The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-17
HERE and THERE.

The Pullman Company has paid
a dividend of $4,000, 900. All the
people of the country ale sleeping
partners in this enterpr se-but they
don't come in on the dividends
New York Mail and Express.
One good thing has resulted from
the action of the Raleigh board or
aldermen, about the dispensary. 1t
has enabled the Raleigh Post to en-
dorse an editorial of the Raleigh
News and Observation-Disclosures News.
After the next Inauguration, Col
mel Roosevelt might go to France
n lecture on race suicide. The
death rate exceeds the birth rate in
France and suggestions or the sub
Ject would be pertinent.-Tarboro
Southerner.
h Atlantic Coast Lin has most
of the track laid on the extension
from Punta Gorda to Fort Meyers
Fla, twenty-eight miles, and it is ex-
pected to have the line completed to
the latter place by January 1st.-
News and Courier.
The following are money values,
estimated on the basis of current
prices, of the principle annual crops
made in the United States; Cotton,
s550,0OO, 900; wheat, $4,000, 900;
corn, S1,035, 600, 900; oats, S275.0OO,-
200; total, $685. 900. O0O.-Charlotte
Chronicle.
Damascus now contains about the
same number of Jews that it had in
the time of st. Paul In the middle
Of the first century of our era some
ten Thousand Jews lived in Damas-
Gus and were governed by an Eth
march: the present Jewish commu-
nifty is computed at about eleven
Observation-Disclosures.
Some Jews in Chicago VINO wanted
a Hungarian preacher and wanted a
trial sermon from him first, sent him
a photograph and then passed judg-
ment upon him from the phono-
| graphic report. That is a good idea
| and would put u ministerial Apollos
or a level with the man who has
only NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Standard.
Nearly every day we hear of some
| other democratic paper or politician
declaring for Mr.. Cleveland. 1t is a
| strange sight TO see he boys clam
| bering UP into the band wagon with
| old man Grover a-driving, and she'd
| ding adulation with the same de-
gree of cOmplacency that they used to
| shed notwithstanding Gazette-News
The taste for chocolate is ~increas-
1 lllS ldpIuly III llllS IOulllIS LII 1ccu
the imports of cocoa in all forms was
only T,405,643 pounds; in the fiscal
year 1902 it was 63.354,29O II pounds
] At this rate of increase chocolate is
| likely to take second place as q a
\ vorite beverage in the United States,
the consumption of tea growing very
slowly. Of coffee we imported L.
091, 000. 900 pounds in 1902. In 1888
our imports of coffee were SIS 5000
| 600 pOTndS-Fycbduge.
All the large railway companies Of
Switzerland, with the exception OF
the Gothard railway-which cannot
be purchased by the government by
virtue of the original contract before
19O9-are now the property of he
| state. The tunnel through the SiEnp-
Ion is approaching completion, de-
spite the great difficulties encounter
! ed in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. heat,
the volume of water met with on the
southern side, hot springs, etc.-Only
about four ki1ometers 1.-TWO ana a
half miles) remaining to be tunnel
ed.-EXchange.
! Five thousand acres of Dismal
, Swamp lands near Norfolk, Va, arg
TO be reclaimed by the Franklin Land
and Lumber Company, composed OF
Ohio men. John B. Lewis, of Somer
get, KY, agent and foreman for the
company, who passed through Knox
vile today, said the land was bought
originally for its timber, but since it
lTas bee cleared it has been found
TO be very fertile. The work Of ditch
ing and draining the land has begun
already, and hundreds OF men are 70
be- put to work. 1t is the intention
Of the company to raise all Kinds of
vegetables and later 20 engage IA
cattle raising on an extensive scale
Knoxville Dispatch.