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, ; v 1 1 1 . ; : V ; ,ILilNGTON, 'N? C.,! TUESDAY,; AUGUST 25, : VOLUME FOURTEEN J.ce:fivE' cents X1 1 - -I : i i. i ,v V 1 d. i a. V J. V I I GETTING IE III - OilllOIl ering in Charlotte; Butler and Other Prominent Republi cans Have Already A'rrfved on the i Scene and Are Holding Pow-Wows -. : Butler Says it Will be Peace Be- ' tween Him' and Adams Charlotte Ready- for the Convention, .Which i , Opens Tomorrow. Special to The Dispatch.- - i t.i xt r. Act ok- rrvt Republican, State convention .meetshea? owed' esbent on a small book here . tomorrow . . y . Ex-Senator; Marion.f Butler, i one of the most, prominent ;Bpublican figures Sri State politics in years" arrived, this" morning. to attend the convention-' V Terrivat- pf ';Mr. Butleri and, his brother, Major George Butler, the. for mer from Clinton .and -the latter from Elliott, both in Sampson county,i.and . fresh fronT-the. Sampsbij, county con vention pt : Saturday caused , ho little flurry at the Selwyn Hotel; where the two have made their headquarters for the convention and are being met by dozens or prominent Republicans in their suite of rooms ! for conference and debate. Mr. Butler is in favor of a. plank in the State platform of the Republican party for local self-government, including local option.' He also declares that no differences whatever "between himself - and Judge Spencer SB. Adams shall play any part in the convention and. that if they do it will, not be because of Mr. Butler seeking such. - Ex-Congressman i' Linney, of Alexander county; -whose -guberriatorr . ial stock appearsftd be above "paif,! ar rived ' this afternodnV !i H& promises5 ;to have a strong following;' alttoougji some -of the . delegates believe that" he ris ,more c1aA'iimrartto6iefthah:Ss needed for ' tile'- If ltftfcMty&i re arriving orl all.trainaf)J55dy-and the attendance j promises f jioheJrge, although the wf t wMther, it is feared, will interfere sbmewhat with the at tendance from he mountain .distrs The city is reakly for the convention, having strung hundreds of electric lights along' the business streets I and these will be in a blaze of glory, to jnight. The incessant rains, however, may thrpwsomewhat of a damper on the proceedings as far as the outside demonstrations are concerned. J, El- wood Cox, whose name has been so prominently mentioned for the place of Governor and who has said that he Would not enter the race, arrived in the city this- morning and there is some speculationas To wBat may de ; velop through nig attendance upon .the , convention. Tpe hotels are crowded Twlth -several hndred delegates while the great bulk M the rank and file' will come - this afternoon and. tonight: There are mny i Republican office; holders in attendance, also from every quarter of the State. r" V NAMES BdARD OF 'SURVEY.1 ' Will Derive at Value of Abandoned - . Schooner Skull. , Judge Thos. R. Purnell has appoint ed a board of. survey, composed of Messrs. ' W. N. Harris s, W. A. Maftih and George Harris,, to pass upon "the present! value of the schooner Chas. H. Skull; and the board will start-its investigation tomorrow. Thr Skull is the -abandoned schoon- ftr aeainst. - which ,'Iihel nrrwrfififllne'K were started some days " ago by the Brunswick' "Steamship Company, of New York- " Tha, board will -report its findings and upon such bond will be set by the court. ' DENIES THE '"PETITION "Imltetion "Whiskey"; Must be So Branded, Says Court. , Cincinnati,. "'Xugust,-:s 25., .Judge Thompson - in ttiBrederal- Court -has i denied the petition of. the" Union Dis-i tilling Co. and others . for a (.temporary I Injunction restraining the government from .carrying out. its border that "imlrat" fim steadfastly, : for sympathy's tatlon" whiskey, must be branded as such comes, under purefood law re quirement' for correct marking. New York. Aucust 25. Stnn.lr mar- 1 ket opened quietly with the majority i below yesterday's .final figures. North fern Pacific opened down 1-2, Copper X-2e;Pennsylva&ia '3-8, - " LEPER' III HIS TE!JT Hi's Life in An Isolated Tent Near Washihgton-VIyid and 'Touching . Description