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fHE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1893. K0 iOV KItN.TIKNT AND HONEST POPLXISTS. The Messenger has no unkind or un friendly words for honest, well mean ing populists for men who have been blncere and patriotic in helping to form a new party in the hope of im proving conditions and self -betterment. In a free country that is certainly a right and privilege for any elector. rWe have known men of pure and hon orable lives men indeed of highest character in the churches, to join the . People's party. They were educated, intelligent, brave for the right.and were thoroughly sincere in their purposes and convictions, and they sought such changes and reforms in public mea eures and in the management of the government as would prove a blessing to the country at large to every sec tion, and to all classes and conditions. The Messenger has through the years thought and believed that the honest, true populists were mistaken as to some of the measures they favored. It has held that one of their chief prin ciples they advocated was wholly im practicable and Impossible the sub treasury scheme. It has insisted that its rJank favoring the ownership by tbe United States government of all railroad, steamboat, telephone and telegraph lines as unwise, dangerous and impossible because of the tremen dous cost, which would be four times more than the huge war debt in 1865. when the great conflict closed. But for the fair, honest, sincere men who favored such extreme measures, so full of class favoritism and cen tralization, the Messenger had not con tempt nor censure, but regret and sor row. The person who thinks that this class came under the castigation ad ministered is mistaken. It was the demagogue, the self-seeker, the hot headed fanatic, the revolutionist in embryo, the blinded partisan heedless of right, of principle, of the perpetuity of liberty in this land the wild-cat thoorizer, the political charlatan, tho deceiver, the butter and bread patriot this was the fellow the Messenger sus pected, denounced and despised. And this is the fellow whose name is "Legion" who has wickedly deceived his r-jisguided followers, and has grad ually weakened the People's party. This is the perennial office-seeker and eternal pie-hunter whose patriotism is nil, but who "totes" around his "five leaves and two fishes" as expressive c' his undying devotion to the greatest S ocl cf the greatest number and to the p inciples that gave life and vigor to t 3 People's party in its early years. r nis is the mean, selfish creature be neath contempt and to be held in abso lute abhorrence by every well mean ing, upright citizen. The good men of the populists have been bewitched and bamboozled by artful demagogues and traders, slick of tongue, reckless of promise, plausi ble, insinuating, sly, bold, with "cheek" and no little ingenuity. Behold the result. They have swap ped with black radicals, traded off hon est, true men as so much merchandize, have used them to achieve their ends and feather their own vile nests. What have we in North Carolina now as a result of barter and combine? 'A negro government. The former elaves are masters now. The whole machinery is made dependent upon the conduct of negroes. They furnish the motor, the lubricating oil and the basis of success. This is the output of false leadership, of abusing the confidence of honorable and patriotic white men utterly opposed now and forever to all nigger bossism. Can it be possible that the better class of populists can be farther de ceived by the treacherous leaders who mean mischief and undoing? Is it a fact that a considerable number of ;white men in North Carolina have no more faith in their race, no more re gard for their own interests, no more affection and sympathy for their fami lies and neighbors, no more devotion to North Carolina, no more consis tency and fidelity to principle than to co-operate or conspire in any way to help continue negro rule, and to de grade the descendants of the great 7Vhite race that was born to rule and has given to the world whatever of civilization, of grandeur, of glory, of laws, of the finer virtues, of govern inent that it possesses now or has ever possessed. We must believe that the deceived men, the honest and sincere men of the People's party will help the White Man's party in this year of grace to re deem, to disenthral, to restore North Carolina to an era of contentment, progress, and prosperity. Let all men of white skins and white souls, with the virtues and principles of the white race unite now to save the state from rum and bring back law, order and decency to the government in all of its branches and ramifications. Let the