to put him in a hole" And most of it
has come from his meddling with the
negro question in the evident attempt to
secure the solid vote of the south in
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Citizen.
Inc Wisconsin state senate is prob
ably a disappointed body of men. Their
resolution asking the governor of Wis
cOnsin to request the governors of
other states to appoint delegates to a
convention, to be held at Atlanta, for
the purpose. of discussing and solving
the race problem, has met a decided
frost. Governors of three southern
states have already announced that
they will ave nothing to do with the
Wisconsin scheme and it is evident at
his stage that the we'll meaning but
misdirected plan of the Wisconsinites
is destined to lie a-bornin'.-Charlotte
News.