The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-27
STATE PRESS.

AT one time the trust promoters
seemed to be m~noopolizing all the
monopolizing the bad effects of the
smashing of stocks. He that lives by
the sword shall die by the sword
News and Observer.
According to a dispatch to The
Evening Chronicle yesterday. It is re-
ported in Bulgaria that there is a
lively agitation on foot to induce the
Macedonian refugees to emigrate to
the United States" We would like to
know what special grievance these ad-
visers a have against Uncle Sam
Charlotte Chronicle.
It strikes US that the New Bern bank
directors were a little precipitate IN
withdrawing their foul thousand dol
lars reward for Cashier Dewey, that IS
If they really wanted him to come
back. which is of course their own
private affair. Or perhaps they found
that ne do not leave enough IN the
bank to pay for his apprehension
Charlotte News.
Dowie is at last in New York with
ihs Elijah band. He expects to find
at least the same proportion Of fools
there as in the Windy City. Perhaps
he viii. and then DOwie knows hat
the fool and his money are separated
10 his advantage when the fool gets
the Second Elijah to take care of both.
We are inclined to the opinion that
New York is a fertile field for Dowle-
ism.-Presbyterian Standard.
President Roosevelt has issued his
proclamation calling congress together
on November 9Th to consider the Gu
ban reciprocity. With but little TO DO
for quite n month, the democrats
r,fnLt cr.+ +noethar ana decide IDOn -
very conservative, sensible plan or
| action, for success next year can be
very greatly promoted by cool headed,
business conduct on the part of the
democratic members this winter, or
| they must be destroyed by famboyant'
| bullet-headed tOmfOolery. - -ealelgh
Post
One shivers to think of what might
| have happened this morning. at the
end of the French Board railway
bridge. when the Murphy line locai
| freight cOllided with passenger train
NO. 80. By what may be termed the
| intervention of Providence. the most
| serious was that n Of
the engines was put out of business.
The freight. in charge of Conductor
George Hanger and Engineer George
Redfearn, was on the line in No. 3Os
time. No. 90. being on time. also need
! ed that track just then.-Asheville Ga
| zette-NeWs.
Mr.. Haywood stands acquitted OF
murder. but it will be little satisfac-
! ton to him to know that a great ma
| iOritv of the people believe he shOuld
be doing time in the pe~nitentiary. If
those Wilson murderers are still III
iail their bonds should be reduced tc
a figure where they cOuiG give it. One
murderer is no better than another
and should be treated nc better.-Ihe
Wake county grand jury has not IN
dicted Mr.. Haywood for carrying
concealed weapon and 1t should not
If there is no harm in killing a mar
there can certainly be none In carry
| ink 2 deadly decentralization Her
aid.
Under the present laws OF Nortf
Carolina, Haywood could not nav
! been convicted of murder in the tirs
| degree, but he could ana should haV'
been convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree or manslaughter- Il Wit
nesses proved that Skinner strucl
HAYWOOD in the face end then retreat
ed, and as he was going from min
Haywood shot him twice. If that l
-, not murder. what is it? There was n
use to have a Jury in this case; Judg
PEBBLES could have decided it himsel1
His charge vas the most one-Slde
thing we most ever read. a good par
of il was a criticism and denunciatlo
of the states counsel. He as good a
told the jury what to do and the
! did it. being out only a few minutes
ClarktOn Express.
The Progressive Farmer, sumnln
UP statistics which it has collected
showing the number of challenges ~
lowed the defence and the number a
~ - l Z al CnC n I IN
different states of the union. fndS tina
for the country at large two peremr
tory challenges are allowed the deter
dant for one given the state. while l
North Carolina the defence has hV
, challenges TO the states one. Our cor
!. tempOrary's suggestions, therefore, &c
prevention of the miscarriage of jus
tice. are: "Equalize he number c
challenges; give the state the right {
appeaI." Very good. contemporar!
but your suggestions will never D
adopted. Too many people who are IN
terested in the defeat of justice sc
into the observation-disclosures OF
server
The a those charged with murde
are escaping. not only with not MOI
punishment than the majority Of tn
superior court Judges are accuStOne
10 impose upon the negro COnNlCte
of stealing a pound of meat Zone wa
sentenced to serve at hard labor /
the penitentiary for two years, a fe
wears ago for stealing meat value
; at ten cents) is coming to be a seriol
matter. Those Who 90 not know an
better. can reach no other conclusio'
Q judging from the way the murderer
in this state. who have the means
employ eminent counsel. are oscar
ing with less punishment h a the n
gro did. who. for what we know. w;
suffering from hunger, when he ~
propriated the ten cents worth Of me;
to his own use. that there IS som
( thing rotten in Denmark: and q
average trial by jury in the case
y murder. that has been boosted to
one OF the bulWarks OF Anglo-SaN
liberty. has come to be nothing Ie
y than I farce,s that piles up a de
against the county which the Ia
abiding citizens are compelled to pa