amalgamation not be be tween the white men and the African negro, but between the white men of all parties and the white man. If you are a white man be a white man. If you are ashamed of your race and color paint your face yellow or black and "jine the radikils" and keep company henceforth with Sambo and Josh and Jemima. Help to save North Caro lina from further degradation and ruin. The very best friends the negroes have ever had were not the riotous and demagogic whites who traded for office and pelf, but the white men who built the state, gave it civilization and preserved it until the vandal and demi wolf and general disorganizer made his appearance. The white men today wish no harm, no suffering, no poverty to the deserving part of the negro race. They show this every day in their treatment of that race. But they are not willing to be dominated by them, and to wear the yoke of their fabricat ing. They will not long permit the . present state of things in North Car- j olina. An oppressed and outraged in nil 1 ,1 nrA i , nnn V, n jjcvyic iu an lauus auu iu auj age uavc the right of revolution, and when law lessness and robberies and bad, malign government make men desperate they will rise in their strength and majesty, and throw off the despotism, and walk once more under God's sunlight, free ; and unfettered, in the full enjoyment i of the liberties they have inherited, j lost and won. Tyranny treads a thorny path when its victims are white men, free born, and born to be free. ikkvie FOLKS. The people of Wilmington are high ly gratified to learn that it is now cer tain that the Wilmington Light Infan try will soon be home, as the Second regiment will be disbanded, as it ought to be. The company will meet with a most hearty welcome. The Chamber of Commerce did the neat and proper thing in its action to secure the re turn of the company. Mr. D. J. Lewis, a highly esteemed lawyer of Whiteville, is out in a letter in the Raleigh News and Observer, in defence of Judge Adams. He warmly eulogizes that jurist and insists that our worthy and esteemed contemporary at Whiteville, the News, has "unjustly attacked" the pie-counter judge, who never practiced law before he under took to preside in the superior court. The News is mild and respectful in re ply. It says Mr. Lewis did not hear the charge of the judge that has been so severely criticised, and very justly if he is guilty of making it. The News concludes: "We may add. also, that we are am ply able to sustain our report of the judge's charge if any one with author ity to speak dares question its correct ness." Durham county democrats are wise. They made that generous, faithful, honest North Carolinian, Colonel Julian S. Carr, chairman of the dem ocratic executive committee. He has proved his faith by his works. When he was not made governor when Dan Russell got in it is seen now the mag nitude of the blunder and misfortune. He is always eager for the right, and ready to spend and be spent for his native Carolina and the white folks. The Messenger congratulates Durham county upon its wise, most fortunate choice. THE GREAT BATTLE AND VI C TOKY IN EGYPT. The battle between the Anglo-Egyptian army, numbering about 24,000 and the Dervishes (Arabs) supposed to number not less than 60,000, that was fought on the 1st August, a few miles from Omdurman.in the Soudan (Egypt) was bloody and decisive. The Anglo Egptian loss was not above 500, while it is known that 11,200 of the Der vishes were killed and 16,000 wounded a most terrific list of casualties. The enemy were scattered and driven off the field in great disorder, but they fought with marvellous desparation and pluck in the battle. Their pluck was grand and their destruction most ap palling. The British commander is General Sir Herbert Kitchener, a sol dier of great ability. He fought a bat tle a year or more ago that was hotly contested and most gallantly and ably won. His whole campaign for more than a year has been so able, so systi matic, so complete in all particulars as to win the applause of European war critics as well as those of his own land. In the late battle the British number ed some 10,000 and the Egyptians, un der British officers, 14,000, and they behaved admirably. Omdurman was quickly taken and the Khalifa (com mander of tfcr Dervishes) is a fugitive and is being hotly pursued. This vic tory is complete, annihilates the ene- my, avenges the murder of the noble General Gordon, who was butchered at Khartoum, a short distance from Om durman, some twenty years ago, and hands Egypt over to the rule of the most masterful and ablest civilizer of the modern world Great Britain. The battl was managed with con summate pkill, and General Kitchener not only riet all