The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27

HERE AND THERE.

Country residents near Princeton.
y. j. have objected to a cOlOred nail
carrier and threaten to give up their
boxes If he is not removed. This 5
likely TO cause some in the
sOuth.-Exchange.
The Confederate Veterans Assocla-
ton is said to be $4,000 in debt and
getting deeper every year. 1t takes
$1,000 a year to run the association.
The city OF Nashville has withdraw.
an invitation 10 the veterans to meet
there next year on account Of It's
financial condition. The association
may disband. but the separate camps
can still meet and have a good time
Gastonia Gazette.
Why is it that about all the apples
sold by fruit dealers are raised IN
New York and other northern states?
The best apples sell at 90 cents a peck
or So a barrel. At the present price
six barrels Of apples would bring al
most as much as a bale Of cotton.
These apples should be raised here IN
North Carolina and the money spent
for them kept at hOme.-Sanford Ex-
press.
The columns of n ~wspa are tne
editors farm, his shop, bank. his trade,
his grocery, his law office or profess
| SIo44, d4lu NIltII Nt OOIldltS space IOI
which he gets no return. he is out, just
as the farmer that gives away his piss
and chickens and butter and eggs, or
the professional man who gives advice
gratis.-Exchange.
Mr.. Hearts newspapers in NeN
York, Chicago and San Francisco are
printing many columns of cOInpli-
mentary notices from papers which
make up in number for what they lack
IN prominence" says The Literary Di-
gest, "felicitating Mr.. Hearst pom tn.
democratic victory in the New York
city election. and saluting him as tne
1904 nominee" The only North Caro-
lima paper mentioned in the list is Tn
Mount Airy News. Is The Literary
Digest tOting fair? 1t strikes us that
there are others.-CharlOtte Observer.
Secretary COrtelyou has furnished a
timely report. showing that we bought
about 5000, 600 worth of hides, ivory,
nuts. and the like from Panama last
year. We have also purchased a large
stock Of trouble, the value Of which
Will not be aScertained until the ap-
preparation bills have been prepared
Marion News.
There was a surprise sprung on tbs
cOlOred contingent at the Recorder
court in Charlotte the other morning
when the Recorder ordered Colone.
Tom Black to so through the audience
and question each one individually IS
to what he did for a living, where &
worked and why he vas lOafing II
court. The command was executed
speedily by Officer Black and before TX
had finished going through the Grove
several Of the ebony audience We're
seen to glide swiftly out at the real
entrance of the cOurt room, without
waiting to see the close of the SEES
sion.-Red Springs Citizen.
What do you think cotton is golns
to do? is the question heard sever
times a day. That is Just it. If on
only knew, the fortune would be cas-
But not knowing, there is danger II
mOnkeyIng with the other fellow:
game.-Greenville Reflector.
The ballots used in the recent elec.
ton in Maryland contained the name:
of CT candidates ruled off in tabulateC
form. Next to the name of Zach can.
didate was a little square and thos'
voting were required to make a eros:
mark within the quare opposite the;
choices. If this cross mark extended
fraction Of an inc over any one Of tnt
[ four lines of the square the ballot W.:
: thrown out. Many ballots We're thu:
discarded, for it took not only an il.
5 telligent but a careful man to properly
mark his ballot. The ballot boxes il
Baltimore are made Of glaSs.-WinSto1
, Journal