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Charlotte Jltessenger. ’ Published every Saturday at C' CHARLOTTE, N. 0. •" -by w. c. SMITH. Subscription Bates. m-. (Always in Advance.) 1 yw ai m r, ““If 1 " *5 4 „ 75 A 50 Single copy, . ...» 5 Notify us at onoe of all failures of this lianer to reach you on time, Re K fßter > Mo “»y • J&&2W*** on subj«S 1 of L mter .', pubjic is solicited; but persons if they fautosee ZLSf'.'t our columns. We are not for the Tiews of correspondents v as»>t '' rommu "ications go to fee waste SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER, 4 1886. To Onr Exchanges. Our exchanges will please direct to Chamotte Mkssesgek.” There is a ' ' •Vewengfr published here. This will prevent confusion. r-fTTenons finding a “cross nmrk" on then- paper will please remit or let us heir from ihem at once, or the paper W ‘" ’* discontinue. Don’t fail to look after this mattot if you wish to sec your paper agr.iiu 1 '<>tal Matters. The fireman of this city are to run an excursion to Salisbury on the SJlet inst. Rev. F. H. /Towvll spent this week in our city. The Board of Bishops of Zion church will meet in this city on the 23rd. inst. in semi annual session. t’ol. Chas. R. opened his campaign iast Monday in Robeson county. He* ’iceras in dead earnest about running for Congress. Wouldn't it be funny if he gets elected. The Oriole w ill meet next Tuesday eve ning at W. W. Smith. A full attendance is requested. There is something ahead. The Womens Christian Temperance Union will meet at Zion church next Monday afternoon. Friends are invited tj visit. Ulder Rives will hold quarterly meeting at Zion church to-morrow week. Sacra ment will be administered in the after noon, P*y U P. or your paper will be stopped. We must come down to a cash business. If wc fail to hear from you after your paper is marked a second time it will be discontinued. Look for the blue mark. We feel called upon to apologise to our readers for the occurrence of so many ty pographical errors in our last and pre ceding issues. It is oniy about four weeks to the open* ing of most of our schools and colleges* Many of our young folks are preparing to leave home. In Tennessee two brothers are running for Governor. One is on the Democratic ticket and the other on the Republican ticket. Their name is Taylor Our friends and patrons on the Carolina Central railroad will please lookout for our agent or the editor between this date and the 15th. We intend to visit Monroe, Wadesboro, Laurenburg, Shoe Heel Wil uiingtou and Faycttevill and other points. A circus will be in this city pretty soon an<l some church people will want to go. Hut sup|>osc an earthquake should come about the time the “hand begins to play” Preachers, lookout for your flocks. she quake found a great many on i uesday night “not quite ready.” There were many an earnest prayer offered up, bat a fearful wanting of faith was shown. <*ye of little faith—yc serve two masters. What is the matter with our colored graded school? There arc three vacau i ies and up to a few days ago there had not been a single application for the place . There is something wrong some where. A man jumped from the Brooklyn bridge last week and was taken up un injured He made S2OO by the jump. The |*olice arrested him when he reached the shore. Pennsylvania and Kansas have come to the front by putting colored men on Sta;* tickets, but strange to say, the Republican party has allowed both the Democratic and Prohibition parties to exri.ll it. Ihr Republican voters of Ward 2 are r quested to meet at the Mayor's court r *om on Fridty night, September 10th, to elect delegates to the county conven tion on the 15th. The Republican voters of ward 3 are requested to meet at school room in rear of Zion Church on Thursday night the oth inst., at 8 o’clock for the purpose of electing delegates to represent said pre cinct in the county convention to be held on the 15th. J. M. Good, ('hr. Rev. Wm. Johnson will bo at Little I Mission all day to-morrow. Elder Rives will hold the quarterly conference to-day. I After thisJßcv. Johnson’s appointments will be regular. Bishop Ilood will be j with him on the 26th inst. *• Senator Vance has made his appear ance in this city. Wc will see whether or not he will do anything for Col. Chas. !R. The question is can he manage Chas. IR. The office of sheriff in this county is a fat thing. It is said to pay $5,000 a y< ar. There are many seekers for it and if the people will act wisely they will take none but a good man friendly to the colored people, I Our colored graded school building is advaueing very slowly. We don't know the cause of