of Man From ThssState Who Has the Loathsome Disease. . ;... ,X X r" .' .' , - " - a . .' , "" v ' "V. "" 'The case of 'John Early," .the North Carolinian discovered in 5 Washington with -leprosy .and ,wha has b6en "iso lated hearl that city in a tent; has exr cite inuch interest.' In addition to the ,mafady -have folks of this . State been ' aroused to interest, on - account of the mani"with the dread disease :be ing, a Tar Heel.., From yesterday V1 Washington Post comes the following vivid, touching description of Early as, condemned, to death,, he remains apart" from his f eU low-beings nr a -t,ent: . " ,"He shall 'dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be' cushioned chair in front.of Us. tent; he held in his swollen hands. "Yea, though I walk through the val ley of the shadow of death."- His lips moved. to the wrds. He was reading the xxiii Psalms. -Coatlesshe sat, with 'crossed knees, r Thewhiteness of' his shirt showed jagainst .the sylvan background of wooded hills, and wide, green marsh land; and all about him was the soft radiance of the .fading day: A row of sycamores, .. boughs' swaying softly, in the evening breeze, sheltered from cu-1 rious intrusion him and his prison tent in the cove of a grassy shelf overlook ing the Eastern Branch. Once, as ap proachers watched him from the down leading, .dusty road, he lifted his head, and turning gazed long on hill-and low-lying meadow and the sunlighted; sluggish river flowing noiselessly'past his guarded camp, pushing its untrour bled way through the green aisles of the marshgrass; . You qould see, from upithe winding roadi hii fair hair, toss ed by restless fingers; In the foreground,., bulked against the sky, the red-brown hugeness of the jajj stood out5:-; Nearer, to the outcast's re'stlrig fplace'. . jEhVl-jw'hlte" walls and gleaming domes: of . the modern burning .yet-loserj-ahe Jscrupul(Blyrlefia rounded widely by high fences of pales guards at the gates. Then, a long lo&k away, over the nooked shelf4 herefp :4 the lep.erwithisboqkinto the un marred beauty of hill and river and marsh and sunn" spaces? ' ! "' ' ; ;" ! And the: leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent and his head bare, and he shall put. a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Un clean, unclean! He is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the . camp shall his habitation be,".f says , the book the leper read. . But also it says : "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not -want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters. Yea. ,., though. I walk through the valley of tha shadow of death, I will fear no. evij; for Thou art with me; Thy. rod aiid Thy;taff they comfort me;" and it was this' the leper read, there in jhe fallinjg, light, before his tent. ," . ' Vi " - He looked up, -.startled at ;the quiet breaking voice of the guards, calling on the approachers toCstop at, 10 paces from the line, of sycamore trees. 'The doctor will b. here. in ;-a mo ment," the guards were told. "When he comes he will pass .us through, so that we may talk to him." .The doctor came, tall, 'strong-faced, capable, walking with - a swinging stride. The guards stood, back, and he led the two newspaper men , under the sycamores and 50 paces down a slop; ing, grassy space, the, leper the while "watching quietly, patiently. . "Mr. Early," the doctor said,-and, the leper arose, "here are newspaper men j who have come Out; to interview -you, 1 think you may .talk with them: as freely as you , choose. At least,', you may, as far as I am concerned, yi shall stay and listen, and. likely in ;the con versation some things will,, come out that I, too, would care to know." ; Then the. leper sat down again -in.hls. cushioned, chair, ; the doctor balanced himself accurately on:the tiny surface of -a tent-peg and . the others threw themselves down on the grass, a few feet away., ' -The leper folded his New Testament i loosely, a thumb between, the' pagesi and leaned back. - It was hard to look sake. His feet, thrust .Into slippers, and ' the , ankles that showed , above, were swollen' as"( withf dropsy His iffiselkWhe