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Xljorlottc ittcsscugcr. 'Chi.lote, X. C.. November 30* 188«- OCR CHURCHES. J*. *><*«■'*, Mint fit fier ,7fp M *” Jgl« R M-Bund., *££ !* » **_ RtT - p - f- *l* rex, ftSrr -«s p M rch :2?i t i s«; B«m<v , ' "* &*£&£?&£ P 'V , Sd B^?^ **?*• 1 TV® •T"" T v .«xras!s p a ff h vS“ B^ d *•*- «»>*•* I V£V # & *£“; n p d < Z3VS «**«• jEj? ,Vl1» * Z > M “‘ St; Ser ®Sft 'A M E 2.). E. St Let us have peace. That cruel war is over Ex-President Chester A Arthur died last Thursday. Durham had a very destructive fire last Monday night. Miss Zilphia Lewis is teaching a school near the fair grounds. The work of laying the street car track is progressing ir. Raleigh. The Grand of Good Tem plars convened i B Concord last Tues day The Knights G s Labor have hougl\« out Mr C VV Henderson’s grocery Wftre and employed I W Brow* -as clerk. Services at St Michael s P E Church will be conducted by Rev L- A Osborn to-morrow evening. Communion services at o’clock. The funeral services of Miss Belle Simmonton were conducted at Zion Chinch yesterday afternoon. She died Thursday morning. It is rumored that the Carolina Central will soon run a last passen ger tram between Wilmington and Charlotte. , C Conlerencc of the AME Ch’jrch will convene in Lmcolnton ;,ext Wednesday week, or tile fipjt day of December. The 49th Congress convenes two weeks from next Monday. A num “?/ of Congressmen arc already in n gton. Special term- of Superior court j will convene here next Monday, judge Montgomery will preside. ! Civil cases only will be tried. The colored fair at Goldsboro opens next Tuesday. E L Thorn ton, Esq., will deliver the address. The Mountain. Gleaner is the name ol a new paper just started in Asheville, X C. Rev E H Lips comb*. editor. We regret very much to learn of she suspension of the Wilmington "Chronicle,” and hope some enter pnsing young man will take hold and bring it up at once. t The Industrial Association re elected John S Leary, of Cumber lane. President; I R Hawkins, of Warren, Vice-President; John H Williamson, of Franklin, Secretary; W C Coleman, of Cabarrus, Treas urer. , We arc under obligations to members of the Independent So cial Club for an invitation to attend their entertainment on the nth. A large number were out, and all en ioyed the music, dancing, &c. Prohibition is a great blessing to Raleigh. We spent five days there, including Saturday, and failed to see one man under the influence of strong drink. All seemed happy and prosperous, and prohibition does prohibit. We were glad to meet in our city tfiis week Revs D Brown, of States ville. W E Partee, of Concord, H F. Baker, of Davidson College, D J Sanders, of the “Presbyterian,” Mr ■nd Mrs John Holloway, Mr Aaron Kellogg, and Mrs A E Davis, of| Wilmington. The laying of the street car track j is progressing finely. The cars wil ] ran the length of the two principal streets—Trade and Trvon. Rev P P Alston is expected to ar rive home early next week, accom panied by one of the fair maids ol farboro, who has consented to cast aside her own name for his Wel come. The funeral of Rev. Edward Ea- 1 gl^ s . formerly pastor of the First j Baptist Church of this city, will be j preached by Rev. Z. Ilaughton at ' the Ebenezer Baptist Church to- j morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. Mrs Hannah Overman, of Boston, Mass, has returned to her old home, and will spend several weeks here . wth friends and relatives. She has been from home some fifteen or twenty years. Among the signs of progress among our colored citizens here, we note tne excellent horse and buggy by Dr Williams; horse and buggy by Bishop Lomax; horse and buggy by Mrs A W Calvin. These are all creditable turnouts, purchased within the last three or four months. A number of our young ;;;cn ! r recently purchased and moved into comlortable dwellings. We are pro gressing as rapidly and substantially as can be hoped for. In the Grand Lodge of Good Tem plars in Concord this week, there were three editors, one member of the new Legislature, two successful merchants, mechanics, and teachers. That shows progress among our people, and is an evidence that tem perance is one of the necessary helps to morality, economy and intelli gence. One noted display at the colored lair last week deserves special men- j tion, That was the exhibits from Cabarrus county. Otl the first day of the fair, on the arrival of the west ern train, a procession was formed by Mr W C Coleman two or three blocks long. The four creams, other horses, mules, cattle, hogs, and teams, accompanied by a brass band, attracted the attention ol the whole city’. Cabarrus is now the banner county for the colored fair. Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. All should feel under peculiar obligations to the Preserver of all* when we think of the many phenom enal disasters visiting other localities. As you prepare to eat the turkey next Thursday, go to church and get your spiritual strength renewed, and join with the church in sending up thanks to heaven. The Reform AME Zion Church, under the leadership of Rev Abner Hill, will convene in Shelby next Wednesday. It will be remembered that Mr Hill drew out from Zion a few years ago, and has been made bishop, and now hold his second an nual conference. We have received about a half dozen letters tor publication from this city. We will try to publish one of them next. week. Two of the letters are concerning the late cam paign, but too personal. They arc good letters, but we think it best to try to forget the unpleasantness of the last few weeks. Jefferson's Hospitality. Not until tue days of General Grant was the English custom of giving na tional gratitude a pecuniary form ob | served by even a part of the Am risen I people. Not a few of the great leaders | of the Revolution were allowed to die in poverty, verifying the spirit, H not the letter, of the lines: “And bailiffs may seize bis last blanket to day, - Whose psfl shall be upborne by heroes to morrow." Congress, in two or three cases, showed a tardy sense of gratitude by purchasing the papers aud libraries of those whose public service has caused them to die in solvent, thus enabling their families to live in something approaching comfort, Thomas Jefferson, toward the close of his life, was so infirm and poor that he applied to the Legislature of Virginia for permission to dispose of his large es tate by lottary. He hoped by this method to realize a sum sufficient to psy his debts and to give him s competence. Publia duties prevented him from looking after his estate during many years, and a pro fuse hospitality bad exhausted his merns. Mr. Jefferson was the most popular of American citizens, and people came from far and near to see him, prompted by curiosity or affection. Lfe at Monti eello resembled, for years, thst in a hotel at a fashionable watering place. Mem ber* of Congress, office-holders, clorgy ‘ men, lawyers, doctors, ai tilts, foreign ers, and people of fashion flocked to see the great statesman, and to partake of his hot; itality. fifty guests were entertained one ni ht, and whole families came in their carriages, and remained for months. One family of six per ons 1 aroc from Bur pc, and made a visit of ten months. Then they made a shoit tour through the States, returned to Monticello, and re mained six months long r. A gentle- ; man asked Wormely, Mr. Jefferson’s ' - ; vortte servant, pointing to the th.e car riage-houses, each of which would c n tain a four-horse coach: "How often ] were these filled in Mr. Jefferson 1 J time!" “Every night in summer, sir," an swered the servant; "and we often had two or three carriages besides uuderthat tree. ” "It must have taken all bands to take care of your visitors." "Yes, sir, and the whole farm to ford them,” said the slave.— YontU't Compan ion. There is a hinj for smugglers in the trick u«t played by some Prussians, who wrapped SI,OOO worth of lace around a strong ten months' heifer, and tied e false skin over the whole so sneceisfully ss to defy detection. They passed the heifer very easily at the customs office, the excisa commissioners admiring het size and beauty, and some of thorn offer higher food. | NITRO-GLYCERINE. AN EXPLOSIVE WHICH ANNIHT LATE 9 ITS VICTIMS. Perils of Transporting the Deadly Stuff In the Oil Regions—Some I a’:: :~j Carrying Nit ro-Gly ceriuo by Wagon and Boat. A Warren (Penn.) letter to the New Ycrk Timet says: Since the expira ioa I sf the Roberts oil well torpedo patent, which wa3 the only torpedo w th which til walls could be legally shot, and out of the patent on which Dr. Roberts trade > fortune of several millions of dollars manufactories of nitro glycerine have tome into