the delay in the work, but if it is continued at the same rate* it will be sonic time next year before it can be occupied. • In Kansas the Republicans have hail a colored man for State Auditor the last four years. They have nominated a white man this year, but the Democrats have nominated a colored man for Auditor ar.d the Prohibitionists have done the same. How will the colored men vote out there is the question. The latest from the earthquake in Charleston is that there were about 82 killed by the shock on Tuesday night; ten whitesand twenty-two colored. There have been other shocks but very light. Another shock was felt in this city and through the country last night. Last Sunday morning an old colored man named Wilson Ricd was found on tile C. C. A A railroad by a freight train with his head severed from his body. Dr. Bratton said lie died of congestion of the lungs. He was run over by a train some time after his death. The camp meeting is progressing at Biddleville. It commenced last week and took nearly all Elder Blades congre gation out last Sunday. It seemed that nearly all Mr. Wadsworth's buggies and carriages were in demand. A camp meeting in the suburbs of a city is only a picnic on Bur day. The game of baseball sccnn» 4ohe growing more and more popular through out the Bouth and especially among our people. This city boasts of some half a dozen colored c lubs and some fine play ers. The Nameless and Athletics played last Monday and Tuesday. The Name less got the best of each game. The Fearless club challenges the State which has been promptly accepted by the Nameless. The gasolene lamps now used on the outside of the old gas limits give fully as good light as gas while they burn, but for some cause or other, those in Ward 2 seldom burn later than 8 o'clock. It is hoped the “light committee” will look after it and give us light a little later. It may be that the lamps arc not proper ly attended to. Wc don't know what the trouble is with the lamps, but dark ness troubles us awfully in getting home from church, &c. Personal. Mr. W. W. Jenkins passed through this city last Sunday on a visit to his sick father. Prof. J. E. Rattley returned hame last Sunday from Eastern Carolina where he spent the summer. Prof. J. F. K Simpson was in the city again this week. He left for Fayette ville, yesterday, where he will open school Monday. Republican County Convention. The Republican executive committee met last Saturday and called a county convention to be held in the court house on Wednesday, September 15, to select six delegates and six alb mates to represent this county in the State convention to In: held in Kaleigli on tin* 22nd inst. It is hoped that every township will semi full delegations and that Republicans favora ble to the call will be selected. It is hoped that an intelligent and orderly delegation will go up from every pre cinct, and that it will be evidenced in this year that the ruffianly, rabbling, mob days are past with us. Let conten tious boisterous factions stay at home. The Earthquake. A few* minutes after 10 o’clock, la f Tuesday night, as many of our citizens were retiring for the night, and we were to prepare something for our readers, suddenly, we were attracted by a rumbling noise which we thought to be a passing hack, but it continued to gi t louder until the windows rattled and the house fairly shook. We went out and found all the neighbors inquiring: “Did you feel it? Did you hear it?” it was an curthquakc. About fifteen min ntes later a slight shock was felt, but observed by all. Many of our people were corwidcrably frightened. Some, damage was done in the city, such as breaking glass. . Tribute of Respect To Mias Molllo j Carson who died Aug. 14, 188(5. At regular monthly meeting of the Presbyterian Ladies Home and Foreign missionary Society Sept 2nd 1886. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: WiiEitEAsq* An Ahvisc Providence in his infinite wisdom has seen fit to sum mons from our midst and take to him self our beloved sister Mollic* Carson. While we humbly and submissively bow to the unerring ruling of a merciful creator* We cannot nevertheless refrain from expressing our grief ut her loss. Be it therefore Rewired, Ist, That we do sincerely mourn her great loss, not only for her personal usefulness, but as a shining mark in our church and missionary so cicty. Rewired, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased, and one to the Ladies missionary Society. Mrs. Catherine Haves, Dksikmthta W. Grier. Committee, Moisture and Lockjaw. Dr. Felix L. Oswald says in Home and Farm: Moisture, in the form of a vapor- ! bath is an excellent