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THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER: TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1898. t - v r fte Mtiiscnjitr. THE SECBETABV OF WAR ON WI1VT HAS BEEN DONE Secretary of War Alger Is proud of Ills success. He says an army of 125, 000 men was raised in forty-eight days, mils is his great work he brags of to jnake a conquering force. With no dis position to rob him of really well earn ed laurels, the thought will arise, what jabout preparing the 125,000 for active jvv-ar? How many of these men are armed with the best improved mod ern guns? How many are properly " clothed. How many are properly fed and cared for? The two North Caro lina regiments have been made to suf fer and are even now not properly clothed or armed after six weeks or longer. If other regiments from other States are in the same bad fix then the brag is too high as to raising an army fit for service in forty-eight days. The statement is too highly colored and needs toning down. Alger boasts that "twelve miles of freight cars bearing rations have been loaded in less than a month, that thousands of guns have been made in that time, that the ar senals run day and night, that millions of cartridges have been made, coast de fences have been erected and all in a short space of time. This is probably all true. But the fact remains of insuf ficiency, of poor arming, of suffering among soldiers, of short pay, of their unpreparedness when war was contem plated and then declared. Mr. Bigelow says that not a regiment in the south was prepared to move a week ago. This country has been caught knap ping. Every arsenal should be all the time well supplied with the best mod ern guns, and all requisite munitions of war. When war came everything had to be extemporized. It was like the South was when it entered upon the great war to fight five times its num bers. The Denver (Colorado) Post got out a good cartoon recently. Alger is at his dek, writing letters containing ap pointments to "Deer Jones" or "Deer Smith" of Brigadier Generalship or Ad jutant Generalship or something else. Uncle Sam has entered and has his grip upon the back of Alger's neck and says sternly "Stop that, and get down to business." A Washington Special to the Post appears underneath. In it we find this: "An army officer who Is an admirer and supporter of Miles said to me today: "Alger starts in to fit out a regiment of soldiers as he would a sawmill." Miles complained of the conditions at Tampa, and said the fault was with "Alger's staff." The Secretary bristl ed up and replied: "If it is true that hundreds of freight cars loaded with supplies are congested on the tracks at Tampa and that the movements of the army are retarded in consequence of equipments not being distributed, why don't you utilize some of the 25,000 men you have at your dis posal and straighten things out?" There is no question raiseu as to the condition being bad. That is accepted, but the complaint and contention are ,Who is responsible? Since writing the last line looking in to the Charleston News and Courier we find South Carolina soldiers at Chickamauga, on the 14th of June actually drilling In bare skins a most novel uniform, and very discreditable to the Secretary of war and all con cerned. The. special begins: "Unexpectedly, and against the pro tests of the officers, the South Caro lina regiment was ordered out for "brigade drill this afternoon. The regi ment had not before drilled as a whole "but what was more cared for was that the nakedness of the soldiers should be exposed. A request to be excused ;was of no avail, and so the men went In to do the best possible. The regi ment Is only partially equipped and missing supplies are slow in coming. TThe rear men in the regiment today "had such rents In their trousers as to show their nakedness, but the men had to be hauled out for brigade drill to expose their condition. The compan ion regiments, the 12th and 15th-Pennsylvania, were fully equipped, and the brigade made a splendid show. The South Carolina looked ragged, but the spirit of the men was fine, and al together everything was very well ilone." Alas! for the soldiers of the Caro llnas. The Yankees seem to have spite against the two States that lost so heavily in the great war. THE YVAIt TAX MEASURE AS u PASSED I iFor reasons we have not undertak en to follow up the diskrussfons in the ngrress a3 to the war revenue bill, and changes In the bills in the two fr0Uses. The democrats have not agreed iwltbVthe