Newspapers / Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.) / Sept. 2, 1882, edition 1 / Page 3
Part of Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
LOCAL AND GENERAL. A revival is going on. at Zion Qliurcb. ' John Williamson speaks hero on tiie UHL., in the interest of the fair. The ladies of St. Miebael (P. E.) cliurcb are preparing for an iuter tainment. The colored graded school will open on the 18th., in the buildining used by the whites last year. The mail agents on the C. C. & A. road have boon made Postal Clerks. We congratulate Kennedy and Hng lur. They now get 81,000 a year. ’ »' Our readers will please pardon 1 lie delay of this paper, we could'nt help. Will give you more to read ami earlier after this. Work was commenced on the foundation for the new ingatJßiddle last week, ye learn .Morse and Ahrens, have /the con tracts. The building is ti/cost 840, 0 0. / Mr. M. W. Livingston the color ed West Point Cadet las passed the physical examination.l lie is said to be nearly six foot stall and jet black Hope he will Lave thecour rage, discretion and /endurance of Flipper. Death In the ’Flame* A girl about 15 years old in the family Mr. Joseph Lowcnce was on last Sunday night about 8 o’clock filling the lamp with oil while lit, holding the blaze a few inches off. The fire caught the oil, she throw it upon two.smaH children standing by, they caught fire and Tossie, 8 . years old lived only 4 hours and Lil ly lived till 9 o’clock Tuesday morn ing. Mr. Torcnce, meets this sad misfortune—tho loss of his two children, by the use of oil in tho hands of a caroles girl. lie is a bßother of our townsmen Albert and John Torenco, a local preacher and farmer living on our clover Jail er Griftiflhs farm. 'THECOMING MONSTER EXHIBITION —S.H. BARRETT A Co * NEW UNITED MONSTER RAILROAD SHOWS. Charlotte, Wednesday September Gth is the date announced of this great amusement enterprise, which has been received with so much marked favor and dicided approvle wherever its inightest of canvass have been erected. A enutemporary tells us that from tho ontcrance of its vast zoological garden to the exhit of its Itome-oclipsing arena, everything challenges attetion and admiration, while the elegance and decorum with which every departj ment of the great confederation is conducted secures the the patronage and approval of the most refined, and attracts numbers who are not in the habit of attending public en tertainments of any description. The comprehinsiveness and infin ite variety and rareity of its zoolog ical collection will delight the nat uralist and maze, amuse and instruct all. It is a creation-reflecting die! play of the migtiest and fiercest beasts of the tropicts and jungles ; the curious and beautiful birds of a thousand forests aud isles, and oven the mysterious depths of tho ocean and the marshy bods of tropical river* have been explored to secure gigantic ampliibia* ahd reptilian mon sters. in the superb circus a colossal company of the most eminent bare back riders, gymnasts, uthletes, spceialitv notables, famous fools and ti-loni hingly-educated animals pre sent a novel and brilliant suecets'on of wonderful feats ami imitations fioin the double somersaults over the towering elephant to the arenic an tics of the brute performers, while the great Electric Light is a whole show alone, as indeed is cuch ol a dozen other extraordinary feature named in tho andvrtisements. A (Bin GILA MI SETT. GTH. ITS LIKE MAY NEVER AGAIN BE SEEN. CHEAP EXCURSIONS TO AND FROM. (IgiT The Mighty Mammoth Monarch and Gigantic Colossus of all Amusement Organizations, Panoplied in _gFffl S. XX. BARRETT «S& CO’S NEW UNITED MONSTER RAILROAD SHOWS! Oriental circa*, F&rpti-vn Cnavau nod I'nlrrmal T x position ol LlT!a| Wonder.! Po.ltlr.ly Com Inf, and will exhibit In nil Its rnat I'tttlrety, at OHABLOTIX, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th. SO nm BLAZEH CAGES* OF WILD BEASTS. 