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TEDS WTIiMINGTON MESSENGER, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27 1JJU1 . LAST TAPS. Obsequlea of Lieutenant Wootten Yesterday Mornlns The Services Took Place at St. James and the Young Soldier Was Laid ti Hest In Oakdale. One of the saddest funerals in all the hu-.tory of Wilmington was that of Lieutenant Bradley Jewett Wootten of ine Seventh Cavalry, U. S. A., yester aay at St. James Episcopal church Last Sunday morning at Columbia bar racks in the suburbs of Havana. Cuba, be died of appendicitis, and his remains, as heretofore noted, arrived in Wil mington Friday night. The services took place at 11 a. m.. and there was such a large attendance that many stood in the aisle. The of ficiating clergymen were the Rev. F. II T. Horsfield and the Rev. James Car iTiIchael, D. D., and the solemn orders for the burial of the dead were exceed ingly impressive. The organist, Mr. E II. Munson, rendered the music, and the tinging was by a selected choir consist ing of Mrs. E. K. Bryan and MIps Mary Colder, sopranos, Mrs. R. C Cantweb and Miss Annie Hart. contraltos; Messrs. C. II. Cooper and J. VanB Metts. tenors; and Mr. II.-K. Holden, basso. The singing was Very tender and beautiful, the first selection being hymn So 620, the first verse of which was: "Onward, Christian! tho the region, Where thou art be drear and lone, God has set a guardian legion Very near thee, press ihou on." The other hymn was No. 296, which ied off as follows: Ten thousand times ten thousand In sparkling raiment bright. The armies of the randsomed saints Throng up the steeps of light; T'is finished! All is finished, Then fight with death and sin. Fling open wide the golden gates And let the victors in." When the services concluded the re mains were borne from the church and lollowed by a great concourse to Oak- l.';le cemetery where they were interred The services were concluded at th grave, and a bugler from Fort Caswell sounded taps after the mound had been heaped with numerous beautiful flora tributes, including handsome designs sent by Wilmington friends. onf by Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Jewett Savannah the lovely flowers sent rom Havana by the Seventh Cavalry. and a handsome design sent by tlu oincers or tne seventn cavalry, a floral anchor at the base of which wer! the letters "U. S. A.. No. 7." The active pallbearers were Messrs ;vift M. Boatwright. Allen Huggins. vieorge Crow. Fred Bolles. Marsder Bellamy, Jr., and Clayton Giles. Jr.. who were the groomsmen of Lieuten ant Wootten when he was so happily married to Miss Nessfield Cotchett at M. James on the 1st of last August. Tne honorary pallbearers were Lieuten ant Colonel W. S. Edgerly, Seventh Cavalry. U. S. A.. Captain E- W. Var Court Lucas. Corps of Ensineers IT. S A., and Captain Ion. MacRae. of Com lany K, Second Regiment. U. S. V.. which entered the service for the war with Spain and of which regiment Lieu renant Wootten was adjutant. The fol lowing military representatives at tended: Lieutenants T. W. Hollyday and Garrison Ball, of Second Artillery.! I . s. A. Fort Caswell: M?jor W. F Robertson, assistant paymaster general. .orth Carolina Stale Guard. Captair 'namp MfD. Davis, adjutant Second resrimei.r North Carolina State Guard. and Captain A. P. Adraln, of the Wil ninrtnn T I r.V Trrntv.. A cold grave has received the mortal remains of Lieutenant Wootten but when we look upon the flower coverec, mound and grieve ftfter him, we must! be reminded of the scripture passage.! "Why seek ye, -the living among the! dead?" His was such a spirit thaM .e kiiow mat ne nvein. lie was a uooie character, and there never died h. more conscientious, truer young marl md gallant soldier. He was onlv twen- v-five years and two months old and! only those who were near to him could realize the depth of his character. Hf inved his maker and "the tenth" of all he possessed was given to charity. He was iuii or benevolence and though ht never wanted it mentioned he had made! -i custom of Riving the tenth of all hf earned to some good cause. He often! ent checks for Various charities in W ilmington. among others the WpT ."Jemorial Hospital. His last act was tc sign a check for $27.50 which he wanted to be devoted to charity. He was lifted up on his bed to sicm ihe check Just before he died Lieutenant Woot ten received twice the holy sacrament at the hands of the Rev. W. H. Mc Ghee. an