dominant republican party onlv inNfirt. fHie biu as passed is not as either body 2222?d. in the senate three fourths of the denTJErSH voted against the final passage of the bill as reported. Senators Caffrey, of Louisiana, Lindsay, of Kentucky, Mitchell, of Wisconsin, "Murphy, of New York, Gray of Deleware and Smith, of "New Jersey, all gold democrats, were With the republicans, the last two not voting, one being paired. So a part of the senate democracy is pledged to a bond issue policy. The act as passed provides for $400,000,000 of (bonds and 5100,000,000 of treasury certificates good )tor three years. The tonnage tax and the stamp tax on goods, were receded from and id not become a part of the bill that passed. Tea is tared 10 cents a pound, adulterated flour is taxed, sleep ing1 car and parlor car tickets, the gross receipts of petrolium and sugar refin ing companies in excess of $250,000, the tax on bankers, brokers and theatre proprietors In cities of more than 25,000 population. t The freer tax is Increased from $1 to $2 a barrel, and 'there is a general in crease in the tobacco tax schedule. The graduated Inheritance tax also stands. We are to nave taxes also on checks, on purchase trf ibonds and stock of cor porations, on patent medicines, face powder, message over telegraph and long distance telephone wires, on mor tgages and legal documents of various kinds, on excess packages, insurance policies, tickets to Europe, sleeping car tickets and numerous other articles. The silver seinorage is to be coined at a rate of not less than $1,500,000 a month. The senate asked for $3,500,000. It Ls regarded, as strictly a war mea sure. If the war should last long, cost now $1,000,000 a day, and soon will cost much more, the war tax measure will be soon exhausted. RACE PREJUDICE IX SOLDIERING The attitude of negro troops now ls so aggressive that it provokes compari son with 'the past. In the great war over 100,000 negroes fought the south and they were all commanded iby north ern whites. General Grant and other leading soldiers did not think it wise or necessary to put negroes in command of companies, regiments or brigades. We notice that republican newspapers criticise the prejudices of southern whites and say It is foorn "of the sys tem of chattel slavery," and that it ought not "to prevail against reason and common sense many years longer. This is so much like the solomonic de liverances In the north. There is as much or more race prejudice "up there" as there is in the south more really than exists in 'North Carolina. In proof negro mechanics of all kinds work with whites in the south but they are not allowed this privilege in the north. If there is no prejudice in the north as to negroes why do not negroes preach to wh'iite congregations, and how is it that ther aces have separate churches, and why is inter-marrying so censur ed and the guilty ones so taibooed? Since writing this we find copied in the Charleston News and Courier the fol lowing which answers fully the con tention of an old repujblicann newspa per the Philadelphia North 'American: "The Richmond Dispatch lets the light through thi3 hopeful republican's explanation very handsomely. It . re minds the Philadelphia paper that the United States government -officered all Its many negro 'brigades, regiments and companies in the late war with white men, ad has managed effectively to, bar colored officers out of its regular army and the navy for the past third of a century. The colored volunteers will take note and insist on their ights. The republican administration ought to give them a few generals, colonels, ma jors and captains 'by all means." LOKBYISTS IX THE SENATE It seems that there is more than one job worked by an unscrupulous agent upon the United States Senate. The venerable Senator from Alabama said he had heard of one for $388,000. Sen ator Chandler and other Senators favor the enactment of a general law to shut out forever the work of lobbyist and claim agents from the Senate. It should be done. He stated that in his former remarks he had no idea of reflecting upon the Southern Methodist church. He regarded its claim as just and did not propose to interfere with it. Sen ator Pasco, of Florida, said that the facts in the reported scandal should be ascertained by the Senate, and that in his opinion there is an obligation upon the high chuch authorities to con duct an investigation of the action of some of its officials, and he had the sin cerest belief that they will take such action as will place them and the church in