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THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER: TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1898.' kussell on smno'9. It is aa old ruse of a political trick ster and enemy of the people to bring counter-charges of corruption and failure when his own bad doings and the conspicuous failure of his own party are brought under the search light. The old, old dodge is "played" now in North Carolina. The sane, sensible, honest people will not be de ceived by the Russell cry of "wolf, twoK." For four years the combine that rare make up of populist silver men and earnest reformers with the rag, tag and bobtail remnant of effete radicalism pledged to high taxes, a robber tax and the single gold stand ard have had full sway in North Carolina, and all knov from the high- eat to the lowest what has resulted from this combination of antagonizing elements agreed really in but two thincs "to beat the democrats" and to get a grip upon swag. A state that ."was prospering and contented under progressive, wise, economic and just democratic government has received a severe blow in its varied interests, its reputation has been damaged, its best people have become despondent, capital has retired or refused to enter, and negrodom .has been flattered and played with until Russell is once more in full fellowship with his "savages, and Anglo Saxonism is at a discount so far as black radicalism and" But lerism can make it to be. To paint the picture in words fitting and reveal ing would demand the pen of a Ruskin or a Macaulay, or the brush of a Rembrandt. So to rail at democratic misrule and to hedge when driven to defence by saying, "We are black, but you are another," will not meet the case or pay. Governor Russell is believed to have written the acrid, personally abusive letter addressed to Mr. F. M. Simmons, chairman of the democratic' state committtee that appears in this issue of The Messenger. The Raleigh Post of Wednesday. The governor's style is so extraordinary in its characteristics all aflame with vituperation and personal thrusts and plausible pettifogging that any one familiar with it can not mistake it when it appears signed by another man. The fat governor cannot de ceive any ordinary critic of style at this point. He is given to such work. It is not the first time since he was governor that he has used the slime ! f malice and stiletto of the hidden x. ssassin, and the mud of the shambles "i-i his eagerness to outrage decency, 1 J gratify his insatiable hatred and to give voidence to his violent, calumni ating statements. The democratic chairman addressed i inquiries to Mr. J. M. Mewboorne rela tive to certain matters connected with tha management, etc., of the peniten tiary. The governor in his reply makes a personal assault upon the character of the chairman in which very grievous charges are made. The inquiries of the chairman are answer ed by an attack upon the honesty and character of Mr. Simmons, and by cer !tain charges brought as to the man agement of the democrats before the combine came in with their outrages .and failures. As to the charges brought by Rus sell against the democratic govern ment in the matter of the Halifax farm land, the Anson plantation, the Castle Hayne lease, and any other complaints, they should be met with denials and facts if Russell is not tell ing the truth instead of romancing, or sounding a counter charge with his big brass horn. Because connected with personal vindictiveness and mud-slinging it Is no good reason that the charges made by the artful advo cate in the governor's chair should go unnoticed and unanswered. Let the truth be stated plainly in answer to "Russell. A reply in the spirit of the assailant will not do. All know his high gifts of blackguarding and his utter recklessness when hit So the "way is to meet his assaults with facts. .'A plain statement offsetting his charges or refuting them will be worth a ream of criticisms upon Rus sell's general and particular mean ness. - Since the above was in type we have J received Chairman Simmons' reply to the insulting letter, which will also be found in this issue. SCHLEY IS THE HEAL. HERO Captain Sampson (called admiral) is a small man. Look at his report. The splendid, gallant fighter, Com modore Schley, is almost ignored, and yet he