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Charlotte messenger. ■ ■ ■ ■ - ] ‘ Published every Saturday at / CHARLOTTE, N. O. ; -BY- W. C. SMITH. Subscription Sates. (Always in Advance) 1 year, ..... *1.50 5 months, ..... LOO 6 IS ♦ “ 50 3 40 Single copy, - ..... 5 Notify us at once of all failures of this Taper to reach you on time. All money must be sent by Register, Honey order or Postal note to _ W. . SMITH. Short correspondence on subjects of Inter estto the publio 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 correspondent*. Anonymous communications go to the waste basket. Republican Ticket. Chief Justice: Ralph P. Buxton. For Associate Justices: John IV. Albertson, Virgil S. Luske. For Superior Court Judges; Third District:—W. F. Bullock. Fourth T. P. Devercux. Eighth ** W. S. O'E. Robinson. Sixth “ D. M. Furchcs. Ninth “ A. E. Holton. Tenth “ J. W. Bowman. Twelfth “ Perry A. Gumming. Senate: E. C. Hinson. For Sheriff: T. K. Samond. For Constables Charlotte Township; C. T. Thomas. OUR PARTY OF PRINCIPLES. The principles laid down by the republican party in convention as sembled at Raleigh recently, are the true principles ot the party. That the correct way to keep party or ganization, was to run republicans for public office, and not run after strange gods. Liberalism, fusion and independentism means defeat, demoralization and disintegration of the party, a complete surrender of the manhood of the party—Ours is a party of principles and not a party of plunder. The vote of the county is nearly evenly divided between the democratic and republican parties. There is a strong feeling of opposi tion to the democratic party and its oid-leaders for broken promises and business depressions and hard times, which they promised, should be al tered for the better, when they came into power. It strikes us with pe culiar force, that this is the time above all others, that we should be represented by an able republican ticket—true and tried men who have borne the burden of the party —men who have stood the ostracism and tyrany of the democratic party for long years—men who are fire-tried, patriotic and unflinching in their de votion to principle. But the independents urge their claims upon our party, for the fol lowing reasons: That we have been uniformly counted out at the ballot box, and that the men now being run on the independent ticket, are the very men who were familiar with the frauds and the peculiar manner of manipulating the ballot and the count, when the frauds were com mitted in former years, and that they know how to prevent a recurrence of those frauds, that the friends of the j ticket and the promoters of the scheme are the very men who have! been manipulators of elections on the democratic side in former elec tions, but have left the democratic party for the reasons that the different I appointments under the general gov-! eminent in the revenue and other branches of public service, were given to others in the party, who were not active in their Irauds, and that these men now should be placed on our ticket, and we, as republi cans, compelled to vote for, them to keep from being defrauded out of -our vote. We express most un- 1 equivocally, our firm opposition to any such a code of moral or politi cal ethics. We should support the independ ent ticket tor the reason that they are exceedingly friendly to the re- I publican party and its principles— I then if it be true, why not make an I even division of the spoils and let us have a union ticket—half republican ! and half independent ? But if this ! arrangement is made there must not be any such arrangement that col- 1 ored republicans are to be excluded from the ticket. When republicans are placed before us for our support we never ask the question as to the color of his skin, it he is honest, capable and reliable, we tee! it our duty to support him, but we think it to the interest of the colored race that in public office, there should be no discrimination as to race or color. When the colored men casts ninty n:nc hundreds of the republican votes in this county, they should have some representation on the ticket. This is only just and fair, and unless this is conceded to us, we think it should be the policy of the colored republicans to set right down on them on election day . We have the strongest assurance from prominent republicans in this and other eoUhties, that our views are coffett, and that this paper re flects the views and political senti ments of a very large majority of the