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Charlotte messenger. Published every Saturday at CHARLOTTE, N. 0. —BY— W. c. SMITH. Subscription Rates. (Always in Advance ) 1 year, *1.50 ' months, ..... 1.00 0 “ 75 4 “ GO » .... 40 Single copy, .... 5 Notify us at once of all failures of this paper to reach you on time. All money must be sent by Register, Honey order or Postal note to ov W. . SMITH. Short correspondence on subjects of inter estto the public is solicited; but persons must not be disappointed if they fail to see their articles in our columns. We are not responsible for the views of correspondents Anonymous communications go to the waste basket. OUR AIM. By reference to our "declaration of principles'* it will bo seen that, wc say ‘•we will not allow personal abuse in ibesc columns, and that we reserve the right to criticise the short comings of all public officials—commending the worthy and recommending for election such men as in our opinions arc best suited to serve the people.” Wc shall not forget this and as wc. are not the champion of either party, wc have our rights as a citizen to express our views in whatever way wc deem best. Other men have choice and express them. Wc claim the same right. But seeing that matters arc so badly mixed up and so corruptly managed, and so many of our good people following in the lead of bad men, and so much per sonal abuse, lying, selling, Ac., indulged in, we think it best for us to keep out of the matter as far as reasonable. Upon reflection we have concluded that good will undoubtedly result from this cam paign. It is only necessary to give some men time and rope and they will hang themselves more effectively than could he so well done otherwise. Now, let ns be sober in all wc go about. Let us cense to abuse each other and if wc cannot agree upon the same men, why let us be gentlemen and allow others to differ from us as well as wc dif fer from them. Have we noticed how quietly and nicely the whites are gifting along and how much fuss we have with each other? And then how little of the profit is to come to us and how much goes to the white men? We only ask for one poor little constable place, and with out more harmony wc will never get that. Let our aims be higher. Let us nay no attention to blatherskite windmill fools, because they take issue against morality and education. When a man has never possessed any part of either, we must not be surprise to hear him denounce both. It is true, many a mother and fathei have spent their last dollar to educate their son or train up their daughter in the ways of virtue, hut there is always some thing in the shape of man ready to denounce these young men as “educated fools,'» and net only try to “kick them out of the party,” hut rob the fair maidens of that which can never again he given. After warning decent people of such characters we think it I>c6t to give them a wide berth. Evil communications cor rupt good manners; therefore we warn good people to be careful with whom they associate. A man who will tell you a lie on another, will tell another a lie on you. Our aim is to take a less partisan stand than we purposed doing, but if we see wherein wc can do our people good we will not hesitate to strike with all the energy that is in us. Let us be gentle manly toward each other, and when we know one has a weakness for being, Ac., let us be charitable toward him. EDUCATE THE MINISTRY. Several perssns have spoken to us of the remarks made by Bishop Jones in the course of his sermon last Sunday morn ing concerning the ministry and col leges. lie said: “When the Lord calls some persons they thank him forthc call, etc., but say 1 am not quite ready yet, Lord; I must go to college and fix up a little. And when they gi to college and when they return they and tho call gone and nothing but college.” He said: “When God calfs you, don't consult the college. 1 have known several instances of persons doing so and they were ull j shorn of the good.” These words are not well understood, for one could not see why a Bishop would speak disparagingly of education. The great trouble with us now is the im position of so many ignorant preachers and leaders. It is discouraging and dis gustiog to sec men go in the pulpit to teach when they have not themselves leßrned. But oh! when a big elder, Bishop or the like encourages this stuff, we may expect to tie cursed by new crops of unlearned ministers every year to go in our pulpits before in'elligent people and make clowns and monkeys of them selves. The ministry mu* tbe educated and a bishop or anybody else is wrong when he says otherwise. What are we raising money to send to Zion Wesley for, if not to give to the world an edu ! cated ministry? The season Zion I lags so far behind now is because her leaders have