Episcopal clergyman of Ha vana, and before the remains left Ha- vanna that same minister conducted services over his body. The entire seventh Cavalry, composed of twelve companies or 1.200 men. were drawn up in nne, ana the adjutant read to their the record of the brave young officer! who had served his country so faithful ly and had died In the flush of man fiood and the promise of a brilliant ca reer. He had been with the Seventh Cavalry only a few weeks but Colonel eagerly pays ot mm that he was the most superb horseman and finest drill master he ever paw Health nml Reanty. foor complexion is usually the result of torpid liver or irregularity of the bowels. DeWitt's Little Early Risers stimulate the liver. Promote regular action or tne bowels. Never distress. ic. j:. Bellamy . Tta Kind Yea Haw Always Bcsga Tlur Collr-oturshlp. The business men cf Wilmington are interesting themselves in the collector ship of this port, made vacant by the selection or Collector John C. Duncy for recorder of deeds of the District ol Columbia. They want a representative Wilmington man for the position, and yesterday circulated a petition to Pres ident Roosevelt to appoint the Hon. .O. P. Meares collector. Mr. A. H. Paddison. of this city, an nounces himself as an aspirant, and Major R. M. Croom, of . Burgaw. was here yesterday and says he will take a hand in, the race. Heath of Mr. James Macomber. The friends of Mr. James M. Macom ber will regret to learn of his death, which occurred yesterday morning at his home on Wrightsville sound. He has been in bad health two or three years, owing to an attack of Bright's disease. lately developing dropsy. He wa aged 6S years, and was a son or me late uaptain ami Mrs. Robert S Macomber. Mr. Macomber rwas too 111 to attend the funeral of his aged moth er who died in Richmond and was bu ried here last week. Mr. Macomber will ne hunea today at Oakdale cempterv. During the war the deceased served a year in Howard's Confederate cavalry ana xaxer was agent ior tne Southern Express Company. Since the rwar he has merchandised in the country and for several years past has kept a store near wrightsville. XOKTII CAROLIHA. Wadesboro Messenger: Jim Bunk Covington, the negro trusty who es caped from the chain gang recently, was recaptured last week at Newport News. Va. He was brought back here Saturday night by Mr. G. W. Rogers, who -went for him, and Is again at work on the roads. Greenville Reflector: While out hunt ing Saturday Mr. A. F. Kennedy sus tained a painful accident. In some way his gun became chocked and when he went to fire It the barrel burst Just where his left hand was supporting it. The load passed through his hand and very badly lacerated it. Washington Post: Mr. Kluttz, of North Carolina, the most entertaining raconteur of all the minority, is much addicted to constitutionals. A morning walk before breakfast to Chevy and back again is easy for him. He likes to take the air. He ascends Capital Hill invigorated in body and mind. Kinston Free Press: Dr. J. L. Jones, of Caesar. Miss., offers $50 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot his father, Mr. W. A. Jones, and brother. Arthur Jones, in PirJc Hill township. This makes In all JuOO reward offered for this apprehen sion of the perpetrators of this outrage. Hillsboro Observer: The father of two beautiful twin-girls. 3 years old. Annie and Maud, was in town last Sat urday with them. The twins are so nearly alike that they attracted the at tention of a good many who met them, and when the father was asked their names, he would call upon the twins to answer. He says it is difficult for him to tell which is Maud and which is An nie. Tarboro Southerner: A light engine. i. e. an engine and tender, going to Nor folk Friday night from Rocky Mount, about a mile above the Runnymede Hosiery Mills ran by the mangled body of a man lying near the track. The engineer pushed back to the scene. There he found the body of a negro man. nearly stiff in death and terriblv mangled. Lenoir Topic: The condition of affairs prevalent in this country does not bear out the idea of great material prosper ity. Never before have crops been shor ter and never before has there been such expensive living. Money is close. and the price of farm products has ma terially advanced, yet the producer has in no wise received the benefit of the same. Lumberton Robesonian: Mr. J. K. McGirt was badly hurt last Saturday at his home near