existence in great numbers in the o'l regions, ani are now scattered in inything but reassuring proximity to | many towns an villages. One of the most extensive nitro-plycerine factories in the world is located between Warren ■ ind Kin ua. At this factory ;hey make 10,000 pounds of the deadly explosive | every day, and a score of magazines are distributed about the country for the it: rage of the stuff, which is ready tanned for use in the wells. The wagons in whir h these cans of nitTo-gly terinc are carrie 1 to the magazines, and In turn to the w 11s that are to be tor pedoed, are made especially for the pur pose. The cans are fitted in softly up holstered apartments in tho wagon body to prevent sudden concussion that the passage over the rough roads of the re gion would otherwi e make liable at any moment and which might explode a can tnd annihilate all within sound of it. Under the cans a zinc tray is fitted so that any leakage cannot reach the axles, [n the early days of nitro glycerine Iransportation this precaution was not taken ar.d it was a common occurrence for the acid to leak from the can’, drop an the axles, and there become exploded, killing team and driver. Scores of per rons were blown to atoms in that way before the zinc tray was introduced. The Lower Pennsylvania and Ohio oil districts are supplied with nitro glycer ine by means of boats run down the Al legheny and Ohio Rivers. The boats are itiletto-shaped c aft, thirty feet in length lad four feet wide. They are loaded with 10,000 pounds of nitro-glycerine tsch and manned by two men. A col lision between one of these boats and other craft on the river would be fol lowed by horrible consequences and they ire given a wide berth. The men who run the nitro-glycerine boats are in structed to tie up wherever night over takes them, and not to run a minute ifter it gets dark. The men, as may well be imagined, are without fear, and manage their dangerous craft with a nonchalance and independence that is a source of perpetual terror to the crews of nrdinary boats, and to the citizens of towns by which the deadly cargoes are run. “Attending the frightful deaths thait so frequently follow the handling of oitro-glvcerine in the oil regions," says an old oil operator of the Bradford field, ‘ -there is one feature tho mysterious na ture of which is startling. It has puz zled scientific observation and study, and t do not believe to day that any satis factory explanation can be given of it. This singular feature is the almost com plete annihilation of matter, especially of the human body, which in a majority as cases results from a fatal explosion of this deadly compound. I have noticed that in many inst rnces. 1 had a team ster once in my employ named Henry Prance. I.ikeall men of his kind in the ail country, there was nothing, either s-bove, bel ,w, or oi the emth that h feared. He was in the habit of carting aitio-glycerine to any well where I want ’d to use it, and he and liis partner, War -on Jack, actually got eo reckless -in •ir.rdling the deadly stuff that no help I had would remain at work when they anew France and Jack were com ing in with a load of glycerine. These two men were so callous to fear that they used to un load the stuff the rams as they would a lot of brick, Fran e standing iu ths wagon and throwing a canto Jack, who stood some feet away, and Jack catching it and placing it on the ground in time to catch the next one his compan ion tossed him. As it takes a man with a good set of nerves to even ride in a wagon when he knows there is nitro glycerine under the s’at, this manner of handling a compound that the slightest jar frequently explodes, will give an idea j of the sort of nerves those two men had. | One day in 188) France was coming in with a load of glycerine, and when he was within a qnirtr. of a mile of the well we beard an dplotion No one ever knew how it happened, but it was one of the most complete ca es of nitro glycer ine annihilation I ever saw. Wo found tha usual cellar diet a few cans of glycer ins always dig in the ground when it goes off and the usual area of timber felled. Over XOO feet off in tho wools,to i the right of the road, we picked up a 1 wagon tire. We .found the tail of one | her e and the hoof of another. In another part of the woods a man's km e was picked up, and that was all we ever found, ex