their proper light. This will doubtless be done in due form accord ing to the laws and processes of the Southern- M. E. Church. It may be re lied upon that the Church will uncover the facts, and if any of its officers have behaved scandalously or dishonorably in any way they will be properly dealt with. Something to Know It may be worth something to know that the very (best medicine for restor ing the tired out nervous system to a healthy, vigor is Electric Bitters. This medicine is purely vegetable, acts by giving tone to the nerve centres in the stomach, gently, stimulates the Liver and Kidneys, and aids these organs in throwing off impurities In the blood. Electric Bitters improves the appetite, aids digestion, and Is pronounced by those who have tried it as the very best blood purifier and nerve tonic. Try it. Sold for 50c or $1.00 per bottle at R. R. Bellamy's drug store. BREVITIES. The congress has put a tax of 10 cents a pound on tea. This too after twenty six years of no tax upon it. It is a return to taxing necessaries while big incomes are untouched. And they call this a repufblic. There is much of des- - SSl The present war costs $T,0Ot),CfOG eve d?y. That shows what sort of a lux ury a small war is. If some great Eu ropean power should wade in it will cost five or ten times that sum every day. Sometime ago, it is stated, Spain -could have easily sold the Philippines Tor $200,000,000. Now this fine property slips from her fingers. After eight weelcs of effort Uncle Sam has only been alle to enlist for the regular army 10,000 of the 35,000 want ed. 'Americans prefcer to volunteer in war rather than to 'be placed In the army. The army ways are not the ways of free born 'Americans. Two big failures among speculators, Letter 'busted" on wheat, and one E. T. Hooley, ' busted" on pneumatic tires for bicycles. He had previously clear ed $12,000,000, says the New York Tri bune, but is now bankrupt. The German election was yesterday A new parliament ls to be elected- The New York Tribune says with- meaning, that "there is no Bismarck at the head of affairs to govern without parlia ment." Iave Hill has come out of his hole. He is- a goldbug but will head the dem ocratic delegation from Albany In the state convention. He i3. for harmony among democrats. The guessers in 'New York produce exchange put wheat crop for 1893, at 637,000,000 bushelsgreatest of all crops. In 1891, it was 611,780,000 bushels. HOXE FOLKS Messrs. A. A. F. Seawell and E. M. Mclver take charge of the Jonesboro Progress, as editors. We trust that they will be well sustained. The venerable Rev. James Needham, a Methodist preacher of Surry county recently celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday, by preaching to 1,000 people who asembled in a grove near his home. They heard that day a sermon from the oldest minister of the Gospel to whom they ever listened, and possibly he was preaching at a more advanced age than any other preacher who has been heard In the United States in this century. He preached with much fervency and after the services a dinner was spread and all partook. Among the guests were 250 of the aged parson's kinsfolk. It was a sight for men and angels. The Raleigh Post copied what the Messenger said of the bounty business in New York and tried to discredit by discrediting Frank Leslie's Monthly. The New York Tribune or World, we are not positive as to which, copied the pictures etc., and said not a word in condemnation of the statement. The News and Courier says we must have seen a copy of the Magazine for 1861. We saw it copied and nothing was said of date that we saw. The old fable as Wyatt being the first man to fall in the great war and that he was a native North Carolinian is still being repeated in State papers and in the face of all the most conclusive and remarks positive evidence against it. Get your history right. We notice that since Lieutenant Victor Blue made such a successful and gallant exploit In locating precisely the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago that he is set down as a native of South Carolina. But not so. We learn that he was born in North Carolina a few miles from Maxton. Score another triumph for a bold sailor boy from our State. His father taught school at Floral College. Dr. McMillan knew the father and son as we are Informed by Rev. Mr. Law, of Lumber Bridge, an ex-editor and Presbyterian minister of high character, intelligence and use fulness. Summer School at the University. (Correspondence of The Messenger.) Chapel Hill, N. C, June 