republican party. We are for any and all measures which are for the benefit of the colored race, and we believe the republican principles are for fequal rights under the law and at the ballot box; but independents are a fraud upon the party. There can be no such thing as an independ ent party. There are but two great parties belore the people—the repub lican party and the democratic party. All others are mere side-shows. i THE COUNTY TICKET AGAIN. We learn that Mr. Eli Hinson de clared himself a candidate lor the ! Senate at a public meeting one night last week, and is now full in the field. I Mr. Hinson is a republican in poli i tics, has uniformly voted with and I given his most cordial support to re publican nominees, and has never i been ashamed of his principles and | his party, and will act with the re publican party in the Legislature, and vote with them on all measures for the good of the party. We can trust him, but what will the other candidates do, if they should be elected? Will they act with the democrats or republicans on party questions, or will they squat? What will Mr. Deal, Dr. Bruner, and Dr. Sloan do? Arc they going !to vote for Mr. Hinson for the Sen | ate, or will they vote for Capt. Alex -1 ander? The colored republicans ex pect you to answer this question. You can do it cither before the peo ple in your public discussions or through the columns of this paper. You shall have a fair showing. The further question naturally suggests itself: Will you support for Speaker of the House a Democrat or a Republican? The selection of a presiding officer of that body is a very important matter. He appoints the important committees, and more or less formulates the business of that branch of the Legislature. Will you identify yourself with the democratic or the republican party? Now, gen tlemen, answer that question square; let there be no dodging. We feel almost certain what will be Mr- Hin son's course. He is a republican, and will stand by the party, and de serves the support of the party; but as for the rest, we will see what we will see. There is another question worthy of consideration. What will Mr. Cooper, the candidate for sheriff, do in making his appointments? Will he give any to republicans? The mere fact that he does his shaving in a colored barber shop patronized exclusively by colored men, while it goes a little that way, is by no means sufficient proof of his political senti ments as to entitle him to the colored vote. When these questions are sat isfactorily answered, we may have some others of equal weight to pro pound. We shall make ;it a point to hear a joint discussion!, when we shall have more to say. T. K. Salmonds is also a candi date for the office of sheriff. He is , a true republican, has voted with | us, and always acted with us, and j is not ashamed of his colors and his I party principles. He is the only re publican candidate (or that office, and should receive the support of the party. But Mr. Salmonds does not suit the McNinch - Gordon - Sims- Schenck party; and they have issued their orders that Salmonds shall be set aside and Cooper brought to the 1 front to receive the republican vote. NOT FOR SALE. A certain leader among the inde pendents in this city approached a close personal friend of ours a few ; days ago and offered him sioo to stop our opposition to the independ , ent ticket. That same leader told another creditor of his that he meant | to make money enough in this cam paign to pay his bill, &c. That same leader is very busy in catching | hold of and circulating and manu ; facturing all sorts of every little ! thing, false or true, that he thinks ‘ will in any way injure us—person ally. socially, or otherwise. VVe are glad to inform this gentle man that the Messenger is not for sale. Had we been for sale we would have tried<Jong since to get on the wrong sideb and asdic, would have paid no attention to the chidings of conscience—if he has any. We would rather be right than chairman or leader. We have no policy but the principles of the republican party. After the defeat of this mongrel whiskey democratic con cern, we propose to tell our people the reason there is no harmony among us, and who our false leaders are. VVe think we have the clinch ing points. No, sir; we are not for sale. We propose to publish an j honest newspaper for the good peo ple of this city and section many I years to come, and cannot afford to betray our trust by selling our peo-! pie for a few dollars. Judas hanged | himself after he sold