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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08
HUGHEs-HowEIL WEBBING.
Brilliant Event I'm ties Two Promin.
ent Young People.
Especial to The Messenger.)


Go1dsboro, April 6.-St. Paul Me-
thodist church was the scene Of a
very pretty marriage his morning
at II o'clock. The parties to the con-
tract were Mr.. Christopher Hughes
and Miss Julia Bailey Howell. A
glorious morning full of the spirit
and sentiment of spring accorded
perfectly with the occasion. Long
before the hour for the ceremon the
spacious auditorium Of the church
was filled with the friends of the
bride. They had opportunity for
complete enjoyment of the unusually
handsome decorations. The chancel
was banked with green boughs, re-
Heved by the whiteness Of dogwood
and lighted by numerous candles.
Apple blossoms, wistaria and lilac
p~rofusely adorned the pulpit and
chancel rail. Miss Matte Dewey
presided at the handsome pipe organ
and deity rendered Lohengrin's and
Mendelsohn's wedding marches.
promptly at the appointed time.
the bridal party entered the church
by the central aisle, the ushers pre-
ceeding by twos and h bridesmaids
following in the same The
maid of honor followed and the bride
with her father Captain R. P. Howell
entered while all eyes were turned
toward the vestibule Of the church,
The bride was a perfect vision of
loneliness. The groom and his best
man had previously entered by a side
aisle and were waiting al the chan
eel for the bride. The beautiful GER
emony of the Methodist church was
fmpressively conducted by Rev. Dr..
F. D. SwindelI, the presiding elder
OF his district.
VI "a. nEoL@I
Howell, Miss Ruth Hughes, Miss
Norma Northam and Miss Daisy Nor
ing. They wore fluffy white organ
dies and black picture hats and car
ried pink carnations. The ushers
were Mr.. Albert Bauman, DR.. ].
Martin Fleming and Messrs. A. L.
Harper and J. j. Broadhurst. The
maid of honor was Miss Ophela
Douglass Howell, sister of h bride,
who wore white silk and a white hat
and carried white carnations. The
groome's best man was his brother
Mr.. w. r. Hughes, Jr.. The bride was
gowned in a handsome grey mixed
travelling suit, with Persian trim
mings and carried violets.
The bride and groom left on the
northbound train on the Atlantic
Coast Line Immediately after the
ceremony for a journey to northern
cities. They will return in a few
weeks to Raleigh, the home Of the
groom, where he is highly esteemed,
as the bride is universally admired in
this city. The bride is also well
known and very popular in the Capt.
tai city, where h was for some
months executive clerk to the COVER
nor.
On past evening Captain and Mrs
Howell the parents of the popular
bride. entertained the bridal party
at their home sol w. Center street.
The following relatives and friends
OF the bride and groom were present
from abroad: w. H. Hughes. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Hughes. Jr., Mr.. Albert
Bauman, Col. p. NJ. Pearsal, OF
Raleigh; Mr.. and Mrs. George P.
Howell, OF Charleston, S. c., Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Howell, of Washington
N. c.. Miss Norma Northam. of VIII
mingtor. b. w. Switzerland, OF Mt.
Olive. and Mrs. P. H. Crawford, of
Kinston.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08

the agreement reached win likely have
the opposite effect Il II true that
judgment was only suspended and the
cases still on the docket. but there
xould have been no trouble In bring
ing about this Etate Of affairs as long
as two OF the men indicted Remained
In the city. for one could have been
made to testify against the other.
Nearly eve one was expecting thu
cases GO be prosecuted. seue
thought they would : be compro
missed, but even those who did not
think the cases would go TO trial ex-
pected the men to be fined heavily.
There a been much comment on the
gambling cases since they were first
brought. n nearly every q who
was heard to speak OF the matter said
that they regarded gambling rooms a.
n OF the greatest. If n the greatest.
evil that could be allowed 10 exist In
town. The mere fact OF gambling sosne
said they did not consider such \ crime.
but that IL lead TO crimes OF every de-
scription.
The attorneys for the prosecution
contend that the desired result has been
obtained. IL il TO be hoped 50. but Il
takes a person with a vivid emagina-
ton TO see how they reach this conclu-
sion.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08
IN SUPERIOR COURT.
The Criminal Docket Was Cleared of
All Gases Yesterday.