really won the fight, while subordinates for the most part receive no praise for their part taken in the great battle of 3rd July 1898. Schley most heartily praises his men who -were thick in the fight. Sampson -with the battle, he is unable to recog--tfras so far away, had so little to do nize the dash, valor and deeds of the main participants. We fear Sampson is a sorry fellow, gangrened by jeal ousy. He is so very fair he cannot specify merit, and he does but very imperfect justice to the dashing re sourceful Schley. The Baltimore Herald say3: "Nevertheless, the scant reference to Commodore Schley may, in the opinion of the latter's friends, lend color to the rumors that the relations between the two men are not as cor dial as they might be. It would, doubtless, have been bet ter for Sampson's fame had he been more lavish in his praise of the splen did leadership of Schley in the me orable battle. As will be noted, the reports of the other commanding officers contrast rather strongly in point of generous commendation with Sampson's matter-of-fact sentences." You see it was not Sampson's vic tory. W hat has he done anyway that any other naval commander could not have done. And that is the pity of it. It was swift, most gallant fighting on the part of the slight armored Brook lyn when Schley dashed right in among the enemy. Cervera expected to be able to destroy easily, as we now know, the Brooklyn. Spanish officers were simply amazed at her fighting and their failure to send her speedily to the bottom. God was in it. It was not so written that she should be de stroyed. She certainly destroyed two of the cruisers light armored as she was. The report of the commission show that the Brooklyn, aided by the Texas and the Oregon did tne work. The captains of those vessels did the work aided grandly by their men. Cervera and the captain of his flag ship say that but for Schley they would have made good their escape. We cannot doubt it reading the ac counts of men who were there. Yet in face of right and truth and justice there are northern papers, and possi bly some southern, who are trying to make Sampson the real hero. This is as ridiculous and unfair as it would be to credit Lee with the victories of the first and second days at Gettys burg insteal of some other soldier if he had been ten miles away and only heard the guns. We have no patience with unfairness and injustice in any thing. We are for the right, for the truth, for honor and justice in all transactions and deeds in military and civil life, in church and state. Let all the heroes be hon ored, every mother's son of them. Let the officers and the men receive their meed of praise. If Commodore Schley had hesitated with his fast thinly armored ship to have sailed into the Spanish fleet fighting alone at first four of their cruisers, and had let them escape, pleading they were too many and too strong for him, Sampson would have denied all re sponsibility and said that he was not a participant and could not prevent the calamnity and the disgrace. And newspapers now unjustly withholding praise and honor from Schley and be stowing the honors on Sampson would have been swift in their condemnation and abuse of the gallant Marylander. Let justice be done though the heav ens fall. After writing the above we were glad to find an editorial in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot strongly and justly favorable to Commodore Schley, We copy with pleasure the following from it: "It is like threshing thrice-threshed straw again to go over all the facts that really exclude Sampson from the affair, and that all unite to acclaim Schley the Alpha and Omega, the be ginning, middle and end of the great engagement. But he was there when Cervera broke from covert with his fleet; he led the pursuit; he- bore the brunt of the fighting his ship, (by Cervera's orders) being the mark of. every gun of the enemy; he did the work, in the main; and he ended the I chase by skill, speed and daring, send ing the last and swiftest of the Span ish fleet to wreck and surrender before Sampson appeared to usurp honors won by another. That is what hurts Sampson so irreparably. He at least should not have trusted himself in between Schley and the commander of the Colon (driven to surrender by Schley) to intercept and receive the sword of the beaten commander." BREVITIES