hands, lying on his 5rossedskneestwerelmonths; BS- tbe corn crops were"-their, twice their rightful size; , puffed, 'un healthy looking. . In his f ace lean, browned to . the .bronze: tarnish of 'the tropics, 1 that in some 1 meh - outlasts " a "' t (CQOtinucd on Fifth Pa1 mum -, Wilmington Has Made a Lucky Escape ; So F.ar-rSheriff Atknf on,; oT Pender in City Today anb Tells, of. Official investigation of Damage Ddne byjhe Recent Floods in Eastern Carolina. Advice's : received - about 2 o'clock this afternoon - by the Weather Bureau here is to the eff ec that the upper Cape Fear is to make a big, rise and that "damaging .floods are,: again ex pected; in eastern North, Carolina The river at Fayetteville Is expected to rise to fifty feet .y tomorrow. : he record ' so far ascertainable is almost GO feet," ' ? 4 4" 44" "f1. fr f'-.'l'i.'ft 4. 4 Warning Sent Out. Raleigh, N: C, Aug. 25, 19,08. ' The Cape Fear wjill rise to 50 feet by7 Wednesday at Fayette ville. Dangerous floods expect ed in ftll rivers and branches in eastern North Carolina. THISSEN. Other Rivers Will Rise. Raleigh, August- 25. Flood warning lias been issued., for all .eastern -North Carolina. The Cape Fear river at. Fay-: etteville is expected . to i rise-to 50 feet the Roanoke at Weldon to p7 feet, and the Tar at Greenville to 15 -feet?- The Norfolk and - Southern -ha annulled all trains; entering Raleigh; because; of washctaff All others triniHjastern North v CarolinaVartw'nnihioslow. - KiH5 time or are at a. standstill. - I itheiMe has been visited1 Jby;eicep tionally tre luous"' ah'd agihg' rains during tt past"sfeve'rRi' days'ffi jthe Raleigh vijjinity 'the rain has'tieW terrific and hpis done f much !damage: The Charlottel section ' has also been visited by heavy rains, but, 'so far Wil mington has had only a comparatively light rain-fall and unlessthe rains of today increase in volume it is likely to make a lucky escape. , -'-.- For the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. today Wilmington had a rainfall of only .61. The rainfall at other points for the same period in what is known as the cotton belt, was as follows : . Charlotte, N. C. ..: ,.2S0;" Greensboro, N. C 2.10 Raleigh, N. C. . .. .... . . . .4.48 Weldon, N. C. . 'Albany;-Ga i Athens,. Gar 4 .. .. Batesburg, S. C . Greensboro Ga. . . . Greenswood, S. C . . . - Kerrville, Tex .... Melville,. Lai Evergreen, Ala . . . . Greenville, vS. C. . . Moticello, Ga. . A . Newnan, Ga Spartanburg, S. C , . ..1,73 ..1.60 . .5.60 ..2.16 . .2.36 . .1.94 . :1.82; ..150. ..2.00 r.6.02 ..2.14 . . 4.00 . .2.42 4 Last week considerable damage was done by heavy, rains, whilejthe effects of the damage done by. the floods In the eastern part of the : State, and nearby this city, ate still being felt and will be; no douht, for some time to come. " j ' Sheriff W. R. Atkinson, of . Pender county; was . a visitor in the' city today; and gave t6&. Dispatch man an ac curate report of the' damage done in Pender by the floods j and which he gathered from an official visit to the scenes -of disaster.: j-"-' ' From Sheriff Atkinson's description while the hard experience of the flood is over, yet the financial stress is yet to. come;1 He states that from a care fnt. visit t ,th Sh.lter Neckv and Cr00JI1 Bridge sections ,he found things :in bad shape At ; the former place' the crops, mostly of v com,, have htPTV '. entirely wined awav. - 'and fully two-thirds of the crops in the latter, sections have been destroyed. . In both sections there are. a few families -in, need, but in the. Groom's Bridge :terrl tory; the folks are, better -off than atf other; points.; However, While , there are only aifew families now - in need there .