15. The university summer school opens next Tuesday, the 21st instant, and the law school on July 1st. The three weeks from June 1st to June 21st are the only days of rest in the life of this great educational plant. All other times it is at work upon one class or another of its 693 students. The summer school this year Is a climax of effort on tne part of the uni versity to provide the highest form of instruction for the teachers of the state at almost nominal cost. In addition to the professors of the university and the leading teachers of North Carolina, men of such national reputation as Apgar, Joynes, Mace, Hammell and Coughlin are included in the faculty. The libraries, laboratories and all equipment of the institution are open to all. Attractive evening lectures will be given by celebrated men. The presi dent of the university will give his im pressions of educational and life in the orient and Europe, as obtained from recent travel. The summer school is the university for a month on the co educational plan and with a delightful company of cultivated people assembled within its halls. Dr. Alderman has about recovered from his serious fall during commence ment, though he has been confined to his room for nearly two "weeks. It was a matter of great regret to him that he could not fulfill his engagement to speak to the people of Elizabeth City on the 13th. Dr. Alexander has gone to Knoxville to deliver the alumni address at the University of Tennessee. A valuable addition to the unrivaled portrait collection of the university is a recept gift by Mr. Charles W. Worth, of Wilmington, of a handsome oil portrait of his father, the late David G. Worth. It is by Mrs. Marshall L. H. Williams, and is much admired by all who have seen it. The election of Mr. Crawford Biggs as assistant professor in the law school ad.ds greatly to the strength cf that de partment and promises yet larger growth In its flourishing professional school. Profesor Noble, the new professor of pedagogy, will take up his residency jj" -i-t vrosc oi im weeK. irro essor Noble's connection with the uni versity-means another strong bond be tween the university and the public schools. The Dry Goods Market. New York, June 16. The week in dry goods shows" a gradual improvement in the amount of business done. Since the reduction in bleached cottons and the fixing of new prices on fall prints there has been a fair daily average of sales on mail orders. The improvement in bleached goods has not been mark ed. Print cloths are unchanged; ex tras are quoted at 2c still, but sales are very backward. p-n LnJ Should be la every family W4h medicine chest and every trareuera grip. They are inralaiblt when th Btamii ls oat of order: car headache, biHaanA nt all 2Vrr trouble. 5liW effirt, cats. 2COBTII CAIXOLINA Recruiting drags slowly. The Bagley monument fund a.-nouati ta $1.51113. A Jacksonville correspondent of The Concord Standard aays: "Even General Lee, when passing our camp does not re ceive cheers with the ;ame vim and piri: as are given to Colonel Julian S. Carr." Two prize houses and other building were burned tn Greenville on Sunday. Fire caught In a stable In the rear of the factory of the American Tobacco Com pany. The loss by Are was to $10,- The negro who assaulted Mrs. .Maleom 1 anna at Gastonia, by choking her in her own house several weeks ago, was captured in Yorkville. S. C. and was committed to Jail at Dallas Friday. Hi name is Thomas Simpson. He has been fully identified toy Mrs. Hanna, Lincolnton Journal: We are informed that Judge L. B. Wetmore. of this place, has been tendered and will accept the colonelcy of the Third regiment. Tennes see volunteers, now ia camp at Chicka mauga, Tenn. It has been suggested that this is a mean trick cf the democrats to get Judge Wetmore out of the Judicial race. Greenville Reflector: Evangelist R. G. Pearson left this morning for his home in Asheville. Now he has come and gone we but voice the sentiment of the en tire town and community when we say that a greater one has never been here and the only regret is that he could not remain longer. The results of the meet ing have been such, we believe, as will last through time, and be known In eter nity. R. G. Pearson will long live ia the hearts of the people of Greenville. Goldsboro Argus: A distressing acci dent befell Captain Sam J. Coley, the yard master of the Southern railway in this city, this morning. In consequence of which his right arm had to be ampu tated near the shoulder. He was at tending to some shifting in the yarlof the Enterprise Lumber Company when his foot slipped and he fell or. the side of the track close enough to the rail for the wheel of the moving locomotive to crush his elbow so badly that amputa tion was necessary. 