pandered to the ignorance j ! of our pooplc and stood in the way of , i education, The Presbyterians and the j Episcopalians have an educated minis* ! try and the result will be they are going : i to have the educated people to hear them ' preach. By this means the churches are going to cut into Zion. Wc dislike to ' speak of these things, but they are facts, and if we do not acknowledge them wc must lose. Nearly every village or coun ty has an educated Presbyterian minister I with an educated wife—if our leaders ! are not educated, too, how can we com- j pete with them? i Our men ought not to say anything : ! that can be understood to be against id | ucation. Educate, educate, should be ! I our watchword. Men should not love to play upon the tender cords of ignorance 1 and prejudice, hut come down to the j right and help us to educate and elevate i our people. j ~~ MORAL CUIDES. We would not if we were worthy, as Mime the position of conservator of the ■ morals of the present generation. Tile | duty rests upon other heads whose hearts are purer and have a deeper sense of the | responsibility resting upon the guardian !jf n youth. That duty is upon the parent I and the legal preceptor and when it 'is neglected in youth, the child will suffer j from the neglect sooner or later. The - time is now upon us when wc must pre- : sent a respectable and more refined society ! to the public. The young ladies and young men of less than twentv-one sum mers, and who have had advantages of our high schools and colleges should not offer any excuse if they fail to present themselves to the public now with taste, refinement and all that goes to make up a civilized people. _ Parents who have not neglected the early training of their children in morals as well as the book, have done well. They arc the proper moral gaidcs of their children. The preacher and the teacher have their part also, and it is great. Then there are other men holding res ponsible positions in society, church and state, who wield a great influence and do much toward shaping the life of young people for good or evil. The church itself is a great factor in shaping the course of the young. The acts of individual members or the body of a church membership is often taken as a license by the young to do certain things. If that is an evil thing, that member or that church has done a great wrong. If swearing is wrong no church or individual is justified in cucouraging it. If dancing is wrong, no church or parent should encourage it in the young. Evils of all kinds should be denounced, and we hope never to hear again of such evils as we have learned of being tol erated and even brought about in the name of the church here of late. It can add no good to our daughters to bring them into frequent contact with improper persons on a ball room floor, even if the ball is given by a church. God holds the parent, the minister and the teacher responsible for the child; because of the influence they have over the child. The church weakens its influence and greatly injures the race when it takes in men to expound the gospel and they dis grace the calling by immoral aud im proper conduct. It is not our business to direct parents nor the church, but wc hope to soon see the day wheu inen will be taken into the pulpit who are intel lectually, morally and spiritually pre pared before they a*c given license. We hope to soon sec the day when parents will be more careful of where their daughters arc, who they are with, and what they are doing. We hope to soon see the day when young ladies and gen tlemen will appreciate more the reading of good books, papers music and the amusementa of the home fireside. Then we will have a purer ministry, a better I church, happier families, more and pret tier homes, fewer mismatches, fewer di vorces and better citizens generally. Personal. Miss Ella Jones returned home from Columbia last week after spending sev- ! eral weeks with friends. Miss Hattie Babridge, of Columbia, is in our city visiting Miss Ella Jones. Mr. M. W. Alston is visiting our city, the guest of Mr. L. P. Perry. Rev. J.|W. Colbert has returned to Zion Weslov. He stopped in the city last week. Mr. John Clifton, of Columbia, S. C., | spent a few days in our city this and last I week. ; Miss Hattie Sumner, of Salisbury, is | spending some time with her cousin, ; Miss Minnie Sumner. Mr. G. W. King has been very active [ for the Messenger He says he wants i to see it circulated among our people ( because it is a good paper, and be bas therefore gone to work to increase its ; circulation. 