The criminal docket. with the excep-
ton of two insignificant cases, was
cleared yesterday and during the re-
naming term of court civil cases will
be heard. 1t has been a long time since
the criminal docket in New Hanover
county was cleared in three days. The
only cases of n Importance to have
been tried at this term of court were
h gambling cases and these, as can
be seen in another column. were settled
without going to trial. There have
been very few convictions and all OF
them were for trivial ~offenses. The
grand jury failed to find a r bill in
the case against r. F. Hamme, in
which he vas charged with killing
Charles Hankins. colored. Two cases
were sent before the grand jury a
gaint W. B. Litgen and ]. B. Emmett
ing whiskel to a minor but the grand
jury did not return a true bill in either
case. Judge Ferguson sent the bills
back but hey were returned a second
time without finding a true bill.
The cases against salem Bell ard
o Hankins, h negroes who were
in the store Of r. F. Hamme when
Charles Hawkins was shot, were tried.
or at least Salem Bell was tried and
Oi oSSoQIlI VI d OClCCl III lic 0ll III
the Hawkins case. the bill was sent
back to the grand jury for correction
Both of these negroes were charged
with larceny.
Bell was found guilty and sentenced
to II months on the county roads n
Hawkins Will be tried today
Daniel Washington n Harry Tsy-
lor. the two young negroes who broke
into the saloon of D. N. Chadwick on
several different occasions and stole
about 5000 from the cash drawer,
submitted and were sentenced to II
months each on the county roads.
Other cases disposed Of were:
State VS.. Joseph Bowden white. as
sault with a deodly weapon plead
guilty. fined $1,000 and the costs.
State VS.. Cecil Livingston. indicted
unler three different counts, selling
whiskey. and in two cases for conduct
ing a disorderly house. She plead
guilty in all three cases and judgment
was suspended upon payment Of
the costs
State VS.. B. r. Britain. white as
sault with a deadly weapon, cost to
be paid and defendant to give bond
for appearance at the next term OF
court.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08

The time-worn injunction, Never
put off It'll tomorrow what YOU can do
today" is now generally presented in
this form: do it today" That is the
terse advice we want to give you about
that hacking cough or ~demoralizing
cold with which you have been strug-
Cling for several days, perhaps weeks.
Take some reliable remedy for it to-
day-and let that remedy be DR.. Bos-
chee's German Syrup. which has been
in use for over thirty-flve years A few
doses of it will undoubtedly relieve
your cough or cold. and its continued
use for a few days will cure you CON-
pletely. No matter how deep-seated
your cough. even If dread consumption
has attacked your lungs, German
syrup Will surely effect a cur-as it
has done In thousands of apparently
hopeless cases of lung trouble. New
trial bottles. Csc: regular size, 5c. At
all druggists. II. r. Bellamy-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08
FROST DAMAGES TRUCK.
Bean Crop Ruined.-A Fire at Dud-
ley.-AImost a Jail Delivery.
fSnecialto The Messenger.)

Goldsboro. N. c., April 5.-The heavy
frost which fell last night did conslo-
cradle damage to truck in this section.
The bean crop was entirely destroyed
where the plants had come I'D and were
above the ground. One trucker, Ar.
NJ. Sherman had forty acres in beans
which were planted early. His Whole
crop will be a total loss. The loss will
be considerable as the seed beans cost
between So nd Sc an acre. A number
of others lost heavily. The pea CROP
was also injured considerably. The
frost did not kill the plants but killed
oil the blooms. Peaches n huckleber-
ries were damaged very materially.
A fire at Dudley this morning about
4:3o o'clock destroyed the barn and
stables of Mr.. G. L. OBerry and q
wood shop used by Mr.. Wiley Sumer-
lin. In the barn was about sixty
barrels of corn, some hay and fodder
and three car loads of guano. BY
roic work Mr. OBerry saved his dwar-
ing from the flames.
The Elite Dramatic Club of Kins.ou
arrived in h city this morning ami
will present their play in the Messenger
opera house tonight.
The negroes in Jail in this city.
among whom is the negro Daniels who
killed the father of Senator Simmons.
were making rapid strides for freedom
when detected by the deputy sheriff.
Three files had been taken from the jail
and a silver table knife. The back of
the table knife had been filed SO as
make a saw out of it. With these tools
the negroes would work while the bal
ance of the crowd would sing and dance
In order to drown the noise. In an
other day there would have been q
complete Jail delivery. The filing noise
was detected by an outside party and
the deputy sheriff notified. Charley
Manuel, a we'll known about the
streets. has been arrested and placed
in Jail charged with secreting the tools
in loaveS of bread which he gave TO
some of the inmates of the Jail.
Goldsboro Fire Company Ne. 1 gave
their annual ball and banquet in the
armory last night. 1t was a great sue
cess both socially and financially and
shows how willingly the people of
Goldsboro respond to any demand for
patronage that the firemen make.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08
The Messenger His Companion.