What a fine hero is little Jo Wheel er, of Alabama. How resolute and intrepid! We felt proud of him when we read in yesterday's Messenger how he refused to fall back when urged by officers to do so in the terriffic fight of July 1. Said the brave southerner: "No! it will not do. American pres tige is gone if we give an inch." And he didn't. Hark! Hear! The talk now is that Watson's last "bluff" is not to find Camara's fleet, but to find Dewey at Manilla. He will help Dewey thrash the saucy Germans if necessary. The modesty of Lieutenant Hobson is the talk of the north. A corres pondent describes him in Washington: "The first conviction was that he was handsome, yes, an exceedingly handsome man. He looks an athlete and walks with easy graceful step. He looks one squarely in the face. Yet there is something appealing in his expression. "He has not the stamp of a con conceited man nor yet one who has great confidence in himself. He sim ply has the appearance of a handsome southern boy who has nothing to be ashamed of." If any Alabamian 13 mean enough to try to get General Wheeler's place in the congress, we hope the people will see to it that he fails. Give Gen eral Jo an unanimous vote for he de serves it. The Washington Post notes that Milwaukee has developed a one hun dred thousand dollar- band default er. We presume the sympathies of the community will be prbmptly extended to this unfortunate. In France the sense of justice seems to be as dead as it i3 in Spain. That corruptions in the army may be hush ed up public sentiment favors death to Dreyfus and imprisonment to Zola who defended him. Poor France! The Philadelphia Record is so moved upon by the modest merit of young Hobson it says and it is timely and appropriate: "Taken all in all, whether as a hero, a naval constructor or the modest re cipient of unexpected plaudits, Mr. Hobson is a pleasing examplar of young American m..,nhood. May the Twentieth century multiply and in crease him, and give us Hobsons in every walk of life!" STATE PHESS "We endorse the Dingley tariff bill," says this platform, further, "made necessary by the enormous expendi tures incident to the war" when all the world knows that the Dingley tar iff bill was framed and enacted into law before there was any war or any prospect of a war. Nothing could be more uncandid than this, nor any thing more unworthy than a phrase following in which it is sought to give the administration and the republi can party the glory for the success of the war thus far. But, as men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles, neither do they get can dor and straight-forward dealing, any more than good government, from southern republicanism. Away with it! A man might believe in every tenet of the republican party, and yet if he were well regulated and meant well by his people he could not afford to con nect himself with the republican par ty of North Carolina on account of the conscienceless association into which it would bring him. Charlotte Ob server. That courteous and perfectly legiti mate request sent by Mr. F. M. Sim mons to the board of penitentiary di rectors for certain information that under the law should have been em-boc'-ied in a report by Superintendent John R. Smith and filed on the first day of December last, seems to have thrown the whole "kit and bilin" of them into hysterics, the pompous Mem-rns of the many O's is said be came wrathy and in a fiery speech flung projetctiles that exploded all over the heads of some of the mem bers of the board. He proclaimed his honesty in tones loud enough to be heard by the" escaped convicts, and in timated that he would rather be feed ing pigs on his Lenoir county "truck patch" than to me meddling with this white elephant with a tail at both ends, or words to that effect. Mr. Sim mons has merely made a request for information, but Mr. Simmons in this is about in the same condition with the balance of the people of the state, for it seems that hereafter all the people are to renrain in bliss-ful ignor ance of the doings of this "House of Lords," these mighty moguls of ma jestice manouvering, these princely potentates of the pen, this collossal collection of convict curators, this- bul ly board of bouncers, these silent se cret service solons. Raleigh News and Observer. From the best information we can get from all