50 'lUv 'mlrlsKkj A <JL Hu. * 111 tolm-ls * tit ini ethlbltnn on tills continent. TIIK LiROE&T 11V1NO 1 9 era T T * 'wfwWwa .' r lt> i imtu-rted » Hik- Slmml’llrz 1.l -r Hwe lit. terror »l nil Snurtnns--rlaltri-d b, men, \ . ...i / —• »ehvc*'» •. t.i. miickl .itn the H. benioib oltho blbw. 1 PERFORWIIIMC elephants, t§ 1 ; • * Itwlucbf TWICE tbe bu«t at animal hnewn to exist, tbe famous old India W.ir Elephant, ( 5 -XT' T -1 O -VT- I— t /~H I > Several Inches teller and the heaviest »nlm»l« »er on tbljtn tbe* * T Til” I' T L,'' CjT * * Thrteß ,h 6 ,malleSt ,U " Coutlnent; said to over ZOO TEARS OF YEARS OS Ail* I Mblfet. 1-jJL 1 I LjCi XJKJ J- , grown Rleph.nt.t6r.ee.. 115,01™“ $15,10 The only animal of Its kind ever on exhibition In this or »ni ether country. Ton *>U sec the t.reat A BYBBI NI A N BABIROUBBA, An animal never be tore exhibited In America. Tbe Oral wwl only - HOGIPOPOTIMUS Vv ", KTKIt KXUIBITSD ON TBS CONTINRXT. THE ONLY q|i£NHXHE HORNED HORSE. - . nvcL-AiJiiiw m arK RHINOCEROS. AN ARCTIC AQUARIUM OF POLAR MAMMOTHS. You will see features never YOU W LL SEE THE SIMIaM COT OSSUS, CYNOCEPHALUB, THE FIVE TCfN AmSan DnwNlartve. Rebras Ualneo to Perform Incredible Keats, Lapland Hurdle Racing Reindeer, before witnessed .with any other Exhibition on Earth. Elks driven Tandem tn the Htwnhs. a School of Learned Seals, Performing Dens of a Gigantic Riding Cynooephalm, Performs TT 01 * TIGERS, LIONS | The largest number of tbe most beautiful ami besc trained Horses In the World, and more than a whole show alone, f A complete and exhaustive collection of LIVING ZOOLOGICAL WONDERS ISajy W B You wilt see WILLIS COBB’S original and only Miniature Circus cf Dogs, Goats snd Monkei*. 6 (ONfUTB CIWBS COMPANIES (•IBISES. 6 100 ONJB TJKTIJiYeLED' 'if’A. IVI<3TT 3 CHIEFS. 1 *" m . kill SMB 20 13 onlo 1 e Somersault Leapers, 20 Ltd b, the acknowledged ehanuion, ol the enure World, JAMES QUIGLEY AND WILLIAM BATCH LOR, b 20 CHAMPION BARE BACK RIDERS, 20 l w hradrd bt _*j IVliss Viola Rivers, Miss Jennie Ewers, Mr. Orrin Hollis and Charles Ewers, TBS CHAMPION TWO. VOUB AND SIX HORS* RIDXBS OF TH* OLD AKD N*W WORLD. THE WORLD-FAMED RENO AMB DUNBAR, CHAMPION ARTISTS in TRIPLE BAR. THE ONLY AND INIMITABLE IDALETTA and WALLACE, Aerial Blciclists ol the Nineteenth Century, whose wonderful perloimance.oii the Invisible Wire HO tcet In Uie air, holds thouautds of poopte In breathless awe. % 10 C X, owns, io Al* ,h, v»i m.'hl, la »|i*tan.. nai.hlt, rvvc Mali. Tb. sheik'* 11. ran tram r.a. •'Km que.l t dll.llrr »l > nilll.K MV. .1 Par«S,-. Til rill, ,11|i.,h5,.|i,15,1.1- I Amo M.Ve.de., 111. >, ,« i. . ,r« bn ii *i, *in Itm.if. n dll-J n h 11...- /TjC& V- v tP'w W • jm itm tnvnin.M. to m lriut worlds exposition.” One Ticket Admits to all Advertised Shows; Children Under 9 Years Half-Price. TWO GRAND EXHIBITIONS DAILY.
Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 2, 1882, edition 1
3
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75