CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1887. 011ß CHURCHES. , St. Michael's (P. E.) Church, Mint St. Services al 10 a. in. and Bp. m. Sunday school at 4p. m. Rev. P. P. Alston, pas tor. M. E. Church, Graham Street. Ser vices at 3 p. in. and 8 n. m. Sunday school at 10 a. 111. Rev. E. M. Collett, pastor. First Baptist Church, South Church St. Services nt 11 n. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. in. Snnday-school at 1 p. m. Rev. A. A. Powell, pastor. Ebcnezer Baptist Church. East Second St. Services at 11 a. in., 3p. in. and Bp. m. Sunday-school at 1 p. in. Rev. Z. m.M Mrros, pastor. Presbyterian Church, corner Seventh and College Sts. Services at 3 p. m. and Bp. ill. Sunday-school at 10 a. in. Rev. R. P. Wyche, pastor. Clinton Chapel, (A. M. E. Z.) Mint St; Services at 11 a. in., 3 p. m. and 8 p. in. Sunday-school at Ip. m. Rev. M. Slade, pastor. Little Rock, (A. M. E. Z.) E St. Ser vices at 11 a. in., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. Rev. Wm. Johnson, pastor. If your paper has a blue cross mark, it will be stopped till you pay up. We cannot continue to send it to you without some money. Please pay up and let us continue it t) you. LOCAL.' We are glad to announce that Miss Emma F. Hooper, one of Wilmingtons favorite teachers, has conccnted to con tribute to the columns of the Messenger. Wo learn the Cabarrus court gave judgment against Scotia Seminary last week, for $1,400. The suit was entered by one Mr. Young against Mr. Dorlaud. The interests of the Messenger were well cared for last week by Mr. A. W. Calvin who reported the city for us. Mr. Calvin is a splendid i writer and will continue to write for us in our absence. We will have three agents in Fayetteville. Miss Mary M. Lean and Mr. A. W. Whitfield are authorized agents and the third will ho named next week. The doings of t'le town will he published frequently. The editor is still in the central part of the State and will pay his respects to subscribers along the Carolina Central about next week. He took a peep in at the Legislature this week and goes to Wilmington next Tuesday. Miss Maggie L. Whiteman is one of the best experienced lady writers in the State and it is hoped her services can he secured to write for this paper ; regularly. Wilmington is becoming much interested in the Messenger and Miss Maggie will help us with her pen. The editor regrets his inability to attend and witness the marriage of Mr. W. E. Henderson to Miss Sallie B. Lord in Salisbury, last Thursday | evening. The ceremony was per- ' formed at the residence of Rev W. H. Bryant. They have our best wishes for a prosperous and happy life. I Miss Sallie Bettie was a graduate of | Scotia aud several years a teacher j there. Mr Henderson is one of the . most prosperous colored merchants and promising young men in the State. Local Sews Items. UY A. W. CALVIN. Editor Smith, of the Messenger, is j still away from home, and will not be hack before the 20th. Mr. J. C. Maxwell, of Hunters- j ville, of whom we spoke last week, | left, with his entire family, last i Thursday for San Francisco, where he j proposes to make his future home. j The Zion Church here is on a big j boom. Preparations arc being made j to build a large brick church where ! the old one now stands. When fin- | isbed it will he one of the finest j buildings in the State. Several bun dred dollars have been subscribed, and work will be commenced at once. Two immense revivals arc now in progress among the white churches, and the ‘‘ hooLtool ” of “Happy Jaek’s" horn of the Salvation Army, i is answered by the “ding dong of i the big hells of the city churches, aud white the eloquence of Rev. Mr. Pearson is drawing great crowds, the ranks of the Salvation Army arc get ting bigger every day, and the music of the fiddle is ably seconded by tfic i player on the big drum- The Bit. H. Williams, of Lincoln ton, ably filled the pulpit for Elder Slade last Sunday at the Zion Church, and those who heard him were pro foundly impressed with his eloquence and wisdom. Mrs. Ellen Fox, an old citizen, died last Sunday aud was buried Monday. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. Her funeral was preached by Rev. A. A. Powell, and was a beau tiful eulogy of a good old Mother in Israel who has been gathered to her Father. Farmers may expect hard times so long as they go in debt to raise Bc. cotton and-keep their smokehouses in Chicago and their wheat fields in Min nesota. It certainly must be pretty poor policy for a man to farm and yet come to town and buy flour made in St. Paul, bacon from Chicago, corn from Cincinnati, cabbage from Boston and meal from Lynchburg. Lord have mercy on such farming. Pickled pig feet must be a great temptation to some folks. One boy is on the chain gang now for eating one without the owner seeing him, and one is in jail and will soon be on the same gang. Fellow citizens, let pig feet alone, as they arc unhealthy on an empty pocket. Wo see that the Senate has rejected the nomination of J. C. Matthews for recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia. This is right; a Demo cratic negro is a stink in the nostrils of good, colored Republicans, and not one of them should even clean the spit toons in the Capitol, much less hold an office of profit and honor. The board of aldermen have refused to grant a license to Ben David to sell liquor on College street. It is said to have been a terribly had house; men, women and children would con gregate there at night pandemonium reigned supreme, and that it was a big gateway to all that was bad. The coming spring elections will be warmly contested here and prohibition will be the issue; for, like Bauquo's ghost, it will not “down” at any man’s bidding. Our fellow citizen, J. W. Gordon, is like a character in the play of the “Mikado,” in the number of oflicoshe holds. Here they are : Worthy State foreman, master workman, chairman county Republican executive commit tee, superintendent of Zion Sunday school, and