sections of the county, it is evident that the better class of the populists, we mean, those who are white, and believe in a white man's government, will unite with the dem ocrats in restoring good government to our county and statte. They can't afford to do otherwise, for they see that a continuance of republiacn rule will bankrupt the government and ne groize it beyond all hope of redemp tion at the polls. Why, there is a ne gro magistrate in Ellerbe township,, appointed by Z. F. Long,, our elerk of court, and there are two- negro1 school committeemen on every township board, appointed by our board of ed ucation, and one negro on said? board of education, appointed by our clerk, sheriff, register and county commis sioners. Look at the picture, ye dem ocrats and patriotic republicans and populists. Behind the picture! Can you endure it longer? Don't you know that this is but a foretaste - of what these fellows would do for us if they are re-elected. We know there are marry good republicans and populists who have never seen these things in the light. They say, we are as much j opposed to the negro in office as you ! are. Well, then, if you are, don't vote the republican or fusion ticket, for as sure as you do, you will have negroes put over you. You must rejnember that there are about four times as many negroes as there are white re publicans, and the negroes are the masters of their white allies. Rock ingham Rocket. To Gather In the Spanish Gunboats New York, July 28. A cablegram from Hong Kong to The Journal says that Admiral Dewey at Manila his dis patched the Raleigh and the Concord to gather up eleven Spanish craft, which, according to information sent him by Consul Wildman, , are at va rious places in the Philippine archi pelago. Among these vessels are three gunboats at San Miguel, Luzon is land, and four at Port Royalist, Pala war island. Four merchantmen, with cargoes of tobacco, are reported at Cagayana, Luzon. The same dispatch reports that English traders at the coal mines in Luzon islands have been imprisoned and subjected to ill-treatment otherwise by the Spaniards there. Kl 'J Restore full, regular action of the bowels, do not irri tate or inflame, but leave all the delicate digestire or ganism In perfect condition. Prepared onlj bj c. L Uood IPnODs Try them. 25 cents. & Co LowelL Mam. XQXC NORTH CABOLCIA Watauga Democrat: On last Thurs day Mr. Finley Trivett was drowned la Watauga river while floating saw logs down the stream. He was below the "splash dam" when the gate was rais ed and there being more water than he thought he was caught in the flood of water and logs and his bruised and lifeless remains wr fnnnrt rnThlf i mile down the river. Mr. Trivett was a good man. Winston Sentinel: Senator Pritch ard did not attend the republican state convention. The reason which one republican gave for his absence is unique. He said the senator had promised so many men office and so ! many had failed to get the places that j he feared to meet his "legion of the j disappointed, and that the convention contained many of this class of men who failed. Charlotte Observer: Jim Thomas, colored, while at work for the Gas Company yesterday morning, helping to lay a main in front of Wardsworth's stables, was struck by a street car and right painfully hurt. A band of fif teen negroes assembled at Gold Hill, on the western outskirts, Monday af ternoon for a game. The cards were shuffled and the game begun. Among the players was Charles Ellis, known amongst the negro sporting element as "Charleston," he being from South Carolina, and having the low country dialect; Jim Jenkins and Lee Byers. Jenkins and ''Charleston" are great friends. Byers was an outsider. A3 the game proceeded, Ellis and Byers got into a dispute, and Byers wa3 about to get the best of it, when Ellis drew his pistol and fired twice at By ers. Byers dodged and one of the balls hit Jenkins, taking effect in his neck. The party scattered instantly Willie Smith, the little daughter of Sheriff Smith, gave an example sev eral days ago at Spartan grit, which she inherits on both sides of the house. She had recently become the happy possession of a wheel, and was out taking her first ride. In coming along Church street at full speed she was run into by a recruiting officer, similarly mounted. The collision took place in front of Hanan's