Wakulla. He was out driving and his horse became frighten ed, ran and threw him from the buggy. He became entagled in the lines and was dragged for fifty yards or more. When found he was unconscious from the wounds he received. No bones were broken but his head was badly bruisea and his sufferings are severe. Winston Sentinel: A negro named Jim Moyer was brought home on the afternoon train today from Greensboro. He was on a cot. Jim reported that a negro named Will Jackson threw fi rock at him Sunday and broke his right leg. Jim has been working for the new Greensboro railway company and says he has no idea why the ne gro struck him. Jackson was tried yes terday afternoon and bound over to the superior court and In default of a $50 bond was committed to Jail. Charlotte Observer: An unknown man. supposed to be a negro, entered the home of Mrs. Jawe M. Flow, in Clear Creek township, this county, near Ar "neton postofflce. Sunday night, and atacked Mrs. Flow, choking her severe ly. The man's object was robbery, but he secured only 23 cents. Mrs. Flow has considerable property, much of which is said to be in tank stock, and the intruder doubtless supposed that she had money in the house. Mrs. Flow is 73 years of age and lives alone. There is no clue to the identity of the guilty party. Charlotte Observer: There was a very- distressing accident yesterday evening at he residence of Dr. Isaac M. Taylor in Morganton. His little daughter. Su- san; was standing in front of the grate, when her dress took fire, and her limbs were frightbflly burned before her mother could extinguish the flames. Dr. Taylor's residence is near the state hospital, and the accident occurred while he was away on duty. Mrs. Taylor's hands were badly burned in flttpmntinjr to extinguish the flames. Today the little girl is suffering from the burns and from shock. Kington Free Press: A negro named Daniel Williams was shot and probably fatally wounded at Grifton yesterday by a white man named George Lilly. The shooting occurred in an oyster sa loon kept by Chris. Moore, colored. Lilly had been drinking heavily and went into Moore's place for some oysters, and while in: there he and Moore be- carne engaged In an altercation, during which Lilly pulled his pistol and shot at Moore, but missed him, and struck Williams, who was standing near, but who had nothing whatever to do with the quarrel. The ball entered Williams stomach and probably passed into the muscles of his back. Dr. Dawson, who performed the necessary operation, was unable to locate the ball. A half hour after the shooting Lilly was found in sensibly intoxicated in the street. Lilly was from near Vanceboro. Wilson Times: Last Wednesday morning a shocking accident occurred at the jail in this city. The convicts were all lined up ready to go out to work when one of them, who has been sick, asked for some medicine. Mr. Warren, one of the guards, was stand ing in his usual place on the little Mand at the head of the stairway, which runs up to Superintendent Mas ey's room. This places him so as to see all the prisoners at once and In case any should run. gives him a clear field for a shot. When asked for the medicine. Mr. Massey went up the stairs to get it and he passed Mr. War ren, who had the stock of his double barrelled breech loader resting on the floor, as he passed Warren, the latter lifted his gun out of the way and as he did it slipped and fell among the pris oners. It fell in such a way as to be come discharged and the whole load of buck shot entered the body of Scott Parker, one of the prisoners from Black Creek township. Parker, was at once taken to the sanitarium where he re ceved the best attention, but on Wed nesday at 11 o'clock he died. How to Cure Croap. Mr. R. Gray, who lives near Amenia, .Duchess county, N. Y says: "Cham berlain's Cough Remedy is the best medicine I have ever used. It is a fine children's remedy for crcap and never fail3 to cure." Wht-n given as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough has developed, it will prevent the attack. This should be borne in mind and a bottle of the Cough Remedy kept at hand ready for In stant use as soon as these symptoms appear. For sale by - R- R. Bellamy, Tha Kind Yea Haw Ahrays Bg1 There STATE PRESS. The grand jury of Durham superior x.urt condemned the county home and workhouse, saying among other things that the places were filthy and that . A'SaSS hKence ! vestigated the matter and they allege ; that there is no foundation for the i charges made by the grand jury. Some 01 xne grana jurors say mat me coun- ; ty home people had a few days to put j things in shape oeiore the commission ers did any investigating, and there is some intimation that the commission ers see nothing wrong because they don't want to see anything. Statesville Landmark. Rural mail carriers will not be trou- bled with Carnegie's fear of dying rich. ! A man and a mule, or horse, as the i T.r T n erV -case may be. carrying mail some thirty i ,A"anta,'JGa" December 21.