6t. Augustine, Fa., if building 82,000,000 hotel. ADDRESS TOJFHE PEOPLE OF’ NORTH CAROLINA. * The Farmer*. tlicMectaauics, the Artlaaus, the Educator*, the Buntne** Men aud the Laborers in Erenr Department of Ma terial and Intellectual Enterprise. We again address you in behalf of the continued effort of the North Carolina Industrial Association to better the con dition of our people by stimulating them ; to higher endeavors aud grander accom- | plisL’inents in the various avenues of ; human activity. In this we are not only j to better our condition and advance our 1 standard as :t race, hut the glory aud 1 greatness of our good oid State and all j i her people must surely follow her sue- j j cess. It may he well that we remind you • ! of the fact that it is ours to play a com- I i mandiug part iu the great drama .of building up North Carolina and in giving j her the place in the galaxy of States for which God and nature intended her. She is fertile iu all the elements of a mighty commonwealth and a mighty people. Iler rich and varied soil, in widen spring almost indigenous every product of which I earth is capable; her splendid water powers; her untold mineral wealth; her mild and health-giving climate; her for j eats of valuable woods; all these and many other advantages point her out as | destined by Providence to furnish a field ! for the very finest display of human j genius and human ingenuity. These whisper of the day when her great bosom shall be opened and every pulsation of j her great heart shall propel a current of , peace, plenty and prosperity into every l department of material and intellectual progress. Let us do our part in hasten- ( ing such a period. Ju noway can we do this more effectually than by cultivating ; and stimulating the spirit of progressive i enterprise, competition aud excellence. : We must not be satisfied with simply doing something, and doing that some thing well, but must reach out for the j very topmost round, aud not contented , until the crown of exeellcuce rests upon our productions. We must culti-! vatc, too. that love of State, that pride of native home, which calls into exercise the noblest powers of mind and body in efforts to develop her greatness and give : her a proud place and a potent influence ! among the sisterhood of states. It is with no small degree of pleasure j that we point to the magnificent work 1 which has been done by the North Caro- j iina Industrial Association iu this direc- i tion. Opening its first great exhibition ! in 187 U, it has kept up its organization > and its annual display of the capabilities i of our race to the present. Aud it is our greater pleasure to iuform you that the j officers now in charge have taken hold 1 with renewed vigor, and that the forth coming eighth annual fair is to prove the j most complete in ail its arrangements, ! tae variety and character of its exhibits, ! as well as in its incidental attractions, of any of its predecessors. While in the 1 years goue by the world has looked in upon our grounds and through our halls with wouder aud admiration, it has con stantly remarked by those better ac quainted with the capabilities of our race, that it lias not. thus far, fully in dicated its productive genius Such an exhibitiou as the colored people of North Caroliua can make and sltoubt make, would not only cal! forth the astonish ment of the stranger, but would surprise j the race itself. From now forth the effort will be to make such a display at our next fair as j will, iu some adequate measure, do jus- i tice to the productive capacity of our race. This is an end so devoutly to be wished, | that wc rely most confidently upon the thoughtful men and women of our race in all parts of the State to aid us in every possible way. Set to work at once. Look through the premium list aud begin the j preparation of articles which come in your ( line. Put iu your very best work. Vou will lose nothing by the effort. It will prove its own reward. Talk the object of the fair to your neighbors and friends aud assist the Secretary in reaching the j people in every county, city, town aud village iu the State. Kememuer that we j are on trail. The critical eye of the I world is passing us under review } car alter year, ami is adjudging us as the : value of contributions to tae greatness of • man are manifest. Let us come up j grandly to the full measure of our oppor-' tuuilies and thus dissipate tae douots of . many of our luhercnt lorces. We agaiu return thanks to the white ; jieople oi the btate lor the commendable • generosity with which they have aided ! our enterprise. Iu this they have not j only evidenced the existence of kmuiy 1 interest in the future of the race, but ! have evinced a love of State and a breadth j of conception which cannot fail of results j of lasting bent tit to all. To the railroads of the Slate, we make ' grateiul acknowledgement of the service ] which they have rendered us. The j officers of each have treated the Associa- { tiou with great kindness and