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THE MESSENGER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY —AT— OBARZaOTTB, »T. O. -BT - WILLIAM C. SMITH. SUBSCRIPTION! One Year, 61.25 Six Months .75 Three Months, .40 Always in advance. n*AU Letters should be addressed to W. C. SMITH. [lntend at the Poet Office at Charlotte, N. C. as •eoond-class matter. SATURDAY, JULY 15,1882. COALITION NOMINATIONS. Congressional Ticket. fob cONOitfess-sT ate-At-large: OLIVER H. DOCKERY, of Richmond. fob congress—third district: WILLIAM P. CANADAY, of New Hanover. Judicial District. FOR JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT. GEORGE N. FOLK, of Caldwell. For Judges of the Superior Court: FIRST DISTRICT: CHARLES C. POOLE, of Pasquotank. second district: JOHN A. MOORE, of Halifax. THIRD DISTRICT: FRANK H. DARBY, of New Hanover.' fourth district: WILLIAM A. GUTHRIE, of Cumberland. sixth district: JLEWIS F. CHURCHILL, of Rutherford. For Solicitors: second district: JOHN H. COLLINS, of Halifax. The campaign seems to bo about opened with the newspapers. Its a long fight from now till November. Thk Congressional Convention for the First District meets at Eden ton, August 10th; for the Second at Wilson, July 19 ; for the Fourth, at Raleigh, August 2nd; for the Sev enth at Yadkinville, August, 30th; Whv does the Observer call Mr. Means the Liberal Candidate When he announces himself an Independ ent Democrat and has not been en dorsed by any party ? should we call Col. Jones, Liberal candidate for Congress ? We see no difference. The election 'is less than four months off. It is time to be fixing uptlie county tickets.Two years ago the republicans had gained about fourteen hundred votes in two years previous, we had-orfly about fifty to gain. Shall we make the fight ? We have received a copy of the Agusta Review, published at Agusta Ark. by Mrs. F. E. Collins. It is a neat and newsy little paper and the only one we know of published by a colored lady. It is published month ly and is devoted strictly to the moral and interlectual advancement of the colored people—Will the young ladies of Charlotte accept a column of the Messenger I The Palmetto Press, is a new pa per started July Ist., in Charleston S, C., by a young colored Lawyer named Smith. He closes his leading editorial in lastweeks issue with the following, which we ask our friends to road and think of the Messenger: “ Colored men let us stand togeth er. Let us patronise those who will at least do just by us. Let us build each other up in busines. The young men who have started this newspa per are young men poor in this world's goods—who have invested their all in this venture. With all our efforts we havo been unable to raiso in tho short space of a week I enough to buy the pafttphernalia of a printing office. We are negotiat ing for the purchase of one now. Will our friends come to our rescue? WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING: Is there a Republican party in North Carolina or has it been ab sorbed in the Liberal and Bourbon democratic parties. The republi can State convention met and sur rendered to the Liberals. The re publican papers of the State do not seem to be united; for we either have two heads or none at all. Col. Coke's committee meets and passes rules and Dr. Moot’s committee comes after and invariably agrees to “stand by them.” What is to be done next do not know. The Use of this sub or figure-head com mittee of Dr. Mott’s we do not know. We have been reluctant to admit that there are no party ties to bind us in the coming campaign as well as others in the paßt. We have hoped and expected to see regular republican nominations in all the Congressional, Judical and Senato rial districts ; but wo fear that is a vain hope. Even counties are for saking principle and are resorting to policy—not for the success of the republican party nor any other par ty, but only to defeat the Bourbons. The democrats are making nomi nations straight, upon the old dem ocratic principles, some liberals are running upon the strength of anti prohibition while they favor county government, some oppose county government and favor prohibition i some oppose both, while others fa vor both. We are left to make our choice from these classes. What shall we do about it ? We love the republican party and its good old principles as set forth by Garrison, Greeley, Sumner and Lincoln. We consented to accept the State ticket put out by the lib erals, inasmuch as one of the ablest and largest bodies of republicans ever assembled in the State saw fit to accept and recommend it. Taking their judgment wo advised republicans to support the ticket. We were sincere at the time and have no other advice to offer on the State ticket, for