Or. Samuel Mendelsohn a few days
g received from his son, Mr.. Charles
j. Mendelsohn, who is studying phil
oiogy at the University OF P~ennsylva-
mia and who will get his degree of p. H.
ID. in June, several pictures showing
scenes around the college, one be-
ing a picture Of his room. The picture
Of Mr. Mendelsohn's room shows
him reclining on a cot and lying near
him The Wilmington Messenger Of
March 10th. The headlines Of the paper
are SO plain in the picture hat they
can be easily read.
MI. Mendelsohn has been at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania for several
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08
NOTICE

For the protection of all concerned:
To timber agents M owners OF
timber RATS: On and after April LIST.
1904, no timber RATS Will be permit
ted TO land or tie up On the east side
of the river between the Seaboard
Railroad dock and Church street
dock. All RATS coming in this harbor
will be required to stop and tie up on
west side Of river opposite Point Peter.
BY order of the Commissioners OF
Navigation and Pilotage.
II. D. WILLIAMS,
mar31 Cd 3w Harbor Master.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08
Good for Children.

The pleasant to TAX and harmless
One Minute Cough Cure gives immedi-
ate relief in all cases OF Cough, Group
and LaGrippe because 1t does not pass
Immediately into the stomach, but takes
effect right at the seat OF the trouble.
1t draws out the Inflammation, heals
n soothes and cures permanently by
enabling the lungs to contribute pure
life-giving and DEMONSTRATING oxygen
to the blood and tissues. One Minute
Cough Cure is pleasant to take and 1t
is good alike for young and old. Sold
By r. R Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08
Defendants In Gambling
Cases Plead Guilty
and Pay Costs


at the Defendants Get
ting OF So Easily-The Total
Court Costs I'm All Cases Amounts
to $3.50 .30-The Reason Given For
Not Prosecuting the Cases Is That
There Were So Many Prominent
Witnesses-Defendants Are To Ne
imburse the City For What Ex-
perse Has Been Incurred I'm Pros
ecuting the Cases, Such as Attor-
neys' Fees, Etc.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08
Extention of One Year Granted.

Baltimore. April 6.-The creditors
Of William Mfddendorf and company
Of Baltimore and J. L. Williams and
Sons OF Richmond, Va who failed
several months ago, met here today
and granted an extension Of one year
to the two firms. The extension will
continue until May list 1905.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08

The new fad Of trousers without pock-
cts does not promise to take well either
in the senate or the postal department.
Atlanta Journal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08

Missouri in reported to have 5 5000 900
In { state treasury Those boodIing
legislators must have e fair enough
TO divide the swag with the sfate-At-
ianta Journal
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08
FOE OF LABOR
Roosevelt Worse than
Carnegie. Rockefeller
or Morgan
OPPOSES UNION

His Attitude on the "Open- Shop
Shows He is the DeadlIest Foe OF
Iabor.-Mr. MorreIl Discusses the
Negro Question.-An Appeal is
Made for the Jews Travelling I'm
Russia - Postofiice Appropriation
Bill Discussed I'm the Senate and
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10

and Albany has long been noted for
it's handsome stations in the minor
communities of the Old Bay State.
The famous architect Richardson de-
signed several of them.
In feeling" music the sound is con
Quoted from the instrument to the
person by means Of electric wires. In
stead of the sound waves merely
knocking on the tympanum of the ear,
as in listening to music, the waves of
harmony course clear through the
body. so that the tune is felt from
head to foot. The device can be at
tached to any kind Of musical instru-
ment. so that one can feel a piano,
monograph, guitar, banjo or a from
bone. and if a wire could be attached
to every horn a person could feel the
music of brass band. Those who
have practiced feeling" music have
demonstrated that they can easily dis
criminate between the feeling of diff
ferent airs as we'll as of different in
struments. They could readily distin-
guish Home, Sweet Home" from my
Ragtime Chinaman," although they
were separated from the instruments
by walls so thick that the music could
not possibly be heard
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10
q Nixola GreeleY s. 11ith.