Christ, and how ! ought a poor fellow of this day fee! \ after he has sold his brethren to the democratic party for S3OO or $400? ( He ought to feel worse than Joseph’s I brethren felt after he made himself I known to them; for some of our ! modern brethren do more malicious ; back-biting now than was tolerated | : in those days. When men resort j to lying on and villifying us, we are 1 encouraged, for we know we are j driving old Satan into hard quarters, \ where he has neither arms or ammu- j nition to fight with. We know we ; are putting our words just where j ■ they are felt. Our good friend will please tell the I , gentleman this paper is not for sale, j , That the good people of this city j ; want a reliable paper published by a man who is not purchasable. No, sir; ike are iiol for Sale. Men who , negotiate and make purchases of \ stolen goods, are held by law guilty j of crime as well as the rogue. Hence 1 there is no escape for this leader, as I we have two reliable witnesses, and ; in the proper time will turn on the ; lights. I WHAT WILL THEY DO ABOUT IT ? | Now that the third candidate is 1 fully in the field for Congress, what will Col. Chas. R. and his friends do about it? Will Col. Chas. R. stay in the race or will he come down? The announcement, in the shape of an address, is circulated throughout the District. The name of the candidate is William E. Mayo, of Wilmington. He is a mechanic, and a Knight of Labor. He claims the suffrage of the Order throughout the District; and, as true and loyal men, we sup pose they will stick to a man of their own order and choice. The Knights of Labot is a good order, and is destined to be a power ful factor in the politics of this coun try. It is organized to aid and pro tect the laboring masses. The greatest oppressor of the laborer is bad laws in the control of capital. The way to remedy the evil is in the legislative halls. It cannot be done in the lobby, either. Laborers and true friends of laborers must be elected to our State and National Legislatures. It is not for us to say who is the proper candidate for the Knights to support in this emergency. They have before them to choose from—a Democrat, an Independent, and a Knight of Labor. IN MEMORIAM. BY S. F. WENTZ. God loosed the silver cord Which bound a class-mate dear. And took from our number one That sparkled bright and clear. The angels bore his soul away And laid it at the feet Os Him who sits enthroned Upon the mercy-seat. A. A. Dryer, our mate, has faded away, For precious life has fled, Earth unto earth returned— She ever claims her dead. His body is mouldering fast, His soul in heavenward flight Regained the further land of pure delight, A land where all is light. The sun of life has ere eventide approached But rose again in realms bright, Where night has never been, A city where God is the ight. The light of heaven outshone The dimmer light of earth. And shed a halo around his soul, His soul of heavenly birth. God bound the golden cord That linked the soul divine, With that immortal life Unmarked by age, by time. That link once formed by God, Unbroken shall remain, Forever with the Lord That soul shall endless reign. Biddle University, Charlotte, N. C. An Elephant's Memory. An amusing circumstance happened at , Hythe yesterday, when an elephant be longing’to a circus freely helpd himself Co an early breakfast. It appears that between 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning the animal managed to affect his e cape from his companions, and paid a visit to a house, with which hi : memory had n pleasant association—a little shop at the comer of Market street. On arriving at the place the elephant found that it was closed, but, nothing daunted, he coolly lifted the door off its hinges and helped himself liberally to the contents of the shop, potatoes, apples and sweets. When he had cither sati-tied his appetite or had exhausted the supply of good things, he retraced his steps, and on the return jour ney he was met by his keepers, who had in the meantime become aware of his ab sence. The animal in question visited By the about eleven or twelve years ago, and when passing this house was treated by its then tenants to a good meal of potatoes. This seemed to have left so good an impression on the animal s mind that he was led to pay another visit to so pleasant a spot with the result recorded above. About the samo time the next morning he again got away, and was making for the same place, hut was dis covered by his keepers before he had , gone