it was endorsed by a full and regularly called republi can State convention. Now go on and let us have all the conventions as we havo had heretofore. We don’t want so many candidates coming out by requests of “many friends.” If we are to make our choice from them only, wo respect folly ask party leaders to hold their peace, for if they do not consider it necessary to make republican nomi nations, their silence is sufficient advice for us. We do not believe in forsaking all principle, and if all the candidates from Congressman down to township constable are to be Democrats and we have no one else to vote for let us be our own judges and vote for'the best men regard less of the manner in which they were brought before the people. We hope our party leaders will consider this matter. If they would have the republican vote, they must make republican nominations. If they havo no care for who is elect ed, the indication of their start is a good one. CONGRESSMAN AND SOLICITOR. We are not authorized to say what course will be pursued by the republicans of this Congressional and Judicial districts. The demo crats have put their candidate for Solicitor in the field and their Con gressional convention is to be called very soon. • The question with us is, “shall we make a straight fight, if so, who is the most available man for each place.” We nominated Dr. R. M. Norment for Congress in our first issue. He has already been endors ed by two counties. There is no doubt, Dr. Norment is the choice of the Republicans of this district for Congress. But it is not known yet whether we are to run a republican in this district or not. It may be that all tne Republicans will hold back and give tho fight for Congress entirely to the democrats. Col. Chas. R. Jones is in the field and we may be called upon to vote for him. Ho is a democrat —a very clever gentle man and very liberal in his views as expressed in his card. Many ru mors are afloat concerning him; but one thing we do know, he is a can didate for Congress. We do not believe the republi cans of this district will support Col. Chas. R. Jones without a better understanding of his position and knowing whether he is generally endorsed by the rank and file of the party. He has been looked upon as the leader of the democratic party of western North Carolina, owning the largest paper in the west and it would seem very strange for him to go to Congress by republican votes over a regular democratic nominee. But this is all yet in the ftiture. He straightens himself up nicely on pro hibition, is sound on the county government, alright on education; in short, if he was called a republi can ho would be the man of our choice. Mr. W. G. Means is a liberal kind of fellow, and wants to show us his liberality by serving us as solicitor. Shall we gratify his patriotic desire by voting for him or shall we vote lor Mr. Osborne or somebody else ? Mr. Means is a democrat, but is op posed to tho present form of county government and it seems that he is willing to step outside the party to correct the wrong. This we admire in him oven more than anything yet seen in Col. Jones. But the most important with us is, can’t we elect a republican to fill both positions ? This is too impor tant a question to be left to candi dates themselves or to the liberal executive committee. Do Justice to the Colored Ken, Beyond all considerations of mere political gratitude or expediency lies the greatest and the best argu ment for the broadest and most lib eral recognition of the Negro in the distribution of political patronage, in making him not a mere idle spec tator, who at the drum-beat of the party, must march to the polls, de feat the enemy, and then retire un til'their survices are further needed, while on a few white commanders, the Stars and Garters of political royalty are plentifully bestowed. There are too few promotions from the great negro wing of the Republican party ; and such promo tions when made, are generally, rather a disparagement than a broad recognition of service and capacity. Encouragement is a great stimu lus to any people; and when such a people have exhibted an almost phe nomenal fidelity to a party, bornp uncomplainingly its soverests ac tions, unhesitatingly conformed to its most unreasonable requirements, wise, systematic and general en couragement is the only means by which they oqn be kept from rising into just mutiny. The bravest army is the one which reposes implicit confidence in the honesty, ability, and impartiality of its commands. Who believes that favoritism will receive no counte nance and that the grand criterion will be a brave, intelligent discharge of duties. The negro has been too often re garded and too long treated as a political mercenary, who can be purchased by plausible promises to follow the most infamous comman ders in the most dishonorable of po litical expeditions. He has not on ly been “fretted” but “played upon. 1 * Men of bis own color trained in the worst schools of infemy, graduates in all villainy, have been need to decoys to lure their people into sanctioning the most iniquitous measures and in the elevation to the most important positions, of men whose interest in them is limit ed to the narrow boundaries of their own individual and unworthy inter ests and whose friendship for the Negro expires with the tenure of their offices.