leading politician, &c. There is a scarcity of money here and in the surrounding country, and hard times arc hero to many families. Charlotte needs some of Atlanta’s push and energy. Being the center of an extensive railroad system she ought to have three times the amount of manufacturing enterprises she has. Mis Gaston has returned to Con cord; and James looks awfully lone some. When will the cake be cut, Dallas,and which one was it said that sweet little “Yes?” What will “they” do now, Tom is gone! Poor Charlotte—lucky Bir mingham ! Miss A. C. Davidson left us Tues day night for Boston. Frank, won’t you teel lonesome Sunday night? Logtown is awfully lonesome these evenings and nights. Where, oh where is the E ? Echo answers, “Where ? ” There was no “dividing line” in mectiug Tuesday evening ; all could have front seats. Salvation, oh the joyful sound! Miss L. E. Tyler has joined the training class which meets at the Graded schools building. Why do not more of the young ladies join? The “masher” was mashing in Log town Tuesday evening. The “big brother” had better go down and look after the “little brother’s” interests One of our young ladies had a ride in the street ear Monday evening, for the first time. Some one asked her how she felt when sitting in the car: “Oh she said, “I felt like I was churning.” How was that? Dr. Williams visited the public ! school one evening this week. Just as lie left one of the rooms a little 9- ycar-old hoy drew a long breath nod said ; “I aui so glad he has gone ; I thought he bad come to vaccinate us.” Anthony, one of our graded school hoys, wrote his girl a letter and said : j "I love you bettor than I do sweet potatoes.” She replied: “I love you like Ido cold Irish potatoes.” An thony is puzzling his brains to find out what she meant. Still Hold Their Own. The Fearless Baseball Club was or ganized last Friday uight. The fol lowing arc the players: L. W. Hayes, captain; J. T. Hand, secretary; Chas. Robinson, treasurer; Hagler, North, French, Harris, Brown and Clark. It is said that the Fearless hoys are the champions of the Old North State. In Massachusetts are Jl2 co-operative banks. There arc 15,000 Knights of Labor in Georgia. A year ago there were 1,000. The factory girls of Lowell, Mass., contributed §I,OOO to the Charleston fund. B. McKenna, Esq., a stovc-molder by trade, is the Democratic candidate for mayor of Pittsburg. The Labor Organizer, Kansas City, Mo., announces that It will hereafter be published under co-operative control. A man who has been seven years in Congress without finding out some thing in the way of needed legislation on the labor question ought to conclude that he don’t fit the place. A co-operative biscuit and con fectionery factory is talked among the Knights of Labor of Chatham, Ont. The capital stock will be exempted from taxation for nine years. Who shall dare to affirm, in the name of justice, that productive labor —this principal and necessary part of human life —should be condemned forever to the anarchy of arbitrary rule? Another clergyman lias gone wrong. The pastor of St. Paul’s (Lutheran) Church of Indianapolis has called upon its members who be long to the Knights of Labor to with draw from the order or leave the Church. A majority of the Knight* will adopt the latter course. The short-hour movement docs not, as many people seem to think, mean a restriction on individual industry. It means that men and women shall not be compelled to give all their energy and time to mechanical drudgery which bring them but a bare living. —Labor Leader. A call lias been issued from Labor Headquarters in New York city for delegates to a conference to be held at Cooper Union, New York city, on Wednesday, Febuary ] 6 next, to consider the state of the movement in the country at large, aud to talfic > council together on the future of the I work of organization. According to Prof. Alder, 24,000 j children between 10 and 10 years of! age are employed at labor in the State of New York. Os these 9,000 are in New York city. They arc strippers of tobacco, paper collar folders, insect powder packers, hair workers, cash carriers, and workers in almost every factory occupation. A party of United Labor, honestly advocating labor principles, is not a menance to the country at large, but the party of united capital whose two divisions, republican and demo cratic, have been for years keeping up a sham warfare whose sole end and aim has been the distribution of offices and perquisitses, is and has been a serious menance to our institutions, j Under the name of republic we are I actually a series of monarchies, whose kings are the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Armours, the Rockafellars. The absolute monarchy of such capitalists, which is anarchy, must be superseded by a reign of law. —Dayton Workman. For some time past the employes of the various steam railways having their termini in this city have been vigoro usly agitating the question of forming a trade district of the Knights of Labor. The idea found such favor among the railroad men here that it has now been determined to form uuotlier and larger district, which shall take in the employes who wish of all the New England steam railroads. The new district will probably have a membership of over 50,000 men, all of whom obtain their living from the railroads. The object of the district will he to sec that the men are fairly compensated and have reasonable hours, and it will keep a general over sight over the welfare of members. Meetings will he called in all larger towns throughout New England whore railways centre, and the district organized aR soon as possible.—A". //. Star. A Deceived Woman is the lady who uses cosmetics, face lotions, white lead, bismuth powders, arsenic, etc., in the belief of enrich | ing and beautifying the complexion. ,It is hut temporary, and ultimately destroys the skin beyond the power of , nature to restore. Stop it! 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