-JPhe crest or forty miles a day for $500 a year is a f f fh.e ld wave whjc hd ?een ce?" chinchy piece of business and unworthy I tr,al Tennessee anfl Kentucky reach this great nation. The salary should be ! f1 this section last night, reducing the increased at once. Winston Sentinel. temperature here to 6 degrees above Envy and jealousy are base flattter- ?lro' coyest weather of the season, ers, and utterly unsafe to entertain In The temperature now reaches to south your bosom. True worthiness sees not ern Florida below Tampa, where the its own superiority, but watches to temperature at this morning s observa help the helpless. Its happiness Is not ; Un val2i, degrees. There is consider in what nthora tMnir f it Tint wHnt it able suffering among the poor here. thinks of the truth, and how it labors in the truth. P. D. Gold, in Wilson Times. ai .axuuiie, Aid., me iwnperaiure ear The assistant republican papers and i ly today registered 15.7 above, break the corporation organs are trying to ing all December weather records make it appear that the plain, common there. A negro was frozen to death in people of North Carolina are opposed ' Baldwin county last night, to Judge Walter Clark for chief justice, The following minimum temperatures but that what they are pleased to term were reported today: Knoxvllle and the democratic machine is preparing to Nashville, zero; Palestine, Texas, 6; force his nomination in defiance of Charlotte, N. C, and Meridian, 10; them A bigger political lie than this j Memphis, 6 and rising; Augusta, Ga was never told, or insinuated. The ; and Fort Smith 12; VIcksburg 14; Nor truth of the matter is that Judge Clark i folk. 16: Savannah and Wilmington, N. is pre-eminently the candiate of the i C, 18; Mobile, 16; Jacksonville, 20; Tam common people, for they recognize in ! pa, 24; New Orleans, 24: Jupiter, him not only a sincere, but extraordl- '- Fla.. 3S. narily able, champion of their rights, I and they will see to it that he is not only nominated but triumphantly elect ed as well. Wadesboro Messenger. We want religion that softens the step and turns the voice to melody and fills the eye with sunshine and checks the impatient exclamation and harsh rebuke; a religion that 1 polite, deferential to superiors' considerate to my friends; a religion that goes in the family and keeps the husband from be ing cross when dinner is late, and keeps the wife from fretting when the hus band tracks the newly washed floor with his boots and makes the husband mindful of the scraper and floor mat: keeps the mother patient when the baby Is cross and amuses the children as well as instructs them, cares for the ser vant besides paying them promptly: projects honeymoon Into the harvest moon, and makes the happy home like the eastern fig tree bearing on Its bosom at once the tender blossom and the glory of ripening fruit. Morganton Herald. Among the tens of thousands who have used Chamberlain's Coagh Rem edy for colds and la' grippe during the past few years, to our knowledge, not a single case has resulted in pneumonia. Thos. Whitfield & Co., 240 Wabash ave nue, Chicago, one of the most promi nent retail druggists in that city, in speaking of this, says; "We recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, for la grippe In many cases, as It not Only gives prompt and iruiuuieie recovery, ZrLT. .Ti y ieiaency LIa feuy iu icsuh m pneumonia. r or sale by R. R. Bellamy. Druggist. William LaSchell, alias William O'Day, who has been in; New Orleans three months, was shot and killed by Finch Gerard in a street duel Satur day. Gerard has served a term In the Texas penitentiary. He was also wounded. WTO) W Tgt Retaim 4 y og&Fetfce FOUL wnsrp pps9 amid fin Cigaretltes is no better "Bright Virginia' ci; INTENSELY COLD WEATHER. The Cold Wave Hangs on-Tlif Mer cury Still Falling. Richmond. Va, December 21. It was nWnnond last n.sht