very often. What must De then the
labor required to learn some barbaric
tongue which has no writing no char
acters or alphabet Of its own, and to
supply all deficiencies before the task
Of translation can begin? Moreover,
the biblical metaphors and Smiles
have to be altered and made compre-
hensible to untutored minds. One
translator, Henry Mott By name, spent
twenty years in Tahiti to learn the
language, after which he spent an,
other twenty years in translaJing the
book into the Tahitan tongue. l IA
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10

Coach Lincoln Rode in to Gettysburg.
The Western RaiIrad Maryland
Railroad Company still owns a pas
senger coach that President Lincoln
rode in from Hanover Junction to
Gettysburg, Pa, on October IS, 1863
On the following day the President
made his famous speech at the conse-
Grafton Of the Gettysburg Battlefield
Cemetery
The coach is in good condition and
is being daily used on the Baltimore
and Harrisburg division of the road
1t was built in the shops Of the then
Hanover Junction and Hanover and
Gettysburg Railroad of which Capt.
Eichelberger Of York, Pa, now dead,
was president for forty years.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10
Training a Horse.

The horse is a logical and therefore
a teachable animal. Convince him
that a locomotive or any other object
Of terror is not dangerous, and he
will never shy at it again. Every
year accidents occur because the har-
ness breaks or the vehicle upsets,
and then the horse runs away. But
such accidents are unnecessary. Any
horse can, with a little pains, be
,anght to hold back a carriage by
his hind quarters as we'll as by the
5reechinG. To have wheels come eff
and straps and other things hitting
his legs should be a part Of every
colts education.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10
Bible Translation.

One hundred years ago the Bible
was current in some forty languages
today in some four hundred. 1t is
necessary to use sixty different sets
of types to print in these many
tongues, while some fifty languages
require to be printed in more char
acters than one to be legible to Al!
races and creeds m that particular
country. Again, to translate the
Bible into one foreign tongue is in T.
self a work Of more than a lifetir~
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10
convicts Beg fer Work.

There is nothing that a prisoner
hates worse than enforced idleness,"
says a report issued from one Of the
large prisons of Pennsylvania. "There
are about 300 prisoners here who have
nothing to DO, and they are begging
for work
"The results of tAeir idleness are
i'll health, mental depression, morbid
brooding over their troubles and If,
ritable chafng over real or imaginery
wrongs. They are able-bodied men,
able and anxious to work, yet they
are kept day after day in their narrow
cells, growing worse physically and
mentally"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10
CITING an liIustrious Example.


The cook had left without giving
warning, and in this emergency the
mother Of the family was washing the
breakfast dishes herself, assisted by
the small boy with the high forehead,
the thoughtful mein and the deliber-
ate manner of doing things.
you will have to dry them little
faster, Kenton," she said, cor you will
not get them done before it is time
for you to start for school"
Kenton accelerated his motions a
little.
Mamma, he said after he had
worked in silence several minutes,
when George Washington was the
architect for Lord Fairfax he used to
eat his meals off a single. What
was good enough for George Washing
ton is good enough for us. Chicago
Tribune.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10
1S 2sS<a-7z
~ glS{G4S AND C0Mfyf,NSS gsa
~ -

Bishop Potter says he learned while
in California that San Francisco was
the front door of the United States
and New York the back door 1t is
still customary, however, for all goods
to be delivered in the rear.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10
A New York physician says fathers

should encourage their boys to play
baseball. Any boy that needs en-
Ggement in that direction is hard
ly worth the trouble.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10
The Interfering
Husband Nuisance.
BY q Lon g-Sufferilg Wife.

