The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-29
IN THE LONG AGO.
Interesting Summary OF Contents Of the
Wilmington Journal OF september
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Wilmington journal september AoAAs
1916. The first column OF the front
page contains the terms or tina VIII
mington Journal. Price & Fuller, pro-
prietors, S .5O a year in advance. Inc
proprietors promise to pay h postage
on letters containing $500 and up
wards.
The ~postofhce new mail arrange
ments announces that he Northern
mail is due by railroad at ) p. m dali
" and closes al 10 p. m. The South
tern mail is due from Charleston at
s a. m, and closes at 1915 2. m.
The following notices appear:
David Fulton, Attorney a. Law.
Edward Cantwell, Attorney at
Law.
James I. Bryant, Commission Mer-
chant.
Gillespie & Robson, Commission
Merchants. /
Cornelius Myers, Manufacturers Of
: Hats and Caps.
| Geo. ". Davis, Commission Mer-
! chant.
! Robert G. Rankin, Commission Mer-
| chant.
John Hall, Commission Merchant.
William Cooke, General Agent.
Members elected to the General AS
| sembly OF New Hanover, William :.
Ashe to the Senate; Edward d. Hall
and Thomas Williams 10 the House Ct
Commons.
The leading article addressed TO tile
public announces the first lumber OF
the third volume of the Wilmington
Journal, which has been published az
great expense and under many difficult
ties owing to the misrepresentation
and contemptuOus treatment by the
Federal press of Wilmington" The ed
itors entreat the public to pay their
substitution, otherwise the paper can
not go on.
A meeting of the Democracy OF New
Hanover is noted. Owen Holmes in
the chair. John McAuslein and S. r.
Bunting were secretaries. Speeches
were made by Messrs. w. S.. Ashe,
James Kerr, James |. Bryant, E. d.
Hall, Ed. Cantwell. Fearless exposure
of corruption of the Federal Party;
an appropriate tribute paid TO the
democracy of their distinguished repre-
sentative, the Hon. ]. J.. Mckay.
A French bark is reported among
the arrivals; 10 or u ~schOOners are
reported in port Spirits turpentine is
reported about soc; tar $3.50 to $500.
The Fayetteville market is quoted for
cotton I 1-2 to 7 $50.
e. B. Dudley, president, advertises
that for the accommodation OF those
wishing to attend the Union Baptist
Association at Wilmington a train OF
cars will leave GOldSbOrO on Friday,
the 2nd of October at Z a'clOck a. III,
and call at intermediate stopping
places returning to GoldsDOrO on the
following Tuesday; passengers from
GOldsborO will be required to pay their
passage downward to Wilmington, but
will be allowed to return free Of charge.
Announcement is made by notices
posted about town that an election is
to lake place the last Saturday Of the
! month for three persons in each dis
trict to serve as school commissioners
for the ensuing year. The paper was
informed that there was then on hand
belonging to the districts of Nos. I n
2, the sum of 1926, received from the
Literary Fund which, with other con-
tributions, enables the schools to be
kept up in the two districts for some
time.
MI. Humphrey duIIOuIlCSo lLdC AC
proposes to remain in Wilmington for
some time for the purpose OF giving
. the inhabitants an opportunity or pro-
: curing a correct likeness Of themselves
and their friends in his superior style,
: by daguarreotuype miniatures.
. J. T. Schonwald himself
: as a botanic physician, with many
5 medicines Of his own composition from
herbs.
Daniel Cromlay on Front street, an
nounces that gentlemen can be accom-
modated with boots made after the
latest French styles, and that in max
ing the boots he will allow none TIC
5 compete with him.
There are many advertisements toe
numerous to mention, several be
ing Of fugitive slaves; for the appre-
p~rehensiOn of one is offered $1.O(
reward and for another, name giveI
:. as Zachariah who can read anC
write" $50 reward is offered, showing
the value placed on education in those
: days. even among slaves.
p DR.. Lyman Abbott, who is identified
= with the Ogden movement, takes a yer!
- rosy view of educational progress il
X the South. In an address before tn
81 Public Educational League in New
= York. a few evenings ago, he spOk
- of the educational development in tn
y South and declared that the increas
- in educational sentiment n enthus
p asm below the Mason and Dixon Lin
= in the 40 years since the war was moth
- ing less than remarkable. as to tn
- educational advantages afforded bot.
- the whites and the negroes. Il do no
y hesitate to say that never in the his
- tory of the human race has there bee
p such educational progress as in tn
: 40 years in the South. it is little az