store. The child was thrown against a telephone pole, one of the iron spikes used as steps by the lineman striking her in the breast. Mr. Hannan saw the collision, and ran to the assistance of both parties. The soldier was not hurt. He and Mr. Hannan picked the child up and took her in the store. After the shock of fright was over she insisted that she was not hurt, and rode off. She was afraid her par ents would not let her ride again, so she did not tell of the accident, but, kept the fact and her bruises to her self. Mrs. Smith heard of it Monday for the first time. Raleigh News and Observer: Mr. Butler was seen later at his hotel The point blank question was put to him: "Do you favor fusion with the republican party in this state?" It was plain and simple enough, but the senator is not good at answering questions. He replied: "I prefer not to answer that now; I have virtually answered it in an editorial in the Cau casian which appears tomorrow. A mule hitched to a wagon was fright ened by a trolley car near Camp Dan Russell yesterday afternoon and ran away throwing out the owner, W. F. Stephens, and an old darkey named Reuben Farrier, who was riding with him. Farrier was seriously hurt, re ceiving an ugly gash above the eye Yesterday afternoon as Mr. Joseph Blake was riding on the Holleman road, he found Mrs. W. H. Rodgers and Miss Hattie WUkie, of New York, in a very bad plight. They were out driving, and the work house team ran away and ran into their vehicle from behind. The heavy wagon and horses ran into their carriage, demolished it, knocked out Mrs. Rogers' teeth, and knocked Miss Wilkie senseless. It i a thousand miracles that they were not killed. Mr. Blake gave them all the assistance he could, sent his man back to the city for Dr. J. R. Rogers and a carriage, and then the two ladies were brought to the city. Misa Wilkie did not regain consciousness until she reached the; city. She is suf fering from nervous prostration. Mrs Roarer's face i3 badly bruised. A. more pitiful list than that of the total ly disabled Confederate soldiers it would be hard to suggest. One is kept in the state auditor's, office, and as it is transcribed from year to year on the books for the payment of $10 per month pension from the state it showa how the veterans are passing. Glancr ing down the page one is struck witn. the fact that nearly or quite three- fourths of those on this splendid roll of honor are totally blind. In 189b there were 33 on the list of totally disabled; in 1837 there were 37; in 1898. though the year is not complete, the veteran who has number 22 in al phabetical order last year has moved nr to number 18, this year. Ten dol lars a month is ao little to pay to the man who is old and blind! Surely as the list shorten the pensions migat be increased. Roblfr the Grave A startling incident of which "Sir. John Oliver, of Philadelphia, wajs. the subject, is narrated by him as fol lows: "I wa in a most rreadful con dition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain- con tinually in back and sides, no appe tite gradually growing weaker day by day. Thro physicians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend advised try ing 'Electric Bitters, and to my great Joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decides improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim." No one should fail to try them. Only 50 cents per bottle at R. R. Bellamy's drug store. Bryson City Democrat: John H, Everett of Bryson City and Amos Cal lahan of Knor county, Tennessee, trill begin the erection of a $100,000 roller flour mill at the mouth of Kirkland's creek at once. They expect ta have it ready tor work by October. Silt lil fe Hp! 11 J0 far ni'-fc-:. ef4irwii.