Bya LOng-Suffering Wife.
a about the husband Soes
m beyond married women will kno" him ouc
AZH too Husband the one
household and domestic matters
HG2a1MSN0H no him
HH@GH opeda matters
nothing ln5tGuctnS MS
frequently
general trivial points OF housowe NO
kind OF happy hunting ground for the inter
husband
drops afternoon-why scrubbed yet?
told that te "Nssus said wasn't to De
This won't do for the interfering however; his wife
Old clothes shop not
a servant standing about
well employed ubbng floors and SO ne
O
such a malcton the household
which pre rarely happy cannot be when the man goes
like
With household affairs he
hdrennd s true mother VIII
and codave the chill
Well they
children should off certain
interfering with the wes
duties
could not be otherwise Suppose
private allowance
penny spent anu
interfering aware
he nghborhood II there
dark his little paaI
ties Mary and Mary II she happens 70 pc
mentioning him Her mistress VIII Il she
ms n7 Is
banded till he is we'll known in his real coors half dozen ~ ava"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10

AS they have it figured out now, we
have to have a big navy to protect
those more or less troublesome colo
NAL possession that we would not have
had if we had not had big navy.
Says the Chicago Tribune: 1t is not
improbable that future naval wars may
be fought out with torpedo boats, tor
pedo boat destroyers and destroyers
of torpedo boat destroyers, and so on.
Report says that ten per cent. of
the japanese soldier 9 women
With so many chances to tell reason
able lies about the war, why ring in
one so stupid?
The British Admiralty has just
struck off its maps the so-called Royal
Company Islands, which have ap-
peared hitherto as to the south Of Aus
tralia. but have been found to be non
existent
If stupid and slow men are on big
battleships while clever and quick men
are On torpedo boats it would be alb
surd to conclude from results in that
particular case that the day of big
fighting machines was at an end.
The suggestion that nurse maids
troiY
their work is not without it's good
points Trained nurse maids, how
ever, would command wage too high
for the average paterfamilias, who
would have to content himself with
the crude article as found today,
Can any one tell, muses. the Boston
Waterman, why SO many Of the great
battles of the world are fought on
Sunday? In the case of the battle
of the Yalu the Japanese could have
been moved neither by superstition
nor ireyerence.
A Zurich lady doctor is advocating
q scheme under which all unmarried
girls of the well-to-do classes are to
be compelled by the State to devote
one year to unpaid hospital work. She
claims that not only would the hOspi-
tails benefit, but the girls would gain a
training which would be Of great value
to them after marriage.
President Eliot, of Harvard, has
seized upon another occasion to urge
working people to be content with
small pay. Ia his fine and philOsophi
cal way he says that Glove of work
the motive Of exceling, and the play
of mental powers, should give the la
borer more satisfaction than his
wage" What is the use, then, Of Civ
ing college professors four or five
thousand dollars a year, and why
Should not lawyers and doctors and
merchants and bankers take the medi-
cine that the learned Eliot prescribss
for mechanics and men with the pick
and spade? asks the New York Mail
and Express
So many prominent railroads in va
rious parts of the country have been
borrowing or intend to borrow tens
of millions of dollars for needed i'm
provements, expansion and develop
meat that upon no inconsiderabla
number Of lines the movement which
was begun years ago to pull down
mean and ugly passenger stations in
country towns and small cities, and to
set up in place Of them really attractive
bits of architecture, with flower beds
and other comely setting and framing
may encounter check The Boston
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10

AS they have it figured out now, We
have to have a big navy to protect
those more or less troublesome colo
NAL possession that we would not have
had if we had not had big navy.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10

Says the Chicago Tribune: 1t is not
improbable that future naval wars may
be fought out with torpedo boats, tor
pedo boat destroyers and destroyers
of torpedo boat destroyers, and so on.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10

A Zurich lady doctor is advocating
a scheme under which all unmarried
girls Of the well-to-do classes are to
be compelled by the State to devote
one year to unpaid hospital work. she
claims that not only would the hospi-
tails benefit, but the girls would gain a
training which would be Of great value
to them after marriage.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10

Report says that ten per cent. Of
the Japanese soldier e women.
With so many chances to tell reason
able lies about the war, why ring in
one so stupid?
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10

Can any one tell, muses. the Boston
Waterman, why SO many Of the great
battles of the world are fought on
Sunday? In the case of the battle
of the Yalu the Japanese could have
been moved neither by superstition
nor irreverence.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10

If stupid and slow men are on big
battleships while clever and quick men
are on torpedo boats it would be abb
surd to conclude from results in that
particular case that the day of big
fighting machines was at an end.