— Ex. Here and There. BI I>. BROWN. For the Messenger. The knell of time announced Is loud, Parents and friends have heard the sound. Toung men and maids from hall a crowd, Go forth and shine four lights around. The weary crew headed the knell And each one trod his onward way, With leaven enough his lump to swell, Or each Uke stars reflect his ray. Miss Scotia opened wide her gates, Her fair ones to relieve; Now all may seek their sterner mates To kill time and deceive. When July’s days of burning sun, Are numbering slowly pass, These fair ones then have mil b*gun To tutor lad and lass. 1 heir music stills the chirping wren, Defies the mocking bird, Enchants the dwellers In the glen, Clings to all by whom Is beard. There are others who have quailed the draught, That sobers human brain, Who has a master, often sought, That rids the land of mist and bane. Some start from shaw (where many be,) To find a place to work ; Those bom from thence you never see Retire, or from one duty shirk. One son from Ft Auocstin’s grove, lame shake good-bye to friends. And thence to “Old Kentucky” move. The claims of Race and Church defends. Btnixßrr, methlnks some paper said, Had armed a sturdy crew, Vouchsafe to the world her aid. To bring bout changes new. The “Old North State” hasNoBMAL heirs, In antique Fayette born, Who sally forth and claim for theirs, The Held as well as com. Mother Bibdlx, whose strength I know -Here patdon my verbosity— Her name puts my cheek all aglow. Not prided curiosity. We name her last but not the least; Her humble sons have stood the blast. And leavened the lump with solmuch yeast, [Q Where’er their lot was cast. Others there be who claim no birth From seminary nor college, Home information gives them worth, With those of classic knowledge. Borne men are soldiers bom to light, While others must be trained, Natural skill may outdo might, Mother wit, wetyk htleut atra|W4. Aunt Charlotte with her .band Os firm young maids and men, Who stand upon the platform grand. And deal with book and peu. All we are In one common strife; Down for one Is down for all. In lands Imbltter the mind as touched with gall. May each then In your columns find What each one thinks he needs. To give a polish to his mind, And choke the mental weeds. I've reached ajoff far pollock's bird And grasped without its f|oji A more pitiful was never heard But now you have my crop. , Monhoe, N. C„ July 4, 1882. -y BURNINGALEXANDRIA. TWO MILES OF HOUSES UNDER FIRE AND NO WATER. ■•ylagl Take Possession of the City and Shoot Loot.erp Down in the Streets—The Khedive Issues » Pfftv clnmation—Two Thousand People Massacred in the Riots. London, July 14.—A dispatch to the Reuters Telegram from Constantinople says Musuiusl’asba, the Turkish am bassador at London, has telegraphed to the Porte that Earl Granville has in formed him that England is compelled to proceed vigorously against the Egyptian rebels, but that the sovereign rights of Sultan will be in no way pre judiced thereby. A dispatch to the News from Alex andria says the number of persons massacred by the mob ia estimated at 2,000. Admiral Seymour telegraphs: “I have occupied Ras El Tin palace with Marines and spiked the guns in six bat teries opposite. The city is still burn ing, but lam clearing the streets. The Khedive is safe in the palace which Is garrisoned by fOO Marines.” Off Alexandria, July 14.—The firing heard in Alexandria yesterday was by Marines and sailors, who were dispers ing the plunderera with Gatling guns. The small detachment first landed bad to wait for re-inforcements before they were able to push to the centre of the town. There waa some short sharp fighting. No water could be obtained owing to the stoppage of the works. There are some French ladiee among the fugitiyee rescued yesterday, also an Egyptian prefect of police, who suc ceeded the instigator of massacre in Alexandria on the llth of June. There are not enough sailors and Marines to occupy all the streeta of the city. London, July 14.