courtesy, ! aud have sccuitd deeply interested in the 1 success of our work. To the btate press, the great power which has done so much for every enter prise looking to the material development i of the btate. we owe a debt of lasting gratitude. The very first to fall in the line of support, the unselfish gentlemen of the newspaper fraternity of North Carolina have never faltered in devotion to the best interest of our race as espoused ! by our .organization. They have rendered j us such aid as we could not have sue- j • ccedcd without. To the State of North Carolina, the Governor and the Commissioner of Agri- j culture, wc return hearty thanks for the j patriotic manner in which they have sos- j tered our humble effort to rise among the i enlightened races of men, aud by our | progress and prosperity add to the pro- ; gress aud prosperity of our Slate, May j they live to witness the full fruition of , their best hopes for the good of our pea ! pic. i And now to one aud all who have had j a kindly thought or who have given a j kindly hand to the, we extend thanks and a cordial invitation to the eighth I annual fair of the Association, which will • open in Kaleigh on Monday, the Bth day | of November, and continue during j the week. i I Come with big hearts, big Mods and I big purposes. Come prepared jo see the negrp standing amid the splecoor of his brain and muscle with arm outstretched and index finger pointing on to the grand j possibilities which the near future holds out to our advancing fortunes. j In behalf of the Executive Commit tc<, Chas. N. Hunter, Geo. T. Wabsom, j J. 11. Williamson, Photographing Celebrities. "The business of photographing cele brities,” said Mr. Lockwood, the travel' ing agent of Falk, to me the other day, "has grown enormously within the last ten years. It has become so great as to almost overshadow private trade. In fact, some photographers let it no so, which is to my mind a great mistake, for if it is properly employed it can be used to build up the custom of private people. Our house and another gallery in New j York employ agents—runners, you might call them—whose duty it is to be upon the streets and in theatres on the outlook for a pretty lace or some distinguished person whose portrait will sell readily. “We have one man who does nothing but watch the hotels for politicians, poets, lecturers, or foreign celebrities. I have known him to bring a statesman from Washington for a sitting, paying his passage both wayß. Again I’ve seen him go out to sea fifty miles to meet an incoming steamship which was bearing to our shores somo foreign actress or novelist of note. It is only by such en terprise that the immense sale of nota bles’ photographs has been worked up. Os course we gladly furnish such people as we solicit for sittings with a quantity of portraits gratis, after which they buy at a sjiecal—professional —rate. It pays us to devote such attention to theatrical portraits, for the wide circulation they have brings us in not a little private trade. Onr best markets ate New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Sar Francisco.” —Chicago JTcizs. English sparrows get a severe berat ing in a recent number of the London Amucm’j. which says: “It is hard fora lover of birds to approach the ‘sparrow question.’ Sparrows are found to do more harm than snakes or tigers. Na ture's thieves and vagabonds they are. This is the verdict of every one who in vestigates the matter. They drive away birds who do more good and little or no harm. For every noxious insect they de stroy, they consume more corn than one likes to calculate. A Cheshire farmer, indeed, cstimat s the loss to England due to depredations of sparrows at £770,094 a year; and this loss is on the increase. The careful and longcontinned experi ments of Colonel Russell, in Essex, show that sparrows do unmitigated mischief, and the experience of our colonies and of the Americans confirm the facts be yond cavil. There is really nothing to he said for the sparrow. He carries de struction with him wherever he goes, and leaves devastation to mark his in crease. From every point of view he must be looked upon as the enemy of man. Either he must give way to us or we to him: and just now his power is such that he seems in a fairway to be come here, as he already has become in Australia, a factor in polities. The Col orado beetle can never commit such rav ages as the sparrow is certain to do wnerever he is allowed to go on un checked.” An Alligator Eats a Tramp. Last week a man, presumably a tramp, knocked at L. P. Thursby’s door about 9 o’clock at night, after the family had retired. Mr. Thursby struck a match and responded to the call. The man st ited he had walked fifteen miles that afternoon to take the night boat bound north and got left and wanted to