or ear.y this morning than it has been smce the weather bureau was -established here, except in 1S99. The temperature fell about 4 o'clock a. m., as low as 9.3 de grees. At 8 o'clock this morning the thermometer registered 11 degrees, the two readings being by odds the lowest of the year. At. 6 o'clock this evening the figure was 22. Asheville, N. C, December 21. The thermometer recorded 4 degrees below zero er? th morning. This breaks ali j Warmer weather Is predicted for to- nint and Sunday, but freezing tem- j yeraxures win prevail ior several days. If you would have an appetite like n bear and a relish for your meals take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets. They correct disorders of the stomach and regulate the liver and bowels. Price 25 cents. Samples free. i at R. R Bellamy's drug store. IS IT NELLIE CROPSEYf Yonnfc Woman Left In Chnrjce of Xejcrenn ar Rocky Mount. Elizabeth City, N. C. December 21. A letter received by W. H. Cropsey yesterday from Rocky Mount. N. C, signed George Hotteso stated that a young girl was being held in that vi cinity by a negro woman. She had been left there by a man who had not returned. The girl will not give her name, saying she Is afraid her father will kill the young man who placed her In charge of the woman. The girl is thought to be the missing Nellie Crop sey. Chief of police Dawson communi cated with the. chief of police of Rocky Mount, but without results. Two members of the citizens com mittee left today for Rocky Mount to Investigate. What la Coins- to Happen. Under every administration: between President Arthur and President Roose velt there were frequent and sometimes flagrant violations of the civil service i -rnn)nn. i when the law was enacted and It be- came his duty to start the machinery for which it provided and see that the act was faithfully enforced. He ap pointed as commissioners the most prominent advocates of the merit sys tem. As the departments were mainly filled with republicans and their tenure was not affected by the statute, he had no temptation or excuse for winking at devices for getting persons into the das tulip desd'es? will give sified service by violation or evasion of j the law. We do not mean to intimate ; that had the situation been otherwise his course would have been different. ; What we wish to say is that the con ditions which he faced were very dif ferent from those which confronted his successors and that he enforced the Pendleton act faithfully and impartially So much cannot be said of Cleveland, Harrison, or President Roosevelt's Im mediate predecessor, all of whom faced , great difficulties that were not confront ed by Arthur. Open violations of the letter of the law escaped punishment and foxy violations of the spirit of the law escaped rebuke. But, on the whole, reform in the civil service continued to advance. And when we take Into ac count the fact that the Pendleton act was passed by a congress that had no sympathy with the movement, and that It has been kept alive and operative by a continuous succession of equally un sympathetic congresses, the progress achieved is far more surprising than the violations and evasions. President Roosevelt has turned over a new leaf in clearly indicating his pur pose to enforce the civil service act with absolute fidelity. Simultaneously, influential republicans in congress are preparing to put through two or three schemes the adoption of which would directly conflict with the president's views and aims. Is irresistible mo mentum about to encounter an immov able object? That is a question which may become interesting, if not exciting, in a few weeks. Washington Post. Bears tte Signature of Ths Kind Yoa Kavs Always Effigf I'oor Unhappy Millionaire. (Special to Baltimore Sun.) New York. December 17. The shavlns off of his mustache makes a surprising change in the appearance of John D. Rockefeller, the multi-millionarlre. II seems much thinner and more sickly Mis hair has begun to fall out so fast that he is almost entirely bald. and he seems to be more easily fa tigued than heretofore. Mr. Rockefeller Is worth an enormous sum. and his income is J20.000.000 a year. Since 1S91 he has been so del'cate that it is impossible for him to eat n hearty meal. On his estate of 2.000 acres in the Pocantlco Hills he often works for davs at a time in the fields. hoping to regain his strength, but thus rar his efforts have been in vain. He has a fine 18-hola golf course, but cannot play over It for fear of overtax ing his strength. After a day of exer cise he sits down to a supper of crack ers and skimmed milk, which Is served at a temperature of 9S 2-5 degrees, for noining may pass his lips at a temoer- ature lower than blood heat; Ice has been for years a forbidden luxury for mm. Mr. Rockefeller must waiv verv da whether he wants to or not. He often walks from his home, in Fiftv-fourth street, to his office. 