fsronhis expedition. —London Tele graph. The Chestnut Bells. Hesr the noisy chestnut bells— Nickel be 1.1 What a world ot merry chat, tboir Idiocy dispels: At the int.le, on the street, Where'er we chance to meet. How they All our souls with terror With their beating. Lest we fall into the error Os repeating. And one and all keep mum, badly dumb. For fear that some rheap “bum' 1 Will ring us down. —Boston Globa. LIFE ON THE ATLANTIC PHASES OF HUMAN NATURE ON A 810 OCEAN STEAMER. Extravagance in Dress—Cliques on Shipboard—The Smoking Room —Various Ways of Gambling. A returning tourist said to a Chicago Herald, reporter: “As you know, 1 cross the Atlantic once or twice every year, and I seem to notice a change every time. The gambling has always been carried on to a greater or less extent, but it is only lately that they have begun to dress, both men and women, in the way they have. Formerly people used to cross in the oldest decent clothes they had, but hovk nothing is too good for them. Would ?rou believo it, one day a certain Chicago ady and her son appeared, the one in a colored silk dress and the other in a Prince Albert coat, plug hat and patent leather shoes. That was the worst break I ever saw. Then another thing, cliques and sets are worse than they used to he. The set at the captain’s table will hardly acknowledge those who sit at the doctor’s or chief officer's table as belonging to the same order of beings, and look on them much as the guests at a first class hotel at , a fashionable summer resort do upon those residing at a socond-class hostelry. 1 I put this all down to the women. It I Becms impossible that they can even cross the ocean without what they consider fashionable dress, but which, to any sensible man or Woman, is in execrable taste. But, thank goodness, the smoking- ] room always remains as a harbor of ref uge. And what on earth or sea can com pare with the comfort of the smoking- j room on a first-class liner. Nothing to do—you couldn’t do it if you would—ex- | cept to 101 l and lounge and drink, smoke, chat and listen to others talking to you. Then in the evenings, if it is blowing hard outside and the rain, perhaps, beat- j ing against the windows, how cozy does the smoking room look in contrast. And j what good stories you sometimes hear j and what pleasant men you often meet. I have made some of the pleasantest 1 friendships I ever made in my life in the j smoking-room going over. And then if ! you want gambling at cards or dice or ! pools you can have it. In this, how ever, you have to keep your weather eye open more and more every day. The companies say they prevent known and | regular sharps from crossing, but this is , nonsense and they couldn’t do it even if ’ they wanted to. The day alter we sailed J this time the word was pissed by the ( purser that there was a card sharper on board, but no attempt was made to point him out; the consequence was that for a few days every one looked upon his neighbor as the possible Jonah, and to the end of tire voyage no one really knew. I had very strong su picions about one man. and if he wasn't the Si mon Pure he was a mighty good imita- ! ton of one. I watched him playing one night with a well-known Chicagoan in the clothing trade, and if he wasn’t cheating I would be surprised. At any rate, he won a great part of the old man’s money. “Another form of gambling that is coming in is tossing or matching coins ala John T. Kaymoud. This is carried to a ridiculous extent. I saw a young New Yorker, crossing for the first time, and with more money than brains, lose $1,500 at a sitting match. Another sharp trick is betting on the height or distance j of things. You know people who would never make a bet on shore from one year’s end to another will do anything on board to 'kill time.’ Sharpers know this and are well prepared for it. A man will casually lead the conversat on to the delusion of distances at sea. The process is easy to the distance of the smoke-stack, the mainmast,or the length of a particular piece of planking, all of which has been carefully measured by the sharper beforehand, maybe on the previous voyage. In fact there is hardly j a moveable or likely article on board staji’ that he has not got the exact length I breadth, and depth of. In connect!