remedy for tetanus, or lockjaw. The immobility of the jaw is only the culminative symptom of a complaint which might be defined as a \ rigor of the upper motor muscles. The : affection begins with a peculiar stiffness j in the back part of the neck, rendering every sideward motion of the head pain ful or e ti impossible; before long the cramp/ 1 ’ Sensation extends to the spine; the ])’/ 0 W?ls impelled to bend for- \ the strain on the shoul- fo JeJ/evVdachcs and a feeling of ; gyy . j t \ beget a disposition to I sic# 3 ' "Uuifiopj ening from a fitful nap the llxy t An firmly as those of a powerful The patient leans his head on pns clutched fist, while spasms of the neck muscles often beget a sensation as if the hinges of the jaw bones were mechanically riveted, and could be moved only by a breaking force if not by a miracle. Yet a steam bath, or even a wet pack in sheets drenched with warm water, is rally sufficient to accomplish that miracle. The com bined influence of warmth and moisture seems to relax the rigor of the muscles; first the spine, and by-and-bv the neck and jaws feel the relief, and by continual friction the danger of a relapse can be obviated for a quarter of an hour, after which the abnormal symptoms will be re duced to a lingering numbness, as after a stunning fall. Human Interest in Animals. The interest which yearly increases in horses and other domesticated aniniarls will be as much manifested as ever at the summer resorts. Although attended with much difficulty and annoyance, people with horses of their own, used either for the saddle or driving, try in-J»any in stances to have them ie** ’ he sea side or suburban places their longest suburban t was erai that they may have the enjoyment oi tnem. To a greater extent this is the case with pet dogs, though many of the best summer hotels and boarding-houses ob ject to receiving them, and there is hardly a hotel man who has not had to I meet and settle the difficult dog prob lem ; for while guests, as a rule, object to having miserable little wliippcr snappers trotting and snarling around the passages and seeing them, as sometimes happens, brought into the dining-room, there arc many persons who think so much of their pet bowwows that they will not go themselves where their canine darlings are refused. It is mainly in order to gratify the growing human interest in the animal world that at so many places of summer resort special accommodations for horses and other animals are being provided and fa cilities increased for having them con tribute to the amusement of the great crowds that congregate at these places. | —Philadelphia Time*. How to Make Yourself Unhappy. In the first place, if you want to make j pour self miserable, be selfish. Think all j i the time of yourself and your things. Don't care about anything else. Have no j feeling for any but yourself. Never think i of enjoying the satisfaction of seeing ! others happy, but rather if you see n smiling face be jealous lest another should , enjoy what you have not. Envy every ! one who is better off than yourself; think unkindly of them and speak lightly of 1 them. Be constantly afraid lest sonic one should encroach upon your rights; br watchful against it. and if any should 1 come near your things snap at them like a mad dog. Contend earnestly for every thing that is your own that may not hi j worth a pin. Never yield a point. Be very sensitive and take everything that t is said to you in playfulness in the inosl ! serious manner. Be jealous of your friendi j | est they should not think enough of you: 1 and if at any time they should scm to j neglect you put the worst construction upon their conduct. — JlnlV* Journal oj ; j Health, Waterproofs of light weight woolen | material in dark and medium tints are preferable to those of rubber. The nia | terial sheds water and has none of the unpleasant odor of India rubber. WORDS OF WISDOM. Jealousy is the apprehension of su periority. The love of all things springs from the love of one. Who overcomes by force hath over come but half his foe. The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man. Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed. No rules can make amiability; our minds and apprehensions make that. All history is only the precepts of moral philosophy reduced into examples. The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example. Malice and hatred are very fretting, and apt to make our minds sore and un easv. Mere beauty ever was, and ever is, and ever will be, but a secondary thing, ex cept to fools. Though men's persons ought not to be hated, yet without all peradventure their practices justly may. A man’s nature runs cilher to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one and destroy the other! It was the policy of the good old gen j tlcman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. ’Tis pitiful, says Emerson, the tilings by which wc arc rich or poor—a matter of coins, coats and carpets, a little more or less stone, or wood, or paint, the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked Indians, of whom one is proud in the possession of a giass bead or a red feather, and the rest miserable in the ] want of it. Dollar Dinners for Half Price. “It is wondc fill to know how many prominent business men, who would not j put their hands in your pocket to pick your purse for any consideration, will stand in with restaurant waiters to beat the establishment, ** said, a prominent hotel man. “flow is the game worked?” “It is a simple thing, but it depends yhtircly large, crowds that tnrong fa?hiofu*Mo. adamants at dinner time. When sixty or seventy men are eating in one room the cashier can't see 1 what each one has unless he leaves his desk, and it is very easy for a customer at the farther end of the apartment to eat a ninety-ccnt dinner and pay for a thirty or forty cent meal. “How?” “Iu this way: The customer gi/es the waiter a daily tip of a dime. The waiter is careful to see that his benefactor gets a thirty-ccnt check, say every time he cats a nir ety-ccnt meal. The check is paid at the counter and no one is the wiser.” “Are waiters never caught at these tricks?” “Os course, once in a gro<i\ whilq, A ‘chap'fluff’wore li‘- white apron at fr© end of that eating bar for six iuuith*»” said the speaker, pointing the bar, “got caught at last. He was in the habit of giving an old, white-mustached gentleman soup, roast, three or four vegetables, dessert, coffee, and often a few crackers and Roquefort cheese, every j day. Well, that customer ought to have paid $1 a meal, but he never brought in a check for over fifty cents. At last the cashier took note of the meal provided for half a dollar. I called the waiter up after inspecting one dinner purchased by that man and the fii’ty-ccnt check turned in, and bounced the waiter. It had a good moral effect among the other waiters, forty in all.” “Is there no means to prevent this beating the house.” The hotel man shook his head sadly a? he said: “Not entirely.” But whenever a waiter in his place gets regular tips that waiter is suspected and watched.— Philadelphia News. The area of practical agricultural lands in this country is immensely extended by practical irrigation. In all the Terri tories west of 100th degree of longitude this method has added millions to the value of the producing soils and wonder fully extended their capacity. In Ari zona, especially, irrigation is aiding the rapid development of the Territory and demonstrating its productiveness. The practice is to flood small grain from two to four times during the season. I Fruit and grass need less water. The Arizona canal is over forty miles long, and irrigates nearly 100,000 acres ol land. Other canals are now in progre* 1 on the I.ower Gila which will irrigate over 200,000 acres. In New Mexico, along the Rio Grande, a large recently completed which is expected tc bring more than 200,000 acres into cul tivation. While these great water sup plies arc of first-rate consequence to th« development of the rainless districts, they arc nevertheless the origins of gi gantic land monopolies. Mrs. E. M. Tuttle, an earnest W. C. T. j IT. woman, has been doing some muck , needed temperance work in Jamaica Bhc reports 1,100 li ensed saloons on thi island, and both men and women drink freely. Out of a population of 060,(MM there are but 484 numbers of temperanci , societies. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. The bulls used in the Spanish boll fights costs S4OO apiece delivered in Madrid. Over 100 works written within the past century have placed the time for the beginning of the millennium between 1885 and 1800. A Marechal Niel rose tree at London, Ont., is a peculiar one. On one side the roses are crimson, and on the other white. The tree has not been grafted, “budded,” or tampered with in any mannei. Robert Smith, of Lexington, Ind., lost his nice black 'hair as tho result of typhoid fever. Now his head is covered with hair three inches long, very kinky like a negro’s, but as white as snow. Dr. E. J Janeway, of New York City, acting on the suggestion of a countyr practitioner, has given frozen milk to patients whose stomachs did not tolerate ice-cream, and speaks highly of its use in fevers. - -■ To be a Roman citizen