'Durham Sun: There was a cutting scrape Saturday evening about 7:30 o'clock in the alley in the rear of the No. 9 saloon on Mangum street. Wiley Whitfield and Hal Crabtree were the par ticipants, and for some time they cut at each other right lively. Crabtree was cut in the right side of his neck, on the right shoulder, hand split open and a stab in the left shoulder. Whitfield was only stabbed once, and that was in the lower part of the left side about two inches below the heart, into the lung. Marion Messenger: Percy Martin on Saturday morning was in J. W. Street man's drug store, and while Mr. Street man was waiting on a customer, walked behind the prescription case and swal lowed, he afterwards said, a teaspoonful of oxide of mercury, or "red precipitate," which has about the same effect as strychnine. Mr. Streetman washed some of the poison out of his mouth and off his hands. He said that he wanted to kill himself. Drs. Morphew and Kirby. with a stomach pump, -hindered him from hurrying himself into another world. By Saturday night he was out of danger and is now doing very well. , Charlotte News: The expected split In the republican party in this congres sional district has come. When Colonel Oliver H. Dockery was nominated for congress by the republican congressional convention it was predicted that he would have opposition. That convention fail ed to endorse the administration of Gov ernor Russell, and Russell's friends, of course, felt the slight. So Dr. R. M. Norment, of Lumberton. Robeson coun ty, has announced himself an independ ent republican candidate for congress. He say3 he is going to shoot three big guns, one at the democrats, one at the popu lists, and another at the Dockery repub licans. A gentleman, who came down from Statesville last night tells The News that the churches were all closed in that place yesterday on account of the small pox scare. It was feared that the as sembling of the people in the churches would give an opportunity for Infection. Winston Sentinel: A telephone message received here last night from Fuip stat ed that Mrs. Sarah Henley, of this city, who is visiting the family of Dr. E. Fulp, fell yesterday afternoon -and It was thought that she had fractured her hip. STATE PRESS. After many years of waiting and ap plying for everything and changing of party in search of pie, W. R. Henry has at last been given a slice. He has been appointed as National bank examiner for 'North Carolina, the position held by Colonel Burgwyn for several years and which he resigned to become colonel of the Second regiment of North Carolina volunteers. One thing about this new appointment, Henry is large enough to fill it and consume the pie. It is to be hoped he will now rest easy for awhile. Greenville Reflector. There are many evidences that mem bers of the other two parties are dissat isfied with the result of the present mis government that disgraces the state. Party ties rest loosely. There are thou sands of voters who are this year going to vote for the best man. This, of course, means that the democrats will make large gains, for by comparison its candi dates are the fittest men to make laws. It is not going to be enough to present men who are merely better qualified, than their opponents. We must name men for all places, from constable up, of such lofty character and integrity that peo ple will be constrained to vote for them. Raleigh 'News and Observer. We are notified that good men will be nominated 'by the democrats of Surry for county officers and the legislature, and if we are defeated we will have the genuine pleasure of knowing we went down with good men on board the old ship. As soon as the voters of Surry come to their senses and see where they are drifting, It will be very easy to elect good and competent men to fill the of fices of county, state and nation. The people are not all blind they know the promised restoration of confidence has not arrived yet and the people, the hard working classes, see the great folly of making such extravagant promises with nothing to back up these wild statements. Now, when the election comes off, -what do you expect the people will do about it? Mt. Airy News. A meeting of negroes In Rocky Mount last week, composing the Judicial con vention of their party, nominated Chas. A. Cooke, of Warren, for Judge, and" Rofeert