*’' ! with this I heard rather a good tale, i sharper was bothering another man to be* with him in this way, and he, knriwisfc very well all the tricks of the trade, fused to be roped in. At last the sharp*# took up the sash of one of the smokin?” room windows, and pointing to t#e leather tags hanging at the end, 6aif I ‘Well, now, you cant guess the numW of tags there are here.' Still he would Bdf j bite and finally strolled away. His would be victim the first quiet opportunity Ike had counted the number of tags, anil, finding there were exactly tUirtv-tw'\ cut two of them off and pm them in m pocket, shortly after the sharper Ct turned ana resumed the conversation. ! ‘All right,’ said the fiy to the spider, Til j go you once only.’ ‘Well, what will it' bo? Suppose we take those tags there we were talking of:’ ‘AH right, so bet it.’ They matched for fir t choice and it fell to the sharper to make first guess. ‘Well,’ said he. toying with the strap, ‘I always used to be a good gucsser. Lcm me sec, I should say there would he thirty-six, thirty-seven—no, thirty-four, j thirty-three—no, I guess there are just ! thirty-two.’ He gave an exulting grin. I which quickly changed when thewould be victim said quietly: ‘ Vou are a good guesser. There were exactly thirty-two when you last counted them, but there are oifly thirty now. Here are the other j two in my pocket.’ It stopped that man • for the rest of the voyage. Perhaps the | most popular form of betting a on pools 1 on the dnily run of the ship, and they have got that down to a fine point. On some ships the ‘gams’ will make regular pools on it, the same as at a horse ra <O. i For instanco, the run of the ship ought 1 to be 380 miles. Well, any number ”>o tween 3110 and 370, ten above and ten be low, will be the favorite. They will lay short odds on either of these ten figures, but they will lay good pdds against any | particular number, of course lengthen, j ing them the further they are away.” m Who Owned the Egg. A hen, while being driven out of a neighbor’s garden, let fall an egg, which the woman who drove her out picked up and utilized. A suit was brought in court to recover the pr ce of the egg when it was decided that “tho egg being lai i on the premises of the defendant it was her egg.” An appeal was taken to b higher court, when this decision was reversed on account of the word 'laid” having been used. The hen did not lay the egg, butdropped it. ’ The moral of this story is not very obrcurc.—Lon don Paper. Making Mexican Bread | At certain hours of the d»J » slapping is hewd in every 1 t 0 I letter from ill as a del , (1 bJ the Cincinnati An»»<r-*'. ’* ofac t.„. the wife at her daily task o' "> a J ,n, { ac |ir * | ing tortillas, the .lexicon • . . o which an ancient author desg .1 * the 1 u- j nhrates, she feeds her %„“"v leavened bread. It is made by s.m| soaking the corn in lime waternn 1 '• in" Unite paste on a stone metntewJh a stone roller; then smail dumps of th nuttv-like mixture are moiled 1 1 ! 2 by patting them between the | hands, after which they arc baked qu c£ Ivon a heated stone or ‘•kitchen ’ of the n-.y;. S'■ • woman is the most primitive that eialt imagined, any convenient spo'-S cl " ally out of doors —answering so, the purpose. In ten years the consumption of horses as 1 in Paris has risen from « .) 485; of asses, decreased from ulB to 307, and of mules, increased from six to | forty. Brown, Weddington & Cos, HARDWARE DEALERS, ; Charlotte, N. 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CALLS ANSWERED DAY AND NIGHT esa;«»’Ss^aart -■ CO TO ROSS & ADAMS FOR BOOKS AND STATIONAY, AND v School Supplies. Special Discount to Teachers. ROSS & ADAMS. Next to First National Bank, Charlotte, N. C. C. W. HENDERSON, \ DEALER IN GROCERIES, PROVISIONS AND Country Produce. Fina Cigars and Tsbacco. East Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C. WE DON’T CARE IF Everybody Knows It That we have a complete Stock of DRUGS MB MEDICINES. Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Fancy Goods sad Toilet ArtieUi Which we ari selling at very reasonable • Prices 1 —to’— Paints, Oils, Etc. —l°: A lot of Fresh TURNIP SEEIf just > received. ? I Prescripts Carefully Compouifiei ( OR. H. M. WILDER, 1 Charlotte, N. C. I —- , Virginia House, CHAHLOTTF, N. Cf Accommodations fttrni'ihed traveler*’*; reasonable rates. Comfortable beds it: L rooms. . House located in th*- rentrv N and busines part of the city. Table fr m nished with the best of the market gh . Meals at all houra. J. M. GOODE, Prop. CHARLOTTE N. C. HENDERSONS BABBER SHOP The Oldeet and Bert. Experienced and polite worknw: always ready to wait on customers. He it i yon will get a Heat Hair Cut, aad a c loan Shave. John 8. Henderson. I Best Trade St. CHARLOTTE. N. C.