stay over night. Thursby handed him a key and pointed to his barn, stating that that was the best he could do for tim. Not until after Mr. Thursby had retired some time did he think of the ten foot alligator his boy had in the bam for the entertainment of strangers next winter, and worried considerably ebout the man. As soon as he dressed he hurried out to the barn next morning to see about the man. He found the door locked, with the key turned on the insido. lie forced a side window open, found the alligator in its usual corner, but the man was m using. The evidence gathered seemed to point to the destruction of the man during the night, as the animal ate nothing whatever during the next few days. Nothing can be heard of the man, and it is believed that he came to an un timely end that night, —Orange City (Fla.) Times. T e Immunity of Physicians. It is a prevalent projiular impression i that some special providence surrounds the physician with protective agencies, and that, although daily exposed to dis i ease in its moa*. malignant forms, he es | capes when others are attacked. Dr. I Ogle, of England, finds that while law- I yers die at the rate of 20, the clergy at j the rate of 16, the doctors’ mortality it |23 per 1,000. In a million adults other ! than physicians 16 died of scarlet fever, j 14 of diphtheria, and 238 of typhoid : fever; while of an equal number of phy ! sicians, 59 succnmbed to scarlet fever, 59 j to diphtheria, and 31J. to typhoid fever, i Small-pox, on the other hand, claims , more victims among the laity than in the medical profession; due, doubtless, to tho fact that physicians have aufficient con fidenoe in the protective influence of vaccination to keep themselves insuscep {tibieto the attacks of small pox. The Vanderbilt Tomb. The Vanderbilt Mausoleum, m the Moravian Cemetery, bat k of * ew > Staten Hand, is not only themostim nosing tomb in tho country, but one of the most massive and solid structurcs o its kind in the world. The h.gheat and most beautifully located ground in the cemetery is that upon which the mauso leum stands. A prclty little hill cowered j withathick growth of oak, beech maple, gum, elm and chestnut trees thirty or forty feet high, was chosen as the site and ground was broken here for the , structure on December 16, 1814. From that time until the present the work has been carried on so steadily that the tomb itself may now be said to be almost com -1 The front is forty-two feet in height from the grade lino to tho apex of the coping, and fifty-nine feet wide, with deep, heavily buttressed retaining wal.s that spring out in a curve twenty feet on each side, and rise by steps, with a short ornamental column at the beginning of each level until at their junction with the front wall they have attained an alti tude of twenty-three feet. The interior of the mausoleum is a space forty-eight feet deep by twenty eight fcot wide, with a semicircular chattel twenty feet in diameter at the back. There are twenty two acres of land in the Vander bilt burying ground surrounding the mausoleum, which will be converted into spark. The cost o’ the mausoleum it self is $250,003. At present the body of W. H. Vanderbilt is in the receiving vault near the main entrance of the Mo ravian Cemetery. Two Pinkerton detec tives watch the tomb constantly during the day, and six mure, in couples, stand guard over it all night. These on watch can at auy time sound an electric gong that will summon their comrades, who sleep in n little house that has been erected for their accommodation at a dis tance of four or five rods from ihe vault. There are H.OOOapplications for posi uons on file with tile Secretary of the In u-rior. YOUR ATTENTION. ()ur fail stock is in. Our stock of Dress Golds and Trimmings were never so cheap ami pretty as at this season. Big j stock of Ladies Wraps, including all the new novelties. Ladies and Gents Under- j wear. 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Next to First National Bank, Charlotte, N. C. ; C. W. HENDERSON, ’ DEALER IN GROCERIES, PROVISIONS AND Country Produce. Fine Cigars and Tobacco. East Trade Street, , Charlotte, N. C. ' WE DOST mi 1 IF Everybody Knows It That we have a complete Stock of DRUGS m MEDICINES. J Drags, Chemical., Patent Medicine., Fancy Goods and Toilet Article.. Which we are selling at very reasonable Prices —to:— Paints, Oils, Etc. —jo:— A lot of Fresh TURNIP SEED just received. Prescriptim Carefully GonjanM, DR. H. M. WILDER, Charlotte, N. C. Virginia House, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Accommodations furnished traveler#*4 reasonable rates. Comfortable beds and rooms.* House located in the central »nd buaines part of the city. Table fur nished with the beat of the market. Meals at all hours. J. IM. GOODE, Prop. CHARLOTTE N. C.