W. William ston. of Craven, for solicitor. The latter Is a negro, with out lesral ability or experience and totally unfit to",te-'soneitorx.The former jal man of character and atfmy. " mn nTs"T present position rather detracts from both. Not a white man was in the con vention. If Mr. Cooke is the man we have always heard he was. his own- sense of decency and honor will prompt him to quit a candidacy which Is not representa tive of either the culture, bralna, charac ter or property of the district He can not elevate the republican party by being the race fellow of an ignorant negro for Wgh Judicial position. As a lewyer he has been trained to know that the rights of ttie people should be guarded zealous ly by able and experience counsellors. He knows that his yoke fHow Is not of his class. Ho ought to deeline the nomi nation. Windsor Ledger. Confiftned by tfee Senat Washing;on, June 16. The senate today confirmed these nomtsations: Robert Smalls, collector of customs, at Beaufort. S. C. Volunteer Army Third regiment en gineers. Edward. Willis, of- South Caro lina, assistant quartermaster with rank of captain. Fourth infantry. Rev. S. F. Chapman, Virginia, to be chaplain; T. Parker. Virginia, to be major; W. W. Strathar.. Virginia, to be commissary, with rnlc of caotain: R. S. Thompson, South Carolina, to be captain of volun teer, signal corps. t Which Half is -the BetterHalf The housewife's ditties are harder tlian men realize. Cleaning alone i a constant tax on her srreticrfli. jt nereMnded task. Mor? than half th work of cleaning she can have done will, and the expense will be GENUINE BARBADOS MOLASSES Imported by Ourselves: INowEon Hand and More NEW CROP TO ARRIVE! We carry alwas a complete stock of all grades, styles and prices. The Worth Company. Millinery. Ladies Hats. The milinery season ls about over and I have made room. Extra big deals in Ladies' Hats and Flowers. I bought 600 Hats In nice new styles, up-to-date goods, that were worth from 50c to $1.50 each, and now I can sell them from 18c to 50c less than half price. The prettiest and newest Hats of the season. Leghorn Hats in white and black, from 25c to $1.25. All the new wide brim Sailors from 15c to 9Sc a special Job. Fine Sailors, bell crown Hats that sold for $15.50 a dozen, this season's goods, very neat, now retail at 75c each. In Flowerswe have Just purchased 90 dozen bunches at a price, two roses and foliage at 5c per bunch. Three large velvet roses with foliage for 10c. Siz daisies with long stems for 10c All kinds of white Flowers and Chif fon. We have some special things in Chiffons Some collars at 15c and 25c per yard. Crlndle Chiffon plaited at 75c White,, black blue, pink and corn colors, at 75c. Ribbon of all kinds, all prices. Val Lace for trimming, from lc to 5c and upward per yard. Silk Lace 4 inches wide at 10c; better GEO. O. GAYLOKD, Proprietor, DIVIDEND NOTICE. 4 The Board of Directors of the Carolina In surance Corrroanv havfi dfinlared a Semi-An nual Dividend of thee per cent payable to Stockholders of recdrd on this date. Divi dend payable on. June 20thr1898. M. k TORTOEf BESIDES the dangers and dis figurements of Blood Dis eases, the Burning and Itch ing Skin Eruption are among the most acute tortures. 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Bocton. rbllAdelpul. up to 25c. Silk Veiling, beautiful gooda from 10c to 50c. Ladies' Calico Wrap pers from GOc to $1.00. We have Just received a nice line of China Dishes, which we are going to give to our cash customers. We give for a $5 purchase a set of silverplated Spoons or six nice Tumblers. For a $10 purchase six nice large China Dinner Plates or a beautiful China Tea Pot or three pieces China Set. For a $15 purchase a beautiful set of China decorated Plates a handsome Berry or Ice Cream Set or a handsome Oak Table. For a $20 purchase we give a nice colored edge China, 13 pieces set. For a $25 purchase we give a flue Arm Chair or a beautiful Chlnt Set of 18 pieces, or a book or a fine Table. For a $35 purchase we give 18 pieces of fine Gold Band China set, absolutely free to you. Bring your card and get It punched with every cash sale at the largest and cheapest wholesale nnd retail department store In the at Wilmington's Big uackct core. o posite the Orton Hotel, near the Post office. WIIXARD, Secretary. PILLS. wuW VWjla TILL. TQ ofi. to LrfUliO. $9aiaUy reoosuutnl (MM : XS0T28 KSXXJTSOTAXa PTLV aad take ao other. X. gWCT l.W pC firt DOXM for SVOj "TSftUOATi CO v devtlatrl Ohio, 1
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