was a great honor and privilege. The Romans were very liberal in granting this favor. First they gave it to all the free men of Rome; then to all the dwellers in the province of Latium, in which Rome stood; then to all Italy; afterwards it was given to many people in conquered cities and pro vinces. The mint julep is an old colonial Vir ginian drink. It was invented in Virginia by a wealty planter, who had a company of friends at his house. A great hail storm came up ; he gathered the hail stones, and on the inspiration of the moment, concocted that beverage which wc call mint julep. Its fame spread, but ‘ at first they never made it except when it hailed. The evidences of the presence of the Mound Builders in this country are al most everywhere, except, perhaps, upon tha Atlantic coast. They consist of mounds, sometimes of imposing size, and other earthworks so numerous that in Ohio alone there are, or were until quite recently, estimated to be 10,000 of the mounds, and 1,500 enclosures of earth and stene, all evidently the work of the same people. Farmer Kroll, living near Hastings, Neb., got drunk on a quart of alcohol and scared his family nearly to death with his revolver. His brother-in-law appeared, and, when Kroll flourished the pistol, slapped the drunken man’s face sharply with hi 6 open hand. The man dropped as if shot, and never stirred again. The Coroner’s jury thought the blow “sent the blood and alcohol to Kroll’s brain,” and thus killed him. A curious feature in the National Museum in Washington is the zoological section, or the department devoted to birds’eggs. It has about 42,000 birds’ eggs packed away in little trays placed in cases along the walls of the building. The eggs in the collection vary in size from thut oi the tiniest humming-bird to that r $ the £ant bird, whose remains are foL in Madagascar. There is a little egg ot a tiny humming-bird lying in a diminutive nest. The humming-bird that made the nest and laid the egg is the smallest bird in the world. The little egg has a length or long diameter of three-tenths of an inch and a short diameter of three-hundredths of an inch. The nest is one-twentieth of an inch across one way and 02-100 the other. Dr. .J. T. Willia ms Offers his professional services to the general public: CALLS ANSWERED DAY AND NIGHT Office, Fourth street lietween Tryon and Church, rear of express office, Charlotte. N. C. A. W. CALVIN —DKAMER IS — FAMILY GROCERIES of all kinds. Country produce always on hand. CHICKENS, EGGS, BUTTER and all kinds of VEGETABLES and FRUITS. ALSO DEALBB IN LUMBER and Building Material. Free delivery to all parts of the city. C. W. HENDERSON, DEALER IN GROCERIES, PROVISION AND Country Produce. Fine Cigars and Tobaoco. East Trade Street, Charlotte. N. C. HENDERSONS BABBER SHOP The Oldest and Best. Experienced and polite workmen always ready to wait on customers. Here you will get a Neat Hair Cut, nnd a la an Bhave. John 8. Henderson. East Trade St. CHARLOTTE, N. C. GOTO r/ BOSS Sc ADAMS FOB BOOKS IND STATIONAY, . - AND School Supplies. Special Discount to Teachers. ROSS t ADAMS. Next to First National Bank, * Charlotte, N. C. C. W. HENDERSON, DEALER IN GROCERIES, PROVISIONS AND Country Produce. Fin# Cigars and Tobaseo. East Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C. WE DONT CARE IF Everybody Knows It That wc have a complete Stock of DRUGS m MEDICINES. Drug., Chemical., Patent Medicine., Fancy Good, and Toilet ArticlM. Which we are selling at very reasonable Prices —jot- Paints, Oils, Etc. —x — A lot of Fresh TURNIP SEED just received. Prescriptions (Molly Cupodel DR. H. M. WILDER, Charlotte, N. C. Virginia House, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Accommodations furnished travelers at reasonable rates. Comfortable beds and rooms. House located in the central and busines part of the city. Table fur nished with the best of the market Meals at all hours. J. M. GOODE, Prop. CHARLOTTE N. C. W. M. Wilson sCo DRUGGISTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. BUIST’S NEW CROP TURNIP SEED RED TOP, FLAT DUTCH. GOLDEN BALL. AMBER GLOBE. WHITE GLOBE, WHITE NORFOLK, RED TOP GLOBE, POMERANEAN WHIT GLOBE, RUTABAGA. SEVEN TOP. SOUTHERN PRIZE, YELLOW ABER DEEN. ALL FRESH AND AT— LOWEST PRICES, Wholesale and Retail. —— :o: W. i. WILSON & GO., DRUGGIST S, Chariott«», C. PHOTOGRAPHS r in all the latest Myles ami finish. Photographs Enlarged to any <i» from on.il pictures. No we I to .end them NORTH. Jmt a. good work dune right here at hum • and a. cheap a. in New York. Work Guaranteed. Call and naua H- BAUMCArRTEN. CHARLOTTE. N. C.
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