the promises he made to his government, and according to dates given at different times, but was ahead of the capture of Omdurman by some fourteen days. He is known in the Egyptain war as "Sirdar." The New York Tribune announcing the fail of the city, says: "Without a hitch or a check or a single setback the Sirdar's amazing mechanism of blood and iron has moved on its way to the "Elephant Trunk" at the fork of the Nile. The Dervishes are scattered or slaughtered. The Khalifa is a fugitive. The Cross of St- George burns clear and bright upon the desert air above the Mahdi's tomb at Omdurman, and above the spot whero flordon died, in the midst of that deflate waste where once stood the almost imperial city of Khar toum. It has been a superb campaign, for whose like in those regions we must go back just twenty-one years to a day, when Gordon, clad in cloth of gold and wielding unchallenged power of life and death over uncounted my riads, swept like a veritable god of war from Zeila to Darfur, and won from the astounded and vanquished Dervishes the name of The Thunderbolt For its antitheis we need not go back so far. Today, from the Delta to the Fork, yes, and to the Lakes, and to its utmost source, the Nile i3 a British river. "So let it remain forever. That, we sincerely trust, will be the immediate and lasting result of Sir Herbert Kitchener's campaign. There is no use in mincing matters or in setting up pretences. England is in Egypt, and in Egypt she should stay, and in all the vast domain that once was Egypt's." The British troops never fail to fight well. They have no superiors on the globe. They fought splendidly under Kitchener at Atbara, last year, and at Dongola, and but the other day near Omdurman, by which it will probably be designated in history. BREVITIES. The south will sympathize sincerely with General Wheeler in his very sad bereavment. His promising son Thomas, agod 19, wa3 drowned while bathing. If Spain expects peace, happiness and future prosperity it would de well to hang or banish Butcher Weyler. The great principles of right and justice are too precious to be juggled with as in France. Give Dreyfus and Zola another hearing. The truth may hurt but without justice France is low ered in the scale of nations. Ben Franklin gave Boston $5,000 in 1790. It was to be allowed to accumu late for 100 years before used to help others. It now amounts to half a mil lion dollars. It is to be used now by the trustees as they deem best to carry out the plans of the donor. It will probably be applied to free schools for manual training. Mr. D. W. Thompson, of Santa Bar bara, Cal., has a saddle that actually cost to make it $4,000. We make a short extract of a long description of it: "The girth which secures the saddle in place is woven from horses manes by native artisans, and is fully eight inches broad. The reins, martingale, and whip are composed of solid silver in woven strands. The headstall is covered with fluted silver, with large silver rosettes at the side, and an elab orate nose piece, with a silver chain under the jaw. The bridle reins and accessories weigh about 12 pounds." There is a new English invention called the "Telescriptor." It is in place of both telegraph and telephone. It prints the message, and even when the person to receive is absent, so he can find it when he returns. A de scription says: "The same instrument is used both as a receiver and transmitter, and the apparatus at both ends of the line re cords the message which is sent. A perfect copy is thus made automatical ly by the very act of sending and may be retained like copies in a letter book." Ll Hung Chaos's Dismissal London, September 8. A private telegram just received here confirms the statement, made in a dispatch from Pekin yesterday, that Li Hung Chang has-been, dismissed from the Chinese foreign office. But the dis patch adds, "it is pointed out here (at Pekin) that this does not necessarily mean that he has been deprived of all power. 2 . A dispatch has been received from the British minister at Pekin, Sir Claude M. MacDonald confirming the report that Li Hung Chang has been dismissed at his request. Father and Daughter Murdered Columbus, Ohio, September 8. A special to The State Journal from Cambridge, Ohio, says: Squire Boyd and daughted, Mrs. J. L. Wyrick, re siding three miles east of here, were found murdered today. Orwin Law, son-in-law of Mr. Boyd, was found unconscious in another room. There were no wounds or marks on his person. Suspicion points strong ly against Law and he was arrested. Law's wife died about three weeks ago and it is known that thore has been trouble between him and the murdered man. Yesterday they had a quarrel. Law remained unconscious until about 6 o'clock this evening. He would not talk of the affair. Kl Cure all liver ills, bilious ness, headache, sour stom ach, indigestion, constipa tion. They act easily, with out pain or gripe. Sold by all drugjrfsta. 