28 Broadway. He cannot smoKe cigars, drink wine or liquors, drive his fast horses or sail in his fine yacht. Any one of these pas times would upset him and make him sick for months. He Had Heard of Sir Walter Seotl. "Very interesting scenery, sir." said n Londoner to a grim ooking Scot on board the Lock Katrine steamer, avs Tit-Bits. "I'm pleased ve think sae." answered Sa wroey. "Fveplete with 'Istorical associations." "Maybe; but I dinna ken onvthinr aboot therq ' "What:' exclaimed the Englishman. "Surely, sir. jou have read the works of your great countryman. Sir Walter Scott, the 'Wizard of the North "Sir Walter Scot? Wha was hef 3 ' J.' "Sir, this is perfectly Incredible. You a Scotchman, and never heard of the man who wrote the Waverley novels. 'Marmlon.' 'The Lady of the Lake." and ail that sort of thing!" The Scot only shook his head. The disgusted cockney turned away with an expression of contempt for ruch gross ignorance, and an individ ual who had overheard the conversa tion, blushing for his uninformed com patriot, took and opportunity of as king: whether his confession was actually true. "Toot, man." was, the testy reply, "I didna want to hear any o' that English idiot's sentimental bletherin. Heard of Watty Scott! For the last twelve months I've had enough of Sir Walter Scott, and his novels, too, I'm a print er's reader, and our firm have been printin' a new edition o his works. I'm on my holidays, man, and canna be bothered speaking aboot shop!" Current Topic. The United States navy is in the mar ket for cooks, and as many as can be beured are to be enlisted at the If rook -I .yn navy vard before January 1. On that date the new general mess system will be established uniformly through out the navy, and one of the fundamen tal principles of the scheme is that ev ery cook in the service must be a pro fessional. The Vocal Physiologist says that "more monejj Is thrown away on the education of the human voice than on the support of the government- Of every 10,000 voices ont may b? listened to without pain; of every 100.009 voices one mav be listened to with iatience; of every 1.000,000 voices one may be lis tened to with satisfaction; of cvf-ry 10. 000 000 voices one mav be iizte-ied to with sensations of Joy." The little town of Marmaton. Kan., is practically run by women. It has a oman school trr.rhei a woman ttle xraph operator, a poj mistress, a woman pastor In charge1 of its only church and a woman letter carrier. When Pekin was mvadM by the iriops of the foreign iw r List year an old gun carriage was trtken by some ut the soldiers as a relic. Jt was of ma hogany, and was found on the walls of Pekin. Pieces of the wood came Into Sec "Ury Roofs possession and he had the Pieces turned into walking cams. He iis presented one to the orcsldent and on to each member of the cabinet. PrnoasU. General George II. Stewart, an ex onfederate, has Just had returned to him by Abram Smith, of Long Beach. Cat. a Bible which he carried through the civil war. Smith took the Bible from a confederate wagon a few days before the surrender of Lee's army Representative Eddy, of Minnesota, has invited President Roosevelt to ac eompany him on a moose hunt d urine the Christmas holidays. A copy of James Russell Lowell' fmSJ!m H. ring date of - 15 at auction In Boston the other day for J70.CO. Ex-Mayor Samuel A. Green, of Bos ton, has given to the Harvard Art UxU earn some gorgeous articles of wearinr apparel worn by his ancestors when SrfJ. dentj Pon their graduation in the Eighteenth Centutry. Dr. Green's grandfather was graduated In 174. xclS Efyne; ,n an altercation wit William Flanning was shot and killed rearDncktown Tenn. Friday nitl m?rtay wounded FUnnte. rne tragedy caused intense excitement Prominent state capitalists haveclos- ?aT3?, (r the bulk the coal lanS to Raleigh county. West VlrgtnlaTaxS Z Sl;pS? e?tenive operation impo sition to the combination, whlchi wS necessitate the building of a new line of railroad to the KanaVh rtrer