-.) in unl wkuv- All cTvxt-rs. ;!.! oti'.y t fSIF. K. rAIKl! XK COMPANY ICE! IN -ANY From io Pounds to ioo'.Tons CAREFULfPERSONAL ATTENTION; 'GIVEN TO ALI ORDERS. Wm. E. Worth & Co. BELL TELEPHONES 64 & 94. INTERSTATE 146. A THIEF 1 How Catarrh Robs Its Victims of Health and Life, Catarrh la the most inaldloti of diseases. If Deflected, it Invariably reaches the bronchial tubes and lungs, rendering them weak and susceptible to consumption. P. P. P. fLlppxnan's Great Remedy) ts tne only logical treatment for this loathsome disease. Catarrh is uow recognized as an affection of the blood, and not a mere local trou ble. The best blood purifier is there fore the best remedy, and the best blood purifier is acknowledged to be P. P. P. Under treatment with P. P. P. the slckeningdischarges, with hawking and spitting and offensive odor, quickly disappear and perma cent and radical recovery sooa re sults. Messrs. Lippmak Brothers. Savan nah, Ga. Gents I have usrd nearly four bottles or f. r., Lippman'sGrcat Rrmrdy I was aimcted trora the crown of uiy head to-the culty of brreathiug-, smothering. Calpitatiooof ut now I can nosirii waciosea lor ten years, but now I can m,w ln. . P ? ,t",x?e tor Xv, y""' ' in fact. dreaded to nrr n1ht come. Now I sleep EES- &2?y Vfslt.,on aJl.?,?h.t- 1 am 5 yr old. but exiect soon to he able to Xk hold of thi flVfA. I s ivd thHt 1 7." ,uck nouRh to get P P. P.. aud I hcattllv recommend it to my friends and the public generally. Yours respectfully, A M. KAMSPY IHE STATB of Texas County of Comonche. Before the undrmlffne authority on thu'.lar C.?ifyPJ?!lrel"A Ramsey, who. after being duly sworn, says ou th that the foreeoin. statement made by him relative to the virtue of P. P. P medicine is true. A. M. RAMSUV. Sworn to and subscribed before me this-August 4th. iRgi. J. M. LAMBliKT, N. P., Comaoche County, Tesss. PT T PPan 9reatRemeCyIai,,,PrIorto nrsaparlllas and f. r scientific and successful remedy for old sores, plmpUs, blotcbe diseases of the skin and blood. PO O JWnpnian Great Remedy) is well known to physicians, who prescribe It tr . tr largely in their regular practice, the formula being printed on every carton. Sold by all Druggists. y :ppman Brothers, For Sale by R. R. BELLAMY. inn big mm store Is busy now receiving new good3 ev ery day and selling far more of them than we expected. Our trade is ex tra goad. We are selling lots of nsw and stylish goods at a small price. Wash Goods at prices from 3c to 25c. White Lawn from 4c to 25c. Forty inch Heavy White Goods for Shirts acd Children's Dresses from 6c to 19c. Lawns at 3c. Calico at 3c. Heavy 4-4 Sheeting from 3c to 4c. Sea Island Sheeting at 4c. One yard wide Bleaching at 4c. Our Bleaching stock is extra cheap. Our 6c linenow 5c. We have runnig a lot ofTemnants in Dress Goods at all prices and kinds to suit every body. , A big line in fin Shirt Waists, worth Toe, Just received, to close at 39c; plait ed back and front, with collars. A very big line of fine Trunks, all prices and grades, from 25c to $15.00 each. Remember out Ribbon stock. We have beautiful Sash Ribbons from 20c to 65c and J1.0S) per yard. GEO. O. GAYLORD, Proprietor. July 24 1 o3k 1.1 ft a0f I ffl 1 l 5 JTi ill Fi?H,E,"L!-E SUtmEB SCH00L D COHSEBVATOaY W II KUKf In tr. hoaittir.il ;,., . As&VujV N V in '-TlT. I - rTu JV 111 Www r' u.L. - - 1 - '' i- - - - -ciir i:- -1 -if w v vL i V5 jk.v . arc . i m v . y I ICE! ICE! QUANTITY THE NIGHT: mle of my feet. Your T. P. P has mrrd my dim- the heart, aud ha relieved we of all pain. Ons breathe thrmiuh it rrmlil-r breathe through it readily the most es and all Proprietors, LIppoasB Block. Savannah, Ga. Crash Hats, Caps for boys and girls, at 20c each, all colors. New Sallora received today at 25c and COc. A very fine line- of new Umbrellas and Parasols from 2Dc to 11.75, all styles in handles. Forty roll of nw Matting Just re ceived from 12Vic to 30c per yard. Twenty-five rolls uf fine Brussels Car pet at 50c per yard, worth 75c. Window Shades from 10c to 50c, with spring rollers and" fixtures complete. We do th cash business of the city and the people know It. It is not. our good looks nor is it our fine ways that draws the customers, but it 13 our low prices and aice gods. Bring your card and get it punched at Wilmington's Big Racket Ston?, op posite the Orton Hotel. P. S. Ramember our ready made Canopies. If the mosquitoes be you can get Sk net to stop them for J1.25, all ready to hang up. AFTER A FIRE WILL NOT HE FELT SO BADLY IP YOU PREPARE YOURSELF BE FOREHAND AND HAVE YOUR POLICIES WRITTEN IN COMPA NIES WHOSE SOLVENCY IS AS GREAT AS UNCLE SAM'S STRONG BOX. WE'LL WRITE YOUR IN SURANCE. LARGE LIN TO OR SMALL. AT MINIMUM RATES AND IN COMPANIES OF WORLD WIDE RENOWN AND GUARANTEE YOU THE MAXIMUM OF SATISFAC TION IN THE EVENT OF FIRE LOSS. Willard & Giles, AGENTS. Only the BEST Companies represented li.',ne m aswtii r,Hg for Voting V.Wti. tc. K.m.or a. rW iULLA V -if . t
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