25 cents. The only Fills to take vita Hood's SarsapariUa. n y Pills XORTII CAROLINA James McCall, a well known far mer of Mecklenburg county, commit ted suicide last week by hanging. He had been in poor health, and some time previously he was detained in the county home on account of weakness of mind. Charlotte Observer: Special to the Observer. Asheville, September 6. Mrs. Sallie Smith, aged 73 years, was struck by a train yesterday afternoon while crossing the Southern railway near Pearson's bridge. Her injuries were so severe that she died a short tine after the accident occurred. Durham Record Major W. A. Guth rie, who was in Moore county last week, says that the indications there are that the democrats and populists will vote the same ticket. The repub licans have named the weakest ticket known in that county for years. Kinston Free Press: We hear near ly every day of populists who are sick of fusion and who are returning to the democratic party. Yesterday one of them was saying that he had been fooled into it along with many others, and that the leaders, by trading, had filled their pockets with money and were trying to throw them right into the radical party. He said he was done with them and would forever hereafter vote the democratic ticket, Lenoir Topic: There is a house near Lenoir in what is known as Powell town, owned and occupied by James L Morrow, which was built by George Powell, A. D., 1812. Hence this house has been an inhabited dwelling for SG years'. Inside of its walls there have been 27 births and no one ever yet died within it. There is the first brick house that was ever built in what is now Caldwell county, it being at that time a part of Burke. The water sup ply is obtained from a ; well 80 feet deep. The house is surrounded by tall cedars; some of which are 32 inches in diameter, none of which has ever been struck by lightning, notwith standing it is on a high place. Winston Sentinel: Jerry Respass, a member of the engineering corps which laid off the new railroad to Mooresville, arrived home this morn ing from Cleveland. He reports the engineering work finished. The tres tles and bridges are nearing comple tion and only eight miles of the read remains to be surfaced. Jerry has no information as to when the trains will begin running. Alexander and Springs Conrad, brothers, living near Conrad's ferry, in the western part of the county, became engaged in a warm controversy over which way a new road should run. The discussion ended in a fight. Alex knocked Springs down, and got on him and beat his head with a rock. The wounded man went to a physician at Lewisville to have his head dressed. The wind did considerable damage. The colored church on the Mickey mill road, east of the city, was blown down, as was Charles Tise's wind mill. The tele phone and electric wires were crossed and several poles blown over. Many of the awnings in front of the stores were damaged. Raleigh News and Observer: Audi tor Ayer, author of the "People's Party Handbook," announces that that won derful production is now complete and will be issued from the press about the 15th. The Rev. Hallelujah intimates that it will be a warm number. Roxboro, N. C, September 6. (Spec ial.) Fusion is net running very smoothly in Person. The arrange ment made by the executive commit tees is highly displeasing to the repub licans. In dividing the spoils the pop ulists got the representative, sheriff, treasurer and one county commisisoner. The radicals got the balance. As there are only about 75 populists and 1,400 republicans in the county the latter say the tail is wagging the dog too far. Scotland, Neck, N. C, Septem ber 6. (Special.) There was much excitement in town last night over a difficutly that almost threatened to lead to a riot. Some students from Vine Hill Male Academy were passing up Main street on their way to the boy's and young men's prayer meet ing at the Baptist church. A colored man named Frank Davis pushed through them or against them and then turned upon them and cursed and abused them. He went on down the street and turned into a colored barber shop. Quite a crowd of color ed boys and young men had soon col lected, and soon the boys who had been insulted by Davis' abuse appeared on the scene with some company, and things were lively for a few seconds. The colored contingency scatered pell mell and stood not on the order of their going. Soon the light was thrown out into the street and the fighting ceased One of the students received a cut or two on the head which was soon dress ed at Whitehead's drug store. The colored boy Frank Davis, who precipi tated the trouble, was pretty badly cut, but perhaps not seriously. The Surprise or All Mr. James Jones, of the drug firm of Jones & Son, Cowden, 111., In speaking of Dr. King's New Discovery, says that last winter his wife was attacked with La Grippe, and her case grew so serious that physisians at Cowden and Pana could do nothing for her. It seemed to develop Into Hasty Consump tion. Having Dr. King's New Discov ery in store, and selling lots of it, he took a bottle home, and to the surprise of all she began to get better from first dose, and half dozen dollar bottles cured her sound and well. Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to do this good work. Try it. Free trial bot tles at R. R. Bellamy's Drug Store. Joseph Letter Settles up His Whea Deal. Chicago, September 8. Joseph Leiter has cleared up his famous wheat deal. Every creditor has been paid, obliga tions to banks whose assistance was enlisted have been canceled and 14.000, 000 bushels of wheat have been liqui dated since the announcement of the voluntary assignment nearly three months ago. This has been done only by great sacrifice, including the giv ing of mortgages on property belong ing to the Leiter estate aggregating nearly 55,500,000 in value. 1 rnr. k. aiiil ..xk cojipaxt. HAVE mm Thi3 week opening up new Fall Goods of every kind. I have received a big lot of beautiful Fall Dress Goods. This line of goods cannot be equalled nor matched by any dry goods house in the state. It comprises everything in fine Suitings, Cashmeres. Novelties in Wool Goods, Gold Medal Black Goods, Worsted, Lawns and Organdies. We handle a big line of fine Silks, black and figured; Black Satin of sev eral graces. To mention the names and quote prices and widths would fill up the paper. Our domestic counters are loaded up. Calicoes, Flanneletts.Teastledowns and Outings, Cloakings and Sackings. If you are thinking of buying or are In need of Dress Goods see ours, we guarantee the price, style and quality to be the best and lowest. We have Just added a large Toy, Crockery and Glassware department to our second floor. These goods are Si GEO. O. GAYLORD, Proprietor, Of Wilmington's Big Racket Store. ' S3 FLOUR, MOLASSES, SUGAR, WATER GROUND MEAL, BAGGING and TIES, SALT, Hoop Iron, Rivets, Nails, Hay, Com Oats. ALL AT LOWEST PKICES AND BEST QUALITY. The Worth July 29 p. p. p. RICH (LIPPMAN'S GREAT REMEDY) la the idea! medl cine for women. Ita use Insures health and the sub stantial attractiveness which health alone can be- stow. v. r. r. ta ithe greatest Blood Purifier known tt medical science, curing all Scrofulous Affections, Dyspepsia, Rheuma tism, Catarrh, Jteuralgia, Malaria and Nervous Derangementa P. P. P. Is cold by all drnggisU. $x a bottle ; six bottlei. t UPPMAN BROTHERS. "SBSSf Savannah. Go For Sale by R. R. BELLAMY. jSM.SArt for a .K'3pr5TirTrt:r"T iVC'-ZiJZlJZl lir- "vV v. : MY BUSY tx-autiful and the prices cheap. A whole glass set of pieces, Butter and Sugar Dishes, Pitcher and Spoon Hold er for 30c a set. Every kind of Doll or any kind of Toy you may ask for. We have Just added to our large stock a big lot of fine rocking chairs and tables. We sell a nice arm Rock ing Chair for $1.35 to J2.00; beautiful Oak Table at 75c and $125 each. Trunks and Grips, Valises and Tel escopes at bottom prices. My stock of goods Is larger and more complete than it has ever been. Come to the large store that covers 1.500 square feet of floor room with not a foot to spare, covered and piled up with new goods of every description. Bring your card and get it punched with every cash purchase and secure free of cost to you a nice, handsome Chair. Table. Sewing Machine. Picture, Set of Glassware or Set of Crockery free for the return of your card punch ed out at Wilmington's Biff Racket Store, opposite The Orton Hotel. A POINTER. In your Insurance matters: Investigate our dealing with our clients; our methods of doing business with them; satisfy yourself whether we satisfy them; and then consult us for our terms for affording you equal satisfaction and protection. It will prove time well spent for you and not a little money saved to you in premiums. Besides, we'll secure absolute protection in case of fire loss. Willard & Giles, AGENTS. the BEST Companies Itepre- Only sented. u JLU JHL1E3E3 S3 . Company I Thlm -woman is a picture of per feet h?sdth. Her existence U not made miserable by Shattered Nerves, Wasting: Irreg-alaritUa, Dyspepsia, the Blues, or any o! thm manifold derangements canted by weak or impure blood. She Is full of life and ambition. Che Is handsome. She is happy. 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