cept Henry France's greasy < an lying by the si le of a (tump and his silver watch hanging on the limb of a tree. “George Doran was blown to pieces ; by a nitro glycerine explosion at Red jßeik a few years sgo. Hs was s man 1 (hit weighed 200 pounds. All that the me et thorough search over recovered of that 200 pounds of flesh and bone was s ps.t of one of the poor man's feet—less thin one pound. Charies Berridge, a well-koown oil man, was blown up by nitro glycerine one winter in Allegheny County. The ground was covered with newly fallen snow. On either side wss a high sad abrupt hill only a few rods apart. Ferridge was s very tall man, and his weight was 180 pounds. The re mains of the poor fellow were searched for csrefullv, but less than fifteen pounds of them could be found. The most curious part of the case, and one showing how completely annihilation accompanies an explosion of nitro glycerine, was this: The greatest force of the explosive is always expended upward. However in finitesimal the atoms to which Berridge's body m'ght have been reduced by this explosion, in falling back upon that spot less snow some trace of them must have been seen, but the snow remained as spotless as before. Besides human bodies, the iron frames of wagons, and sven the ponderous nitro glycerine sams rave been r .-moved from human vision iy an explosion as effectually as if the; lad never been formed, and the mystery jf their utter annihilation cannot be ex plained.” Tbe Hawaiian’s Pol. But what is it? some of our renders may inquire. Briefly, it is the Hawaiian’s staff of life. Without poi a Hawaiian would not find life worth living. Give him poi, and, with an [occasional allow ance of raw fish as a desert, no mutter what may h ppen he is happy. He will take it three times a day, and oftener if ho can get it, and every day in the year, and always with equal if not increased relish. Poi is made from the root of the kalo or arum esculentum. The root, which is about the size and shape of a large beet, is baked in an underground oven and then pounded in a hollow stone or board and mixed with water until it has the consistency of printers’ paste. It is next laid asido for a few days and al lowed to ferment. When ready for use it has a slight sour taste and a pink or lilac color. The taste is not unlike that of sour bookbinders’ paste, and is any thing but palatab e when one first essays to make a meal of it. But a liking for it, as for anything else, is easily acquired. Eating poi according to the native fashion is quite an art, and requires con siderable manual, or rather, digital dex terity. The index finger, or this and the second finger together, are dipped into tho pasty mess when it is quickly and deftly twirled around them and then elevated above the mouth and allowed to trickle down the throat in away that simply astonishes any one but a born Kanaka.— Sacramento Ntvt. It is estimated that every year som* 50,09t',0t)0.u0:i letters arc posted in the world. America leads with about 2,50.),- 000,000, and England follows with :no,oo\oo >. BOOTS ' & SHOES. Cur store is now filled with new goods, res'i fro® tho manufactures M e carrj a full stock of all grades, and of the Very Best Quality And guarau'ec that you shall hnvo the woith of y ur money in every instance OJR PRICES Will be made low to suit the times. Ca l and see us A. E- RAKSN & BRO. TRADE STREER. ELYS CatabhH CREAM DALM (Hues relief at one* and Cum COLD IN HEAdPS^oXV^I CATARRH hay fever®* / Nat a Liquid, bnuff or I’uvtler. A Free from Injun- 1 ous Vrusje and of. tensive o lore. 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ALL FRESH —AUD AT— LOWEST PRICES. Wholesale and Retail. W. H. WILSON ft 60., DRUGGIST S, Charlotte, N. C. PHOTOSRAPiij in all tbe latest styles ami finish Photographs Enlarged to any sis. from small pictures. N» * send them NORTH. Just as good work don. right bn* at home and as cheap as in K«w York. I Work Guaranteed. Call and maos H- BAUMCARTEN. CHARLOTTE, N. C. 4101 1. Dr* JT. T. WUiiair» Offnrs hi. arsfmsimsl Triese *» l>« s—l public. CALLS ANSWERED BAT AXDIOMX. HENDERSON S BUBER The Oldest tetd Beet- Experienced and polite workmen always ready to wait to customer*. Bee* i you will get a Neat Hair Cut, l and a Clean Bhave. John S. Henderson. i East Trade 9t. CHARLOTTE. N. C.
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