-is likely to' be many in a -few sole dependence and " after, what' little money they: have oh ; hand "gives ;out they will need, something to '.tide -them over. -SheriftAtkinson did not-person- v- - ' v. ' " (Contlnua on; Third,, Papj A 7: p umiuim I uuilliu ; W?sfrn,?hed a; Number of Children ;;?yesterday Through: the Generosity ot - iwr, weorge utaff--Little Folks ! Spt a Delightful Day;at Ltimina. v 'VA delightful ; puting l.was. .furnished more: than ohe hundred small children at;v vvnghtsville. , Beach yesterday through the kindly generosity of Mr. George Hutaff . ; Some time-: ago . Mr; Hutaffdirected Adjutant Yates; of the SalyatibaArmy, tq .assume charge , of the f. outing, -and this was done by the latter 'gentleman; .Yesterday morning a large number of happy-hearted chit, dren: gathered at the corner of Front andJtft,incess streets, where they boarded special cars f or. Wrightsviller ;Tine:.chUdren spent the day "at Lu- mina, and e,ach and every one had a most, delightful day's sport. At noon appetizing luncheon was served' the Children affd the .little folks enjoyed their: dinner immensely. A large sup- 1 '.V.iVijJ.L-, .- . 1 n 1 - gaming. .suits-nad been secured for the: children to use, and they spent a --pleasant afternoon, revelhigtin -the juvenile excursionists,. all voted : Mr; Hutaff f 'just .tlje.4n9est; jnn :tiiey ; had everrmet." - ' - AT THE BIJOU. v Still Big peffrins' Are Being Set Forth -j Da I ly at This Theatre. .The feature film at the Bijou theatre today, fs called "The Ghecker Fienfls." Two bid cronies have become fascinat ed with' the game of checkers. Wher ever they are they proceed to play the game. After, playing checkers for something like twelve . hours in the corner, grocery, they become pests and are thrown out, but this does not have a tendency to" stop them from- enjoying.- their sport. . . . As rthey.lproceed they come across a woman sweeping aft oil cjqth, which happens to lookc lisfe a chcke? board, , , They grab it fronf.ii (r4staurkntrs! to hef 6f - achecker . design they "Jtart to mbvltheaitad'peper ana torks around .these spots .until the mmTA anaiWroiisfiinrpw htnemou Asbig ,xioopdappears unfortunatety ion miu ue nas ;a.ray cjiecjter suit on. and? our nenas,y coinmence Srto , play, checkers on his.back. The same thing happens to everything . that x has a checker design, until finally, a police man thinking they- are crazy, 4nvites them to a padded cell with him, and lo and behold! we find the cell, made of a checker pattern, and our picture ends with the two fiends playing checkers on the floor of the cell. . The other film for today is "The En terprising Florist." STORM TO THE NORTH. Warning Given of Northeast : Blow That is Now in the Virginia . . tion. . Washington, D. C, August 25, 1908, Northeast : storm warnings ordered 11 a. m. for Norfolk, Newport . News, J I Fort Monroe, Baltimore; Breakwater, j Disturbance : over East Gulf States ) 1 movin northefast:,, apparently increas ing. Brisk to high , northeast winds this afternoon and, tonighL Rain. . FRANKENFIELD. JUSTICE BORN EM ANN'S COURT. ' ' .,.: r .l- An Ebony Jesse James Chased by An-, other Negro Who Rejoices in the Same; Name as Minnesota's Famous Governor. . . ' In Justice Bornemann's" court today John Johnson was required to. pay ;the. costs on the charge of an assault upon a little negro, who rejoices m the fa-1 mous appellation ;.vof "jc?sse james : Hannlgan. : ;The boy; Is employed at a farm in East Wilmington, and he en tered Johnson's land todfiv home a Tow which had strayed.' Johnson. be- came angered, and . chased , the pickan ninny with ,"a stickj ; "Jesse James? made a safe retreati- ioweyer,- jfhich apparently , . angered ; "YohnYohnson" j so much that the latter had war rant taken .out agaifc'stthe little negro on;the charge of an assault. ; The; case; when tried,, proved, to oe an ; example of "theater getting bit," as' Johnson was made topay - the costs of the action. . r -1 - ' ' - Made His Escape. An . attempt was made today rfby Deputy .; Branch to . arrest Gus. Wil liams, negro. who walked. out. of Jus tice Bornemanh's office several days ago," after rhei-had !-been- tried. , ,Mr. Branch did ; not have his; handcuffs with: him, and jafter a hard, struggle, the" negro succeeded in breaking away from theofflQeVr I"C "v ., : - surf..The tetif,h MaWr1na to the city hC tojkrnSontand ' the Open an account now and watch v LARS in cash and gilt' edge securities gua it;ees the' SA3FETY OfV; . ; ' I YOUR MONEY.' We pay ' V M ' ! '"X V ".'If; :'" - ; A jy? 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