—A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram company from Alex andriasays: “Some field pieces were landed with Marines at Raa El Tin fort The Khedive’s Ras El Tin palace waa lootefi shortly before Marines arrived. A whole battgllop of Arabs was blown np in one fort during the bombard ment” A dispatch to the News dated off Alexandria, July 14th, 4 a. m„ says the fire in Alexandria is still raging. There are at least two miles of houses burn-i iugi More than a third of the city it appears has been fired. London, .1 uly 14,2 p m.— A dispatch I to the Standard, dated Alexandria 9:30 am, says explosions occasionally occur in the city. A proclamation in Arabic ia being prepared in the Khedive’s name calling on the people to maintain ordet and on the troops to disband. The Khe dive. with Dervisli i’asha, and some of the ministers, and the Khedive’s harem’ has arrived aboard a vessel in the haN bor. About 500 loyal troops follow the Khedive. It is stated that Arabi I’asha has only four thousand very much dis organized troops. Two hundred ma rines have been ordered to march through town and shoot ail persoqs rioting. London, 3p. m.—ln the House of Commons this afternoon Gladstone stated that Consul Cartwright had tele graphed that the Khedive had secured the loyalty of the cavalry and infantry guards sent to watch him, and would summon the leading Pashas and en deavor t > re-establish order in Alexan dria. Another Suicide. Duibam Plant. Wednesday last Mr. Haywood Ma lone, of Cedar Grove township. Orange a son of Henry Malone, committed sui cide by hanging. He was about thirty five years old, leaves a wife and one child and was a prosperous, well-to-do farmer. No cause has been assigned for the unfortunate affair except it be that his brain had been affected by too much exposure to the hot sun. He had an at tack of the -brain last August, since which time he has several times threat ened to take his life. He used a baiter rein and was suspended from a limb of a large oak, his feet being within six inches of the ground. He was a man who stood high in the estimation of his neighbors and friends and all who knew him, and the sad af fair cast a gloom over the entire com munity. A Child’s Presence as Mind. Lynchburg Advance. Yesterday morning May Davis, the little daughter of Mr. H. H. Davis, at the Rolling Mill, four miles above the city, was walking across a trestle of the Richmond and Alleghany railroad, near that place, holding her apron full of ap ples, which she bad gathered, and some oDe shouted to her a warning of a rapid ly coming train. The child attempttd to run across the ties to the ground be yond. but found that the train would overtake her before she could get out of the way, and, with rare pres ence of mind, she let herself down be tween the ties on the timbers below, ' and there stayed in safety until the train had passed over, and then climb ed out and went on her way without losing an apple, - —IA Oscar Wijde’s Fftthey, In a biographical sketch of Oscar Wilde, the lively aesthete who recently appeared at the Savannah Theatre, a, contemporary tells a story which is al most as broad as the famous one of which Lady Mary Wortley Montague was the subject. It says: “Whence Mr. Wilde got histestbeticism weknow not. It was not from that worthy man of science, his father. His habits were Hibernian to the core, and ‘racy of the soil.’ Dining out one day in Dublin, a lady, an intimate acquaintance, whom he took down to dinner, said: ‘Now, really,Sir William, this is outrageous; you haven’t washed yopr bands-’ With great, good humor the eminent oculist replied;‘l will bet you that there's a dirtier hand than that here,’ 'I don't believe it,’ rejoined bis fair companion. 'Well, then, there,’ said the knight, and he held up bis other hand. He spoke truth.” Amicably Settled. Atlanta, Ga, July 13— The pend ing duel between Lamar and Howell has been settled by the intervention of friends, Rev. Henry Uiles Dead. Boston, July 11.— Rev. Henry Giles is dead, aged 76. Barber Shop. The coolest and neatest shop in town. Experienced and polite workmen al ways ready to glye yog g Neat Hair Cut AND A CLEAN SHAVE. Jno. S. HENDERSON. South side—East Trade. 7—ls—6m. Carolina Cestraj Taint No l qoikq wmr Leave Wilmington, 6,30 pm .. Lumberton, lASTpm ~ Laurenburg, 12 35 a m .. Hamlet, 213 am , , Wadesboro 03 a m ~ Monroe, rt , 04 a m • . Matthews, - - - - -6, 68 a m Arrive Charlotte, -7,40 am ,, -------6, 40 a ni .. Tuckaseege. 9, 32 a m _ AWivo Tails No. I Gpiso EAR. Leave Shelby. 1.40 pm „ Lincoln ton, . - 122 p m ™ Tuskaaeege, —. 4.02 p at Arrive charlotte, 640 pm Leave Charlotte, •—766 p m Matthews, 6 37 * in „ Monroe, 837 pm .. Wadesboro, .. -11.45 pm „ Hamlet. -2.00 am ~ Laurenbnrg, --S.W am miaM .aiwatr lotto, for Wilmington, on Saturday uor W liming. I ton, on Sunday. *
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